skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
As I understand it some of the cars are newer cars electrically modified (usually the previous family car, often a station wagon). Those are mostly wasteful by driving at slow speed with only two seats and no storage (which are also rules to be able to convert them). These can be converted back to a normal car when the driver turns 18 and gets a proper driver's license. But it is also possible to disable the electronic limits. Other cars are pemanantly converted much older cars and sold as such. These are the ones that are also bad cars without the regulation affecting a normal car.

Edit: Someone infamously converted and registered a heavy truck this way. Legal to drive as a 15-year-old with a moped license.

https://www.expressen.se/nyheter/eddie-15-har-en-lastbil-som...
AFAIK, it's not anything close to "known". But it's an open possibility that is being actively researched and has some supporting evidence.
That seems exceptionally high, and I'm assuming the study was mostly (all?) urban subjects, which could skew the results heavily. I can't think of more than 2 people I know that have an arrest history, and I know a LOT of (non-urban dwelling) people.
> It baffles me that this isn't mentioned in the page,

The first paragraph says: "The DIY multideck is ideal for traveling, prototyping new games, and trying games before buying." (emphasis mine)
The fact that it's self reported makes me wonder how close to the actual number it is. Also, how did they choose their sample.

Edit: Link to original paper https://d1wqtxts1xzle7.cloudfront.net/32982174/Turner_-_Appe...
> TDS

“Trump Derangement Syndrome” for those unfamiliar. If it’s not already obvious, it is a rhetorical device used by some to invalidate and dismiss criticisms of Trump. “That’s just TDS!” etc.
I was confused why the night gets so short (looks like 1/6 of the time) but I looked it up on a site that shows sunrise and sunset times along with twilight and in the summer it doesn’t even fully get out of twilight. And it seems that there is no correspondingly short day because the sun takes precedence in that the light can bleed over into the night after sunset / before sunrise but not vice versa.

https://www.timeanddate.com/sun/netherlands/amsterdam
MaxGripe says "...that perception has completely flipped"

I avoid goods made in mainland China but seek out those made in Taiwan b/c they are exquisitely tooled. Both are Chinese but mainland manufactury severely lags Taiwan's.
the real problem is this poorly planned effort to make the US a manufacturing nation via political fiat in the face of all reason rather than accepting economic realities about comparative advantage in manufacturing
Generative AI is a Parasitic Cancer [video]
You just made up a definition of sovereignty that no nation state on this planet fits.
I’m thinking of this as a lightweight (single node) alternative in the same way duckdb is focused on data that can be processed by a single node.

I think / hope sqlflow will be a viable/lightweight/cost effective/easy to operate alternative to flink when working with small-medium sized data (on the orders of <10,000 messages / second)
Then why you not write free open source UIs for the libs?
China has more than 3X the population of the US, so it only needs a bit over 1/3 the GDP per capita to overtake the US. I can’t imagine that not happening unless China really screws up.

Overtaking the US on GDP per capita is much further away.
I think you underestimate the level of complexity. The actual oil change is simple enough but getting the car lifted requires ramps. Then there is the disposal problem individually each step is simple but when you add them up and trade them against paying 50$ for the oil change it’s not always a great trade.

As for plumbing you definitely underestimate how much of a pain in the a it is to dig a 4-6’ deep hole to do your own pipes. It can be done in a day or 2 outside of most peoples comfort zone.
people are slow to adapt and have very outdated ideas of countries that are not their own. i see this upcoming with India too and Mexico soon
There is a middle ground in that you buy the current major version and get updates to it, but you would have to pay again if you ever want to upgrade to the next major version. (If you don’t want to, you can still continue to use the version you bought indefinitely.)
> Looking at a data flow diagram with more than 100 nodes is overwhelming—where do you even begin to search for flaws?

Yeah, so maybe try not to build anything that complex to start with.
Yeah by the time you go to a place that accepts you might as well have paid them to do the work.
What happens when you fast?
EU rules to improve Gender Balance in corporate boards enter into application
Why would consumers pay for NotebookLM? It’s basically an (impressive) party trick.
> Nobody's ever bought an iphone for Apple Maps, everyone runs around with Google software on their phone.

It is still running on Apple platform.
I'm buying an iPhone, because I know that I'll get consistent Apple experience that is same across all of my devices, unlike zoo of Android + Windows/Linux.
Sorry, not the most diplomatic expression. Fixed.

Though acting legally and acting ethically/responsibly are still different things.

You did read the rest of my post right?
> Amanda Perino is insanely great. Money is actually being spent on Marketing and Tutorial as well as documentation. More value output per dollar, which in turns means more sponsor willing to invest.

Agreed, they're doing great. Just an example of great operational aptitude in even the fine details that most people wouldn't even notice:

At Rails World, sponsor booths were mixed right in with the lunch area, and lunch was meant to be eaten on the go, so as to prevent siloing at sit down tables. The net effect was a ton of foot traffic through the expo floor, making sponsors really feel like they got good value for their money. (This was also good for attendees, because it means you meet a lot more people.)

Contrast to RailsConf again, where the sponsorship area was off in a distant corner of the venue, or at best in a transitionary area that people would walk through for 15 seconds on their way to lunch. People in the booths could go entire days talking to just a handful of people, making the value proposition extremely dubious.

This is a small detail that most conference organizers wouldn't even think of, but Rails World nailed it 2/2 years so far.

I don't know as much about the docs/tutorials/marketing investments, but I have confidence that the money is being spent well.
If you're using Cursor Composer it's very easy to jump back at any time in the history using "Revert all files to before this message". I use it all the time and have stopped obsessively committing every change as a result.
its not just shallow wrapper, as a creator of other shallow wrapper(online and free btw) if you want to crop a video how do you plan to do it with ffmpeg cli? it would be really tedious to do so. You can easily do it visually with this wrapper and other such wrappers so its not like they are not providing value.
Another example is do you remember ffmpeg command syntax? i don't! here he is taking care of generating it for you so you don't waste time asking llm or searching for google and iterating on it if it doesn't works.
I was still grasping at how to phrase it, but that is definitely the sort of thing I was trying to get at, not that this is some massive change of the rules of engagement (war analogy at this point selected quite deliberately), but instead, an awful lot of money poured into plowing a field that is probably already overplowed.

And doing it openly is even weirder.
Passkey marketing is lying to you (it's actually really simple)
It's kind of my experience too, we all live in our (socioeconomic) bubbles. You are much more likely to get involved with the police if you were raised by poor parents. Or rather, you are much less likely to get involved with the police if you were raised by (comparatively) rich parents.
rolling your own time library is as crazy as rolling your own crypto
m = 1062 a = 23 c = 984 x0 = 608
At least in Europe, you do own the copy of the software you bought. The first-sale doctrine applies.

https://curia.europa.eu/jcms/upload/docs/application/pdf/201...
What the heck? When did this sort of economically irresponsible thinking become so mainstream?

The benefits of protectionism are what are short-term, but they leave both us and China materially poorer in the long term. Life today is better than it was in the 1950s — and a large part of that is knowing our comparative advantage and leaning into it, not trying to restore long-dead industries by political fiat and throwing trillions in good resources after bad initiatives.

If we want to help workers who are struggling - then tax more and redistribute more. Don’t throw a wrench into mutually beneficial trade (and completely sabotage our critical climate goals while we are at it, it makes no sense that we treat BYD the way we do).
What's the difference? Most influencers were fake people already. They were just meat and silicone instead of silicon
Therapy didn't work for me, and looking back the whole concept seems just bizarre. If you run with the assumption that at least two thirds of therapists are either terrible or just terrible for you, that means that you have to visit at least 3-5 of them, and even if you actively know this, you have to spend 3-4 sessions with them, during which you have to unconfortably open up to a complete stranger, and tell them things you wouldn't be comfortable telling to your own mother.

Imagine if any other doctor operated like that like you had to visit 3-5 endocrinologists to get a diagnosis for your thyroid disorder.

And even if you find the right guy/gal, the best they'll probably be able to do is help you help yourself, as most of the problems in ones life have external causes, and it falls to the individual to resolve them.

It's just baffling that this is considered a legitimate medical discipline in 2025.

Even though self-help is considered a meme, I found way more success with it, as flipping though 5 different books until you find the one that you like and is much easier than visiting
5 therapists. And being honest with yourself is also much easier than being honest with a complete stranger.
This was probably an okay idea terribly implemented. GenAI creators on social media kind of sense.

Neurosama, an AI streamer, is massively popular.

Silllytavern which lets people make and chat with characters or tell stories with LLMs feeds Openrouter 20 million messages a day, which is a fraction of it's totally usage. Anecdotally I've have non tech friends learn how to install Git and work an API to get this one working.

There are unfortunately tons of secretly AI made influencers on Instagram.

When Meta started these profiles in 2023 it was less clear how the technologies were going to be used and most were just celeb licensed.

I think a few things went wrong. The biggest is GenAI has the highest value in narrowcast and the lowest value in broadcast. GenAI can do very specific and creative things for an individual but when spread to everyone or used with generic prompts it start averaging and becomes boring. It's like Google showing its top searches: it's always going to just be for webpages. Making an GenAI profile isn't fun because these AIs don't really do interesting things on their own. I chatted with these they had very little memory and almost no willingness to do interesting things.

Second, mega corps are, for better or worse, too risk averse to make these any fun. GenAI is most wild and interesting when it can run on its own or do unhinged things. There are several people on Twitter who have ongoing LLM chat rooms that get extremely weird and fascinating but in a way a tech company would never allow. Silllytavern is most interesting/human when the LLM takes things off the rails and challenges or threatens the user. One of the biggest news stories of 2023 was an LLM telling a journalist it loved him. But Meta was never going to make a GenAI that would do self-looping art or have interesting conversations. These LLMs probably are guardrailed into the ground and probably also have watcher models on them. You can almost feel that safeness and lack of risk taking in the boringness of the profiles if you look up the ones they set up in 2023. Football person, comedy person, fashion person, all geared to advice and stuff safe and boring.

I suspect these things had almost zero engagement and they had shuttered most of them. I wonder what Meta was planning with the new ones they were going to roll out.
No, that would be ridiculous. An “Italian squad” might be, though.
> It's like if people asked supermarkets to hide plastic apples amongst the real ones because they look better and never went bad

I’m stealing this
Microsoft tried this ages ago with their Tay chatbot and found how quickly it went bad.
Interstellar colonization is more difficult than it's commonly imagined. To build a colony ship you need the same resources you'd need to build a large habitat. There would be economic pressure to build habitats that'd compete with the building of colony ships.

When a colony ship arrives to a new planet, it'll need to bootstrap a full industrial chain before it can build its own colony ships to expand to other systems. It's reasonable to assume there would be little incentive for that before the colony starts to require off-planet resources on their own system, and, therefore, has a compelling reason to build a space economy. For us, this would easily be in the thousands of years even if no terraforming is needed, and let's not even consider we'd need a consistent multi-century planning to get there. Precursor missions with automated in-situ resource collection and storage would allow colonists to arrive to a fully built and stocked colony, which would save some time. Existing biospheres might present issues of toxicity and biological risks: you really don't want to grow up on a (Dune's) Rossak (even if it grants you superpowers).

So, let's say Earth manages to establish 10 successful extra-solar colonies over 5 thousand years. It'll be at least a good couple thousand years until those successful colonies can each establish 10 others and raise the number to 100 worlds. If we manage to diligently expand at that exponential ration, we'll soon bump into other intelligent space-faring species that also share this commitment to reproduce.
Gross part is that you are boiling same liquid in open space where people are working and making a mess. Also you are going to accumulate residue ar the bottom.
Unlike meat or vegetables this can't be washed.
> People would even dismissively use the term 'Chinese junk'

I still do. Amazon in Europe is completely filled with Chinese junk, it's nigh impossible to find anything EU/US produced in certain categories. It became Alibaba with markup.
You certainly can, but:

- It's still not going to be enough starch

- You can't rely on box cooking times even as a starting point. Your pasta will take significantly longer to cook, since it will bring down the temperature of the water when you put it in, since there's so little water
AI date is better than a real one
A Note on the Changing Faces of (D)ARPA – By Eric Gilliam
Making a friendly interface that doesn’t require the user to have to install a new tool is a value-add. Maybe the average power-user doesn’t need it, but it doesn’t seem entirely sinister.
Check out https://www.cursorless.org
It says both. The 1 in 3 refers to those under 23.

> One in three U.S. adults has been arrested by age 23.

The has a criminal record refers to the population as a whole.

> [...] between 70 million and 100 million—or
as many as one in three Americans—have some type of criminal record

Linked PDF: https://www.sentencingproject.org/app/uploads/2022/08/Americ...
https://www.judyrecords.com/ probably has it.
Not sure that's comparable to a situation where a virus like Rabies causes someone to inherently fear water, regardless of pain.
TBH, I never found that answer. I don't know anyone who still uses Mercurial in any way, and it's the exact same GPL license as Git, so, it's not even "nicely" licensed, either.

NetBSD has previously used Fossil-SCM, which is at least a BSD licensed SCM, and at least it has several interesting selling points compared to the rest of the SCMs.

Isn't the selling point of Mercurial, the Subversion compatibility? Who cares about Subversion?
> Luckily [the accelerator servo] is also the only actuator that doesn’t come with major safety implications

This is giving me chills, what if that RC servo gets "stuck" at full throttle? I suppose the assumption is you could hit the clutch, but depending on the specific situation there might not be a lot of time for realizing what's happening and reacting accordingly.
A. Indeed, that requirement only apply to EV cert (at least for the cert authority I used).

B. That's not always the case with indie developers.

C. Well, it took me. My cert authority was GlobalSign.

> but contrary to the urban legend they are not getting instantly shit-canned by the Defender.

That was not my experience. Try to download an unsigned binary using Edge and see what happens. From what I remember (I'm on macOS, mostly), they are "getting instantly shit-canned".
any mafia squad back in the day was effectively an italian squad
Ambermoon (Amiga) – An Introductory Playguide and Review
Thank you! This is extremely interesting indeed.

My perhaps naïve thoughts on "extremely high bandwidth" are that the bus from the NAND Flash matrix to the Flash chip's internal RAM buffer is typically something like 4 kibibytes wide, and maybe you can read a page of the Flash into that buffer in hundreds of nanoseconds, though the chips I've looked into take tens of microseconds. (And if you can cut the latency down that much, the scheduler problems get much easier, too.) If those buffers are then accessible over the CPU's memory bus, maybe you can usefully transfer pages from the Flash into the buffers at many times the bandwidth of the CPU's memory bus, as long as you're only reading a small part of each page. As I understand it, current SSDs mostly only approach the bandwidth of SDRAM if you're reading entire pages.

Back of the envelope: if you have 32 Flash chips in your system, and each one of them can read a 4096-byte page from its NAND matrix into a chip-internal RAM buffer every 100 ns, you'd have 1.3 terabytes per second of such bandwidth. However, this illustrates how demanding this kind of access would be to the hardware; basically it demands Flash as low-latency as SDRAM.

You can definitely mmap() parts of devices or files that are larger than your CPU's virtual memory. mmap() does not require you to map the entire device or file.

I agree that you need some abstraction layer that provides a simple, reliable interface with adequate performance.
Additional citation:

https://wolfstreet.com/2025/01/03/ugly-charts-of-us-auto-sal... ("Ugly Charts of US Auto Sales, 2024: Stellantis Spirals into Catastrophe, GM, Toyota, Ford, Honda Rise but far Below Peaks. Hyundai-Kia Sets Record. EV Sales +10% despite Tesla’s Dip")
https://kenrockwell.com/nikon/18200/18200-drop-test.htm

https://www.imaging-resource.com/news/2013/05/23/camera-meet...

Can you imagine any modern phone not surviving a 3 foot drop?
Trump is likely going to pardon anyone involved in Jan 6.
You can figure this for anything, and prepare to be shocked. The variables are the number of incidents per period, the population during that period, and the expected duration an incident could occur. For example, in San Francisco, there are about 4700 car related injuries and deaths per year; about 800000 people; and the life expectancy is high at 83. This gives you 41 years for a cumulative 25% chance to have been involved in your first car injury.

It is crazy. Everyone should be pissed off. Do this for guns, diabetes, etc. Think about the people you know, and how the further you venture into acquaintances, you know someone who has been arrested, injured by a car, injured by a gun, has diabetes, etc.

Some will be looking for math flaws. It’s an exponential model for time until first event, “constant hazard.” It’s actuarial. Nothing unorthodox. If you couldn’t calculate the durations until events insurance couldn’t work. The biggest factors are numerator, denominator and eligible period (ie rate of incidence). The biggest factors are NOT other things…

The reason you doubt this stuff, that you think it’s crazy, isn’t because the math is wrong. You believe very strongly that people involved in crimes and car crashes and guns have personal agency. The discount for panopticon approved safe driving is a pathetic 5-10%! If agency is all it was, auto insurance would be way cheaper.

This is all about the myth about what kinds of agency matter. You cannot be much of a “better” driver. You can’t be a “safer” criminal. Even if you never drove, due to the rate of injuries, it takes 41 years. I didn’t give the figure for causing injuries, just being involved in one, on purpose: we’re primed to assume it’s all about agency. Consider if there were only ONE criminal who commits the same rate of crimes: they’re still going to arrest a ton of people! Or ONE driver who hits everybody: you’re still going to be involved.

The math is easy to understand but people absolutely refuse to question their beliefs about agency.
Do you find it gross when there's a big stockpot simmering stock for 12 hours without a lid in order to reduce?

And what's to wash? You don't wash food after cooking, and pasta is like bread -- it certainly doesn't need washing beforehand either. It's just flour and some other ingredients.

It's not like vegetables where you need to wash off dirt, pesticides, etc. Or meat where you wash off bacteria. Those aren't issues with pasta.
25 years ago I got a misdemeanor citation for rollerblading on the sidewalk in downtown Charlottesville, Virginia, which required me to make a court appearance and pay for a VERY expensive lawyer to get the charge thrown out. If instead I'd paid the $25 fine, I'd have had a permanent misdemeanor charge on my record.
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