skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> This is often very illegal to do on a bicycle.

Most states, in the USA, base their vehicle laws on the uniform vehicle code (UVC). Though they state that those riding bicycles at less than the normal speed of traffic must ride as far right as practicable, they will list a number of exceptions for that requirement. One of those exceptions is if the lane is of substandard width which is defined as a lane that is too narrow for a car and cyclist to travel safely side by side [1]

Since a cyclist is about 2.5 feet wide[3] and many states have a 3 feet distance passing lane, the cyclist, even if they're riding further to the right will still need 2 feet to their right, their width, and 3 feet to their left. That adds up to 7 to 7.5 feet. Given that most surface street lanes are 10 feet wide[2] and passenger vehicle are about 6 feet wide[3], then it's not possible for a car and cyclist to safely travel side by side within the lane.

So the lane positioning you describe when driving a motorcycle also applies to bicycles.

[1] http://iamtraffic.org/wp-content/uploads/2013/01/UVC2000.pdf (section 11-1205 Position on Roadway item 3 -- page 185 of the pdf)

[2] https://nacto.org/publication/urban-street-design-guide/stre...

[3] https://nacto.org/publication/transit-street-design-guide/tr...
What does "blue pill" mean in this context?
Thanks for making this guide! I teach beginners how to use the command-line and I completely agree with your approach of mentioning its relation to Finder at the very start. Most students treat the shell as an entirely separate system with no relation to the GUI they're used to. Since your guide seems Mac focused (I didn't know about the trick with dragging the folder to get the path), I was surprised to see you not mention `open`. I tell students if they completely forget where they are in the system, run `open .` to get back to a friendly Finder.

One advantage of using illustrations is that they are more or less timeless as symbolic representations of the GUI. Novices can get distracted by screenshots that have minor differences from the OS versions between the author's and the readers'.
“Inside the Personal Computer”, a pop-up book about personal computers
There’s as much water in Earth’s mantle as in all the oceans (2014)
I find this article interesting largely because it appears to tease out class & elitism.
GFA Basic was very powerful, for C I would have recommended Mark Williams C.
> A social good involves helping somebody who needs aid.

The citation provided by the parent post presents concrete claims about who is being helped and how.

Here's my summary of the argument in the paper:

1. Gender bias exists in films (intro).

2. This bias has a tangible negative impact on women's lives (section titled "Role models on-screen make a difference").

3. Quantifying this bias helps filmmakers create films that are less biased (section titled "How can this technology change things?")

Summarily, women need aid because of how they are portrayed in films and quantifying/identifying bias helps portray women in a less damaging way.

To be clear, I think it's entirely reasonable to disagree with any one of these assertions (esp the third)!

But you don't present any opposing arguments, you just claim that the research doesn't meet a prime facie burden of "helping somebody who needs aid" even though the linked website goes to great lengths to make the case that it does meet this exact burden.

> This proposal merely fills a perceived need by political dogmatics

The same is true for surveillance technology, and military technology, and renewable energy technology, and even economic development. There are very few non-political notions of "social good".

Defining and achieving "social good" is fundamentally a political act.

If you want research to have an impact on the world, then you've got to be comfortable wading into the political. Because any time you change the world in non-trivial ways, politics is eventually at hand.
Guy selling a book sounds like bullshit. A 2017 study finds "no evidence that following a vegetarian diet, semi-vegetarian diet or a pesco-vegetarian diet has an independent protective effect on all-cause mortality."

N = 267,180

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/28040519/

Broadly speaking, a vegan diet is a diet of deficiencies. (Meta-analysis from oxford)

https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/10408398.2018.1...

And probably harmful for brain health.

http://www.diagnosisdiet.com/vegan-diets-and-the-brain/?utm_...
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They actually worked in the way you'd expect them to work.

For the life of me I still can't get two lines of text to line up in almost every other package, it is most frustrating. Present day DTP/Layout software makes me long for either ATEX or typewriters.
There's a point in the cave (about a 1 mile from each end) that's so narrow they have to remove their diving equipment to squeeze past the rock. It's 15 meters long.

Tell me how this thing is suppose to fit through there when it's 31 inches.

And if you need to dive for a mile before reaching that point, why not just use that method again after you clear it.
It should be able to get to 40km altitude and maneuver at 6 mach while sustaining a horizontal flight making it impossible to intercept by a missile defense. So I wonder whether plasma research is suddenly again in vogue because of it?
You don't have to take it for granted, although I would suggest that equality of opportunity at least is fundamental to the American conception of liberty. That said there's not any reason you have to agree with it, though, or with any broader notion of equality. My point was simply that Sowell's arguments don't exclude it as a goal for those of us who do believe some form of equality is a laudable aim.
> AR is the medium where skeumorphism will reinvent itself I think, it's natural and at home in that environment.

Sure, but after that it will make way once again for more symbolic interfaces with higher information density and more convenient interaction, just like every other pendulum swing since the invention of the computer mouse. A new, unfamiliar medium needs to borrow from established interfaces until it develops its own conventions, and skeumorphism is probably the easiest approach for this phase.
Agreed. It seems that the single biggest divider are epistemological systems and the ways people choose which to adhere to. That's a debate which I couldn't convince anyone to start yet.
Maybe those people are the majority of the market, but that market will be served by tablets, phones and desktop web kiosks. The market for actual personal computers still exists, it's just being ignored by everyone because it is relatively small, like it was before the web made computers interesting to the current majority user base.
> In my opinion a cyclist should not be purposely using an entire lane and backing up traffic for faster moving vehicles

What is your opinion about drivers of cars lane-splitting when passing cyclists (when, in almost all states, it's illegal for motorcycles to lane-split when passing cars)?
Personally I always try pre-trained models very very useful.

If I'm working in a new domain (which this is to me) then I prefer to get the workflow right (files in the right directories etc) before changing the NN architecture. It's a pretty big time investment to train a NN just to try it.
When the girls are doing their rounds, I don't believe you are able to donate directly as an "instead of" option. That is, instead of cookies, a donation box, which would clearly state _all_ proceeds would be going to support the local troop.

It is also quite shameful that the distribution of funds isn't clearly indicated when the girls are funding. I suspect more people would donate directly instead of the cookies if they saw the distribution ratios.

Here, I believe the Guides take 3.00$ of the 5.00$, with a mere 1.00$ going to the girl in question. I would prefer to simply give 100% of the 5.00$ to the local troop that the girl is supporting, and in turn support five girls in her troop for the same donation amount.
I get a lot of this feeling that the rich and corporations have all the money needed to fix these problems around here.

But the truth is that the US is a huge machine and the government already spends too much money.

Amazon is nothing compared to $4T a year the US spends. You need 4 Amazons a year, people don't seem to understand you can't just eat the rich.

Some concerned with the companies "absurd" profits while they are dwarfed by the US spending.

Wow, great answer btw, with sources and all.
The meticulousness of this process was awesome.
It has not been proven that the software is correct.
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I was under the impression that this was already being done?

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3306852/
Sure, because "vertically centered" means relative to what?
This video sums up the dark side of the dairy industry pretty well:

https://youtu.be/UcN7SGGoCNI
I write real time, video based FR. The company I work has a strict policy that our sales, nor any partners even respond to Chinese company queries. The thing is, regardless of what they say, you'll never get paid AND they will reverse/rip-off your product.
I tried using this book to learn functional programming and Haskell. It didn't work for me, due to the learning curve and topic progression. I recommend instead reading "Programming Language Concepts" by Sestoft. It's F#, but it helped me understand the Haskell bits of this tutorial much better.
How would you apply it in our context?
It found my correct location automatically.
Posting concrete examples of how police state mass-surveillance technologies can aid and abet in the suppression of disliked minorities is defined as a flamewar? Yeah...
I guess it depends on if you think low paying jobs in America are enough to live on without welfare support. If the jobs just paid more then your last paragraph wouldn't be true and people would be happier to leave their welfare behind for a decent wage.
Does a single compiler work exactly the same on every architecture? :D
> lack of respect for boundaries (at mildest hacking is exactly that), willingness to cheat or harm others

One of those doesn't belong on this list. Lack of respect for boundaries in this context is really a lack of respect for authorities, and that is an extremely important thing for a society to have, and has absolutely zero intrinsic connection to willingness to cheat or to harm others, very much to the contrary: Only if you are willing to challenge authorities will you successfully counter authorities harming others.

You can learn how to subvert systems and at the same time how to use that skill to the benefit of society, be it by building systems that aren't so easily subverted where that is appropriate, or by defending people who unjustly are accused of things they didn't do due to unjustified trust in the reliability of an unreliable system.
I tried writing some Java code with noweb - and at least for Java 1.3 - the ability to reuse code at any level (like a while loop working with an ADT) helped avoid some of java's tedious verbosity. This helped keep the narrative / document to a manageable length - but it lead to rather confusing Java output (only really a problem if people try to read just the code, ignoring the document).

Overall, I've come to feel that with more powerful languages - some doctests and block comments can go a long way in achieving similar results.

Although for reading proper laid out text with a nice font and good support for mathematical notation does help.

But with a language with rich abstractions, and a sane use of Unicode (from the simple case of using π as a constant, to the more sophisticated of having arrows and actual not-equal signs) - along with a freedom of ordering, so you can do:

complex_procedure:
simple_subtask1
simple_subtask2

simple_subtask1
...

And not get a reference error, because simple_subtask1 is referenced before it's declared - all go a long way in facilitating source code that reads more like prose than code.

[ed: I should add, that I don't really think simple text formats are the best way to offer rich editing experiences - we see this with most IDEs - that "understand" code - but I think the lisp/smalltalk idea of images and being able to go back and forth between byte code and text form really is the way forward.

Like word processors, spreadsheets and image editors all use rich file formats for their working sets.

One such approach is the leo editor:
http://leoeditor.com/
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I don't think the earlier Sonos models even had a microphone built in?
If I were an unethical Chinese company that really wanted your library, I'd create a US LLC, get some web designers to make a decent looking page that looks real enough, license the C code for some small bespoke project, and then disappear once I had the code/library.
And you'd assume that a species that has figured out how to travel at those speeds is able to show a display in 'false color' showing it as it should have been rather than the redshifted image. It's a pretty trivial correction if you have the sensor capability.
Hmm, it appears that SpaceX designed their own escape pod, separate from the Wing Inflatables which were flown to Thailand. While it is clear they didn't finish it in time for the very time sensitive Thai cave rescue operation, they are testing it out in a pool.

Video of it being tested:
https://twitter.com/elonmusk/status/1016063173139427329
Related discussion, from a week ago:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17429625
- As far as I know, there is no such thing as humane dairy. Calves are weaned and taken from their mothers very young. Cows are kept pregnant and eventually their bodies kinda give out. And that's the absolute best case scenario, where all their other needs are tended to and they are generally treated well.

Please correct me if I'm wrong.
Accuracy hasn't been a big deal for authoritarian governments and oppression anyway. I don't think they care. Outside of identifying risks associated with people who are close to people in power.... most authoritarian governments haven't seemed to worry about how much indiscriminate or inaccurate social punishment occurs, including China.
> Right but the first link I shared explained why even $11 isn't enough

It is possible, I've done it and so have my wife. More on that here:

https://www.reddit.com/r/AskReddit/comments/hxwby/is_it_poss...

> I hope you are clearer about what that means now.

Regardless of what your definition of a living wage is or should be, it also doesn't solve the problem of people with kids who are the most vulnerable to the welfare cliff so even by your definition, making the minimum wage a living wage would not solve the issue for most affected people.
Do we know if latent precursors combine, or is it really spontaneous/random?
I have exactly the same reaction to C#, C, Forth, Pascal, Prolog, etc: regardless of the typing strength or compiler nitpickiness there will be scenarios where stuff doesn’t go as planned because I didn’t understand the problem domain sufficiently, and these errors serve to enhance my understanding of the same.

Regardless of language, x -> a + 1 is not going to work if a never has a value. In many cases handling “a doesn’t have a value” is the wrong way to address the problem, because the problem should be solved as “figure out why the data collection didn’t work, and propose a strategy for handling our dataset when either a value is missing or is provably wrong.”

As an example one might assume that a video feed has exactly as many frames per second as it says on the tin (eg: 24fps will have exactly 24 frames for each second of video) but in reality there will be missing frames due to data corruption, or even a mismatch in clock speeds meaning that over 100 seconds you have 2398 frames instead of 2400. How do you handle the missing two frames? The problem is there are no frames missing, it’s just that they were never there to start with, and frame 1237 of another source has no direct equivalent in the slightly-faster stream. You might alter the clock for processing, duplicate one or two frames, use interpolated frames, or otherwise process the various sources so that you get a consistent synthesised data stream with which to do further processing.

Strong typing doesn’t help solve real problems.
I do not--it is cool stuff, but I don't have the time or patience for it.

Thanks for the book recommendation. I've heard of that one before. I have a giant molecular gastronomy cookbook that's also fascinating, but I'm finding these days my culinary adventures are more geared towards finding solutions to cook good food in bulk with easy cleanup and reheating.
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For me, that generation also did not have access to kale, quinoa, or avocados. Bananas and oranges were a rare treat, because getting them fresh was utterly impractical and expensive where they lived.

One side were farmers, the other lower class city folk who got their chickens in cans, and had to over cook pork until it would shatter if you dropped it just to be sure that it was safe to eat.

That generation grew up without refridgeration; there was very little in the way of fresh foos during winter months as everything had to be preserved in cans or dried.

I for one ame glad for our modern food supply.
I think he means, aside from dystopian population surveillance
> first appears when a carrier is late in life

Not disagreeing with you I don’t think, I’d call it disease appearance to happen at middle age at best.
Plenty have visible symptoms in their 20s though usually it’s in their 30s and 40s. Death is usually sometime around 20 years after onset of symptoms, though earlier onset often means earlier death. This is apart from the suicide risk, which is markedly increased. It’s about as awful a disease as one can have.
also a ton more functional(options) than the stock equivalent and even appearance. though for music i like vanilla player it's UI may be dated looking but lots of functions that i like.
"I understand that most western countries have societal controls grown over the past centuries. The Chinese did not"

What does that mean?
I respect this post immensely, I really do. I have studied various martial arts for a total of about 10 years (49 years old now, karate, Japanese sword-- kendo, iaido, even a few years of zen meditation which I see as the source of so much). Loved it while doing it. It strikes me one has to pick theirs very carefully. Everyone is different but my sister started studying Crav Maga in her early 30s for 2 years and now at 40 has chronic un-diagnosable pain problems which started only a few years after. She doesn't remember a single injury that "shifted" her health status but definitely something wrong occurred within the nervous or skeletal system and now she's a mess.
They describe that point as being 38 centimeters and they’ve been talking to the divers.
Stochastic rasterization, virtual copies, step kerning, real WYSIWYG down to a printer pixel level, good perfromance on a 32MHz 68030...
It is awful. We had a newborn calf die this year and mom called for it for 3 or 4 days. But we also only raise 4 or 5 new cows each year just for us and a few local friends. So our scale is much smaller than the large dairy operations.
Love simple services that do exactly what you would expect
Not all sunshine & roses. Here's a dark factoid for you- my memory is a bit fuzzy on when you chose mother's blood vs amniotic fluid sample for the test, but at the time I learned about all this, the odds of taking the amniotic fluid sample causing spontaneous abortion, were higher than the odds of the fetus having the more common trisomy conditions. For any particular fetus, the test was more risky than the disease.
>If you thought you'd never wake up again, how comfortably would you go to sleep?

If we have no choice but to go to sleep, why would we want to spend those last moments feeling terribly uncomfortable?

If we face the facts that death is a part of life, and that we all must die, what's the practical value in fretting over that fact? (Aside from being wise not to do stupid things that lead to a stupid death)
There is also Fossil, which I have not heard much about. I don't know if it is patch-based or snapshot-based or something different.
There also was a native Windows NT (including MIPS and Alpha builds) port of Calamus; I helped beta-test it.
I mostly used Retouche Pro and Didot Line Art, but Arabesque was pretty good, too.
> having a blast ignoring us and building the apps of the future

Building technical debt for the future I tend to think, which I guess is good for keeping future devs employed.
> Go measure the width of the lanes you typically drive on and do the math.

For what it's worth, the typical lane width on a surface street is 10 feet [1], though in older designs, they may be up to 12 feet wide.

[1] https://nacto.org/publication/transit-street-design-guide/tr...
might want to change this to include "Show HN:" so it appears on the show hn page: https://news.ycombinator.com/show

It'll stay there longer because it wont needto compete with news articles.

Also, you have a typo on your custodial page.. "anyime"
The web credential API is meant to be an integration point for passwords and AccountChooser in your browser. But I don't know if any other browsers than Chrome plan to implement it.
If only it didn't regularly wipe all the data due to database corruption [1], with no ways of recovering and automatic backups. Until this fatal bug is fixed, I strongly advise against using this otherwise fine application.

[1] https://github.com/AntennaPod/AntennaPod/issues/2463
In principle maybe. But the difference in degree is too large to allow such a comparison.
> And right now we're at a time where LEDs are rolled out everywhere, giving much more free hands to lamp designers.

You'd think so, but houses still have bayonet fittings so LED bulbs are standardizing on those (or on screw fittings, I guess, in parts of the world that use those.)

GU10 fittings do seem popular with the smaller bulbs, though. LEDs can get away with using these for higher output bulbs because they're so much more efficient.
Heh, it is interesting how people can have inverted mental models of the same thing.

Actually, my preference for minima vs maxima is because minima translate readily to the natural world where you can imagine balls rolling down surfaces or water running down hills and getting stuck in local "minima" even though there is a lower energy state available to them. It makes a much easier mental model for me than thinking about maxima.
I'd be perfectly fine with IP attorneys having to go through law enforcement to get the law enforced.

As for buying and selling a domain, I've commented on that in an earlier sibling thread:

> If it's important enough, I guess the registrar could be used as relay.

>But I do see your point. On the one hand, I'd suggest an optional "reach the owner" part of whois, where one could list a physical or digital address (doesn't even have to be email, I sometimes list social network presence on "about" pages as contact method for unimportant sites, to prevent spam). But on the other hand, we already have a place where you can optionally put your contact details: the very website we're talking about. And there you can apply any anti-spam measures you want, which you cannot do if it's in a public directory somewhere.

> I think it's fine if people have to publish their contact info themselves.

At https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17483637
"Tube diameter is 31cm"

https://twitter.com/elonmusk/status/1016094166797996032