jkeisling/hacker-news-corpus-2007-2022 huggingface dataset:
> If this were possible, they would already be doing it

Unless the effort of doing so isn't currently worth it but would be under the new circumstances. Further, many already do this. Combined with moving bus stops to more convenient locations (ie closer to people's homes) and it's easy to imagine this satisfying the vast majority of people.

> But that requires money.

Having a motor vehicle drive up the street to the pedestrian rather than having the pedestrian walk down the street is a pen-stroke away. It was one thing 50 years ago when the route had to be determined by a random guy with a paper map to keep it simple, but nowadays forcing kids to go long distances to get to a bus stop is inexcusable.

As for heating bus stops, a 1500W space heater is $50. Assuming it's on for 1 hour per day, 120 days per year, it'll use $20 worth of electricity. Assuming 2 kids per bus stop, that's 29 cents per day per student the first year and 8 cents per student per year subsequently. You only need to do this for a small subset of students who have long wait times at a bus stop and no reasonable alternative. Even if you had to provide it for every single student, that cost would be about 0.2% of the current average education budget allocation per student for the first year and less than 0.1% for subsequent years. Even if you wanted to go really fancy and add a solar power system to the bus stops to power the space heaters, you're still looking at less than $5 per student per day to pay it off in one year.

Again, these or any one of the other countless methods humans have devised for solving this problem make a lot more sense than pretending the sun rises earlier.
That sounds like "Shariah compliance"
This is one of those things that will still be rattling around in my head long after I’ve forgotten everything else.
How long until the Rule 34 perverts get their hands on this and start inputting stuff like "Bobby Fischer Minotaur fucking a lime green Toyota Echo"?

The shipping community will go apeshit if this thing works as advertised.
My experience: I read the entirety of the first two books, shrugged, and stopped there. Felt like I was investing a lot of effort into something that wasn't paying off, and didn't seem likely to pay off in the future. ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
No, but in order not to delay your main trial, you’d have to delay recruitment for the others or else your competing against yourself for patients.

And if they just delayed the other dosing arms, we’d be in the same spot we are now anyways - waiting for more data.
Rgd empty calories, most likely yes. So it is good to have a skill to skim a blog post first to determine if it is worth reading. Writer's reputation also helps.

Terence Tao's hierarchy helped me here - book > paper > blog post > buzz note > tweet. He once wrote somewhere that he chose his medium depending on how developed the thought he wished to express was (or something to that effect).

(Remember "Gooogle Buzz"?)
I still don't understand why in 2021 `pip`, which is the standard package and dependencies manager in Python, cannot
1) build a package from some spec
2) generate the scaffolding needed to build such package

`gem` from Ruby does that (well, it doesn't 2 AFAIK but at least it does 1)
Americans sure like their grifting politicians, I see
I am surprised how the Facebook stock is pretty unaffected by all of this.
They can, and they do. You need to email them about specific instances, and they decide on a case-by-case basis. Meta complaints aren’t actionable. And there’s already an irrelevant flag: it’s called a downvote.
I actually quite love the Hackernews UI and wish that there was an implementation/self hostable package of it that could be expanded to cover other topics ala Subreddits. But alas, I'm not much of a coder.
Exactly what the OP described
I take the bus a lot in France and, in conversations I overhear, people don’t seem to mind being racist anymore, discretely but a bus is already quite public. And diverse.

I don’t know whether I have a bias about seeing this trait, but I think 10 years ago, people would at least keep social restraint. Something has definitely snapped.
>I was not aware I was uncivil, certainly didn't mean to.

You were not being uncivil.
Build a custom LiveISO.

There are plenty of tutorials, but it is boring to follow them manually, especially if you need to make a couple of tweaks to ISO or update it.

So I put together a couple of scripts to automate the process:

https://github.com/ayourtch/iso-livecd
I’m no firearms buff, I though .22 rifles are good for squirrels and such likes? Relative to the size of the target, .22 is a pretty big calibre I’d think.
I wonder if salaries were more competitive because there were less workers? If the cultural norm was to only have one parent work, then it seems like the supply of workers essentially doubles* if both parents work, leading to less competitive wages.

*not exactly, but essentially. Yes, not everyone is married etc.
Like others here, if I lose steam on one, I switch to another. The novelty effect is real. To support switching though I have to use a notebook. As I get to the point where a project is feeling more drag than energizing, I write down everything about it that I have in my head at that point into my notebook. Then I find another project I had left in that state, read the page(s) on it, and spin it up.

Still, my biggest problem isn't losing steam its simply too many choices. I need to get better at deciding I'm not going to do a project and putting it down for good.
> (40% of the economy is evading tax)

Citation needed. You are welcome to pay maximum taxes where you live if you like, but jurisdictions with lower tax rates keep the pressure on governments to deliver a good return on investment to their citizens. When I moved from San Diego to Dallas after the dotcom bust I slashed my taxes which was great (no income tax in TX). This wasn't tax evasion, it was common sense. San Diego was no longer a good investment.

Also, you totally missed the Gigabit fiber-optic broadband plans[0]. I have a 1GB unlimited plan from their competitor for £55/month[1]. Standard fair use clause applies but I've never been throttled and I use massive amounts of data every month.

[0] http://www.jtglobal.com/Jersey/Personal/JT-Fibre/Fibre-Tarif...
[1] https://web.sure.com/jersey/internet/home-internet/unlimited...
> Interesting how nearly all the sites are so darned close to the shore.

Most of the sites do not have a known location. Or at least, not known to the people producing the map. Click a few markers and you will see lots of "Unknown Location" or "Off $location" which usually means the dumping ship left from that location.

It is true that many munitions were dumped close to shore, but there is a certain amount of making the map as scary as possible going on.
this is unfortunate. i think anything that's same domain should be allowed through, even 2nd-level might be okay. it's third-party tracking that should be disabled because of cross-domain tracking capability.

it's completely unreasonable to expect websites not to do something as simple as tallying unique visitors or recognizing returning customers via cookies/fingerprinting on their own properties.
As a non-web developper, I always wondered:

Are these alternatives fully able to replace Google analytics?

I sort of thought Google analytics would tell you more about your visitors since with Google cookies, they could map them to other visited websites, centers of interest, age group, etc.

Are you loosing all that when switching to a less intrusive analytics platform such as this, or is Google analytics not leveraging their ability to disclose more about the visitors?
The average price of existing houses in the Netherlands increased by 55% since 2013.

Source: https://www.cbs.nl/en-gb/news/2020/52/house-prices-almost-9-...
> want to see what else the computer can do that is also intersting (sic).

God, so much this!
Because there are many investors that have no input in day to day operations or simply had no influence or knowledge of the particular offenses. If the state takes over they will certainly have to take a huge loss.

Take your bank as an example. You gave them the money they used to commit whatever illegality and you profited from it. Now imagine the state takes over and only pays you a fraction of your deposits.

Worse yet, it incentivizes the shareholders to try to keep things hidden where today they would likely sue the company or CEO.
- "ElectroRAT is extremely intrusive," researchers said today in a report shared with ZDNet. "It has various capabilities such as keylogging, taking screenshots, uploading files from disk, downloading files, and executing commands on the victim's console."
You are right, houseprices in denmark are going crazy..

But makes sense since 0% fixed mortgages.. you can get a 30year fixed at 0.5% with the option of only paying the interest, for the first 10years
You can edit the prompt to play a bit with it. (the results are far less good that what's featured in the blog post though …)
This is a red flag for me, to be honest.

We all know how "we will never store this" becomes "we will never sell this" becomes "well, we need to make money", all with privacy policy changes that no-one reads.

Extension suggestions can also be implemented client side.
Typically they filter better over time, but at the expense of less airflow. Thus it is really hard to draw any conclusions.
Most boardrooms are mostly men, so I am not surprised to see news coverage skews towards men. But of course, boardrooms are only a fraction of all types of public figures. But I'm sure it holds for sports, politics, and other public figure types.
Not to forget the push for universal satellite-based internet.
We are not close to conquering the speed of light. Ping time NY to Australia is 100-200ms regardless of software stack.

But if you have a server in Australia then I would still say that.
It's also neat how the character for month and day are the same as characters for moon and sun respectively.

I suppose that means we could also do the following if we really wanted a western version:

2021⊕317

Edit: Turns out that hackernews isn't quite astrological unicode compliant yet but imagine the astrological symbols for sun and moon in there as well.
Horizontal scaling is not a _performance_ tactic, but rather about availability and cost. Having higher availability means trading off consistency, or in other words, using distributed systems.
Also, you can not elastically scale vertically, without also scaling horizontally.
In other words, horizontal systems are cheaper if you have fluctuations in traffic.
True you don't need any effort to make systemd critic, it's a fat overblown wannabe OS without a Kernel.
In France you don't need heating/cooling for most of the year with a moderately insulated house.

Thats's why electric car charging changes the equation.

And about no heating/cooling at all with a Passive House :).

I agree about charging during the day when the sun shine is way better but it's under the control of your employer which may or may not provide chargers, and might not install solar PV at all for various reasons.

PV and battery at home, you can do it right now.
the upside of Canada's incredibly stupid date formats is that nobody complains when you try to use ISO8601 format instead, we're all somewhat used to date formatting being flexible.

My american users get very angry when they see a date that isn't in dd/mm/yy format.
I am assuming this was your first job out of Uni?

It takes at least your first year to get comfortable and to start being a useful employee even more so for a first job.

And you do need to realise that work is work and you need to approach it in a professional manner and not bail after9 months.
Did you read the article? There was no perceived difference in competence between Marilyn and Jack.

So it doesn't really seem to be about the name.
Why GraphQL? Why not simply RPC?

E.g. for JS there is https://github.com/reframejs/wildcard-api. Is there something like that in Scala?
This isn't surprising. It's always worth paying a little extra for UL/ETL/CSA registered goods. Especially electrical goods.
It's the case of "Author, Author" -> https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Author,_Author_(Star_Trek:_Voy...
Could you elaborate, what's the purpose of providing fake GPS data to an app requesting it?
When prices fall it is called deflation. The investment then decreases as well, because who in the sane mind would invest into something that is getting less valuable as time passes?
One thing about debugging is that there isn't much lock-in. If you don't like the debugger or it goes away, switching to another debugging approach is very easy. Your workflow doesn't have a hard dependency on it (other than to the extent you enjoy using it).

It's a bit like Github, which also isn't free software, but so many free software projects use it, in part because people think they could easily switch away from it if they wanted to. (I think in practice switching away from Github would far harder than switching debuggers.)
I think this headline is very misleading. This is about computational energy cost and does not represent what the headline implies (that it's 62.7% of total energy consumption)
Conspicuous consumption is ugly.
In that case see point two, about the battery being part of the structure of the car.

Could maybe pull it off with a different design, like maybe the Tesla Cybertruck exoskeleton could work with this scheme? Would be cool if it could work and if swaps were fast like in that one Tesla demo that never came to market.
Thanks! I had never thought to draw in Figma.
That quote where the self-avowed pedophile says ‘No fucking way’ is going to appear in every bill to increase law enforcement’s powers from now on. It’s an irresistible soundbite. The scumbag would have done better to just shut the hell up.
It's awesome that you're able to maintain your cars well enough to keep them going that long, but obviously yours are not even close to a normal use case. 200k miles or 12-15 years is average [1] longevity.

[1] https://www.aarp.org/auto/trends-lifestyle/info-2018/how-lon...
You'd be surprised. It is used as torture not for sexual gratification, a way to show dominance over the victim (as is often the case in "domestic"/"civilian" rapes too). The rapist often isn't considered a "homo" either, as in some cultures only the male who is the "woman" i.e. on the receiving end is considered the deviant and the "weak". And, of course, you can rape somebody with objects.

E.g. in Afghanistan it is quite common for powerful males to keep around underage male sex slaves too, and that apparently is not considered "deviant homosexuality" either, even tho adult same-sex relationships are (in Afghanistan).

Then, there are male prisoners of war who get raped, where the perpetrator if found out would face consequences due to homophobia as you say, but who is going to believe a POW and what POW is going to speak up in the first place while still interned in some camp?

And there are plenty of reports from Africa where family members were forced to rape each other or be killed, as a very evil way of humiliation and torture. That of course did not just men dads had to rape daughter and sons had to rape moms, but sons had to rape dads, and so on.
Fabrice Bellard is one of very few pure geniuses that represent the best in software development. Hats off everyone.
You don't think having much more battery production capacity or a massive network of superchargers is a significant advantage?
I use Pelican. If you know Python, it's decently easy enough to extend it for your own needs. It was the first one I used way back in 2011, and I've not needed to use a different one.
I got frustrated after my previous mouse stopped clicking, but never remembered having trouble with mice "back in the day". So I decided to get an old ball mouse to see how long it would last. So far so good.
It is not wait-free if it can not handle a dying process, that is the whole point of being wait-free. The reason - again as far as I can tell as a non-expert - that wait-free algorithms are not widely used is that many of the best currently known implementations have such a large overhead that they perform worse than a good locking or lock-free implementation.
clickable: http://www.quickprez.com
better member management (people don't have to create accounts); photos, video, audio, documents are all supported natively; web view is far superior. Give it a shot and let us know what you think!
Or big-looking shot glasses that have thick walls and bottoms. the glass looks bigger, and it's full... must be more in it.
How do you figure? Twitter seems like a pretty typical example of a tough-to-monetize service, whereas Groupon is already outrageously profitable.
Even this text based communication on HN is a form of human interaction. I'm not sure complete isolation is something anyone is genetically predisposed to prefer.
I am all for banning them all from Hackernews; it'd be both for the good of society as well as for them. Their "working years" are very short, many of them don't make it to 45 years of life and generally live horrible lives past age 30, likely as obese misanthropists if they weren't smart enough to enter management. I find it terrible that people are financing their disastrous choices, then moving onto new younger developers, keeping alive vicious cycle that spits out ruined persons. Talk to some therapists that have to deal with the "outcomes" of that industry...
Why wouldn't they be? The Church has always been interested in being correct more than being dogmatically rigid. Took a lot to switch, but they had to change with the times somewhat lest people stop believing.

Can't remember the source, but the Vatican basically told Galileo that they were pretty convinced of heliocentrism, but if he could please stop shooting his mouth off until they got a transition plan in place, that'd be great.

He didn't, so they put him on lifetime house arrest to try to mitigate the damage he could do.

So he didn't get heresy'd for opposing the Church's position, but for undermining it's ability to assert influence and control.
Back in school I studied calculus, algebra, complex analysis, optimization, probability. Plus I completed courses on algorithms and physics.
I was more interested in math engineering application, but now I feel that I want to expand my knowledge.
I wanted to start with combinatorial optimization as it connected to what I’m working now on and maybe to read something about manifolds. But not limited to.
Also any advices about how to study math if you don’t have an upcoming exam are welcomed.
I don’t think I understand the question. Private entities obviously still get to decide what kind of content they wish to disallow.
Banning ads was a failure, because it harmed the media? I thought the media was who sold ads.

Also, public television in the US doesn't have the same level of ads as other channels.
In the UK unlimited data Sims (1000GB fup) for £20 a month are starting to be used for home broadband. 30-100mbs speeds are typical on 4g. The landline network is just starting to hollow out. It's unsettling.
This is '9/11 preparedness' to a certain extent. Remember when that happened how there were no adverts anywhere for a week or so? The music changed too, no 'John Lennon' songs were played for a while.

This does need to be fine grained. Although the UK is adjacent to France and Germany the current disaster is not nationally significant in the UK in that there will not be days of mourning, people being quiet for two minutes, politicians laying wreaths etc. So it is only the readers in France and Germany that need to be 'spared' adverts on this story, the rest of the world can have normal ad-based service.
Obviously. Otherwise Signal employees would not be able to do shitcoin insider trading.
The bike does need energy to move.
It's not easy to see how the mechanisms actually work, but I suppose it happens because those negotiations are more about power games than actual, rational processes towards specific goals.

The relevant emission regulations are described in http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Corporate_Average_Fuel_Economy

"CAFE has separate standards for "passenger cars" and "light trucks", despite the majority of "light trucks" actually being used as passenger cars. The market share of "light trucks" grew steadily from 9.7% in 1979 to 47% in 2001 and remained in 50% numbers up to 2011."

Thus, the very legislation designed to reduce emissions has resulted in Americans buying bigger and bigger vehicles. From Europe, the rationale for this legislation is hard to understand.
Would love to hear more about your startup. Could you provide a link as well? Thanks.
If someone says "you can't own a word like Slack", ask them to compare apples(.com) and oranges(.co.uk)... :)
> Automation is reducing the need for human labor, and at
> some point there will simply not be enough jobs to go
> around

UK population in 1815, about the time Luddites were smashing up "newly developed labour-replacing machinery": 16m.

Despite a 300% increase, and the most mind-bending increase in automation and productivity until then, there are still enough jobs to go around.
And the bowl of petunias said: Oh no, not again.

For those interested in the collective wisdom of
the HN community, here are some previous discussions:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3313570 : 1206 days ago | 177 comments

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4865742 : 841 days ago | no comments

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5017104 : 807 days ago | no comments

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5104430 : 790 days ago | 94 comments

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6040804 : 618 days ago | 1 comment

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6767385 : 489 days ago | no comments

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7446014 : 368 days ago | 2 comments
This is such a stupid, misleading and criminal way to put things up. The world is toxic. You can die by crossing the path of a car. You can die by drowning. You can die by ingesting meat until you choke.

But why would you do that? There is a name to it. It's called suicide.

Accepting to use and eat toxic products when other possibilities exist is a form of suicide - even if it's collective.
See https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16131314 for the official story.
I'm assuming that is with this react project.
The OP was asking why this project is needed at all.
Not sure of location of parent comment, but in the United States, buying a house includes a lot of initial expenses, called "transaction costs." Things like purchasing title insurance, prepaying taxes and insurance for the escrow, paying for inspections and appraisals, and of course the bank has some fees they roll into the mortgage. So unless you value the house you just purchased for more than the purchase price and make up the difference, you'll lose net worth equal to those transaction costs.

EDIT: Ah I see they were implying they went from $200k net worth to NEGATIVE. I hope the transaction costs were less than that!
So, I don't understand this perspective at all. Help me get it.

It seems to me that speaking a language is a skill. I know from my own experience trying to learn a second language that it isn't an easy skill for many people to acquire. Why should I be more irritated that someone doesn't speak English than that they, say, can't make a cabinet or can't write Java, or any other mildly demanding skill?

I get the argument that someone who doesn't speak your language doesn't participate fully in your culture either, but I guess I'm still not sure why I should be upset about that. Seems like something for them to be worried about.

Sorry if I'm making an argument here, but I hear this quite a bit and it doesn't make sense to me.