skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The problem is that road damage is not primarily caused by cars, but heavy trucks who do not pay for it proportionally. This represents a massive subsidy that has caused rail transport to decline and shift instead to trucks which not only trash roads but kill and maim tons of people while doing so.

That's clearly a less than great outcome that could be remedied through taxation and regulation, but not if you start at taxing EVs.
Taxing tires at least taxes usage as opposed to simple ownership. Use it more, buy more tires, pay more taxes.
This. I grew up with Lisp and Smalltalk, yeah I am that old, but today I love Node to build web apps.

It’s a fantastic environment for asynchronous programming. It also has a built-in REPL for a management interface via TCP or Unix sockets. It doesn’t really need any additional packages (I hate the dependency hell that npm saddles you with, and people don’t seem to know that Node already has http, https, and websocket upgrades built in, so you often don’t need any “frameworks” or libraries).

Give me Node, and I can build an entire web app from scratch. Most of the time you don’t even need to use JS in the browser. Just html and CSS are enough. Web apps the way God intended.

I don’t use Typescript either. Its type checking isn’t worth the hassle of poor tooling and inscrutable stack traces.
916 days to go. http://stadiacountdown.com
It was not done on purpose. As an unintended consequence of selection for easy to harvest mechanically, easier to bake, better to respond to fertilizers modern wheat varieties contain more specific proteins of gluten type that cause allergic reactions.
Make it illegal to have worn out tires. If every cop can spot a black man through full tint they shouldn't have a problem with missing treads.
> It's missing one of the biggest improvements: HTTP2 Push. It saves a lot of back and forth.

Worth noting that Push has been removed from Chrome, which likely means it’ll eventually go away everywhere else it’s implemented.

> You can also limit how many variants you use. On my website, I dont have bold + italic text, to avoid loading a font. My secondary font is only loaded in one variant.

This is definitely good advice. On my site, I only load one font, used only for headings. Body text certainly can benefit from custom fonts too. But IMO if your headings stand out and the rest of your design is strong with good line spacing, it doesn’t hurt to try out common web fonts or a system font stack for the body text.

> I also realised small performance gains by inlining my CSS (although HTTP2 Push negates the benefits). This only makes sense for smaller stylesheets though.

This seems to generally be the trend, but when I built my site I decided to go the opposite direction and extract all of my styles into a single external CSS file for caching benefits. This turned out to have a negative impact on perceived load time—particularly blocking fonts, but also just some TTFP generally—so I manually inlined what felt like the most critical styles, which helped a lot. First load feels pretty much the same as inline on my connection, which isn’t especially fast, and subsequent loads get it cached.

I could probably improve it further with some page-specific splitting/inlining, but haven’t felt the need to prioritize that yet.
For my small learning projects, on old hardware, I’d say about the same as Go.
The situation with steaming services only supporting a lower resolution on certain platforms reminds me of skype only supporting a certain resolution if you didn't buy a logitech camera or only supporting a lower maximum number of people in a video call if you weren't using an intel CPU.

It's a scam with no technical justifications that would magically disappear if there were enough users demanding it.

Most users may need the ability to read word files but proportionally few need word. Photoshop is far less useful yet. Out of 4.7B internet users 22M are using photoshop. 1 out of 213 internet users need photoshop now. Bloom is an app that costs you $50 once if gimp doesn't suit. Instead of paying by the month you pay if you want the updated version.

Nobody on earth needs little snitch. It's literally a fix for one of two things. Applications you don't actually trust that want to phone home and people keeping their cracked applications from realizing they are cracked. The actual solution is not to run applications you don't trust. Don't pirate software and don't install untrustworthy garbage. This is literally the reason why there isn't a good solution for this on Linux. There isn't an actual use case. It's a solution in search of a problem.

Incidentally KDE has good hidpi support out of the box but a few applications need particular configuration. Takes about 10 minutes to read an article and configure stuff. Add 3 more minutes if you need to configure this yourself by setting environmental variables.

https://wiki.archlinux.org/title/HiDPI

Works well even on mixed DPI even on plain old X11. I can't speak for trackpads because I regard them as pretty crappy I'd prefer a small blutooth mouse even on the go. I've only tested the Mac trackpad in a show room I didn't find it particularly better or worse.
Mongolian Script
I like the idea of a tire tax... but question whether you could realistically expect a tax to end (gas tax). You think those in power will give up money when they could simply have more money?
This is laughably poor reporting on laughably poor science.
> taxing gas doesn't stop people from buying gas

It's not a direct correlation, but there appears to be a cliff when people stop driving as much or exchange high consumption vehicles for lower consumption. You can see this effect when gas taxes go up in various states, and also comparing Europe to the USA.

> taxing cigarettes' doesn't stop people from smoking.

It very much does. Every time a state increases their tobacco tax, smoking rates go down.
And how do you monitor that? I don't see just trusting the mileage counter in the car being something that goes through, even though modern cars do go through some effort to prevent modifying that. I guess maybe, at least for cars meeting some standard in that regard?
A simple explanation is hormonal differences might not cause brain differences.
it is the new science, has to be woke or it is not valid.... I honestly stopped paying attention to any social studies that are coming from the US. They are extremely politicized with an agenda behind them.

When I see studies coming from Europe, (especially the UK, and Nordic Countries, which tend to be a step ahead), it has more credibility on my books.
"But just as taller people aren’t any more intelligent than shorter people"

Yeah, that sounds a bit suspicious, if we do not make a distinction between "naturally" shorter people and people whose growth was stunted by lack of nutrients in their childhood. For example, growing during periods of famine or war.
I think wrapping all your code in OOP boilerplate is probably too much for an intro course. One of the nice things about Python is that hello world is `print("Hello world")`. No `public static void main(String[] args)`, no nothing. And then on top of that, you can add your functions and classes and whatnot, but it's easier to wrap your head around a zero-fluff entry point.
You can drive on no-tread tires, but you can't drive without gas.
This was debated in Denmark recently, and the figure that made headlines was astounding. The danish government reaps 50 Billion kr annually, or 8 Billion USD, or 1,300 USD per INHABITANT per year, in vehicle related taxes. That’s 5% of the state income, making untaxed EVs an existential threat.

https://www.dr.dk/nyheder/politik/billigere-elbiler-paa-vej-...
Having only an amateur interest on architecture, it strikes me as the author's argument to be very basic: basically "look at these buildings I like and then look at these buildings I don't like".

As I understand, architecture is not only subjective beauty, but it should be a more holistic, system-based discipline. Look at the rant about Alejandro Aravena's Innovation Center and then watch his TEDTalk about the principle he tried to followed. There's definitely an ocean of subjective difference between those two positions.

Maybe the author just doesn't like the current, more "engineering" approach to try to solve many problems at once, rather than Gaudi's "look at this unpractical but funny angle" (really unfair characterization)
But forever? We gotta give people the opportunity to change. The book is gross, but SV is gross and sexist a lot of the time - and much more so in the past. So IDK maybe some human sacrifice is worth it to change the culture - but I'm always confused because a lot of the folks clamoring for heads on stuff like this are also pro things like restorative justice (which I am super pro). So no d bags, but maybe if you were a d bag at some point it should be possible to redeem yourself?
Most places in Europe levies an annual tax based on things like vehicle weight, fuel type, or engine displacement.
This article came off a bit like "nothing to see here, move along." If there's substance I wasn't able to grasp it. I was expecting a bit more.

Also, James Damore never claimed

few women went into science because, well, they just weren’t inherently good at it. “Issues of intrinsic aptitude,” ... “overall IQ, mathematical ability, scientific ability” kept many women out of the field.

The author ought to read his memo[0]

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Differences in distributions of traits between men and women may in part explain why we don't have 50% representation of women in tech and leadership.

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Note, I’m not saying that all men differ from all women in the following ways or that these differences are “just.” I’m simply stating that the distribution of preferences and abilities of men and women differ in part due to biological causes and that these differences may explain why we don’t see equal representation of women in tech and leadership. Many of these differences are small and there’s significant overlap between men and women, so you can’t say anything about an individual given these population level distributions.

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Women on average show a higher interest in people and men in things

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Women on average are more cooperative

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Women on average are more prone to anxiety

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Women on average look for more work-life balance while men have a higher drive for status on average

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The male gender role is currently inflexible

Etc... It's an interesting read.

Also, I'm very _very_ curious to know what the transgender community thinks about this new study. Somehow I feel a new storm is a-brewing.

[0] - https://www.scribd.com/embeds/355823379/content?start_page=1...
Some women have 4 types of color rods, all men have only 3.
I feel like switching languages adds extra friction too. Switching contexts is still a hurdle, but using the same language can make the hurdle shorter.
Keep in mind ML models are really great at cheating to get answers: Maybe it's detecting that women have to tilt their head up more to reach the retinal photography machine, because they're shorter on average. Maybe, some of the images come from an optometrist that specializes in women's glass frames, and his retinal photography machine has a slightly dimmer bulb. Maybe, men are more likely to get a retinograph only when they have more severe disease already, so the retinas look different for that reason.
They are an especially pathological manifestation of Buzzword Zombies who shamble around brainlessly suggesting use of their golden hammer in all contexts.

Actual finance graduated though? What the fuck were they doing in class all of those years to even think of the two as comparable?! For one let me know when I can get a mortgage or auto loan from bitcoin itself.
HistoricAerials.com -- look up satellite photos of your area, or any area of interest, as far back as the 30s.
Because it's no longer the same language. You're not programming in JavaScript, you're programming in TypeScript, which happens to be compiled to something JavaScript engines accept. All the praise towards TypeScript does not necessarily apply to JavaScript. It would be like praising Assembly while you're actually programming in C.
That is just javascript trivia that one rarely encounters in real code, and shouldn't be used to dismiss the entire language.
Katatonia - Omerta is an amazing song about this.
Is the article conflating creating 1st party games for an empty service versus choosing _not_ to create 1st party games for a busy service?

I don't 100% grok this, i.e. it seems like good news where the article implies bad news, but other media outlets mentioned there's a 4x spike in gamepad usage in last 6 weeks on the web, and it correlates to Stadia's free tier release: https://www.chromestatus.com/metrics/feature/timeline/popula...
You would tax a vehicle per mile-ton, which accounts for both usage and relative wear on the roads. A tire tax is too indirect, because different tires wear differently even on the same car.
Related: https://slatestarcodex.com/2017/08/07/contra-grant-on-exagge...

I worry that Hyde’s analysis plays the same trick. She does a wonderful job finding that men and women have minimal differences in eg “likelihood of smiling when not being observed”, “interpersonal leadership style”, et cetera. But if you ask the man on the street “Are men and women different?”, he’s likely to say something like “Yeah, men are more aggressive and women are more sensitive”. And in fact, Hyde found that men were indeed definitely more aggressive, and women indeed definitely more sensitive. But throw in a hundred other effects nobody cares about like “likelihood of smiling when not observed”, and you can report that “78% of gender differences are small or zero”.

Hyde found moderate or large gender differences in (and here I’m paraphrasing very scientific-sounding constructs into more understandable terms) aggressiveness, horniness, language abilities, mechanical abilities, visuospatial skills, mechanical ability, tendermindness, assertiveness, comfort with body, various physical abilities, and computer skills.
Google spent tens of millions of dollars bringing big games to their platform

The gaming industry has >$100 billion of revenue per year. Surely these kinds of costs are/were expected. Microsoft famously lost money on every Xbox sold for many years.
Reading the plea deal from yesterday from Greenberg was so ridiculous at how little anyone tried to hide anything. The entire thing from start to finish was documented by them in one form or another, how it went on as long as it did shocks me.
I could see their being no significant high level brain differences (although it suggests a number of about %1), but the idea that there should be no sex related disease differences seems unlikely.
Because it is effective. Fall guys is an example of a recent game that was absolutely riddled with cheaters on PC. The problem practically disappeared overnight when they introduced EAC.
My state has no way of finding out how many miles I drive. No smog checks, etc.

So some other mechanism would be required.
One thing I’d really like to build, if I ever have the time/energy, is a static analysis tool that automatically determines an optimal subset based on actual usage. Subsetting arbitrarily based on say charset definitely helps, but it can go even further if you only use even a subset of that charset.
Agreed and most of the data presented is from post-mortem and fMRI studies of the volumes of large brain structures. To make the strong claim of “no difference here” on such a basic analysis is a major red flag.
That's the best/most obvious solution but at this point, things are so messed up and have been so messed up that that's practically a 'rent bulldozers and start over' situation. I'd give my right arm if we did that, but honestly, I feel pretty safe knowing my right arm will stay intact with that bet.

I know that sounds cynical but in the last year, the 'shining lights' of my city's youth offender program 'quit' for sexually harassing the young people they were charged with. That's Canada's Young Offender system and that is one heavily scrutinized system. If that kind of evil can hide for a decade in our young offender system, we're passed the point of draining the swamp and need to bring in heavy earth movers.
Your code will always compile with newer versions of the compiler. It will never break when you upgrade your compiler. (Modulo bugs that are rare and fixed quickly). The 6-year old Rust 1.0 stability guarantee still holds.

> Can I for example compile with the latest Rust compiler 1,2,..6 year old code?

Yes.

There have been some backward incompatible changes, but those are opt-in. So it wouldn't affect you.
No Meaningful Differences in Male and Female Brains
This is a pathetic contra-science claim.

I have no idea whether women brains have on average a advantage or a disadvantage at scientific/engineering cognitive tasks.
However it is clear that there are meaningful differences in specific tasks, see ->

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sex_differences_in_cognition

There are also many known empirical results (that are not necessarily caused by brain difference but could very well be)

study2 of samples of university students, in which we found that the average IQ of men is 4.6 points higher than that of women

Women are twice as likely to be diagnosed with an anxiety disorder, and the prevalence of anxiety disorders is significantly higher for women (23.4 percent) than men (14.3 percent).

Males are generally more likely to be diagnosed with ADHD than females, with a male to female ratio of approximately 4:1 in community samples.

About twice as many women as men experience depression.

Globally, death by suicide occurred about 1.8 times more often among males than among females in 2008, and 1.7 times in 2015.[4][5][6] In the western world, males die by suicide three to four times more often than do females.[4]

A way to determine if some of those effects are causative would be to monitor cognitive performance alterations in trans people.

To me the greatest possible advantage of a woman brain would be a higher verbal fluency.
If hormone changes could make someone's brain win some of the advantage from one gender to another, then he could periodically in its life by changing gender be more optimal at certain cognitive tasks. (of course I don't recommend doing that lol)
>It is scientifically proven that there are no differences between men and women.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sexual_dimorphism
Having worn tires is already illegal. But surprisingly, there is a high correlation between race and tickets for bald tires, and I'm willing to bet that one race is not replacing their tires more often than another.
>“Rust is a new C++ not a new C and C programmers who don’t like C++ would never like Rust,” and while some folks do feel that way, it isn’t universal.

Oh, okay. I understand the point you're making.
> the answer is very heavy education and genetic engineering for improved IQ and work ethic, to constantly improve humans to be able to achieve more without personal strain

That sounds like a lot of work. Isn't tech supposed to make life easier?
I've always had front-end and back-end owned by the same team, and in the same repo, despite being in separate languages. The repo has a single build script which builds all parts of the project, whatever language they are in. Implementing almost any feature involves touching both front-end and back-end code, so people stay fresh. All of this seems like table stakes to me.

Maybe some organisations have separate teams working on the two parts of an application, which honestly just seems stupid, but that's not a necessary consequence of using different languages.
Mine certainly do, because without them I would be blind.
Not to mention slavery, lynchings, and the consequence-free murder of gender and sexual minorities. There are many things that are today considered barbaric that were once popular, and this is almost certainly a trend that will extend into the future.
Nim as a replacement for Python makes sense to me. We often hear that many Python developers went on to choose Go when needing more performance, but Nim feels like an easier move.
The main thing that stops bad cells from proliferating isn't telomeres, but our own immune system. NK cells (natural killers) are very efficient in terminating everything suspicious with extreme prejudice, so to say.

Successful cancer is the one that learns how to look innocently, at least to the immune cells patrolling the body.

Successful immunological treatment (actually using mRNA vaccines, that is what Moderna and BioNTech were originally about; Covid vaccines are only an adaptation) teaches the immune system to recognize the bad cells again based on their mutations. It will then jump into action and control the cancer growth.
It’s a pretty interesting license.

> The Software is not used by, in cooperation with, or on behalf of any armed forces, intelligence agencies, reconnaissance agencies, defense agencies, offense agencies or any supplier, contractor, or research associated.
Security 101
Fair enough then, and good to hear that's the case. Sometimes people grow up, genuinely, and become better people, and sometimes they "grow up" and just become pretentious. Some harassment is real harassment, caused by people being shitty, and some is just people reacting in a reasonable way to people being shitty. I obviously have no point point of reference here, and it's ancient history by now, but I'll take your word that it this was a case of genuine bad behavior being regretted later.
Yeah, the industry just seems not to have bitten. Which is a shame, because the technology really is just plain great. Play a AAA game on a $180 chromebook with basically identical resource consumption to watching Netflix.

But... the big studios don't want it because they don't want to lose control of distribution. The indie folks couldn't be wooed away from Steam, because Google just isn't going to match Valve's creator services community. Google isn't willing to drop the kind of cash MS or Sony do to buy themselves exclusives...

Frankly the best thing for the industry would be to spin it off and sell it to Valve. A Steam/Stadia would rule the world.
I have been working in London as a developer for 7 years and, to me, it’s the best city in Europe to be in tech.
Maybe I could be making 3 times more in SF but I wouldn’t be in Europe, close to my friends and family.
I want to say that C has had more resources due to it being the defacto compiler reference target; but honestly, I doubt it.
With most things, yes, if the implementation for that feature supports your operating system, and it doesn't take long enough to be noticeable, and there's no weird caching issues at any given level, then yes, it's transparent in that case.

Or you could just write the JS directly and be done with it.
Not that hard to add a milage check, or just take your word for it. Eventually you'd get caught lying if they make cops write down how many miles you have when they give you a ticket, or when you sell your car.
The use of it is depleting the leadership chain of command and leave third and fourth stringers at the top at best. It won't actually eliminate them but it will reduce their effectiveness greatly.

In Al Qaeda's case the futility comes more from the vacuum in their niche.