skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I am one of those who changed master to main. It is exactly two letters less to type the name is IMO more self explainatory than master. So even if we excluded any historic background why the verbiage of master/slave might be considered problematic id still prefer main.

Now is this a (main) hill I have to die on? Totally not. Do I have very strong opinions on this? Nope. Does it cost me a lot? Nope. As I said, I have to type less, and as a teacher explaining that the main branch is the main branch is easier than explaining that master means it is the main branch and explaining where master comes from electronics etc.

"Woke" people for the most part are like me: not adamant social justice worriors whose ardent opinions have to be defended till the last drop of blood, but people who are like "meh, why not, doesn't cost me a thing and maybe it is only right". And that is the polar opposite of what the political right wing and their whole billionaire-funded propaganda machine likes to paint people whoe make choices like that as.

Now I don't say people with strong opinions on these issues don't exist, because there do. But they are the minority. But taking vocal minorities and declaring them the representatives of the majority seems to be a trend these days.
> This is what I mean about theory vs reality

> Sure, theoretically the rules say they shouldn't do that but that's not how reality works.

Do you have any evidence for this or are you just making this up as you type? Because it's a bit rich to be harping about "reality" otherwise.

A large body of research supports traffic calming measures for pedestrian safety and to increase driver awareness. A four-way stop intersection surrounded by intersections that also have stop signs (as indicated by the article) would fit that bill.
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I've noticed sites like Indeed are still showing job listings scraped from our website 5 years ago.

I've not chased down every scraper and submitted a remove request. But I can easily see how 20%+ of job listings are dead-ends.
Wasn't there a time in the 70s/80s when the USA prioritized education and STEM specifically for the MIC and the cold war?
I get your point, but still, while the "pedestrian scramble" is maybe good for pedestrian safety, it's probably the worst solution for pedestrian speed. If the pedestrian lights were at least green at the same time with the car light in the same direction, you would at least have a chance of crossing the street without having to wait. This way, the lights never turn green on their own (as seen in the video), so you always have to press a button and wait.
Oracle open source overlord calls it quits, leaves with big ol' pile of shares
Instead of `strings` for the search[1], I recommend using `rz-bin`[2] and `rz-find`[3] tools, which offer more flexibility, searching strings outside of the data sections, searching for Unicode and less common encodings, and built-in cryptographic keys search. There are also `/` (search) commands in the Rizin itself. As for the entropy, there is a configurable and interactive histogram, see `p=` and `p==` commands, e.g. `p==e`.

[1] https://book.rizin.re/src/search_bytes/intro.html

[2] https://book.rizin.re/src/tools/rz-bin/strings.html

[3] https://book.rizin.re/src/tools/rz-find/intro.html
Similarly, I use Unhook because it gives me fine control over what YT displays. I now find YT to be completely unusable without it.
I've watched like three. They are quite entertaining but tend to follow a similar formula.
Exactly this. The article has the right conclusion but invents a nonsense explanation. The truth is that bicycles counter-steer at any reasonable rolling speed - to go right, you nudge the steering to the left, which causes the bike to start falling to the right and then steer into that fall. People often find this hard to believe, even experienced riders, but it is easily tested. The problem is that training wheels turn a bicycle into a tricycle, which steers in the opposite way - to go right you steer to the right. So kids learn that and then you take the training wheels off and the first attempt to steer immediately causes a nasty fall because of steering the wrong way. I made this mistake teaching my first to ride, and she hurt herself and never really liked bikes after that. Seeing it happen, I had an epiphany (eventually) and just took the pedals off that bike for my second, who had the experience described elsewhere in this thread and loved bikes thereafter.
After watching the video, the biggest takeaway I got from it is that ABC News needs to invest in some portable lighting gear.

A few weeks ago, there was a post about another radio dish being resurrected up in Denmark (maybe????). I love that these are being refurbished instead of just trying to build new ones.
With all the FAANG layoffs is this still a realistic goal for many people?
> Has any lifetime account for anything ever lasted for an actual lifetime? Short of the gold airline tickets that airlines have been weaseling out of recently?

I think most lifetime accounts end up lasting an entire lifetime. It just happens to almost always be about the lifetime of the service, not the lifetime of a human.
Ummmmm, doors flying open at highway speed on ID 4 EV...

https://arstechnica.com/cars/2024/09/volkswagen-halts-id-4-p...
But how do you make sure you're solving the right problem? LLM?
There is a big gulf between "fake" and "never filled" that I don't like being washed here.

Specifically, there are plenty of reasons you might have a position not get filled that are not nefarious. Could be an aspirational. Could be a company that is so under water that they can't manage a hiring pipeline. Could be one that isn't under water, but doesn't know how to manage a hiring pipeline. Could have been overcome by other events. Plenty of options.

Yes, I'm sure there is some fraud. I'd love to see data that went into that detail. I'm assuming it is rather lower than 1 in 5.
As I said MOST US states.

I looked at the link and NO, they DO NOT DISAGREE. Read the language, drivers SPEEDING through a yellow light MAY be found negligent if they cause an injury to someone.

"California’s yellow light law permits drivers to enter an intersection during a yellow light. No violation exists unless any part of the car is over the stopping line when the light turns red. However, the law encourages drivers to slow down before reaching the intersection.

In California, the yellow light law provides that drivers are automatically “warned” by the light turning yellow that the traffic light is about to change to red. This means that a faulty driver cannot avoid responsibility for an accident simply by claiming that they didn’t see the yellow light.

It doesn’t matter if they saw it or not. Drivers speeding through a yellow light may be found negligent for not slowing down if their driving caused an accident or injured others."
> How is this possible? Profit, by definition, inefficient

Profit offloads risk from taxpayers by attracting private investment, rather than state investment. This means investors can lose all their money and taxpayers are totally insulated.

Profit also means bad ideas are discarded. The space shuttle costing $1.5bn per flight in 2010 dollars[0] must surely at least give you some inkling that profit is not the only inefficiency, and definitely isn't the biggest one.

People won't make a profit on things that are just boring and everything's been sufficiently worked out. This will be a race to the bottom regardless of whether something is privately owned or publically owned. However we want people to be able to be successful on things that benefit us and have a decent chance of going wrong. Otherwise you just lumber everyone with debt that needs paying back via taxes over a couple of generations, or you never try at all.

[0] https://www.space.com/11358-nasa-space-shuttle-program-cost-...
Yeah, this article made me feel a little vindicated about this comment I made a couple days ago: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42676441

Especially in Altadena (most of which is in a flat valley), it was very clear this was an urban fire - tons of pictures with every house burnt to the ground, but trees standing all around unscathed.

I am a little worried about how things get rebuilt, given the political incentives are now to make rebuilding as easy (read: cheaply) as possible. I'm all for waiving a lot of the environmental rules that are just a Byzantine labyrinth that are primarily used by neighbors to restrict growth they don't want, but I think that replacing Altadena with a bunch of densely packed, wood framed, shingled roofs is just adding kindling, literally, to the next fire.
Raidz wasn't able to be expanded in place before this. You were able to add to a pool that included a raidz vdev, but that raidz vdev was immutable.
This seems an insufficient analysis. The meaning expressed by contemporary music, film media, or streaming television isn't very profound, but they at least still make a passing effort to "signify" something. The highest grossing movie of 2024 - Inside Out 2 - is not a deep text, but it does have a thesis.

The "Pixar apparatus" is definitely increasingly consumed by audience demand, but they're at a minimum in a transitional phase: something like Seeing Red would never get workshopped out of committees.

Youtube and other social media (emphasis on media) is ground zero for the decay of meaning into intensity; the ultimate incestuous product of auto-simulacra.
This is my take in a nutshell. Instead of trying to force pedestrians and bikers to share with cars, we could go one level better and fully remove pedestrians and bikers from these roads until a city fund for building them a proper bike-only lane has fully matured. The only reason we force them to share public roads is because it seems logical, but the physics and logistics just doesn't work well.
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OP here -- excellent suggestion, I've been heavily influenced by this book and would also recommend Postman's "Technopoly"
More a strategy to avoid totalitarianism.
For the last sentence, do you mean continue on straight if the desired left turn is not available?
Average person _where_?

If the school is bad enough, then an average student there (because there are many more students than teachers) might not be a good influence.

There are schools in my state with <50% graduation rate, the average student there won't even finish the school.
More precisely it represents the likelihood of seeing this value conditional on the tokens before it.
> In the case of SpaceX they are more efficient because NASA is intentionally hamstrung relative to them, this is done by congress because they treat NASA as a jobs program

NASA is a jobs program in order to hamstring it relatively to SpaceX? Can you cite some evidence?
Things like this are suppose to be provenance of an organizations security engineering teams. Helping to ensure you don't ship something like this. It's also hard for them too because no one wants to force developers to re-implement already solved functionality.
Will the Art World Go Post-Woke in 2025?
Folks your emergency button we all have in our cars (onstar) that supposedly calls 911 in case of an accident (they don’t unless you pay the subscription) they just sell all the gps to data brokers.
In the UK, it is very rare for a pedestrian crossing that is controlled by a button press to not completely stop traffic. The first time I was in North America as an adult, I realised that when on a crosswalk drivers will come sailing at you and will cross behind you as you cross over. That is illegal here. The drivers need to wait for the pedestrians to cross, even on "Zebra" crossings (which are the ones with no buttons and striped lines across the road.) The only exception to this is if there is a traffic island in the middle of the road, and then they are treated as 2 different crossings. But quite often those are staggered, so the pedestrian can't just walk out directly from one side to the other.

The trade off is that the pedestrian has pretty much no right of way anywhere but a crossing, and cars will drive at you (or at least not stop for you) if you try to cross somewhere that is not a crossing. Though "Jaywalking" is not a thing and you can actually cross where ever you like.
Really? I would much less expect a government museum to be particular about aesthetics. Privately run museums/collections/exhibitions on the other hand tend to have very finicky owners -- after all, they're putting up their own money to achieve their vision, and so of course they tend to not want to compromise on how it might look.
I'm saying that if they find a way to keep houses affordable to buy, they can't be viable investments. The US makes for a decent home investment market. You usually see a house price double every ~10 years once it's in a desirable area.

Btw, was your 40% increased house purchased 20 years ago? If so, that's effectively a loss, and I'm not even sure about the one that doubled. 5-10 years would be different.
For the same reason that people expect car infrastructure to be paid for: whether they are walking, biking, or driving, they are frequently traveling to some place where they will contribute to the economy.

Walking is not merely some sort of hobby. It is transportation, a means of getting from one place to another -- often the most convenient and pleasant means. And transportation infrastructure certainly falls under the purview of local governments.
> Schools are not exactly run by the government, rather local school districts.

What gets approved by voters? Ahh, right, government services. How are those paid? By taxes. Who collects taxes? Governments, of course.

I don't know where you are in the world. In the US, public schools are funded by government money counted by number of students and their test scores. So more students = more funding, better scores = more funding. There are other kinds of schools, private schools and charter schools come to mind, with different funding types. But often those include additional costs to the parent on top of the taxes they already pay.

How do public schools get managed by the district? Again I'm not sure where you are, but here the public school administration gets voted in during government elections. The public education system's requirements are defined by law and, above the district level, managed by county or state education services.

> if there is a lack of funding, it is usually real, rather than through a misplaced need to be "efficient"

Don't get me wrong, I think efficiency has its place. But I think it is extremely easy for school administrators to end up in a business-first mindset instead of a serve-people-by-educating-them mindset.
We still have ways to go to that. From the current 400 ppm to about 2000ppm before the apocalypse. Until then the yields will generally improve from today’s baseline. There might be other systems that break before that and we get plantocalypse earlier
Can you talk about your observation (assumption?) that people talking about these issues are talking instead of helping in material ways. This is a false dichotomy. Talking about a thing is not incompatible with doing a thing.

(I see from your comment history that you've talked about Typescript, and being Irish. Does that mean you don't actually write Typescript and you're, uh, not being Irish in a proper enough way? No.)

It's acceptable to discuss a societal issue even if you're not actively doing something about it. There are a lot of things going on in the world and a finite amount of hours in one's day. We can only personally reach out and touch a depressingly small subset of them. I think Putin is a rather malignant head of state, but I am not actively working to depose him, and I don't see a conflict there as long as I'm clear about that.

deciding that they need to "help" minorities that they've
never met in some way, usually by policing language or fashion.

This is a key concept and I'm sure I won't change your mind. But for the record: the belief here is that when you have a privileged group and an underprivileged group, the privileged group has a large role to play in righting this wrong.

As an admittedly contrived example, suppose we work at a majority-white company where white employees are openly using racial slurs against black employees. As a white person, I've got a responsibility to confront this and steer things in a better direction. If I'm in management then part of my job is to shape enact and enforce policies to keep this from happening.

I think we'd agree on that cartoonishly obvious example, but another key belief is that there are a lot of "lesser" racist acts that may not be as egregious as the "n word" but are still well worth combating.

Certainly, I think that any particular policy at any company is up for discussion. I've no doubt there's a lot of overreach in this area. Some companies are surely doing real shitty jobs, but the problem here is "companies doing real shitty jobs" and not the core idea of "hey, let's shape a good company culture here."

But I think you are making a lot of other unsupported assumptions: that these policies are enacted by "rich white people" with zero input from the groups they claim to protect, and that these policies are being enacted without other more material changes, and so on. Again: surely true in some cases, but I believe you are conflating bad implementations with bad ideas.
The origin(al) is developed within the chromium project, Chrome is already a Google styled chromium fork.
In my own country, where stop signs are relatively rare anyway, this behavior is so common that it doesn't even have a name. I think it's much more unexpected here to see anyone truly stop at a stop sign on an empty street than it is to see them slow down and then continue on. And I would bet police would not bat an eye 99% of the time if they saw someone do it.
It makes sense to share your data with an insurance provider if you are a well-behaved driver. It is well-behaved drivers that subside the insurance cost of reckless drivers.
Drivers have to worry about the traffic which has the green light vs. just looking where they're going.

My anecdotal evidence is that everyone is looking out for themselves and people in bigger vehicles will always take advantage of that.
This is what I want to do ultimately, but I'm at a sort of crossroads. I have a good job, a consulting side gig, a good family, and 0 hours for my own ambitions. Several years ago I made about 20k on a solo project, so I know I'm capable. I just need to be able to focus on my dream instead of someone else's. Lately I've landed on 'it will happen when it needs to', but I also worry that I'm plateaued and will wish I'd risked it earlier.
> They've been trying to get private spaceflight going for like four decades now and sitting on their hands the entire time

I'll take "borderline inevitable situations resulting from thinking the government will somehow do a better job, when in fact they get free money and are not motivated to accomplish things" for 500 points, Alex.
Fireproofing isnt mandatory, so people dont do it

People like lawns and shrubberies, and they hate spending even one dollar extra on roofing when they know a taxpayer-backed insurance policy will cover their substandard construction
I don't know where you live, but where live, you are allowed to complete the left turn even after the light turns red. Hopefully the red light will convince oncoming cars to stop even if the yellow did not. Cross traffic has to yield to you as you exit the intersection. I hope this gives you more confidence in making left turns safely!
I've made several DMs for a variety of entertainments. It's as much fun to create them as it is to play a scenario with them. I've experimented with a few methods, such as providing them with an ASCII map that looks like a hack/rogue map, giving them a famous book as the scenario, giving them multiple books and or famous fictional characters and then just letting them loose in a DM/AI guided narrative the user is making decisions.

Of course, I have a "classic" DM that happens to be visiting here on vacation from the dungeons & dragon's multiverse, where his real job is being a DM for visiting tourists. There's a "Shaggy" and his talking dog one can take LSD with when going to Woodstock in '68. There's a StarTrek strategic tactical simulations instructor. I quite like a Underground railroad "conductor" that guides escaped slaves to freedom before the US Civil War.

I think these DM / interactive narrative applications have a huge future in education and training.
The real issue are the road rage drivers who can't wait a minute and start honking behind you.

We all get it, we are all late now and then, but unless you are literally trying to catch a plane or a boat, in all likelihood you can sit your candy ass down and wait a minute.
I came to comments to make this point. Many of the EU manufacturers finally acknowledged the safety and usability of physical controls through research (aside from the customer clamor as customers realized touch screens weren't actually what they wanted), and EU pivoted. The physical controls EVs are now available.

USA didn't get the memo, or doesn't want to, thanks to differing corporate priorities and differing user persona preferences. USA manufacturers are (eventually) able to be influenced by customer outcry driving enough media to hit the independent dealer networks, but Tesla feels unlikely to do anything with the memo except file it in the circular bin.

Not sure about your "for people who love iPads" comment. I love my iPad Pro w/ Magic Keyboard + Magic Touch case and LTE modem, but get that crap out of my "control without looking" car experience. OTOH, I learned to drive in Europe.
Generally yeah, but idk what it's like in Spain. If the gains are huge or the renters' protections are nuts, it could theoretically make sense to keep vacant.

If there isn't high vacancy in Spain, this is moot
OP here -- I like Baudrillard and McLuhan but the media theorist who best captures the present IMO is Flusser: https://kevinmunger.substack.com/p/the-discourse-is-the-cybe...
I believe it would be more efficient to use a heat pump for the district heating even if the datacenter heat is just dumped. Heat pumps can get up to 400% efficiency.
> They also classified the issue as a “Fraud and abuse” issue, rather than an Oauth/login issue.

I can _kinda_ see that, I agree they should mitigate it as best as possible too though, especially since they're Google after all.

> I thought this would be the end of the story, but 3 months later, they re-opened my ticket (after my Shmoocon talk was accepted), paid a $1337 bounty, and said they were working on a fix.

Sad how the only way to get Google's attention to make enough noise about something...
Reading articles like these makes me realise how little we know. We barely know anything about the universe, it's huge, incomprehensible, and uncaring.

And what's worse is that our knowledge is not going to change much in my lifetime.
At least make an effort to understand what a tautology is.
Except for too many levels of indirection.
How can you be discriminated on a technical level?
Is there even a case of a candidate who sued a company at a technical stage we are aware of? This seems like a weak argument considering the hassle of time and potential legal fees, especially for someone who is looking for a job? Although I could understand why a candidate would try to bring a case like this in the US.

Anyhow, it's not even the feedback the problem, it is that I have enough work experience to understand some of those startups seem to operate on a thin line between what is a technical assignment related directly to their core tech and getting free consultancy. The least they could provide to candidates who have involved time is what was expected.
Meta announces 5% cuts in preparation for 'intense year'
^says