skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
None of this changes the fact that there’s a limit to the number of cars you can physically pack into London, and that limit isn’t very high.

Putting more cars in increases pollution, and makes it harder to walk and cycle, and reduces the number of people who can safely move around the city.

Ultimately if keep adding cars you end up with a situation where cars are the only viable method of moving around the city, and of all the options available to us it’s objectively the worse.

Boosting walking and cycling in the centre creates extra capacity on public transport, and non-intuitively creates extra space for people driving into the city as locals won’t be occupying space on the roads.

Where I’m living in London household car ownership is about 30%, and the roads already struggle. It’s not like we can build more roads (which would just increase traffic), there’s no physical space to put the damn things in. To top it all off the population is still increasing.

So either we can encourage people to use alternative forms of transport, and we build the infrastructure to support it like bike lanes, or what? We just sit in traffic for the rest of our lives?

What’s you’re solution to a growing population and in a fixed space?
Your assumptions are ugly. There is no possible way for me to know an Audi 6 cylinder (relevant because quiet and fast) is going to come flying around a blind corner when there are huge red stop lights all around it. The only reason I didn't die was because I always am watching the street for cars that aren't paying attention.

Stop comparing to other countries. The usa (especially the south) actively legislates to keep car as king. All of those resources you speak of don't go towards this country's public transportation or self transportation options. Bike lanes are a joke in most big cities. I've watched cars actively try to mess with bikers, run them off the road and such. I won't try to guess their motives. You are naive.
Cycle facilities in countries without a strong cycling tradition are generally dangerous, illogical, and awful. Cycle facilities in countries with a strong cycling tradition are usually better-engineered but mostly exist to get cyclists "out of the way" of motor vehicle traffic.

The solution is low speed limits in urban areas.
> Let's just rewrite stuff and introduce more abstractions when it actually hurts and a refactor is in scope.

This is a very good attitude, but I would like to tack on a second part to it: Instead of designing your code to be infinitely extensible in all directions, make it easily replaceable instead.

It's impossible to anticipate every future requirement, but certain choices will make it easier to deal with a new requirement as it pops up. One of these things is unit tests. If you have some gnarly business logic with tons of edge cases, you really really want a good test suite because it enables you to add new edge cases with confidence.
Christopher Hitchens called America "the last revolution that stands a chance." So I certainly hope so. The problem is the same systems that are weakening us have extended tendrils across the world, so there is no where to run to. I think it will be interesting to see if the human spirit is able to rise up against the already partially here but ever increasing technetronic dystopia.
When I cycle, I dont use same roads as when I go by car. I search for smaller streets parallel to main street etc. Typically they are available.
Dropbox gives recruiters a diverse bonus equal to the difference between hiring an entry level IC1 and an IC6 (senior staff engineer) [0].

[0]: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22741024
Thanks for the figures. I'd guess that most of that power is used to combat drag, which can be lowered by going slower. The rest is probably used to combat gravity, especially during ascent, which should be improved by lowering the amount of fuel.

A small battery, and/or a ground station at the airport could provide a bit of extra power during ascent, and the battery recharged during flight. I guess the extra power shouldn't amount to a lot more than 10kW...

Depending on the wavelength, it should be fairly easy to have the plane act as a Faraday cage to shield its passengers. I guess the geometry could be slightly tweaked as well to make a larger surface area, possibly using trailing metallic wires to improve the energy collection area at a minimal cost (I get that cylindrical wires are the worst aerodynamic shape, but it should be less of a problem behind the wing).

If the wavelength is low enough, a coarse mesh could collect power quite efficiently, but you'd have to worry a lot more about radio interference.
I spent a little while reading, but I still have absolutely no idea what this is.

> At the end of the day, cryptography applied to rebuilding JWT+JWS for the people, distributed messaging over WebSocket and WebRTC, sharing abstracted Git refs, a few URL tricks & QR codes for link sharing.
>Make it easy to integrate your platform and to your platform. Think and share components over entire apps, build around local state and synchronization. Use the standard web & GraphQL.
>To think silo = identity -> code + state & build distributed systems as pools of state machines behind queues,

I'm at least passingly familiar with all those things (except JWS), but I still can't connect the dots. What do Git refs have to do with websockets?

What does "Think and share components over entire apps" even mean?

This reads a little bit like someone got high, had some major epiphanies, and is trying to communicate them with the world with a lot of hand-waving.

Hopefully there's some good ideas under there, they need much more refining and distilling before announcing them in this fashion though.
Sadly, that’s not how most people measure risk. Even if the risk of slowly dying due to obesity is technically higher than being run over by a car, people are going to weight the low frequency, high impact scary events more.

In many ways this is like the discussion about road trips vs. the risk of terrorist attacks when flying. Statistically you’re far more likely to die on the highway, but terrorism is very scary, which after 9/11 caused tons of people to revert to road trips.
s/S\/s/S(.*)\/s\\1\\\/g/

good try though, and keep up the good work! correcting strangers' regex is important business.
> It just seems trivially easy to me

Makes you wonder why the problem exists, then, doesn't it?
I think that bicycle safely campaigns (like the ones for helmets) greatly exaggerated risks of cycling. Which means that the more people are afraid, the less they cycle and the more they see accidents as being the fault someone being too reckless just for driving bike.
There were ranked modes way before centralized multiplayer services, Battlefield 2, Team Fortress 2, Counter Strike, all had ladders (as they were called at the time since it was a literal list of people sorted by stats - they could easily just present the Elo score or whatever instead), both official or community-hosted.
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I'm pretty sure the beam would be traveling at 299,704,644.54 m/s. It is electromagnetic energy.
That's the layer that's argued about the most. :)
German University hospital conducted 192 autopsies on Covid-19 deaths
Feeling the burn right now on this. I collect a $9 a month for my videos that have helped thousands of people learn to code and get their jobs. For over 3 years of running it I have not had a single dispute until now. One of my customers subscribed and has been watching my content for 2 months and decided that he is now done and decided to file a dispute.

Before I could even email them any evidence or make my case I was told I would most likely lose this dispute. My payment gateway told me they would charge me $500 for arbitration fee if I lost the dispute. I forwarded them my t&c and
proof that the customer has used my site and content. I even reached out to the customer to ask why they did what they did, no answer.

It’s a crappy system and online payments is broken. Credit card and payment processing is hugely broken and far behind the times.

Fortunately I am in the position to do something about it. My team and I just recently finished building and launched a new payment engine, we have already started processing payments in the millions of dollars just a few months in and will be taking on Banks, VISA, MasterCard and all traditional payment platforms. It sounds far fetched but when I’ve decided to tackle something I don’t fail. I’ve made it a personal goal to innovate in the payment space. I’m so very excited about the future.
I wonder if it's enough for him to retire on, because I don't see how he could work in the industry again.

I sure as hell wouldn't want to go out that way though, even for fuck you money.
There are three types of developer. Those who never worked at Google, those who currently work there, and those who used to work there. The third kind are the ones to avoid if you're interviewing for your company.
A stereotypical bro is someone who says "bro" a lot, like to do chest bumps with their others bros, scream about sports while shotgunning a beer, and talks with his bros about women as sex objects.
The power must be enormous at the source. It would degrade considerably from the source, inverse square law.
Without horizontal scrolling (annoying on desktop, let alone mobile view: https://snipboard.io/yJ8Lfo.jpg):

> - Cheaters will eventually find a way, but you can always reduce the quantity and quality of them.

> - All information on how to write a cheat for your game eventually ends up in public forums. Keep an eye on those and learn how most people are writing cheats and target those methods specifically.

> - Obfuscation (new detentions, new anti-reversing measures, new countermeasures to cheating methods) buys you time in the immediate term and invalidates existing online information in the long term. They're like antibiotics--they increases the barrier to entry and pain factor of cheating only if you continue adding/changing it.

> - Obfuscation will never be adequate to prevent cheating entirely. Human monitoring, skill-based pairing, and full visibility & control over hardware the game is executing on are probably the next generation in terms of cheat prevention.
Antirez – An IRC server I wrote in 2004 for fun, using the Tcl language
Try the "imgui" library?
That's an instance of a much bigger problem: Fratbros. Fratbros everywhere.

https://www.businessinsider.nl/coronavirus-kushner-impact-te...

>Jared Kushner’s coronavirus ‘impact team’ mocked as the ‘Slim Suit Crowd’ and a ‘frat party’ descended from a UFO
This was a super fun read, thanks for sharing.

The mailing list piece is from 2012, and describes how git is very slow on a synthetic repo with millions of files and commits. Today, my current place of work has a monorepo that’s approaching the size described in this mailing list, but git seems to be holding up just fine. If you checkout a branch that’s far enough away from master it takes a minute, but add, rebase, commit, status and blame are all negligibly impacted speed-wise. The only issue we run into is rejected non-conflicting pushes to master during peak hours, with maybe several dozens of engineers trying to merge and push master simultaneously.

Does anybody have any insight into what’s changed in git internally since 2012 to support bigger repos?
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Where I live, the school district sent equipment home for kids to use if they didn't have anything else. They fully expect to not receive a certain percentage back.
I apologize for my assumptions. And incorrect comparables.

Your personal implications for such necessities are valid. I personally feel if change in commute were to be made I would not want bike lanes, walking restrictions and traffic control of the immediate realm be first but rather out of city commutes to be innovated upon beforehand.

For me it’s a matter of prioritization and This sense of dread of “death” via biking and walking to work doesn’t seem on par with most whom have 1hr+ commutes out of city
Just answered you call at: https://github.com/ZYSzys/awesome-captcha/pull/15 :)
I think that's because a lot of people think that some corporations now have much greater power than governments, especially when it comes to influencing / controlling social thought.
You’re right that the ability to easily control where you live requires more resources. But that’s also an extremely poor (possibly bad faith) counter argument to the suggestion that we improve the infrastructure for non-polluting modes of traffic.
Ah, I'm sorry, it's due to the fact that there is gameplay on the video and the game is rated 18. :(
The media (including social) has been nudging people towards these kinds of conclusions a lot. I remember seeing people associating black bloc protesters with Hillary Clinton which is a completely preposterous association. That is until you realize lumping them together might make someone scared AND mad giving them a lot more reason to not listen to many nuanced points.
He failed the green eggs and ham test for written communication at work.

>Would you like this in the press?

>Would you like this at Brand X?

>Like to read it on the stand?

>Like it in the government's hand?

https://www.legalethicsforum.com/blog/2006/12/over_at_white_...
What is old is new again: https://www.businesswire.com/news/home/20050614005701/en/ART...
> We have to accept they may just not want the gig.

If this is true it's probably because the community isn't very friendly or welcoming to women like the poster said…

That being said, I don't think this is true. My only evidence is anecdotal, but at a previous company when we tried to recruit at events that weren't primarily male dominated, we got roughly equal percentages of responses from people who identified as female or male.

> Just like most men don't go into pre-school teaching.

Let's assume for a moment these statements are correct: you're not starting from the right place. Why don't most women want the software job? Why don't most men want to teach pre-school? It could be because they've been raised in a society that says that the burden of child rearing should be placed on the women and that pre-school isn't a "manly" profession. Just because people don't want the job doesn't make it less discriminatory against women somehow, it just means the reasons are likely ingrained and harder to fix.
> An open source social identity attestation layer that people can operate and federate. Now that sounds cool!

Hard agree! Let me know what you think of this project Iris. I know it's still early, but the plan is sound imo https://github.com/irislib/iris
I honestly want to meet techbros. I live in some sort of echo chamber where gender is so irrelevant to most participants.
I have never seen anyone ask someone's gender on a github issue, I may have missed it but I have seen few issues opened because no inclusivity. No one in any of the programming communities I am in gives two shit about the gender of the participants. Most people have pseudonyms with anime avatars anyway.

Incidentally the techbros you describe are majorly young cs graduates from my observation. Why are unis teaching them to be tech bros? Are unis at fault for making tech non inclusive and toxic?
Your post seems to make a set of assumptions about women's abilities and preferences (for example their ability to thrive in a hyper-competitive environment).

It's not clear why these should be any more acceptable than the claims Damore made.
Optical laser is rather inefficient at converting electricity into optical energy. Surely there are some low-powered diodes where one can get over 50%, but for powerful lasers efficiency like 1% is a good number. Consumer microwave ovens on the other hand has efficiency like 65%.
Contrary to a popular straw man, few people deny that men and women are different in some respects. The point is that there is no reason to think that these differences should, in a healthy culture, put women off becoming programmers, or make them less capable of doing a good job.
I wish research papers had a much stronger notion of "effective date".

By that, I mean the date to use to interpret any wording like "current" or "recently" or "yet" used inside the paper.

For some reason preprints often have no visible date on them at all, and automated datestamps can be misleadingly recent, if someone makes a minor change without rewriting the whole thing.
Not sure what you mean. All the female programmers I've come across had been hired without receiving any boost from an affirmative action program. Had I worked in a company that gave a score boost to candidates belonging to any group X, I could have the legitimate doubt that without the boost some of the people in the group X wouldn't have been hired. It's simply a necessary consequence of the affirmative action.
5 ways China’s use of technology threatens global infrastructures
I can’t even get that to load, and that’s half the problem with all of the YouTube alternatives in general. Youtube is annoying in more ways than I can count, but it works, and I can watch videos in it.
Please correct "findland" to finland.
You mentioned feeling like the country is reopening too fast. Can you talk about how many deaths you expect from the virus vs deaths caused by economic distress related issues if we stay closed? I feel like talking about one without the other is missing half the story. The media has framed everything to only talk about virus related death but it's not the only cause of death.
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Here in Norway it is the cyclists that are entitled.

I often use bike myself, even prefer it, but there's a huge difference between using a bike and being one of those people who'll cross into the road right ahead of you and then ride slowly (happened yesterday) or insisting on riding in the middle of the road uphill, even when there was a wide sidewalk next to the road (also happened yesterday).
If he wrote that on a memo and distributed it to a dozen colleagues, it's doubtfully a secret. If he were fired for being gay, that'd be against the law on pretty much every civilized country and a couple that wouldn't qualify.
Ask HN: Looking for Collaborator for Various Projects
Hey, This is Neco.
I'm a senior full-stack software engineer, https://www.upwork.com/fl/necmttn, and a full-time product maker. I have several projects are ongoing but at the state lacking enough to spare time for each of them. Looking for collaborators to help me out with maintaining and scaling them.

Shoot me dm in @necmttn on any platform. or necmettinkarakaya@gmail.com

some of the projects I need help with;

https://streak.life
https://nomadmeal.com
Wrong link? The comment you linked doesn't really address the disappearance of self hosting servers.

My guess is it was a combination of cost-savings related to the extra polish needed for making a distributable server, but mainly as an anti-piracy measure.
Same story two days ago:
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23102375

How is it possible the same link can be submitted twice?
Wholesale cost of same-day ACH is $.052 flat.

https://independentbanker.org/2016/08/navigating-the-same-da...
Right, it's essentially ragging on a complete product. No one would say, come to peertube, where you have no idea what is meant for your child!
Healthcare Is Not Ready for Artificial Intelligence. Yet
As a former pine user, now trapped behind o365 web client, top posting and all - what email client are you currently using?

I've toyed with going over to mutt, looked at alpine, and mulled over trying notmuch, lumail or even plain nmh.

Ed: for the mail curious, as some of these can be tricky to search for:

http://www.nongnu.org/nmh/

https://repo.or.cz/alpine.git

https://notmuchmail.org/#index4h2

https://lumail.org/
Crystal perhaps? Crystal Language: https://crystal-lang.org/reference/
Using a modified international English keyboard[1] for programming.

My native language is Hungarian. We have 9 extra letters on the keyboard. Occupying the keys on the right side on the keyboard that used for brackets, semicolons, etc. on the US keyboard. These characters are moved to weird positions[1].

I use the English keyboard most of the time but modified it, so when I hit Caps Lock I can type Hungarian letters.

[1]: https://www.apple.com/uk/shop/product/MLA22Z/A/magic-keyboar...

[2]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/QWERTZ#Hungary
Why would that be great? And what the hell does "the profession is richer for it" even mean? Satisfaction of the practitioners in the field? You surely agree that this is not the only valid possible metric here. And not even the only way to achieve such ends.

Has it ever occurred to you, that maybe, just maybe, there are promises made, but they actually have no base in reality? As in, is a whole profession really better off? Have you ever seen even one shred of evidence, that there are tangible benefits, better results in the end, or something?

Always funny to me how easily critical thinking gets thrown out of the window by persons who one would expect that they should know better.
IMO GraphQL is a far better API framework than anything REST or "REST-lite"

1. Since GraphQL is always strongly typed, it serves as the perfect contract-definition layer between front-ends and back-ends. A common pattern is to define all your endpoints with the type definition language, then expose mock endpoints that the front-end team can code against while the back-ends team implements. In practice this works much better than anything I've ever done with REST tooling.

2. The strong typing also guarantees that many classes of mistakes and errors (and potential security holes) never even make it to your running resolver code.

3. GraphQL really excels where you may have clients outside of your control running against older versions of your API. A big original impetus for developing GraphQL was supporting native mobile clients, where all clients can't be updated in tandem with the server like a web-app can. Since the client always sends the full shape of the query they're executing, it's easy to evolve endpoints slowly: just add new fields or endpoints to your schema, @deprecate the old fields, but older clients can use those deprecated fields until they can migrate onto the newer fields. Backwards compatibility is never free, but again, in practice I've found this works much better than maintaining and potentially transforming between different explicit versions of REST APIs.

4. The tooling is simply fantastic. GraphiQL/GraphQL playground are leaps and bounds beyond something like Swagger.

There are other reasons but those are some of the highlights for me.
1) because VCs invested in it

2) I highly recommend Ulysses for this, which has the best writing experience IMO, can open /save external .md files like a txt editor, and is polished and mature across devices.
In my idea, the energy production would be the solar-panel-satellites. Or the deserts if we are only at step 0. But for drones and other energy-receiving devices, imho the ground grid and batteries are still the best option, as the wireless powerlinks towards the ground should be reserved to where it cannot be avoided. Any smaller powerlinks from-space-towards-space would be fine though.