jkeisling/hacker-news-corpus-2007-2022 huggingface dataset:
There have been experiments in the UK where all road markings and signs and lights and pavements have been removed. Vehicles and pedestrians are free to move as they wish. These areas tend to be safer for everyone because the uncertainess forces car drivers to slow down and look out.

An average speed of 12MPH seems high for central London!

> Transport for London's latest figures state that for the first quarter of 2011/2012 the average traffic speed on major London roads for the 12 hours between 7am to 7pm was 19.33 mph and over the same period was 8.98 mph across Central London.

http://www.theguardian.com/politics/2002/jun/30/uk.transport

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shared_space

http://www.rospa.com/RoadSafety/conferences/congress2006/pro...
How do people work like this?

With massively impaired productivity.
I wouldn't be surprised if the bump of traffic killed it. IIRC they self host the site, and their budget is pretty thin.

For years they hosted the Ocean State Free Net (Hi from as802!) on site on an old Sun workstation. I need to visit again, last I visited they were servicing a real Teletype (complete with bell!)
Black Mirror is a very good series, it is absolutely brutal but brilliant in the merciless way in which it exposes the potential downsides of the technology we take for granted.

Highly recommended but be prepared to be shocked in unpleasant ways. The entire history of you is imo the best one so far, with 15 million merit points a close second.
Is that a procedural argument I smell?

If you're sincere about this and if that's really the only objection, would you be willing to champion Uber (and its future competitors) if a way could be found to wind down the existing agreement in a manner that is not ostentatiously financially damaging to taxi medallion holders?

Because as far as a "social contract" goes, this contract is basically selling out its people to private entities -- taxi customers as property of the medallion-holder. Under other circumstances this would be incredibly objectionable: imagine the outcry if a government decided to sell Uber the exclusive right to run taxis and car services in a city.
* Sparse, mostly rural population (with an unique culture).

* "2+1" roads, which discourages meaningless overtaking or competing. (But I don't buy it as the single cause).

* Roundabouts instead of crossroads with traffic lights. (My bet this is one of the most important factors).

* Special reserved lane for doing left turns to secondary roads.

* Lots of street lamps (Sweden is famous for illumination and urban development).

* High percentage of expensive, very good quality cars (lots of Volvos) which kept well-maintained.

* 40 km/h speed limit in most small towns.

Together it works. Basically a complex phenomena is a weighted sum of multiple different causes - cultural (tradition), economical, social (current "normals"), technological, etc. with "random variables". Such simple model could explain it to some extent.

I am in Sweden now, and I drive a classic Volvo.
To be fair to you, part of being a paid mail provider is dealing with this kind of stuff on the daily, I am surprised they didnt stop it WAY before it hit that send count.
So incessant, and seemingly ineffective, lockdowns have succeeded - in selecting for a variant of COVID which is resistant to lockdown? What biological or physical mechanism could allow it to spread more than the original?
I remember early versions of Java not running terribly well on Linux. It ran, but performance was bad. I'm thinking the 1.2 and 1.3 versions. I worked for a startup and did some Java and Oracle work around that time, moving apps from Sun to Linux based demo systems.
> I find it somewhat implausible that half the population is dumb, racist and all those other labels.

The reality is that most Trump supporters are focused on economics and governmental overreach, not race. They are angry that businesses are shut down, and people are unemployed. They are angry that, over the past several decades, production in this country has dropped to near-nonexistence. They are angry that the lockdowns have made it impossible, even in small towns and other places without significant Covid problems, to simply work and live their lives semi-normally.

Then, the straw that I believe broke the camel's back, is the way most conservatives view taxes and the "stimulus"

In short, the conservative view is that the US government took $2700 from every citizen (much more if you look at the long-tail economic effects) and 'gave back' $600. At the same time, even a cursory read of the omnibus spending would be enough to make anyone's blood boil, let alone someone who feels like they, or people they care about, have lost (or are losing) everything. It's easy to see how the phrase 'Taxation is theft' is picking up so much steam right now.

The entire time they are dealing with this, people call them a Nazi or White Supremacist. They get banned on Social Media for sharing (now verified by left-of-center Media) stories about Hunter Biden, or concerns about the election. To them, it feels like they are being silenced and oppressed. When the media/social media censors stories and information (and even raw footage) it increases tensions. 'Over the target' has become a phrase in common use for when someone is banned or a story gets censored that seems to go against the mainstream narrative.

The Hunter Biden story is one such example. When that story launched it was discredited and called fake news, today the same institutions who called it a lie are publishing that there is an FBI investigation into Hunter Biden. Many saw that story, saw the leaked photos (many of which are extremely unsettling), and then saw the story getting silenced and discredited.

Looking at comments on HN, a site where the average commenter has far above average education and income, it is easy to find people openly commenting that they do not care about the opinions of these people. They openly comment that 'anyone who would storm the capital is an idiot' or that these people are racist.

Finally, after all is said and done, the reaction from the left in Washington isn't to reduce tensions and try to reach peace. Nor is it to address the concerns of the people publicly. Instead, they are ramping up the tensions and saying that people are guilty of treason - a crime punishable by death. You have elected officials calling everyone who was there, whether they were violent offenders (criminals) or not, terrorists. Now, they're calling this riot 'as bad as 9/11' where thousands of Americans were killed.
Like anyone who provides information, NPR is accused of bias by the people who are made to look bad by that information.
Forget Twitter alternatives. How about a social network that mirrors real world social interactions? Only adding people you actually know. Keeping conversations private. Encryption to prevent censorship. What is the social media equivalent of signal?
Does federated count? There is the opensource project here:
https://github.com/jointwt/twtxt

And a public instance at:
http://twtxt.net/
By all accounts hunter-gatherer societies had a lot more free time than we do, and no Netflix. Personally, I'd absolutely do this just to see what would happen.
Agreed, the statement that "the right is deeply upset by what they feel is censorship of their thoughts, which fuels their rage" doesn't necessarily apply to the entire right. It certainly does apply to the subset that recently hijacked the Republican Party though.
Thanks. I tried to find more data but it's scarce. I would love to get more data for more apps as I think it's definitely biased around people who spend a LOT of time staring at text.

I'm a programmer so spend a ton of time in my IDE. Polar is designed for people that read a LOT so dark mode really matters to them.

When you're reading 100s of PDFs having a dark mode is kind of important!

In retrospect I'm kicking myself not working on this sooner.
or just turn on the TV ;)
completely off topic but this story about a road house gig he did is a great listen (starts around 12:30)

https://archive.nerdist.com/you-made-it-weird-254-shane-maus...
Brand new disks are particularly troublesome - worth doing a burn-in of hammering them for a few days (or longer if you can take the time) to weed out the worst ones.
Credit card companies aren't requiring it until October 2020 (after this point, the retailer will be held responsible for fraud if they don't have contactless readers installed)

https://business.hughes.com/resources/blog/outdoor-emv-liabi...
But laws based on historical technicalities tend to lose sight of the big picture around which laws were originally designed.

Initially, access was completely free, then the government allowed one owner to collect parking fees from visitors, and now they try to ban all public access outright... Then before you know it, in line with historical technical trends, they will put us all in cages and force us to work for free.

The law is not about technicalities at all, that's BS. The law is irrational; it's all about feelings. It should reflect how the average person feels about things. That's why criminal court cases have a jury instead of a computer to decide on the verdict.
It doesn't appear so.

Is it normal for remote shells to have telemetry?

I hope you were sincerely asking a dumb question and not attempting to make a low effort joke instead of discussing the project in earnest.
And classic Word Perfect 5.
"It seems you clicked on a bad link and stumbled upon our 404 page."
While at first I balked at this idea, I suppose what you're proposing is crowdsourcing academic research funding. Naturally, the first thing that comes to mind is how accountability can be managed. One of the major pitfalls of the crowdfunding model seems to be that the fundraisers can make like bandits with the money, with seemingly little recourse, or incentive for the crowd.
> True and they've just exposed something that's probably been kept very secret for very long by three letter government agencies that can't be very happy with them.

That's what being a journalist used to be about, before most of them became entertainers in service of political hacks.

> And how the hell is this not on the front page of hn?

Good question.
Do you know of any technology news sites that aren't as obviously partisan and pro-Apple? It's pretty clear from the volume and depth of Apple coverage that most sites are dominated by Apple fans among their staff and leadership.
Bash has the ability to also flag use of an undefined variable an error, it is just not on by default.

set -u

Man page quote: "Treat unset variables and parameters other than the special parameters "@" and "*" as an error when performing parameter expansion. If expansion is attempted on an unset variable or parameter, the shell prints an error message, and, if not interactive, exits with a non-zero status."
Yup. People hate having their world view threatened and/or their precious snowflakes risking damage from reality. It’s also common to see skin deemphasized in the us as opposed to guns deemphasized elsewhere. Maus wasn’t about nudity it was about dehumanization. The latter shakes up one’s world view and they hate that.

See Bronowski on YouTube re auschwitz and absolute knowledge.
To clarify, you can rely on nearly any supermarket or drug store to accept credit cards / contactless these days. Daily shopping is no problem.

Smaller stores or restaurants, forget it. Bring cash.
Self-made frameworks are great as long as:

They work. If they are full of bugs they are a pain

They are complete. If they are missing parts because they weren't needed yet, they are a pain

They are documented. Documented well is a bonus

There isn't a self-made framework for every project at the company

The person who made the framework is still around

The person who made the framework didn't also make v2 and v3, mixing them in the same project
There are a number of mitigations, so those kind of bugs are quite rare. In our large code base, about 98% of bugs we find are of the "we need to handle another case" variety. Pyflakes quickly finds typos which eliminates most of the rest.
I don't understand. These types of websites have existed for a long time. This is nothing new. Most people have found out that hidden-city ticketing doesn't work either on round-trip flights because the airlines will cancel the rest of the trip if they find out. It only works for one-way trips with carry-on bags only.
> "Purchasing a ticket to a point beyond the actual destination and getting off the aircraft at the connecting point is unethical"

Was that 'unethical' as in, "Price gouging and charging what the market will bear," or 'unethical' as in [1]? Someone must be confused.

[1] http://business.time.com/2012/06/26/orbitz-shows-higher-pric...
I hadn't heard of this site until the airlines tried to shut it down. Nice job airlines! Hopefully Zaman can hang in there.
>Well, just a little while ago the roads were meant for walking

No. Just no. Am I being trolled at this point?

Source: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_road_transport
XML parsers prefer the XML version. :)

Less glibly, humans never have to deal with it. Data is serialized and deserialized, typically in binary format. It exports to XML merely as a convenience.

And critically, XML can be typed properly for all ObjC/Cocoa types (sometimes with characteristic XML awkwardness). That XML is wrongly typed, due to the ambiguous source input. JSON would have similar problems. Correct beats pretty, in this case.
Off-topic, but I couldn't help pointing out that saying "DMA access to main memory" is even worse than the classic "ATM machine" or "PIN number."
OsmocomBB is 2G only and it is functional only on calypso based phones, which are extremely old phones, most of which do not work on US GSM frequencies (IIRC there is one that does).
See The Tether Press and Bitcoin's Speculative Mania [1]

TL;DR - Prepare to get filthy rich! In USDT terms.

[1] http://www.tr0lly.com/bitcoin/the-tether-press-and-bitcoins-...
I'm not a very regular player, but from what I understand, the Java version is the most popular by the "enthusiast" community. At least the people I know that are very into the game still use Java for modding purposes and more extensive server options (also because of mods).
But the problem is really one of misuse of the bully-pulpit rather than the the fact it is private. If trump had his own blog on the whitehouse.gov site, hosted on government servers and still posted the stuff he does, would it be the same? I'm sure plenty of folks would proxy the material to various outlets including the twitter.
Oh yeah, I totally agree that the long term picture here is quite murky at best and frightening at worst.

> “Open implementations" means nobody can make a buck and sustain development and innovation. The only gain to be made is through integration and attention economy, creating perverse incentives.

I don’t know if I wholly agree with this point.

Especially in the most recent decade, we’ve seen a lot of the F/OSS developed at attention economy companies applied to completely disjoint industry sectors, with positive effect.

I work at an insurance company, for instance. The fact that we’re using gRPC/protobufs allows us to have a small engineering team that hits way beyond our headcount. Happy to elaborate more on the point, but I’ll leave it here in good faith.

I think that our dependence on this technology is a smart choice in the short to medium term. In the long term (10+ year), the worst case scenario is that we have to maintain a fork, or migrate to something more secure. We would have had to do this anyway, if we built our own RPC framework.

I agree that OS’s and web standards are becoming less and less user serving, and more corporate/attention economy serving.

I wouldn’t be shocked to see the web bifurcate eventually, between HTTP/HTML/JS and something simpler served over a simpler protocol.

That being said, I do think there’s some value in having an opinionated author compelling people to conform to their standard. When that leadership is absent, you end up with something like the Bluetooth or USB standard, and everybody suffers.

But at least those standards will exist forever, until they’re superseded by something that’s a superset of them. The same can’t be reliably said about the F/OSS we’ve been talking about.

It’s all a series of trade offs. I’m not too pessimistic. I think we’ll eventually end up in a better place, but we will likely stub our toes and bump our head am any times on the way there.
Nope.

It's "backed by other assets", not backed 1:1 but "is always valued by Tether at 1 USD" and "Tether makes no representations or warranties about whether Tether Tokens that may be traded on the Site may be traded on the Site at any point in the future, if at all." all on their website.
You didn't post CL's stacktrace.
Why does Tether always come up in HN crypto threads? I'm surprised it's still around after it was revealed they're running a fractional reserve. When I worked in the industry Tether was a joke and there were many alternatives that are backed 1:1.
Maybe we should be closing FB accounts instead.
Also, he understood linear algebra's eigenvalues and eigenvectors well enough to apply them to that problem for pagerank. So it's then second year math/engineering students who should be comparing themselves...

[ Counterpoint: some argue that pagerank wasn't as important as google's ad-free front-page (not a "portal"), and superfast results (thanks to Sergey) - but even if so, "The Algorithm" impressed Stanford, Sun co-founder investor, talented employees and early nerd users. ]

BTW as for programming, it seems Scott Hassan "wrote much of the code for the original Google Search engine." https://wikipedia.org/wiki/Google
Wow, I went 0/4 at first and then 6/6. Lesson: I have no idea if my instincts for this sort of thing are correct.

Interesting idea.
There's a lot of truth here, but I think you're neglecting to give yourself the credit due for correctly assimilating it.

To me one of the more present dangers of the "acid experience" is that the tripper latches onto the alternate state they experience and devolves into crapping on about chakras, energy fields, or little elves that live in their garden; the real lesson, as you've rightly identified, is not that the new experience is objectively real - it's that our "normal" daily experience is entirely subjective.

It's not necessarily the most natural conclusion, however, and I suspect that maintaining this kind of scientific (read: sane) outlook becomes increasingly difficult with frequency and intensity of use.
A lot of PS3 users are NOT teenagers... I'm guessing PS3's user base will tend be slightly higher in age than Xbox owners, given that people who buy PS3s might buy them for the Blu-ray player as well to complement some home theater setup. Teenagers will most likely only have appeal for the gaming aspects of a console.
Fake, see 'laws of thermodynamics' [1]

Although its even easier to understand why its fake when you consider the claim 'pumped 300,000 gallons of water with 44 watts of power'. A gallon of water weighs approximately 3,6 Kg. Lets say the pump changes the elevation of the water by one foot or .304 meters. We can compute the potential energy [2] in that water as W = mgh where m is the mass, g the nominal gravitational constant, and h is the height difference. So 3.6 kg/gal * 300,000 gal * .3 meters * 9.81 m/s is 3,178,440 joules. One joule per second it also a 'watt second.'

Hydro-electric generation is roughly 40% efficient a small pico-hydro [3] unit that drained those 300,000 gallons in an hour would convert that 3,178,440 joules into slightly more than 1.25 million joules of electrical energy over an hour or about 353 watt-hrs. Removing the 44 watts needed to power it you would have 300 watts of "free" energy. Build 10 of these and you would get 3KW of free energy which you could start selling to the power company at 5 cents a kW-Hr. Every time you had enough money to build a new engine you could add that to the power plant. Each engine adds $.005/hr of income, Once you've got a thousand engines build you're making $5/hr, all day and all night, at 10,000 engines you're making $50/hr and at 100,000 engines you're making $500/hr. At a million engines you're making $5,000/hr while they recirculate a few hundred thousand gallons of water amongst them selves and generate endless profit for you.

Except Mr Newman not only isn't a billionare he's pandering for money. It's fake. QED.

[1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Laws_of_thermodynamics

[2] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Potential_energy

[3] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pico_hydro
They usually happen three times a year, a big one sometime in April, and others in August and December.

And there's a mini-LD every month.

There's a "gamecompo" mailing list on the front page of the ludumdare hub site that you can sign up for, it just sends reminders a week or so before each compo.
Sarcasm is lost on this one :)
Tip of the cap for the fun hack factor. People asking if this is practical are missing the point, I think.
Surely the trademark is node.js - that's what everyone calls it...
I went to craigandtim.com and there's no scrollbar in Chrome :(. I had to highlight text to scroll down.
Nice selection of cli-fu. But I can't see a 'take and share a selfie with all my friends' or 'play music similar to what I'm listening to now' pipelines. Is it too lame or too tough for CLI?
Keeping the car in the lane doesn't add very much utility at all. You still need to sit there, more or less attentive. Only full self driving would really change things. Driver free cabs, efficient carpools, no need for cite centre parking etc.
Another garbage paper that thinks "food waste" exists on that scale, and everything isn't recycled into further productive stages.

How many times does this have to be debunked until it goes away? The plural of "bad science" isn't "good science".
Does "fashion industry" mean just Gucci handbags, or all clothes? Because i think the latter is not entirely unimportant.
You can just point to config files as normal (which is what I do for my home files) or set them as symlinks as well - then not use the nix config.

I guess it depends on how full on nix you want to go
CloudSQL was slow for us until we do the following:

1) Increase the disk size to 100GB as this increases the IOPs
2) Switch to using private IP addresses. Huge speed increase
3) get rid of cloudsql-proxy. Another huge speed increase

These 3 things have kept our database instances very small and costs low.
Your future spend. Once you start using them, it would be a decent amount of work to change.
I've been wondering the same, the BBC article explains:

> the most extreme version of which involves leaving a baby on their own to "cry it out", in an effort to encourage their babies to sleep for longer stretches so their parents can get some much-needed rest.

I'm not a parent but that sounds pretty sensible to me. Odd of the BBC to call it "extreme".
I'd say go a step forward and stick to standard web fonts unless what you're doing really calls for something custom. The vast majority of sites don't actually need custom fonts IMO. At the very least, don't use garbage like TypeKit.
Many modern liquid rocket engine powered space launchers also use quite a lot of helium for tank pressurisation in flight. Helium being inert with very low melting point is ideal for this use case, especially with cryogenic propelants.

With the most modern generation of reusable space launchers such as SpaceX starship an alternative solution is being worked on, possible thanks to both fuel (methane) and oxidizer (oxygen) they use being cryogenic.

Instead of pressurizing with helium they heat up a bit of the cryogenic liquids using the rocket engine heat, let it expand into gas and use it to pressurize the tanks, no helium required!

One of the reasons is that for fully reusable space launchers the main cost is the propelant and helium in the amounts needed would be a big part of that!