skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> to make people question their moral beliefs instead of accepting their instinct

Yes every genius 20 year old wants to break down other peoples' moral beliefs, because it's the most validating feeling in the world to change someone's mind. From the other side, this looks like, quoting OP:

> you'd be trying to convince them to replace their moral beliefs with yours in order to win an argument by tricking them with logic.

And feels like:

> pressuring someone into changing their mind is not okay; it's a basic act of disrespect.

And doesn't work, instead:

> Anyway it's a temporary and false victory: theirs will re-emerge years later, twisted and deformed from years of imprisonment, and often set on vengeance.
> do people really spend a sixth of their total income on cars

Yes. It's a huge expense for a lot of Americans. Either the primary expense, or just behind housing.

> assuming people don't want to drive vehicles older than a decade

That's not a great assumption, especially if you're looking at people with less money. The normal lifespan of a car is 15-25yrs, and _somebody_ is driving those cars.

As you suspect though, the flow of new vehicles largely goes into wealthier people (average incomes in the $100k range), and after 6-10yrs the used cars trickle down to everyone else and live ~20yrs in total. There exist a number of exceptions (e.g., people getting a new car for reliability and not realizing that you could replace the engine and transmission three times over for the extra premium they're paying -- trying to do the right thing and make a fiscally responsible decision but accidentally doing something more expensive), but those aren't the norm.
Penny-Wise and Pound-Stupid – By Adam Ard
Original (2023) thread with 446 comments,

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37461695 ("UK air traffic control meltdown (jameshaydon.github.io)")
i'm not in storage SaaS, so nooby question - how is this different from Snowflake or Databricks?
There's been some prior discussion on this over the past year, here are a few I found (selected based on comment count, haven't re-read the discussions yet):

From the day of:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37292406 - 33 points by woodylondon on Aug 28, 2023 (23 comments)

Discussions after:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37401864 - 22 points by bigjump on Sept 6, 2023 (19 comments)

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37402766 - 24 points by orobinson on Sept 6, 2023 (20 comments)

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37430384 - 34 points by simonjgreen on Sept 8, 2023 (68 comments)
Making a website with terrible perf to promote Electron -- unintended satire?
Thanks. I was trying to figure out if the news is reporting on every little anchor snag or if it is an abnormal occurrence.
Given the context, I'd say NM actually https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nautical_mile
My brother in christ, that is not the Broken Window Fallacy
I think I like the name more than any of the collections. They seem like one of two categories:

- Art that isn't actually bad

- Art that is bad, because its by amateurs

The first feels disappointing, and the second feels mean. Honestly, making fun of amsteurish monstrosities is a lot less enjoyable than making them yourself.
> Why are you filtering for screen coordinates in the first place?

FTA:

> The isInvokedByMouse was checking whether the click event was invoked by a mouse or touch pointer – rather than a keyboard – by checking if the screenX or screenY coordinates were a positive number.

They were trying to detect whether it was keyboard or mouse activation, and whoever wrote it assumed that screen coordinates of mouse events would always be positive.
They want to subject you to those popups in order for you to get annoyed by them and blame the GDPR for it (and hopefully get some sort of popular uprising against the GDPR). However, the GDPR is not to blame. Those popups are a choice the website operators are making.
If a transformer had infinite data and parameters, I'm sure it could simulate human reasoning to a high degree. Humans don't work that way, so we may need to create a more general definition for artificial reasoning
> They're not even confirmed to be fully conscious

Please read the cited Rethink Priorities research: https://rethinkpriorities.org/research-area/welfare-range-es...

Notably the FAQ and responses.
You know there's a software engineer somewhere that saw this as a potential problem, brought up a solution, and had that solution rejected because handling it would add 40 hours of work to a project.
Preventing the issue from ocurring by not selling a known incompatible configuration is the approach I'd take personally. It's the combination of the 512GB WD Black and the i5.
Climate crisis to blame for 'impossible' heatwaves, studies reveal
I exclusively buy Toyotas because they are cheaper to maintain than American cars. Is your argument that I shouldn't have access to Japanese cars either?

I understand the desire to have a strategic reserve of manufacturing capacity. However, the US also subsidizes the US auto industry heavily by e.g. bailing out GM and Chrysler. It frustrates me that US car manufacturers continue to make exclusively heavy, low-efficiency vehicles. Give me something inexpensive, safe, efficient, reliable, and I'll buy it.
I do a lot of navigation and have never seen nautical miles abbreviated as "nmi."
Who gets to define what "ignorance" is, though?

Because to me it appears that you just give the "ignorant" peoples power to someone else, and if your goal is to keep being a democracy, then this sort of power redistribution is almost certain to screw your system over in the long term.
Both Linux and Windows are including Rust (Windows moreso than Linux) specifically because they care.
I love MOBA. The art is quite spectacularly awful. But what really makes the museum so wonderful are the blurbs on display with each piece of art. They are written in the style of Very Serious art museums (the art is "exploring" some issue, or "asking a question"), but tuned to the particular piece of horrendously bad art you are looking at.

They used to be in the basement of the Dedham theater, when I lived nearby. Then they had the decency to move to the basement of the Somerville Theater when I moved to Somerville. But they have moved again, to Dorchester. Fortunately, not too far. I went to the (re)opening in Dorchester, and actually got to meet the couple who started the museum, and got the story of MOBAs birth firsthand.
I do think that the i3 is the one that fits best here. But being an all carbon fiber structure, being 2-10 years old, being a BMW, I understand there are a lot of strikes against it here when people think "cheap small economical car with a lot of space inside".

It's such a shame Honda won't sell the e here. I'm not going to say "I'd buy one in a second" because I'm not paying new car prices for one, but I wouldn't have bought a Fit new either. And yet, people bought the Fit new. And I'd happily buy a used Fit, it was actually on my runabout shopping list as well. (Fit with a manual trans).
Yeah but filtering out mindless bots is even easier than loading a bloated mess of JS: a simple form question that you believe 100% of the valid users will be able to answer should be good enough to stop almost all of those low-level bots. I use that approach all the time.

Some day this luck will run out, but for larger entities that experience targeted malicious traffic it's never really been a viable approach.
The unit of "nm" is common among pilots but yeah technically it should be "NM".
Higher ping affects Rocket League playstyles [video]
I was clarifying the post title, which uses "nm".
External drives disconnecting themselves isn't an unknown issue. It's a bit different when it is your boot drive.
Where can one find resources about writing Apache Modules?

When I was experimenting with writing my own HTTP server, I eventually figured out that I'm not really interested in writing my own production-quality server from the ground up—instead, I might be interested in just writing an application layer, in the form of a module for Apache, or nginx, or something. But the resources to create such modules seem to be scarce and/or hard-to-find.
“...pandemic hit Bhutan's economy hard, shutting down tourism. Recovery has been slow..”

I wish them good luck however happiness does not put food on table.
In retrospect, it seems like it was a bad idea for Western countries to assume that things were going to remain peaceful after the fall of the USSR. Glad to see the threat of war being taken seriously.
It's clearly NOT intended only for small screen mobile devices.

There's no reason to restrict suggesting input types to mobile browsers only.

That's exactly why desktop Chrome and Firefox has support it for a long time now.
It's true, not saying they did a bad job here, just that even minor problems in your code can exacerbated into giant net effects without you even considering it.
What exactly does Aptera 'do right'? and what is it 'manufacturing'? They've been pitching the same tiny, unsafe, and impractical car for ~20 years now...
The webkit report talks about it (https://bugs.webkit.org/show_bug.cgi?id=281430), while the article doesn't seem to, for some reason. Another HN comment with summary: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42174177
Maybe I should reconfigure my OS to run out of RAM.
Ultra – An advanced profiler for .NET Applications on Windows
Thanks for the question!

Snowflake and Databricks aren't storage products, but are managed compute platforms on top of storage that probably looks a lot like this. Snowflake allows you to easily connect different data sets to your data warehouse, and Databricks provides a managed analytics (Spark) offering.

Regatta, on the other hand, would allow you to more easily build the next Snowflake or Databricks by taking advantage of the same low-cost, unlimited storage in S3 that they likely use.
...because when they are 0 one can infer that the event came from a keypress rather than a mouse. They want to know this.
(I answered the stackexchange question). I agree, it is definitely picked with that intent, but it’s harder to prove.

14 character strings that abbreviate to OBSD/English is a much larger set than the traditional picks.
This looks useful for auto-placing parts inside a PCB.
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42174105

New submission here.
The protectionism there deformed the product and thus, the limited offerings are a result of the inability to compete in these segments.
Things that are fleetingly on-screen are not commonly stored on disk forever. That changes with these apps.
New submission here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42174105
A Mechanical Qubit
The new submission link is here:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42174105
Personally, I would not try to negotiate an onsite role into a remote one, not because I don't think it will work (though it probably won't), but because you don't really want to be the one remote exception in a primarily onsite team.

The rest of the team will end up having to go out of their way to accommodate you, your accomplishments won't be as visible, and you'll be passed over for performance-based compensation and/or promotion.

Though I guess that's fine if it's a job you plan to take for a year or whatever and move on.
I think it is quite simple to characterize MOBAs curation process. First, it has to be bad, in an ambition-vastly-exceeds-talent kind of way. Second (per MOBA rules) there is a price limit on each acquisition. It used to be $5, but may have been adjusted for inflation.
While in animals with complex nervous systems like humans and also many mammals and birds there may be psychological reasons for suffering, like the absence or death of someone beloved, suffering from physical pain is present in most, if not all animals.

The sensation of pain is provided by dedicated sensory neurons, like other sensory neurons are specialized for sensing light, sound, smell, taste, temperature, tactile pressure, gravity, force in the muscles/tendons, electric currents, magnetic fields, radiant heat a.k.a. infrared light and so on (some of these sensors exist only in some non-human animals).

The pain-sensing neurons, a.k.a. nociceptors, can be identified anatomically in some of the better studied animals, including humans, but it is likely that they also exist in most other animals, with the possible exception of some parasitic or sedentary animals, where all the sense organs are strongly reduced.

So all animals with such sensory neurons that cause pain are certain to suffer.

The nociceptors are activated by various stimuli, e.g. either by otherwise normal stimuli that exceed some pain threshold, e.g. too intense light or noise, or by substances generated by damaged cells from their neighborhood.
Neat stuff. I think everybody with an interest in NFS has toyed with this idea at some point.

> Under the hood, customers mount a Regatta file system by connecting to our fleet of caching instances over NFSv3 (soon, our custom protocol). Our instances then connect to the customer’s S3 bucket on the backend, and provide sub-millisecond cached-read and write performance. This durable cache allows us to provide a strongly consistent, efficient view of the file system to all connected file clients. We can perform challenging operations (like directory renaming) quickly and durably, while they asynchronously propagate to the S3 bucket.

How do you handle the cache server crashing before syncing to S3? Do the cache servers have local disk as well?

Ditto for how to handle intermittent S3 availability issues?

What are the fsync guarantees for file append operations and directories?
Catch-up growth being easier than growth in a "developed" country implies that the less-developed country "should" be easier to get rich in -- a better opportunity, not worse. In principle. Yes, we don't live in the in-principle world, but the logic "they're richer over there, so here is inherently stuck unable to compete for talent" is wrong. You need to address whatever the actual structural problem is.
> Yes every genius 20 year old wants to break down other peoples' moral beliefs, because it's the most validating feeling in the world to change someone's mind

I may be putting my hands up in surrender, as a 20 year old (decidedly not genius though). But I'm instead defending this belief, not trying to convince others. Also, I don't think it's the worst thing in the world to have people question their preconceived moral notions. I've taken ethics classes in college and I personally loved having them challenged.
The issue isn't so much the coordinate of the mouse within a page, but that the coordinates are relative to the virtual screen layout. It describes where your window is located on the screen(s) and the click is expressed in screen coordinates. Mapping those coordinates to your website's renderer coordinates requires additional calculation.

layerX[1] while non-standard is supported and returns a position relative to the top of the page or the top of the parent element. This makes coordinates positive only and 50,50 is the same for all users. For screenX, 3000,1567 is the same coordinate as 15,37 depending on where the window is located.

[1] https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/API/MouseEvent/...
Firefox RFP? That sometimes does it
A couple of years ago or so, when Google was flirting with axing free Google Workspace domains, I ended up switching my email over to 37signals’ HEY platform. I have been pretty happy with the result overall. While I don’t like that I’m forced to use their client, the benefits (and the fact that I can reasonably trust them to give me my mailboxes going forward) have been pretty great.

Unsubscribing aggressively is pretty great, and helped a lot prior to switching to HEY. What has been stellar for me however was that I can also choose to screen out emails, silently dropping their receipt. It’s a selfish choice, in that I’m not sending feedback to the list owner, but with the amount of lists I end up on, I’m not sure I totally care all that much, and the workflow to screen things out is fast and simple.

I definitely don’t think it’s for everyone, but I’ve been pretty happy with the switch and the nits I do have are vastly outweighed by the things I do like about the system.
No its not. You can do media select on if the primary input device is a pointer device (and, further, if it has high accuracy) and then filter on that.

I used it to select which layout to show in the past.

If you want to listen to input on touch only then you can do that and call preventDefault on the event so that the browser does not then cause a click event. Or you can just save yourself the trouble and write a click handler.
When someone recommends me an album or artist I "take a look" at it: I listen to it. Though now that I think about it, I wouldn't say that in my other languages.
That actual reason for this is that cars are just hyper-reliable. The reason people wanted to buy a new bare bones car over a used nice car is the assumption that the used car would cost you in repairs.

That assumption has been dead since cash for clunkers. Even American made cars will hit 200k miles. There's ZERO value to a "new" car. You would be outright stupid to pay $10k for some probably not possible "bare bones" car when you could just buy the decade old Corolla down the street with 100k miles that's only $5k. It will even have fairly modern safety. This is true even in the modern post-COVID hyper contracted used car market.
It would be really interesting if it was possible to use other languages which can be compiled to .so files. Will look into it!
It's based on the Federal Fatality reporting system, so I don't think so.
The alternative is to accept that every solution has drawbacks and trade-offs. Best practices were an attempt to codify design standards that would be equivalent to "buying IBM" in the sense of the old phrase, "Nobody gets fired for buying IBM."

That was always a bad idea. Often the best choice in one context would be a bad choice in other contexts. You don't want an engineer in a 20-person startup making decisions like they're at Google, or vice-versa. You have to take responsibility for deciding what's best for a particular problem in a particular context, without looking for the cover of "everybody does it this way."
That comment was dead before I could vote on it. I was just describing what I saw in it which seemed likely reasons for it to have been downvoted so much.
People make the rental argument a lot. But having been in a ski house quite a few years back with a lot of New Yorkers who didn't own cars, I saw first-hand what a relative main in the neck it was to rent a car for the weekend (e.g. often having to go out to an airport and planning ahead). That's maybe fine if the economics are compelling but that probably assumes things like you even have a commute by car. And that you're willing to give up convenience to save even a few thousand dollars a year.

I have an ICE but I only fill the tank once or maybe twice most months.
https://www.opensnowmap.org/
> Tesla told us that they'll start making a cheaper model sometime in 2025.

Buddy, do I have a bridge to sell you...
I have been following swatting incidents of content creators for years and I have learned that police jurisdictions where this happens frequently in are becoming wiser and spreading information around, so the threat of getting killed from a swatting incident has gone down. Places with pockets of content creators like Austin Texas have become very aware of these types of things.

If you are a content creator, or someone who might be at risk for swatting you can call your local PD and explain the situation. You can let them know that you understand they must respond to those types of calls, but just wanted to call in and let them know it could happen. Most are happy to hear from you and take note.

Before swattings became popular, people used to send pizzas (popularized by old 4chan) and you would have to call all the pizza places in your area and get your address blacklisted. That was a pain.
A small adventure in WebAssembly Things Of Interest
This seems like a genetic fallacy. Police might have been former slave patrollers at one time in some places. That doesn’t mean all US police are the same or have anything in common with them.

I’m not sure what it means for US police to have “evolved out of” slave patrols in places that never had slaves, like New York City (northern states didn’t want to enforce the Fugitive Slave Act), or even in places like Hawaii that were founded well after slavery was abolished.
You can prove it to yourself by starting a dream journal and setting some alarms. Dreaming happens more frequently in the early morning to the time you wake up. Set yourself 2 or 3 alarms during this period, and keep a notepad and pen by your bed. Doing this on your phone may make it more difficult to go back to sleep. When the alarm wakes you up, write down any dreams you can remember and then try to go right back to sleep. Do this for a week, and I think you'd be surprised how many you realize you're having each night.
I'm aware of glazing and nightshade to poison image sets for LLMs but is there anything for a code repository or blog post?
Perhaps a large fraction of art was always bad, but only the best old art is remembered today. Modern art hasn't been culled by time.
CAR here and CDR just below: https://texdraft.github.io/lisp-1.5/listing.html#line-7626
How does this compare to https://github.com/awslabs/mountpoint-s3 ?
Related:

Nordic neighbours release new advice on surviving war - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42173870 - Nov 2024
(Some) spammers will keep trying old, no longer in DNS IPv6 addresses
Tap Parts
Ask HN: What's Stack Overflow's end game?
You might have seen the meme or the stats around Stack Overflow. It's like another Chegg since ChatGPT, what do you think is their end game?

Acquisiton?
Data selling?
And yet your country may have an NYPD office.
Out of curiosity, what do you dislike so much about Laravel?
I went to clear some games off a drive to make room for new games, went to type RM -rf ./ and accidentally smacked enter instead of a slash. Wiped out a few games before I could stop it.

Got lucky there was nothing really important on there, and it didn't take long to fix things up. Fortunately, some stuff I was removing was at the top anyway.
I don't know when your day was, but back in my day (in the 90s) we had to evacuate the high school at least once a quarter for bomb threats. We wouldn't go back in until the FD cleared it.

(There was never a bomb.)

Whatever is wrong with kids these days is nothing new.
Is that why the EV subsidy is getting repealed?
This story has a bit more content:

https://yle.fi/a/74-20125339

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42172317
Sorghum's bioactive compounds could improve modern diets
Which I referenced and called arbitrary.
When I say “pay to create” I generally mean authoring new material, distilling your career’s expertise.

Not my field of expertise but there seem to be experts founding startups etc in the ASIC space, and Bitcoin miners were designed and built without any of the big companies participating. So I’m not following why we need Intel to be involved.

An obvious way to set up the flywheel here is to hire experts to do professional services or consulting on customer-submitted designs while you build up your corpus. While I said “fine-tuning”, there is probably a lot of agent scaffolding to be built too, which disproportionately helps bigger companies with more work throughput. (You can also acquire a company with the expertise and tooling, as Apple did with PA Semi in ~2008, though obviously $100m order of magnitude is out of reach for a startup. https://www.forbes.com/2008/04/23/apple-buys-pasemi-tech-ebi...)
The point is there are not rules that are always applicable. Dry is right sometimes, and sometimes it's not.