skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
In the south of Italy where I am right now there appears to be a pattern of pre-lunch and pre-dinner rush hour. You get some pretty decent cycling paths along the sea between 1 pm and 5 pm which turn into what can only be described as death-wish-routes outside that time window.
Instead of actually thinking about how that could be done, people jump at the lowest hanging fruit to dismiss a thing.

Imagine I said "just blow up a building to get rid of it", and people will diss it the same, without thinking that there may actually be a way (controlled demolition).
Sure. I'm not saying that a democracy always means one person, one vote. I'm saying it requires an ideal of trying to be meaningfully representative.

One person, one vote is certainly gameable. One dollar, one vote is even more so.
This also highlights what should be considered a disqualification for overly broad legislative statute. It seems to me that CFAA was put into practice with woefully little thought as to how computing systems, and by extension, how the legal system interacts with them.

This results in an incredibly powerful tool landing in the prosecutions hands that can be used to quite literally drive a person to death by legal system while everyone non-technical has to be brought up to speed on how this stuff works and doesn't work.

Realistically speaking, I don't think the CFAA has actually been driven by real concerted attention from tge public. If it had been, I don't think the software industry would be anywhere near as big as it is, because when you really understand what you're doing when accepting a EULA, and then comparing that expectation with what programs actually do, there'd be an awful lot of software that actually falls under CFAA used for official purposes than anyone not in an official capacity would feel comfortable with; nevermind software for private use.
absolutely true. Since some people are questioning this in the comments: for those that want to do their own research, this is called 'The Law of One Price,' and it applies to other commodities where transportation and storage costs are low.

https://www.investopedia.com/terms/l/law-one-price.asp
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Law_of_one_price
https://corporatefinanceinstitute.com/resources/knowledge/ec...

This has been well established in mainstream energy economics for ~50 years. Other disciplines seem to have trouble grokking the arguments. But ask any professional trader and they'll go with the economists on this one.
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Yeah, unfortunately there's been lots of folks out there who have tried to insist that Redux should be used everywhere, all the time, and ignored the guidance we've offered over the years on when it _might_ make sense to use Redux.
I tried to read through this I couldn't figure out what problem was solved. Does anyone have TLDR?
A Python program to make an embeddable search engine for a static website: https://github.com/joe-crawford/Static-Site-Search

It indexes the site and generates search functionality in JavaScript (the index is just a static JSON file) that can be uploaded wherever JS/HTML/etc. files can be uploaded. I thought it might be useful for people with sites on GitHub pages or similar who don't want to use one of the major search engine company widgets.

Also my back of the envelope calculations were that the simple search index for a small–medium site won't be that big.
I made a platform for hosting game servers at scale. All of the options previously on the market at the time were highly limited, didn't really put a lot of effort into security, or had existed for 10+ years and didn't feel much need to innovate.

https://github.com/pterodactyl/panel

Kind of took off after posting here about it a few years back, and now it just kind of sustains itself with some bug fix inputs every now and then.
Polygraphs are not generally admissible in court.

https://www.justice.gov/archives/jm/criminal-resource-manual... (just one example).
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> The obvious conclusion to draw from all this is that complex human feelings and behaviors can’t in general be given reductive evolutionary explanations.

Agreed.

> There are more things in heaven and Earth than are dreamt of in your philosophy.

Yup. I'm a lot more confident that gay people exist than that ghosts exist, though :)

> Gay people are pretty used by now to being told that we don’t “fit in” to some overarching theory of nature that’s currently orthodox.

Agreed. It's tiresome.

> Evolutionary theory has contributed approximately zip to our understanding of human sexuality.

That's a point where I disagree, though I think most of what it's contributed is negative: debunking all kinds of wishful thinking on the part of neo-Victorians and Catholics.

> By all means continue to be puzzled that reproduction doesn’t explain every aspect of human behavior.

I don't plan to start being puzzled about that. Maybe you intended to post your comment on a different thread?
I wrote Helium https://github.com/geuis/helium-css a while back to help find unused css on a site. The process of building sites has changed a lot since then so it’s not as universally useful as it used to be. (...Glares at React...). Joking aside, it’s had a good run. I’ve had some ideas for a few years about an updated version but it would really be an entire new project.

Also created https://jsonip.com. Get your IP address in a json object. I created it a decade ago to solve some problem I had and have been running it ever since. Last I checked it’s supporting 4-6 million requests per day from a pretty wide group of users.
> Australia has a huge cattle industry for similar reasons, lots and lots of space, but much of the land is not suitable for crops. Cattle will survive, but not many.

Is the amount of water that cattle consume a consideration?
I wanted something that was fairly simple like Make, but that allowed me to write/manage my logic, and not have to learn a domain specific language. OTOH I didn't want to go through the hassle of having to install Meson or whatever, and learn how to configure it.

I built [Sane][0], which is a single-file library without dependencies, that is basically a decorator definition and a function export.

[0]: https://github.com/mikeevmm/sane
So it doesn’t!

Then I’ll refine my statement to bridges and such.
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I'm amazed at the length of this article.

Never expected MSN to put this much effort into such a random topic.
Pigs can breathe oxygen via their rectum, so humans probably can too
Oh yes, sorry, I think in the US, iPhone is dominant. Even more. I expect them to spend more money too. My perspective is the UK, where there is a 50:50 split of Android and iOS. A consumer app company I worked for previously made a lot more money from iOS users than Android.

In terms of market, do your research on jobs and skill demand in the area.
I like your comment because i can see the ambivalence between the hobbyist curious to see where this path leads to and the "pragmatist" wondering whether this path is worth even thinking about.

> I'm not living on a boat, and I'm not working on a Raspberry Pi. Why rewrite the software I use into something more lightweight when I can just use the software without consequence now, and save all that pain?

There is a very real trend of people in the computerspace who are applying the "questions" that climate change and working towards a more sustainable world ask us: much like in the physical world, doing always more is a mistake and if we can do what we need to do with fewer resources, then changing our tools to reach this state is a worthy goal in itself. Not only because we should reduce our usage of resources and energy and make sure our tools last longer than the single-digit years they usually do in computerland, but also because if/when TheCollapse (TM) finally comes we won't have access to the latest and shiniest tech anymore so we'll have to make do with what we come up with, and that's going to be old computers and phones lying around unused.

So as always it's a question of priorities: if you don't consider resources usage and climate change as an important enough issue, doing what they're doing will always remain in the domain of hobbyists enjoying their little fun, just like those people who build the most insane programs with fewer characters than are in this very comment.
Tldw: Car gets stuck, blocks traffic, people honk, construction crew has to try to get it going, Waymo issues a statement blaming their employees.

Way to keep it classy, Waymo. Glad I don't work for you, I prefer to not be thrown under the bus by my employer.
That's somewhat true, but in this case the story wasn't told as a parable and the primary actors are real and alive and well. Someone is taking credit for other people's work.
I made a small utility to help me search for JS code better. It's called @nikhilverma/ast-grep. It works really well for my use case but I hope to polish it more and release it more widely.

npx @nikhilverma/ast-grep '{ meta: { title: "___" }}' src/

This will search for any object with a key meta which is also an object and has a property called title which is any string. It uses AST for grepping so you don't need to worry about placement, whitespaces etc.
I made a CLI interface for the Microsoft Academic API so you can search for papers, download them, and generate HTML from a collection: https://github.com/mila-iqia/paperoni

I'm using it to automatically collect papers published by members of the research institute I work for, it's working pretty well.

I also made a small utility to sync folders on-demand on my different machines: https://github.com/breuleux/synecure

Most of the work is done by a library called bsync that someone else had written, which itself uses rsync, but I'm quite happy about the interface I made. By default it syncs home-to-home, so you don't have to specify both the source and destination directories. You can just type "sy -r remote" in ~/whatever to sync it to ~/whatever on the remote.
Ah, okay, that helps! So basically, you have a system where two springs are in parallel, thus resulting in effective stiffness being equal to the sum of their stiffnesses (K = k1 + k2). However, the extra linkage makes them act in series, which reduces total stiffness. (1/K = 1/k1 + 1/k2, like parallel resistors).

However, I'm blanking on how the analogy to traffic flow works, and on how exactly the blue and red lines are connected to make this work or how stiff they are assumed to be. (I thought they had to be infinitely stiff for this to work but the math on that doesn't work in my quick calculation.) Edit: the German says the three linkages are infinitely stiff (hart) I'm confused because that would make the parallel case infinitely stiff.

Edit: Okay I had that wrong, the extra linkages are indeed infinitely stiff. In the parallel case, that doesn't make the system infinitely stiff because each one is in series with a finite stiffness spring. And in the analogy stiffer = shorter travel time, and any road system with a fixed travel time is thus infinitely stiff.
Up to a year in prison and a $100k fine.. wow, people get more time for smoking marijuana in the Midwest. Seems like as long as you're a company, you can do pretty much anything and the consequences are minor.
The location is taken from an online database based on cell id. It's not clear where most of them get their data but services like wigle and mozilla use crowd sourcing of signal strengths so they might be a bit off. Not as accurate as the ones in the article I would think.
I'm open to the broader picture and certainly the human culture has enormous impact on human bodies, the age of death, etc. But the comment I originally reacted to has suggested that death is entirely socially driven, which IMHO needs enormous proof and to me that simply doesn't make sense, as even entirely non-cultural beings die.
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27156334
I find it a bit sad that whimsical/mundane science interests/amuses people. It's also sad that educationalists mandate that science taught in schools should be "relevant to students' lives". So a bunch of apes on a vegetated rock hurtling through space learn how to read the nutritional info on the back of cereal boxes instead of thinking about the genesis of time, matter, energy, information, and life from fucking nothing.
Inverters and power bricks are noisy too.
I think we should solve this problem. It's a big lift, but so was moving ASCII to Unicode, or supporting screenreaders. Making things accessible is the right thing to do, and once the right infrastructure is in place, it's not overly expensive to sustain.

Yes, I do think we should have translations for everything.

We should have infrastructure to view code in multiple languages. Blockly games, Hour-of-Code, and parts of Microsoft MakeCode do this already. You flip a button and "on start" becomes "nar programmet starter" or "all'avvio."

Programming is easy, since code is structured, and it's easy to parse what's a variable and what's a function call. The translation problem, outside of comments and documentation, is a lot easier than natural language.

Furthermore, a lot of this stuff generalizes since the same words are used so often. Once there's a translation for "page_loaded," you can use that across many platforms.

I should be able to select a drop-down, and have the same for any program I can find on github or gitlab, and edit code in my native language.

It's a (huge) one-time investment. But once that investment is made, sustaining is cheap. A lot of translation works well enough automated (through Google or Amazon translate), and what doesn't translate well can be cleaned up by crowdsourcing. Google Translated comments are usually actually good enough.
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I've always adored the idea of personal sites which do not require any build systems or databases, or in other words static sites. On multiple occasions over the years I've had the ambition to start working on my own and maintain it, hence the reason I created(shameless advertising, I know) https://rorigami.site/

But really my main motivation was to have something that's self-contained and does not require any maintenance whatsoever. Ironically every time I decide to make improvements or use it, something urgent immediately pops up... Oh well...
I highly recommend both Wolfenstein3D and Doom black books, from Fabien Sanglard, which are very technical and describe really well a ton of things around those games: how they have been developed, the tools they have been developed on / with, the context, ...

Wolfenstein 3D Black Book: https://fabiensanglard.net/gebbwolf3d/

Doom Black Book: https://fabiensanglard.net/gebbdoom/
Needs a (2016), it's an old story.
It depends on NodeJS instead.
I mean...I am an introvert, living with two other introverts, and we're all thrilled with work-from-home, and don't particularly want to go back to the office. Some of this is, indeed, because of our introversion, and what that means for regular interactions in an office setting. Some of it is for other practical reasons.

But I wouldn't be so arrogant as to attempt to generalize from even a small handful of examples to an entire population.
Open source spinoffs from Tarsnap: https://www.tarsnap.com/open-source.html

scrypt: Because the world didn't have any strong password-based key derivation functions.

spiped: Because using stunnel or ssh tunnelling to connect to servers is gross.

kivaloo: Because I wanted a high performance KV store optimized for small values (e.g. 40 bytes) rather than larger "items" (each containing multiple key-value pairs) or "blobs" (e.g. cached chunks of HTML).
Copying from another thread:

Houdini seems mostly abandoned. The feature page [1] lists multiple sub-proposals that have "No signal" even from the Chrome team. All mentions of Houdini I can find on developers.google.com are from 2018. I can't find anything about Houdini integration with WebAssembly, which is what I'd expect if development was ongoing.

Overall, I'm seeing everything I would expect to see in the timeline where Mozilla has no intention of ever implementing Houdini, and Google has decided it's not worth pursuing beyond what's already implemented.

[1]: https://ishoudinireadyyet.com/
Hah I was going to guess either Fernie, castle, or something up northern BC like at Smithers

I’ve always wanted to stop in at castle on my way to or from fernie.

Sounds like you are living your best life congrats!
I agree, but I also think that when developers talk about simplicity it's in terms of understanding the bits and moving parts that make the whole.

Like creating a nextjs app, or a wordpress website, those things are all "simple" to execute - as in easy - you type a command/click somewhere and it's done, you've got the structure and all plumbing done. You can understand all the pieces after working with them for a while and they mostly cover everything you need for their use case (which in this case makes some things simple, creating a new page, or blog entry, uploading an image, etc).

With Squarespace and such it's the same, it's simple, specially for someone who isn't a webdev - but what it's doing is not simple and when you need to stray from what it does and how it works (specially in visual builders) simple things become very complex or even not doable. They're probably still the best tools for a given range of websites/purposes, even if you know how to code, but definitively running transpilers, pre and post processors, chunking files, merging code, scoping blocks of html and css, stacks of middleware, etc, is the opposite of simple.
If reproduction doesn’t explain every aspect of human behavior then what exactly is supposed to be the puzzle posed by homosexuality? It is one trait that decreases a man’s chance of reproducing, along with many others that are widely attested throughout recorded history and given far less attention. To be puzzled by it you literally have to be puzzled that not every man is a optimal baby making machine.
> They can create localized distortions, but if they're doing something unsustainable then they won't stay billionaires long and it will end up a blip.

My point is precisely that this assumption is not true.

A more precise way to say that you're "doing something unsustainable" is that you're persistently overvaluing something. But how is it determined that you're overvaluing something? The rest of the market assigns it a lower value than what you assign.

If you and your billionaire buddies just decide to value something highly, then simply because you have money already, you can do that, and you can influence enough of the market to make sure that you're not overvaluing it relative to the market, and thus, it is sustainable.

The more money you have, the more leverage you have to pull off this trick. Sometimes it works, sometimes it doesn't, but the average person on a minimum-wage strategy cannot even attempt it.

People don't solely buy what they want or need. They also buy, in very large quantities, things that they expect to be able to resell later. Sometimes this happens at small scale (think toilet paper or gasoline, or even think houses); sometimes this happens at large scale (think commodities markets or mergers and acquisitions). These sorts of secondary markets have a huge influence on price discovery.
That’s pretty clever, I guess that for most personal blogs it will be more that sufficient.
Immature climate science needs a stress test
Now you're asking the important questions. We're getting to a point where we have so much of our personal memory, effects, and essence on our phones that there is no reasonable substitute to seperate the data on our devices as being seperate from our mind. That implies 5th Amendment should apply to electronic testimony, which will be fought tooth and nail against by the judiciary. This will have to be tested sooner rather than later as we get closer to realistic and functional Brain/computer interfaces.
Yes. I understand inflation.

I'm pointing out that a $5k return is still income. Compare:

Scenario 1: person stuffs $10k in mattress for 20 years. They have $10k at the start, $10k at the end. $0 taxes.

Scenario 2: Person invests $10k, makes $5k when they sell after twenty years. $10k start, $15k end. Pays capital gains on $5k.

Scenario 3: Person stuffs $10k in mattress, makes $5k in wages on twentieth year. $10k start, $15k end. Pays taxes on $5k.

Scenario 2 and 3 are similar, right? Both lose to inflation. The capital gains, however, have a max of 20% taxes.
That IMP Globus is amazing.
Are people entitled to free roads? If yes then the electorate will not care that fuel taxes and registration fees don't cover road maintenance costs - it's a dignity not a price. If not then all roads should be toll roads or cars can be taxed per mile via odometer readings.

Making things free at the point of use is not always the best way to help the poor or public. The inefficiency of no charge first come first serve could outweigh equity benefits. Having everyone pay in time (traffic jams) is a large hidden cost. Time is valuable even for those who lack money. The US Department of Transportation came up with a benchmark of $12.25/hour (50% of median household income) to evaluate the expected time savings of proposed transportation projects (2014).

With free roads only time, fuel, and vehicle depreciation are considered. Roads are considered zero cost. There's minimal consideration of mass transit, carpooling, or moving closer to work. Just demands to add another lane and more parking everywhere. If roads were tolled or a lane was re-allocated to buses that could help poor people by making carpooling or riding a bus a realistic lower cost alternative to owning a car (or second car). Carpooling is a great example of how tolls incentivize high efficiency: 2 coworkers coming from the same neighborhood can cut their vehicle ownership expenses, the toll only hits half as hard, the people/hour throughput of the road goes up, and they take up less parking. Two people get to avoid congestion doubling time savings.

Infrastructure is always shared. There are hard normative questions about how capacity should be allocated, and who should be subsidized. Making it free at the point of use doesn't eliminate those trade off questions.
I think you would like http://thi.ng/hdom
The cheaper NUC computers are a good alternative to the Raspberry PI.

The Raspberry seems cheaper on paper, but you have to add a case, power supply, some sort of storage solution and then suffer with the whole thing not quite working properly.
Obstruct justice? Cellebrite is often used by authoritarian unjust postliberal states.

I have personally spoken to important figures in these countries with great political power or influence in the economy.

Usually they`re very anti privacy except when it comes to their personal shady dealings.

“Obstruction of justice” is a moral imperative when “justice” is defined and administered by those with the moral character of Roland Freisler.
The top of the page has the LA Times logo and it says it was provided to MSN by the Times. Direct link to original below.

https://www.latimes.com/business/story/2021-05-16/flamin-hot...
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> If [... then] this is a huge murder vehicle

Stop it. Waymo vehicles (Tesla autonomy too, FWIW) are extremely safe, that is just an experimental fact. The circumstance in question here has nothing to do with safety, really. The bug is that it caused a traffic obstruction while the (human) operators attempted to get the car oriented.

Hyperbolizing the circumstances is really not appropriate. This was not a safety situation, really, at any point.
qml is quite awesome. hands down! its a joy to work with.

but I agree in general with your statement.
I thought this was well known? The Kraft Parmesan cheese bottle literally lists "cellulose powder" on the ingredients. Never buy that crap.