skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Tesla's Global Vehicle Deliveries Sank 13% in First Quarter
See, this is the problem. People don’t vote for individual policies, they vote for candidates.
good catch. i'll remove the CAGR bit. it's not really relevant to the rest of the post anyway
Wasn't there a big falling out between the Matrix team and Element or am I misremembering what happened?
Literally all three of their required features which were not “standard” for swiss tables were requirements for the go implementation. See https://go.dev/blog/swisstable for a nice post on that project.
_If ever_, honestly. Like, France’s traditional US-scepticism on military equipment is looking pretty sensible now.
> Meanwhile you spend your entire time owning the car and driving around like a brooding storm cloud.

Living in Oregon I don't want a car that blends in with the asphalt and clouds. I want a florescent lime green car that's easy to see. Those are hard to come by.

Also, I recall traveling to Athens Greece back in 1999 and wondering why people were all wearing greys, charcoals, black? I posited that they were depressed or something. Recall that the 90s were still pretty colorful in regards to clothing here in the US. And then just a couple of years later people here were all starting to wear those greys, charcoals and black.
Tacking onto this I think the more important variable for ease of conversation is the extent to which someone's sense of identity is tied to their political beliefs.

E.g. I'm moderately left but I'll still engage in healthy conversation with right-leaning friends and acquaintances because I like to understand where they're coming from. However I have some friends who I love dearly but know that despite their intelligence and how much I enjoy their company, they've become very tribal in their politics, so I don't bother engaging in political discussions with them beyond basic diplomatic contributions. Or posing questions that offer new perspectives. I still trust them and value their friendship though.
Even worse is when they keep screwing with the panning. I can't stand Led Zeppelin II for that reason. Someone just couldn't stop messing with the damn slider, right in the middle of songs. The ones with merely bad, but static, panning are far more tolerable.
I always loved the yellow Acura Integras too.
“No, not like that!”
How is the European economy decimated? Not saying you’re wrong, but that’s a bold statement especially without receipts.
It really isn't. Facebook and Zuckerberg worked hard to get Trump into power. It's naive pomposity of the highest order to suggest that they some shouldn't have the right to remove content not suited to their agenda.
>Does this mean the corporations have to reveal all their internal DNS and sites to the public (or at least the CA) and let them do DV, if they want certs issued for their wholly-internal domains that will be valid in normal browsers?

The blog post has nothing to do with this, because it was already the case with certificate transparency. The solution is to use wildcard certificates. For instance if you don't want secretproject.evil.corp to be visible to everyone, you could get a wildcard certificate for *.evil.corp instead.
God I love plan9. Making my own os using many of its principles is a retirement project life goal.

EDIt: I reserve the name “chaos10” for this project, since - like SerenityOS - there will be no plan.
just curious, what would it do if you asked it to kill someone? does it follow the laws of robotics?
I'm talking more about not bringing up politics to avoid giving too much information to people who will make up their own conclusions based on those facts and aren't amenable to change. And choosing not to bring up politics for the purpose of figuring out who out of the friend group is the selfish asshole.
$7 a day is a step up from the olden days for those people. They're pleased with that.

$7 a day would be a step down for first-world (and second-world) economies. I think people would be very unhappy. Very very very unhappy.
What do you mean by “oversubscribed”?

Automation, sure. But people need to sleep sometime, and maybe also have some life outside HN, for mental health. ;)
I disagree. People will frequently say that downvoting is not for disagreeing, but in every controversial thread dissenting opinions are quickly downvoted and frequently flagged. Some recover, but many die or end up pushed down into obscurity.

Mildly controversial opinions sometimes survive and get discussion, but anything past that rarely get a reply and just get downvoted and flagged into oblivion. This isn't exactly a slight against HN, as this happens basically everywhere past a tiny userbase community. But I don't think it's particularly right to put HN on a pedestal for its ability to handle controversy.
Good links, though I would not call that a "mostly neutral, inquisitive tone". Varoufakis knows that the outcome of Trump's imagined/proposed tariffs cannot be known at this point, and so he explores a couple of the possible results.
YouTube shorts does have its own progress bar, but it's proprietary and kept out of view and so it doesn't allow the user to tell the length of the video at a glance.
A lot of HN mechanism makes more sense if you can accept the idea that the goal is to promote good threads, and not, as so many people believe, to promote one set of opinions over another. Requiring justification for flags would immediately crud up threads with meta-debates.

A hard thing for people to accept, something that I think is an unstated part of the HN ethos but nevertheless real, is that it's almost always better to have no thread at all than a shitty one. Important topics will inevitably get an airing in one thread or another.
I would describe it more as noise... When there are loud, clashing color patterns everywhere, it all turns into noise and nothing really stands out. It's like watching analog TV with poor reception... there's stuff there, but really hard to make out or focus.

I'm with GP on this, I'd prefer most things be somewhat subdued and letting key pieces come out. The subdued doesn't have to expressly be a shade of gray or brown/tan either.
I enjoy checking all the native plants growing on my place. I discovered another yesterday that I would love to eradicate since it really takes over quickly.

It's in the geranium family Geraniaceae, and is one of the most ancient cultivated plants around. Its use was so common that it has spread from the Mediterranean area where it is native to most every other inhabited place. People ate it and fed it to their animals and it was used as a medicine so they had multiple reasons to carry some with them as they migrated across the landscape.

Redstem Stork's Bill [0]https://www.inaturalist.org/taxa/47687-Erodium-cicutarium

Supposed to taste like a parsley. I ate some yesterday and agree that it is close to parsley with a slightly more sharp flavor if you just eat the leaves and stems. I tried some of the seed pods and that was a no-go. They would need to be cooked to be edible since they are hard and fibrous raw. I haven't tried the root yet.

It's unlikely that I will ever eat my way out of this invasive infestation but I will add some to the salad to see whether my wife notices.
The article is titled Why I don't discuss politics with friends but it doesn't explain the why? Unless I missed it. It seems to just talk about the challenges.

Why don't you discuss politics with friends? Are you worried about loss of friends? Do the conversations ruin your day? Do you feel alienated?

Depending on the why, there's different points I'd argue for or against the reasoning. Without that piece, it's kind of hard to discuss the premise of the article without just guessing its implications.
I feel pretty much the same, except the political situation here (central Europe) is pretty mild. I can't imagine being in the US right now.
It’ll get you an electrician for about three hours in London. How long do these papers take to read critically?
I'm really not interested in this kind of regional flamewar.
I've been assuming that these are rug-pull shitcoin scams, since that's what they were before the election. Has that changed?
>Maybe time will tell if it was actually OT.

When that time comes, if it comes, then you'd be within the guidelines to post it.

Preemptively posting it just in case it later becomes some new phenomenon is not ideal.
I do something very similar! Just mix and match. Never really looks bad IMO; and anyone who disagrees hasn't said so yet… and their opinion probably doesn't matter anyway!
Not especially surprising, but there’s an awfully large elephant in the room that likely directly contributed to this necessity that goes completely unmentioned.
haha yes I was wondering if someone would pick up on this, totally agree

I absolutely joke I am "tribal against tribalists", which to me is sorta like someone implying their greatest fear is fear itself.

I do mention it is a totally fair belief to have in that piece, and respect conscious decisions to value that like I respect people's decisions to follow more traditional religions, but only have issue when it's passed off as a truth-seeking value

Have not heard of the Underground Man, will check it out -- thanks for reading btw!
Yeah, I've had the same issue; as far as I can tell it's not actually the LCD itself but the backlight and the diffuser that end up getting screwed up. If you're trying to save electronics, keep the isopropanol away from the screen.
Tim Minchin said it well when he said to be hard on and critical of your own opinions. Among many other things :P

https://www.timminchin.com/2013/09/25/occasional-address/
All search is structured now
You're on a discussion forum. Where you express your opinion. Then the other party expresses their opinion. That's what makes this discussion forum great. Sometimes the opinions of the other party aren't going to agree with yours. It's a normal part of discourse on online forums.
I was referring to Safari here. I'm aware that WebKit is cross-platform, but it has vanishingly small market share if you ignore Safari, and it doesn't provide sufficient competition to browsers based on Chromium/Blink to keep the web from being a monoculture.
If your friends are the sort that stick to tribes instead of thinking independently get smarter friends.
Who among us does not entertain the happy illusion that our genuine friends number more than is the reality?
David Epstien talks about this in Range.

Essentially, we have 'kind' and 'unkind' learning environments.

To be successful in a Kind environment, you drill-and-kill. The feedback is near instant and the ranking is clear. These are things like golf, classical music, and chess.

To be successful in an Unkind environment, you learn as much as you can. The feedback is infrequent and the ranking is murky. These are things like tennis, jazz, and business.

I'd think that the compounding interest only plays in the Unkind environments, as you can make new connections on the new data you've got going in. In the Kind environment, new data doesn't make a difference as you're just trying to be perfect at the thing you're focusing on; if anything it's an impediment.
great quote, I agree
The author gains a great insight into the social consequences of discussing politics with friends, but I think it might be part of something larger, a sort of intellectual signaling of meta-contrarianism.

At least in the countries where I live, debating politics is less about civic duty and being a citizen, and has become a substitute for sports; people prioritize their passions, and they are not concerned with getting the government to implement the policies it promised in the first place, but with defending a side.

In Germany, we see on state broadcasts every single day discussions about how the USA is bad, Elon Musk, Donald Trump, how some war in a distant place is bad, and so on; and nothing related to local politics.

If you invite someone to go to the municipal legislative service to talk with someone about why we still have underinvestment in kindergartens, even with record revenue, while other groups of society are capitalizing on social benefits, nobody will show up.

Getting in front of a keyboard and brigading online to talk about federal elections and/or officials of other countries is cool: it gives you the latest scandal of the day, you can congregate with people of your chamber, it provides audience for podcasts, and it generates talking points that sound intellectually tasty.

At least for me, the politics that matter most are local politics; and this is the craziest thing: it's the kind of politics where you can do something as an individual, you will have someone to hear you out, and with some effort, you can make a real and direct difference for your community.
> No more typing your password in every client you’d like to log in to.

So. . . how will we log in? This post is heavy on vague promises of greatness but light on concrete details of UX.
I am incredibly jealous of how eloquently you've put it...
Does it help if you buy a blue checkmark?
The map still amusingly mostly pretends that New Jersey and transit running into New Jersey doesn’t exist. For example, the PATH is very faintly represented but yet the JFK AirTrain (which isn’t part of the subway and the airport isn’t run by the MTA) is given more prominent status. PATH is owned by the same entity (PANYNJ) that owns the AirTrain but is nearly hidden on the map because it goes to New Jersey.

Back when the SuperBowl was in NYC there was a full transmit map produced that acknowledged and displayed the existence of New Jersey and its transit into and out of NYC. After the Super Bowl the MTA quickly took it down and New Jersey was returned to its former “we’re gonna pretend like you don’t exist” map.
I have a bright coloured car and it’s easy to find in the car park!
Yeah, I sort of have a counter-belief that, generally speaking the way to have the most.... Grounded understanding of everything is to be a bit dispassionate about whether or not you have the truth. Being truth seeking has probably a 80/20 chance of going conspiracy nut vs actually being honestly truth seeking. Especially if you're not trained or the subject isn't in your wheel house.
the distributed computing model is pretty nice in theory (maybe not in practice) and the uniform system APIs are also nice. The userspace tools in particular are just plain better (structured regex commands are quite a bit better than ed-style and I find myself using them far more frequently in vis than I do in vim, they're far more composable and intuitive).

The biggest thing is the heavy reliance on union file systems (and file systems in general) and an extremely simple syscall API. It's a heterogeneous-networked-node OS so it handles realistic workloads natively with primitives designed for it instead of piling complexity on top of Unix-like APIs (ie. Linux). I dunno, I just think a lot of the modern "cloud native" stack is unnecessary if you had an OS actually built for the workloads we have.
I could not speak on the prior post. I did not flag it. But you are indeed projecting intent and feelings because you yourself have strong feelings in it. That’s ok.

I can speak for myself, I don’t care to see political posts that don’t involve anything new and also have low signal in the discussion. You end with either side either demonizing or praising. Again that’s simply my take on it which might differ from others. It’s not I don’t like the topic but rather I don’t want HN to be another space that gets overwhelmed with political talk. Same with discussions on Israel vs Palestine.
Well hey, if that's his style, and he can find the confidence to "own" it, the right kind of girl will appreciate him for it.

(As long as it's not too outlandish of a sock combo, ha)
As a thought, not tested, using wifi probe requests might be better through more dense material scenarios. Using a specific AP probe request "SOS Request" from the device would help discover over all the other AP requests that others are throwing. No idea if iOS or Android would let you hijack that process.

This is a bit more extreme, but some type of triangulation from multiple rescuers could be useful in closing in on a spot.

This is really interesting and thanks for sharing.
Earlier post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43556443
Hey HN, Sahil here from Vapi! Working here feels like we're hosting our own voice Olympics—juggling 10+ real-time models, dodging latency ninjas, and making every call sound like a chart-topping hit. It’s a wild ride, but nothing beats the thrill of watching our voice agents nail it (and sometimes even out-charm us humans). If you’ve got questions about our secret sauce or just want to chat about how voice tech is turning everyday calls into epic adventures, I’m all ears (pun intended)! Cheers to making voice as playful as it is powerful!
"In trained athletes, creatine has been reported to reduce body fat and improve some measures of anaerobic exercise performance, strength, and power output."
The same link.

"improve strength, and power output" -> ability to train harder -> more muscle growth to put it simply.
I’m a fairly steadfast holder of the “I like apples walled garden, it’s my choice to be there” argument, and I think as a dissenting opinion on this forum I get a lot of flak for it. But that’s not a moderation problem, it’s the fact that my opinion is different and I have 10x the number of people disagreeing with me than agreeing with me.
I'd rather movies and TV shows look more realistic than washed-out, unless there is a good stylistic reason for it.
I am honestly surprised that it's only 13% and not more. Is it because January was "normal"?
Very cool! More info on an equally charming old website here, including a remarkable letter from his wife:

http://josephoster.com/billsvoyage/index.html

I suppose every wife in any generation wants their husbands to be safe, but each generation has a different approach to risk and adventure. I know my wife would be resolutely opposed to any voyage like this (says the man with a dream of sailing a Hobie Cat across the Great Lakes...perhaps when my son is grown).

This page also includes a 100x136 pixel high-resolution color digital photo of the boat, and the year: 2002.

http://josephoster.com/billsvoyage/potter.html

There's also an update page with a GIF animation of the weather accompanied by the text "WARNING!!! file size: 1.5 MBytes"

From the article:

> The batteries were charged for about 1 hour daily using a Honda EU 1000 gasoline generator coupled with a 3-stage battery charger. The generator burned 1-1/2 gallons of gas in 24 days. ... There was no backup power source for charging the batteries.

24 hours of runtime and 1.5 gallons of gas equate to 0.625 gallon usage per hour. From the spec sheet, an EU1000 generator has a 0.55 gallon tank and can run for 6.8 hours at 225W output, that's 0.081 gallons per hour, so I estimate that the generator was operating at about 174 watts, given it ran for an hour that's 174 watthours per day.

23 years later, anyone would assume that your default source of 174 watthours per day would be a solar panel. A single 2x3 foot rigid panel would do ~100W peak and see the equivalent of 4-6 peak hours per day, easily beating that requirement. Any serious sailboat (even a little trailerable 19' coastal boat like this one) would have a whole array powering lighting and sensors and radar/radios and telemetry and would budget much more than that.
Everything is political, so have a nice time discussing the weather with your friends.
Flagging does seem to primarily be a tool for moderation. But for comments, at least, I've mostly not observed flagging being used to hide things that shouldn't be; if anything, I think flagging is underused on comments.

(It's still regularly abused on stories as a downvote, perhaps in part because stories don't have downvotes. HN sometimes "rescues" stories that get over-flagged, but it's still a problem.)
Moderation drives culture and should in the very least offset the worst tendencies of culture.

Otherwise, what exactly is moderation for?
Yeah, swap meets for computers or musical instruments may involve cash deals large enough where police would liberate you from your spending money.

But - as I like to point out - what is a suspicious amount of money depends on who you are. A huge number of cash seizures are on the order of hundreds of dollars or less than 100 in poor neighborhoods.
If your standard for how hard the interrogator should try isn't "as hard as they can", then what do you propose instead? It's always possible to fool a sufficiently lazy human, so you need something.

> It sounds like what you want is something akin to a comprehensive test for AGI.

Since you mentioned Wikipedia, their first proposed test for AGI is Turing's:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Artificial_general_intelligenc...

I (generally, not from you) see a motte-and-bailey game, where the strongest versions of Turing's test are described as equivalent to AGI, and then favorable results on weaker versions are used to claim we've achieved it. I think those weaker results are significant, probably in economically important ways, though mostly socially destructive. I think this preprint is mostly good. I don't like that conflation, though.
I lived in China in the early-2000s, and one of the things I noticed is that no one ever talked about any sort of politics. Never. It was weird at first, as political discussion is so ingrained in the culture (in the US). Even just regular smalltalk, like, "How's it going, Bob? / It'd be a lot better if the city council would pull their heads out of their asses and fix these potholes!" - there was nothing like that.

I asked a few local friends about it, and got two basic explanations:

1. What's the point? No one is empowered to change anything, so why bother talking about it at all?

2. You can get in big trouble for saying the wrong thing in public.

The weirder thing I noticed is that I kinda enjoyed it. It was nice to not hear a bunch of bitching about the government (not saying the government shouldn't be criticized - it should; just saying it was nice to be completely removed from it for a time).

Not sure if it's still like this in China; I haven't been there in years, but yeah, this was really strange to me when I lived there.
I was there since around 2015 and the evolution of that forum and its population/opinion has been very interesting, to say to put it mildly...

Remember when the biggest disagreements were about ORM & Frameworks? I miss those days. I didnt even mind the discussion about the ethics of Uber or Airbnb, but now, now it is different, & not for the better.
> It's all fake fluff designed to offset the genuine negativity he's creating for himself.

Is it? All the fake Musk things I've seen are, yes, positive, but they're also just scams (e.g. ads for a "Quantum AI" for picking stocks that he invented, where you get a free Tesla if you don't make a million dollars). I guess for the victims that end up in denial it boosts their opinion of him.
Many OSS contributors are on the payroll of a company --or is that outside the scope of what you're looking for?
I'm in the US and have never had a bad experience with Amazon. I signed up for Prime in like 2010 and even got their prime store credit card to get 5% cash back. No issues with returns, same-day shipping, prime video, etc. I don't know much about Bezos' business practices/morals, but gosh dang Amazon is a good bang for the buck.
Borges and Herbert Simons are two great minds, but their conversation is not deep since is mostly shared view about the meaning of human and machine intelligence. Today, with LLMs we have a tool to explore the relation between intelligence and language, between number of parameters, neural nets architectures and much more. So that conversation give us no new insight but is delightful to share time with such great people.