skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I've got Firefox and Chrome and tend to use Chrome because some things like Google Lens are so handy, and translate works better. Containers are good in Firefox though.
The only mixer I've ever had with Malort that actually tastes acceptable is Slush Puppie. A few years ago on a vacation a three friends each brought a bottle and we tried everything with it. A vanilla and Malort milkshake wasn't _terrible_.

The way it was pitched to me was "this is so bad that during prohibition they let people still sell this because it tasted so bad".
It's usually because a driver turning (right) on green doesn't have to worry about merging into traffic, so they only need to focus on pedestrians. Hopefully they will. A driver turning right on red has traffic coming from their left and pedestrians walking in front, and they're usually more concerned about the cars, so they tend to look left while turning right. Ouch. It's a growing issue as well because of the growing size of cars. Littler people can be completely concealed behind a front grille.

A car turning left on green is also an issue because while they should be able to see and wait for pedestrians, they're often occluded by other cars and trucks, and those left turners can be in a hurry to proceed through a gap in traffic.
Comedians seem to exhibit this trait more often than others. Norm Macdonald had a somewhat similar vibe.
History of "micro dependencies" where many flexible utilities are split up into separate packages, such that many npm dependencies are a single function (ie rather than a package exporting ten methods, its ten separate dependencies).

Then because there is no standard library, many reinventions of similar but incompatible utilities. etc.
THIS!

I'd even go further and say that training wheels optimizing for utility instead of mastery teaches the secondary skill first, so the child can pedal and add power without needing to learn to balance the bike. So, when the training wheels come off, they've got effectively nothing.

And this certainly applies to every other sort of teaching, where learning the mastery-related skills can seem so irrelevant at first.
Congrats to everyone, very excited to see how these come together
So weird to paint consistency as a vice.

"Talking points" is from the same land as "gotcha questions." "Talking points" are the points that people are talking about that you'd prefer not to talk about because you don't have good answers for. So you pretend like repeating an unanswered question is an dirty underhanded plot.

> How much do they pay the CEO? Why aren't they exploring other funding options? At the same time, why are they "wasting resoures" working on other things!? They should exclusively work on Firefox!

This isn't a quote. Don't make up quotes. This is you putting words in people's mouths, and choosing the ones that allow you to reply with something about Brave. At the same time, you're excusing Firefox for doing things because Brave does similar things. The people switching to for-profit Brave from Firefox would have prefer a non-profit, user-focused Firefox, but have been pushed to the point where they don't see any moral difference between the two, so they might as well experiment. When Firefox was innovating, it was the founder of Brave that was running it.

Most Firefox haters use Firefox. They just wish that it wasn't so bad, that it wasn't so much torture to put it into a usable state, and that the developers weren't actively fighting the users to keep them from putting it in that state, rather than centering on the users. They largely blame this on the company, Google, who subsidizes Firefox while competing with it. And on the company, Mozilla, that sucks all of that subsidy up in salaries, while seemingly neglecting the browser.
"Cisgender" is a technical/scientific term. The slur is "cis" alone.
Björn Eriksson, formerly chief of police of Sweden (rikspolischef) is opposed to the cashless society which he - and I agree with him here - thinks will lead to a 'digital dictatorship' [1, Swedish, feed it to a translator if you don't speak børk børk børk]. For those who have any doubt I'd just point to the way the soon-to-be-previous Canadian government tried to quell the trucker protests - by blocking their bank accounts - and the spate of 'de-banking' episodes which hit those who went against some desired narrative. Not that such examples should be necessary here given that everyone frequenting this forum probably knows how easy it is to both track as well as block digital transactions:

I'm sorry Dave but I can not let you buy more ${product} today, you have reached your quota for this month

Your purchase of ${product} will be ${percentage}% more expensive for reasons of product access equity

Or, the opposite:

Registered ${party} members get ${percentage}% off around ${election} time at ${store} - register now!

So, pay with cash every now and then, shun places which explicitly state not to accept cash when alternative venues are available in the area, support proposals to mandate traders to accept cash.

https://radio.bubb.la/inslag/2018-12-02-003
> If you don't have a network, the moment you quit/lose a job you are dead to the world.

As someone without a network and left their FAANG-adjacent (or whatever the current acronym is) job in 2022, this is mostly true.

Amazon still hits up my inbox every month or so, though.
Ah yep. I'm mistaken there. I had read somewhere at one point that they were the second largest contributor to Chromium and made assumptions I shouldn't have. My apologies.
Wouldn't you have the same issue at the next light, and still be stuck waiting to turn, making no forward progress at all?

Note that I'm assuming an unprotected left turn (with right hand traffic as in the US) at a busy intersection with incoming cars running yellow lights; please let me know if any part of my assumption mismatches yours.
> In my opinion, a razor scooter-type thing is even better.

I'm 44 and still can't ride a two-wheeled scooter. I don't know if it's harder or different from bicycles (which I have ridden regularly and enthusiastically since I was about 7), but it just won't click for me.
If you do that, the normal education is redundant. You wouldn't put a university student in class to learn multiplication; it's an insulting waste of their time. Why would you do the same to a 10 year old who mastered it years ago?
YMMV / be careful with this, body:has() and html:has() can be extremely expensive (and introduce severe lag visible to the user) if you have dynamic components on the page that are constantly altering the DOM (ex. react/vue apps)
Agree with the point of this post. I'd never heard of balance bikes, and then my wife did some research when we had our first kid and found out about this.

We've now taught both of our kids to bike by starting with a balance bike, and the comparison with their friends who learned with training wheels was amazing - the balance bike kids were zooming around earlier, confidently, and with many fewer spills than the training wheel cohort.

Also, you can get a balance bike with a handbrake, which sets them up well for getting a bike with handbrakes instead of coaster brakes. Kids bikes in the US have to be sold with coasters but there are several manufacturers (like woom) who make it really easy to remove the coaster and have front and rear hand brakes.

Also also, most kids bikes in the US are too heavy: they're tough and cheap but it makes it hard to control them. Woom and Isla and probably a few others now make aluminum frame bikes for kids that are much more appropriate weight for their sizes, though at a bit of a cost.
This is crazy to me. I've subscribed to Proton to replace Google Suite. It lasted 3 days and I switched to FastMail. Their stuff is full of bugs, confusing UI, poor quality. I don't understand how you can give away any amount of money when that is the case. The only upside here is good publicity.. but what's gonna happen when people actually subscribe and see how the apps behave? Bonkers.
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My daughter started using a balance bike around 18 months. By the time she was 2.5, she zoomed around on it and had started asking about pedals. We got her a pedal bike two months before she turned 3, with the expectation that we might have to take the pedals off for a few more months. Instead, within a few days (maybe 2 total hours of practice?) she was riding confidently and totally by herself--at not quite 3 years old.

It's so different than the challenging, scary attempts to remove training wheels when my siblings and I were 5 or 6 years old. One of those things where I didn't realize the science and tradition on teaching kids to ride bikes could change so dramatically within two decades!
> Kids should be nudged towards working fruitful careers beneficial to society.

It’s all about incentives. I think we should nudge society towards rewarding kids who choose fruitful careers.
I'm not a traffic engineer, but I think making this junction more 'European' would mean one or more of:

- Forbidding on-street parking close to the junction, improving pedestrian visibility.

- Removing the sweeping curves and replacing them with sharp curves, which reduces the speed drivers can turn, and reduces the distance (thus time) pedestrians are in the road.

- Adjusting road priorities

But maybe it's a lost cause. What's described as a "walkable center" in the article seems to be a multi-lane traffic circle with some landscaping surrounded by excessively wide roads and lots of parked cars. I don't see a single pedestrian-only street.
That's a general rant against publically traded companies. I'm specifically asking about the original posters take that a company that makes speakers specifically shouldn't be publicly traded. Like it sounded like they thought a speaker company couldn't be big enough to be on NASDAQ or something?
>> Developers like myself are the thread that Firefox keeps hanging on by.

Yep. A majority of HN crowd claim to like open source and all that, but then they use Chrome instead of Firefox due to some small perceived convenience. Nobody makes decisions based on principles these days, only their immediate wants. Hoe_math is right, we're on the edge of civilization collapse because to that.
I've found almost all my career positions through recruiters. I find it's about 100x more productive of an experience. You know the job exists because they're paying someone to fill it. You get to talk to someone on the phone about the job before you have to lift a finger. If you sound good on the phone, they just put you right through to the hiring manager/interview process, and also are materially invested in your success. Getting the formatting right on your resume is an afterthought. They'll give you an entire gameplan and tips on this company's specific process.

People hate on LinkedIn but having a presentable profile and using the right keywords is worth it's weight in gold IMO. Even if it doesn't work out, they'll keep you in their rolodex and hit you up for jobs long into the future.
> Citation needed.

Lol, a citation of what? This is my opinion statement and the rest of my post follows it.

> That's a shitty AI then. Make a better one. I can play 2000 Vampire: The Masquerade games with 2000 different groups. They will each be different, but they will also be each distinctly Vampire: The Masquerade ttrpg games. If the AI you are thinking about can't do the same, then think of a better AI.

Sure, I'll get right on that.

> Well. Who is the group who will make the "next technology"? Should we work on that, or just lay down on the ground and wait for it to fall from the sky? Testing what are the limits of the current technology (as done in the paper we are talking about here) is the way to get there. Or at least to systematically answer the question of where and what are we lacking.

I'm really unsure of what or who you are addressing here but it certainly isn't anything I've written in my post.
There's also rising awareness among parents of neurodiversity while many schools are still stagnant and failing to correct.

I have ADHD. My wife doesn't, but most of her siblings do. Our kids do. Our kids love reading and love learning new things, and I know from my own experience that the fastest way to kill that love would be to send them to a public school that doesn't know how to work with ADHD brains.

There's a saying that if you gave a scientist the job of designing a system to completely derail an ADHD brain, they'd come back with the typical public school classroom. This matches my experience, and I want better for my kids.
Can you ELI5 why I can balance ride with no hands on a moving bike but not balance on a stationary bike? It feels like there's something pushing toward a stable state, and I always thought that was gyroscopic.
It's not. There are often limits on watering frequency and more folks are switching to native plants/drought tolerant plants.
It's not different.

If the water you drink is having problems, you'd have campaigns over it, protests, people trying to get it resolved and potentially lawsuits. People would band together to do whatever they could to fix the problem that they see.

Education is seeing the exact same thing. Parents see a lot of problems. They are going to school board and council meetings, people are campaigning on solving the issue and people are taking whatever measures are in their power to fix it...like home schooling.

When people see problems, they want to fix them. It's exactly the same thing.
> That it has “hacker” is seemingly incidental. This place has always had bad takes from rich people - or takes from people who are seeking to be rich by way of tech

Right, but hacker is the culture they have wrapped themselves in, and I'm commenting on that. I'm commenting on one of the markers of validity that matters to how people in this group evaluate the credibility of an argument.
Huh, is that a diagonal crosswalk? I've never seen that before... does that actually cause a 4 way stop for all cars for pedestrians?
So when the warranty expires, you have two separate engines that your dealer will be repairing.

https://bmwinsights.com/why-are-bmws-so-unreliable/
https://www.texasattorneygeneral.gov/sites/default/files/ima...

https://www.texasattorneygeneral.gov/news/releases/attorney-...
I think you’re actually describing a pretty normal experience of who goes to those sorts of meetings (people with lots of time on their hands)

It sounds like you’ve possibly already headed down a similar line of reasoning (or possibly read it already) but I’d recommend you check out the book “Strong Towns”. It’s got a ton of overlap with the ideas you’ve brought up.
A pub in Cambridge, perhaps! I doubt you'd overhear such talk in some Aldershot dive.

The Falling Edge, maybe? The Doped Wafer?
If Wordpress no longer receives security updates, tons of sites will have to be migrated. Many are not economically efficient to migrate, and will be lost. Given the scope of that ecosystem, this is an extinction event for the Web.
You could literally live next to a school and there’s a chance your kids can’t go there.

There are many kids from low income, broken families who are just really bad students. Bullies. Disruptive. Disrespectful to teachers. It was hell going through public schools in SF.
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I decided I wanted a better job in 2025 after being at my company for 6ish years. I started applying to 2-3 jobs a day starting in december and reaching out to old contacts. Complete ghost silence and bullshit. Managed to get 2 leetcode screens that went nowhere even after doing alright on them.

Hit up an old college buddy on linked in, got a referral, went through a ton of interviews (6) and got a job in two weeks. It's nuts how far a referral will get you.
does the msn.com one block their news site?
First Class tickets get suspended animation tanks
IMO the problem isn't right on red itself, but rather that vehicles have to be in (and often completely over) the pedestrian crossing area to see oncoming vehicle traffic they have to yield to (at the distance required due to higher oncoming vehicle speeds). This encourages the behavior where drivers plan to have a single stop in that area, where they wait for an opening in vehicles to go - completely failing to take into account the possibility of having to stop before that area due to pedestrians actually using it. The situation is more like two separate stop and yields, and when drivers don't expect pedestrians they skip the first one.
A recent solid description I've heard was "distilled Chicago river".
Completely agree, but it's not really like "tech homeschooling is a new thing" vs. the fact that public schools (I'd argue especially in the Bay Area, e.g. see the school board recall) got so bad during the pandemic that parents had huge motivation to find an alternative.

And the fact of the pandemic makes this article even worse in my opinion: "Gee, why would parents with means want to find an alternative when public schools had to go all remote for extended periods and were a shit show in general?"
1. With the current AI bots, likely not. And that basically shows how inefficient these systems currently are.

2. The hiring manager does. The bot certainly does not. The odds of someone able to please the latter while meeting the former is low odds, for a candidate that's already low odds to begin with.

3. Not impossible. And that's all the justification they need as long as they aren't penalized for what basically a ghost job.
We currently spend less than 5% of GDP on agriculture, there's a lot of headroom for more economically intensive methods that use less land.
I make it clear with body language and eye contact that yes I see them and no I'm not meekly yielding my right of way. However, I leave just enough space to avoid being hit, for those situations when the True Assholes knowingly cut me off anyway. Or maybe they're not assholes by intent, but instead in the 90th percentile for inattentiveness and bad driving habits, which may even be the same thing. I don't know, I'm not a driver psychologist.
Isn’t this common knowledge among plant growers anyway? Plants can easily enjoy a co2 ppm of 1000+ in a greenhouse for faster growth. Photosynthesis involves an exchange of co2 to oxygen

https://extension.okstate.edu/fact-sheets/greenhouse-carbon-....
Australian Open apparently scraps its NFT project
My mom bent a lug wrench trying to change a flat on my grandmother's car; apparently the nuts were reverse threaded on one side of the car.
This is what was taught to me in drivers ed as a driver. Make eye contact with the pedestrian. So I do the same as a pedestrian as well.
> Except the article doesn’t claim what the drivers are doing is illegal.

The article states “… and I captured two drivers ripping through red lights in that short span.” I suppose “ripping through” can be left up to interpretation.

However, in the video the author says “that person just ran a stop… a red light right in the middle of me filming.” Then the other he says: “I bet this guy runs the light. Yup, see, this person ran the light, too.”

“Running” a red light is an illegal act.

I think in both cases the cars should have slowed down and had plenty of time to stop before entering the intersection. But, evidently that’s legal in California, while the author indicates otherwise.
What's fascinating to me about that video is that when he learned to ride inverted, he LOST the ability to ride directly. There's some switch in our brains that can get flipped
Like many things with California, sensible policies that are very effective and will eventually be standard in other states are presented incorrectly for many different (usually financial) reasons in order to turn public opinion against them to delay their spread.

Commercial/industrial properties are not permitted to water grass lawns with drinkable water.

Commercial/industrial properties are not permitted to use drinkable water to water lawns within 48 hours of 1/4" of rainfall.

Commercial/industrial properties are not permitted to use drinkable water to water lawns with so much water that it runs off the lawn into streets or storm drains.

https://www.waterboards.ca.gov/conservation/regs/docs/2023/F...

Landscaping businesses and landscaping supply retailers launched a campaign several years ago framing the above as "watering lawns and plants is going to be banned in much California".

It appears that campaign was partially successful.

Commercial/industrial properties can install water recycling systems and use all of the greywater they can get to water their lawns.

There are additional local restrictions that depend on the severity of the water supply situation but those are too numerous to list, but at worst none of them prevent weekly watering of plants and lawns adjacent to dwellings.
In academic / white collar work for sure. But if you're something like a skilled craftsman whose services are in demand, you can probably do fine with less social networking.
The big problem with right on red is that it perfectly synchronizes them to hit each other.

Say a driver and pedestrian are at the same corner facing the same way and the pedestrian wants to cross into the area the driver wants to turn. The street is busy so the driver can't turn right on the red and the pedestrian isn't gonna just walk against the signal into the traffic. Cross traffic lets up, either because of a big gap or because the light has cycled to red for the cross traffic. The conditions that both parties require before making their move have just been satisfied at the same time. The pedestrian walks and the driver turns, leading to inevitable conflict. If both the driver and the pedestrian are in a hurry and trying to shoot a gap in traffic and go quickly there can be no time for either party to avoid the accident.

Edit: The above example is crosswalks only, no dedicated pedestrian signals.
The video and article specifically said these cars “ran the red light”, which they absolutely did not do.
The people you consider "more genuine" are just cultivating a different persona.

Don't ever believe you "know" someone you don't. Parasocial relationships are harmless at the low level but quickly become toxic.

Always meet your heros so you can understand they are normal and flawed humans
Statistical significance depends on what you're trying to prove. Looking for substantial harm is a lot easier than figuring out which option is simply better, depending on what level of substantial you're looking for.

If your error bar for some change goes from negative 4 percent to positive 6 percent, it may or may not be better, but it's safe to switch to.