skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Think of the congestion charge as a charge on the vehicle, rather than on the person, as the stated policy goal is to reduce the number of vehicles in the CBD, not the number of people overall. The Uber is very likely going to continue to be used to service other passengers after dropping you off within the same calendar day, so one potential "fair" solution is to split the congestion charge among the many passengers using that one vehicle. That is your reduced Uber toll charge. But even in this case, it's not really an even split, taxis are going to generate a much higher congestion charge revenue than a single passenger car.
Thanks for the input I guess? Anyway, I was just commenting on Lina Khan vs Andrew Feeguson’s stated intentions for the FTC:

https://archive.is/3TXZq

> Ferguson will almost certainly scrap Khan’s signature merger policy. The departing F.T.C. chair — along with Jonathan Kanter, the head of the Justice Department’s antitrust division — made a point of opposing far more mergers than many of her forebears. Not every case ended in victory, but legal experts said that her approach helped reshape aspects of U.S. competition law and slowed down the pace of M.&A.
That approach is likely to end under Ferguson, an F.T.C. commissioner who has objected to Khan’s activist strategy. (He’ll have the votes at the agency, with Trump having also picked Mark Meador to join as a commissioner, most likely giving Republicans a majority.)

> In a pitch for the agency leadership position seen by Punchbowl News, Ferguson, who doesn’t need Senate confirmation, said he would “reverse Lina Khan’s anti-business agenda.”
> What happens to the inevitable baby who's parent's die before they can be decanted?

This is already a problem for children of single mothers who die during childbirth. I’m not saying we have a solution to that problem (we are far from one), but it’s at least not a new problem.
I'd be fine with a carbon tax, if only we could get every nation to do it near-simultaneously (within a few years of each other at most) — I don't think it's sufficient for any one nation to say they'll do that for local production plus an equivalent import tariff to compensate for what other nations are doing (we also want to lower emissions of everyone else's internal markets, but also there's a lot of people who will fraudulently claim they're eco-friendly when they're not, and that's harder to catch when there is an international border in the way) — but "the perfect is the enemy of the good", and this may still be a step in the right direction even if my concerns are proportionate to the actual risks (which they may not be).

I think the rapidly decreasing costs of renewables and storage are likely to make the transition happen before the political will to get a carbon tax, but if you recon you can push the right buttons, I encourage you to try it :)
That's my guess as to what they intend to do.

Just moving the needle for allowed content to include transphobia and racism.
Outgoing NASA Administrator Urges Incoming Leaders to Stick with Artemis Plan
The number of people who entirely live and work and drive inside the zone is going to be vanishingly small in comparison to the people who transit the zone border so I'm not sure it's going to be that big of a deal.
Right. There's no way you can provide meaningful compensation for photographers/artists from a target market of need some fairly random image/graphic for a blog post. But photographers on staff are expensive.

And even as it is, a lot of us who toyed with submitting to microstock for a bit mostly gave up. They don't even want a lot of nature/flower/landscape photography and once you've got pictures of people, you need to faff with model releases and the like--and you still don't even make beer money.
“Why specifically call out lead?”

-Julius Caesar, 45 BC
GeForce RTX 5090 / RTX 4090 Comparison – Cyberpunk 2077 [video]
They are aiming at profits.
Zero to One Hundred Thousand Tests
This is a bad non-solution to the healthcare issues in the USA
A History of Color Star, Would-Be Titans of Just About Anything
I think the pressure to keep it family friendly, and not be an anything-goes shitshow, is more from advertisers who don't want their ads to appear beside anything objectionable. I don't known how that works with FaceBook or Twitter (who are bleeding advertisers), but with print media advertisers apparently get to specify lists of words (pertaining to objectionable subject matter) that disqualify articles from appearing alongside their ad.

The majority of FaceBook's business is advertising, so that is presumably their primary concern (or at least was, until Trump's threats have become an issue).
Ridiculous. Life is not about getting the most money. You can’t eat money, doesn’t matter how much you have. Someone, somewhere has to do work that makes less money for some other gain so that you can eat what you do.

By that standard if survival means that we have to return to child sacrifice or something else so heinous then I guess engaging in anything but is also privileged.

These people are pursuing the survival of their souls. If you lose that, you cannot regain it. And time is not an athlete’s friend. You can always make money. It’s not going anywhere.
Indeed.

The human cost of a piece of content being taken down depends on the piece of content, and the reason behind posting it.

In the case of someone posting about recovery from self injury and including a photo of their healed self-harm scars, having that taken down by mistake would be more harmful than someone who posted a cartoon depiction of suicide for the lolz.
Just FYI, none of this is new - offices have been that way for most of the 21st century.
Getting a 3080 FE (I also had the option to get the 3090 FE) at the height of pandemic demand required me sleeping outside a Best Buy with 50 other random souls on a wednesday night.
> the grunt work of implementing it all

you mean the fun part. I can really empathize with digital artists. I spent twenty years honing my ability to write code and love every minute of it and you're telling me that in a few years all that's going to be left is PM syncs and OKRs and then telling the bot what to write

if I'm lucky to have a job at all
nothing to do with RFK or politics, I feel like people are missing the point here though, imagine Rome in 45 BC “why call out lead?” while Roberto F Kenedius has been spreading conspiracies about lead pipes being bad
It's really bad, much less useful than even the first public version of chatgpt. Even once you manage to log in, most of the time it doesn't even give something that compiles, it calls functions/variables which don't exist. The first line of the main had 2 errors...
In this case, they get the benefit of saving money AND increasing the rise of misinformation and fascism. It's a double bonus for Zuck and UFC president/Meta Board member/Trump booster. https://apnews.com/article/meta-facebook-zuckerberg-board-me...

Once comparatively nothing happened after the Cambridge Analytica scandal, Zuck realized he has a better chance of continuing to reign if he sides with the right-wing.
I've been a (small time) Shutterstock contributor for over 10 years. You'd think they'd send a mail to the people producing the images to announce something like this, instead of waiting for them learning about it in the press.

You'd be wrong.
JimDabell earlier recalled 37Signals and the Google Web Accelerator that sounds like what you mean: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42619712
MyST-MD is intended to be

> a Sphinx alternative in TypeScript.

We have some unfortunate naming that follows from history. The Python tools you're referring to are a distinct project. The Jupyter Book project saw the development of many of those tools, and is now pivotting to a new engine MyST-MD that this article links to!

Why do you say that these tools aren't complete? Whilst we are certainly not "done", these tools are being used in many places, such as https://proceedings.scipy.org/2024

Looking forward to hearing from you!
I hope everybody sees it that way (having been "demoted" to programmer a couple times in my career myself) but I fear that not everybody does.
Fluoride has two major differences that would complicate such a study: First, fluoride is a natural component of lots of drinking water (often at levels far higher than artificial fluoridation creates), while lead contamination in drinking water is rare and usually human-caused. Second, lead is known to be bad for one's health in any amount, while fluoride is only known to cause IQ drops above a certain dose.

You might find this meta-analysis interesting: https://jamanetwork.com/journals/jamapediatrics/fullarticle/... Part of that conclusion (note that water fluoridation in the US is recommended to a level of 0.7 mg/L):

> This systematic review and meta-analysis found inverse associations and a dose-response association between fluoride measurements in urine and drinking water and children’s IQ across the large multicountry epidemiological literature. There were limited data and uncertainty in the dose-response association between fluoride exposure and children’s IQ when fluoride exposure was estimated by drinking water alone at concentrations less than 1.5 mg/L.
Well it’s not enough to simply remove censorship, platforms must also not promote any one opinion over the other. So no more blue ticks getting priority.
I can help, but we gotta get through the 20 minutes of scrolling greets first.
I'm looking at my Jetson Nano in the corner which is fulfilling its post-retirement role as a paper weight because Nvidia abandoned it in 4 years.

Nvidia Jetson Nano, A SBC for "AI" debuted with already aging custom Ubuntu 18.04 and when 18.04 went EOL, Nvidia abandoned it completely without any further updates to its proprietary jet-pack or drivers and without them all of Machine Learning stack like CUDA, Pytorch etc. became useless.

I'll never buy a SBC from Nvidia unless all the SW support is up-streamed to Linux kernel.
Many people are running 4k resolution now, and a 4080 struggles to to break 100 frames in many current games maxed (never-mind future titles) - therefore there's plenty of a market with gamers and the 5x series (myself included) who are looking for closer to 4090 performance at a non obscene price.
It was shocking to read The Power Broker last year and learn that since 1940s at least, urban planners have been aware of induced demand. Caro even brings up congestion pricing as a proposal that was rejected not because it wouldn't solve then problem but because the entire urban planning infrastructure was built to deny that there was a problem.
Size: after working for a bit with ultrawides, I love them for code-related tasks and document editing.

Resolution: as high as possible, screen real estate is probably the most important factor to me. I need space for open editors showing as many lines as possible, many files open side-by-side, sometimes documentation right beside what I'm working on, multiple documents open side-by-side, etc.

Everything else is just parfumerie, refresh rates don't bother me nor extremely high DPI since whenever possible I will cram more resolution instead of using more pixels to display less content in a prettier way.
MyST-MD is also aimed at publications! See the SciPy proceedings for some examples: https://proceedings.scipy.org/2024
A community can certainly have beliefs, doesn't make them true in a factual sense. Some things are "decided" by the majority opinion, like how we think of gender. Others have an objective truth, whether the majority likes it or not.
> What I don't get is why the US Mint would care one way or the other for the concerns of credit card companies.

Hard to say what their reasoning is. It could be pressure from the credit card companies. Or it could be that someone at the mint decided they don't like the idea of people gaming the system.

At the end of the day, it's not a positive-value economic activity. And if enough folks started buying coins for face value just to churn credit card points, there would be financial losses for the mint/and-or the credit card company.
Here's one person trying to reduce binary bloat, while there's also a push to statically link everything. Who will win?

Alos, don't go rearranging the members of your structs if they're made public to third-parties!
Fixed, thanks for the report.
I'm not sure that we are awake. As a dev for a long time, I realized only 6 months ago, that all the tools I use daily are directly from US.
My job and my life would be very very different without this technology.
We are loosing ground, or more, we are falling down more and more quickly.
Facebook is #1, followed by youtube.

Tiktok is 4th.

Linkedin is 8th.

X is 12th.

Reddit is 16th.

Reddit fell a great deal in rankings. They mostly use bots to make it appear like they are still relevant. Which ironically is creating a 'dead internet' conspiracy theory. In reality its just 'dead reddit'
Enron on X: "Meet The Enron Egg, the first at-home nuclear reactor
The author misses one of the biggest and most obvious moats: brand. Even if food science AIs create a better cola and have an army of robots manufacture it, Coca Cola will still have an advantage (as long as it’s still humans doing the purchasing)
One trick that can help you here is Rust's Editions (and the proposed but never implemented C++ Epochs).

This lets the language throw away bad ideas, without throwing away the code people wrote in the era when we didn't realise that's a bad idea.
Individual computers became tiny, but we are now talking about gigantic clusters and data centers, with processes floating somewhere without a definite place or size. Our abstraction level went up a bit. And with civilizations it could happen something similar. The road ahead may be more cultural or of complex enough memes than physical.

At least where speed/fluent enough communication can be established. But space is big, we can't decide if its affordable ever in any future interstellar or intergalactic travel or communication, so far we are stairs makers thinking that eventualmente we could build one to reach the moon, but reality may make that totally impractical. And that could be another solution to the Fermi Paradox.
The recent post is a good read too, even if it got flagged. Stack Overflow has played a huge role in I’m sure a lot of our careers. Nice to see the philanthropy!
House on Fire: The Fight to Eradicate Smallpox

In House on Fire, William H. Foege describes his own experiences in public health and details the remarkable program that involved people from countries around the world in pursuit of a single objective―eliminating smallpox forever.
Still though, an inch or two around here is not a big deal. I only really start complaining when I have to break out the snow blower.
I'm sorry, you are crazy.
> This is where some of the concerns about classism come into play. I'm already paying more to be driven around in an Uber vs drive myself. Why should I be given a toll discount?

It's not obvious that Uber is exclusively the higher-class option. Someone could easily make the same calculation you just did and decide that for them even owning a car wouldn't be worth it, they'll just do Uber every time they need to. You can afford to own a car and do Uber anyway, others can only afford to Uber occasionally when needed.

I don't have data to back it up, but I would actually be surprised if the average Uber customer in NYC owns a car at all.
Showing pictures of suicide is "open discourse" now? That's what you're defending?
For thread-level parallelism and reading, I guess the thing to do would be to do multiple reads in parallel, right? So there isn’t much for the implementation to do. Mixed could be interesting.
I agree. I think happiness and “well-being” are not actual realities. There is only the pursuit of happiness. And that pursuit can be manipulated for financial gain. I think the very best you can achieve is being a child or failing that contentedness and absence of suffering. Otherwise loss and grief will strip away any possibility of happiness. The only fleeting happiness/joy I often see in myself or other adults is in nostalgia - and that’s pure manipulation.
> we have apps and not websites now

Is it too out there to say that we have both, and that's not a bad thing?
> HN's takes on cars are shockingly bad. For a community as thoughtful as HN, their responses are (to use an insult provocatively) car brained.

Hm, as a big public-transit advocate coming here 5 hours after your comment, I actually thought the discussion is in pretty good shape. There's a handful of "cars only!" nuts, but they're a small minority. It seems the vibes around this topic are fairly positive, with lots of support for funding better public transit.
Ask HN: What opinion is a consensus in your organization but disagreed on HN?
We all have our internal meetings and townhall discussions at our workspaces where the leadership has its own belief system that is different from public opinion. I am interested to know where HN crowd dissents with them.
Why the high dpi? Especially if scaling up anyways. I've never understood that trend
> Any modern card under $1000 is more than enough for graphics in virtually all games

I disagree. I run a 4070 Super, Ryzen 7700 with DDR5 and I still cant run Asseto Corsa Competizione in VR at 90fps. MSFS 2024 runs at 30 something fps at medium settings. VR gaming is a different beast
I feel like that's a good option ONLY if the code you are writing will never be deployed to an environment where security is a concern. Many security bugs in code are notoriously difficult to spot and even frequently slip through reviews from humans who are actively looking for exactly those kinds of bugs.

I suppose we could ask the question: Are LLMs better at writing secure code than humans? I'll admit I don't know the answer to that, but given what we know so far, I seriously doubt it.
mystmd supports parsing .tex files as well as MyST Markdown. There are some technical limitations here given the difficulty in parsing Markdown, but it's certainly usable.
Sorry was typing that on my phone so got lazy, `doThing` would be a method/function of some sort. You can also write it inline if you so wish, like `@click="console.log('hello')"`
USB-C with power delivery.

I love being able to plug a single cable into the laptop and everything work, and not have a bulky docking station on my desk.
People used to care if they way they talked about politics made them look intelligent, reasonable, and informed. Now many of them speak online where they get warped signals of approval, and these signals elicit behavior that they would never engage in if they still depended on the good opinion of their friends, neighbors, family, and coworkers.

This is liberating and positive in so many dimensions of personal expression, but in politics, the effects are turning out to be the opposite. Some become entirely dependent on these online signals of approval, and they let themselves be guided by a warped perception of political effectiveness, where effectiveness might mean using disinformation to motivate people on "their" side (which I guess actually is politically effective) or it might mean winning meaningless games of online dunking. People who invest time and energy in online political discourse see themselves as heroes, above the judgment of those who don't engage, and see their online activity as brave and dangerous, even though in reality, both sides always go home the winner in their own eyes, and there are no consequences except degraded mental habits all around.

It has long been dogma on the far left and far right that the concepts of civility, reasonable debate, and legitimate political process are only cloaks for the brutal exercise of power, and the sooner cast aside the better. If you pay any attention to the quality of how we do politics, you have allowed your liberal oppressors to trick and distract you. Thirty years ago, I heard it from left-wing professors at university and from far-right gun nuts promoting race war in chat rooms. Now it seems a lot closer to the mainstream, on one side in rhetoric and on both sides in practice.
Yes.

My personal belief, for whatever that's worth, is that communication and speech are one of the most powerful tools any of us have. Talking can change minds, move societies, arouse emotions, and in general makes a difference. This is true no matter the format (text, voice, etc.).

That means that restricting communication should not be a casual activity. Free speech is a good ideal for a reason.

It also means that, if you believe in the primacy of free speech, you are obligated to consider the implications of that belief. Speech has effects. In my adult life, since 1990, we have seen a major change in the ease of communication. IMHO, society hasn't been able to fully adjust to that change -- or rather, that huge suite of changes. I sincerely do not know what a healthy society using the Internet looks like; I don't think we're in one now. All of these arguments (on all sides, mine included) are hampered by our lack of perspective.
At some point in history it was legal to own slaves ...

The law is a tool for the service of a community, not the other way around.
Do you find these working out better for you than Claude 3.5 Sonnet? So far I've not been a fan of the ChatGPT models' output.
This doesn't seem like a big deal, frankly. Lex has a bias, and it came out in a minor way. That's all. Would you rather the interview never happen?
Nice, I was waiting for a screen like this. 32" and 5K+
Oh, I'm sure it's even fuzzier than that. Apple's cachet over the past 25 years was built on the type of class consumerism that reflects and then amplifies a lot of America's particular brand of social dysfunction. Much of tech during this time was focused (and continued to focus, to their market detriment, until they "wised" up and stopped) on a sort of egalitarianism; if the proposition is, "Anyone can benefit from our product," most companies whispered the qualifier, "...if you can afford it." Apple, on the other hand, shouted that last part from the rooftops, also encouraging the addendum, "...and it makes you better than people who don't use our products."

Apple was a standard-bearer for the toxic exclusivity and gatekeeping that's kind of always been a part of American society, but that we occasionally see some chance of finally throwing off.
If your definition of greatest is "total GDP" then it is the greatest in the world. That said, I would agree that Tokyo and maybe even London are much finer examples of cities.
Facebook can do whatever they want, I’m just not going to be on a platform where I see a bunch of misinformation or blatant racist content like X.
Meta replaces fact-checking with X-style community notes
The Iraq War was pushed by a group calling themselves neoconservatives. They were itching for a war regardless of the WMDs.

Its genesis was at least the mid 1990s per: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/A_Clean_Break:_A_New_Strategy_...

And then this group got more power under Bush's term and 9/11 happened and they responded by pushing for the Iraq war and got it:

https://carnegieendowment.org/research/2003/03/origins-of-re...

https://www.foreignaffairs.com/iraq/what-neocons-got-wrong

The WMDs were a convenient cause belli for the masses, but it was not the motivator for the war. This is why no matter how much doubt was created about the WMDs before the war, and there was tons and tons, there was no stopping it.
That is incorrect. You can appeal a Content ID claim. Doing so forces the claimant to either retract their claim or file a DMCA takedown.
“Corrective upvote” as a term is pretty hilarious — makes it sound like you think my vote is the correct one that will right the previous wrong the bozo downvoter. Utter solipsism. In 30 years of community moderation on the internet, I’ve never needed that term before. Thanks.

Anyway, I want to talk to the people who somehow hate Canadians or who find the concept amusing. There are far more interesting ideas to be had there than in rehashing political debates in the rest of this topic.