skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
A good book on how the automobile came to (the American) city streets:

> Before the advent of the automobile, users of city streets were diverse and included children at play and pedestrians at large. By 1930, most streets were primarily a motor thoroughfares where children did not belong and where pedestrians were condemned as "jaywalkers." In Fighting Traffic, Peter Norton argues that to accommodate automobiles, the American city required not only a physical change but also a social one: before the city could be reconstructed for the sake of motorists, its streets had to be socially reconstructed as places where motorists belonged. It was not an evolution, he writes, but a bloody and sometimes violent revolution. Norton describes how street users struggled to define and redefine what streets were for. He examines developments in the crucial transitional years from the 1910s to the 1930s, uncovering a broad anti-automobile campaign that reviled motorists as "road hogs" or "speed demons" and cars as "juggernauts" or "death cars." He considers the perspectives of all users--pedestrians, police (who had to become "traffic cops"), street railways, downtown businesses, traffic engineers (who often saw cars as the problem, not the solution), and automobile promoters. He finds that pedestrians and parents campaigned in moral terms, fighting for "justice." […]

* https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/2924825-fighting-traffic

See also the book:

* https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_High_Cost_of_Free_Parking
Someone better come up with one. I don't want another year of this bull.
I have similar feelings... I often think of ways one might be able to have anonymous + secure + decentralized messages... unfortunately, any solution becomes easily DDoS-friendly. Then, thinking about which pillar to relax would be best. Then, thinking to hell with it, SMTP works well enough.
I'm no expert, but if this is fake it's rather well made (including Glenn Gould introducing the piece at the beginning). If it's not published, how did you get it?
Wish they would make dedicate ML cards so the gamers don't have to fight with the deepfakers and miners
> A bunch of armchair freedom fighters who have no idea of the consequences of war think that their shiny “tactical” AR15 is going to stop a tank.

This presupposes that the military will go along with firing on their fellow citizens. That was the case in Syria, but it's far from clear that American troops would do likewise — recent polling suggests that the U.S. military is getting tired of the current regime, er, administration. [0]

[0] https://www.militarytimes.com/news/pentagon-congress/2020/08...
You can also disable JS via uBlock Origin by default, and enable it on a site-by-site basis.
The sad thing is reputable stores cant counter this chinese seller scam.

Reputable sellers risk being nuked out of the store permanently if they are caught doing this.

Chinese sellers have no rep to speak about (often setting up stores as soon as the other is shut down) so they dont have a risk. They just spend on reviews to pass their stuff as legit

Rinse. Repeat
news.ycombinator.com loads pretty fast too.
I also left. Productivity shot up and office supplies theft plummeted.
That is called life. There is no vacation when you have a sick spouse, or bought a new house, or are in a car accident. Your job shouldn't be your break, regardless of your situation.

My wife is at a FAANG company currently covering for 4 people who all get double digit weeks off because they chose to have children. Does she get any time off for literally working 18 hour days 7 days a week? No of course not.
One of the many reasons I have had kids is as a service to humanity. It’s definitely fun, but way too many people just cannot be bothered so someone has to.

I kind of want our race/country/planet to continue existing even if I can’t.
Thanks! It works for me now.
Providing a web app to interact with the government is rightfully a government job. We should not need a business to act as an intermediary between us and our government. The "FreeFile" agreement should be abandoned, and the IRS (and states) should set up services for everyone to use.
100% this. I do believe that a lot of two-job families would love for one or both parents to go part time. This way one parent doesn't have to 'give up' their career. Some generic advice I give to new grads which I never considered until I had kids was to seriously consider a medical profession because it is well-paying AND has a strong culture of part-time where shift work is the norm.

I've seen parents who negotiate hard for three days a week get it, but they are quickly 'mommy tracked' and stop getting promotions. Additionally when a crisis at work happens on their off day, they still get the call.

I think a tech company that figures out how to make part-time jobs work culturally will have a huge recruiting and talent advantage, especially this year. I haven't seen it pulled off yet though.
balenaEtcher has advertising for sure. Not sure about spyware.
I can understand if your using a Samsung device. I have a Pixel and Pixel 3a XL, and the pure Android experience has not been great regarding dark mode. That said, I am not a fan of dark mode in general because of the eye strain. I use it on the Pixels because they have OLED screens and I am trying to maximize battery life.
I don't know exactly when HN was founded, but it was quite large when I joined.
An Australian Guide to Surfing with Sharks
This looks really well done, newcrobuzon. Very impressed.

I especially love your web UI. It makes it very easy to start experimenting with workflows without the overhead of having to set up a local development environment.

I am curious how you store secrets (e.g. AWS access key id, secret access key). There isn't a login wall and it's not clear that the values will be protected from you, so I am loathe to put my credentials on there.

Great work overall. Wish you the best.
yes, very interested in the emails you can't import. I don't work for ProtonMail btw, just have quite bit of experience with smtp and email. Just curious from a tech perspective what kind of email you are having trouble importing.
Whenever I think of suburbia, I think of larger homes, malls, and highways. It makes sense that suburbia got parking lots while downtowns got parking garages ... but I had never really given the parking lot much thought until this article
You make a good point. I'll keep it in mind when I'm feeding my mind from the well of HN :)
I Wrote a Program in Brainfuck, and Why You Should Too
The idea a vaccine can be safely made in less than a year is absolutely insanity. Many of these things shouldn't even be considered vaccines in the traditional sense.

Are there any vaccines out on the market today that are not one of the two: 1) inactivated virus, 2) attenuated virus (run through another host/egg or a related virus found in an animation that's less harmful to humans)?

Everything I've found indicates all our current viral vaccines are one of those two (excluding bacterial vaccines, which shouldn't be called vaccines either).
The risk of death or serious injury with an investigational product is very low, but it does happen.[1]

Clinical trials start after a lot of toxicology screening in vitro and then in animals. For first in human trials, the doses are sub-clinical and then dose-escalation studies are done to find out when adverse events start.

They basically work their way up to therapeutic doses very slowly, monitoring the health of subjects very closely.

[1]https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Theralizumab
> For me personally, knowing HTML is small will be cold comfort if we are all using react-router or whatever in the future.

Serious question, what's the issue with react-router?
Last time I had checked, the issue were with software with non-free codec and smaller more niche software, but checking rpm repositories there isn't a software I'm missing yet.

I'm definitely going to have another look at Fedora and OpenSuse for that matter (specifically their rolling version for small single service servers).

Thanks for your comment.
> Hobbes didn't say humankind was nasty and brutish, he said the life of man would be "solitary, poor, nasty, brutish, and short" in the absence of a communit

I think you are misrepresenting Hobbes here. The essential idea of Hobbes' Leviathan was that men are selfish brutes/savages that require an overwhelming authority to pacify and tame. Hobbes' goal was to provide a justification for royalty. In other words, "community" cannot exist without a king because mankind is nasty and brutish.
I assume you'd want to reinstate the norm with the same spirit wrt government involvement... How does that work?
Is it too much to ask that everyone be treated equally?

Family status is a protected class, unless you are childfree. If we said everyone except Hispanics gets an extra 10 weeks paid time off, HN would be losing its collective minds.
Yeah I think you are. I spent the first 27 years of my life in Maryland and my salary out of college was $58k which was very good for the area. I was making the median area household income on a single wage at the start of my career. You are currently doing much better than I was, and I was already doing great.
This analogy breaks down at the point where you don't need to hack into a Tesla to use it for its intended purpose at all: it'll drive just fine.

It's more as if you bought a laptop, and in order to overclock it, you had to void the warranty. (which is, of course, entirely the case for almost every laptop on the market).
Many of the people involved don't have smart-phone, and certainly couldn't go through the process of linking an app to a laptop/desktop machine. Sometimes it's tough getting them to use email "properly", which is why I have concerns over them using email for confidential conversations in the first place.

They have email, the have browsers, they are almost invariably using laptops/desktops and not phones, and they are technically inexperienced.

I don't think Signal would be an option, but I don't know it well, and I could be wrong, so I'd be happy to be corrected.

Thanks.
But your workmates kids push the society forward so you will have better retirement and their taxes will pay for your roads you gonna use with your wheelchair when you're old and grumpy.
> 3. I'm not sure if "children are our future" is our future. This model might not be viable forever as the world population keeps growing. This is a whole other can of worms.

I think you bring up some good points and also I can sympathise with the parents in my workplace that had this issue thrust upon them due to covid. I won't comment on them nor does it personally affect my work much, if at all - barely anyone on my team are parents and those that are are making it work so I'm not picking up any extra work because of their kids.

But I have never heard of any parent ever say that they are having kids because children are the future so it's odd for me to see so many people say that in this thread. I don't need parents to justify to me why it's harder for them, I already agree with that but the future thing is a very interesting viewpoint I've never personally come across before.
After clicking logout, I had no way of logging back in. :)
You don't need childcare for /20/ years.

That very much depends on circumstances. If you have two children born one right after another, probably not. If, however, your spacing is more spread, say, you have two children first, and then another child 8 years later, you'll easily need childcare for 15 consecutive years. My youngest sister is 11 years younger than me, and I'm not even the oldest of my siblings.
It is not reasonable to compare smokers to parents. Your irritation at smokers is reasonable, but it doesn't translate automatically to other categories of employee.
Part of it is that modern screens have a much bigger latency than CRTs did. Largely I don't think it really matters. My desktop and phone feel very very responsive, Its only websites that are visibly slow to me. And most of that is waiting on the server. I click a link or submit a form and I have to wait seconds for the page to load where as with a local program its instant.
Yeah, I'm surprised the headline isn't the other way around: "parents increasingly resentful of their childless peers"
It's terrible, right?

But, it's important to contextualize it with the level of violence occurring in these countries destabilized as a result of US foreign policy. Much of it makes the violence in the US (as horrific as it is) look like Sesame Street:

"On 9 August 2018, Saudi Arabian expeditionary aircraft bombed a civilian school bus passing through a crowded market in Dahyan, Saada Governorate, Yemen, near the border with Saudi Arabia. At least 40 children were killed, all under 15 years old and most under age 10."

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dahyan_air_strike

"MAZAR-I-SHARIF, Afghanistan — Four attacks across Afghanistan on Saturday night and Sunday killed at least 26 government security officers, while two schools were also set ablaze, according to Afghan officials."

https://www.nytimes.com/2018/04/15/world/asia/afghanistan-at...

"BAGHDAD — A suicide bomber detonated a truck filled with explosives on the playground of an elementary school in northern Iraq on Sunday morning, killing 13 children and the headmaster, the police said. Shortly afterward, another suicide truck bomb struck a police station in the same village, killing three officers."

https://www.nytimes.com/2013/10/07/world/middleeast/deadly-b...

"HELMAND, Afghanistan/KABUL (Reuters) - At least 40 civilians attending a wedding party were killed by explosions and gunfire during a raid by U.S.-backed Afghan government forces on a nearby Islamist militant hideout, officials in Helmand province said on Monday."

https://www.reuters.com/article/us-afghanistan-attack/at-lea...

This stuff just goes on...and on...and on...

But, compare it with the death tolls from school shootings in the United States within the last 20 years: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_school_shootings_in_th...

Consider that our foreign policy can have the effect on others that school shooters have on our own children.
You're lacking in imagination if you can't come up with ways that someone might be able to profit from legal rights to or the ability to modify the genetic code of other persons.
I'm having trouble more details information on how the messenger-RNA based vaccines work. They appear to transcribe proteins in the cytoplasm. I think the fear is that these vaccines may contain some combination of Reverse Transcriptase and Integrase enzymes. Do they contain these enzymes? If not, do they simply try to get your cells to create spike proteins?
>>>It has nothing to do with terrorism, it is purely for military domination and imperialism

Nitpick: military domination is not an end-goal in and of itself. Arguably, it is (rightly or wrongly) the US government's primary methodology for enforcing continuance of the Petrodollar system and US global economic domination. Most of the military actions revolve around ensuring the security of Saudi Arabia, the key player in OPEC.

I've tried to find scholarly articles on what the US economy might look like without the Petrodollar. Maybe my Google Scholar-fu is weak, but there's not a lot of useful, detailed projections beyond "not good".
This cat is so high quality that it changes my reaction of the situation from empathetic and concerned to optimistic and impressed. I think there is nothing heartbreaking about your situation if you're dropping cats of this caliber to anonymous door notes.
If you find this frustrating I recommend finding a local news source that you trust and supporting it. Your money goes a lot further and will be more appreciated with local events. Be aware it's not always a paper per se. In San Diego the best local news is Voice of San Diego.[1] Which is afaik just a website and podcast.

[1] https://www.voiceofsandiego.org/
Timely: https://www.statnews.com/2020/09/08/astrazeneca-covid-19-vac...

(This may be nothing, of course, but it's a decent illustration that some caution is warranted)
How did Plan 9 allow its APIs to evolve? For example, reading /dev/mouse returns records that are exactly 49 bytes, in text format [1]; how did they add new fields without breaking every app?

1: http://man.cat-v.org/plan_9/3/mouse
For small CLI tools, I find the following nodejs packages pretty helpful:

- [commanderjs] lets you easily build ergonomic CLI apps (wires up --help and usage descriptions) --- https://github.com/tj/commander.js/

- [chalk] colors in the terminal --- https://github.com/chalk/chalk

- [figlet] big splash text --- https://www.npmjs.com/package/figlet
I fully support those with children as well, including all the extra benefits, flexibility, and compensation needed to raise healthy children. I think this is great for all involved, including those parents, children, and society at large.

The part that's missing is that childless workers should get the same benefits, flexibility, and compensation as workers with children, so that they can handle challenging and complex elements of their own lives that are no less complicated, challenging, expensive, or time consuming than having children.
That's a hot take. I think a lot (almost all?) parents would rather lose their jobs that put their kids up for adoption. And abortion is only possible prior to birth. Most of the parents we're talking about now had kids prior to covid even being a thing.
Of the hundred+ billion humans to ever live, practically none of them were planned. Children will come, and their ability to thrive is a commons. Moralizing the decisions people make that result in kids is my goto example of how poorly a decision can be made when you defy data.
"There needs to be a redistribution of esteem as well as money, and more of it needs to go to the millions doing work that does not require a college degree."

I could not agree more with this statement. There are far too many people that believe they are better than other people because of their job title, education or wealth. Too many university educated people think that because they have a degree that they are smarter than everyone else and their opinion needs to be accepted as fact. I'm not sure if this is what is being taught in universities or if this is what society is telling them...but we would all be better off if we tried understanding other's viewpoints.

No one lives without the contributions of others anymore...no one.
It's unlikely. I'm much more likely fatalities will drop to zero per week before the end of the year in countries with high spread and we'll have herd immunity (which is where Sweden is at now).
Check out the Interactive Fiction competition, it's text-based video games.

https://ifcomp.org/comp/2019

Two libraries for writing these games:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Inform

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/TADS
> As proof, why are they sticking behind old SI definitions 25 years after they added the other ones?

Because hard drives, going back to the original (the IBM 350), have used decimal prefixes.
Fauci spoke on this matter recently. He said that phase 3 completion is not dependent on time, but rather dependent on the number of events (infections) in the control group.

This to me suggests the main blocker for approval now is proving efficacy, and that we already have enough data to conduct the time-based safety analysis you described with reasonable confidence.

There is another potential safety concern that the vaccine could exacerbate COVID infections. I don't know how critical this concern is, but it would also be constrained by number of infection events, not time.
>I've long since sorted out staying connected work colleagues (I've been working 100% remote for ~6 years).

for those interested, care to mention a few of your solutions?
5 years is not a lot of time.
No one feels any shame because the reason is obvious. Normal users are constantly demanding more features and not more speed. The average person just buys a new phone when things are slow. Companies don't have infinite time so when faced with the option between adding a new feature and speeding up an old one they always pick the new feature because thats worth more.
Yeah this was my point.They do have a helicopter at the Snohomish County SAR but they advised us that we shouldn't count on it and that we especially shouldn't count on it being sortied very quickly relative to a suburban ambulance service. I think that's one of the reasons cited for Emergency Shelter being part of the 10 Essentials. If you have to do extensive first aid or one of your party is incapacitated you will probably be overnighting in the backcountry here even if you're on a day hike or climb.
> Your job shouldn't be your break, regardless of your situation.

If it's less stressful that the ambient level in your life, then it's a break. Why shouldn't it be?
This doesn't support windows.
I used to LOVE reading GameFAQs walkthroughs for RPGs as a kid. The fact it was just a big text document made it super easy to hide in my "computer typing" classes too.

I'm kind of sad that the whole scene has largely slowed down, at least for modern games... Now you can just find video guides on any subsection of a game you're playing; or follow an IGN guide. I have huge respect for authors of the oldschool guides though.
And these days, the smart ones offer in-house ECU services, which is basically literally this: you pay more, to unlock mot performance. Or you do it outside the dealership's control and your warranty for whatever your mod changes (but not the warranty in general) is void for as long as you use your unofficial modifications.
Page load times, indexed for available bandwidth, appear to follow a sort of inverse Moore's law. We could call it Gerdes's random stab in the dark.

My first home internet connection ran at 9600 bps except when it clocked itself down to rather slower. At work at the time I had a synchronous pair of modems running at less than that for an IBM System/36 site to site link. Later on oooh V.FAST - 56Kbps except it wasn't really. More like 48Kbps plus a bit on a good day and a decent marketing department.

I am now using a 1Gbps connection.

My PC on the end of the 9600 bps system was a 80486 based beast running at 25Mhz. It cost me £1600 (thanks Granddad for the unexpected bequethement that was a major factor in getting me where I am today)

I now use a 8 core + H/T Corei7 beastie running at 1.8GHz laptop - its getting on a bit now but it can still churn out packets at quite a rate and crunch my CAD efforts.

Page sizes back in the day were rather small, say 10Kb. Nowadays 10Mb is pretty common (dodgy assertion with no proof)

Web pages do different things than they used to as well.

I don't think it is quite as simple as you suggest, wrt page load speeds. What page, on what, with what and why!
I guess that most people have children not for societal duty to continue human species, but for personal emotional fulfilment. So in this sense they are hobby.
It sounds like in judgment of which is worse: over or underestimating the risks of the virus versus taking additional time for more testing.

How many other nations are doing this besides Russia? Why not? If you’re asking me to make a bet, I’m going to side with the vast majority of nation-states. not a guarantee by any means, but the best choice unless I decide to go back to school to study viral infections.