skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Hopefully it's not the last. We need to flip the script on cars vs pedestrians, especially since there has been a long history of anti-pedestrian propaganda funded by the automobile industry.

Meanwhile, car-centric environments contribute to air pollution and sedentary lifestyles. They limit public spaces, reducing community interactions and fostering loneliness, while also exacerbating socioeconomic inequalities by obstructing access to jobs and essential services for those unwilling or unable to burn cash on these inefficient, extravagant rolling idols of conspicuous consumption.

Their environmental impact, I shouldn't have to remind you, doesn't end with urban sprawl leading to inefficient land use and loss of green spaces, but includes, of course, plant-rocking CO2 emissions.

So, yeah, I think it's pretty debased that we featherless bypeds have to press a single goddamn button to tread a single square foot of earth in deference to cars.
It doesn't even show me more of what I've already seen, half the sidebar is videos I've already watched (or watched halfway before dropping, with a helpful indicator of my lack of progress). Like, "we see you like video X, why don't you watch video X today?" Thanks, I already have bookmarks.
"Whether car, scooter, bike, or feet, look both ways before crossing a street"
Are you sure about that: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZHpu7ngQxwE
Thanks. I guess this means for Benchmarks they didn't use it. I find it fascinating and admire your dedication to fixing and improving those models.
I was referring to complacency as it relates to guns and the horrific violence inflicted with said guns.

Bullies are everywhere. One runs X. You deal with them.

I never saw any drug dealers or gangs and the rest of what you’re describing sounds like what I’d expect as a normal part of growing up.

One of our many societal shortcomings (or outright failures) is that we treat poverty as a moral failing, not with any sort of kindness, interest in understanding the root cause(s) or meaningful attempts to address the issue.
Congrats to the SDF team for their exit.

Alas, dbt Labs has developed a reputation for rug pulling functionality from dbt Core and gating most of their differentiating features behind dbt Cloud. I cannot see this type of consolidation being in the best interest of the dbt community.
Igalia is a valued Chromium contributor, but your notion that they do a near-majority of the dev work is off by an order of magnitude.
Modeling Earth
We can all try make good content and share it but how would it be discovered?
Software problems almost never seem to actually impact brands, but this was so egregious it actually managed to. Even Crowdstrike increased revenue over the last year.

So… I’m not shocked at the timing. Sales have tanked, and proved the CEO couldn’t be relied on to right the ship.

It’s just one example of how long serious problems can fester in an organization. There’s likely deep cultural problems throughout the company’s decision making apparatus. We’ll see, but I don’t see Sonos capable of being a trusted brand again.
One thing I've never understood with public schooling: How come teachers think they have the competence to be in loco parentis? Just because you are educated doesn't mean you are a good (pedagogical) educator.
The core issue is those red light cameras create a persistent database of who is where, which is then sold at a marginal cost to whoever wants it to advertise to/manipulate/track a population. Adding cameras everywhere invites a dystopian nightmare vs better urban design and occasional traffic police would solve the same problem.
How to manage Jira projects and protect PM data in 2025
I first thought this was SDF (https://sdf.org/) and thought how could this happen.

Again shows we have run out of 3 letter acronyms :)
"hard-r"?

I've lived in the South all my life, worked with blacks and whites, gone to college and this HN post is the first time I've seen/heard the expression "hard-r".

I now believe "hard-r" is regional slang, since it appears to be (at least) a west-coast expression [the Linus recording convinced me] but rare in the South.
I'm generally not a fan of home schooling in a lot of cases, part of what school does is expose you to a vertical slice of humanity, and you will almost certainly be dealing with that for the rest of your life.

HOWEVER... remember that "home schooled" doesn't mean "as a parent you are the only teacher" right? You can hire tutors, you can form teaching groups with other parents, you can use online resources, etc. If done WELL and with a sense of one's own limitations, and the need to socialize your child, homeschooling can work.

It's just unfortunate that so often homeschooling is used as a way to ensure that no outside influences interrupt a parent's particular brand of ideological indoctrination... although in the narrow case of tech parents, I suspect that's less of a driving force.
I like this step by step approach to things. When my dad first taught me to ride a bike it was a disaster as he tried teaching me to run with the bike then jump up on the pedals and onto the seat in one swift action, like some sort of professional cyclist. I couldn't get the hang of this silly method and he gave up, leaving me to figure out how to do it from stationary.
Haiku OS Gets the Iceweasel Web Browser Up and Running
Same. dbt feels like angularjs, I want the svelte alternative.
I think for discussion/negotiation with decisions being made, my hierarchy of preference would be (from most preferred to least):

- Message board style like Github issues
- Slack thread
- Email thread
- Video call
- In person meeting

I do really like in-person meetings for brainstorming or collaborative design type stuff. Having a real whiteboard is hard to beat, and I think the discussion can flow a little more naturally without any latency.

I have found that AI notetakers can bridge this gap fairly well—whether in a virtual meeting or in person. If the calendar event has a virtual meeting with a notetaker that joins by default, someone can join the meeting and throw a phone down on the conference table and everyone gets a full transcript, summary, and list of next steps afterwards. One of my favorite real world applications of LLMs so far.
Can you provide an example where road budget spending was overridden by public outcry and was completed to those expectations?
Not disagreeing, but for more context. These blog posts also have to be taken with a grain of salt as the authors obviously have their own project to promote, coloring their point of view.

The algorithms detailed in the graph DB post can be run on top of PostgreSQL, though one has to do some of the work of the DBMS themselves (maintaining indexes, transforming query to correct form). It's extra work and requires some knowhow, but up to some extent it works "well enough".

Similarly, the CedarDB comments, that could be boiled down to the lack of column major batched executor model, are mostly applicable to analytical queries. Point query and traversal type workloads are not as different. There are various projects that work around this to some extent by sticking DuckDB into PostgreSQL . This gets vectorized execution on mass data scans, which is usually enough to get into the right ballpark.

The point being that the amount of use cases where Postgres is sufficient is highly dependent on the skill and time put into it. And at some point the extra organizational cost of going heterogeneous is going to be worth the payoff. The hard part is figuring that out ahead of time. Which is why my recommendations for starting developers is to just use Postgres until it starts to hurt, then optimize it to work well again and use the insight gained to see what functionality needs to be peeled off into a specialized system.
Your account is being rate limited because your replies were repeatedly against the “rules”. Been there done that
To each his own, I guess.
> The problem with homeschooling is that rarely is someone so well rounded that they can supply the full spectrum of education that a child needs. Blackbody vs an RGB source emulating a full spectrum. We all have cognitive blindspots.

While this is true, it's not like schools are teaching kids a full spectrum of knowledge either. In particular, a lot of practical skills are often not taught in modern schools - personal finance, cooking, basic home maintenance and construction ("shop class"), etc. How valuable some of this stuff is will depend on the child of course.
Even after losing 16% in a month, falling from a high of $480+ to $405, the PE ratio is still about 111X. Even in a period of near record-high overall market valuations of 26X [1] not seen in at least decades, even before the Dotcom boom/bust, this is an outrageous valuation. Tesla would need to either fall to about $100/share or more than quadruple earnings just to get down to this historically aberrant high of PE~26X.

Considering their now-established history of failure to deliver, the failure of the Cybertruck to catch on, and Musk's authoritarian behavior alienating most customers for his EVs, the prospects for a massive sustainable earnings increase are poor at best. Add onto that an economy that has been excellent for four years and will be difficult to sustain, especially with the new administration likely to undermine it with ill-advised scattershot tariffs and deportations, strong growth seems unlikely. I'd consider yourself very lucky if you had a position that you managed to sell in early December. I certainly wouldn't be buying any soon, but shorting meme stocks is dangerous (even if your thesis is correct, short-term motions can get you stopped out with a big loss before realizing profits).

[0] https://www.marketbeat.com/stocks/NASDAQ/TSLA/

[1] https://worldperatio.com/area/united-states/
You have never had a driver wait?
Is proton 100% usable with a noscript/basic (x)html browser?
Sometimes I would agree but... It is nice to wake up and know whether it is worth spending the time to watch or not (in the case of a scrub). Launches in the middle of the day can take up lots of time that I would be doing something else. In the modern era of internet video I can just watch it when I can enjoy it.
The USA hasn’t had a healthy education system for decades, so parents who have gone through that system are a) not very well educated and b) think they can do better.
> it's unquestionalble that an army with the best AI will dominate

At the current state of AI, the Army will need only I. /s
The Goodreads summary for Crafting Interpreters looks fascinating - I've never read anything like that!

https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/58661468-crafting-interp...
Interesting.

https://www.brennancenter.org/our-work/research-reports/roe-....
That's old fashioned, the current "California roll" is to just continue at full speed through stop signs or red lights.
And I said what I said.
> It’s crazy to think that some software engineers might actually intentionally degrade user experience on non-Google browsers

Is this actually a thing? As far as I'm aware all degradations in non-Chromium browsers have been unintentional bugs, either caused by a YouTube bug or a non-YouTube bug (i.e. in the browser or an extension) (note I'm specifically not commenting on the last portion of your comment regarding "for people using adblockers").
> Do you have some sort of countdown, or innate knowledge?

often, in the form of the pedestrian signal.

> try to clear it before it turns red?

This is the rule in much of the world, yes.
Was thinking of that as I was browsing this doc! I just did the ole' reddit.com -> old.reddit.com redirect via kagi yesterday.
This is by Martin Fowler, right?
No, drivers in that neighborhood were used to stop at every stop while now a lot are passing through that intersection much faster to avoid the red light.
All my kids learned to bike on pedal-less balance bikes (or kickbikes or whatever you want to call them). We had "Puky LR" models, but there are others.

By the time they were ready to switch to a real children's bike, didn't even need to temporarily take the pedals off, they just picked it up more or less instantly.
You can do all that on top of a normal education.
Oh 100%. It's not a for sure thing but at the same time I know those plans also historically have been auctioned for a lot of money and as a result the people who end up with them tend to use them quite extensively.

And their cost is probably a decent bit lower than the sales price but given Visionary plans aren't sold directly any more to my knowledge, there's a chance the profit margin on those accounts dipped below a feasible amount and they've just kept the plan for existing users out of goodwill.

That all to say, those lifetime plans are definitely super expensive and probably make up a respectable amount of the raffle income but their exact cost to Proton themselves isn't exactly clear.
The slow death of the California dream
When there is a gold rush sell shovels.
Brushless servo motors and steppers are very similar, it's just that steppers have many more poles.
If your vehicle is ever fully stopped past the line, and the light is red, that would be considered a “blocking the box” traffic violation in most jurisdictions. You technically should not have entered the intersection at all without the ability to fully clear it.
Depends if your kid is above or below average.
The inconvenient truth is that California’s electrical infrastructure is woefully out of date because of utility company greed and malfeasance. The Democratic Party machine here in the state is too corrupt and asleep at the wheel to do anything about it. See also the management of state’s water resources.

Instead of proactively shutting off power during the high wind period, they left it on, and of course the decrepit equipment up in the bone dry mountains exploded and set everything on fire again.
> Having almost been hit a few times by drivers making a right turn on red, I can tell you the drivers never wait even if you have the right of way. You'll be lucky if they even look for you.

Right on red should not really be allowed. It's a real hazard.
People usually slow down to run stop signs, but speed up to run red lights.
The Wrongest Bird in Movie History
And all tautologies are tautological.
I doubt that's how it works out. Last time I was looking I applied so many places I can't remember most of them.
I would say 4 out of 5 to be honest
Jon Askonas on AI policy in the Trump era
Is it a countdown until it turns green, or a countdown until it turns red? I think it's unlikely the latter would encourage drag racing.
Right, it's not about talent. It's the fact that it's an extremely strong network with a flywheel between defense spending and startup tech. The same things that make the US's startup industry indefatigable.
> It's considerably cheaper to us

This is not true. The cheapest option is to not have services that require servers to maintain. Git continues to work if GitHub is down. So do shell scripts when CI is down. So why can’t we have an issue system where the underlying data is text files in a git branch?

I understand at scale you can pay people to optimize a process for the larger team, but there is a ton of unnecessary fragility before getting to that scale.
“I’d like to study ants,” I said.

He laughed and laughed, as the window blue was turning darker and darker. Finally he regained his composure, sat upright, and asked me seriously:

“Why ants?”

“Ants never fail. Computer networks, I don’t care which one, TYMNET ARPANET INFONET CYBERNET CYPHERNET MICRONET MIDINETTE TELENET they fail regularly, several times a day, somewhere they fail. And the big computers too, you can’t rely on them, sooner or later, they go south and they leave you high and dry, if we’re really going to teleconference on this thing it should never fail. The only thing that never fail are insects.”

“I said, why ants?”

“Look at an ant. Talk about microminiaturization of the ant! Even with the best chips from Silicon Gulch do you know how big a computer would have to be to do all the things an ant does? Tons! Tons! And the ant does all that in its little head and when it finds a twig it has one program: ‘If you recognize something which is long, made of wood, and hard, pick it up and put it on top of the ant-hill.’ Now that I call a program. And if the ant can’t do it by itself, another one will come and help, and another, until they do it. And you can step on them it won’t stop the ultimate result, and a crazy Frenchman named Remi Chauvin who is a genius explained to me how he would put twigs in tall glasses to see what the ants will do and he digs cliffs for them, yet they always manage to complete their program. A computer scientist who doesn’t understand ants is a man who doesn’t know what reliability means.”

“So you would build the computer equivalent of the ant, in hardware?”

“Right, and it would be so cheap, it would have its own little memory and it would have its own little programs, and it would go around looking for places to apply itself, and it would be disposable, disposable computers by the millions, crawling around and keeping their society going no matter what, so we humans can always find one when we need it and make it do something useful, make it work for us.”

— The Network Revolution: Confessions of a Computer Scientist, Jacques Vallee (1982) <https://books.google.com/books?id=6f8VqnZaPQwC&pg=PA206>
$34 screams “NAT Gateway.” Are you SURE you don’t have one? I’d bet a beer on it.
Allstate used GasBuddy and other apps to track driving behavior: lawsuit
Sort by usage type?
Agreed, but I would not call an intersection with a dedicated turning lane a 4 way stop, or at least not a low traffic one.
download.cnet.com serves up spam nowadays? How far the mighty have fallen.
The fact people can't figure what the rules are is a problem in itself vs a stop sign where everybody knows you should stop.
> Correct. If you're trying to get the marketing advantage and let other people give you free work, then you get to play fair and other people also benefit. That's what those words mean.

This free work everyone talks about is not free. They need to maintain it, they need to review it, they need to baby-step new contributors, etc. That costs money.

Not to mention, most aren't doing it to get free work. They're giving stuff away and folk are crying because they can't use someone else's work as free work.

Look at any major open source product and you'll see nearly all the commits are done by paid employees. Open source is built on free work is a lie. Open Source is largely paid for.
Public school education is a shit show in many western countries. I'm not in the USA but all the talk about private schools and lotteries is very real. The only thing we don't have is charter schools leaching public funds.
I believe he might be a distant cousin. I've done some family tree searching myself and haven't found many things, since the Rainbolt side has mostly been scoundrels and vagabonds there aren't many details, but we do have a mountain that we named after ourselves after we stole it from natives.
A declarative, extensible framework for building Elixir applications.
Yes, this one :)

It's automatically pushed to docker hub.

docker run -it --rm meehow/privtracker
> these engineers seem to be focused

Managers.
My timeline got cancelled because mega corp.

I have however blogged about it! https://meanderingthoughts.hashnode.dev/history-of-microsoft... for the start of the journey.

Turns out if you are designing an embedded OS (https://meanderingthoughts.hashnode.dev/cooperative-multitas...) you end up doing a lot of white boarding.
This seems to reflect a lot of what I hear about as well. Everything is too entrenched from a decision making standpoint for any one person to make a difference in reforms.

A free market fixes anything where people have the ability to "vote with their wallet" and simply stop paying for services which aren't meeting expectations when they find another that does. Things like employer sponsored health insurance are insulated from you choosing a different option for yourself and we get the situation that we currently have because of it.

Education is the same way but the only ways to vote with your wallet are...

1. Buy a house zoned for the school that you want.

2. Pay for private school.

3. Home school.

4. In some areas, school choice where you can choose from another of the available public options may be viable too.

The only long term solution here that has potential to fix things legislatively is a true school voucher program that would let you take the tax money assigned for your kids education and put it into whatever option you believed was actually best for their education.

This _should_ lead to a start-up like small business ecosystem with lots of small Montessori style schools especially for younger kids. Most likely a "neighborhood schools" model would pop up and parents would end up walking their kids to school again, even in suburban areas.

Most likely you would still see bigger options for high school still as teenagers crave more socialization. Sports would likely revolve more around communities than individual schools too.

You'd of course see some specialties. Schools advertising why they were the best option for your kids and then having to prove it in order to keep them. Yes, there would definitely be religious schools as there already are now.

My guess is that a lot of the current home school co-ops that are popular in my area would simply become suddenly funded because the parents involved as pretty happy with the model. I had a lot of biases against home schooling until I saw how these co-ops work and it's really effective. Basically just like a normal school small school with parents teaching different lessons on different days. Each parent's commitment is a half day a week to teach and they still do school plays, etc.
If you are willing to explore a hybrid model of chat, there is Zulip: https://github.com/zulip/zulip
The incentives with YouTube just seem bad. Whenever I research a product (recent examples: Garmin Watches, DJI drones) I'll find a few great videos with informative and useful content. I hope those channels are doing well! But then my YouTube recommendations related to those will have titles/thumbnails with things like "don't buy until you WATCH this" or "I was wrong!".
This. At home it's me and my one kid, and having an additional party as a DM would be priceless.
Here's how I handle right on red: When I have the walk signal, I look to my left for cars that might be turning right. If there are any, I look at whether the driver sees me. Try to make eye contact. If they are moving and apparently don't see me or are going to turn anyway, I wait. I may have the right of way, but I'm not going to win that battle.
> this isn't a thing that anyone would truly want.

Citation needed.

> A purely AI generated or controlled world would have no constraints

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.

> at least with current technology.

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 back with Firefox after a short relationship with Brave. Still use Brave on iOS to block ads when needed though.