skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This was brought up in Adam Ruins Everything, and his Automotive episode was so misleading that I don't trust anything he says.

>I don’t get why cities are built around cars.

Sure there is a fantasy that we could have cities that don't require roads. However our modern 5,000,000 population Metro areas wouldnt exist. Instead housing prices would skyrocket, and the lowest income people would be forced to live in rural areas.

> In densely populated cities cars should be banned outside of major roads

>I’d love it even more when there was no car sound

These are short sighted.

EDIT: I'm sorry to kill the fantasy, but wouldnt you rather hear why an idea doesnt work? Or maybe this is another case of 10%ers that care more about quiet streets than societal impact.
Funny to read that now, as my wife have made our kids (9 yo) do it on paper today.

She also told them to keep it when they feel down to remember all their past achievements.

I should do it now I guess as it seems a good booster.
Shell scripting finally feels sane. Just the normal "if" and other basic conditionals make you feel you want to switch.

Some scripting example : https://nicolas-van.github.io/programming-with-fish-shell

(I use zsh as shell, as enough customization can do much of what fish can achieve with bit more stability but maybe they fixed with 3.0 which I haven't tried yet.)
npm only installs globally when you tell it to, it's not like pip or ruby gems. And you don't need to install project dependencies globally to run scripts from packages, npm puts all that stuff in node_modules/.bin so you can just add that to your $PATH and you're set.
Still beats tightening the purse strings during recession.
I am struggling to think of something that would be both hyped (therefore, popular, and widely used), and at the same time poorly documented. React has a fantastic documentation, but React is hardly bleeding edge anymore. Webpack used to be bad with documentation, but has dramatically improved in the recent couple of years. Vue is said to have documentation that is on par with React’s. Perhaps for RxJS documentation is still a pain point, but other than that... can't really say I have been burnt by documentation.
Mark Zuckerberg is ‘proud’ of how Facebook handled its scandals this year
Spending an hour in traffic each day is not exactly my idea of a high standard of living.
Some info on SELFRAG - it’s a “high voltage pulse crushing” machine for fragmenting solids: http://www.selfrag.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/05/Advantages...
> Most dynamic range compression in music is there to trick people into playing it louder

That's a relatively new phenomenon, together with the distortion.

Compression doesn't add audible distortion, except if it is used in an extreme way to boost the signal so that it sits at close to maximum volume.

Compression is a tool that can combat distortion. Reduce the transients; reduce the clipping.

Compression can be used to obtain more consistent distortion on purpose over longer envelopes of the signal, like in a common configuration in guitar audio: compressor followed by distortion effect.

Obtaining more consistent distortion can mean consistently less of it, not only consistently more.
Tesla is not “owned” by Larry Ellison. He is just one among many directors in the board, who have a limited set of responsibility to advocate for shareholders and provide corporate governance. They don’t really play major role in execution let alone ownership. Tesla is a public company and is owned by shareholders.
The original VIX used to to be that. But for some time now (approx 2009) it's been a synthetic variance swap made up of a weighted sum of the "bunch of options" (weighted by square of the strike). The huge advantage that this makes over an actual implied vol is that it becomes replicable. And it's close enough to being the "fear index" of the popular press.
A lot has changed in the last two years. Nowadays you have an occasional game that is faster on the blob driver, but most are faster under Mesa, often significantly so.
> I wonder if that's actually a handicap because the syntax similarities would cause them to make the wrong assumptions about how Elixir works.

In my experience, yup. Most Ruby devs, my self included before playing with Elixir, are not accustomed to dealing with concurrency. They try to make everything synchronous, and it goes downhill from there.
Exactly my thought.

A cocktail of capacitors could do the trick.
Did they check your sisters electricity meter? We had similar issues here. Random light flickers/dimming, electrical devices shorting out and such. All tests in house returned with nothing wrong yet we were having issues.

Electric company sent someone out and they got the same results inside as we did. Not deterred they next checked the line into the residence and it was good too. Eventually they tracked the issue to our electricity meter and replaced it. Haven't had an issue since.
Good question. Sounds like a great opportunity to sell overpriced batteries to audiophiles.
Please go fuck yourself
I live downtown Minneapolis and live near Nicollet Mall [0]. Which only allows pedestrians and busses. It's quite nice. They put out chairs for people to sit on and at times have things like a connect four and corn hole games. There is a regular farmers market that happens also.

I love how safe it feels. It's almost like a giant side walk. I'm always surprised that the chairs don't get stolen. I walk down it multiple times a day usually (unless I take the Skyway because of weather).

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nicollet_Mall
I had an old Dell laptop where I could "hear" an external USB hard drive spinning up in my headphones, but only if it was connected to a USB port on the same side of the laptop as the audio jack.
> I don't think we can assume journalists were at fault here.

That's where you're wrong buddy.
Outside of science and engineering, I think fixed point BCD is otherwise preferable. It's better matched to the expectations we've all had since grade-school.

Original example was about steps, not termination. With FP, each tick label has to be post-formatted with a precision specifier to get the desired behavior. With BCD, casting to a string is sufficient (and super-simple to implement).
I specified Southern California. If you’re unfamiliar with the dynamics of the region it makes sense that you think it’s outlandish.
Can confirm, we've had major issues with calls and call quality across our offices the past couple of days and I have been getting periodic updates from Centurylink about their status in regards to our circuits in my email. Major clients have been effected by this.
Most of the compile time of that particular program is spent parsing HTML templates and converting them to D code. This is all done by D code provided by a library that runs at compile time as part of a template function instantiation in my code. So the compile time is inflated a bit in this case.
I don't even think cryptocurrency can solve this. It's easier to store a key than a ton of gold, but without the dispute resolution and policing functions of government you are still utterly screwed if your coin is stolen or if you fall for a scam. People also still tend to use banks (e.g. coinbase) due to the convenience, security, and value adds they provide.
Ask HN: How to find part-time developer work?
I'm full time RoR developer (with a little Go experience), but since March I'll have to take care of my daughter 2-3 days a week. Is any of you working with similar schedule? Do you have any tips how to find work that fits it?
Wait- your USB on your computer stops working?

Is this true for every component you plug in?

I imagine this is your stereo power supply.

I oddly would love to hear more.
Those aren't even its competitors: those are just SQL on Hadoop MPP engines at best.

This is an OLAP modeling solution, like Druid or Pinot, but in theory more general use case.
you forgot #3) If you want to learn how to sell you can get your own clients and make great money and not have to get caught up in the hype.

I make a very comfortable living, wife stays home, we have no debt and I work around 20 hours a week most weeks. Most of my clients are on retainer and I do good work for them. We rarely talk about what "stack" we're using but we always talk about the problems they're trying to solve.

Most of these arguments are about ego, someone being right and wrong and what tools are the best. From an old fart I can tell you this... tools are only as good as the person using them. If you are a shit developer, nothing is going to save you from yourself.

It really seems to me like a huge issue these days is that people can't even stick with a framework or language long enough to ever be decently good at it. This seems to be due in part to your #1 - learning what is needed to get a job and #2 - fear of building a product on the "wrong" stack when they scale to billions of users in 2 weeks (hint: this doesn't happen).

The biggest lesson I've learned from building a product is that no matter what tool you are using, you cannot engineer your way out of a marketing problem. No marketing = no success. There is a lot of horribly coded garbage out there making people tons of money because of marketing.
Most people (and most of prospective Tesla buyers) have no idea who he is. Doubt the reputation gets tainted at all by this.
Turning on my ceiling fan kills my USB audio device as well. Audio applications on Windows do have a tendency to more or less self-immolate when the audio driver fails.
Different people are in different life stages and thus have different preferences.
Looks like New York State did a terrible job at fiscally monitoring them then: https://theislandnow.com/featured/nassaus-fiscal-crisis-bord...

It reads like that county is a complete shit show and not necessarily indicative of the sustainability of low density.
The problem with traceroute is that it won’t show that two different ISPs are leasing strands out of the same bundle.

All of the unexpected shared infra issues I’ve observed have been down at this lower level that never shows up at the IP layer.
this would be great, cars are the only reason why i would be afraid to let my child go by himself to kindergarten/school
I guess I try to switch to fish again as like you said zsh with 10 plugins takes so long to start a shell, like 5 seconds which feels forever when you want to start typing right then, that I now never quit the shell from remote machines but just disconnect from its tmux instance so I can go right back without initializing the shell every time I log in.
Always good to hear anecdotes like yours, so thanks for sharing. Dead-end streets and no through traffic can make some difference; but that's also saying that we need suburban towns or suburban-like neighborhoods within cities for those with families (which is valid IMO). However it isn't really practical for the next notch higher of density in terms of transit throughput, unless people are willing to give up personal point-to-point transit in favor of mass transit (which has its own tradeoffs).

I am also not assuming cities/towns can "just" add parks and fields. It is something they can do if they prioritize it and have the political will to execute. And even if it were not pragmatic for an already fully-built-up locale, I am making the point as a general matter of planning or noting what is desirable in a town.

One thing I did not understand: why do you think people without kids will not care about parks (which they can enjoy as well), but will care enough about kids to make their own street access more painful?
Yeah. It's similar to the point where drug or alcohol use becomes addiction — it's a disease when it has significant negative impact on the rest of your life.
But from the maintenance standpoint, a package manager together with some bundling tool is so much more desirable than hand-copying links to scripts!
Show HN: M4b-tool 0.3.1 – a tool to merge, split and chapterize audiobooks
re Diablo 3 HC-

Just focus on Vitality, pick a low difficulty level, and slowly grind the game.

Never died, had 1 close call due to Frozen.
If your study hall was anything like mine, there is a bit of irony in the notion that it was intended to help students that were falling behind, some of whom found themselves there because they were too bored and subsequently devoted their time to elaborate ways to play games in class.
Wow, and I thought "audiophile" SATA cables were the dumbest audiophile gear you could buy https://jcat.eu/audiophile-sata-cable/
Cheap UPS inverters can actually have much higher harmonic distortion than mains power. For laughs, try plugging in a UPS with power quality detection into another UPS as its "mains" source, it will probably detect the other UPS as providing poor quality (i.e. high THD) power.

If you don't actually need UPS, it's probably easier to use an AC low-pass filter to remove harmonics than back-to-back DC conversion.
I don't feel, strictly speaking, unsafe. Just annoyed at a personal level - obviously this happens enough (in fact, it happened again between my last post and this one!) that I'm very alert for it. However, I'm a large adult crossing in a very high visibility zone and am alert.

As for the 'kids are capable' thing - yes. We had our youngest going places independently at an age where our older child (~3 years apart) had peers whose parents were still driving them around. But the argument from LDCs is pretty terrible, as they have orders of magnitude more traffic deaths.

LDCs also typically have a culture of 'negotiation' of crossing roads where you kinda just have to get up on your hind legs and cross (anarchy makes drivers far more alert) while we have a culture of strict rules ("if you cross at the wrong place you are doing the wrong thing and it's your own fault that the driver just ran into you"). The 'rules culture' tends to make drivers feel that they can just zoom wherever they feel like and shut off mental collision avoidance algorithms with anything that isn't another car. This phenomenon is behind the whole 'naked streets' thing (not that I'm a fan, but the diagnosis is pretty good).
It's cheap enough in Belgium, I can stay here.

Others won't go broke even, since the social system supports this...

That's the entire discussion of the article...

I don't even understand how your can also use Belgium wrong, in using it as an argument...

Your previous comment related "common healthcare" to IT-salaries, last time I checked, this isn't anywhere related.

None of your arguments make any sense.

Did you even read anything? All your arguments prove that the US healthcare is flawed, so I don't know why you are even arguing with me.
I'm not a lawyer, but three characters in package.json isn't sufficient. You need to include the license text - eg https://github.com/nodejs/node/blob/master/LICENSE.
Whether one is able to settle on a working solution involves luck. The article says they "noticed" that birds warp their wings. They were unlucky, for a time, in that they experienced adverse yaw. Then they were unlucky, for a time, when a fixed tail arrangement did not work. Then they made the tail assembly steerable.

They were also unlucky in that they killed a passenger, but lucky that it wasn't rather than one, or both, of themselves. I realized that luck-minimizing framings are popular within entrepreneurial settings, and particularly in cultures where we're all "temporarily embarrassed millionaires," but it would be far healthier if we took on board the role that fortune plays in success. We would be, for example, far more heroic if we were facing odds, rather than a grind with a guaranteed success at the end.
That’s peanuts for that kind of work. New York spends something like $17B annually on transportation with about 40% federal share.

I agree with your second point, especially as the feds only fund capital costs and state and local has to do maintenance, which they are awful at. The smart strategy is to fund minimum viable operations costs, let stuff crumble and get more capital $ to rebuild!
Actually it is quite fun to do thought experiments on what a flat earth would be like. I think (not a physicist) that the sea and atmosphere would end up dome shaped, centred on the centre of the disc. Non symmetric continents would cause instability so can't exist. I wonder what is on the other side?

For even more fun why not (re)read Sir Terry's oeuvre. Pissing yourself laughing is good for you.
While this is true, the borrower is going to know their financial situation better and have somewhat more control over it, so it would make sense to blame them more.
Yes, it breaks the site guidelines to do that. They ask: "Please use the original title, unless it is misleading or linkbait; don't editorialize."

Accounts that break that rule eventually lose submission privileges here, so please don't break that rule!

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
Which quickly becomes the front for businesses advertising to passersby.
I lived in Germany for two years without a car. The public transportation there was amazing—I learned to appreciate how little I needed a car, provided the infrastructure was good enough/I had a bike.

In many cities there's a "Fußgängerzone": pedestrian-only areas; these were mostly found in the city center where the streets and shops are too dense to allow much traffic. I remember specifically in Frankfurt am Main and Göttingen that the biggest shopping centers were located within this zone. Didn't seem to be hurting their business.

The Fußgängerzonen seemed alive, much more so than sterile car-optimized streets.
This is not exactly a new idea.

In 1994 we added crunchgen(1) to FreeBSD which does the exact same thing for use on install and "Fixit" floppies.

I wrote the first prototype as a mess of shell-commands, and James da Silva from Maryland Uni turned that into a really neat tool, which to this day creates the "magic rescue binary" on FreeBSD systems:

critter phk> ls -li /rescue/* | head
2086658 -r-xr-xr-x 146 root wheel 12245968 Dec 6 12:34 /rescue/[
2086658 -r-xr-xr-x 146 root wheel 12245968 Dec 6 12:34 /rescue/bectl
2086658 -r-xr-xr-x 146 root wheel 12245968 Dec 6 12:34 /rescue/bsdlabel
2086658 -r-xr-xr-x 146 root wheel 12245968 Dec 6 12:34 /rescue/bunzip2
2086658 -r-xr-xr-x 146 root wheel 12245968 Dec 6 12:34 /rescue/bzcat
2086658 -r-xr-xr-x 146 root wheel 12245968 Dec 6 12:34 /rescue/bzip2
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Yes, it does seem rather redundant to have each county responsible for rolling their own solution (even if that's just deciding how to outsource it)
I would also like to add x-com on Ironman. Losing a soldier because you got sloppy and arrogant; putting them in an indefensible position and watching them get slaughtered. Do that enough times and you literally cannot win with just rookie replacements. But yea, I felt actually bad for losing some soldiers in my Ironman runs.
ESnet is not affected by the shutdown. Also, ESnet does not transit all DoE traffic. ESnet is a purpose built science network and if you look in the AS-Set, this network is not transited by AS293 (ESnet).
For those unaware,

CBT is an extremely effective, evidence based way of treating many mental health disorders including depression and panic disorder.

It's also a fantastic way of reevaluating biases. It can be extremely effective at getting to you really evaluate points in your life when something you've thought is illogically affecting your mood. For example,

> Wow that demo went terribly, everyone must think I'm a dumbass.

It's really easy for us to let these thoughts take over the rest of us. We tend to find ourselves repeating events that make us angry, guilty, or afraid as if they were movies in our brains. That can mess with our opinions of others and cause us undue stress and discomfort.

Instead, CBT will ask us to list the cognitive distortions and then challenge this belief. So for the thought above, we'll say it's:

* mind reading (since we don't know what other people think)

* catastrophizing (since we're implicitly assuming something terrible could happen because our demo went poorly)

Then, it will ask us to come up with a "better" or "alternative" thought like this:

> That demo went poorly, but I'll do better next time and I'm glad I learned from it!

That may seem silly, but the act of writing it down helps you notice when your thoughts are taking too much control over your life. And the act of challenging it helps train your brain to "automatically" think better thoughts in the future.

For some, these negative thoughts control much of their life and we may consider that a form of pathology. But for many of us, it's just a part of our monkey brains we'd like to deal with better.

Quirk is made with both uses in mind. It's general enough that it can be used for any condition. It started as a prototype I build just for me, but I hope it's useful to others as well. It was built to only incorporate the evidence backed treatments. Many apps overly couple CBT with "relaxation tapes" or other untested treatments. Quirk is as slimmed down as possible.

If you don't want to pay the 2 dollars, Quirk is open source and you're welcome to build it yourself. Here's a couple promo codes as well though:

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> Jazz Jackrabbit

Wow that's a name I haven't heard in ages. Jazz Jackrabbit 2 was one of my favourite games growing up.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Offsetof repeats what is said the SO link and might be helpful? The occurrence of the UB is not dependent on the parameters that sgl_baseof is called with. The UB may occur solely based on the compiler and standard library implementation. If the UB does occur based on those two and offsetof is not redefined somewhere, then the UB occurs anywhere offsetof is used.
It's possible to do this well and badly. Bad iterations of this feel like urban renewal - like those horrifying stunts they pulled in the 70s where they closed half the streets in a given area, put huge ring roads around the area, and then wondered why a urban paradise didn't spontaneously spring into being.

It needs to be done along with public transit (usually the missing link it the US and Australia) and a reasonable attitude to deliveries and whatever parking needs remain.
time to switch to aws
What does someone want if they write "bar = print foo,"? Is it the same if "print" isn't the built-in function?
Current approach of speech recognition is about as old (maximum likelihood using WFST).

In the old papers about problem, there was vocabulary size of 64K words, because nothing was working for bigger vocabularies.
If such a system was widespread, others would have reported about it. Alas, it was a hoax.
You sound like you have similar tastes to mine. If so, I'm guessing Scala.js's slow compiles and heavy output size is an annoyance. Check out BuckleScript/ReasonML. Reason provides a new syntax for OCaml, in a way like what Elixir does for Erlang. Compile times are instant (I'm not exaggerating ... much), type system and inference are powerful (more than Scala), and output is extremely minimalistic ES5.
Professor Langley wasn't the only well known individual trying to be the first to fly. I visited the Nova Scotia workshop of Alexander Graham Bell who also was trying to become the first to fly. He enlisted the help of one Glenn Curtiss, a motorcycle racer who built him an engine.

When news of the Wright Brothers flight was confirmed Bell suspended all operations. Glenn Curtiss thought there was excellent potential for a business competitor to the Wright's but Bell wasn't interested. So Curtiss went back to Illinois and started his own airplane company now known as Curtiss-Wright.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Glenn_Curtiss
Is this the only way? Arrow keys require I take my fingers off the home row, which is far from ideal with the frequency I search shell history.