skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
What do you mean by micromobility?

Walk? There is no place you can walk to from your house. Our strict zoning codes have carefully kept anyplace you might want to walk to farther from your house than walking distance. Even if we eliminated all codes today (ignoring all downsides) it will be many years before it makes much a difference.

Bike? Cities in the US are too large and spread out. You can get farther in a car than a bike. There is some opportunity, but not much because few people live within reasonable bike distance of work so they will have a car: once you have a car you may as well drive: you can fit more in the trunk than the bike racks, so it is easy to be lazy.

In addition, streets tend to wind around, you often spend far longer than desirable getting out of your neighborhood. This is only a few minutes by car, but on a bike it is a lot longer and you feel that when you spend a lot of time going the opposite direction of your destination because that is how the roads go. This is really hard to fix without knocking down houses. This same issue mean that transit cannot work, even if density is high enough (it typically is!) the winding roads mean the bus can't run fast enough to get people anywhere in a reasonable amount of time.
At least you could see the popups. I default open things in an incognito window, and it won't even load if you're in incognito, just shows you a big banner shaming you for using incognito mode and asking you to log in.

It'd be kinda cool if HN had reddit-like flairs for stories so you could tag them as "no-incognito" or "soft-paywall" so you knew what not to bother clicking on.
Impossible, go away with your socialist ideas! /s
Exactly, these profiles are not public anymore (in the common sense meaning of "public profile"). BTW LinkedIn and others are doing the same, and what anyone is going to do about it?
Would you agree "good faith" implies intent is measured ?
This is getting to be a growing trend in Silicon Valley: employees demanding of their management and even CEOs certain action. Whether California a "right to work" state or not, I imaging employees demanding management do something that management doesn't want to do is grounds for dismissal. Are workers being let go for "standing up to management" like this?
Mark Zuckerberg Needs to Shut Up
* google web search’s aim is to maximize ad revenue while retaining users
Site appears to work perfectly with JS disabled entirely (IMO, as the web should be).
> I'd agree that over the last two years the 'SEO' gamers have been outplaying Google.

I agree 100%. Sometimes though it feels like the Web itself is deteriorating as the bulk of new Internet users increasingly only care about a handful of social media platforms. Where's the "sources of truth" about website quality when we need them? We used to have DMOZ/ODP providing something like that, it had a lot of problems but by and large it worked. But now DMOZ is dead, and there's nothing as of yet to replace it.
It's a greater degree of control than you get with most languages. For instance, in most high-level, garbage collected languages with RAII, allocations and frees happen at a fairly granular level when objects are created and destroyed, and the programmer has zero ability to ensure things like cache-friendly, contiguous memory layouts.

For things real-time applications, or even video games, this can make the difference between success or failure.
Sure, you can choose to distrust any and all data provided by anyone and put faith into anecdotes. I'm not sure that will help much though.
Honestly a good clean rewrite might benefit a lot of software though, even if in the original language
Yes, though I don't know of anything that I really need.

I already paid for a Codeweavers Crossover lifetime license.
Restaurants != Food

Having some one else prepare and serve you food is a luxury, they deserve to be paid for their work.

If you disagree then do the work yourself no one is stopping you.
Once a case is big enough for improving the reputation of prosecutors and institutions involved, they will go to any length to make it happen.

Challenging the US justice system in matters of legal (and even human) rights, more often than not, leads to dead ends.
"You should be able to clearly articulate your preferred privacy policy and reject websites that don’t meet your standards."

It occurs to me that this could be a rough description of ad blocking extensions, although rather like the Aldous Huxley quote about means determining ends, ad blockers are the result of an adversarial relationship rather than a consensual one.
We played Star Trek on the Apple ]['s in our middle school computer lab back in the mid 1980's. Bless whomever ported that game.
And I'm saying, don't pass judgement on the fuzzy ones. Draw the line where it's indisputable; you'll miss some but it's better than missing everything.
Which ofc comsumes time as well, for research ;)
It didn't go wrong. It went very well.

It didn't turn into the idealized vision that the author apparently had for it, but that's not unusual.
If you have routing to the IP, then it's just a matter of:

$ telnet <ip> <port>

If you don't have routing, then you'll need to arrange it somehow. With the example addresses you gave, you could do it by being on your immediate upstream network and then running:

$ ip route add 192.168.1.123/24 via 123.45.67.89
$ telnet 192.168.1.123 <port>
Do you have a criticism that goes deeper than pointing to the name of an organization?
It feels like author is depressed. It's a bit sad to read. He manages to pull so much negativity out of the things that are generally have a net-positive impact, things that drive the progress, that are progress.

Disappointing article. I don't need this negativity in my life.
beginner questions: how is information inhere better than others?
It is one of my main uses of Pi-Hole: “never, ever let anything from that domain into my network ever again.” If I accidentally click a link, it doesn’t go anywhere. I use it for quite a few domains that show up in a lot of places, but have proven to be an annoyance. I’m believe Pinterest was one of the first to be added for that reason.

The ad blocking Pi-Hole provides is a nice bonus, too.
The Ukrainian self-taught developer making the best-rated Apple translation app
Do you review all of the source-code that you run? If you trust the source-code due to its origin, why not trust a binary?
Its absolutely ridiculous. Its now to a point where 15-18% is expected even for bad service, and 25% and up for good services. There is no way I'm paying an extra quarter of my bill in tips because the restaurant owner is too cheap and offloads the staff costs directly to their customers.
I ported this to JavaScript (apart from the InitPlan shenanigans), so that it doesn't require the server-side component - it runs directly in the browser.

https://github.com/kokes/pg_flame.js
How to make WordPress as fast as a static site
> ... it would turn out to be about Rust

The post is not _about Rust_. It _mentions_ Rust and it also _mentions_ Elm, as examples of higher-level, safer languages and uses them to demonstrate some of the benefits this category of languages offers.
1) JavaScript is NOT C.

2) There is nothing wrong with C. It was DESIGNED to service specific needs and does that just fine

3) I think this obsession with "safe languages" is being taken too far. Safety does not come free, we pay for it. Mostly in performance which is a valuable "feature" for many types of software. Not gobbling all computer memory running "Hello world" helps too. Besides automatic memory management and "everything is immutable" does not really make software safe either.
Almost every big positive change in society is a result of people feeling negative about the status quo.

This reminds me of Steven Pinker who goes around saying, please stop whining; some/many/most/all things are better than they used to be! while somehow neglecting the fact that to the degree things are better, they usually are because people didn't stop whining.
How did it go so wrong - the same way it did go wrong with many other tools - people used them to better themselves at the cost of others.

> We could try to push the internet back toward its ethical roots. However, it would be a complex challenge requiring a joint effort by interested parties — which means pretty much everyone.

That "everyone" also includes bad actors.
No mileage limits seems crazy. Won't dealers be upset if a car comes back from a week-long rental with an extra 2,500 miles on it?
Swish: SWI Prolog Notebook
HN is quite possibly the worst crowd to ask this. Most here don't care much about design.
It's not true, it's just a trite, condescending right-wing talking point repeated ad nauseum all over the Web whenever a discussion of minimum wage pops up.
This. The only current driver of cost reduction in genome sequencing at the moment is subsidization.
Because your intuition about the ease of building random number generators is wrong, especially if they need to be cryptographically secure. I trust my OS’ RNG functions[1] far more than I trust third party code to be right, and I trust it a million times more than I trust myself to get it right. Trusting a small core of validated code is far more likely to be correct in the long term.

Wireguard’s mistake was not using what the OS gave them; I’m not sure why they didn’t.

[1]: https://man.openbsd.org/arc4random.3
Following Google's [ad-blocking restrictions](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20044430),
I switched from Chrome to Firefox and from Google Search to DuckDuckGo. It's been great so far, browsing in incognito mode by default. Gmail and Docs has been the hardest addiction to kick so far, but I've heard good things about Fastmail. More friends are following suit.

It may seem like we developers are in the minority, but the minority rule applies to us: tastemakers make the apps that run in your browser and you install Firefox on your parents' machines at thanksgiving.

Windows 10's forced-updates and telemetry are the main things preventing me from buying a Surface for my next machine. But I don't know how I'm going to get off my iPhone - the CPU is just too fast.

Remember, you are the market. You can vote with your eyeballs and your employment. Giving up salary is easier said than done, but no other profession has more opportunities to choose a moral employer.
Good for them - that's much less than I do!
Hypothetically, When you buy an iPhone, do you expect to also get the latest model when it is released?

That being said, Apple also releases iOS updates to previous phones, even after they've been paid for.

If this doesn't seem strange to you, then perhaps the same thought process of buying a specific version of software with the expectation that it will work for several years is not unreasonable.

I see no need for a subscription model on every type of software. I pay you once, you ensure that it's written in a way that will continue to work for years to come. End of transaction, as far as I'm concerned.
Indeed. That's unfortunate, but there's no place for (free) services aimed at power users in the Internet.
Don't need to, I find that this is a good enough filter for a pareto 80% of cases.
I think that this article is really telling about the truth behind the Intel marketing: https://semiaccurate.com/2019/10/29/intels-actions-on-10nm-a...

Intel is telling every 3 months that 10mm is around the corner since 2016... (and even had a token 10mm CPU). Here we are in 2019, and we are still waiting.
Maybe also inspired by a real example?

Gerd is a women's name in Norway, and I would think in other Nordic countries, since it's after a giant-goddess with the same name (the wife of Frey). So there would have been a lot of girls named Gerd around at the time.

Of famous people, I can only remember the actor Dana Ashbrook, who played Bobby Briggs in Twin Peaks.
EToro Marketing Manager Discusses Inherent Challenges with Acquiring Customers
Progress for a select few, for everyone else things are going backwards. Life expectancy and quality of life is doing nothing but going down year after year in the United States.

If you're one of the few privileged elites who benefited from the internet, congrats! You're a very small minority.
But they just delivered "Smart Summon" feature where the car drives itself to you in a parking lot. The rollout of this feature has been glitchy. But it gives them a lot of data which they will learn from and improve. Once they fix all the bugs in Smart Summon they will have made a major step forward. Self-driving safely in a parking lot is very hard--there may be kids walking about randomly, other cars moving in unpredictable ways, and so on. In fact, my guess is that self-driving in a parking lot is harder than self-driving in city streets, because there are more rules, more room and more predictability in city streets.

I wouldn't be surprised if Tesla delivers city-street self-driving in a year or two.
Yeah. I've witnessed so many controversies I started archiving and collecting them. Code of conduct enforcement is flawed to say the least.
But the choice between static and dynamic typing (or duck typing add described here) is not cost neutral.

Dynamically typed languages can be much quicker and cheaper to write, making for more rapid business product cycles. The lack of type safety can largely be made up by adding to the already necessary unit tests.

Isn't that how the YouTube startup out-manoeuvred Google's much larger dev team working with static types?
Data Ownership and the Semantic Web: Interview with Professor Ruben Verborgh
Huh, didn't know this. Surely the cost of the machines has to be included somehow in the cost per basepair?
> BTW LinkedIn and others are doing the same, and what anyone is going to do about it?

Stop using their user-hostile service? They need my eyeballs in order to sell me to advertisers. If they are creating features that turn users away, their bottom line may be impacted enough that they reevaluate their user-hostile business practices.
Yeah in swedish leaving them off isn't working. The diacritics aren't for accentuation, they are distinct letters. An ö is as different from o as u and e are.
Thank you for this constructive comment. The visualization is using deck.gl which requires WebGL. I'm working on a fallback message but for now it won't show any data if your browser doesn't support WebGL.
apple has TMSC build their chips.
amd has TMSC build their chips.

apple doesn't quite have to clout to tell TMSC not to build chips for anyone else.
You buy a car because it is there for you. When you want to go it is always where you left it and ready to go. People tend to forget about this: you don't have to reserve your ride ahead of time, you just go when you are ready. To be useful shared cars will be idle most of the time as well: if they are not you cannot be sure one is ready and waiting for you when you decide you want to go. Otherwise you may as well take the bus which is cheaper than a shared car can ever be because more people are on it at a time.

Since there isn't much savings possible in a shared car without losing the whole advantage of a car you may as well buy your own: the ability to leave your golf clubs in it is more than worth the extra costs.
Apologies. I didn't mean to sound condescending. It just seemed like a desire to do something so entirely at odds with the two approaches to online interaction (open, user controlled, non-hierarchical vs closed, corporate controlled and top down implementations) that it confused me.
Stock trading
> The good thing about the driverless cars is that they solve the parking problems in the cities.

They only solve them by doubling the traffic problems. I'm not a civil engineer so I'm not sure which problem is harder to solve, but this hardly seems like a free lunch.
I don’t recall Google’s search quality 7 years ago. I do recall it the first time I used Google. I also recall it when the Demand Media eHow/Livestrong content farm spam decimated their results.

One thing that’s worth pointing out, that most technical users miss, are the ads. If you are blocking ads in the results, you have a totally different search experience.
Right. And you are just looking at deaths. The injury rates are much higher. And crash injuries can be debilitating. Certainly the #1 threat to health in the U.S.
> For decades I've been saying that all text input should go through OS-level IMEs (input method editors).

Which is why it's infuriating when the built-in widgets of a platform don't include simple operations for obvious workflows like filtering characters, masked input, etc. That's what leads developers to have to roll their own implementation using keydown/keyup.

I can't tell you how many GUI frameworks have forced me to roll my own numeric input widget.
Yes, I think you haven't been following Linux closely enough. Ubuntu, at least, has been very aware of this problem for years now. Their "software center"/package management is probably close to as seamless and mature as the Mac "App Store". The caveat remains that many common paid apps (e.g. video games, Microsoft Office) are not compatible with Linux, but that doesn't seem to affect you.
Maybe check out Elementary OS[0]? It has an integrated set of apps and an (optionally) paid appstore.

0. https://elementary.io/
Worthy read—-Learn CSS the Pedantic Way (by Mikito Takada): http://book.mixu.net/css/
Apparently on field DNA testing

https://www.nytimes.com/2019/10/27/us/politics/dna-tests-bag...
-cloud storage

-data costs (cell phone, broadband)

-hosting (became free in last couple of years thanks to Netlify, GH pages etc.)
Why apply Open/Closed principles in React component composition?
The exponential part is going to trip up most of this. In the best scenarios you might get that for a very short duration of time in a segment and then see a continued, very slow decline in costs.

Space launch costs, thanks initially to SpaceX pressure.

Wireless and wired broadband access costs per bit continue to decline persistently globally. Satellite broadband costs are about to do a hard one-time plunk as Starlink comes online (another example of the short lived nature of the biggest drops).

The cost of entry for a decent virtual reality experience vs the value potential or value derived. The hardware requirements vs the median machine has adjusted massively in the Oculus era and the quality of the software will continue to persistently improve over a long period of time.

The cost of lithium-ion batteries $/kWh.
Because some unreasonable people get upset when we try to tip police and bureaucrats :)
Reminds me a lot of the now infamous reddit EA comment: "The intent is to provide players with a sense of pride and accomplishment for unlocking different heroes. As for cost,..."
I'm in this boat too, having bought lots of software but been burned by products disappearing/being neglected.

In buying sftware, in my experience, the real cost is in my time learing/mastering it. The ultimate example here is a text editor. If sublime was free as in speech I would still be paying to use it. As it is, I lost confidence that team could maintain it long term and have switched to Atom.

What good models are there for free speech consumer/individual developer software to actually make money?
I interviewed Alex who learned to code from books without the internet in Ukraine, having to call up his brother and ask him if code was correct. He now lives in Vienna and has made the best rated translation app in the App store.
I would pay, but I have a hard time figuring an application that I am currently missing.

It is also not completely clear to me what you mean by "beautifully designed". For instance, I run Ubuntu wih Gnome 3, and most (all?) of my applications are based on GTK+3. If you were to make an application that is very beautiful in itself, but is not written in GTK, it will stick out. This is going to make the application - in context - uglier than if it was GTK based. Now, if you use GTK, I think the application is going to look like all other GTK application, which nowadays is pretty nice.

In short the answer is: yes, I would pay for an application that solves me a problem, but I may consider not buying it if it is made with a custom toolkit instead of GTK.

EDIT: also, it has to be a one off payment, not recurrent, and I expect it to integrate with the OS (for instance, update by providing a PPA instead of running a custom updater)
Which profession? All of them? Who pays for that sort of support in school? And given that there are only so many hours in the day, what do we lose? Do we need even more of our soft skills and arts removed as we build a society solely around getting people into a career and keeping them there? Are we OK with people who don't understand history or geography because they don't need really need those skills as plumbers?

And wasn't a high school education good enough 50 years ago for most positions? Companies have been able to force the burden of debt for gaining the skills required for a job onto the individual, through exorbitant college fees and unpaid internships, now you're advocating the government should take on the specialization that the private industries require?

As a college student one is barely able to figure out their interests - there's so much push to start planning well in advance, I have no idea how we can expect a tween to commit to a career path.
My 11 year old brother trades stocks

Not sure if that's what they meant by free market
I just took these sizes from the master branch when I wrote the above comment. While that may have been true at one point, or is for C code, I suspect that is no longer the case in general. Between data files, resources, modern compilers optimising for speed over size, and more, I'd expect this to be significantly higher now.
Yeah because if we pay a restaurant worker $100 an hour, they will eat 10 as much...right? The reason of why this might be beneficial is likely because restaurant workers aren't just paying for car insurance, rent, health insurance, etc, and can afford a luxury-- like eating out.
No but that's not how I use my computers. I use Vim and Firefox. There are two graphical applications I use that aren't web based. One I use a lot (a music app) and the other I use infrequently (gimp). I pay for a couple web based applications. I can't imagine anything that someone could sell me that I would need to actually run from my computer.

ps- I make a small monthly donation to Slackware because that's where this all started for me.
Sure, but as we talk about usability and user experience, the point is Google is good in retaining users. Geeks aren't target audience for Google web search as well as for any other really big internet service.
I agree, but lately I've noticed that DDG's results have been trending in the same direction. Maybe I'm just imagining things? (To be clear, I still find it generally better than Google for day-to-day search.)

I long for the return of an Altavista-like "dumb" search engine with proper "hard" boolean support. My brain is hardwired to think that way and I strongly prefer it. I understand that this wouldn't be useful for everyone, but I don't care. How on earth does it make sense to have only one kind of search engine for all of humanity.
Avoiding your mouse. TUIs can be far faster than GUIs when you don't have to take your hands off the keyboard to reach for a slow mouse.