skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
In addition to the economic, political, and social factors discussed elsewhere in these comments, the notion of “taboo” also, I think, helps to explain the difference between the availability of public toilets in the U.S. and in Japan (and maybe other Asian countries). Nicholas Kristof’s column has a kind of “taboo-breaking” undertone, as if he is aware that he is writing about a subject that would normally not be mentioned in the New York Times. And, in fact, I don’t recall seeing similar articles more than a few times before in nearly six decades of reading mainstream U.S. print media.

In contrast, in Japan, where I’ve been reading mainstream newspapers for nearly four decades, the topic is not taboo at all, and it’s not unusual to see articles about public toilets and related matters. A search at Google News in Japanese now finds recent articles (some paywalled, all in Japanese) about a survey of public toilets in Okayama City [1], a move to build more Western-style public toilets in Matsumoto City [2], a video released by Chiba Prefecture to promote better manners by users of public toilets [3], installation of a self-cleaning toilet in a park in Kamiamakusa City [4], and (timed to the tenth anniversary of the Fukushima disaster) local governments preparing emergency toilets for future disasters [5]. Most of these articles seem to be based on press releases from local governments.

[1] https://www.sanyonews.jp/article/1107034

[2] https://www.shimintimes.co.jp/news/2021/03/post-12877.php

[3] https://www.nikkei.com/article/DGXZQOFB168BZ0W1A210C2000000/

[4] https://kumanichi.com/news/id128124

[5] https://www.niigata-nippo.co.jp/news/politics/20210309603080...
Monetize every biological necessity: it's the American way!

Oxygen, water, food, sleep, sex, socialization, excretion, entertainment, industriousness: 6 out of 8 ain't bad, but those two more are attainable if we change attitudes through a holistic social media and mass marketing campaign.
This is funny/sad - mostly because this is the complete opposite of what is parroted at universities.
Just a restatement of K vs r theory.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/R/K_selection_theory
I write music for my band, but here's some of my independent stuff.

My 2020 song:

https://sonicrocketman.bandcamp.com/track/i-thought-we-were-...

I spent the summer writing pirate shanties (funnily enough, before the craze started):

https://sonicrocketman.bandcamp.com/album/tales-and-legends-...
The destructiveness of "close tab" is not equivalent. Control-shift-T will instantly undo the close-tab action. And there is a menu item that lists "recently closed tabs".

Try finding the menu item that brings back the app once you've quit.
If there's one thing I don't care about on the road, it's infuriating other motorists with my safe driving. But, for what it's worth, I drive the speed limit and I pretty much never see anyone get angry at me for it. If you hang out in the right lane, all the type A people driving 20 over are in the other lane, zipping past you. You simply don't encounter the type of people who would get mad at speed limit driving in the slow lane. As long as the self driving cars are implemented to follow passing rules, it's not going to be an issue if they were to drive the speed limit (although as another person pointed out to you this is a counterfactual).
Seems to me that we should be able to apply this concept to some mechanism for registering physical ownership of literally anything, based on any distinguishing characteristic. Register your property as an NFT. Deeds for houses and cars. Why not?

When someone else gets rich off of this idea, remember, you read it here first, from this dumb pauper.
I often feel like I’m the only person who likes the sort of extreme skeuomorphism of Apple circa 2007: it wasn’t perfect, but it didn’t have the soulless corporate feeling of flat UI styles.
Burger King's 'women belong in the kitchen' tweet gets backlash
I would like to see AmigaOS ported to a RISC-V platform for new RISC based Amigas, it would be cheaper than the PowerPC Amigas.
I don't believe it's entirely google's "fault" for the downfall of RSS.

Websites tend to not like to have RSS support due to it directing traffic away, and thus, denying ad revenue. It also allows easier aggregation from competitors/third-parties, which also denies ad revenue. Therefore, RSS is, at most, implemented as a short excerpt, with the intention to direct the user to visit the website.
This reminds me of Sol LeWitt. Some of his art is just a simple set of instructions that can be followed by other people to "install" by strictly following them and drawing on walls [1].

There are a lot more examples in art that many people could replicate easily, but only the artist came up with the idea.

[1] https://improvisedlife.com/2015/08/10/learning-stealing-sol-...
Other humans put in place of the ones who caused the accidents would probably have a similar high avoidance rate.

It just shows Waymo was better than a small sample.
You can open two spreadsheets of the same name if you hold the alt key while opening them.

This makes excel open in a separate instance
Principally yes, but it also aims to protect against evesdroppers for example. Many usecases want to keep the algorithm being invoked secret (by having it run on a computer the requester does not have access to)

Anyways, the reason i asked is because the grandparent said "attacker can memorize the input and output", which is not something the entity doing the computation can do, as they only see the encrypted text, and encrypted values never repeat (or only with negligible probability) even if the plaintext they are encrypting are the same.

The end user entity on the other hand, could try (in theory, not practically) every single value, memorize it, and recreate the secret function. So if the attacker in this scenario is the entity encrypting/decrypting the data, some of the grandparent's post makes more sense.
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I'm having trouble figuring out how the money flows around these batteries. Any insight or links that could be useful?
I just had an idea that might explain why this happens.

Firstly, I've observed a phenomenon when I talk to a programmer about a problem I want to solve. They might get excited, learn a bit of the problem domain and then go off and build something that kind of solves part of my problem. But then I'm stuck in a endless cycle of explaining the rest of the problem, to someone who isn't really interested, then waiting for a new iteration and then evaluating how it doesn't completely the solve the problem until the programmer gets bored and goes off to find something new and exciting to do with computers. Programming the computerwas always the end for them. They don't actually care about the problem. I care about the problem. So for me computers are a tool to solve my problem. I might as well write the program myself because it's less work to become a mediocre programmer than to intimately understand the problem.

My theory is that something like this happens in interface design. There are designers who love to create beautiful designs, and we love that, but beauty is the end of it for them. They don't actually care about the problem that the program (website, app, whatever) is supposed to solve. If they were stuck in a job filling out forms all day they would quickly learn the lesson to put the reset button out of the way. If they were intimately familiar with the problem, the better design would be obvious. And so it is that people with no "design skills" can point out the obvious mistakes of the designers.

It's also true that good design is hard. Starting with a blank sheet and creating something, let alone something good, is daunting. Perhaps the hardest part is having the humility to admit, "I don't understand the problem sufficiently" and the empathy to care about the problem enough to learn it well.
That seems like a super stressful way to make a living.

Most of the people doing Pateron content I know seem to see any growth in income as requiring most of that money to go back into content (better cameras, editing, trips to film interesting content, whatever).

That works great when the trend is upward, but what about when it's flat, or declining?
That's actually super unnerving. I've never seen something like that, it almost looks like it's automated in some way. Thank you for bringing this to my attention.
Belgium towns often have these out for festivals and other events. Shaped like an X about 1.5 to 2m high and about 2 x 2m with a yellow hose draining to the nearest sewer. If they didn't, dudes would just pee wherever. I bet that women are out-of-luck and just go somewhere discreet.
Was very suspicious when I had to log back in in the middle of the day. Definitely would have appreciated an alert banner or notification somewhere. I don't often check the GitHub blog.
The comment you are replying to was rife with absolute inaccuracies. I can assure you you won't get anywhere trying to argue against that person.

Solzhenitsyn was imprisoned by Stalin because while on the front lines fighting against the Nazis he wrote a letter that was intercepted with statements in it critical of Stalin's poor execution in supplying the army.
The parent commenter doesn't even get this basic fact right and flips it on its head. Denial effects like this are the mark of a true ideologue, and as you pointed out the whataboutism is also a tale for cognitive dissonance. And the dismissive attitude towards gulags is also indicative of somebody shutting out information that would undermine a fragile ego clinging to ideology for purpose.
> In particular, don't put "close this window" on control-W and "quit this application" on control-Q. I'm looking at you, Firefox.

Oh man, I actually remapped quit on Firefox because this bit me too many times and Firefox kept removing ways to confirm quit. I will die on the hill that "confirm quit" is the correct behavior.

(I have, in fact, died on this hill enough times I may be outing my HN burner with this comment.)
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I've noticed that increasing the number of something usually indicates increases complexity. Working with another team takes more time than just keeping the work in one team. Working with two takes longer. Same with things like the number of repos, languages, or services.
Lessons I've learnt starting out as a CTO
What is your experience yourself? I would love to hear more about yours as well. (:
For 2, Waymo has a simulation environment with a whole simulated physics and sensor suite. They use this environment to train their driving systems on far more virtual miles than the number of physical miles they drive. So presumably they induce the reconstructed initial conditions from the crash and then they run the simulation a lot of times to see if their driver also gets into the crash.
One of the most annoying things about Firefox is its limited reopen close tab implementation: I’ve gotten really used to Safari’s behavior here and is really irritates me when I can’t reopen the last tab because it triggers whatever Firefox uses to reset the history.
I felt this way about iPhone. My compromise was to only connect using a VPN. The goal wasn’t to keep my traffic private — it was so that I could have complete visibility and control over what the iPhone was talking to.

The idea was that my iPhone could be as nefarious as it wanted to be — it could never talk to anyone I didn’t want it to talk to because iptables stopped it, or something.

The project didn’t pan out, but I did end up using pihole a lot which felt like a good compromise.

I also discovered that iOS and cell carriers have a some kind of partnership to silently send each other text messages containing lots of unique looking identifiers, which was fun (REG-RESP?v=3&r=...&n=+555994321&s=FB87CD658A...etc). I used a niche IOT carrier for a while that showed me the complete SMS logs, including all these messages being sent multiple times a day.

I’m sure there’s some banal engineering reason for it but it’s not exactly heartening to find “secret” text messages being snuck out, by the dozen.
That's totally fair; sorry for assuming the thread was US-centric.
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You might find zero suppressed binary decision diagrams (ZDDs) useful. They also allow simple random generation of all kinds of objects (even constrained ones).

Knuth adjusted his algorithm X for ZDD and got some nice speedups.
Maybe. There's nowhere free to pee in Victoria. Victoria station's bathroom costs money.
That last point isn't a "you could argue" or "most cases", it's literally the law. Rear-ending is always the rear car's fault and it's always their responsibility to leave enough space and time to react and stop safely.

If the lead car braked when there was no reason or danger, that driver might also be cited for recklessness or some such, but a rear-end collision is always an error by the rear driver.
And... thus the incentive of is made clear of why wealthy, stock owning politicians pushed so hard for this bill.
Fixed! Thanks for letting us know :) We'll add that contact form too!
> When I saw it I just thought it was needlessly redundant.

Isn't "needlessly" redundant there? :p
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Apparently the majority of HNers are non-US. (source: dang)
Yeah, I had to tweak a lot of settings to make it more readable. I still don't have everything perfectly the way I would like. But it is highly configurable.
Programming isn’t really the same as engineering. Building high quality, maintainable, extensible, reliable code takes different skills than you learn in an academic environment. Where honestly none of that matters.
Simplex uses solving systems of linear equations as a building block.

Most variants of simplex have exponential runtime on worst case input. (But they do well in practice.)

Recently, some variants of simplex with polynomial runtime have been found.

Solving linear equations was always known to 'only' take polynomial amounts of time at most. But the question is whether that's n^3 or n^2 or something better..
> Except for a handful of very over-priced models

Which ones?
Can it be purchased as NFT, tho?

That is the real question.
> In my engineers? No. In my sales people? Yes.

Thank you for this framing, really help me clarify my thoughts around this issue.
America has extreme homelessness not as a cause of problems but as a symptom of neglect, exploitation, and a widespread lack of concern for fellow human beings. Fix homelessness and there will be fewer encampments and less nasty situations involving public and private infrastructure. It's cheaper to solve it at the core (housing) than prolong it and treat just some of the symptoms by throwing heaps of money at pernicious fallout areas like emergency rooms.
I've seen that too. UI designers not realizing UX is way more important than aesthetics.
Yikes, jesus christ. I wonder what they think of people at "regular companies" like mine or people that graduated from "regular schools".
I think the thing you're missing is that affordable starter housing allows people to both meet a basic need and also make an investment.

Consider three people, p1, p2, p3.

P1: works at job making $X and rents home entire life.

P2: works at identical job making identical $X and buys + pays off identical home.

P3: works at identical job making identical $X and buys + misses 10 mortgage payments on identical home.

P1 is WAY better off than P2 or P3. Literally, the difference between retiring and working until you die.

"can afford down-payment and also has enough stability to never miss payments" induces a VERY extreme nonlinearity in outcomes that CPI very much fails to capture.

I don't think anything you've said in this thread even comes remotely close to acknowledging the reality that over half of America lives every day.
A better model is certification. Make the rules public, and when you want to sell your product, you must pay a standards agency to put their logo on your product.
and does anyone release the "source" to your music, or just the final audio track?
The headline claiming "limited negative impact" does not refer to fact but to the opinion of library staff based upon complaints. The pricing of Elsevier journals and their access limitation policies keep recent research out of the hands of scholars and researchers--information which helps drive future research. Many authors choose to use Open Access journals with very different access policies.
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It might be locally optimal in the "out of the frying pan, into the fire" sense, but there is no way this is optimal.
I think this is partly why older folks often say something along the lines of "you young people are so /good/ at technology". We've had so much exposure that we've built up a mental model of how even non-intuitive / hard to discover things should work. Sometimes when I update my phone after a number of years or try and operate someone else's phone when they ask for me to "fix this problem" it's hard because of that exact problem, I don't know where or how to access the thing I want.

But it's not all bad; you can't put heaps of buttons on a mobile interface because of the limited screen size and lack of precision with pressing them, so some amount of 'magic' and hiding is necessary imo.
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In mathematics, there is this thing called the “Curse of Dimensionality”.

In careers, there is the “Blessing of Dimensionality.” If you can make yourself good along multiples axes, you can carve a niche out for yourself. Maybe you are a top 20% coder. That alone, may be enough to get you a pretty good job. However, if you also have top 20% people skills, suddenly you have opened a very nice niche for yourself and are a very strong candidate for Director of Engineering or above.

Instead of obsessing about your weakness is a single dimension and worrying about if you are specialist or generalist, develop another dimension of competence.
This is exactly right. I also see this from programmer side-projects. The programmer finds a new cool idea, makes a MVP, then gets bored and moves on. Github is a holding yard for such things.
Absolutely not, but in like sense, nothing is free. The dirty public toilets are free because of an externality: your gastro-enteritis costs you time and money, but the toilet owner doesn't care. Or, if its New Zealand, the bag of poo you tossed out the window of the car, is somebody else's problem. (I mention this, because lack of public toilets near hiking grounds, and a larger than normal population of backpackers in vans, living the good life, has lead to a surge of people flinging poo-bags into the wilds. People never cease to amaze me: come to the shire, visit the lord of the rings, see the mighty mountains, fling a bag of poo at it)

The free public toilet in New zealand Designed by Hundertwasser is perhaps my favourite example of what you can get, if you stop obsessing about cost.

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

Singapore Airlines never said "we have the best toilets with amazing schmick razors to take as schwag" -it wasn't on the brochure when I got gold class. No, its not free. Overall none of the airport toilets are free, its assumed you bought rights to be inside the airport secured zone.

But the basic toilets in Changi, are streets ahead of many other economies, and are not unusual: Public amenity in Singapore is really clean, and really well maintained.

Only a reductionist would argue New Yorks toilet problem stems from a lack of paid toilets.
An anarchist, then?
There are recyclable miners in the US anywhere container redemption value is charged and reclaimable.

The rich in the US don't have any shame paying little if any taxes, buying tax loopholes, and corrupting government to get more socialism for themselves and removing it and economic fairness from everyone else.
What does one do if we've been deemed not good enough for top schools or institutions?
But they're pain in the ass to use, modify, and really feel as an afterthought which barely used by anyone. Compare this to "Numbers": you just enter any text int row or column header and this text is immediately usable and visible as a range specifier in formulas. How intuitive is that?

Also excel has (inner) tables inside of tables, with more restrictions that.
Also excel even has SQL-dialect for querying columns. That's not important, important are defaults, and how your simple spreadsheet you can fit into a screen is going to evolve. Excel makes it VERY hard to not make a mess, even if you have time to learn it.
Have you taken a look at Ubuntu touch? I came across it while researching for my next device. From what I recall, it gives you a full Ubuntu environment on your phone.

Didn't go that route though because of the unavailability of the supported models where I'm at
Fair. I suppose it really depends what the motivating use cases are for this kind of thing— in my head, the killer app would be a mail server where I decrypt (from GPG) my email in my local client, and then re-encrypt (with HE) and prepare indexing information which is sent to a cloud service for long-term archival. The cloud service allows me to search on and retrieve my email without ever seeing the contents or knowing any of the metadata other than when you uploaded them and the message lengths (and even that could be scrambled up a bunch by adding arbitrary padding and periodically re-uploading old messages). In this scenario there isn't really the "known from elsewhere" info— knowing that certain groups of messages are returned together in response to sets of queries is unlikely to be meaningful if you don't have anything else to map that info to.

And thinking about it further, the client could do other shenanigans to further protect the user, like arranging for every query to return 20% "false" results that are filtered out before display, or storing duplicate instances in the database so that the server thinks query X leads to result A and query Y leads to result B, without knowing the A and B are in fact the same thing.
> The destructiveness of "close tab" is not equivalent. Control-shift-T will instantly undo the close-tab action.

And every browser has a way to reload tabs from the previous session. Both are equally destructive if the tab/s had state you were not finished with and don’t preserve that state when reopened. At least quit can be guarded with an “are you sure?” prompt out of the box.

> Try finding the menu item that brings back the app once you've quit.

The um... Dock or Taskbar or Start Menu or Spotlight or every other thing people use to launch apps every day?
Is this a theoretical difference, or a difference in terms of an actual implementation? I have no knowledge of linear systems algorithms, but as far as I was aware, many w.h.p algorithms resolve to correctness with probability of 1 - (1/n)^c (with c effectively being a hyperparameter), which would seem like quite a strong result in itself.
Consumers definitely want a self driving product.

What they don't want is a self driving product where they bear liability for the mistakes the self driving product makes.
This us cool, it seems to ignore the start and destination I give it though, and the Google Maps API key seems to have errors.
Why is erosion of trust in commercial flight such a tragedy?