skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> and then vehicle B hits vehicle A from behind. Some people think that the following vehicle is always at fault, but this isn't strictly true (IAAL).

How not strictly true is it? My understanding in California is that unless you can demonstrate intent to cause a collision you'll be found at fault for rear-ending someone, which is pretty close to "strictly true."
I’d like to be more charitable to your response so please correct me here:

Wouldn’t it be more censorship to say that people are not to create such media where “nobody’s feelings get hurt and nobody’s ideas are challenged.” Like who would decide what media is sufficiently challenging?

I feel like this is always the problem with the complaint about popular culture is it seems like the only solution is something that doesn’t look like freedom.
The only scenario I can think of is the "swoop and stoop", which is what insurance fraudsters do to induce a rear-end collision. A car from a neighboring lane suddenly changes lanes in front of you while also slamming on the brakes.

> This includes things like a ... sudden lane change exposing a stopped car.

Oooh, this one has almost gotten me a couple of times. I'm much more defensive now, and when I see a car ahead changing lanes, I assume they're dodging a block wall with orphans sitting on top.

Basically, leave enough distance in front of you so even if the car you're following magically freezes in place, you have enough time to react, and still enough time after reaction to actually stop. In the real world this can be difficult to maintain. The amount of space will invite interlopers. In those situations, follow a car that you can see past, and look at more than just the car you're following.
It forced me this last time I set up windows 11
Win11 or Win10?
You can still use it offline without an account just fine with Pro SKUs and up.
If Microsoft is determined to make money from One Drive, could they please improve the product? My work laptop routinely pegs a core doing who knows what. When there is something to backup, the throughout is beyond atrocious.

Microsoft has all of the apis available to monitor changes on its own file system. Why does their solution seemingly run naive file comparisons to detect changes? What is it doing burning all of that computation time? Why does it struggle with tracking 100k files? A bubble sort written in Ruby should be able to handle 100k anything in seconds.
It's a stupid rule to require drivers to be paid simply for logging in.
I'm not surprised this is still new in the USA, considering Americans are still apparently cutting out paper coupons?? But these labels have been in shops here in New Zealand for years now.
Digging a hole is possible, but may cost a real fortune, and take quite some land, if you have a flat landscape.

Hills or mountains make it significantly more feasible. Check the locations of most hydroelectric plants.
Even the Grimms' original versions weren't meant for children at the time!
Apple's Efforts to Automate iPhone Assembly Detailed in New Report
that shouldn't be necessary though
Even better to just use TSV. Hand-rolling XML or JSON is always a smell to me, even if it's visibly safe.
I'm frequently surprised by what is considered by other parents as too scary for their children to watch or read, when it seems to me the whole point of scary stories is to provide a safe place for children to feel scared and learn what it takes overcome fear.

That's not to say that anything goes, just that I think parents need to be willing to let their children be appropriately afraid and comfort them and teach them courage. Avoiding any scary themes or dangerous ideas, instead of providing safe ways to engage with these things, I think leads to children growing into adults who will have a much harder time recognising and dealing with the real dangers of life.
That required circumventing its protections via a hardware or software mod.
I bought some production equipment (laser cutters, printers, heat presses, etc) and manufacture physical goods out of my home. Feels closer to coding when I first fell in love with it -- making the whole product from start to finish, selling directly to the customer, retaining all the fruits of my labor, etc.
There's a whole ecosystem for used nike shoes. https://www.youtube.com/@Ramitheicon gets over 500k each video and he's got a physical storefront where he trades cash to kids for their used nike shoes. There's so much hype for these shoes from NBA players, tik tok, instagram, and youtube.
Microsoft wasn't seen as a strategic asset back then, and the US wasn't in a semi cold war.

In any case, I was talking about the concept of breaking up large national corporations moreso than this specific case, since the comment I was replying to was talking about how the US should start looking into breaking up Apple too.

(Even then, I also gave SAP as an example, which perfectly fits the apple modus operandi of taking advantage of their closed ecosystem to destroy competition. but in a way that even apple couldn't ever dream of. And once you get into said ecosystem, you will start using the gigantic constellation of SAP products and be locked in to the extreme. Impairing competitors would be putting it lightly. Yet, no European probe either.)
For what actually happened see the Freenet FAQ: https://freenet.org/faq#faq-5
"Robot" is a little misleading for basically a remote controlled boat. Definitely very useful.
If this were true, how would you explain that both drivers and riders enter into the relationship voluntarily. Most of my uber drivers have been intelligent and knowledgeable about their options - quite the opposite of exploited and vulnerable.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tempering_(spices)
Law aside, you should be driving as though the car in front of you is a brick wall. That is to say, whatever the distance is between you and them it should be greater than the stopping distance of your car to a dead stop at your current speed.
Plenty of people do this already by memory, if they're the ones that do the shopping regularly and are familiar with pricing. Several times I've told the cashier that an item was on sale or a different price than advertised and not reflected on the ticket. It didn't take an hour, it took less than 5 minutes.
Why the hell aren't the EU and the FTC suing the shit out of them for bundling, telemetry, lock in, gouging, shitty defaults?
> ...it does not understand tech industry at a cultural level, having never built out its own

Consumer products are only a subset of tech. ASML, Siemens, ABB, Bosch have been tech industry bellwethers for ages. Europe is also no slouch in consumers/web/apps either (Spotify, booking.com)
Hit Shift + F10 at the Windows 11 setup screen to open a command prompt, then enter `oobe\bypassnro`. After this, skip connecting to a network and this will allow you to create a local account.

It's extremely obnoxious that they've made it this difficult.
Jokes on them, I only use local accounts
strongly agree. I've been loving anything/everything produced by the animation studio "Studio Ghibli".

I was introduced via the first few works created by the first director, Hayao Miyazaki, it's absolutely ruined me for nearly all other works that claim to be for children.

Their productions feel so dignifying to everyone, embracing the full human experience, not so necessarily dark and disturbing.
Why Nothing Can Grow on Mars
There are several bypasses.

Don't connect to the internet -> Shift + F10 to bring up CLI -> OOBE\bypassnro

The out-of-box experience will restart, and you will have a button to set up with a local account.

You can also (or at least could, it's been a bit since I've tried this method) use a banned e-mail account when it asks for your Microsoft account.
Must we justify the right to a speedy trial by the argument that indefinite detention would unfairly limit our ability to obtain an auto loan?
They've been at it for years. I'd genuinely be surprised if this cracked the top 10 worst things Microsoft have done to Windows users.

I think there would need to be a concerted effort at a grass-roots level, say from r/buildapc, to get new PC gamers onto an alternative for there to be a considerable shift away from Windows.
What sorts of things do you make? How long did it take you to learn and get proficient?
Uber owns the thing that the taxi companies don't have, a complex, real time transactional application that pairs drivers with riders. They can pick and choose who they want using it(sans discriminatory, see - illegal checks). And they are well within their means to say when a driver can and can't work on their own platform. If drivers want to be rid of this menace - Uber, then they are free to become cab drivers if they wish. Or use Lyft. Nobody gets paid for not producing which is what these drivers seem to want.
Is this a joke? I cannot tell.
Sure, but that being said the 3DS, Wii, Wii U and Nintendo Switch all have enormous homebrew communities. It's nowhere near Sony's OtherOS levels of support, but the board does have functioning CPU/GPU drivers and can run pretty much "anything" you'd expect from an Aarch64 Linux target.

It's more of a technical nuance in the Switch's case, but homebrew on Nintendo consoles is a time-honored tradition.
Apple, being part of a duopoly, should not have that power. That's all. I don't care about protecting their business or whatever the fuck else.
There are so many devices that are made without replaceable batteries its becoming a real problem. I want an electric toothbrush that takes 18650 or similar cells, same with a shaver and just about every other small powered tool we need replaceable batteries as the device lasts longer than the cells do and it makes recycling the cells harder.
You still have to store that info and that counts against the number of bytes you are using
The Copernican model was heliocentric, surely? It placed the sun motionless at the centre of the universe. That makes the sun anything but a normal star.
That doesn’t make it right to say she’s well known for being a comedian.
My early childhood is very similar to that of some Field medalists.. and then I went to school and the problems began.. between bullying, isolation, and a host of other issues, adult me feels the burden of "potential".

I don't blame my parents for it, they really didn't have much of a choice in the matter as we were too poor for private schools and homeschooling isn't a thing where I come from.
The thing with traditional fairy tales in particular is that they don't have original versions.
EM = engineering manager.

Re: arguing and why not just avoid it:

During my brief (7 year) sojourn at one place that was not-my-company (Google), you end up with a mix of personalities, and it's very hard to convince people who believe there's a Right Way to do things that there is no Right Way, so you just sort of have to muddle through figuring out how to be productive without irritating people, or as an EM, leaving them thinking you're negligent.

Conversely, theoretically, it's hard to convince people who are slopping through and rushing code to slow down. (in practice, this wasn't a problem at Google, but it's worth mentioning for completeness.)

Case study: 6 person team. 1 EM who ended up doing 20% of the code, 1 me who did 60%, 2 who did 10% each, only do things when directly asked, and they couldn't find an excuse to kick the can down the road due to "ambiguity" that was product/design's fault, and then two who, in all seriousness, never contributed code to this year-long project: 1 who wanted OOP-to-the-max InjectedFoobarManagerFactory, another who definitely didn't want anything like that, but didn't really have an alternate proposal, they just loved explaining endlessly and authoritatively why anything else brought up was bad.

(what did they do if they weren't contributing? the first would write vaguely productive "experiments" for other teams, that obviously wouldn't ship, in the code repo they were used to. took them 18-24 months to make their first code contribution to our actual code repo, the other wandered off to some other random project in the org. EM was new and out 3/4 of the project for new child leave)
They’re all monopolies. We just need to formally redefine the terminology around anti trust to punish the anti competitive nature of all these tech giants
When I burned out of software I went into Sales Engineering. Customer & solution focused, and still technical. You need to understand their business and how your product helps them. You could also try being a Solution Architect in the professional services division, which is more implementation oriented (though SAs can be on the sales side too).
Nothing is gonna give you good, consistent comp like writing software. I'm sure some sales people do very well but "eat what you kill" also means lean months, and sometimes whether or not deals close is outside of your control.

My advice is to just get a tech job where you can coast, work from home, and knock out a couple tickets a day. Have lots of flexibility to see your kid and take vacations while they're young. Some places offer 4 day weeks and you still take home 6 figures.

Sales Engineering or Customer Success would be an interesting pivot but you usually make less money and have less flexibility than SWEs
Wow, we've gone full circle. I remember when being able to reliably get an Uber to JFK was a selling point over taxis.
What does IAAL stand for? Is it “I Am A Lawyer”? If so, this strikes me as a _really_ fascinating take
LispWorks:

CL-USER 130 > (defun myfun (d) (print "heyo") (print d))
MYFUN

CL-USER 131 > (let ((source (function-lambda-expression #'myfun)))
(mapcar (eval (list* 'lambda
(second source)
(nthcdr 4 source)))
'("world")))

"heyo"
"world"
("world")

Above can in some ways done in many Lisp implementations. It's in this form simply not widely used. For most applications it's more interesting to use macros to manipulate code, which then can be compiled to efficient code.

Pattern matching is much implemented in Lisp.

I had adopted this code for a pattern matcher from a book (LISP, Winston/Horn), probably >30 years ago:

CL-USER 115 > (pmatch:match '(#$a is #$b) '(this is a test))
((B (A TEST)) (A (THIS)))

CL-USER 116 > (pmatch:match '(#$X (d #$Y) #$Z) '((a b c) (d (e f) g) h i))
((Z (H I)) (Y ((E F) G)) (X ((A B C))))

Not to say, that Picolisp isn't great for you, but it is not the only language where lists can be manipulated.
Company is minimizing its costs. News at 11.
didn't work for me on 24H2 /shrug
This is a dramatically unpleasant way to live, though. Op is asking out of a desire to have a fulfilling life and clearly isn't finding fulfilment in SWE.
For no reason, or for a silly reason? At my old house, my Chrysler was convinced I was going to murder the flowers that were encroaching into the view of the driveway. They were never really in danger though. On that vehicle, automatic braking in reverse was easy to understand, it would put some red overlays over the flowers it was trying to save. (or as aidenn0 points out, the roadway, I had that happen once or twice, too... but not in my regular routes, thankfully)
I think the comment you replied to was just unfortunately worded. I also think that the title should contain "Micropython" to honor the efforts of the project to provide a lean and non-bloated implementation.

Porting the bloat of CPython to this watch would be astonishing indeed.
Are these locations close to the areas where the energy is needed? Australia is big, and transmission lines, not cheap.

(By the same token, Sahara might be an ideal place to locate large solar power installations to feed the entire Eurasia, were it not for the transmission.)
I'm not the target market for Windows, haven't been for a while.

But I genuinely cannot figure out what Microsoft's vision for Windows 11 is. Or if they even have one beyond "idk, shove crap in, meet OKR, get promotion... maybe?"

For a while, it seemed like they were focused on making sure that they could link as much of your activity on your computer to you, as a person - witness the ever-increasing challenge of an offline-only account, which means the value of knowing the email address of the signed in user is substantial. And then they embedded ad delivery as a first class participant in the platform - the sort of crap that used to be common from people who installed Bonzai Dancer Cursor Free or such is now literally part of the OS.

... and then it's just gone weird. AI with Copilot, Recall, etc. There doesn't appear to be a coherent vision of what it is, beyond a place to shovel crap, deliver unwanted applications (that they get paid to shove at people, presumably), and install lots of updates.

Linux has problems, but there are no shortage of distros that just run apps, without delivering all your behavioral surplus up for collection, and that's what (IMO) an OS should be. Windows 11, from the outside, doesn't look like it's serving me. Except in the sense that it's focused on "serving me to Microsoft for further subversion of my will."

... and apparently Windows will now orange screen? Last time someone offered to let me touch a Windows machine, it orange screened in protest before I could even touch anything. At least the feeling is mutual.
I'm a gameplay engineer who worked on THE FINALS. There's a GDC talk that one of the engineers who worked on the destruction system gave and I imagine that talk will be uploaded on youtube at some point in the future: https://schedule.gdconf.com/session/engineering-mayhem-techn...

Most of the answer to your question is really good iterative tooling on the authoring side, and very pinpoint optimizations on the runtime side. You basically amortize everything, how much is "strain" is simulated per frame, how much physics simulation is simulated per frame, how much is replicated per frame, etc. Almost any game could do what THE FINALS did but it really just requires you to solve many of the hard obvious problems for a good couple years.

I'm glad you enjoy the game! I also agree with you that there's a lot that can be improved.
> yet another poorly thought out, ad-hoc homegrown config file format

OpenBSD style ntpd.conf:

servers 0.gentoo.pool.ntp.org
servers 1.gentoo.pool.ntp.org
servers 2.gentoo.pool.ntp.org
servers 3.gentoo.pool.ntp.org

constraints from "https://www.google.com"

listen on *

I mean, there's always the possibility that they used a common, well known and pretty decent config file format. In this particular case, this shouldn't be the thing that differentiates your ntpd implementation anyways.
"If you want a steady job get a steady job if you want day labor work you show up and sometimes you get picked for the day labor and sometimes you go home broke."

If it was that easy right?

Nobody wants to be 'day labor', that is only done in countries with a large surplus of labor (desperate to live labor) that allows companies to treat humans more like cattle.
You can use offline accounts with Home as well.
The only one I ever found was that it made new installations of Windows free with a digital licence associated with your account. I don't know if this is still true of Windows 11.
The researchers found that self-driving cars are generally safer unless they have to turn or operate at dawn or dusk.

Whenever a self-driving car gets confused, what does it do?

Answer --- It slams on the brakes.

Self-driving cars are safer only if you blame the resulting rear end collisions on human drivers.
MicroPython is mostly compatible with Python 3, not much missing. There are even a few things MP has and Python has not, like the Viper code emitter. So the fact it's MicroPython does not make it less interesting.
It's not really obedience, they convey that fire burns without the need to have it proven by trial.

Stereotypes keep children alive until higher cognition kicks in and that learn consequences

Now I do agree some of the stereotypes are antiquated, biased, and need a 21st century refresh, but there's more there than obedience.
Poorly thought out, ad-hoc homegrown config file format, please. Every time.

1. Code doesn't change at the whims of others.

2. The entire parser for an INI-style config can be in about 20 lines of C

3. Attacker doesn't also get to exploit code you've never read in the third party dependency (and its dependencies! The JSON dependency now wants to pull in the ICU library... I guess you're linking to that, too)

4. Complexity of config file formats are usually format-independent, the feature-set of the format itself only adds complexity, rather than takes it away. To put it another way, is this any saner...

{"user":"ams","host":"ALL","runas":["/bin/ls","/bin/df -h /","/bin/date \"\"","/usr/bin/","sudoedit /etc/hosts","OTHER_COMMANDS"}

... than ...

# I may be crazy mad but at least I can have comments!
ams ALL=/bin/ls, /bin/df -h /, /bin/date "", /usr/bin/, sudoedit /etc/hosts, OTHER_COMMANDS

All the magic in the example is in what those values are and what they imply, the format doesn't improve if you naively transpose it to JSON.

An example of an NTP server's config:

# I can have comments too
[Time]
NTP=ntp.ubuntu.com
RootDistanceMaxSec=5
PollIntervalMinSec=32
PollIntervalMaxSec=2048

If you just want key-value pairs of strings/ints, nothing more complex is needed. Using JSON is overdoing it.
> If the pieces of state are all well known at build time - and trusted in terms of their content

.. than use library, because you should not rely on the assumption that next developer adding one more piece to this code will magically remember to validate it with json spec.
I’m not OP and I ask myself that question daily?

I have a job that is financially viable at a small, good, profitable firm… that has less stellar engineering management (not bad people wise)… and I care deeply about my craft. I’m a child hood coder with also a deep “Protestant Work Ethic.”

I have semi-checked out at work, it’s mentally taxing to know the systems could be better. I also know after 5 years my hard work and going the extra mile” will not be rewarded so I coast with my above-average reviews… but I feel guilt and mental anguish and stress and worry I’ll be found for a fraud (not imposter syndrome way, in a “I could do better and will be punished for not” way)

For some of us it’s a passion not a paycheck. Although the pay is nice.
Seems like a great place to store tons of ISO's.
Installed Windows 11 Pro, had to do some CLI dickery to get the option for local only account.
I've been wondering this too. The stuff Microsoft has been pulling for the last decade is just ripe for them to go after, yet all you hear is crickets.
Yes, my point is load in April, per the blog numbers, seems to be 15-20 GW down compared to yearly peak. Battery buildup is of course going to be more impressive when load is low.

The first graph of the article shows batteries peak 2.5 G higher than 2023, which is far from explaining the flattening of gas use. The "battery shifting load" and "Load not including battery charging" graphs tend to show that the big difference from 2023 is to ease the morning ramp down, which is good progress, but much more incremental than what's advertised by the graph you're showing.
You mean distributing .mob files on xda-developers and needing to speak with carriers to distribute your app?

There’s a reason most developers moved in droves to Apple ecosystem for amazing APIs, software and hardware, abandoned Symbian/blackberry/etc and had no issues with the 30% fee since they instantly got market access to millions of consumers.

30% was never an issue to begin with. People just feel today that everyone should get access to a marketplace with billion users for free, often forgetting what it took to build this market in the first place.
That's a very unsatisfying way to work. I like software design and architecture and even arguing about it as long as people do it in good faith. That's what makes the job interesting to me. I think I would get depressed if I just checked off tickets every day.