skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I get that "banana republic" is often used to describe corrupt countries, but this overlooks the fact that much of the corruption was imposed by foreign powers, particularly the United Fruit Company with the backing of the U.S. government. These countries didn’t choose corruption; they were often forced into it through military intervention, economic pressure, and violence.

The United Fruit Company, with U.S. support, orchestrated coups (like in Guatemala in 1954), suppressed labor movements (e.g., the 1928 Banana Massacre in Colombia), and funded paramilitary groups. The so-called "corruption" was largely a result of foreign exploitation, not internal failings.

So, when you say "banana republic level corruption," you're actually talking about imperialist practices imposed by the U.S.—the very first-world country you’re wondering about.

Sources:

- Banana giant held liable for funding paramilitaries: https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/c6pprpd3x96o

- The Dark Side of Bananas: Imperialism, Non-State Actors, and Power: https://hir.harvard.edu/the-dark-side-of-bananas-imperialism...
If there's no parking lot, that's a car problem, not an EV problem. This is a hairy issue, but in my experience, getting around in densely packed city centers with a car is asking for trouble - dense traffic and generally no parking spaces.

I did use to live in a place like that, and I stored my car in a P+R on the outskitrts of the city.
Then you are misunderstanding something...
Metro Detroit, particularly the northern side, is like this as well. Grid streets extend for dozens on miles with the same names and numbering schemes.
Definitely a good share! I have it bookmarked, nice a flip-side to CSS Triggers, should be called "JavaScript Triggers" ha!
> US politics is mostly decided by money … banana republic shenanigans

I think you’re struggling with hyperbole here. The CPI[0] suggests that the US is a little bit more corrupt than North West Europe, and in a different league from Latin America, Asia, and Africa. I’ve lived for over a year (and in one case, well over a decade) in three countries that are a rich shade of orange on the CPI, and suggesting the US is on the same level is laughable.

0: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Corruption_Perceptions_Index

> doesn’t seem low-level

It gets you off a discretionary traffic violation charge, maybe, with no individual benefit to the officer making the call. Wake me up when you can buy one from an officer to stop them charging you with theft.
You could get one of those bluetooth things that plugs in to your cigarette lighter and broadcasts music on a free FM channel. We have a couple and they work pretty well.
You might like Notion, Obsidian or similar note taking apps - using it as basically a stream-of-consciousness tool, recording what you've tested, those notes you mentioned, but also being able to embed code, screenshots, etc. _all in-line_ really helps with the context reacquisition. Just lookup the shortcut to insert the current datetime (Evernote was "ctrl+;", Notion I think the best is probably "@now") and you've got good timestamps as well.

I'm not super familiar with Obsidian, but from your general description I think it might work best - I _think_ you can just have your (markdown?) Obsidian file in the project folder like you mentioned.
Whose education, then? People can be educated in all sorts of different ways.
I was hoping this would be about using the metrics GitHub easily provides to figure out if people are doing their job or not. If it's solely up to a manager to come through with review feedback at this minute level of detail, then it's time to hire more senior people.
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Do you mean your comment seriously or as a tongue-in-cheek?
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You are making this sound absurd, but what if you actually can build some kind of AGI like that.
Despite living in Minneapolis for 5 years, I never understood the street grid until reading this article. The fact that streets and avenues are opposite in Northeast vs South Minneapolis (and how North Minneapolis only has avenues) is a constant source of confusion. Obviously it can be worse (I've spent enough time in Pittsburgh to know that), and having GPS navigation means the inconsistency hasn't caused me very many actual problems. But still, it's annoying that the grid system isn't more consistent.
I see some people suggesting that 18–19 mph with minimizing stopping is what maximizes efficiency:

https://www.reddit.com/r/prius/s/klltPluFdZ

So I suppose route planning is mainly about trying to find long stretches of back roads without too many intersections? I even wonder if you need a car ahead to report on stoplight timing, so you can accelerate or decelerate slightly to avoid stopping. Or to tell you when it's safe to barrel through stop signs, that nobody is coming in the other direction.
Oh I have a 10 years old VW with both buttons and touchscreen. I tell you, the buttons you can learn and they're the same across similar VW models, but as soon as you have to do anything with the displays (the big one in the cockpit and the small one on the board) things go downhill immediately. I don't know who designed such UX, but I wonder, do they have the nerve to put it in their CVs?
The founder used attend node.js events in London. Not sure why you think he’s non technical.
I wish the screen on my car's infotainment system was transflective. The backlight is bright enough for most situations, but with sun directly behind you can't see anything on the display. This is somewhat important for, say, navigation with Android Auto.
I like Jason Scott's take on the nostalgic internet: it was a cosy place for people "in the know" and we miss being in a special club.

https://textfiles.libsyn.com/the-nostalgic-web-episode

The post's author also talks about how social media is different from the web of the past. This is a good time to point out the difference between operating on the Web and operating on the Internet. The Internet is just a client-server technology. The Web is about hypertext and making connections. Facebook, Instagram and LinkedIn are on the Internet but not on the Web, because they penalize linking to the wider web. Blogs, search engines and Reddit are "Web".
North Ave. and Roosevelt Rd. go from the lake to about 2/3 of the way to Iowa. The names end at the DuPage/Kane county line, though. After that, they are just IL64 and IL38.

The numbering system for just about all Chicago roads ends at the Chicago city limits, except for some of the streets on the south side, which continue all the way down into Will County.

Even stranger is that there is a pocket of streets in Dyer Indiana that are numbered according to the Chicago system, as if they had expected the street grid to expand that far south and east. Expand to Hammond, Schererville, St John and you'll see east/west streets that are numbered in the 40s (the Gary Indiana scheme), then in the high 90s (Lake County Indiana scheme?), then the 210s (Chicago scheme), then the 70s (back to the Gary scheme).

EDIT - Chicago did a mass street renumbering (with a few street name changes too) in the early 20th century. It would be interesting to know if some of the suburban street numbering schemes for the roads that cross municipal boundaries are still using the old system and that is why the street numbers seem to reset once you exit the city.
Fortunately, AI interests are massive and well funded. I am confident suggestions will be the best that money can buy.

This isn't a complaint but a perspective to add some context (and to remind that the public is the least-funded stakeholder in a gov RFC).

I don't weigh heavily for or against AI/DL/LLM/ML computing. I do hope our gov representatives 1) have sufficient wisdom/knowledge and 2) are well-enough insulated from corruption to write regs that benefit the public, long-term.
Thank you for the kind words.

I don't like popups either, or anything annoying or intrusive. It'd be hypocritical of me to assume that visitors should be subjected to something that I hate myself.
> (like Stackage) but still hosted on GitHub

I don't have much experience with Haskell, but one of the worst experiences has been Stack's compile time dependency on GitHub. GitHub rate limits you and builds take forever.
Thanks for the feedback! As the talk and the post both mentioned, I was focusing on signals that work on all Unix platforms. Within the constraints of a 30 minute talk there must be material left on the cutting room floor. (If I started talking about the specifics of various Unix lineages I could fill up a whole day...)

For most users in the real world, self-pipes are sufficient. This includes mio (Tokio's underlying library)'s portable Unix implementation of wakers (how parts of the system tell other parts to wake up).
FreeCAD has come a long way since then, although it still has a pretty steep learning curve. Once you get the paradigm of it, though, it's manageable.

I use it most days, and am very happy with it. Although I'm not an actual designer and I don't have a great deal of experience with other CAD software.
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Sure, but it's the parent's responsibility to teach the child to use such cheats in single player games to not ruin the experience for others in the process.
Although America does have a particular problem in that its police forces are descended from strike breakers and slave hunters, which is not a good recipe for how to achieve Peelian Policing†, it's far from alone in terms of the results.

† Robert Peel was a Tory politician who founded the Metropolitan Police. Peel did a bunch of criminal reform stuff and one of his ideas was what we'd today called "Policing By Consent". As you may have noticed Britain's police don't (on the whole) have guns or armoured vehicles, they aren't paramilitaries or armed gangs, the only way they can be effective is if the community being policed consents to their activities and sees them as legitimate.
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To be clear, it's both the manufacturer's interests and the interests of European workers. As long as we demand from every person that they earn a living, them using their political power to protect their national industry should be expected. Yes, cheap Chinese EV's are better for the environment, but that's small comfort to all the people employed by European car companies that are getting out-competed who hit the streets as a result.

If we want to start actually tackling climate change we need to unwind this notion that everyone must earn a living because there are simply vast swathes of the economy that are just redundant and do not need to exist.
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I'm genuinely shocked. I assumed that Apple would have foreseen this possibility and locked the Persona's eyes somewhere as long as the user was typing, at least for passwords.
I think Elm is a fantastic "simplified Haskell" with pretty good beginner-friendly guides. It's unfortunate that Elm is mostly tied to the frontend and has been effectively abandoned for the last couple of years.

Interestingly, Elm has inspired a host of "successors", including Gleam + Lustre, which look really great (I haven't had a chance to really try them yet).
Yes, this bad mathematician's lingo is really unnecessary. It means someone else wrote an implementation of an interface called Num for your `a` type. Well, it is not really an interface. The correct term is type class, but that is details.
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It'd be pretty cyberpunk if the mitigation to this is to have your eyes digitally obscured when typing in sensitive data.
We have the rule that commenting on syntax is disallowed. All syntax must be enforced by tooling (prettier, linter). This speeds up code review, because you review what actually matters (patterns used, regressions, bugs) and reduces friction between team members. Also a common syntax is learned way faster, as you get the feedback right in your IDE (or you don't even have to waste brain energy on it, in case of prettier).

If a syntax is not enforceable via linter because the rule does not exist, then you either write your own rule, or have to let go of the idea and have to surrender that there is a bit of wiggle room in expression.
Exactly. My prius gen2 gets me 4.2l/100km (56 mpg) on regular rides.
How manages to stretch it to 93 is quite an achievement.
Apple had iPod which was almost an iPhone already and they had decades of hardware and UX experience. They needed the cellular bits which they didn’t all build inhouse. Qualcomm is still the modem giant and Apple still uses them.
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Onshape is great. I use it as well for random things.

I do expect them to do a pull-rug on the free license at some point, like fusion did, especially now that they've been bought by PTC. If they do, the commercial license is too expensive IMHO compared to other offerings for what they offer.

I had the option to use the educational license at some point, but we couldn't get to renew it (ironically, we got a dirt-cheap Creo license afterwards).

Just to keep things in mind it can go anyday from free to too-expensive.

I had a few complex designs in fusion360 I essentially lost at some points due to the price hikes. I decided to endure the pain in freecad. It's getting better.
I’m with you. The presumption to “educate,” the author is annoying and tedious. Unless the author asks for an opinion assume they know what they’re doing.

Same goes for review “comments,” that interrogate the author. “Why did you choose to use a for loop here?” is such a waste of time.

I agree, stay within stylistic guidelines and lacking any try to use the same style as the file being edited.

And just focus on the code itself: does it meet the specifications, is it clear that it does what it’s supposed to, are all the T’s crossed and I’s dotted? Good, go.

Brevity is it’s own form of clarity when used well.

Update ... and remember to leave your ego at the door! Talk about the code like an object of study.
Whole point of the digital face is to look real though, and freezing the gaze would look unnervingly fake.
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Note Ctrl-Z is actually SIGTSTP, which is basically "SIGSTOP except the process can install a signal handler for it".

I have a very exciting blog post about debugging a nasty bug with how SIGTSTP works, coming very soon.
The FAA has control over them no matter where they are. They cannot escape.
I think my longest commute was 50 miles (Claremont to El Segundo). I used to drive to the Norwalk end of the Green Line to reduce the drive time at the expense of commute time by taking the train the last stretch of the commute. It’s a little stunning to think about all the sense memories I have from that commute 30 years later.
No, in this case it is much more pragmatic. Elon has commented on this aspect himself. When he started he thought of just buying rockets and related equipment from Russia on the cheap but quickly found the exuberant prices states want to charge. He then made a first order approximation of how much it’d cost to just manufacture things he needs and it was an order of magnitude lower - thus he bit the bullet and started doing just that. Had the states let him buy things at a fair price may be the controlling of the stack would not have happened.
NASA obviously needs a new, reliable horse in this race.

If only the development of Sierra Space's Dream Chaser wasn't moving at a snail's pace. (That project started back in 2004; they're currently hoping for the first test flight, of an unmanned cargo version, to happen in 2025.)
They are only useful in areas without FM stations. I had one and threw it away, because every 5 km there would be a station on the same frequency interfering so the copilot had to change the frequency... useless. What a "luck" that Switzerland is shutting down FM. Ah, and you can't do phone calls with it either.
nice work in gemma-bugs -- compared to plenty of research work that is a km deep in real math, this tech note is a just few python tweaks. But finding those and doing it? apparently this is useful and they did it. Easy to read (almost child-like) writeup.. thx for pointing to this.
Knowing if you have an RCE backdoor and having an RCE backdoor are two different things.
I think the key problem with all the data we’re sharing, including telemetry, is that even when specific inputs like passwords aren’t directly visible, the information still narrows down the possible key, and password spaces.
And here comes the transparent children of EVs: Mitsubishi i-MiEV and Nissan LEAF.

This phenomenon is not so surprising considering that the sole point of existence of Tesla was basically to give the middle finger to those and the Prius, but they exactly fit the criteria of mass market EVs precisely by the letters.

Especially the i-MiEV(pronounced eye-meeve). It was a Kei car!
You said they are exploiting cheap labour from its colonies/vassals, again the factory is in germany.

Also electricity prices are largely back to pre-war levels https://tradingeconomics.com/germany/electricity-price , so is the gas price https://tradingeconomics.com/germany/gasoline-prices
There was a QS tool that was in use by a council 20+ years back that cost about £15,000 per seat.

The serial dongle that they used - possibly hasp iirc - hadn't been implemented correctly, so ultimately where was a CMP EAX,1 / JNZ that was easy to NOP.
> there aren’t many technical issues to pouring concrete in a good lat-lon

Other than when a powerful and explosion-prone rocket destroyed its launchpad, hurling chunks of steel-reinforced concrete thousands of feet. But it's almost 18 months since that happened.
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NASA is a scientific institution, it will lose money. But in the end, it enables private companies like SpaceX to be successful.

More generally, no private company would be able to fund fundamental research and turn a profit. Apple used DARPA tech to make the iphone, Pfizer used decades of public research on mRNA to make the covid vaccine and SpaceX uses NASA's engineering expertise to get its rockets to orbit.

Also, SpaceX gets billions of dollars from the US government annually.
Actually, no! Producing ATP is ~30% efficient, which is much better than premium consumer solar panels. And while that heat is technically waste, even if it was more efficient we would still generate heat other ways just to keep warm.

What's even more shocking is that conversion of food to energy period is ~90% efficient, which is crazy to me. The fact that you can burn food and measure the energy given off, and that's very close to how much energy you get from eating it- that's insane.

The efficiency of the human body is all over the place. Muscles are only ~30% efficient, and the rest is waste heat... but humans walk using orders of magnitude less power than any walking robot. As far as I know we have never made a powered walking machine that is 10% as efficient as a person. The only way we can beat it is with a carefully balanced, specially-lubricated pair of legs that is leaned downhill on a treadmill and powered by gravity.
I don't think you can monopolize going up.
Yep, this is generally the pattern.
But this is exactly one of the problems of today. Everything uses UX metrics to base their design around. It makes the end result boring and predictable and the opposite of immersive.

I agree that there needs to be pacing, but there are great ways to do that.
GTA and RDR are great examples. You drive somewhere and get a funny conversation, or something happens on the way to the objective that pretty naturally distracts you in a way that makes sense to the world the game is playing in.

Ubisoft games are basically full of these boring filler activities. What point does a huge open world have, if it's just the same 5 things copy and pasted all over the place?

I'd much rather condense those 590 busy work tasks to 5 really nice side quests like in The Witcher 3. At least they give you an experience and not some UX concept of "the user needs to go climb a tree now".
My guess is this law will only be enforced if you doxx the rich and/or powerful. Doxx Joe Smith who works at McDonalds, no enforcement.
I imagine their thought process is "Social media is what the stupid people use, and I'm not a stupid person. I use HN, so HN isn't social media", and then try and backsolve a definition from there. When in reality we're all humans.