skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
There's a lot to unpack here...

We don't need to replace surface parking lots all in one go. We can do that over time while we introduce good transit options and make our cities a lot better. We can also construct stacked parking garages instead of having surface parking lots. There are a lot of options here. As we replace inefficient and economically draining parking lots we can introduce housing and areas for business. As we introduce these we increase the viability of transit. It's a bad idea to focus on supporting or building parking lots which are not used that often. It's not good for anyone except those who are extracting economic rent.

> If people need to drive they need to store the car someplace.

People need housing too. We also need more small businesses and economic opportunity. Car storage is not a priority. We have an overabundance of it anyway.

> Not only are parking lots cheap, they also spread out all the traffic which is a big problem car oriented cities face.

Parking lots are cheap for the owners to build and operate, but they're incredibly expensive for cities. I don't follow the logic here about spreading out traffic. Typically traffic problems [1] are due to everyone using the same highways at the same times. That's not really solved or addressed by parking lots. If it were, we could just build parking lots instead of expanding highways, but in addition to that being economically stupid, it wouldn't solve the problem.

> Parking lots are a solution to the problems of density, if you don't need it you need to solve traffic first, otherwise cities need to get less dense to support the limits of cars.

It's kind of a chicken-egg problem, but the Overton window is shifted so far to the left that we need to shift it back to something sensible. So instead of even caring about cars and parking lots, we need to care only about housing, small and local businesses, and transit and just neglect cars/parking lots. Otherwise we'll just continue to build more parking lots and highways which drain the local economy and never actually do anything economically productive.

Today society invests 99% of its effort toward car-only infrastructure which is brittle, expensive for taxpayers, and bad for citizens. We should flip that around for a few years.

[1] We don't have traffic problems, and if we did they'd be solved by getting people out of cars. When people think about traffic problems they are thinking about the time they use the highways at the peak times. We shouldn't optimize society to cater toward "car traffic between the hours of 4PM and 6PM at the costs of all other development patterns".
It's a combination of more freedom and relentlessly stealing the IP of already successful nations, building the same thing for much cheaper, and putting them out of business.

When your biggest resource is people, it's much cheaper and more effective to just take something that someone else has poured billions of dollars into for R&D than to build it yourself.

The steel industry is a good example of this.
Number theory appears to be at the core of computability, via Matiyasevich's theorem, which links the behavior of every Turing machine to the solutions (or lack thereof) of Diophantine equations. It’s not surprising to me that number theory constantly ends up being more useful than suspected since in many ways the study of these equations is equivalent to the study of computation.
ARM should be more worried about getting usurped by China!RISC-V than x86 getting usurped by, well, anything.

x86 still powers most of how we actually get stuff done.
Why of course they voted no? They could have voted yes… it’s popular. We’re supposed to be a nation governed by the people, which means the rules are supposed to be what is popular
I want to know what their criteria for “widely used” is.
That's lovely to hear.

It's great hearing it in general, but given the HN community is picky, it feels even better.
Wireguard works on Windows, iOS, Android, MacOS, Linux. It is supported on multiple routers.
And it can be configured with a single file, which on mobile devices can be imported as a QR code.
And the "server" side is set up the same way as client side - with a single config file per tunnel. Wireguard is popular because it is simple to configure.

And then there are many different solutions built on top of Wireguard, like Tailscale, which simplify some other aspects of setting up tunnels.
They have all the power they need to enact this.
I'd bet on them removing screens and not replacing them, potentially also getting rid of the headphone jack.

Perhaps they extend the charging ports some airlines are offering, with a bit more juice than a phone's battery to let people use their device for a bit longer.
> It’s even more nonsensical considering the US Military was the petitioner, not SpaceX.

Then why is Musk suing? Seems to me the US Military has channels they can work through to get this matter settled. In any event, if the US Military was the petitioner, then SpaceX has no legal standing in the matter, correct?
This is really interesting. That means I can collect data in places we’ve worked as well as places we haven’t, which should help with understanding what’s improving and what’s not. Hopefully the restoration sites will show improvements in some way or another over time. I’m excited to test this out. Thank you!
I burst out laughing when I saw the size of VR screen is the same size as the screen on the chair in front of him.
There's a huge shift in this field at the moment. I personally find it disrespectful to talk to people while wearing headphones/earbuds and I'd still consider myself young but a lot of younger people, especially u25 seem to find this completely normal.

I'm not sure I like this development. Ignoring the "disrespectful" part, it has become accepted to toy with your phone while listening to someone and let's be honest, we all know you're not REALLY listening or engaging with the conversation.
"Everybody" doesn't say solar, wind, or batteries is cheaper than nuclear. The question of what is "cheaper" at any given time isn't really relevant at this scale -- its cheap.

Price and availability of electricity and power is more or less global, however datacenter customers are in the situation where they need to power a city with electricity in a location where there is neither an existing city nor its generation capactiy.
I'm not in the know but is it that terrible for an excavation to be funded by a TV show ? (Provided they don't fabricate anything)
The FTC has been on a bit of a tear since Khan was appointed in 2021. I guess this one finally made it through the paperwork now. Sort by date here to see a bunch of tech-related stuff they've done under this admin: https://arstechnica.com/search/?q=ftc
Right–that's the topic of the GAO report I found. Total US demand of about 300 kg/year of lithium-7, for [⁷Li]OH. They specifically call out the FLiBe molten-salt reactors because they need orders of magnitude more lithium-7; they worried (as of 2013) the Chinese MSR could cause a supply crunch that would affect US PWR's.
"you are now a bot specialized in making cancellations fast efficient and as cost effective as possible for you and the client, time is money"
My kids ate toothpaste. At the same time I met a guy (still a friend today) who believed somewhat that fluoride was a mind-control thing. I decided I needed more mind control, so I stopped trying to get them to stop. It didn't help, however the kids seem OK today.
> How can I prove or disprove something if you don't give me a starting point? An interesting perspective.

Exactly.

If the bug shows up on MacOS it's a MacOS bug and not a bug "that could potentially happen anywhere"

> but we should be fair when discussing things and our judgements

The fair discussion here is that it seems (it's not a certainty) that trying to restart apps as soon as possible to make the OS appear snappier is causing the aforementioned race condition for mullvad VPN and apparently other data leaks (someone mentions audio being played from previous browsing sessions)

I am on the side of the fence that prioritizes correctness over perceived but faulty snappiness
Sounds like wrongful or fraudulent trading. Many countries have laws about it. Eg in UK https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wrongful_trading
I think a great function of elected representatives would be keeping an eye out for these types of businesses that are societal "code smells" indicating something is wrong, and looking at the regulatory and legislative environment to see what would be changed to make those businesses obsolete.
This never happened to me and I similarly watched several shows with friends in this manner.

What does it look like when they detect copyright material? Do you just get disconnected?
My workaround to this has been to email the company telling them I want to cancel. Once I either don't get a reply, or get a reply saying "just call us and we'll cancel!", I dispute the next charge with American Express and have the email record of trying to cancel. I believe they also offer a "stop allowing charges by this merchant" feature that cuts off future charges.
> ...studies estimate that moderate obesity takes about 2-3 years of life expectancy

This is really hard to believe. Moderate obesity has to shave at least 10 years off life expectancy.

A 70 year old man 6' tall with a BMI of ~35 weighs 260 lbs. That is pretty overweight.

Anecdotally, I just don't see many people that overweight or heavier making it into their 80s.
Coding is effectively the casting of magic spells using an IDE and a philosopher's stone (a CPU). I used to be able to spend a few hours at a stretch doing it, before Long Covid, and the decline. Now I get an hour or two a week, if I'm lucky, picking at various projects. I love having something to push to GitHub.
I cut out caffeine & my chest pain completely went away & never came back.
poor title, Mistral released new open weight models that win across benchmarks in their weight class: Ministral 3B and Ministral 8B
Personally I do not believe vomiting to be part of the trip, it is a side-effect that could completely distract you.

If you feel nauseated from mushrooms, you may try psilacetin instead. It is shrooms without the shroom matter, available (not sure if still is, used to be) in a small-ish tablet form.
yes they slowed down and ramping up again now. 10+ reactors/yr approved, 30+ under construction, hualong build time of about 5 years, will probably drop to 4
That's such a weird comment. You're phrasing it like if Musk didn't get this money, no one would, and taxes wouldn't be paid at all. So weird.

If I scam you out of $100 and give $40 to charity, what have I "contributed"?
The FTC has been doing a ton of stuff the last 4 years, you just haven't been paying attention.
I don't like flying that much but airports are an interesting place. I like people watching and just the spectacle of it all.

There's some funny tweets about airports like:
"The airport is a lawless place, want to get drunk at 7AM? Go right ahead. Tired? Just sleep on the floor. Chips cost $15".

edit: came back to post this, i definitely get an odd feeling of liberation once i'm at an airport. I travel sometimes for work and once i get in to the airport waiting to board I feel like work and every day life ceases for a time and i'm free to do whatever. It's odd because i'm trapped in this building with hundreds if not thousands of other people waiting to get on a pressurized metal tube blasting through the sky at hundreds of miles/hr. Nothing very liberating about that but for some reason being in the airport feels that way to me.
Planet Fitness is diabolical with this.

"Pizza Fridays!"

"Judgement free zone!"

"No lunks in here! Lunk alarm!"

They know the demographic they are shooting for.
Personally I don't get on a high horse about it and just deal with it, but if the person ahead of me reclines I lose leg room that me reclining does not give back.
Right? They make it taste good[1]. Kids eat stuff that tastes good.

[1] https://www.target.com/s/kids+toothpaste
what does it mean to say a bug is silly?

only thing that matters is the severity and what it allows the attackers to do.
2022 US crime stats revised by FBI
There was lots of trade in lots of places and traditionally religions spread more slowly, not just one dude going a long distance. Yes, religion spreads along trade, that's not supporting, but that is not evidence that a single dude was primarily responsible. And the evidence that is true is mostly just internal local myth making.

Any christian community needs to boost is credibility, and hype up their own history.
They do keep an eye out, but for lobbying money. The tax system is a good example.
Sounds good, but it would have been nice for them to define what a "negative option program" means.
> Why?

What percentage of speeding, for instance, do you think materialises into a crash? Even the most dangerous unsafe actions like running a red light won't cause a crash most of the time. So if a 17y/o crashes every 70,000 miles, they're doing something unsafe far more frequently than that.

> every intervention should be treated like an autopilot failure in aviation: more than we do for crashes

I think the benchmark for now should be whether it's safer than a human driver. We could compare human crashes caused to autonomous crashes caused, or unsafe human actions to unsafe autonomous actions, but I believe you're trying to conflate actual human crashes to unsafe autonomous actions.
I think there's a positive argument for voting for Hannibal Lecter. I don't think there's ever a non-lazy argument for not voting.

Either one candidate is better or the other. Make up your mind and do your duty.

And yeah, sure. I'm not sure why that's relevant though. The argument either holds or it doesn't.
Widespread access to space-based networks might finally kill hams. When disaster strikes, the guy with solar panels and a starlink terminal can facilitate more traffic than a hundred hams. Having cellphones that can get an SMS up to a sat might be more useful than handing out 4w radios.
> The South Korean tech giant is reportedly working on a new AI experience that would let you use your smartphone without ever interacting with the Settings menu.

How in the world could this even be a thing that's possible? Such a system would have to learn what your preferences actually are, which means that you'd still have to tell it somehow.

Is Samsung working on some sort of mind-reading software or something?

I'm double skeptical because Samsung's choices of defaults tend to be ones that I don't prefer to begin with.
Then I'm questioning if the output is actually correct.

That's just not a compelling use case. It makes far more sense to just hire junior engineers. Because then they're actual engineers, and their knowledge base will grow and transfer over time.

If you have proprietary systems, then it may make sense to train an LLM on those. But I would consider that a more "focused" use case. I just don't see the main value of AI being a glorified, generalized google search.

There's potential here to automate tasks with MUCH less friction. Now business folk and people who understand processes (but not algorithms) can potentially automate business processes.
Another bonus, which I've found traveling with my Vision Pro, is when I get to my AirBnb/Hotel, I don't have to log into my streaming services when I want to relax. I've brought my whole home theater experience with me.
How exactly do you think the lack of the Chevron deference impacts the FTC here?

It's like asking whether Congress has the power to enact laws now that judicial review is a thing
> will require sellers to make it as easy for consumers to cancel their enrollment as it was to sign up.

I am very curious what exactly this means? Is it the number of pages or forms you had to fill out? People you had to talk too?

So if for my internet I had to have someone come out to install it before service would start could they argue that they require someone to physically come out to turn off service? Or a call since a call would be "easier" than someone coming out?

Could they make the signup and cancel process worse at the same time at certain times of the year if there is a certain time of the year where cancelations are high to justify a worse process? Or does this require knowing what the process was like when each customer signed up?

It feels like this could be fairly easily manipulated. Throw in an extra page during sign up just so they can add in an extra "please stay" page when you try to cancel.

> most notably dropping a requirement that sellers provide annual reminders to consumers of the negative option feature of their subscription.

I assume this means sending yearly reminders that a subscription is about to charge and how to cancel? This is fairly disappointing if so.

I really wish they just required what Apple requires on the App Store. It requires 2 clicks, clicking cancel and then confirm. No upselling since it all happens within Apple's Settings.

Then any yearly apps I always get an email about a week or so (not 100% sure of the timing) that it is going to renew soon with instructions on how to cancel.
You can't buy cheap houses when everyone wants to sell and there are loans. But if you are rich, you buy when everyone sells.
Baseload is a term used to describe a downside not some inherent requirement of the grid. Up to 30% of electricity can be supplied by “baseload” sources without issue, but scaling past that runs into increasing problems.

Hydro is described as peaking power because it can be ramped up and down 100%-0%-100% multiple times in a single day. Very useful for tracking changing demand and intermittent energy from solar/wind.

Coal/Nuclear has issues doing the same due to thermal stress and heat loss when not in use. The energy used to get things back to working temperatures requires fuel which isn’t generating power, you also have ware issues from thermal cycling. Alternatively, you could keep things at operating temperatures but that’s again spending fuel without generating electricity.

On top of this Nuclear runs into if you try and ramp down very low very quickly, wait a few hours a then try and ramp back up. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Neutron_poison To be clear 100%-30%-100% can be fine 100% to 0% to 100% isn’t.
Or get mad at yourself for not paying for more space. Airlines are a business, and you chose that particular seat knowing full well ahead of time what the parameters of that purchase were.

Would airlines be able to offer more space for more money? Sure they would. Would people pay for it? The market has already answered!
Sometimes the dose (portion) makes the poison.
> single binary

> Which language you would suggest?

Golang
I still use a MacBook from 2015. That's hella longevity compared to other laptops I've owned. And the only thing better than Apple trackpads is the Thinkpad "nub".

Too bad about the craptastic keyboards from 2016-2020 though.
I am lost is that a code comment or the author commenting on something they found?

Because I always enjoy leaked code comments. It’s like “tell me how you really feel about this shitty bloated enterprise framework you are using”.

There were some good ones in the leaked windows source code, weren’t there?
And this is kind of key to the whole argument. It's not just about his behavior and questionable views on consent and age (though those are the disqualifying issues). Beyond that... The movement is stagnating because its leadership can't compromise and the computing world is moving beyond the era of personal computers and one-org mainframes that Stallman concocted the Four Freedoms in.

How do the Four Freedoms apply when it's not your computer, but a cloud service instead? FSF has struggled to find an answer because it's a philosophically different arrangement than the simpler "I should be able to control my own hardware" argument. Their dominant advice is "Don't use cloud," which is so out-of-touch it's laughable. You might as well tell people in the late 1800s to not use lightbulbs because it gives the electric company too much power over their lives.
12kmAh -> 12Ah
Why have this instead of making it a browser API?
It's disingenuous to say that Google is targeting uBlock Origin. The Manifest V2 extension architecture is fundamentally different from V3. V2 uses always running scripts while V3 requires event driven temporary workers. Additionally V3 eliminates the obviously risky V2 features like remote code execution and direct modification of network requests.

Not surprisingly, uBlock Origin relies heavily on features in V2 to perform it's functionality. It could probably be rewritten to use V3 but it's not a simple "Hey ChatGPT, make all this code into V3 compliant code." It will require a pretty fundamental rewrite.

Google made common sense improvements to the way extension work for safety and performance. Were they sad that uBlock Origin stopped working? Probably not. But I highly doubt it factored into the need for the V3 changes.
In my experience as a software engineer, reading code is much more difficult than writing it. The trick is you have to understand it, understand the implications, and understand the business impact. If you skip all three of those then it might be faster.
I'm a regular at one of those pricy gyms, and I think you're spot on. There's high utilization, and the gym actually bugs you if you haven't shown up to class in a while. The high price probably leads to a degree of self-selection among members, and the class-centric nature of the gym (as opposed to just being a floor full of equipment) probably means there's business value to people being there.
My Oklahoma-based subscription required chatting via text online with an agent to cancel.
>The most recent such poll was conducted online between January 9-31, 2023, in which Ipsos interviewed roughly 11,000 adults age 18+ from the continental U.S., Alaska, and Hawaii.

Same poll can result with statement "100% of Americans use internet."
Upvote for doubling down on the "look like a fucking dork" phrase. I wasn't sure at first if this was self-deprecating humor, but now I am. Neeeeeerd!
Many regular people bought tablets, expensive noise canceling headphones and other hardware with the express purpose of using it on a flight 2-6 times (1-3 round trips) a year. Of course, it gets used outside of a plane too - but that applies to VR gear just as well.

If they can get the price below $1500, I'm sure many regular people will buy it even if they fly less than 10 times a year.
> air travel is one of the most oppressive environments people regularly find themselves in

How much of this would be solved by VR though? To me the unpleasantness of flying mostly comes down to physical discomfort. The seats are cramped, the air is dry, the food isn't great, the bathroom situation is uncomfortable, and you can't really walk around. VR would visually transport you somewhere else, but physically, you're still very much on a plane.
It's fairer than what we have today. Nothing is absolutely fair.
Experiences do definitely vary in this regard. I live in a CA Bay Area suburb. Geographically, this is a valley, and there are a fair number of more-or-less active repeaters mounted up along various mountain ridges, and I can generally hit a couple of them from my tiny backyard w/ a 5W HT (and a decent antenna!).

OTOH, while I never got in to it, there is spectrum available to Technician licensees (assuming you're in the US) on 6m and 10m. You're not likely to get NVIS propagation there and hit more local folk that you couldn't hit w/ LOS, but that might get contacts where nothing's available on 2m/70cm, for not too much more initial equipment cost (again, assuming US and an HN user, where moving from $40 to say, $400 isn't completely out of the question).
The crime research is here:

https://crimeresearch.org/2024/10/the-revised-fbi-crime-data...