skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> Slowing down is important though, as it give drivers time to think and react. Whether they choose to use that time correctly is a problem, but hopefully some or all of the other drivers can use patience and avoid an accident.

I fully agree, and I also think that the "original" roundabout design serves that purpose well, although throughput might different than with dynamic traffic lights.

The point I was trying to make was that slowing down traffic through added complexity could be a dangerous approach to take. It's a switch from a low cognitive load approach by simple design -slow down to a stop/almost stop, look to one side, give way if necessary-, to a slow down of higher cognitive load -slow down, figure out how to navigate a more complex (new) intersection, and maybe remember to give way-. So where in the first approach cognitive load is used to assess how to give way, in the second approach some of that load is used to deal with a more complex/unfamiliar situation. And for some users, I argue, that could already push them more towards accident territory as less cognitive capacity is available to properly assess the traffic situation. Sometimes less is more.
> That caused insidious bugs for years.

A lot of people here could probably benefit professionally from hearing about what the bugs were. Knowing what to identify in the future could be really helpful. Thanks.
Unless you're the GP your guarantee about the persons motivation is as meaningless as the post you're replying to.
Of course. Gut microbes to blood via leaky gut, small enough blood microbes to brain via BBB.
> SCTP

> It also has multiplexing built right in.

It is not. You canʼt stop, for example, receiving from stream 0 during getting high-priority data from stream 9. No userlevel API allows to specify "now receive a message exactly from stream 9". Data packet TSNs are the same number sequence for all streams. You canʼt normally ignore a single data TSN for a stream payload: you have to issue SACK and brook constant retransmissions from other side. You canʼt specify receive window separately for each stream, to calm the sender down while the streamʼs receive buffer is full.

I donʼt know who and why spreads the myth it is really multiplexing, but now these stream numbers are merely another type of per-message external tag. All other is merely scam. It seems that initial design was moving toward this possibility but then something unfortunate happened.

> This means you don’t have to devise message length communication into your application layer protocol and can rely on your transport.

This is, well, tasty from it.
Ten twenty years ago it was there was this notion of "Advanced Persistent Threats" out to disrupt civilization. It feels like the current civil threat is persistent authoritarians, persistent terrormongers. I fret so much how it seems like backsliding is the only direction, that their persistent pull towards fear can keep being resisted, until eventually in the wrong time & the wrong place society falls a little further back again. Again and again and again. What pests this world must constantly redeem ourselves from.
Roundabouts not good for pedestrians and cyclists. In London we’ve been replacing roundabouts with other types of junction to improve pedestrian and cyclist safety.

We don’t have four way stops though so instead it’ll be min/maj junction or traffic lights.
Rivian is likely heading this way too, there's plenty of stories about a fender bending costing 42000 to fix

https://www.theautopian.com/heres-why-that-rivian-r1t-repair...
Not OP but other than what core functionality they can demo to investors, every AI company seems to have extremely lacking:

- web design (basic features take years to implement, and when done break the website on mobile)

- UI/UX patterns (cookie cutter component library elements forced into every interface without any tailoring to suit how the product is actually used, also makes a Series C venture indistinguishable from something setup in a weekend)

- backend design (turns out they've been hemorrhaging money on serverless Vercel function calling instead of using Lambda and spending a minute implementing caching for repeat requests)

- developer docs (even when crucial to business model, often seems AI generated, incomplete, incoherent)

And this usually comes from hiring much less developers than is needed, and those that are hired are 10x Cursor/GPT developers which trust it to have done a comprehensive job at what seems like a functional interface on the surface, and have little frame of reference or training for what constitutes good design in any of these aspects.
That was the ideal UI design. You may not like it, but this is what peak user experience looks like.
The immune systems does nothing by accident. The immune system is always trying to keep the microbiome in balance and the microbiome helps the immune system as well.

There is no winning, only balance.
California bans sell-by dates
I agree with the GP’s point that people should probably just learn SQL, but there are things about SQL that are objectively bad, especially from the perspective of a software developer.

It’s not a very composable or consistent language, so I think it makes total sense that we see so many abstractions over it.
Depends on how convoluted your infra is.
Is Android Unicode Yet?
> sq is pronounced like seek. Its query language, SLQ, is pronounced like sleek

As a person who is apart from the tech scene, and lurks in the tech space out of interest, I appreciate this guidance. For the longest time I didn’t know nginx was pronounced Engine-X; I called it N-jinx.
Car insurance in general is a race to the bottom with competition. A good quarter has 70% of incoming premium going out to settle claims.

When you have fender bender claims costing 20-40k USD to repair, how do you price that risk?
It is production ready and has been used for numerous non-trivial projects. Experimental in this context means there is expected to be API changes and feature additions in future.
the goalposts for what?
What’s the best place to hiring for this job?
Not Greek, but I do know a bit the country, and it is quite similar to other Southern countries like Portugal.

Usually this is something that you only get on startups, but as usual in non-English speaking countries, eventually getting the local language is a plus, especially when dealing with anything related to burocracy, repairs, and such.

The biggest focus are Thessaloniki, Athens and Heraklion.

If you're into Java related stuff, Devoxx usually comes to Thessaloniki and Athens.

Many companies focus on offering nearshore services to North European or US companies.
Such as? They're cross-platform and MIT licensed.
dawg I ChatGPT’d that license, busy building rn.
But then you are merely equipping the car with emergency equipment, so why not a knife and water filters?
US-based companies do the same (scraping content and training models on it, regardless of copyright or licenses or attribution).

US subsidises and protects tons of industries (agriculture, chips, automobiles, aerospace).

Does that mean that other countries can impose tariffs and sanctions on the US to punish this obviously anticompetitive and anti-free market behaviour? Or is it just the normal stuff we'd expect a country to do?
I'm pretty sure this bot has been operating for much longer than the article suggests (April this year), and truly is a pain. I work in academia and see a lot of ill considered web scraping by ML / AI researchers, but Bytespider is in a league of its own.
Am I wrong for thinking this is a silly name? If it's fictional then by definition it is not Nonfiction. It certainly is weird.
In MySQL, never use "UTF8". Use "utf8mb4"
> it takes the same amount of time

in my experience it doesn't

1. refactoring are in my experience still much faster (and reliable doable) with rust compared to e.g. Js/Python even in presence of a lot of tests. This is a bit less of an point with Java/TS/C# etc. through I had some very bad (and also some good) experiences with refactoring in TS. And to be clear I don't just mean pure refactoring but any larger changes affecting many places in code which might be needed to idk. impl. some feature.

2. especially with Js,Py and similar there are way to many edge cases you can have to test for all of them. Sure most times this mainly matters when writing libraries but on larger projects does apply too. Stupid stuff like you expecting a `list[int]` and someone (externally i.e. outside of your tests) passes a `dict[int, int]` and that happens to work as you current impl. is only linearly iterating it as if it's a `Iterable[int]` but then you change the impl to require a `Sequence[int]` as you access it by index in some corner case and now you customer has really strange subtle bugs. Can't be caught by your tests as the problem is the customer but still breaks the customer which is always bad and can't happen with rust. Sure also won't happen if everyone uses type annotations and mypy correctly and strictly. Through you can't rely on your customer using mypy, but you can rely on your customer running compiler checks (as it's the only way to build the code). Also while mypy is much much much better then pylance it is still prone to issues as both `cast` and `ignore[..]` are things you sometimes need but which easily can hide bugs if the code changes (cast doesn't pin the "from" type and ignore is scoped by place not by what is wrong)
The issue with the abstractions over SQL is that while they fix some problems they always introduce a bunch of new problems so in the end SQL is still preferable. I have yet to see an example where that is not the case.
How many folks who use automated tools to apply for hundreds/thousands of jobs are actually successful?

I've met a handful of folks who claim to have applied for thousands of jobs, and none of them are actually successful in finding employment.
It uses the same primitives as Erlang, the difference is that it exposes type safe APIs instead of untyped ones which you would get from using the Erlang abstractions.

It implements the same protocols and does not have any interop shortcomings.
Is their any evidence of this applying to anyone other than this specific example?

I ask as I cannot find any. And the email quoted is quite specific ("reviewing YOUR record" and "YOUR policy is being cancelled").

Being on a multi-car policy complicates the logic here. As does the specific location (California has laws limiting insurance rate increases that lead to exactly this).

But it's entirely that this is an isolated change with nothing to do with the overall vehicle.

The fact he has 8 other cars makes me suspect he hit some limit they had not previously enforced...
Could it be unrestricted use of birth control and all the xenoestrogens in our food and on our clothing and in our air?
> Not to mention that EVs outmileage every other type of engine in a traffic jam.

A hybrid will be very competitive and likely do better if it's cold (maybe a jam because of a blizzard)
Only if plastic is a better energy source than other energy sources they can already consume. I mean, if we had an obligate plastivore then yes, what you describe would happen, but I guess we haven’t - yet.
Then probably .NET isn't an ecosystem for you, that is fine, there are other options.
Gleam does not sacrifice OTP compatibility for type safety. It picks both.
I find Polish coins to be very easily distinguishable too.
wow, I missed that in the docs but this is exactly what I was thinking!
> I often feel that it's unfair that I pay more as a male, because I am an extremely responsible and defensive driver - fact is, men cause more expensive accidents more often. That's the data, that's what insurers care about.

Same - I remember a few friends complaining about this but an older friend basically explaining how insurance worked from the perspective of the company. Almost everyone will swear that they’re a great driver, and they can’t tell the difference until you’ve been driving for years. The only alternative would be the kind of monitoring + speed limiters that most drivers get extremely upset about so it’s unlikely to change before we get L5 self-driving.
Such projects are EU funded but in fact implemented through national or regional programmes agreed by the regional authorities... So it's usually at that level that favouritism or corruption plays in.
All right Stan, don't belabour the point.
Tipping culture is annoying and unfair – and now it's coming to Paris
W^X? I've never seen that term
Yes! It bases itself at Oban for part of the year and serves those routes, so your memory is correct
maybe they are using commoncrawl, webarchive, yandex as indexes?
That's not unusual at all. I'd bet every insurance company us trying to, and some straight-up offer discounts to do so.

I prefer the honesty really....

https://www.businessinsider.com/auto-insurance-monitor-drivi...
Everything you need to know about Apple's next budget phone
>A black African discovery of America, it has been argued, took place around 3,000 years ago , and influenced the development of Mayan, Aztec, and Inca civilizations

This is a new one on me. Maybe it could it have happened, but I very much doubt it. This seems to go back to the usual thing of "Native Americans were too dumb to build a civilization".

If anyone got to the Americas before people crossing the Atlantic, it would have been the Polynesians. That I could believe.
I think I've seen this exact discussion in Clojure community.
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Greening of Antarctica shows how climate change affects the frozen continent
The proper response to a foreign country subsidizing something is to just buy a lot of it. They're losing money on the unit economics, you can profit from it by buying.

We've known for decades that protectionist policies and subsidies make industries less competitive, not more. It is literally textbook stuff [1].

A typical result of protectionism is somethint like GM in the US, where they grow uncompetitive as they don't have to compete with foreign markets for domestic demand.

You get similar uncompetitive dependent behavior from subsidies - just look at Intel right now.

1. https://web.pdx.edu/~ito/Krugman-Obstfeld-Melitz/8e-text-PDF...

Note the author here is Paul Krugman, who literally won a Nobel Prize for his work on infant industry protection.
Yep, in my city we have a roundabout with 4 cardinal directions, roughly aligned with compass directions.

The West connection is to/from highway, so it has most traffic. People arriving from North/East/South want to leave on the West. And this causes massive jams, as the constant supply of traffic going from South entry to the West exit (i.e. doing left turn, and passing all ramps) essentially blocks all the other traffic.

Roundabout are great, they increase safety of dangerous intersections. But sometimes a controlled intersection is just a better idea.
Bad Apple but it's a scannable QR code [video]
Roc is a similar functional language that doesn't automatically curry functions and doesn't have partial application, the Roc FAQ has a few reasons: https://www.roc-lang.org/faq.html#curried-functions
And here I was just finishing reading an unrelated article about neurobollocks, which mentions, among other things, that anyone making a blanket statement about "neuroplasticity" is probably bullshitting. Because neuroplasticity isn't a well defined term. This is like someone claiming they cured cancer... (which one of the over 200 distinct, and mostly unrelated ones do you mean exactly?)
In the context of the article "congress" is the USA. I'm not sure where you get the notion that I might be suggesting either of those things.
What's wrong with CSV? I love me a CSV file.
> In 2009, it was voted the fourth-scariest junction in Britain

Only fourth? Pssh!
There are plastic eating bacteria [https://letstalkscience.ca/educational-resources/backgrounde...].

Human cells can also (mostly) function anaerobically (aka in low-oxygen environments). It’s terribly inefficient though, and we can only do it for limited periods of time before something bad starts to happen to the overall organism.

So we prefer oxygen, and as long as we have oxygen rich environments, we’re never going to get that much better at being anaerobic eh?
AIUI, no, no such requirementunder either GPLv2 or GPLv3.

This is the major difference between GPL and AGPL. AGPL treats your SaaS as distribution, with all the strings attached.
> People who work with it all the time, don't even think about it past the first week.

I think SQL is often quite awkward, at least when you look at people exploring alternatives, like https://prql-lang.org/

Not just “the standard” variety, but also all of the vendor specific varieties that you’ll use in practice (MySQL/MariaDB, PostgreSQL, SQLite, Oracle, SQL Server etc.) and how the features offered by each differ, how the support for custom types differs, how the procedural languages differ, the actual experience of using them, seemingly half baked error messages when compared to most imperative languages, varying support for getting the query optimiser to do what you want (e.g. hints), query plans that aren’t pleasant to stare at, often no support for automated analysis of how things are running and suggestions for indices (e.g. Oracle had that sort of feature, it is sometimes helpful, but the automatically generated indices are or at least last I checked were treated as their own special thing and you couldn’t easily delete them). Even things like varying support for working with geospatial data, JSON or time series data.

Not just that, but also the tooling (or the lack of it) - good luck debugging the execution of stored procedures in your DB or placing breakpoints in there, good luck hooking up observability/tracing solutions as easily as you would for your back end, good luck debugging why your database link calls take 100x longer when executed through JDBC in your app but not in the developer tooling.

Not that ORMs or NoSQL make everything much better, you’d just trade one set of annoyances for another, especially when you end up trying to generate dynamic SQL with the likes of myBatis XML mappers. Don’t get me started on people over fetching or ending up with N+1 problems with most ORMs, or executing bunches of queries against the DB just to retrieve some data that you might as well get in one go with a well crafted DB view. Not that you can’t make your DB schema a mess as well with a liberal application of EAV or OTLT (or just attempting to make polymorphic links).

I think SQL as a language makes sense, but PRQL often feels more sensible. I feel like the current RDBMSes out there are very powerful, but that there are also aspects about them (and the differences between the ones you’ll use) that absolutely suck. It feels like where back end languages are getting progressively better DX, databases instead gave us… CTEs? Some syntactic sugar for JSON in PostgreSQL? Feels like they move painfully slow.

For what it's worth, that's why I welcome every new tool or attempt at improving things, even if they won't replace the usual enterprise stacks of having some RDBMS, a JDBC/ODB/whatever driver and probably an ORM on the back end.
I listened to the Cursor team on Lex Fridman yesterday. The biggest thing I took away is they have some wild ideas with having agents running in the background that are following what you are creating, trying to find bugs.

I understand what you mean but surely those guys were thinking about this awhile ago now. That part seems obvious listening to them. They are thinking way beyond that.
6. You're homeless, and have a place to sleep, but not for your stuff. Maybe you have bad credit, an eviction record, whatever. A small amount of cash income is enough to pay the rent on the storage unit.

7. You're storing the tools / materials for a small business.
Go is only modern in release date.
When Obama got the Peace Prize it was obvious that it is a popularity contest.
Yeah, that's the bit that finally made me delete that account.

I was pissed at Musk and his nonsense anyway - but the amount of random spam on there just made it annoying to use.

I mean, no I don't want a discount on a boob job ... but thanks.
What the general public considers dinosaurs has no overlap with the existing animals that scientists consider dinosaurs.

While technically correct, it’s not useful nomenclature for public discussion.
> 40 years ago, they saw only a few tiny patches of vegetation covering a total of about 8,000 square feet—less than a football field.

That's ≈ 740 m².

> But since then, the Antarctic Peninsula has warmed rapidly, and a new study shows that mosses, along with some lichen, liverworts and associated algae, have colonized more than 4.6 square miles, an area nearly four times the size of New York’s Central Park.

≈ 12,000,000 m² ≈ 16,000 × 740 m².
Maybe we need a standard AM emergency broadcast frequency akin to 121.5 on aircraft. Legislate that all fixed and car radio receivers are always tuned to it and activate automatically if there’s a broadcast. Then scrap the rest of the analogue radio broadcasting band.
Raspberry Pi releases faster class A2 micro SD cards and bumper case for Pi 5
Matt Webb (interconnected.org) has persistently been one of my favorite people and it would be a pleasure to sing some praises, mention some of his super interesting thoughtful projects.

A long time ago (12+ years) was Little Printer, an internet connected/social little thermal printer, with the Berg group. There's a loving open source effort maintaining the systems ? Which I haven't gotten around to installing on my own off the shelf printer). https://nordprojects.co/projects/littleprinters/

Matt's current effort is the Poem/A1 rhyming poetry AI clock. https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/genmon/poem-1-the-ai-po...

A submission got popular - Product Innovation is sometimes the Supply - and mentions the excellent very old Machine Supply, a tweeting vending machine selling books and notebooks. https://www.actsnotfacts.com/made/machine-supply https://interconnected.org/home/2024/09/27/distribution https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41709429

Matt's blog is extremely longstanding & excellent. His work always finds playfulness & creativity, embodies that rich interesting Splime sci-fi internet that seemed so full of open potential when I was growing up in the 90's & 00's. Thank you Matt Webb for adding so much to my life! I highly recommend adding Matt to your blogrolls, & checking out his deep & prolific archives.
>While that’s all true, why is being in a car a special case? If I’m at home without power...

We're talking about the USA here. Probably a higher fraction of Americans have a car than have a home!
They used to, but then they built the vagus nerve
Beautiful iOS dice rolling app for table top games