skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I think cycling is inherently more a local thing than cars. Nobody needs interstate or international bicycle paths, because nobody cycles that far. So it makes sense that the interest is more local, and maybe that's also why smaller countries like Denmark and Netherland are more successful at it.

Bicycle infrastructure is primarily about towns and cities. So if you want this big push, you have to do it at the city level, but not just a bike path here or there, but redesign the entire city for bicycles. Have bike thoroughfares, make sure bikes are the best way to get around the center, and for any kind of traffic that stays within a town or borough. Cars are only for getting out of the city.

Many Dutch towns are increasingly redesigned with that idea in mind, most thoroughly perhaps the town of Houten[0], where the only way to get anywhere by car is to take the ring road, whereas bikes get quick shortcuts through the center. That makes bicycles attractive and keeps the pollution from cars out of the center. Travel within the town will favour the bike because it's easier and quicker than a car, which reduces the amount of car traffic, and reduces congestion and pollution.

That's the level at which you need to address this. Well, that and revoking any national helmet laws for bikes, because that's been shown to keep people in cars.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Houten
Only partially. Spam can be filtered, as PG himself was early to point out, and malware can be countered with better security. This could have been fixed, given enough time.

The kill shot, instead, has been delivered by ad-sponsored media; clickbait, fake news, mass rage-storms, fake reviews, etc.
That's 2.5 days on the 13 MW Summit supercomputer, for a single run. Presumably you would need multiple runs to get good statistics.
where it rains for 167 days per year on average, which is ~45% of the year

Well, neighbouring country in which it rained on 199 days on average in the past 20 years or so, but since it doesn't rain all 24hrs of those days, a more interesting figure would be that it apparently only rains about 10% of the time here. Meaning about 90% of the whole time there is no rain.
FWIW i do not care that much about having LLVM's optimizations. As long as there are a few decent optimizations to do most of the stupid stuff i'm fine - i can do the rest myself whenever (and if) needed. It is only a very tiny part of the codebase that would need heavy optimizations anyway, yet having to pay (in terms of compilation time) for that for the entire codebase is an absurdity that we just seem to got used to.
iOS users
Volt is the perfect toy for a quick coffee run
It's not the registry itself, it's using the word "registry" as a synecdoche for all the things that may be installed there. And hooked into Windows subsystems.

Speaking of Explorer, one of the classic ways to end up with a Windows system that's slow for no readily apparent reason is shell extensions. Either on the rightclick menu or in the thumbnail engine. At one point I had a folder I couldn't navigate to without getting an error popup that mentioned Nvidia in it - a chain of handlers had been installed such that JPEG decoding was delegated to the graphics card, so trying to create and cache the thumbnail of a corrupt file crashed in an unrelated-looking place.
Or just curtains?
The reason he can be "more independent" is exactly because he's not dependent financially on media, not his MMA bg.
Archived copy, which can be read without JS enabled:

https://archive.is/Mly19
I wouldn't say "emulate", because a classical computer wouldn't be trying to solve it the same way as the quantum computer. The point (which would be amazing if true) is that a classical supercomputer would take 10,000 years to solve the same problem, no matter what method/algorithm it used.
Microsoft’s new Secured-core PC initiative
> Yeah. Every couple years people who write JS come up with new garbage frameworks that don't really move the needle forward.

I presume this is in contrast to the Haskell community where there is a single perfect web framework which solves all problems for everyone?
For me it was OneDrive, not sure how to explain it but it felt like every N times I hit CTRL+S to save my work prompted windows to raise a "Hey, try Microsoft One Drive!" modal which stole focus from what I was doing.

One way to absolutely guarantee I will never use your software is to constantly nag me about trying it.
On macOS, see also:

/System/Library/PrivateFrameworks/yara.framework

man yara

PS: I wish VirusTotal had a high-rate, free API that could used as the basis for local endpoint scanners.
The radar operators surely don’t wash them every day with “industrial solvents”. It’s nowhere said that there’s any basis that the operators are consistently exposed to them. The study also doesn’t claim what you claim, it is written much more carefully.
At different times I've been in all these roles, motorcyclist, cyclist, car driver and e-biker. As a driver I find e-bikes much less frustrating than pedal bikes because they keep up with traffic when the light turns green. As an e-biker I also feel safer because I stay fully in the traffic lane (at intersections), I don't have to always have one eye out for passing cars while I'm also changing gears and watching out for getting doored by parked cars. That's my experience.
> Same with "unsolicited popups". What are you using that does this?

Probably refers to the "notification center" in the bottom right next to the systray.
maybe in the safety critical parts, but do they fix entertainment system bugs ?
1. First time I've seen Joe with Airpods

2. First time Joe has done a podcast with someone OTA (as far as I know)
> I cannot believe that you make more from such a niche dev tool than your job at Google.

It's important to note, that there are markets where Google pays 70-90k / year[1].

[1] https://www.glassdoor.com/Salary/Google-Berlin-Salaries-EI_I...
Yep. And YARA lives at /System/Library/PrivateFrameworks/yara.framework

I had a problem a few years ago with YARA consuming all CPU time while on battery and never finishing whatever it was doing.
Docomo phones were(are?) a Japan-only irrelevance.

Granted - Symbian was a thing back then, but can you buy a Symbian phone today? Consumers voted with their money, and they wanted iPhones, not Nokias.

Fast forward to 2019, Nokia is nothing more than a trademark - making generic Android phones on one hand, and cashing in on nostalgia with their feature phones on the other hand.
What is democracy?
Thanks for elaborating.
Cirq has most of the experiments that were used to demonstrate quantum supremacy[0]. Here is an example of cross-entropy benchmarking; the tool used to benchmark this processor: https://github.com/quantumlib/Cirq/blob/master/examples/cros...

[0]: https://github.com/quantumlib/Cirq/tree/master/cirq/experime...
I teach mandolin and violin lessons online, and sell related products https://sweetmusicstudio.net. I make a modest income and profit.
Acting changes the brain: it’s how actors get lost in a role
Another article said IBM scientists were not impressed and estimated it would only take 2.5 years. But still, right?
The difference of car usage between USA and Europe should be much larger than the difference in car ownership. A car is useful for many things other than the daily commute, someone who mostly bikes to work is still rather likely to own a car but contribute much less to the traffic and pollution.

[edit] looking at random stats such as http://internationalcomparisons.org/environment/transportati... seems to confirm that - the vehicle ownership rates are just a bit lower, but annual distance driven per capita in European countries is twice less than USA.
If the history of the last 40 years of "climate debate" teaches us anything, then that it will not only be left unchecked, but it will become worse. There is absolutely no reason to be optimistic about CO2 emissions on a global scale.

If zero emissions by 2040 is a realistic scenario, then we have to create the foundations of this development now. What we do instead is: lackluster regulations in Europe, active denialism and in the US, expansion of the oil- and gas industry in Russia and increased coal production in China.
I'm from India. I was living off my savings and my parents.
Science isn't all about data, just like how apple pie isn't all about apples. They are essential ingredients, but there are other ingredients that are no less essential.

W.r.t. some branches of science (medical), I'd say data isn't the biggest ingredient lacking. Most of it is correlational, which is an easy way to use data; you're just looking for correlations and that's about it. It however doesn't provide a lot of insight into fundamentals: it doesn't answer 'how?'. It's modelling that is often lacking: how does this data, this correlation support or disprove certain theories, in order to advance our understanding as a whole rather than being able to say 'medicine X provides Y% improvement in property Z.

In my view, particle physics is a branch of science doing this very well: data is never used without context, correlations never made without some sort of theoretical framework.
>"You're taking away parking space!" "All these bike lanes are slowing traffic"

Just put the bike lanes on the sidewalk instead of in the street then. That's how it's done in Finland and it seems much safer for everyone involved.
Calc actually works much better for spread sheets with odd character sets than excel does.
I have a UK based e-business, I've turned over between £750,000 and now £950,000 over the past four years (ex VAT). (~76% net profit margin)

Its just me, I'm a developer, which meant I could bootstrap the whole thing for zero cost (time not included) but I've always felt I knew I had what it takes to make a small business successful. Its an online service, we have a web site and apps in the app stores.
I'd rather not say exactly what we do as this way I can be transparent on numbers. (Also, I am slightly paranoid of copy-cats)
We have a paid for service, costs less than £50, its not a subscription, just a one off purchase.
As has been said previously, luck plays a big part in success and I'm not going to pretend this is not true for me too.

-The competition are £MM businesses, and this is probably why I am able to be so successful as I can move faster, adapt, and resolve issues. Over time, people notice this. They tend to buy the customer via adwords.

-Word of mouth is a huge part of how the product has grown, people like the product and tell their friends/family, I spend less than £1500 p/m on advertising through the traditional online mediums.

- I always try new ideas out, and find out if people like them. Its low risk, low cost, high reward. Big fan of XP, agile, etc

- I'd recommend - Getting real (Basecamp) - https://basecamp.com/books/getting-real, its got some solid advice

- A mentality of always wanting to make the product better, without bloating it, is key.

- People always worry about support. It's really not a big deal, I've had hundreds of thousands of customers over the years, support contact is low.

Happy to answer any questions if people find it useful.
I wonder if this was less true a couple decades ago or more-- say, in the mid-1990s. I remember being out on a rural road in northern Wisconsin (about an hour north of Green Bay) where the driver of the car pulled over and turned off the car & lights so I could see the sky. In my memory, at least, there seemed to be thousands visible, along with the Milky Way.
They (we) used to, but with Cursive.... welcome to the XXI century :)
The Dutch are finding that e-bikes are more of a substitute for a car than they are for a pedal bike. That should play even better in lower income countries. Time will tell.
Yeah I have a bug where the disk storage calculations show Messages as using a negative amount of disk space. Nothing I could have done as a user could have caused that, but they've ingored the bug report I sent.
Well I think it’s vague because it’s not accurately representing what is going on. Is that average kinetic energy even distributed throughout the system or can it be isolated to specific moving points of the system? Ie some particles in the north most part of the system have this energy and are moving around the system. Or even only the particles in the north have the energy.

Feynman said it best that with each question you keep going back and back and back trying to exemplify through allusion?

Words will always fail to accurately describe the totality of the system and even worse the math formulas don’t do any better especially when considering statistics.

The average grades in my class is 80 but that doesn’t mean Ryan sitting in the front row got a 100 and Andrew in the middle row got a 62. Maybe everyone did get an 80, so then how can I describe not only in words but in function the distinction between these two environments; ie the 100&62 and the all 80s class?
The growing complexity of browsers make security harder. But at the same time - mainstream platforms are also getting more limited in the name of security. It's almost impossible for a power user to fix something themselves. They have to install an app, or root their device. The alternative is not really downloading a random binary, you can no longer do that. The only alternative to get shit done is to go buy a Linux compatible PC and learn some programming. 20 years ago the security was terrible, but you could fix things yourself without being a developer. No matter how much systems are limited, security issues persist. If you are worried that your browser is insecure, switch to a more secure browser that doesn't have those features, or disable the features in the browser you already use.

As a developer I could write detailed instructions on my website how to install Linux, what OS and packages to use, instructions for git clone etc. Or I could just have a button that the user can click on.
Ask HN: Anyone Using a USB Drive as a PC Replacement?
Since OS distros can be mounted on a USB Drive and booted, curious whether anyone uses a USB Drive as a laptop replacement. Are there any pitfalls? USBs seem a convenient way to turn most computers into a personalized PC
Democracy is a system of government where the three powers: law giving, executive, and judicial are separated and at least the law giving is in the hands of (representatives of) the people.

In the case of the massive spying by government we are dealing with secret laws and/or the executive branch writing its own law. This is not very compatible with democracy.
> I think user time is more valuable than developer time

Developers are users of their development tools.

> when building complex/efficient software expecting lightning builds isn't just unwarranted, it's selfish.

This is wrong. There is no rule that says that you cannot write fast applications with fast builds. It is just that we got used to C++'s slow build times.

This sort of thinking even falls flat on its face when you consider that C provides similar optimization opportunities as C++ (and in pretty much every modern compiler it uses the same backend and most - if not all - optimizations) while compiles much faster.

But beyond that most of the codebase of a decently sized application does not need more than the most basic of optimizations - it is only a tiny tiny fraction that needs that, yet with modern C/C++ (and most other) compilers, the entire codebase suffers for it (i think only Visual C++ allows you to control optimization settings on a per-function basis, but i haven't encountered any codebase that actually uses this outside of temporarily disabling optimizations for debugging and/or working around bugs).
~= means not equal in MATLAB. Also it often means one's complement (C and others). Hence the gp used it to mean NOT.
considered by many to be biased

If you're going to cite Wikipedia as authoritative, at least don't use weasel words at the same time - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Manual_of_Style/Word...
T-t-thanks
I'm always wondering why it is the environment that has to change. I'm also living in a city and I neither own a car, nor a bike nor am I using public transport. I just walk everywhere I have to go.

Think about why you can't just walk everywhere and if the answer is that you don't have the time, maybe you should consider just taking that time or reconsider life choices. Why can't you live near the things you need to regularly visit? There's nothing really preventing you. You just don't want to, right?

So maybe everyone should think hard about themselves first, before dreaming about remodelling the environment.
It's called 'the Normalisation of Deviancy' e.g. [0]; there's quite a lot of recent literature about it. Basically a risk is taken and nothing goes wrong; as a result the risk gets repeated more and more often with less and less concern until things do actually go wrong.

[0] https://www.flightsafetyaustralia.com/2017/05/safety-in-mind...
> Isn't that possibly asking for a bit much? The Rust compiler is doing significantly more than a C compiler, so why would be expect it to have C-like speeds?

I do not expect it, i'd just want it to be fast for me to want to use it. I mean, i do not really care why it is slow (outside of curiosity, but not as an for accepting it), i care that it is slow.
I used the OSX App Store for the first time in years a few days ago. For the life of me I could not figure out how to download a simple free app. I had to ask my SO, who usually comes to me for tech questions, how to use it. Keep in mind I've been using computers for decades and have an above average understanding of UI design.

1. Upon clicking the App Store icon and entering my apple ID and password I get a 500 error. No amount of restarting can fix it. After a quick search, one of the top 5 search results led to a cryptic command I had to enter at the Terminal to fix it. This actually happened with a previous MBP and I just never used the app store (pretty much a factory install of OSX on both machines).

2. Clicking the icon to download the app ("GET" I believe) started a loading spinner with no progress indicator. Given it was only a 38MB app, I waited around for a while. Then I took a shower and came back. Still the same loading spinner. Decided to reboot the machine and try again.

3. I searched for the same application clicked GET again and then it turned into a cloud icon. Clicking the cloud icon seemed to do absolutely nothing. At this point I asked my wife who told me I had already downloaded the app to my account and now I need to download it to my machine. EDIT: I just remembered I was seriously confused at this point. I clicked the cloud icon several times and given there was zero feedback I opened both Launchpad and the Applications directory in case it magically already installed.

4. The above explanation made no sense to me. I'm familiar with the concept given I've used every version of Android and I understand I can download previously downloaded things from my account (that I installed on old devices). But that's not how the series of events unfolded. Anyway, I clicked the cloud icon a second (or third?) time and it turned into an install icon and all was good.
You ride to work in the middle of the day?

As someone with very fair skin I check the UV index meticulously: there is no day in the year that I would be riding to or back from work with a UV index higher than 3 in Sydney.

Now if I was cycling at 2pm on a summer's day I would use SPF50 sun cream or wear a UV shirt, just like I do when I walk outside at 2pm.
Exactly, we need a Facebook that actually encourages healthy human interaction and is adverse to viral pollution, dopamine addiction and rage triggers. If it's genuinely useful it will win out.
I have a one-person lifestyle business. I like it primarily because it gives me the flexibility to live anywhere in the world. I hated my old desk job and the idea of 2 weeks vacation every year.

I run a SaaS product that integrates with ERPs. I pretend to my customers that I have a team (so much so that I have multiple email addresses to people that don't exist that actually just forward to me). One of our customers thinks they're paying for a team of 6, but it's actually just me.

My monthly billings last month was 73k USD. I am a tax resident of a tax haven although I do live 3-6 months at a time in a different country.

The only advice I'd give anyone looking to build a lifestyle business is to keep your ambitions and by extension- product feature set in check. I know several other people who operate like me, and the common thread is we have businesses that can easily take VC funds, hire, and expand. But for lifestyle priorities, we chose not to.

A lot of people I've met (particularly in Chiang Mai, Thailand) copy popular, common, and easy online businesses such as drop shipping, social media XYZ, or coding. Unless you live in a really low cost area, it's not a good life. The key is have a very specific niche that can be scaled upwards if you want, but you always have the option not to. Those the ideas and businesses that seems to provide the ideal balance in lifestyle.

EDIT: The product came about at my last job where I built it to make my own job easier. Essentially it did 95% of what job which at the time enabled me to be the "best performer" while not actually working that hard.
They made a fortune out of it.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hollywood_accounting
For 2 its not like he had a choice to do it in person...
I get that greenhouse windows have to be transparent during the day to let in the sun - so why don’t they add shutters that close at sundown and preserve even more of the LED light inside the greenhouses, reducing the necessary power input and solving the light pollution problem?
personally im trying to move away from keeping everything in one basket but maybe there is some benefit to having a password manager built in vs a 3rd party extension? less attack area?

earlier in this year I switched from bitwarden (which I would still recommend) to keepass because I wanted to fill desktop passwords... but there is the added benefit that you actually don't need a browser extension if you don't want to. instead ive been using the autotype feature that can be run from a hotkey.
Do I understand correctly that the experiment itself has to do with simulating quantum circuits using a classical computer, and showing that a real quantum computer can produce the result much faster than a classical computer simulating a quantum one?

It’s hard to parse what the actual thing being computed is.
I realize it’s not what you’re really talking about, I’ve been doing those things for years, first with Chameleon and now with Clover.
What do you mean by "built in"?
Schmelvetica – Absurd fonts for an absurd world
Retina came about in 2012. That was 7 years ago!
Right. Only other scenario that would work is for Joe to fly over there... which probably wouldn't happen.

Regardless, Joe's getting so many good interviews in the past two years.
IBM is claiming 2.5 days not years, apparently.