skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Oh wow, what a coincidence, I was just looking at Lord Howe Island on a map of species conservation.

For anyone who doesn't know: Lord Howe Island is the last true paradise on Earth.

I went there on holidays a few years back based on two travel review recommendations. Both were by professional travellers that had been to pretty much everywhere, and both said it's the best place they've ever been. The reasoning was that every other tropical island has "something" wrong with it. Pushy locals trying to sell you stuff, sharks in the water, malaria, pollution, crime, poverty, or something.

Lord Howe is about as safe as it's possible to get, civilised beyond belief, pristine, unpolluted, etc...

It's one of the last places in the world with undamaged, unbleached coral reefs in protected waters. The diving there is just unbelievable, more beautiful than any Planet Earth documentary you've seen.

Birds nest on the beach, and you have to step over them gently because there's thousands of them and the juveniles can't fly yet.

I met the police officer of the island and pointedly asked him when was the last time he had to deal with crime.

"Crime... crime... let's see." he said, counting on his fingers slowly "Umm... seven years ago there was a domestic violence report because a tourist slapped his wife in an argument."

The hotel doors have no locks. There's $500 in cash in a tin next to a shack full of equipment on the beach with a "honesty system" rental price list sign next to it. The bloke selling you coke cans at the milk bar bought it with the $20 million he made in the stock market. Half the tourists go there by private plane. Ballmer's son took his super yacht there with a harem of models. And on, and on.

If you ever get the opportunity to visit: GO!
It is fine because they consider their options to be worse.

The comparison is sane because it's trying to point out how entitled we are.
>It takes out one non-trivial element from the whole driving experience and lets me focus more on all the other things you need to do while driving.

Your mind is not very busy shifting if you've been driving manual for a while.
Normal margin rates are 5%+, I could see a big account getting a big discount, but 0.25%?

At some point (well above 0.25%) it’s clear that a special rate is being offered that is no longer an arms length loan (IRS Part 1 Section 7872) and the imputed rate will be applied as if the difference is an interest payment from the bank to the customer.

But let’s say the client gets 4% instead of the normal 5.5%. If they never pay it back it only takes a few years before they pay more in interest than they would have paid in capital gains taxes.

It’s a “loophole” that nobody uses to avoid taxes for a lifetime.
I'd love not to have them
Not to be confused with 1X's "Neo" robot.

https://www.1x.tech/
These clones are often written in unimaginably inefficient languages like Ruby or Python.

If I’m not mistaken, Twitter uses Scala. That would have been a good start. For all the indie-ness, one of these clones could have been written in hand-tuned Rust or C# or Kotlin to respect the resources of people who would run them out of their own pocket. But sadly this has not happened yet.
Not broken in terms of design and intent, but broken by people all the time. As in "I broke the law, and the law won"
I've been trying out Ptyxis for a few weeks now and it's quite nice to use with Distrobox or other containers. It's easy to set up profiles with particular docker containers and it automatically picks up distrobox containers.

It also has the "top bar color changes as a state indicator feature". eg: when I run a "zypper ref" the top bar goes red. The multi tab overview can be useful too, and it has a lot of color themes OOTB. These are nice touches.
Cause it's not an SUV! It's a tiny cute little bug mobile.

Considering the Fiat E was around the same ballpark price and people somehow bought those over 14 years ago, I think there would've been a market simply because there's not much else like it in the US. But that's only my opinion, and even though I just recently got a new boring SUV, I would instabuy a Honda E or equivalent adorable kei EV for my use case.
> I just don't see any benefit of using automatic transmission

It is automatic

I have better uses for my time and attention than matching rpms and flicking a lever, especially in stop and go traffic

> Cars with manual transmission can be towed

Automatic cars can be towed, just read the manual (for reference: https://mechanics.stackexchange.com/questions/22275/can-a-ca... )
video of it in action: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s32edCQca7Q
Yes. I fully get that, living in Europe myself (Isn't 20% a bit too much by the way?)
> But I do agree with leap seconds: it's absolute trivia, not a useful thing for a programmer to know.

By and large, I agree with this.

But I've always found it a bit funny when a large organisation [1] says "our servers have sub-millisecond timing accuracy, thanks to GPS synchronization and these PCIe rubidium atomic clock cards we've developed" while at the same time saying [2] "we smear leapseconds over the course of a day, in practice it doesn't matter if a server's time is off by ±0.5 seconds"

[1] https://engineering.fb.com/2021/08/11/open-source/time-appli...
[2] https://engineering.fb.com/2020/03/18/production-engineering...
> charge 0.25%

Do they? I wouldn’t be surprised if their margin was 0.25% but they‘d still be charging it on top of the benchmark rate (~4.8% now) otherwise they’d be losing a lot of money overtime
Jeff Bezos "Didn't know" Blue Origin met with Trump as he tries to calm WP storm
In an electric car? Really? I don't know too much about electric cars, but it's my impression that gears and transmissions are completely unnecessary in an electric car. Please correct me if I am wrong.
I had an identity crisis in Germany when, at 2am on a deserted road, a group of hooligan-looking teenage boys told me off for crossing on red.
A brief synopsis of eukaryotic life from my book, showing where complex life fits into our timeline:

https://impacts.to/downloads/lowres/impacts.pdf#page=12
You're comparing an ICE-engine Automatic with an ICE-engine Manual.

An EV doesn't have a transmission in the conventional sense (1). It's just a final drive from the motor to the differential (which you'd have in any conventional ICE gearbox anyway). The motor is always connected, and can drive from zero speed to maximum in the same gear. It's a totally difference experience to an 'automatic' ICE car as there are no shifts. It's like a part of the car is just no longer there - and for good reason as electric motors can provide torque over a much wider range of speeds than an ICE engine can.

The gearbox in an ICE car is only there to cover for the inadequacy of ICE engines. It's missing from EVs because it's not needed.

Life-long petrolhead here (driven as an amateur in the WRC for reference). Bought my first EV a few years ago, and never going back. It makes zero sense for most people to have an ICE car now. If you've not driven one, reserve judgement about the transmission as most people I know who've driven mine have found it a revelation.

(1) with the exception of the Porsche Taycan AFAIK.
In the UK we have various types of pedestrian crossing, but they're an optional convenience. You can use them, or you can find a safe place and time to cross yourself.
So far, that is the main use case for AI. Which is great, but probably doesn't deserve the trillion dollar hype (and e-waste).

We'll probably get another AI winter once the hype dies down, but we'll have added a few more tools to our toolbelt.
Because the pedestrians and roads were there before cars.

Criminalizing the behavior was regulatory capture by Big Auto.

It being enforced by police from Connecticut who treat NYC’s minorities like a VR simulation was broken.

Strong recommendations and pointing out the loss in civil suits would have always been totally fine.
Old thread but I think there’s a wood and trees thing here.

Traffic analysis is king because who you communicate with is a low noise signal and what you communicate is usually noise.

This is well known for police work and military intelligence etc.

It’s also true for ad sales. Ad networks want the trackers on sites so they can build up a profile of you based on metadata not the content of the pages you visit themselves.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o_7XarmoDIw
Went to college on the cheap (you could probably earn enough to pay tuition from a summer job) and then pull the tax subsidy out once you became middle-aged.

The student loan money spigot also hurt (supported by boomer elected officials), as did the rise of the administration (managed by boomers).
The worst feature of manual transmission is being stuck in a traffic jam and constantly pressing clutch pedal and shifting in and out of the 1st gear. Everything else is non issue, this is painful.
Even as I cyclist I must agree that it's one of the nicest looking electric cars out there. So few people actually need a massive SUV which often even doesn't have that much extra loading capacity. For transporting a piece of furniture around town a cargo bike is the easier choice anyways.
If you read the article, apparently this isn't a real transmission, it's just simulating one (at least in its current implementation). It's basically a way to control the fake engine noises the car makes.

So that exactly fits the definition.
OpenAI reportedly is making its first AI chip with TSMC and Broadcom
Shifting gears manually is not harder than, say, walking or running. It becomes second nature.

I think it's more fun as you _feel_ the relationship between the engine revs and the movement of the vehicle but in congested traffic it becomes a nuisance too.

Are there any dual transmission vehicles which manual and automatic transmissions???
Perhaps to decouple DST transition rules from other time-zone changes. So if the time-zone offset is adjusted for some other reason then the DST rule does not also need to be changed.
I think SuperMaven has tab complete and let's you chose the model.
> Unlike Facebook, where I know I have missed out on communities by not using it, I don't feel like I've ever lost anything by not using Twitter. Anything that goes viral on Twitter these days gets a bunch of mainstream news articles anyway.

The residual reason to use twitter isn't stuff that goes viral on Twitter, it is an existing network of specific individuals on Twitter (which ones are different for each user for whom it is an issue) who haven't moved off.
So far, I haven't seen any sign that LLM/GenAI could be used to solve e-waste. It's definitely an impressive technology, but seems to be much suited at generating porn than at solving global issues.
Theory of Bounded Rationality tells use we are all stupid given the right problem. It reminds us that problems exist which will cause us to hit limits not just in intelligence but in time, resources, skill, communication, attention, energy, info etc etc etc

It also recommends what to do in such cases. You either pick a simpler prob where the limits matter less or Accept your solution for complex problems will have issues.
The distinction is about pedestrians being forced to use crossings. In the UK you can use them, but you can cross where you like if you want to.
What's a better option for linking 3rd party code?
>How some people prefer manual is probably one of the mysteries I'll take to grave with myself.

When I find myself thinking like that I try to come up with generous analogies to try and position myself in a similar mindset. With manual transmission the advantage seems to be fine grained control over the engine at the cost of more complexity and additional work. This fine grained control may be imperceptible or totally unnecessary for some people. However, I run Linux for similar reasons and enjoy tinkering with it. I also tend to prefer tools that target power users at the cost of complexity. So, even if I'm not a gearhead myself, I can easily understand the preference for manual transmission by others.
This concept of universal relation strongly reminds me ideas from Datomic database where all entities are described as changelog which will fit in table with columns "entity-attribute-relation-timestamp-operation-type"
Try copying any string from any e-mail.
The idea is that automatic transmission becomes part of a more luxurious packaged upgrade including other things. I think it was that way around two decades ago, now i'm not so sure.
But then only 1/10 of the features they currently have would’ve been finished.

The real culprit is the cloud premium. If you go with hetzner you have lots of runway too.
Testing well is both an art and a science, and I mean, just look at the dev community on the topic, some are religious about TDD, some say unit tests only, some say the whole range to e2e etc. etc. hard to have good training data when there is no definition of what is "right" in the first place!
Our emotions are not very well adapted to the internet environment with millions of strangers, echo chambers and so on. But the internet does allow to just ignore unwanted communication. Makes sense to use that when necessary.
The internet is volatile and it has happened multiple times that a page I have saved to read later has disappeared.

Do you have any good recommendations for self hosted services that allow me to save a link and have an archived copy of the website saved to disk?

So far, I've tried Wallabag, Linkwarden and Archivebox but I feel like they don't quite work the way I want to.

What are you experiences with this?
>If this is how you use Cursor then you dont need Cursor.

I've tried Cursor yesterday only to realise it can't run and debug C# projects.
Other posters are right, I meant 'most frequently broken'.
HDMI is really not a very good choice as they try to block open source implementations: https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2024/02/hdmi-forum-to-amd-no...

It should be kept out of regulations.
Suppose in local time (which is, say, UTC+3) the DST transition is on something like "last Sunday of 10th month at 02:00", which might then in UTC become "last Saturday of 10th month at 23:00, except if that Saturday is the last day of the month, then the second to last Saturday". In effect, if conversion to UTC causes the transition to move to a different day, it might also be on a different week or month, causing headache.

(Or did you ask something else entirely? It wouldn't be the first time I misunderstood things about time zones.)
Your trackpad comment brought back a memory of 6 of us in a conference room.

We all had the same OS (NT) to the same patch level, same trackpad config, and same model of Dell laptop and every _single_ trackpad felt different. They weren't strictly "defective", but just wildly disparate physical feels and responsiveness.

I will give shout-outs to: 4th gen Kindles (has physical buttons and lasts forever), first gen iPhone SE, and Microsoft Mobile Mouse 3600.
Should Companies Reevaluate the Value of Their IP Annually?
With intellectual property (IP) playing a critical role in a company's value, especially for tech and innovation-driven businesses, there's often debate around how frequently to assess its worth. Annual IP valuation could provide insights into growth, help with securing financing, and support strategic planning. However, it might also be costly and complex to do so regularly.
Is there real value in reassessing IP annually, or are there better approaches? How do others manage IP valuation frequency, and what factors drive the decision?
It depends on whether they're running at a lower data rate due to the low signal power (which leads to low SNR, reducing channel capacity) or if it's just the speed of light delay.

In the former case, a relay could help quite significantly.

In the latter case, it would just add even more delay.
statisticsl probability in which distribution? stringing words is not at all how gpt works.
Imagine putting a cute little bike rack on top of the cute little roof.
I find parapsychology a very interesting field: the kind of scrutiny that is applied to its experiments is so much higher than with anything else in the social sciences - and usually the bar gets higher and higher until someone gives up, who is convinced remains convinced, who is not convinced remains unconvinced . That's fascinating.

For context: see https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jessica_Utts
Lots of people. For certain types of software (ISO) they are required.

But I'm in the boat (and also experienced many times first hand) all those tests you write will by definition, never test against that first production bug you get :)
Oddly was just reading something yesterday and it mentioned that in the UK there were years during the war where we had double DST for energy saving reasons. (although we went between 1 hour and 2 hours, so it was only really a change compared to the norm)

https://www.atlasobscura.com/articles/the-extreme-daylight-s...
That was my first thought too.

I’ve run pgbench on some 12 euro/month VM at hetzner and it outperformed our 18k/year AWS RDS instance. Sure it isn’t managed, etc, but there is a lot of room between 12 and 1500 euros
Show HN: VSCode Extension to toggle between string cases
I made a VSCode extension to toggle selected string(s) between camelCase, snake_case and kebab-case.

Works with multiple cursors. I use it on cmd/ctrl + ;.

Inspired by a similar extension to toggle between quotes ("/'/`).
Is a Low Valuation Good for Startup Employees in the Long Run?
Startups often face a dilemma around valuation — while higher valuations can attract more capital and hype, lower valuations might offer different benefits to early employees. For example, lower valuations could mean employees get more shares for the same grant size, potentially resulting in better returns if the company succeeds. On the flip side, lower valuations could signal challenges or slower growth.
How do low valuations affect the long-term upside for employees? Are there hidden advantages or risks that employees should consider when joining a lower-valued startup? What are your experiences or thoughts?
Lots of ways. Some of them are detailed here: https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2020-10-16/jaywalkin...
Or at some point, some miners will have to call it quits...
> Automatic transmission often makes a wrong choice, so I often need to override the selection of gear.

That sounds suspect. In the past 20 years I’ve found it makes far less errors than when I drive manual transmission over the same time. The set points just differ.

The curve for engine breaking is also not absent, just different I regularly release the accelerator in an automatic transmission, and it will slow down to a stop
According to the press release, the GR DAT is not "proven faster than manual", but is rather supposed to be competitive with dual-clutch transmissions.
DIY knife forging is common. Search "knife forging". Look around for classes and forges with training. There's a huge amount of info on knife making and metallurgy. People obsess on this stuff. A good knife is a trick of metallurgy. The blade must be hard at the edge to be sharp but ductile in the body so as not to be brittle. How to do this is well understood today, but there was much mystery around it for centuries. If you're fascinated by metalworking, but don't have to make machine parts, that's a hobby direction.

Victorinox knife manufacture.[1] Stamp, heat treat, grind, polish. They're not exotic blades, just good manufactured stainless steel parts.

A primer on machining titanium.[2]

[1] https://www.popularmechanics.com/adventure/outdoor-gear/a351...

[2] https://www.harveyperformance.com/in-the-loupe/titanium-mach...
I'll give you that! Too much of this stuff is sold as the "magic wand" solution... I guess marketing for many products has been like that for a long time...
Along with Kathmandu for weird offsets is Australian Central Western Standard Time (UTC +8:45), used in a tiny area of Australia with the largest town being Eucla (population 37). Being mainly within Western Australia (which doesn't use daylight savings) but partially within South Australia (which does use daylight savings) there has also been informal use of UTC+9:45

Historically there was also Dublin mean time (UTC -00:25.21) and Warsaw mean time (UTC+1:24)
Making the pedestrians go the long way prioritises driving, which leads to more people driving, which leads to more traffic, fumes, etc.

But most broken seems like a stretch!
if only the basic features are open source and advance features (but necessary) need to be purchased ,then what is the point? it is better to just buy the better one since you will need to pay anyway. Don't let "open source" fool you, if there is a "pricing" page on their official page, run. If you're going to buy it, just buy from market leader.
How is ChatGPT „objectively“ AGI? You don’t think there are common intellectual tasks humans are better at than ChatGPT? Can ChatGPT do math better than a human without specific prompting to use a calculator (function calls)?
> Russian has a lot of ways you can write "compactly" with fewer words than english and have a much more precise meaning of the sentence. (I always likened russian to type-safe haskell and english to dynamic python)

Funny; my experience has been completely the opposite. I've always envied the English language for how compactly and precisely it can express meaning compared to Russian, both because of an immensely rich vocabulary, and because of the very flexible grammar.

I suspect this difference in perception may be due to comparing original texts, especially ones produced by excellent writers or ones that have been polished by generations that use them, to translations, which are almost invariably stylistically inferior to the original: less creative, less playful, less punchy, less succinct. So, if you translate a good Russian writer who is a master of his craft into English, you may feel the inadequacy of the language. Likewise, whenever I try to read translations of English prose into Russian, it reads clumsy and depressingly weak.
And if no one uses them, they weren’t well designed to start with.
This is one thing I enjoy so much about my Kia Ev6.

For accelerating, I just use the go-pedal (which I still call the "gas pedal"). It gives me precise gentle control for normal driving around town, especially with passengers, or immediate zoom-zoom when I need it in a traffic situation or just for fun. I don't have to think about gears or any of that.

For slowing down, there two paddles on the steering wheel to select the regen level, just like the paddle shifters on some gas cars. A higher regen level is like a lower gear that gives you more engine braking.

Regen level 0 is like coasting. Level 1 is like being in "drive" with an automatic transmission. 2 and 3 are like downshifting further. There is also "auto-regen" and "i-pedal". I tried them all and found level 2 is my sweet spot.

If I'm going downhill and need to slow down even more, I can either go to level 3 or just use the brake pedal. If I do use the brake pedal, I won't be engaging the friction brakes. It just tells the car to pump energy back into the battery, unless I really mash down for an emergency stop.
> America/Nuuk does daylight savings at -01:00 (yes, with a negative)

Somewhat related: Europe/Dublin has a negative DST offset. Irish DST runs through the European winter (i.e. the opposite of the other European timezones).

(More details here: https://github.com/golang/go/issues/56743#issuecomment-13157... )

Edit: To be clear: the quote is referring to a negative DST start, rather than a negative DST offset.