skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> The average walking experience is poor, but the peak walking experience is marvelous.

I feel this applies to almost everything about Los Angeles - the average anything probably sucks, but the peak is probably ether than you’re gonna find almost anywhere. What makes LA so great for me is that you can get those peak experiences in so many different areas of life.
Demand was high in 2020, but bike shops (in the US) generally have poor cash flow overall. Dealers were able to clear their inventory, but there was no supply to replenish it, leaving them with empty showrooms. Even today, inventory is spotty and the wait for certain models of bikes is well into 2022.
Keep in mind that, whether or not the initial invasion of Afghanistan was justified, it immediately became a football in the US political game. George W. Bush was elected on a platform that included "no nation building", and he certainly didn't. (I have a personal theory that the invasion of Iraq was solely due to the fact that the war in Afghanistan as of 2002-3 was not going to get Bush re-elected. Bush also failed to include the costs of the Afghanistan and Iraq wars in his 2005 budget (https://www.nytimes.com/2004/02/03/us/president-s-budget-pro...).)

The war in Afghanistan was started badly, continued thoughtlessly, and, naturally, ended poorly. As it was originally destined to do.
> I don't know of any plans for feature test macro analogs that would integrate with modules.

What is the plan, if any, for deciding at compile time whether the format module is available or if I would still have to use fmtlib/fmt?
Where I grew up, we would make a big deal out of the one-time-a-year we did ANY of those three things on an annual vacation. So while doing them in one day seems impractical, being able to do them without it being a fairly big trip is something decidedly different than north Texas or similar swathes of the middle of the country. It's nice that the author still appreciates the access to nature.
If it's not causing harm, I'd just leave it. They probably like using the products and studies aren't going to change that.
Yes, calling people nuts is a sure fire way to solve this problem.

The “nuts” were also saying covid was coming and was dangerous and were called crazy xenophobes.

I’m vehemently pro-vax but there are as many idiots on both sides of this issue as there are non-idiots. Note that I need to disclose that, since the scarlet letter being handed out now has the power to prevent you from being on YouTube and in some places soon will probably bar you from your local grocery store (now that that is normalized.)
WHQL means almost nothing, except that you have an expensive EV code signing certificate to verify your identity to Microsoft. At best it means that your drivers don't completely break the system.
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Manhattan is also better by the way. The sole fact that they have the way more interesting wine lists everywhere is already half of the battle won.
The second might need more context. If you try to estimate upfront a big project, it's obvious. But for big projects once you break them down appropriately (it's an art, yes) and consistently revisit estimates given new information and changes, you can bring future work into some acceptable limits.
But the caveat I noticed is that in order for people to be comfortable and adjust estimates realistically when the situation demands it, people "on top" need to get past #1 and don't create an irrational pressure to "polish" estimates
I suggest using diceware or similar random words, not random strings. Humans are typically processing these, not machines. "What's your mother's maiden name" can be answered by "Oh, I just put a bunch of random letters" if someone knows your stance on security questions.
Additionally, most products contain water and glycerin which has evidence regarding skin hydration.

So most product will produce a small effect.

On top of that they smell good (rich), which is probably also an important part of the experience.
Hospitals aren't full. ICU's will never fill up with kids having covid. It just won't happen.

Kids aren't at risk. We have more than a year and a half of data to support this.

> A responsible parent considers the welfare of the child first and foremost, not using children as tools to make points or demonstrate a commitment to a particular ideology or to otherwise serve their own interests.

Correct. And I'd argue almost everybody in favor of forcing kids to wear masks at school forgot this.
Thanks for this! (really) And thanks for a great citation.

I don't have a drivers license. I always assumed driving a car without a license, registration, and proof of insurance was illegal and would get me in trouble. I admit, I didn't research this aspect before writing my above comment (tho I did research the vaccine requirements, my source is a government website).

Now I don't quite know what to think! Can I legally drive a car on public roads in California?
> doing the “image to 3d model” conversion with a different tool

Or using your phone's LIDAR sensors
I vouched your comment. I don't know why stuff needs to be downvoted to oblivion around here. HN voters, stop it and stop being so damn fickle.
You need to make the close buttons a lot harder to find... this looks like science fiction.
SMS isn't about security. It's about making it harder for bots to set up accounts. The first thing you should do after SMS verifying an account is delete the phone number so it doesn't leave a back door open.
> the two "datasets" will continue diverging.

You may be pleased to learn that there is a project underway that aims to largely solve that problem:

https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Wikidata_Bridge

The last piece of news I can immediately find is that it was deployed to the Catalan Wikipedia in August 2020, but I'm not sure what progress there has been since.
It's actually the math that I'm questioning, not the subjective aspects.

The quantity of money required to support my family in the event of my death is not affected by the odds of my death.

Whether I'm the perfect image of health or an obese, chainsmoking, binge drinker, the mortgage bill is always the same amount.
Depends on the account type. I have had Microsoft and other systems ask me to send a code to a phone number. It wasn't specific, so I asked my co-worker if, for science, I could send the code to their phone. It worked.
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It is common to be part of a family plan in the US. The person in the example must have been in one to have been offered that option. Family plans are much cheaper per phone number than individual plans.
We already had languages like that 10 years before C was invented.

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

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

There are plenty of other examples when one looks for what was happening outside AT&T.

C apologists like to pretend C is some kind of special gift to mankind in systems programming languages, and nothing was happening before C and UNIX came into scene.
This is basically the same argument that gets trotted out whenever someone points out Telsa's deceptive advertising wrt "autopilot".

"Real pilots know that autopilot means you still have to pay attention - nevermind that 99.9% of society thinks that idiom means they can sleep behind the wheel while it's turned on"
#flattered
PUK is Pin Unlocking Key - it's a burned-in passcode on your sim card that can be used to unlock it should you enter your pin incorrectly too many times.
Let me try and follow your logic here.

You say the vaccine doesn't stop you from catching or spreading the virus, it just stops you from getting as badly sick. If that's the case then why do you care whether others are vaccinated or not? If it doesn't change the chances of them passing it on to you, and just changes how sick they'll get, then surely it doesn't make any difference to you?
I don't really know how the model enables much if it requires that kind of effort to test the predictions. If the predictions implied something more practical you could test that. I think the time where this kind of physics breakthroughs lead to anything useful is gone.

At the same time I think there's stuff that's much more practical with still a lot of discoveries to be made - like superconductivity.
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Any proper left wing position is against war between nations but in support of war between classes.
Uh. The US is suffering another 9/11 every few days. In huge parts of the country, life is nowhere near normal.

That's what they beat, and God willing will beat again.
All true. This is version 1.0, far from perfect. Good advice, will fix all that soon.

Re the second part: search is by condition, so all specialists ranked relate to that condition. Each condition may be managed by multiple specialties, which is why the Specialties filter is extremely important. For example, you may already have a pulmonologist, but you need an oncologist or a surgeon. You can filter search results to only retain oncologists.

Not sure what you mean "specialist field directly". We will allow search by specialty, meaning that you can select "cardiology" or "oncology". That search won't be condition-specific. It'll rank e.g. oncologists across all cancers.
I certainly have no "final say," I'm just pointing out some of the forces including internal cultural ones that I believe may have effects on the outcomes.

IBM has nothing to do with the business or technical questions, I'm referring to the https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tomasulo_algorithm which was first used in the late 1960s in the floating point unit of the IBM System/360 91 and much later used for the Pentium Pro.

AMD's historical inability to generate profits pertains to its historical inability to succeed well for very long, it's an independent measure of that phenomena. So no matter how well AMD is doing right now, it's in their DNA to fail any time now; doesn't mean it's going to happen, but I'll repeat again that paying a huge sum for an FPGA company is a very bad sign, much worse then their purchase of ATI which did not end up helping their CPU efforts, if anything distracted from the latter. Another sign AMD "will stop" is the reported generally lower quality ecosystem, but I have no good reading on that.

Your comment about a "major ask" is just repeating why I previously said, "Culturally I doubt they can shift to fabless although we'll be able to tell if they're really trying by seeing mass layoffs of managers...."

How much of AMD's "major profits around the corner" will be put into the FPGA unit? It was an all stock deal so they at least won't be having to pay down debt on it, but to restate my main point about it, it's a vote of no confidence in their CPU business, doing it comes at tremendous opportunity costs.

Never heard that money was the core problem for Intel's failure to move to new nodes, so the US government doesn't have the right sort of lifeline to provide. Intel is currently stumbling and I personally guess that won't stop, but that's based on very thin data and what I see the new CEO trying to do.

Or not, if the denials about the rumor about them buying Global Foundries directly from its owner Mubadala Investment Company are correct. If managed well, which is never the way to bet in tech company acquisitions, that would give them invaluable expertise in the business of being a foundry.
That's really interesting! Thanks for sharing this!
Not just bike lanes, but urban/suburban planning based on pedestrian and bicycle traffic.

Watching subdivisions going in with utterly unfriendly approaches to people who want to get around with anything but a car is horrific to me.
An acquaintance of mine tried to do the cafe/sales/repair thing [1]; he went more high end on all three, selling fancy drinks, pricey Dutch cargo bikes, etc. It didn't work out. I think they lasted ~3 years, though it was clear by the end that the writing was on the wall.

[1]: https://twitter.com/berlinbikecafe
aaand this right here is why nehachat exists
And the first dozen or so all belong in the same category - cleanser.

She just lists out different options for different sub-categories. Dry skin might prefer a different medium than oily skin.

Overall there were 3 categories in that list - cleanser, moisturizer, and sunscreen. Pick one from each of the category that suits you.
People just aren't generally interested in small but severe risks like that. I've seen about as much long Covid discussion as I see carpal tunnel discussion.
I just bought something from amazon and it turns out it was coming from a seller in another country and i had to pay an extra £24 in import duties and carrier charges. Nowhere on the listing did it say it was coming from outside the UK.
I thought we already flattened the curve. In March 2020. So why aren't we back to normal now?
Soooo, the big question is - is 40% higher or lower than what an average developer cranks out? ;-)
I'd rather try the same trick in Portland than LA, though we may not be able to satisfy the high desert requirement. Still require some driving, but it wouldn't be as brutal.
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Generations of mal-investment.
I cannot receive the vaccine due to a medical condition and I can't wait for group B to get the same first-class citizen privileges as group A. I've been sick, recovered, and have some form of resistance.
I thought PUK was for (un)locking the SIM to manage its usability, not for porting a number out of a carrier? Never heard of them being related before... I thought they're different things entirely?
As an angelino I disagree, and I say so because of logistics. LA has access to the world's nexus of food.

Almost every sprig of lettuce you eat comes from California, we get the food that travels the least and access to the best foods that have to travel the most, I say this because my brother is a food importer at LAX. I get to eat mangos from Pakistan, starfruit from Indonesia, and steak from Japan with ton's of frequency.

My point is, we serve as a nexus for food delivery and with choice of ingredients the best foods are made.
Yep, being obese definitely causes issues for others with weak immune systems just like covid.
Did you get shingles shortly after getting a vaccine?
Some surprising realizations I had living in LA for 7 years, that were not mentioned in the article:

- Great cycling weather. LA has come a long way in bike lanes and buses that can carry your bike. It's not all about cars.

- It's basically working class due to the garment and aerospace industry. These are filipino and hispanic workers that have families and live generally outside of the trendy neighborhoods (or they do, but in cramped conditions). Most of HN will probably never interact with this demographic though.

- Your "LA is fake" speech as a disgruntled transplant is super lame and cliche, and lamer than actually being a fake/shallow Angeleno. Get over it. It's fake if you hang out with fake people. I found it refreshing to meet people who were not the standard tech bro who lifts weights.

- Great outdoors. Hiking, rock climbing, limited skiing. Take a sailing class thru UCLA.

Edit:

- LA food: Best East Asian (especially Chinese), Mexican, and Persian food in the country, and possibly the best Ethiopian. LA I thought had the highest density of high-quality but midrange ethnic restaurants that you could visit for a weekday lunch. It is not as good for technical haute cuisine that you'd find in SF, NYC, but it's the best for food that you could actually eat everyday.
Killing all life within 1km of any Taliban literally involves killing all people there. And it is not even Taliban hiding among civilians. It is them living with their parents in their village.

> Together with the US backing them up, they managed to kill 52,000 Taliban and other opposition fighters. What exactly do you think happens in a war?

Not every war is going on with goal of killing everyone in an area. So while civilians always die, what you propose has that extra step of being genocide.

> The Taliban is estimated to have a force some 50,000 strong, 100,000 tops if you include weak allies. That's 0.13% of the total population.

Yes, because your plan is to not just kill them, but to kill everyone around.
Yes, but people like to be able to search on YouTube 'Lee Sin Challenger Replay' and immediately get a video of a high level game with a familiar video UI.
Yes! It should be much harder to convince a CSR who can see your plaintext answers that you're legit and don't know you were born in "Peoria" vs "eH2ochomheeVe6ti".
I don't disagree about name-calling, but the responsible thing to do is to adapt your opinions as new knowledge is revealed, not everyone is doing that.
So work from home is going to last longer then?
Agreed, I've spent quite a bit of time in Bangkok and Tokyo and while the Thai and Japanese food is incredible in those two cities, the selection of other ethnic foods is pretty limited. You won't for example find Mexican, Brazilian or Moroccan food in these cities. When it comes to both quality and selection of ethnic food from around the world it's hard to beat the large US cities.
So the Flutter rewrite wasn't that much of a clever decision after all.
I just recently adapted a skincare routine but I've been happy with The Ordinary. Retinols can be very irritating so the general recommendation I've heard is to start at a smaller % and use maybe once a week to start, working your way up in frequency then concentration.
> If it doesn't change the chances of them passing it on to you

Where are they saying that?
It would be weird for this slide to list all the things that they don't like.

But that is what they'd have to do with C++, since its problem is not the features it has, but that it has every feature.
> If you’re reading this, and I would like you, perhaps this will incline you towards living in my city.

The city _personally_ belongs to the author, how could he be wrong?
There are plenty of effective skin care products with active FDA approved ingredients that are also OTC. Salicylic acid and benzoyl peroxide are two of them.
I love this trend. I stopped using Amazon last year, and I'm very interested in doing business with companies who chose likewise.
> Missed opportunity to call it copperhead.

I was thinking on Ruston, I really like it and it's a word play with "a ton of rust" :)
I just use a blue gel ice pack on the bite for 2 minutes.
My kids all ride former-toy bicycles that I've had for a song from FB Marketplace and nursed back to health.

But yeah, I think the GP is speaking aspirationally. We need to get to a place where bikes are considered infrastructure the way a vehicle is, that everyone has one, and has a selection of shops around them to service it, same as everyone currently has lots of garages, dealers, and gas stations around to meet the needs of their automobile.
Yep, I store each hash in the DB. The ruby gem has a mechanism to test similarity to your existing hashes with a threshold so small edits still match. It's surprisingly fast too, checking against every existing hash doesn't noticeably slow down the upload. I think it's a bitwise compare, but admittedly I set that up a long time ago so I'm foggy on the details.

Originally I added it because I wanted a way to automatically find the full quality image from my archive and replace the aggressively scaled down versions I used to use. Back in 2003 100KB was considered pretty big for a photo, but now it looks like garbage. I never found time to finish that part of it.
Apple do literally the same thing with their Mac Windows drivers.

https://apple.stackexchange.com/questions/24118/how-to-downl...
Just because web apps are fitting to your current workflows and apps you use, it won't fit everybody else.

I'm just the opposite of you. Just using web to reach HN, and Google, nothing else. Everything I use is native, and I'm happy with all the native apps I have.

Hardware is cheap, network is reliable notion is just an illusion. No resource is cheap and nothing is reliable. I'm in a remote location with 4G network access and, while it's not slow, it's unreliable and choppy as hell (with full bar / excellent reception). Even well-baked and battle tested algorithms and applications (e.g. Zoom, Skype and other similar covid-19 critical, realtime software) choke, shudder and fail with smallest network congestion.

Also, while RAM is relatively cheap, processing power is not. Just because you have fast flash and plentiful RAM on the device, it doesn't mean all is yours. You can't just assume to use all of that.

If that software is running on a resource contained system, It'd be probably confined in a cgroup, and it'd be killed or crashed with OOM exceptions constantly because of this assumption.

At the end of the day, Electron is useful for some stuff, however it's not native in any means. If it was literally native, Evernote for Linux would've been released by now. Tiddly Desktop wouldn't have some silly fullscreen bugs. Spotify Linux wouldn't be a volunteer project inside Spotify. A simple application wouldn't consume as much memory as a full blown IDE with gazillion plugins enabled and written in Java. Visual Studio Code wouldn't need plugin subsets or "Hey, group the plugins you use by language, otherwise memory usage becomes unwieldy" warning. I can go on and on and on.

We have alternatives. We have Qt, GTK, Python compiled with Cython (if you need binary code), heck even Lazarus and WX widgets, and Java. It's unbelievable that JVM is lighter than Electron with all bells, whistles and Hotspot and whatnot. Some of these technologies can adapt themselves to the hardware resource limits of the system they're running on, transparently, with negligible performance impact most of the time.

So, you can tell that Electron is a better RAD tool than Java, but it's nowhere the only feasible tool to enable native cross-platform applications. Electron is lazy. It's the perfect manifestation of MVP meets mock-ups with enough features baked in to allow rapid-fire releases.

I agree that 640K is not enough for everybody, but no resource is as abundant as hydrogen in the universe.
There is a new and better Name Manager in the Mac version.
> Furthermore, once you get to a certain size, things can be forced - look at YouTube that had to settle and implement ContentID to appease copyright holders

All fairly automated systems. YouTube has since taken it much further though, and this is the questionable step.

> OnlyFans having to remove certain types of content due to pressure from payment providers.

Which suggests that payment providers should also be utilities. I actually thought this long before the recent uptick in censorship, even before they suspended Wikileaks' payment processing.

> Even Cloudflare with their very aggressively independent/free speech stance had to bow to the pressure and get rid of certain very unsavoury clients.

That's not quite how they tell it:

https://blog.cloudflare.com/why-we-terminated-daily-stormer/

https://blog.cloudflare.com/terminating-service-for-8chan/
Presently, no one can post certain peer-reviewed science from well-known and respected medical journals on any social media account, or speak of them on YT, because of widespread censorship of certain topics.

It's not possible to have anything remotely resembling a "debate" in such a climate.

Mandates have not been effective. Nothing that's been done can be said to have been "effective". We are apparently in an even worse place now, even with vaccines, than we were last year.

In reality though, we aren't.

The pathology of the virus is well-understood, as are the mechanisms to defeat it. But we're not allowed to talk about it.

It'd all be over in weeks if we were - as we saw in India recently, in all provinces but the one that stuck with the dogma.
Fucking idiots!! This is negligence.