skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Should/could be similar? It "is" similar! There is software that allows to configure your cycling speed as well as such preferences, one example I know of is OsmAnd.
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you could move to gitlab, but from what im hearing the pricing is higher than github (is this still true?)

Barring that you always have the tried and true (and for some reason abhorred by start-ups) option of running your own gitea or gitlab instance. Its not hard, and most of this stuff can be done in dockerless containers if you want.

If cloud servers are getting "overloaded" as some commenters say, you could even buy a few racks or u's of colo somewhere or use a cloud provider that isnt the most popular meme on YC. Vultr and ramnode are both good options and youd be supporting a small business, not Bezos next giga-yacht.
> Viewport units are fundamentally broken by design. Don’t ever use them for layout. In fact I recommend against using them in any situation at all.

That's a pretty bold claim. Can you elaborate on that?
This is just the nature of the world. There are enough defensible reasons to screw your own team so people will do that anyway. The real reason is that once you've hit some degree of prosperity, loss aversion overtakes gain seeking. Today's America is therefore focused on maintenance of its wealth.

You can try anything you like, but it won't work. America cannot build in the real world because it constrains itself out of fear of losing what it has, because it has so much.

All these articles and open letters and appeals are just the same as internal company memos at massive corporations exhorting innovation. But IBM can't innovate, no matter how many innovation labs it funds. It just can't. The fire is dead and that's a property of what it's hit: the upper limit of prosperity. The next innovation won't come from IBM and it will rocket past IBM and then hit its own upper limit.

Perhaps the only recent big companies that have innovated are Apple and Amazon. Maybe there's something to be learned from their relative approaches. But America as it stands won't build, because it can't build. The excuses will be numerous: "law written in blood", "do we want to end up like X who built but built wrong", "America is big", "America is sparse". But the problem is none of that. The problem is that America won, that America is prosperous and glorious, and so it can no longer countenance any risk of loss.
Dunno about no go zones, but the bike lane next to my old place was pretty horrendous. It went down a fairly steep slope next to a four lane road, about halfway down the hill the lane cuts across into the middle of the street about 100m up from a 4 way intersection with a highway. You have the cross the highway in the very center of the intersection, between all the cars, then on the other side, the bike lane cuts back across traffic, then vanishes for a block or so before starting again on the sidewalk.

The first time I rode my bike down there I terrified. You don't have much time to react, the hill creates a blind spot at the point where you have to cross traffic and because the road is used by people trying to beat traffic during rush hour, drivers speed constantly and don't really pay attention. Just on foot i've almost been hit by cars a few times at the top of the hill. Definitely not my favourite route.
It’s not faster but it’s also not much slower. I think some features of C++ Would be hard to optimize by a compiler that doesn’t understand them so a C++ to C compiler may produce slow or bloated code.
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You can't really remove the selection effect of higher paid developers choosing to be remote by adding external controls. You could try using an instrument for remote work or use a Simultaneous Equation Model to remove the selection effect bias.

Counter to your analysis, I'd actually expect the pay premium for remote work would be negative simply because the opportunity to work remote is worth paying for.
If the product lies by design it's far beyond "not meeting specs".
That's a good point. I've seen low-effort applications, but they pale in comparison to low-effort job listings, not to mention the "low effort" HR wall.

On my last hunt, one application for a position that'd have been a perfect match got bounced because the HR person felt that I didn't seem enthusiastic enough. (She did deliver the bad news with a happy smiley, though.)
I was originally writing this article for a general audience of Medium but if you have more technical questions within the range of what I can share, I'll do my best to answer them in the comments
I've got a conversion setup that uses a geared hub motor, apparently the gears are some type of nylon. They're fairly durable, as there isn't a lot of torque on the gear teeth themselves as this is a reduction gear (goes from a higher speed low torque motor to a lower speed at the hub).

I have noticed with mine that there is a bit of a stressful sound from the gears if I apply the throttle from a dead stop, esp. if up an incline. So I typically will start peddling first a couple times then ease on the throttle. Not sure how this would work on a different setup that uses a peddle sensor though.
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Okay, but this appears to not be happening in Japan. Why not? If your answer is, it's going to happen, then why hasn't it happened already if things are truly as dire as the original essay is saying?

Edit: It also appears to not be happening in Sweden. I think a lot of the modeling of this is flawed.
Hey HN,

I've been working on a Chrome/Firefox extension called Intention to help me stay focused and not get distracted, and for me and my friends, we've found it more effective than other tools we've tried.

The idea behind it is extremely simple: Commit to a time limit before using a distracting site.

This prevents the two most common ways that we get sucked into distractions online:

1. Habitual navigation: Throughout the day, we reflexively type t/f/r <enter> and immediately start scrolling through Twitter / Facebook / Reddit / etc. Intention stops you before you start browsing and gives you the opportunity to decide not to get sucked in.

2. Mindless browsing: Our willpower is no match for the endless stream of personalized content optimized to keep our attention for as long as possible. Intention pauses your browsing after your intended time limit and restores your focus.

You can set a daily limit to know how much time you've spent across all distracting sites, and for every day you stay under your limit, you'll grow your personal streak.

I designed Intention with privacy as a core priority, and here's what that means:

- Intention requests access only to the sites you select, not all sites.

- Intention gives you full control over the data you share.

- Your browsing history stays in your browser and is never transmitted.

Intention is part of a suite of tools I'm developing to help people spend their time well, and I'd love to hear your feedback.

DK

P.S. If you'd like to read about the process behind developing Intention, I've been publicly writing a daily journal at https://roadtoramen.com
zmq is used in a many large-scale production systems. It's definitely safe to use and has been stable for a long time.

nng is relatively new. Personally I have not had any issues with it. I'd look through the open Github issues and see if you can find any dealbreakers. The deciding factor may be language/library support. I would also classify it as "safe to use in production" though.
That's great it was an option for her but a lot of the uptick in zoom usage lately is for people who don't have the option to see each other face to face anymore due to Covid.

The alternative would be audio-only calls or text-based chat, or simply not communicating (not feasible for businesses but maybe for families/friends).
There are lots of reasons, but the most obvious one is cost. All of SourceHut's servers are purpose-built for a particular role, and their hardware is tuned to that. The server that git.sr.ht runs on is pretty beefy- it cost me $5.5K to build. I paid that once and now the server belongs to us forever. I ran the same specs through the AWS price estimator, and it would have cost ten grand per month.
That's fair. My circle includes several acquaintances who prefer talking loudly about how engineering should be, to accomplishing much of anything in the realm. So, similarly overfitting, I engaged a mode of my own.
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This is a good move but several years too late. Google has already squandered it's lead in shopping when they replaced an excellent shopping search engine with a crippled advertising board that neither shows the cheapest prices nor a wide variety of products to buy. This has been compounded by introducing absolutely no substantitive improvements to the product over the past few years.

Meanwhile, because nobody used the useless shopping search, the homepage search experience has been ruined by the assumption that every search is somebody who wants to buy something.

And let's not speak of the amazon/ebay duopoly that's developed. Google could have fought against that but chose not to in the hope of slightly increased advertising revenue.
This article is simultaneously both obsolete and completely current.

Obsolete in that the C++ committee has addressed almost all of the issues raised (e.g. constructor semantics, xception semantics et al) though the discussion of site-of-error/handling-of-error continues unabated.

Later versions of C++ (17and 20) are powerful and expressive systems programming languages that aren’t like the object-oriented messes of old.

The reason that this article remains completely current is that I suspect the majority, and likely vast majority, of C++ is still written in C++03/C++11 and full of dreadful issues like the ones in the article.
So you're saying that we should raise taxes to spend on the homeless problem? That hasn't worked for San Francisco, which spends a crazy amount per person and the only thing they have to show for it is more homelessness. Perhaps your heuristic is wrong. Perhaps, when you pay for something, you tend to get more of it, not less.

I can't think of a single place that spends money on homelessness that doesn't get more of it.

Furthermore, if a city is expensive and getting more expensive like SF and Seattle, it means that city is becoming harder for people without decent earning power to stick around. It's like a video game being changed from easy mode to hard mode. Seattle and SF are hard mode, which means most people at the bottom will fail to ever succeed there. By spending the money in Seattle and San Francisco, you're throwing good money after bad money because you're helping many people stay in a place in which they likely won't ever succeed. The money would be better spent in locales around the country where it's easy mode for someone to get back on their feet.

Trying to solve homelessness in Seattle and San Francisco is one of the most egregious wastes of money I've ever seen. It's practically a homelessness industrial complex in San Francisco already and starting to become one in Seattle. Everyone advocating most ardently for it are people whose salary is paid from these tax dollars. It's the Shirky Principle in action.

https://kk.org/thetechnium/the-shirky-prin/
> If it was going to spread further it would have already.

I gotta say, your capability for wishful thinking is impressive.

Look at Singapore the past week. They had everything under control for months. Or what. Singapore's climate is too cold?

Again, willing to put your money where you mouth is? Let's say 500k deaths by the end of the year excluding the US
I wonder if VR meetings will take off because of this crisis. Most of the issues you mention would be solved by VR, except the audio latency, which is the biggest hurdle.

For mass adoption the headsets would have to become even more comfortable and lightweight, the displays faster and higher resolution, with lower price and easier setup.

I haven't followed the latest developments, so we might be a couple of generations away from this, assuming the industry can keep progressing during downtime.
I found the paper. I haven't read through it so I can't say if it is actually any good, but it is good enough that the FDA changed their recommendations because of it (that might not mean much, of course).

https://www.medrxiv.org/content/10.1101/2020.04.01.20050005v...
How did you run it? WineHQ lists compatibility as "Gold", but report is three years old. Might be worth trying it out on latest Wine version.
Out of curiosity how do you or how to you plan to monetize this? Seems like it would get expensive really quickly.
It really depends on what you're trying to do with Social Media.

I tried for years to get a small business' Twitter account to take off with no success.

But I also created a personal Twitter account for political musings and it had 10 times more followers than the business account in a few months, and literally hundreds of times more engagement.

I don't think anyone is actually "good at social media" as it's constantly changing. I just think you have to take the right approach to whatever you're trying to do, and also be lucky.
Similar: if you tell an average person that their earbuds are turned up too loud and it’ll damage their hearing, they likely won’t do anything. Tell them it’s too loud and will damage their headphones, and they’ll turn down their volume for the rest of their lives.
Are the 86 deaths attestable only to the BC premier? Or could it also be the fault of the federal government?

Presumably the leader of a small nation has a wider latitude for action to them than the leader of a similarly sized region which is contained in a larger country.
I've noticed that too. Needing to stay busy or be distracted. It's probably low self-awareness and discipline. Something they have an opportunity to cultivate during lockdowns, hopefully.

I think people are not used to thinking about how their actions affect others on a bigger scale unless the effects are right in-front of them.
The stated goal is to launch a rocket.

But doing so hardly ever gave me a feeling of closure (excluding the 8h achievement speed-run) I got after finishing some story-based game and the "you won"-screen has a "keep playing" button for a reason... I expect most player use it.

If the core game loop doesn't bring you satisfaction and you don't find motivation in setting your own goals, then this game just isn't the right one for you.
I was trying to figure out if this was satire.

C++ gives you strictly more tools, particularly for guaranteeing reliability, and they're all optional.

What particularly laughable here is the split ctor/init pattern is allegedly driving them towards C, whereas C doesn't even give you dtors! If you're forgetting your init calls, are you really telling me you're not going to forget your destructor call? There are plenty of approaches besides split-init anyway, but it feels like the author feels pulled towards C for other reasons, and is looking for reasoning after the fact. C is not a magic bullet for simpler code!

C is useful for solving social problems with deciding what features and patterns of C++ to use, if you've given up on code review and style guidelines. If you decide that's you, good luck! You'll need it.
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Care to expand on this some more? Perhaps you have some other examples of both good front-end and server side, modern, day web development?
Yeah, they can, but I can just imagine the headlines. Google actively avoiding compton. Is gOoGlE rAcIsT?
The music was new, black polished chrome / And came over the summer like liquid night

The DJ's took pills to stay awake / And play for seven days

Andreesen's 'Software Eats The World,' Mosaic & associated perspectives emerged from the fresh green fields of internet-enabled personal computing in the 90s and 2000s. Everything was young and novel. The software itself. The business models. The cultural impact. The companies and personas. Everything was a disruption.

There was a time when the record industry was fresh & jukeboxes were a disruptive new "channel." With it came new business models, genres of music. Music became imbued with new cultural & artistic significance.

There was a time when gentleman scientists were inventing the institution of science at home. A time before "publish-or-perish," tenure-tracks and grant applications.

Everything was young once. Mechanised farming. Production line manufacturing. The Americas. Nothing stays young, however.

Pondering why & how institutions go from new to old is something we've been doing forever. Ibn Khaldun, father of social science, had his barbarians-vs-civilisations theories in the 1300s.

These theories tend to get ideological. Marxism was a (Khaldun-ish) theory that "late-stage capitalism" was upon us(them). Ayn Rand thought everything had gotten infested with parasitic "looters." Both fantasised about revolutionary moments, where the old world dies and is reborn new & fresh. Today, we like terms like regulatory capture/burden, incumbent effects, path dependencies, low hanging fruit depletion or somesuch. All characterisations of "corruption" infesting mature institutions.

There are lots of examples. NASA's achievements in early decades vs the 90s. How a 3 person startup with 1 month of code can add featureX to their product orders of magnitude more easily than an established company with a mature code base. Twitter once served their product to the whole world with 50 people. It was a similar twitter, but doing it with just 1,000 people today would be a massive challenge.

Everything starts young. Everything gets old.
Agreed, in Germany half the forest paths near me are missing. It isn't rocket science, the crowdsourced OpenStreetMap data has them. (And Google would be welcome to use the data for the price of adding credits, since it's open data.)
Last I heard, they were embedding neovim in VS Code, have you tried this? Or did they give up on this?
Anyone know if these have ECC support? I need to build a few (3) really cheap x86 boxes but need ECC support.
“People that move every couple of months or that have a camper tend to do better.“

I work remotely but I honestly can’t imagine such people being able to do sustained deep development work. It seems that lifestyle is more suitable for work that’s done in relatively small increments.
I think that is being a bit harsh on BC - it is looking pretty good compared to basically all the rest of North America; not perfect, but acted sensibly for the most part.
Sure, but you described NZ as a "warm island nation", you didn't say that it's warm there lately. Where I am in Minneapolis it will be in the 70s–90s in a couple months, but I wouldn't call Minneapolis a "warm city".

I'm reading Pathway of the Birds, about Polynesian voyaging, navigation and settlement with a focus on NZ, and there's a whole chapter "Settling New Zealand: Adapting to a Cool Land", which was something the early settlers had to do because they came from genuine warm islands in tropical Polynesia.
FreeBSD had a more fun SYN cookie bug in 2015 (fixed here [1], and I think this is the diff where it was introduced [2]; determining which releases it touched is an exercise for the reader); the initial sequence of the sender had been left out.

I guess you would have a similar lack of dogs, but also, if a connection was opened and closed quickly, a re-transmitted packet from the client would satisfy the SYN cookie calculation, and the server would re-open the connection, but at it's original sequence number.

The details are a bit hazy, but the client would get an ACK with SEQ behind where it had ACKed, and would send an ACK probe with it's latest values. The server would see an ACK ahead of where it had sent, and send an ACK probe. If the hosts had low enough round trip times, the number of ACK probes sent could be tremendous. For those unfamiliar with FreeBSD, the localhost interface on FreeBSD runs full TCP, and under high load can drop packets and retransmit. We ran into this on localhost first, but then later across the internet with external clients.

[1] https://github.com/freebsd/freebsd/commit/56ba0a68edde7b3832...

[2] https://github.com/freebsd/freebsd/commit/fc2be30b217171175b...
Wikipedia CPU microbenchmark measures 19% improvement in visitors devices
At this point I'm one of the few people still putting up the video feed, and I'm feeling pretty depressed. There was at least some interaction with that dumb feed of peoples heads, now I feel alone and like I'm talking to a wall. You'd be surprised how much you rely on feedback and validation from body language alone when it's abruptly been eliminated from your life.
Oops, was thinking about composing arrows on crafting graph, not the action of crafting and the consequent inventory, and that was needlessly confusing. I should have simply said that it's non-invertible.
The judgement and recommendations of people doing the trolling don't bear much weight. I'd rather hear from the people on the receiving end. If it's not welcome, then it should stop.
As many readers are stating there seem to be larger, internet-wide issues today in US.
The delay/service unavailablity should follow the work at home schedule then- pushes pre-lunch and pre evening dinner.
Printing money does deface the dollar.

However, it can destroy or create value, depending on how its done and why. Words like 'never' and 'always' are rarely true in economics. Value is being destroyed through debt defaults, layoffs, and bankruptcies on a massive scale right now. Inflation would almost certainly destroy less value.

My expectation is we won't get out of this without either:

(1) An economic collapse

(2) Cleverness

(3) Inflation, to where post-pandemic prices are a small multiple of where they are today (e.g. 2-10x).

(4) Mass death and disability (people underestimate the economic impact of having a big portion of the population disabled by COVID19 for the rest of their lives)

Inflation seems like among the lesser of the possible evils right now.
There have been experiments where cyclists with music on headphones were more likely to hear a signal than drivers behind closed windows, without music and with the engine off. Certainly depends a lot on headphone model and volume setting, but it doesn't have to be a safety issue (unless your expectations are so high that you consider closed windows an issue as well)
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how does this help? if you can test at home, so what? how does that change anything? it's not being tracked, can you trust results, etc.
I imagine two things that make simple analysis harder.

1) once an author has a sufficient library, hiring a team to emulate them is easier (Tom Clancy, Hanz Zimmer.)

2) if in a collaboration, a partner could write a skeleton or first draft, and the main author could edit and fill in the cracks. Conversely they could write scattered sentences and have their partner flesh out filler.
I see nothing in this article that suggests that New Zealand was particularly scientific in their response in contrast with other countries. This idea comes from someone's viewpoint of NZ's relationship with the scientific community, but that doesn't really demonstrate that their leaders responded in line with whatever scientific evidence there is.

This comes of as yet another "I f*ing love science" type news story.
One good alternative to ctor+init() is a static factory method with a private ctor. It's just as simple as in C.
That new dialect of C exists, and it's called C++!