skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Exact same experience. Used to work as a concierge in a downtown and while taxi calling wasn't a huge part of my job I definitely did enough of it to hate working with taxi companies. I think that must be where the smaller luxury towncar services used to make a lot of money, recommendations from people like me for people trying to catch a flight and willing to pay extra for some certainty.
Which city spent billions on developing bike infrastructure? In Berlin the share of trips done by bike increased by 40% between 2013 and 2018 and we certainly didn't spend billions on it. We did spend about a billion on building 3km of new Autobahn through the city, but that's a different story.
Skimmed through some of the chapters. Was disappointed to find no references to Shannon's theory of communication, or to some ideas about the economics of information (e.g. moral hazard, adverse selection).

That's probably just a function of my personal interests, though.
When you're writing systems software you need systems software engineers and most of them are far more competent in C/C++ than, say, Rust, Ada, Go, etc.

We choose C/C++ because it's what we know and what our colleagues know, but I think a lot of us wish there was a better alternative.
You can’t do public transit right in areas that are insufficiently densely populated, like the vast majority of the US. There’s simply not enough people to be able to pay for the costs.
Well it depends on who you ask I suppose, but there's rarely a day you can't ride in Adelaide Australia, certainly not so often that you would throw the idea of bicycles as a last mile solution out the window, and South Australia's climate pretty closely matches San Fran. It's also just not that bad to ride in the rain if you were prepared for it. It usually stops raining in ten minutes here anyway. It's just not a strong argument to not focus on bicycle infrastructure.

I didn't say the majority have good weather either, I just disagree with the premise that "most" have unrideable seasons. Maybe "most" have an unrideable day or week but there are days you can't drive too and we don't pull funding from road infrastructure because of it.
But Apple didn't go under, they cut the victim off.
> Ever heard of the fish people?

Mermaid?
I honestly don't think I've seen native windows code in over 20 years at this point. Obviously there's a ton of C++ out there, it's just basically as far away from me as possible.
> He did had also speeches about Jews being Marxists

That's a historical fact.

A lot of Jews who left early Soviet Russia because of discrimination carried Marxism to other countries.

The original feminist author of "The Feminine Mystique", Betty Friedan, is a Jewish Marxist. She told women in 1963 that being a wife was slavery, yet has her own family, of course. And here we are.

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

If you're interested in learning more about Marxist influences in America, look for interviews with their family members - invariably they turn into denunciations of their "hypocritical Marxist" relatives.

(Recently the writers for "Sex and the City" and "Cosmopolitan" admitted they misled women with feminist rhetoric that serves a narrative, but not individual women.)
Well, doing public transit right means densifying. Density is a virtue on it's own so this is fine.
Straight guy here: I never think about that. Now that I am, I still don't care. Anecdata, and maybe I'm just not the brightest or something, but I really doubt that "the gays will ogle me" is the kind of culture-forming collective epiphany that would bend this practice.

(aside: I really appreciate alternate theories (and you posting yours), and I don't want this to come off as overly dismissive; in this case I just don't agree)
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I worked at the concessions stand at Muir Woods in the early 90's. Every night the machine was emptied, and the removable parts were put in the dishwasher.

Every morning the goo was put back in, and there was never a complaint, or a down day. I rang up a lot of $1.00 Softies.

(Loved my coworkers. Still think about them all the time. The greatest group of people I had ever met. Hated the private sector corporation who did everything they could to lower the percent they had to give back to the government.)
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> There is a new Pokemon game coming out called "Pokemon Snap" where apparently the whole game consists of traveling through the game world and taking photos of Pokemon

At first I thought you were joking as if we were in the 90s again with this tamagotchi thread. People were equally confused by the original Pokémon snap, they said the exact same thing as you. Originally, kids were disappointed that the first 3D Pokémon game was a photography game, but it ended up being a memorable hit.

I played the hell out of that when I was 9 years old.
Have you played the FF7 Remake? More than anything, it feels a lot more immersive to me than the original.
>“Receiving direct encouragement from the robot overrode participants’ direct experiences and feedback,”

Because the robot was supplied/operated/sanctioned by the proctor, which is assumed to be privy to experiment details. This is a test of trust in authority, but not of robots but the supplier of the experimental setup. It's a modern-day Milgram Experiment, without the third-party human suffering at stake.
While I am a strong advocate of biking, if my elderly relative falls, even once, it could be disastrous.

In one elderly couple I know, they sustain permanent or serious injuries when they fall just walking, and they don't heal so fast or well. One slipped in the bathroom and broke their collarbone. The other slipped on the sidewalk and has permanently lost significant function in their left (dominant) hand. An injury that requires prolonged immobility, such as a broken hip, not uncommonly leads to death.

No way are they riding a bike. Not only would they hit cement at bicycle speeds, they lack coordination, strength, and mental acuity. I have been in many situations on bikes that they simply couldn't handle. As one simple example, what happens if there is no curbcut or some other obstacle. I can simply lift by bicycle over any obstacle; they cannot always do that, and especially with the added weight of a battery, and then consider that a tricycle is the only feasible option for their balance.
> but I really doubt that "the gays will ogle me" is the kind of culture-forming collective epiphany that would bend this practice.

So why would people care if there were women there? Is it different?

I’ll go a step further and say I think the entire concept of a single-sex changing room may be outdated.
i think argos seems like a better techy project than this,
CDs were launched in 1982 and the paper they link to about the tech behind Minidisc was published in 1983, but Minidisc wasn't brought to market until 1998. The assertion is that Sony's (and the public's) focus on CDs prevented them from bringing Minidisc to market until it was too late to gain traction even with a giant advertising budget. I agree there are a bunch of other factors for Minidisc's failure. The replacement you mention, flash storage (or those mini spinning hard drives that went into the first iPods), weren't viable until closer to 2003.
That isn’t the right characterization because there are many elderly who can neither drive nor ride a bike. They can however be passengers of public transportation or of cars. They may not want to ride on disabled mobility scooters either and those don’t seem to work well on hills or in inclement weather.
Soooo good!

I copy the "trick" here, to have it available, in case that page disappears:

"push the power button 10 times in a row at one second intervals. Next, you push and hold the power button for 30 seconds. Then you put the battery back in and push the power button… and she lives. The computer came back, good as ever"
Patients in India are dying due to lack of Oxygen;

US/UK media is blaming Modi;
Bigots are blaming Opposition/State govt;
And Modi regime is blaming Patients for breathing too much Oxygen;
Same here. I'm literally forced to use it with no more than a dozen contacts among close friends and part of the family, and despite the very short list of people, it's absolutely impossible to convince anyone of them to use anything else.
I would so welcome a FOSS client.
Not sure why this is downvoted. Wikipedia says that Tamagotchi was initally marketed exclusively to teenage girls, whereas Digimon -- made by the same creators -- was deliberately aimed at the male audience.

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

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Digimon
There was only one rule to make this game complete. If you lose the track, you must start with zero speed at the exit point. Zero speed means nontensioned rubber string, of course.
They do?! Even on the slow presets?
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One of the big problems with taxi medallions (at least how they're handled now) is that you pay once, and then get access to them forever, which turns them into an asset and the value of the future cash flow is capitalized into the asset value. Allowing people to buy and own a monopoly isn't a great system.

If it was set up as an yearly auction, that would work okay.
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Not assuming everyone is straight seems like a generational thing. However you feel in co-ed change rooms should mirror your feelings in single sex change rooms. Men and women may/may not check you out.
As a kid, I was very active on Prodigy's message boards. I remember when they added a per-hour charge to access them. It absolutely wiped the boards out; trying to charge for something people have been getting for free, even "free", doesn't fly.
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> it clearly appears to be somewhat coordinated

That is not an argument and until there's evidence it's a conspiracy theory.
Try winevdm[1] or ntvdmx64[2], which I believe is based on leaked Microsoft source code. I've successfully gotten Tetris running on win10x64, and I'm happy enough with not needing dosbox+win3x for it.

1: https://github.com/otya128/winevdm
2: https://github.com/leecher1337/ntvdmx64
I have made may computer games, and have done some work on other games too.

With computer games, I made XYZABCDE.ZZT, as well as others in the past. (You can probably find XYZABCDE.ZZT in Museum of ZZT as well as in archive.org, and possibly more.) I also had done game engines (including Free Hero Mesh, now listed in Libre Game Wiki; more work continues to be done), and implementations of Z-machine in a few different programming languages (including C (ZORKMID), Glulx (GLUZMA), PostScript, JavaScript (JSZM), and I started one for Famicom (Famizork II) and for MMIX too, but neither is complete yet). I also did some DOS games in QuickBASIC.

Although I had not written many games for NES/Famicom and other old systems like that, it is something that I would like to see more of; it will then work on any computer with an emulator (as well as on a real cartridge, too), of which many are available. Most of these things are 100% public domain and source code is available for them as much as possible.

I had also started a role playing game (with paper, not computer) called Scientific Role Playing System (SciRPS for short), but didn't write much of it so far. It uses category-theory-based skill defaulting, equal or less on 3d10 for success rolls, SI units, "point-free" character definition (you can define pretty much anything that you want to do, with only a few restrictions needed for consistency (e.g. no attribute values can be positive or negative infinity, nor can Strength be less than zero, you need the GM's permission if you want your character to be king of an area that the GM has defined, and you cannot have "dependent attributes" without defining it as a power); it is meant to be very flexible), custom sub-attributes (there are basic attributes, and then you can define as many or as few subclassifications as you wish if you think the single number is not good enough; this rule is optional), and meant for any setting (realistic or unrealistic) in any time period and any kind of story. It is also 100% public domain (with the possible exception of optional artwork which can safely be removed and is not a part of the game rules), and the TeX source code is available.

I also invented some chess variants, and my brother also invented some chess variants too.

Also, in my opinion, many computer games are made too easy today, as well as some that require too much disk space for graphics and stuff and too much fancy graphics card and slow animations etc. However, there are still some games made these days that aren't.
El Chalten is in Argentina and its a completely different story over there.

Chile has fiber all the way to the very south and is in the process of further expanding this network to all relevant cities in the south until the end of next year.

https://foa.subtel.gob.cl/mapa-de-proyecto-foa/
Good thing my back button works, I might never have gotten out of that one otherwise.
And yet Wahhabism is being blatantly pushed across the globe by the Saudis with not a word from the US or it's allies?

I like to hope they are actually doing something in the shadows to stop the spread of such extreme ideologies but there's a part of me that thinks the Western world has no problem with it occurring. Just another war and another enemy to fight down the track.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/International_propagation_of_S...
Speaking of Honda and 2000s, the S2000 engine is a pretty remarkable piece of engineering. It would be really interesting for them to publish data for a car that's reasonably obtainable on the used market. Both engine and aerodynamic fluid models would be interesting to play around with.
> preventing fraud and counterfeiting

Bitcoin doesn't have that as a feature, so it's not fair to count that against fiat money.
It would discourage poor people from wasting high-value roads with their unproductive driving. Nothing wrong with that, just as poor people are discouraged from buying just about everything too frivolously because things cost money. That's the whole point of money - buying things.
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I guess it is pretty unlikely for any new mobile company to take much market share from iOS/Android, not without billions in marketing anyway.
The 'legend' is not really a legend, (right?). It lists out base stations, but I still have no idea what the icons mean.

(Really cool project, btw. Thanks unidentified Googlers for creating it!)
All similar measure miss the fact that current model allow you to charge differently at individual level, and how great an enabler it is. 10s of eyeball/mind time of Bill Gates is very different from that of a student in Africa, but both are able to access same content and hyper-targeting ensures both pay as per their ability.

It has been greatest "socialist" force of our times. A billion may have been spammed with junk/polarising content, but millions are getting real value/upliftment from free Youtube/Google/FB.
San Francisco alone has budgeted over a billion dollars for cycle lanes, and since 2013 has managed to decrease it’s % of cycling commuters from 3.8% to 3.1%. There are some cities in the world that have a high demand for cycling infrastructure, in those cities it makes sense to spend money on it. There are 0 cities in the world that have managed to build a cycling culture out of infrastructure spending. This “built it and they will come” idea has been so thoroughly debunked, you have to be drinking some rather strong coolaid to still have any faith in it. If you look at the numbers, it turns out that it’s better to spend infrastructure budget on things people actually want to use.
So, replace a system where Big Tech tracks us with.. an immutable public record of every page view ever? I'm really not sure that's an improvement.
Doesn’t make any sense, the ride share driver and passenger are just as entitled to the roads as you are.

Being a car owner really warps the mind in a bizarre way in terms of the entitlement most people seem to feel about their own use of public space and how they justify deserving to use it more than others.
> The bus will still have to wait on or go around rideshare drivers

This is why transit-only lanes are important. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RQY6WGOoYis
> First, you aren't forced to pay any tax, the ride-sharing company is.

I am forced to pay taxes for the roads since you can't possibly fund all of the rodes solely by taxing ride-sharing companies.

> Businesses like to say that taxes are passed on to their customers, but that's not actually true.

Eh. Economics is not an exact science so there is no way for me to prove it to you. If you don't believe in that (and have another reason why iPhones are more expensive in higher taxed countries) then let's leave that.

> That's an issue with every public good, from schools to police to public health to courts to real estate records office, etc. None are utilized anything like equally across the population. Yet we chip in and pay for them because we decide, collectively, that they are important for the community.

Then why not subsidize cars, or better yet, offer a free car per citizen? In fact, "we" decided that we should tax cars and maybe we should also tax car usage (gas, roads, pollution, ...).

> Your hair stylist uses them to get to work [...] Imagine your situation if there were no roads.

There should be roads. And private drivers shouldn't get out of paying for them.

> It's a private, for-profit company.

Taxis are private and for profit, yet they are considered public transportation.
> Reis writes better than I, but with a purism I find excessive

It's really wrinkling my brain to think of an author's character being a "better" writer than the author himself. Although, wrinkles aside, I suppose this effect could be achieved via the editing process; edit the "character's" writings with more time and care than one's own writing.
No it isn't going to hurt me, but given the option, I would prefer to arrive at work dry and/or not needing to shower and change clothes.
Learn peripheral vision. Here is my article for the same - https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/state-our-eyes-nitin-sareen
I watched a streamer play KSP for the first time, not have the patience to learn orbits (at least on stream), just point at the Mun and go for it.

I was yelling at the screen that it wouldn't work, but somehow he made it there, though with the same delta-v he could have gone to Eve.
Please keep in mind it’s a library, not a language extension. It exists same reason any other library exists. It’s a useful set of combinators
very good, Kirse!

And there I found this one https://forums.lenovo.com/t5/ThinkPad-T400-T500-and-newer-T/... which says, literally:

Remove the battery

Press power button 10 times

Press power button down for 30 seconds

Press power button twice

Attach ac adapter

Press power button once. PC should come up. Perform normal start up. Everything should be fine.

Shut down and reinstall the battery
> Development needs a proper keyboard, and a significant screen real estate.

Or just an 80x24 text window.
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Since it's not mentioned somehow, I'll recommend Dokku. It does exactly what this author wants, and I use it to deploy all my side projects.

Dokku has been around for years but still gets significant improvements. It doesn't support scaling to multiple boxes (at least not without some work of your own), but it's great for smaller deployments.

https://dokku.com/
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Platform don’t want control they just don’t want to inherit infra that was setup by someone who didn’t know wtf they were doing. The common antipattern is fullstack would set something up then hand it over to platform when they leave or can’t keep it up and running
Nothing to do with laziness. It just means you cannot accidentally call blocking (sync) operation from a lightweight (async) thread and block a whole bunch of other lightweight threads like in Rust, C#, or other languages with explicit “async” keyword
That was in Japan though.

By the time Digimon arrived, the Tamagotchi hype had already subsided a bit (at least here in Germany). And while I knew more girls with one than boys, there were several boys who did (including myself).
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Everybody describes their own day like that
Honestly Rust to me feels like a go-ish version of C++ with a modern compiler that has -Wall -Werror enabled by default
Tyre data is literally worth its weight in gold unfortunately
Why should people pay any tax for any public good that they don't use personally? Schools, healthcare, parks & rec, homeless shelters, space exploration, national defense, fire fighters, vaccine development.

Because we live in a society.
The Witness could stack up too I feel. A handcrafted 3D world with an almost painterly feeling thanks to the modelling and texturing, yet it still feels lifelike because of the correctness of the lighting.

Correctness of lighting has a really important role in making unique 3D art feel real and believable. With how mature lighting pipelines have become, the role of PBR and now the introduction of raytracing I think we actually have a lot more room to make unique 3D art that still feels immersive and "real" as it is the lighting that sells that feeling of correctness. More so than the texture map, art style or the modelling in my opinion

A game like Cyberpunk for one example has some instances where an objects texture is pixelated and blurry yet it still feels entirely part of the world because the lighting correctness sells it's existence in the world so well.

A game like mirrors edge was so compelling even with simple textures because the lighting made the space feel real.

Even Minecraft feels like a world you can live in with Raytracing.
This is actually what I do for most last-mile needs, but I use ride share when I need to travel 5+ miles one way quickly. Also, scooters and bikes just aren't safe at night or in rainy/windy weather.
If you want to texture a sphere, the cubesphere is the best way to draw. It is what you get when you subdivide a cube using slerp instead of lerp for interpolation.

Icosahedron doesn't work well if you have textures. The triangle topology near the poles lead to bad texturing.

Icosahedron may work better if you have a fully procedural pipeline and don't need to worry about square textures.
Yikes! Who is producing them, the Mozilla foundation?
You in particular don't pay for permits, parking, tolls, fuel and sales taxes, licensing, registrations, etc. You do, however, get to enjoy all of the benefits of living in a society with ubiquitous transportation and democratized access to roads and infrastructure.
Or this guy that picked up a submarine cable in his crabfishing net and cut it, not once, but twice with a circular saw:

https://www.canliiconnects.org/en/commentaries/35843
I had a nice experience in building a multi tenant system in which RBAC was done by Openpolicy Agent(OPA)[0].

Our data model was N Level hierarchies of entities for each tenant and these hierarchies followed inheritance for roles.

We made some policies in OPA and the membership data was present in the DB which was sent to OPA at startup. Then any diff made in membership was subsequently also sent to the OPA as well.

[0] https://www.openpolicyagent.org/docs/latest/
How is density a virtue?
Drivers ultimately choose to snag rides or not. Many a times I see local drivers circling my area, only the one who ends up grabbing my ride many times is the one 10 miles away on the freeway heading the opposite direction. Now I need to wait 15 minutes while they exit and double back, and if I cancel I might get ranked as a bad passenger.