skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Comma is actually hosting a hack in February, if anyone is feeling up to trying something like this on another "vintage" car

https://blog.comma.ai/comma-hack-5/
Read the 13th Amendment to the US Constitution: "Neither slavery nor involuntary servitude, except as a punishment for crime whereof the party shall have been duly convicted, shall exist within the United States, or any place subject to their jurisdiction."

The US penal system is explicitly a continuation of the former slave system. Slavery wasn't outlawed in the US, just made a monopoly franchise of the US government. It isn't coincidental that so many prisons were built on former plantation property, or that the incarceration rate of black men is so high.
What are you referring to and how did that 'get us here'?
I don't think that source can really be protected, nor does he expect to be. He's pretty clear on 'I want the militias to know what I did and to live in fear that anybody they trust could be another me, ready to betray them'.

To some extent, the FBI has at least sometimes done just this. It's possible that some new leader like Kash Patel can remove the threat of the FBI infiltrating and betraying militias, but then what about moles infiltrating the FBI once they become effectively the same thing as the militias?

There's a fundamental difference between acting as a law enforcement agency, and acting as a militia seeking to wage secret war on a class of citizens, where if your intent is to STOP various humans from planting bombs etc. you're acting like law enforcement, and if your intent is to plant the bombs you are the militia even if you're wearing a law enforcement name.

This is shown in the struggles of the mole: would've been morally easier for him if he was just looking to rack up a body count. He wanted to protect what he saw as innocents, and so he had to calculate to what extent his infiltration was causing collateral damage, and when he acted on that he fled, cover blown as far as he knew. If he was more interested in just body count he might have been more blase about how things were going.
I only hear about poor people committing crimes usually on the local news.

Everything else is billionaire did this, politician did that, corporation did both of those and more.
Author here! Super surprised this made hackernews

It does indeed not have a carburator (I wrote this while half asleep on a plane, I meant to say that it has a mechanical throttle/air valve which is cable operated).

It also doesn't have ABS (although I believe this was an option on the car starting this model year), so swapping out that pump wasn't an option. The iBooster is a great and easy retrofit, definitely recommend!

Haven't done it yet, but I'm just going to lower the pressure of the hydraulic steering by shimming the regulator, should be enough. It already steers somewhat ok without this mod too
Those aren't cars, they're tractors.
Ah neat

Great article by the way OP
Our language really needs a new word for what is meant here by "religion".

The word "religion" brings so much baggage with it that it just causes a cascade of communication errors in this context.

Pareto when translated from Italian to English called this "non-logical conduct" and "sentiments" but after a 100 years no one seems to care much about this aspect of Pareto's thoughts.

Sentiments would be a great word for it though instead of "religion".

Woke sentiments instead of "woke religion".

The concept of identity sentiments might even be a little bit of progress.
Can you narrow it down to which specific B vitamin does it? If you really wanted to undertake a project, you could do a single blind study with placebo vs real b vitamins and prove if they work (grind up real vitamins and press them back in a way they look like placebo, put them in 30 day packs, and ask a friend to label and mix them up). Then make your guess after several months.
Show HN: Tractor Loader
While writing, I loathe leaving my editor to edit images in some GUI. It's worse during the revision process, when the same image might need to be adjusted over and over as the article changes. So, to support https://www.jasonthorsness.com a few years ago I wrote https://github.com/jasonthorsness/tractor-loader.

Tractor Loader enables inline image transformation in JSX and MDX. For example, here is a crop from my MDX blog source:

![corner side view](./side_2.jpg?crop=350,500,550,200&tractor)

Now my workflow is to dump raw photos from my camera into an article's source folder, then crop and edit them inline while writing the article. I only rarely need to use a separate GUI image editor for advanced stuff. More examples are at https://tractor-loader.vercel.app/.

I've used this for years now -- is there anything else like this that is more standardized? Could this be useful for other sites? Any suggestions?
One option is that people you talk to look for the stuff to discuss.

E.g. person A talks about bouldering with person B. Person A then continues with their day while person B googles bouldering terms.

A and B then receive both bouldering ads. Person By because of the googling and person A because of proximity to person B.

Person A then assumes the phone spies what they say, but it doesn't. Location is enough.
Its a very high end cymbal hand made, I would expect like at least 600 for a 20" ride. 400 is standard cost for a mass made 20"

I guess not shockingly inexpensive, but seems like a prerty damn good deal
This doesn't work well. It results in additional discrimination. The state of the art is, as I understand it, "Fair Chance employment", where the employer explicitly agrees to hire people with criminal records. We're well on our way to the majority of employers opting in, it's snowballed nicely. And it gives jobseekers a big red flag if the company doesn't have that policy.
Russia has repeatedly over the years said that Ukraine joining NATO is the Red Line. this was going all fine until we started fucking with that Red Line. Invasion surprised no one that followed what’s been happening in that area between Russia and NATO (USA…)
> there’s a huge trend of reoffending criminals performing larger crimes as time goes

Is there evidence of it? In my experience, people take a few incidents as ammunition for their reactionary attacks on 'activists'. But that doesn't mean it is or isn't happening.
I mean, I'm personal friends with a former Orkut SRE. The idea that Google SRE ignored or disdained Orkut just isn't right. Nonetheless, if your job is defined as "make the site reliable" and it's written in a way that can never be reliable then it's understandable that you're going to have at least some frustrations.
Try reading Qualityland, by Marc-Uwe Kling. It's SF (funny SF) about this exact premise.
Shoplifting is low level, non violent, and very very common. The only shoplifting I've heard of by the rich is a famous actress who had a shoplifting fetish.
Sure, you don't read other places' local news. But those places' residents do.
Have you ever tried to find the things you said on a forum when you were a teenager?

Every time I do this, most of the stuff I did 20 years ago is outright gone, and it always ends in disappointment-- and I have material info on where and what it should be.
Adults that hate kids tend to do dangerous overtakings because they just can't chill for a bit at 30 km/h and so on. It's not the kids and their tractors making the roads more dangerous.
This is fantastic, and like another commenter mentions, a beautiful continuation of an age old practice: measuring the sky.

Very cool that their hardware keept chugging along for years without hiccup, too.

If you want to do something kinda similar but far less involved: a very lo-fi, no computer involved thing to do is an ultralong photographic exposure (months, a year, longer) with a pinhole camera.

The results are quite artistic IMO [1], the camera is fire-and-forget and you don't need any chemicals to develop the image. Just photograph/scan the photographic paper and invert the colors.

I'm not affiliated with them, but Solarcan sells ready made single-use pinhole cameras. An almost zero-regret purchase I'd say.

[1] You see the sun move through one year of skies, as seen from my balcony: https://files.rombouts.email/IMG_6500.jpeg

People have made wonderful, mildly spooky pictures with these: https://solarcan.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2018/05/solarcan-p...
really wasting humanity's energy and the planet's climate
Everyone reading this should start to contact websites/companies who use cloudflare and tell them in simple and few words that it's a problem and link them to a video or article that explains more, maybe even to this HN topic. We are not many, maybe 1-2% of their users/customers I keep reading people saying but I have in the past been able to get big tech companies to change to a friendlier tech. You would be surprised how effective it is to contact them about it. Maybe they have a tech support who already has same opinion as you but they can't make any change until a customer makes a complaint about it, then they happily see it as their opporunity to finally make a change.
Or just charge what it costs to not lose money, the demand is there.

In cities like this people will travel a significant distance for hot food. And there’s always the delivery apps, too.
I think most people just scroll instagram or tiktok. Because of lack of short content format earlier, mobile games became popular. That and lack of 5g infra. Both problems have been solved.
you seriously asking this or joking?????!
That’s enough for a mouthful when you’re mid-run.
> more varied culture enriches

Except it doesn't. Look at the places that have the "happiest" people on earth, e.g. Denmark. They are monocultures where nearly everyone has the same traditions and history.

And in recent times they have had a lot more immigrants, and it's causing a lot of chaos.

Varied culture divides. It creates "us" and "them" groups, this is baked into our tribal psyche as humans.
I usually select functions or classes and workshop them by having a conversation in the composer tab. I find the autocomplete kind of dizzying to work with so I've disabled it. It's just kind of... flickery.

This is a me problem. For instance, I've also disabled animation in Slack because I can't focus on talking to people over the "noise" of all of their animated gif's.

Mostly I just stay out of Cursor unless I'm conversing with an AI because I find the interface sluggish and awkward to use without a mouse (not Cursor's fault, that's a VSCodium/electron thing) and full of little bugs that end up entangling me in politics between plugin maintainers and VSCode people.

I like chasing down bugs and helping people fix them, but that ecosystem is just a bit too busy for me to feel like those efforts are likely to come back at me looking like a return on my investment. If I'm going to be finding and helping fix bugs (which is what I do with most of the tools I use), I want that effort to be in a place that's as open and free as possible--and not coupled to anybody's corporate strategy (these days that's wezterm, zellij, nushell, and helix). I have no animosity for Cursor, and only some animosity for Microsoft, but since I can't help but get involved with the development of my tools, I'd rather get involved elsewhere.

So it's really all about managing the scopes within which I'll let myself be distracted, and not at all about AI.
The authors and maintainers of foundational code/utilities like ffmpeg/curl/etc. should definitely be the ones who have all the riches they could ever want. Thousands have made fortunes off of their work.

That said, what's the free and open source version of this tool? There are some great open source video editors like Shotcut, Openshot, KDENLive, Blender, etc., but I think this tool is more like CyberChef for video?
Austin has bennu coffee places which open 24 hrs, and taco shops that open 24 hrs too.
It is literally a shallow wrapper!

There's nearly 2 million lines of code in the FFMPEG codebase: unless you're building the next Adobe Premiere, no matter how much value you provide, you are building an extremely shallow wrapper around FFMPEG when you build an interface to crop videos.

No one is saying a shallow wrapper can't provide value, but most of the value for the end user is derived from FFMPEG, not the layer you added to it.

If we took FFMPEG and your wrapper and separated them, FFMPEG could still do the one task that your users need: it would be harder, and it would be less convenient, but it can still crop videos. Your tool would no longer do anything but draw rectangles where we'd like a crop to appear. It'd meet no user needs at all.

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Also to clarify my stance, there's nothing wrong with shallow wrappers, and I've made shallow wrappers: I know finding the user need, and thinking of the right UX and figuring out distribution is all a lot of real legwork.

But I also find it's important to realize when most of the value you're providing is enabled by something you built on. There shouldn't be shame in admitting that you wrapped something that was powerful and potentially unwieldy for your segment of users and made it useful.
The office is dehumanizing. Not only bench seating and cube farms but offices too. Before Facebook gutted the long corridors of offices at the old Sun Micro, it was affectionately called Sun Quentin
This could create an imbalance of power:

It could prevent the public from knowing of the past misdeeds of the powerful. It's much different to give someone with no power an opportunity to move forward, compared to removing an essential check on people who have power.

Also, it seems likely that powerful people will still have access to this data, in news databases, in the data accumulated in the profiles of marketing and surveillance companies, etc.
I suspect that is true but here is the difference: organizations that benefit from fewer prisons have a multitude of other things they benefit from (and can lobby for). Private prison operators on the other hand really only have one thing that can improve their bottom line at the end of the day - more prisons.

Outside of a few non-profit orgs I suspect there aren't a lot of dollars lobbying for fewer prisons, it's not a great look and it's easily to spin as "company X doesn't want to lock up violent criminals!

On the other hand that's really the only agenda item private prison operators put their lobbying dollars toward.
It depends on the crime and the job. I wouldn't hire an embezzler to do the books, for example.
$22.5 billion would be 2 million Teslas Y, but from BYD.
the openpilot model can accept forward facing radar as an input
> Like, this feels like it's got to include speeding tickets in the mix to get something that high.

Speeding is a civil, not criminal, infraction.

You can't have the highest prison population in the world for decades and not end up with a bunch of people with criminal records.
I'm white as heck but I wouldn't think that for a single moment. I know enough black Americans and enough about policing that I'm unsurprised. Also, I would categorize the spokesperson's response as 'PR' and an expected claim, which is not the same thing as an accurate claim.

As near as I can tell Black Lives Matter did not arise out of some sort of spite or radicalism, but out of the conditions Kinch's stated experience suggests. This pretty well contradicts the Civil Rights Act, something Kinch's stated experience also suggests.
If that's really only 2x zoom then I don't know how you can possibly have gotten a result that bad. I don't have a Pixel 7A, but it's certainly not representative of what 2x zoom looks like in daylight on a recent iPhone Pro. (My Pixel 3a used to do a better job of 2x zoom than that, FWIW.)
"Love me overwatch. Love cheese pizza. Love Indian food. Love nature. Love the rain. Love me aul ma. Love me grand parents. Love ...love...love..."

there ain't no god damn way, bro
> is moonbit charging?

I assume GP refers to the license of MoonBit, SSPL + exceptions, which is not generally considered fully open source.

https://www.moonbitlang.com/blog/compiler-opensource#why-a-r...

Usually this type of license is used to keep more profit options open, but it will slow down adoption.
I first started coding in high school on the TI-84 calculators. My 1st language was TI-BASIC, 2nd was Z80 assembly - quite a big step - and I quit when I faced some tricky bugs that my teenage self could not figure out :-) Back then, I don't believe they had a C/C++ toolchain. Some time later, I tried using Small Device C compiler (SDCC), but encountered several compiler bugs which I couldn't fix but duly reported. Great to see there is such excellent tooling nowadays.
How were the Jews treated in your country in oh, say the late 1930s?
A hammer can bonk someone or help Jimmy Carter build a house for someone.

We digital logic folks are both tool builders and tool wielders. Usefulness is in the hands of the user, but that doesn't mean the creator isn't a dipsh_t who made a crap tool, or that the user isn't a moron.

My computer allows me to build stores of digital information representations, with functional integrations to other systems, including me. It's useful for me and my family, for sure.
Human Metapneumovirus
But what’s the point of the peer review process if it’s not sifting out poor academic work?

It reads as if your point is talking in circles. “Don’t blame academia when academia doesn’t police itself” is not a strong stance when they are portrayed as doing exactly that. Or, maybe more generously, you have a different definition of academia and it’s role.

I think sharing code can help because it’s part of the method. It wouldn’t be reasonable for omitting aspects of the methodology of a paper under the guise that replication should devise their own independent method. Explicitly sharing methods is the whole point of publication and sharing it is necessary for evaluating its soundness, generalizability, and limitations. izacus is right, a big part of the replication crisis is because there aren’t near as many incentives to replicating work and omitting parts of the method make this worse, not better.
I've just encountered this happening today, except instead of something complex like coding, it was editing a simple Word document. I gave it about 3 criteria to perform.

Each time, the GPT made trivial mistakes that clearly didn't fit the criteria I asked it to do. Each time I pointed it out and corrected it, it did a bit more of what I wanted it to do.

Point is, it knew what had to be done the entire time and just refused to do it that way for whatever reason.
Related:

Ghost artists on Spotify

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42461530

The Ugly Truth About Spotify Is Finally Revealed

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42478107
Pretty funny with going back to the abacuses!
https://archive.ph/eA7Zb
Ask HN: What software, database, or technologies run Hacker News in 2025?
I would not characterize Big Tech use of H1B as abuse. They use it because it provides highly qualified staff that are sticky: people can't switch firms without losing their place in line for GC, etc. So H1B has become yet another group with preference for hiring. H1Bs are hired to keep the core systems running while other DEI groups are hired for management and support functions. No surprise that white people are ticked off.
The solution is to make summary statistics available to the public but no names.

Just publicize that there have been 471 citations for rollerblading without listing the names of those affected.
Denmark is 10% immigrants, about the same as any place else.
> People are in fact saying that and have been for years, which is why Bezos felt he had to intervene.

That's not what Bezos said. He didn't say the reporting was innaccurate or not credible.

> drops in the proportion of people telling pollsters they trust journalism

If an ideological movement distrusts and attacks anything that disagrees with it, the solution isn't to appease it. Of course they will attack and 'distrust' anyone who criticizes Trump or violates their ideology; that's very clear.
There were groups with guns and boats ready to resupply an insurgency.
Just a great article to remind you to take a walk step back and break from all the tech
A sys admin once told me in a very drunk state that he spread a lot of backdoors through little tools that he used back in the 90s and early 2000s.

Nobody cared for privacy and encryption and those who did ran leaky operating systems that were full of little tools. People basically encrypted after the fact.

After their keystrokes had been saved and or sent. After (parts of) their traffic was read on their system.

He said that's how the internet and it's users and almost all of the services and businesses were build.

You read what they do, test what they need, build what is most profitable for you and what gives you most data for future products and you constantly steer them towards it all via repeating, recursive, strategically spaced micro exposures and cunning linguistics on TV, Radio, street ads, print media, at work and of course, on the internet itself.

We build weak minds and we are proud to exploit them. He runs a bar in South East Asia, now. He became a paramedic, first.
This is what the paper suggests.
I have no objection at all to Congress delegating to the FCC the power to enact sweeping Internet regulations. The issue is that they have not yet done that.
[dupe] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42591221
Mordell's review, Siegel's Letter to Mordell, and diophantine geometry (1994)
To be fair, blocking the UI thread is still a common issue in desktop app programming, where it’s been a well-known thing for at least 1-2 decades longer.

You either have to split linear execution (hard although async can make this easier in languages like Python) or go multithreaded with its own difficulties.

But IME what typically happens, at least in desktop apps, is that doing a little work in the UI thread is fine until it isn’t, and the “not fine” moment can be months or years away from when the code is written. The bug reports are often vague and rare enough that it takes a while to see the pattern (eg: “it froze and then I killed the program”). And after enough of these problems, someone with experience puts a framework and some rules in place that move tasks off the UI thread. Which works until they creep back in.
50g of carbs per "meal" are only enough if you eat 10-15 meals per day.
Consider yourself lucky.

My public high school in Ontario was supposed to be a "magnet school for the gifted" and instead turned out to be a scam.

The computer class teacher was absent for a year, and the substitute teacher insisted that the keyboard and mouse cords should be neatly arranged at the end of each class as if it was a knitting class. The "coursework" consisted of learning how to type out "business memos" using a word processor.

The school believed that this was an important skill and imagined that we would be writing "memos" on computers and printing them out in the "business world."

I skipped every class I could to hang out with my girlfriend and got out with a 2.0 GPA.

The school in question has since been demolished. The whole scam was to try to prevent the school from being demolished due to low performance, so they pretended to be a "magnet school for the gifted."
That's fair. I suppose it's more that there's a worship of knowledge outside the context of wisdom.
Fox and the NY Times are both journalism. If you aren't talking about that, then it's just more evidence that it is just the angry mob of the right trying to force others to comply.
> There was really nothing else to do

Well, nothing to do except for storytelling, music, dancing, parties, games, plays, sports, eating, drinking, visiting, festivals, gossip...

People have been pretty good at keeping themselves entertained for a very long time.