skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It's more painful in the US because so much of our built environment is not at a human scale conducive to public transit. Transit uses an implied hub and spoke network system where the base level of spoke is walking, then some combination of buses/trains/subways integrating those walk-sheds.

For huge areas of the country (and yes, this includes those classified as "urban"), the distances are too long, and the scenery too hostile or unexciting, to encourage walking. The more this happens, the more people want cars, and everything about accommodating cars (vs accommodating those on foot) worsens the area for human use: heat islands from parking and roads, danger from the same, dead landscapes, etc. Part of the problem is that cars are great for GDP (road building/maintenence, New rings of suburbs every generation as people flee the old ones, the whole car ecosystem) and horrible for building wealth, and ultimately national policy is all about GDP.

The inertia of this ugly system keeps cars nearly necessary to live and work in most places. And you can live in ways that avoid car use, but all entertainment and recreation and your friends are inaccessible without cars because most people pick the car option when faced with the question.

All of this means that there's no critical mass of people using transit to push for high level of service, and buses (and in some regions trains too) become filthy places to avoid.
What's horrendous about it? Haven't really tried it much yet, but it seems to acknowledge that most people use tabs as a form of less permanent bookmarks, and for that it seems perfect.
Just one example, PayPal is also for peer-2-peer transfers
I also find that some low background noise helps. I'm using myNoise [0], but there are many such apps. Pick whatever works for you.

In my experience, the main way it helps is by preparing me for other disturbances (sounds). I think that we're processing sound in a relative way, so if you have silence and all of a sudden there's noise, it will demand attention. By having something in background, I reduce the difference between the current level and the distraction.

The trick is to find the sweet spot. Too loud and it'll be distracting, and in fact even too low is distracting for me, because I attempt to focus on it too much.

Also, nature sounds do seem to have a calming effect, regardless.

[0]: https://mynoise.net
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You're correct in that once you start building for cars your city sprawls out and other modes of transport become impractical.

I don't think the 27% number is particularly useful because it offers no context into the type of trip. No one is suggesting you use bicycles for intercity trips, but for city transport they're perfect. This is reflected in the mode share numbers for cities compared to the national average: Wikipedia has Amsterdam at 40% bike share with 29% public transport and 27% driving. In the context of a city, biking and public transport are the obvious choices to get more people into the same area.

I think you have a chicken and the egg problem in many cities where driving is hugely subsidised and no investment takes place in other transportation methods. For example, in the UK the majority of trips seem to be around 5 miles or less. By bike this is only a 30 minute commute at the extreme end. Once you account for traffic it ends up being only 10-20 minutes slower than driving the same distance.

Compared to the Netherlands cycling only makes up 2% of the national mode share. The difference between the UK and the Netherlands is that we have almost no investment in cycling infrastructure, and what we do get is typically poorly executed.

> Bicycles replace walking, not driving.

Personally I don't believe driving belongs in any city where you also want people to have an enjoyable time walking the streets and socialising. It's a perfectly acceptable way of getting between cities or from remote locations, but within a city there are almost always better options.
> How so?

Fiat currencies are exceptionally good instruments for exchange value for illicit purposes. Primarily this is because it is unknown what the total supply of fiat is (although there are reasonable models for estimation) and it's transactional history is impossible to define.

Both of these properties combined (although other factors undoubtably are at play) mean it's very easy for large amounts of fiat to exchange hands without any third parties knowing (i.e cash transactions).

This is the underlying issue that allows fiat currencies to be the best method for transacting for illicit purposes.
Strapping yourself to the back of someone else's rocket
If you can do your job from anywhere, somebody from anywhere can do your job. That's the risk.
im pretty sure that 90% of the people here dont know abt this hollywood-elitists website...
The U.S. Military Emits More CO2 Than Many Industrialized Nations (2019)
Thanks, that’s the first I’ve heard of that. I’ll have a read, cheers.
Haha this is painfully relatable. I still never know whether to count the starting 0 in decimals so I get confused reading numbers under 1e-3. Somehow I got a job where I get paid to do math.
IMO just ask for help on /r/typescript or some Discord server regarding the specific issues. The documentation is pretty good IMO.

What makes things a little bit more complicated is that the language is still changing so some answers on StackOverflow might be outdated.

OTOH, I just use any all the time...
Looks like a perfectly acceptable office to me.
There are perfectly good justifications: More Americans died than combat deaths in WWII at this point. Young Americans can be permanently disabled, and can share diseases with old professors.

There are also perfectly good justifications for not wanting a police state.

Until both sides understand that the other side has a point, we're not going to land anywhere reasonable.

If we had 100% compliance with the easy things:

* Social distancing of 6 feet

* Universal usage of 80% or more effective masks

* Vaccines

* Everything that can be done outdoors is

We probably wouldn't need the hard things.

Reasonable measures by everyone are far more effective than part of the population throwing all precautions to the wind, and part insisting on a draconian police state.

I'm concerned about economic shutdowns, closing schools, failing businesses, police state measures, and similar. Avoiding those means we all need to acknowledge the very real risk of COVID19, and while we might not agree with medical surveillance, that the people pushing for it have different values but aren't crazy.
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The problem is that there are groups that, given ~A => B, would argue both against A and against B.
Slightly off topic but Bandcamp really need to fix their broken 24 bit .wav delivery [1].

They seem to think it's OK to lay the blame on the DJ software that won't play their files [2], but re-encoding a 24 bit .wav file from Bandcamp into 24 bit .wav file using freely available tools fixes the problem.

I'm forever fielding complaints from customers (who are too lazy to search themselves) that the 24 bit .wav they just bought won't play in Traktor.

[1] https://support.native-instruments.com/hc/en-us/articles/210...
[2] https://get.bandcamp.help/hc/en-us/articles/360046770013-My-...
It’s difficult to strike a balance between hysteria and justified skepticism. Especially with topics like electric cars.

However, I believe this isn’t really about the environment. It’s about corruption, real or imaginary. People are afraid that companies, especially big companies, have it all too easy with the bureaucratic process, while individuals or small companies are stonewalled at every turn.

If it makes municipality money, anything goes. Otherwise, not so much.
at@at.at

And there's a HTML page for it:

https://at.at/
Anyone that can read P&Ls, are they making a profit?
Maybe this is controversial on HN, but I care more about my community than a spider
Google launches answer to Slack and Microsoft Teams
I diagree. The c / z in American pronunciation can cause confusion in verbal communication here. "at ey bee [see] dot ex why [see]"
Didi is the Chinese Uber, and Uber's market cap as I write this is $90B, so on the face of it $70B for a fast-growing market on track to be several times larger than the US doesn't seem crazy.

Of course, that's assuming Uber's valuation is sane, which is not a bet I'd personally be willing to take.
> There's nothing that prevents productivity on remote work that can't be handled with the right tools, skills and attitude

Firstly, congrats! It's something I'm working towards myself, and the pandemic looks like it will be a significant opportunity to try and achieve it.

However, perhaps you're minimising your expertise here and the learnings and experience that the employer and the worker need to go through to make it work.

Anything to share here?
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Just as one data point here, cutting caffeine after noon fixed my insomnia back in college. So it works for at least some people. I'm sure it doesn't work for everyone. So I'm one of the lucky ones.

The other thing that seems to have helped me has been allowing natural light into my bedroom. I used to black out my windows and sleep in, then wake up disoriented since my bedroom was pitch black. Now, the sunrise wakes me up on the morning and I'm guessing that helps with circadian rhythm.

It's still not perfect. If I have the slightest bit of anxiety I'll wake up in the middle of the night, and in general if I wake up at night I have trouble falling asleep again. But that's a far cry from my college insomnia.
For the example that the OP listed in regards to pipes I prefer to leverage something like https://github.com/CrowdHailer/OK it allows to retain the expressiveness you get with pipes but cleanly handles result tuples:

require OK

OK.for do
user <- fetch_user(1) # `<-` operator means func returns {:ok, user}
cart <- fetch_cart(1) # `<-` again, {:ok, cart}
order = checkout(cart, user) # `=` allows pattern matching on non-tagged funcs
saved_order <- save_order(order)
after
saved_order # Value will be wrapped if not already a result tuple
end
It probably comes from config/database, not hard-coded, so might not get it after all.
What caused the paralysis?!
Yep. When we did Solaris installs GNU coreutils and friends were high on the list.
Incidentally nice to see sunfreeware.com is still going!
Emacs package to Create keyboard events from MIDI input
You know it would also be useful to work in reverse. I get frusterated when house listings don’t include a floor plan. How cool if a program could go through the photos and guess a floor plan. Obviously a hard problem.
For now. Keep in mind, the question the status quo is wanting to answer is: "We can't simple stand still and forfeit our (fiancial) power, so how can we make this work for us?" They haven't squashed because it might be a and better opportunity for them.

It will be a nudge by nudge process. This is a start. Nothing is off the table for them.
I've had similar conversations, but they are eclipsed by those revolving around people asking me if I work for the company in question. (I once said yes, to see what would happen, and understood how easy it would be to swindle people who don't understand email.)

I also spent 10 minutes trying to convince a car hire company that the email was mine and didn't belong to a third party car hire intermediary.
Vitamin D hugely increased the quality of sleep I got. But interestingly not actually taking D3 supplements, using a vitamin D lamp got the job done.
I've got close to 600 ... yet only see the downvote option on very new posts
Which hasn't changed in any way from the day the very first app store could be sideloaded.

Much ado about nothing.
The details are important, and we should make a distinction between the environment-friendliness of Tesla products and their manufacturing sites.

I think it is preferable to centralize the environmental impact so that it is easier to monitor and deal with.
Or any other fiat currency.

I want to see blockchain gone but most legislators don't understand it, they think it should be gone but they are not sure why so they end up with nonsense like this.
I think a lot of the skills you learn around how you interact with people in a professional setting, developing a sense of when to ask someone for help vs. work through a problem yourself, and how to develop software professionally. I've found that we have a lot more work taken down a wrong path because it's not as easy to check in on someone remotely without it coming across as micromanagement of more junior developers. I appreciate that a fair portion of that "blame" lays with the more senior members, but I've at least found that some things that would easily be resolved face to face, or with the kind of coffee break chat you get in person, have festered on longer than they necessarily should have.
Wouldn't surprise me at all if the competition (VW and the likes) were nudging these groups. They often end up being shills and proxies.
Evolution of the Data Science Workbench
This flurry of IPOs and acquisitions kinda' remind me of the 1999 - 2000 times. But maybe I am too old and jaded...
From first hand experience I know that these „environmental“ groups are also big in blocking smaller projects like wind turbines. In the end they are ultra conservative but can paint themselves in a modern, green way
What do you achieve with this explanation? This metaphor literally has zero predictive value.

For example, it may be quite hard to reverse-engineer a loaf of bread, but reading assembly is actually quite easy to understand what the program actually does.
GANs learn real-life distributions easily
bruh, 90% of the countries aren't there when I toggle 2020, what kind of scam is this?
Technically true! But it is backed by a very powerful commercial empire who also happens to have the worlds largest military.
If you ingrain a culture of "actions have consequences" you disincentivize actions. This is why everyone is fine with letting nowhere projects run ahead, and adding to technical debt, or just keep on incurring running costs instead of cutting them.

"If I don't make a choice, it's not my fault".

It's much better to establish a culture of "try doing good things, and we're in this together". If you trust your colleagues and are good at recruiting, you'll get a lot more done.

I don't know if I have any specific tips and ideas for post-mortems as it usually... "depends".
That capability varies a lot. Long build times create a situation where the ability to swap tasks efficiently is the main criterion for being effective.

I'm considered "extremely high output" in my current position, and I don't really deserve it - I ought to be called "unusually good at coping with our problems" instead.
The importance of A/B testing in robotics
It's also a bit ill-timed as Bitcoin is "now a fiat currency", if you go by El Salvador's wiki page
and many people are realizing that the environment should be considered over costs and deadlines
Bitcoin is a public ledger. I dont understand how a zero-privacy blockchain would be the biggest enabler of ransomware? Isnt TCP/IP a bigger enabler?

SHA-256 came out of the NSA. Didnt the FBI retrieve the Bitcoin from the pipeline ransomware attack? They have lots of tradecraft at their disposal that we cannot know of.
Provy has launched a subscription platform for businesses and pros
That link is interesting, thanks, but it doesn't appear to be run by a medical professional and some of its advice directly contradicts the NHS' own advice (https://www.nhs.uk/conditions/vitamins-and-minerals/vitamin-...) - I would suggest anyone contemplating overdosing vitamin D (more than 4000IU/100ug per day according to the NHS) should only do so under guidance from a doctor.
I feel the opposite though. Anonymity is key, especially if you're not well protected. You can be the nicest guy in the world, but if you ever step out of line once and the wrong person decides that you're his target today, there you go.
the ui shows false information when u pick a modern date
"The boy who cried wolf." They need to be more selective if they want to be taken seriously. Maybe this one is serious, but how are we to know if they fight everything?
Philosophy's Lack of Progress
~90% of the USD is also virtual.

https://www.forbes.com/sites/davidblack/2020/03/01/who-needs...
If you work for an eCommerce company, then invest in mops. Hackers love eCommerce companies that fail to learn from mistakes.

Someone mentioned "bad corporate culture." In fact, the OP was really a sort of indictment of dysfunctional culture.

The Japanese are heavily process-oriented (not always a good thing). They have a consensus-based approach, where all stakeholders agree to a common set of rules and remedies before the meeting begins. If a problem is found, then the meeting doesn't end until there is a plan (and responsible person) for a remedy. Assigning tasks (not blame) is a goal. People are assumed to accept personal responsibility for their own mistakes. It's not the job of the meeting to do that (there's a common cultural mythology of responsible managers committing suicide, if they screw up badly enough. I never saw it, so I can't speak to its accuracy).
I don’t think this would be a ban from a technology standpoint. It’s from a legal/financial standpoint - so yes, you would still be physically able to download and run the BTC software, but nobody would be allowed to officially deal in it. It’s like how banning murder doesn’t eliminate murder - but that doesn’t mean that the ban doesn’t still dramatically reduce the incidence of it.
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+1

i dont know why they published this when u cant even see the US in 2020
I think you are straw-manning environmental groups here. It seems reasonable to have personal vehicles without climate change or other environmental damage.
Well building a battery factory in EUs worst CO2 polluter kinda makes no sense from an environmental viewpoint. Better to build it in Sweden or France which have a heavy Nuclear/Hydro mix in their grid.
A good, no nonsense reply! The world is complicated. There are so many people who want the vaccine and can't access it and other people who do have access to the vaccine and don't want it.
You can ban anything you want, but enforcing bans is where the trouble is.
Yes, that plastic bag cost couple million.

But the offset was definitely increased understanding of the concept of single point of failure.
> It’s one of the first Roman laws - noble cannot marry common.

This is more of a historical curiosity than anything else, since the right to intermarriage across the Roman ordines was restored in 445 BCE (i.e. still quite early in the Republican period).
Good luck setting up in Germany a manufactury alternative to Daimler, BMW, Audi, or VW. It's literally a threat to their existence and they'll react accordingly. Sometimes it shows how disconnected Americans are from the local European realities. Even if Tesla will succeed they'll have to fly workers from Ukraine, Branderburg is a demographical desert. Czechia, Poland, Slovakia, Hungary, and Romania are desperate to subcontract for automotive, they'll literally suck every dick and rubberstamp every papper to have it on their soil.
This is the 'Centraal Plan Bureau'. If you open up the front door, you're met with a cloud of dust. The parkinglot is filled with oldtimers and the interior is very 'that 70's show'.
Git rebase, squash oh my
Same for me. But there are some and it seems to be getting better. And it’s possible to see walkability scores [0] on Zillow and other buying sites.

I think the suburb/exurbs with more sidewalks and walkability will distinguish from their competing cities.

While I’d rather live in Paris with everything a few steps away, a half mile walk for dinner is actually pretty nice.

[0] https://www.walkscore.com/methodology.shtml
How long until they shut it down?
Sure, but with the right context those videos feel very cringey (who would ever do that???).
RH self clears:
https://blog.robinhood.com/news/2018/10/9/introducing-cleari...

Before that they used Apex.

This commenter seems disastrously uninformed about something they have very strident beliefs about.
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Does your empathy extend to plants and bacteria too? Rats? Cockroaches?

Uhhhh, bats?
It's trivial only if you are simplifying mathematical expression.

When you have to go the opposite direction, you start with r and must turn it something that fits some other expression, there are infinite ways to proceed. Right ones rarely just pop up into your mind.

Remembering trivial identities things like that are useful as small intermediate steps when manipulating expressions.
So does not destroying the environment.

Sometimes, we do not want to keep costs and delays down.
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This is undoubtably a bold move by El Salvador, but I think dismissing it at "ridiculous" isn't very productive.
I’m glad this doesn’t go unnoticed, and share the observation. There seem to be quite some effort going into creating illusions of truth about C. Just a personal observation.
If you want to give it a go, I've still got a bunch of these drives lying around. We also have some still running in our zpool which I would gladly replace with something else, we're running out of space yet again... ;)
> it’s critical to prune the team as these folks emerge

How do you identify them?
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Funnily it is because of these objections and the other bureaucratic stuff that Tesla is able to pull this of (building pre permit etc.) and has the publicity to „make it work“ because if the project fails it would shed a bad light on Germany for other investments. Smaller projects don‘t have that privilege. Kind of a Cobra Effect situation
That may be true, but that's not to simulate. "Dreaming" is used to "simulate", and it's only a hack, in humans probably not even explicitly programmed.

The hack is to have the simulator itself ... also be a learned system, and not to simulate the world, because you don't act on the real world, only a tiny part of it that you can measure and actually get into your brain (which is a simplified version of what you see, or a "latent variable"). There's no need to simulate anything that doesn't affect your reasoning. The information flows in reality with an intelligent actor is like this.

World (say, a tree falls) -> input representation (e.g. eyes) -> simplified version ("latent" version) -> intelligent actor -> muscles -> affects world.

Now what everybody thinks of as a simulator is something that simulates the whole thing. But if you insert one more link (output of reasoning agent at time T -> simplified representation at time T+1) you can then run a "simulation":

random simplified version ("what if your car became a tree and fell ?") -> intelligent actor -> next input for latent representation ("then what happens ?")

For safety reasons, it is probably prudent to disconnect the muscles in this state. You know, so you don't knock out your mother when you dream about boxing.

And as you say, this "predict the future" network is probably useful by itself in dealing with the world. So you can catch tennis balls and the like.

https://arxiv.org/abs/1803.10122

Or, if you like: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dPsXxLyqpfs
whenever I open it, it loads: https://libraries.psu.edu/ask
> Because most people who raise the issue are not green environmentalists, they are just bitcoin detractors.

Why would someone be a Bitcoin detractor if not for environmental reasons?
Why do people join such parties? We had the same arrangement in East Germany: smaller parties under the leadership of the "true" party.

Is it because there are few members, so you can rise fast if you're content with a middle-level position?