skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
That's fair, I've never lived in LA so I don't know what problems it caused; only that the architect I know who's running for mayor liked it and felt it improved the city.

He said that one of the problems he sees with development in Portland now is that the developers are under no constraint to make their buildings visually interesting at all;

as an example he's cited, lots of the new apartment/condo buildings go up with a nearly uniform front structure for the entire length of a city block, when varying materials or architectural features would add little cost but make the structures more pleasant to walk by, drive by, etc., a facet of city living that is hard to pin down quantitatively but makes a subjective difference.

I haven't lived in Portland in a while so I can't speak first-hand to this alleged blandness of new construction but I do remember the last time I was there seeing a lot of new stuff that was essentially undecorated, and of course it's cheaper that way but compared to lots of the development that is designed with more variety, I know which I'd choose.

Maybe there's a middle ground, I don't know, I just know this is a situation where the market will converge on construction that probably isn't ideal for very-long-term city construction, but there isn't really an adequate feedback mechanism to force people to make prettier buildings. The city's under such housing pressure that people would live in unpainted cement blocks if someone built those. (Okay, I love brutalist architecture, especially some of the Soviet monstrosities, and I'd live in one in a heartbeat, but that's definitely me and even those had some style.) Seems like a place where a regulatory authority could do well, but maybe not a cookie-cutter of what LA has. It's just, these buildings are going to be around for a long time; now's the time to make them look good.
Agreed, I've done some automation work at my job for stuff that has exploded in volume over the last few years and wasn't feasible to keep doing by copy/pasting stuff through Excel anymore.

It's in Python. I've avoided any external dependencies, kept inputs to CSV files that can be made from existing Excel sheets, and the code is fairly well commented.

But there used to be two people here who've written at least a line of python in their lives. Now it's just me, and if I leave I have no illusions that it'll be maintained.

Best thing to do is write instructions for whoever will need to run it, and they can hope that they never need it to do anything new.
I had an idea for something like that, not sure how the logistics would work out. But it would be cool.
Neat! Do you know offhand whether tizonia can read from a fifo? (or otherwise easily have commands thrown at it from the shell / my wm)
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> One man, identifying himself as G, told the BBC protesters were ready for a backlash.

"The movement is now beyond the bill," he said. "It's about the autonomy of Hong Kong."
Thanks for pointing this out, I hadn't seen that and think the data is really compelling as all comparisons were for the same model VW Golf with ev, hybrid, petrol and diesel versions. The one cost element not in the article (likely b/c of the time frame) was repair and maintenance costs - which I'd also suspect the EV cars to fare better with.
Do you even need to match Google's robots.txt parsing behavior? With less than 1000 lines you can be pretty sure they are not doing it right and are breaking plenty of people's assumptions about it. Either way you have to test it on real world data.
That's a great offer!
A Ruby port of Guix?
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I don't know in the UK, but in France the most sold cars (Peugeot 208, Renault Clio, etc.) start around $16k (all taxes included). The best selling electric car [1] (Renault Zoe) starts at $19.5k (all taxes included, and including subsidies of $6.8k), but that doesn't include the batteries that have to be rented ($80/month) -> that adds $4.8k over 5 years. So in fact it's priced quite similarly to your Chevy Bolt.

So roughly speaking we are looking at $5k to $10k more for an electric car over an ICE one. It's not out of reach for all, but it's still out of reach for many. The median after-tax income in France is I think about $2k/month.

Disclaimer: all the figures I used were in EUR, that I translated to USD at current rate: so all the numbers will vary widely based on the EUR/USD fx rate.

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Again, from my experience university educated scientists are better educated and as a result could better understand the actual problems needed to be solved and find very good and practical ways to accomplish it.

As for what goes for "formal training" in modern colleges. Well I better not go there.
Tips for rolling your own lazy loading
> this is exactly the story Apple would want to tell shareholders in the wake of Ive's departure

That is so not true. This story paints the picture of a dysfunctional org under Cook’s watch who is dramatically less inspiring than Jobs to their key design team. I don’t know if it’s true but it’s definitely not what a company would want to feed to the press.

The ideal story in situations like this is that they’ve been working on a transition for a awhile and the company is in good hands, without all the dissatisfaction stuff.
That's the blessing/curse with completely self funded research group. No strict timelines, yearly review, benchmarks or external pressure. There is no hurry to deliver, you can dream on and keep developing your pet idea indefinitely. Nobody can tell you that you were wrong and you are now done.
well, it's an entirely client side thing to have, so the "why" very much comes down to the developers balance on adding extra code for extra convenience. The developer might like it personally, or they might find it's a feature that their users want, or both.

As an example, I have my thinkpads prtscr button hooked up to automatically capture the screen, upload to 0x0.st, put the url into my clipboard, and then alert dunst to pop a notification that it's done.

It takes a very common 60 second process and makes it almost as fast as prtscr, ctrl+v
As they say it’s not “but”, rather “yes, and” so I agree with that and would add that the likely sentience of whales is a huge factor here.
I really do believe agile (or at least "not waterfall") has reduced the rate of major software flops. But I'd be fascinated to know how often it turns failures into successes, versus revealing failures earlier in the project cycle. Both are valuable, obviously. It's just interesting that part of Agile's value is in revealing engineer dysfunction or fundamentally bad ideas at the MVP stage instead of the completion stage.
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Anecdotally, it's not just less tech-savvy people who do that. I do that today for most sites I visit that aren't bookmarked, because I don't trust myself to remember if domains are registered as `.org` or `.com`.

Of course, I use DuckDuckGo to do it instead of Google, and I also block ads because they're yet another area for phishing attacks. But look at HN for example -- I have HN bookmarked because I can't get myself to remember that it isn't `hackernews.com`. I have definitely used DuckDuckGo and Google in the past to find this website when I was on an unfamiliar computer.

The Google Ads phishing attacks are also an interesting point here -- they work. You can build a Google Ad for a product that points to a completely separate website, and you'll catch people. Arguably (probably) getting rid of readable names would make that problem worse, but it's not like the current situation is good. Domains are already hard to remember ("Does it have a dash in it? What's the TLD? Are the numbers spelled out?").

The question is whether it would even be possible at all to build a better system. I don't know.
Because I want to be able to simply drag and drop an image for someone to see it immediately and not faff about with 15 extra steps of alt tabbing through browsers and copying links and waiting for uploads to finish.
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sounds good. I will test it..
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Ah, the southern version. :)
No, that's little old ladies in street clothes hobbling as fast as they can.

People walking as a mode of transit aren't competing with joggers for who gets there first. These times are for planning purposes.

Of course, it's okay if you walk faster than that. But planning departments need to look at "Who will actually walk this?" And the answer is "Ordinary people will walk it if it isn't over 30 minutes, but 15 minutes is better. And that works at these distances."

You see the most traffic from establishments within a quarter mile, and some additional traffic within the half mile radius but outside the quarter mile. It drops off steeply outside of the half mile radius.
Yes. This happens at my shop all the time and it's absolutely terrible. Each sprint starts out positive and ends with panic attacks.
Funny how expressing the opinion that regulation will lead to harm gets you downvoted while calling someone, “stupid” doesn’t have a single effect.
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Most microcomputers from the 1980s were definitely as or more powerful, at least from a memory footprint and CPU capability standpoint.

A PC keyboard controller - I guess it depends on what is being used; I suppose something that can read a matrix and convert the output to USB HID could be pretty powerful - perhaps at least as much as a PIC or Atmel microcontroller - so perhaps?
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Learn about the rest of the brain's components. Intelligence and cognition is greatly dependent on the limbic system. For example, while memory appears to be stored throughout the cortex, we can't form new spatial and event memories if our hippocampi are removed.

It seems to me that the cortex functions like a kind of FPGA which the brain's core machinery uses to expand its capabilities. It has a uniform micro-anatomy, regardless of function; functions correlate with connectivity to nerves and other brain regions; in cases of damage to the cortex, it is capable of remapping and rerouting functions and connectivity.
Pfft. A hotchpotch of theoretical arguments which is entirely dispelled by the simple fact that Swatch have actually done it.
It's worth noting that the Wally and Star Trek interpretations are not incompatible. What are the trillions of people that can't qualify to be a red shirt doing? Probably zonked out in a holodeck
How is that really any different from someone engaging in off-topic banter in an IRC channel? Humans are being human and I don't really see how the problem as you describe it is somehow specific to non-IRC mediums.
Tracking consent just got a lot easier
If my laptop already had usb-c and could be charged through it, why would I want an extra, different format charging port? Why not add a micro-usb one, for three different charging ports?
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- USB-C charger. I don't want yet another charger/adapter

This for me is a downside as the USB-C landscape is a disaster of poorly-implemented designs. I'm less inclined to trust a USB-C adapter than a dumb USB adapter, and I would never plug a laptop charger into my phone. At least with dumb USB and micro-USB, you know you're getting 5 volts (excluding serious hardware failures).

- my phone will still work in 5 years. No "oh the home button is broken" scandal.

I'd argue the opposite, many Android phones are built to be as cheap as possible and their longevity is really hit and miss. If you want build quality, you need to buy flagship phones - my Galaxy S5 is still working after 5 years, sure, but many cheaper phones are just disposable; I'd have smashed several screens by now if I'd bought something cheaper. There's also the issue that most manufacturers give up on Android updates after 18 months; my S5 officially maxxed out at Android 6, but I'm running 9 via LineageOS. This means I get security updates to the OS, at least, but the low-level firmware has been abandoned by Samsung and if there are serious vulnerabilities, they won't be patched.
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>> bet it's considerably higher than per hour of cruising around on a motorbike..

I would imagine so as well.

"Haaf was described as an experienced skydiver with over 1,200 jumps and was a frequent visitor to Skydive Cross Keys" https://www.courierpostonline.com/story/news/local/south-jer...
What if Github was specifically optimizing for that end-goal though? It is hard to definite what productivity means unless you had inside knowledge of the goals of the business. Amazon took 14 years after their IPO to turn a profit, but that isn't to say that their employees were not productive. In the same vein, Github may have never turned a profit, but if that was not the goal, it's hard to say if their remote employees were not productive.