skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
If you want to discover actual usage patterns, there is a much more efficient way: Sit down with 10 users and observe them while doing their everyday work or while performing a predetermined set of tasks. This is even easier nowadays thanks to screen sharing, so you can even put a focus on getting a geographically and demographically diverse sample of users.

From personal experience, I've always had more insights into actual usage patterns from sitting next to a random user for 30 minutes than I could have had from heaps and heaps of telemetry.
There are authors that really work to imagine the animal mind. Richard Adams continued to write wonderful books after “Watership Down”, and John Crowley wrote “Ka” which was my favourite book in 2017.

https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/34466930-ka
There are possibilities other than unfettered market capitalism and an oppressive dictatorship that tries to plan an economy with at best primitive computers.
That's in the second figure on the linked wikipedia page - captioned "Comparison of Braess's paradox for road and spring networks".
But in this way 4/5 of world population are not able to participate. I don't think this is inclusive and respectful for diversity.
America understood very early on the power of story telling to build homogeneity. Medias are not just entertainement. They are the back bone of a nation.
I wrote a tool to tail CloudWatch logs called saw: http://github.com/TylerBrock/saw

I was so fed up trying to debug lambdas and the other AWS offerings that a tool like this to see program output in near realtime is indispensable. I use it all the time.

Is it bug free? No

Did i write tests for it? Also no.

Is it useful? Yes.
I spent some up front time setting up Supervisor, Jekyll, and a light server listening to Github actions that, upon an update, just pulls the latest on commit and reruns the static publisher. I even have a staging branch/subdomain.

The first point - easy to update - is critical. If there is any friction to the process, you will just never do it. Your personal time is inherently much more valuable than your work time.

And if you are creating your new personal site, I highly recommend scrapping everything you know and doing it with Grid and Flex.
It's more the opposite special case -- we have a hard cap on our ability to consume transport, which is why it's usually a good idea to build more.

You can own 2, or 20, or 200 houses, and block the usage of them from anyone else. (induced demand with unlimited consumption). You can own 2 or 20 or 200 cars, but you can't physically drive more than one at a time. This is a hard cap on transportation consumption (you can't literally drive two cars at once, you can't be going to two different places at the same time)

This is why the induced demand philosophy doesn't work for cars. Demand for transit has a low hard cap. If your society is broken such that there's lots of latent unserved demand, it will artificially look like there's induced demand happening near the beginning. But that demand will vanish as soon as you get close to a functional level of capacity.

For a more practical example: If you could get to Japan in 20m, then you might choose to do so, And if you could go to lunch in Japan, you can't also be having lunch in California, which means you can't be waiting in traffic on the Bay Bridge. The induced demand philosophy obsesses over the "downside" of improved transit (that you get to go to cooler places faster and cheaper), but intentionally ignores the upside (that you free up the capacity of whatever you had chosen to do prior, and now no longer do).
Typical generic, infantilizing dating advice, about as effective as telling unattractive people to just "be themselves".

Dating norms exist. They vary from culture to culture and over time. The natures of norms and humans are such that there will be large scale average behaviors and some varying proportion of the population will consist of outliers. Toxically optimistic platitudinous advice such as this only ensures a perpetual class of lonely, dissatisfied people, primarily men.

Historically the rate of reproduction among men has varied, anywhere from 4/5 to 1/17. Lonely men need to be proactive and most importantly realistic, and understanding current preference norms and in what ways these men fall into or outside of them is critical to evaluating which aspects of themselves they may improve, and to what degree their immutable characteristics realistically limit their chances of attracting mates that they desire.

Hypergamous cultural norms, like those toward which the west is moving, create masses of perpetually frustrated men, many of whom who at best lose interest in participating in society, and at worst become bitter and violently antisocial. Thus movements which tilt dating norms toward hypergamy create unstable and dysfunctional societies. I know that your advice is given in good faith, but your relative is not the toxic one.
Democracy does not mean "one person, one vote" -- that's tyranny of the majority, and gameable in an open system with procreation, immigration/emigration, and even murder. Democracy means "rule by the people" which is far more nuanced.

More simply, the US Constitution was not approved by "one person, one vote", not even with a dozen caveats and asterisks.
Many times I wanted a small portable tool that I can manage 3d printer / cnc gcode files. So I built just that. https://github.com/skittleson/GcodeController
Yeah this seems like less a 'new' phenomenon as much as something contributing to an existing one.

I've experienced it in every suburb I've been in.
The ships are already at the maximum efficiency size given their engines, so to pull a similar sized ship they’d have to add an engine to the first one, in which case why not add it to the second and have two ships?
Yeah, it's astounding. I thought about mentioning that, since it's another piece of evidence for the Lady Gaga thesis, especially with the NLGN4Y antibody mechanism evidence. But it seemed like weaker evidence than the infant-reassignment-surgery thing, which is pretty conclusive, and my comment was already far too long for the kind of person who needs this stuff explained to them. (Similarly with the prenatal SDN size stuff.)

I mean, boys with just four older brothers are also growing up in a pretty different environment from firstborn boys or boys with just four older sisters. Just because this would be precisely the opposite environmental effect that conventional postnatal environmental theories of homosexuality predict doesn't mean there's no postnatal environmental effect.
...another example is the bus/metro transportation card: in many cities you get charged both based on your income bracket, usage pattern and things like being retired/student/young/adult and so on
I made https://foragoodstrftime.com/ - which isn't open source (But honestly is just a few lines of code). I made it as I found it useful and hoped others would as well.
I built Ward (https://github.com/darrenburns/ward), a Python test framework.

I have issues with the way the pytest fixture system works (parameter names matching function names), the readibility of the output, and some other things.

It started as a little learning experiment and has turned into something I've been building into what I hope will (and already is in some aspects) be a viable contender to pytest.
The Icepanel.io seems like an excellent start to an interesting project. But seems very early/alpha.

Key features - be able to distinguish between connections flowing into a hub (Outlines); have bi-directional flows to illustrate different data exchanges; colours; lack of due to huge Pro sign up ad in Diagrams view are all hinderances.
I used to be a full-stack developer 5 years ago, and while I wasn't an expert I was pretty good with front-end development.

Recently I've started picking up a new side project, and I'm absolutely gobsmacked how far front-end development has gotten in just 5 years. It's a completely new landscape. It feels like I'm having to learn it all from scratch again.
While a fair bit smaller, Amsterdam is probably a better example here (and it helps that they got started in the 90s).

And as points of difference (aside from size), Amsterdam has a much smaller metro network, but a larger tram network (Paris completely shut down its tram system in the late 30s and has been rebuilding it since the 90s, whereas Amsterdam's tram network was never completely shut down, and while a number of Amsterdam's tram lines were switched over to buses in the 40s and early 50s, trams got repopularized very quickly, as soon as the late 50s).
> RN is old and unmaintained

Can explain the last commit being 2 days ago and the steady progress they've made on all fronts in the last year?
> open source projects tend to actually have better translations, since they are more often than not done by developers and users of the software, who have far more context than the random translator with the lowest hourly rate that most companies go for.

Thanks for sharing this. I totally agree with you.
Thank you for the tips. As for justification, I actually compared my "before" and "after" layouts and found the one with justification better for my taste. The link you posted has some very interesting thoughts, though, and certainly justified text on a web page is a completely different level of typography than text justified e.g. in LaTeX.
The map also follows the tradition of putting one's own country at the center
To be fair, in the English language mentally attaching an unknown sequence of characters to some work-in-progress pronunciation guess can also lead to some serious hilarity.

I suspect that people who grew up with a non-alphabetic script have better "geometry abstraction capabilities" trained into their brains that would make them noticeably more performant in a test involving fantasy glyph memorization/reidentification.
>incredible to watch how Waymo was able to plot the huge number of cars accurately around the vehicle throughout the drive

4:30 look at the cars coming from the left and turning right (down the screen). Google hallucinates two cars right there, and thats just the start of the half hour journey.
A few things, I assume that growing up in a tough manual labour world people would be 1) thicker 2) smarter at handling tools to avoid injuries[0].

That said it's impressive how easy it is to pierce your body with just about anything when just enough effort is involved and I doubt they had ergonomic tools and safety equipment too. Even gloves are a luxury.
No offense but it sounds like you are more interested in being offended than comprehension and evolution.

My whole point is that social skills and interaction are just that - skills. You can invest in them if you are introverted or even if you have some social anxiety (as, I suspect, I do.)

If someone instead insists that there's nothing for them to learn, that their "badness" with people is a badge of honor in some way, then they just justify being bad at the expense of people around them.

But, I guess we can just ignore that, forego the opportunity to improve, because you find it problematic :)
Seems fair to me.
Then how will you listen Spotify while you drive? I'm not about to run a wire to the aux-in on a dumb radio like some kind of savage from 2013.
Life isn’t binary. It is possible to see more than before but not see everything.
Renaming the Call of Duty United Offence executable (coduomp.exe) to mohaa.exe (Medal of Honor) makes the game work: https://steamcommunity.com/app/2620/discussions/0/3584166403...
Ironically I find the first article easier to read when justified (side-by-side comparison at https://ibb.co/9tvZ75W). When not justified the uneven lines get my attention and I'm losing my reading rhythm. As the article lacks a published date, I do not know whether this is result of technology having advanced since. Nevertheless there're spaces that look bad around the images but maybe a better web design could help with this. Also there's the usual lack of any surveys that articles on design tend to have.
I disagree with your re-casting of the parent's statement. I believe the parent said that they are in fact opposed to Cellebrite's hoarding of 0-days.
Telemetry isn't the problem. Making assumptions about what the telemetry means is where most of us go wrong.
In 2021? I'd prefer serverless and low-code. If I only need a blog (and not a website) I'd consider posting on substack.com, dev.to, or hashnode.com instead.

> Easy to update: I usually post 1-2 pictures to social media each week, and I wanted adding a picture to my site to be as easy as posting it on any other platform... I could buy a domain and redirect it to my flickr, facebook, or instagram feed

There exists no-code apps that post your social media feeds to a weblog. One of the better ones I know is milkshake.app https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20154181

> The best approach would be to have data separated from presentation as much as possible, i.e. for each model to just define a few fields such as: name, model type, image, etc., and use some kind of templates to present this data to the end user.

Low-code builders like onuniverse.com, glideapps.com, draftbit.com (mobile apps), and pory.io come to mind, though none of them let you publish websites via another provider.

> Longevity: since I would be putting in a lot of work, I wanted to be able to expand and maintain the site for at least 5-10 years without major overhaul.

Sound like serverless services like netlify.com, pages.github.com, vercel.com, pages.dev fit the bill to deploy the site to?
I want a web interface that sets up ssl certificates for me (with wildcard sub domains) and let’s me create sub domains on the fly so I can run multiple apps on my server quickly.

I don’t like nginx because managing the config files is a hassle, it’s complex, and there’s a lot of copying redundant config files over and over again.

https://github.com/garagescript/myproxy
I created https://minimalanalytics.com some years ago.
Reflectors!
Thanks :) That's one of my biggest gripes with pytest too, and was one of the main things I was looking to solve.
It was a commercial project for a client I cannot link. Nothing exotic though. Just a little smartwatch-type device with soc/mcu/gsm/gps, 1 button and a led display.

It only had 2G which is already retired in some countries and I don’t know if they’re doing an 3/4/5G refresh.

A fun space to work in though. A space where a small bit of tech can save lives and where tracking is actually helpful.

Edit: but stressful as well. As bugs in the code or platform can lead to people in distress not getting the help they need.
A note about Master of Doom:

There is a small part about the departure of ID Software guys from Softdisk that is inaccurate and has been corrected by John Remoro himself when he spoke to the blogger who writes the famous CRPG Addict series (btw, completely out of topic but this blog is EXCELLENT if you want a COMPLETE view of pretty much every RPG out there since the 70s). The correction (as the blogger wrote) was a correction about a mistake he made in writing one of his earlier post about Dark Design, but I think it also corrects the claim made in Master of Doom.

The link to Romero's correction is as following:
http://crpgaddict.blogspot.com/2020/09/game-378-goodcodes-ca...

You will need to scroll down to the second part, or just search "But since I was only able to get 1,200 words out of Goodcode's Cavern" on the page. To simplify things I'm pasting the paragraphs:

>I had consulted several sources to assemble that paragraph, including one that purported to have interviewed both Carmack and Romero in detail, and I was pretty confident in what I had. Fast forward to a few weeks ago, when John Romero (who I didn't even know was aware of my blog) invited me to participate in a podcast interview of Stuart Smith. (We're recording in mid-September; I'll let you know when it's out.) I took the opportunity to run the paragraph by him and found out that almost everything I'd written was wrong. To wit:

- I was a year late; 1990 was the year most of this happened. Romero worked at Softdisk prior to Carmack and was actually the one who hired Carmack, not because of Dark Designs but because of a tennis game plus his obvious facility with programming.

- Romero and Carmack loved working at Softdisk and only left because it was the wrong sort of publisher to take advantage of the horizontal scrolling technology that the duo would use in Wolfenstein 3D and DOOM.

- It was actually the president of Softdisk, Al Vekovius, who suggested that Carmack, Romero, and Tom Hall start their own company. There were no lawsuits and no threats; Carmack and Romero kept working for Softdisk for a year to avoid leaving the company in a lurch.

- The reason Carmack and Romero are credited on so many Softdisk titles stretching into the mid-1990s is that those titles used technology and code that Carmack and Romero had created. They otherwise had no involvement in games like Cyberchess and Dangerous Dave Goes Nutz!
> Longevity: since I would be putting in a lot of work, I wanted to be able to expand and maintain the site for at least 5-10 years without major overhaul (but, technology being what it is, I was aware I would probably have to perform some maintenance work onhttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27173728ce every 3 years or so).

With that criteria, I wonder about the choice of Jekyll, which is huge and complicated. I'd be looking for something with fewer moving parts.

I suppose one nice thing is by that limiting yourself to static html output it becomes easier to switch from one generator to another.
I remember the dumpster-fire days too.

The thing that I can't understand is, why did it take SO LONG to get useable, proper, and intuitive CSS-based layout on web-pages?

I mean, we've had all kinds of rock-solid mechanisms for layout in desktop applications since the dawn of GUI's in the NINETEEN EIGHTIES. Meanwhile, in CSS, people had resort to HTML tables up until sometime in the early naughts, when AWFUL, counterintuitive float-based hacks were part of the "Web 2.0" buzz.

For Christ's sake, just getting fixed side-bars and a width-adaptive central area was called "The Holy Grail" by CSS experts. Isn't that the one of the most fundamental layouts GUI's-- AKA "The Docpanel"? It wasn't possible to get really nice layout without crazy hacks until flexbox in 2010-ish?

Finally, a few years after flexbox, CSS grid comes out, and oopsie, we weren't supposed to use flexbox for overall layout anyway. Now it's CSS-grid for 2D (page layout), Flexbox for 1D (component layout), and floats for what they were originally intended for (putting pictures into a block of text and have the text flow around the pictures).

To be fair, I actually like CSS now. It seems like it's really reached a point where you don't have to cling tightly to somebody's zany overcomplicated framework and can pretty much execute your will without frenetic trial and error.

So NOW it's a success, but it's distressing that I feel CSS deserves nothing more than a sarcastic SLOW CLAP?
> it is nearly oil-independent

This has never been how it works.

Oil is a global commodity. Even if the US produced as much as it consumes, if something happened in the middle east, the global price would go up. Because when the price went up in Europe or Asia, American oil producers would sell to the highest bidder, which would force American consumers to bid higher.

The real path to "independence" is to stop consuming oil, i.e. the electrification of transportation and heating. Which is starting but nowhere near finished.

Because electricity generated from solar/wind/nuclear/hydro is not a global commodity. Nothing that happens in Iran is going to change the cost of power generated at Hoover Dam.
I would expect that one develops skills mostly by practicing, and extraverts typically get more practice with social interaction, simply because that is how they enjoy spending their free time.

On the other hand, introverts may compensate e.g. by reading literature on social skills, or spend more time reflecting on what happened; and unless they are isolated, after a few decades they also get lot of experience. While extraverts may get stuck in the "high-school style of human interaction" and have difficulty move forward.

Overall, I would guess that an average extravert will be much better than average introvert e.g. at small talk. But if you need a specialist, e.g. a therapist, the chances are more balanced, because for either it requires going beyond just following their instinct. But this is all just a guess.

> There's also something else I've noticed, which is that leaders are often perceived as effective when they're leading people whom their leadership style is compatible with.

Yep. But imagine that you have ten people in a room, five extraverted and five introverted. The extraverts will create a group in the middle of the room, and introverts will sit alone near the corners. If you randomly pick a leader, you will probably tell them to lead the group in the middle of the room -- and that is a task better suited to an extravert.
No, I didn't know it - thank you. It's probably too late to switch at this stage, but I'll have a look. It's always good to know some alternatives/replacements.
I agree with the wasted effort, compounded by having to navigate ailes populated with internet-order-pickers, but it keeps him happy.
I wrote a tool that parses a single user’s Cloudwatch metric logs as a .har file. Har files are used in the network developer pane in browsers. Doing this allowed us to visualize a customer’s journey and discover areas in the code with high latency!
I wrote a cooperative multitasking system for Turbo Pascal because I needed to be able to stream data through a series of text pipes and it was easier than faking it with a bunch of temporary files. I also wrote a series of data entry routines to allow the quick creation of database editing programs.

I haven't open sourced them because I doubt anyone would care about those old MS-DOS/TP7 tools now, and I'm not up for maintaining them.
And since traffic congestion is essentially constant, you can also reduce the available car lanes and replace them with other denser modes of transport (public transport, protected bike lanes, …). It won't make congestion worse, as the increased inconvenience… will simply make less users drive.

It becomes more important to reserve "transfer nodes" (especially at the edges) where drivers can drop their car and hop on other transport modes though. That is something which is often lacking.
It's quite possible that it is a social signal, I think. Something designed to facilitate a non-spoken syn-ack handshake between members in a social group. I see you, you see me, I see that you see me, end of transmit.
Just tax electricity and tariff countries who don't.
I built an email forwarding tool for myself @ https://dontsellthis.email.
IEA has consistently underestimated solar/wind deployment and cost improvements. Predicting minimal change each year even as prices drop and deployment soars. Should we really expect them to be accurate on the mineral limitations of batteries/solar/wind?

https://www.pv-magazine.com/2018/11/20/iea-versus-solar-pv-r...
I don't think cars can be completely eliminated from cities, but I'm reasonably sure that we can remove at least 2/3rds of the car traffic by a combination of better urban planning, and better public transport. I don't think you have to restrict yourself to walkable distances. Ten minutes on a bike allows you to go several kilometers. I bet I can reach a quarter of my city in less than 15 minutes. If we make cycling safe and comfortable, that alone can eliminate a lot of traffic. Add in good public transport for trips that are longer than a few kilometers, and another big chunk of car traffic becomes unnecessary.

I lived a few months in Tokyo, without a car of course, and got by very well with a shitty mamachari and the subway. I wonder what the modal split in Tokyo is like, compared to other cities. I bet most person kilometers are met by trains and subways.