skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It's difficult to find examples because obviously Google Streetview cars don't enter pure bike paths, but here is one of these paths where you won't make friends with a somewhat broader and faster electric personal transport device [0]. A better example and one where I did ride around on an e-chopper, annoying people on bikes ;) [1] (not me in the image). These small path are pretty common in nature reserves here [2].

[0]: https://goo.gl/maps/yZXH4ggVQ6vXRcNy9

[1]: https://weekendtoerist.nl/wp-content/uploads/2020/09/mooiste...

[2]: https://www.myfootprints.nl/nederland/fietsen-en-wandelen-in...
> But the slower speeds provide more time for drivers

I can't react to something coming straight at me on my six. And, the drivers of these motorcycles tend to be busy on their phones.
> why are four-way stops a thing at all?

Where I am, they are certainly overused - of course, because people agitate for them because safety.

But you can read all about the traffic engineering justification for them in the Manual on Uniform Traffic Control Devices:
https://mutcd.fhwa.dot.gov/htm/2009/part2/part2b.htm#section...
this is untrue
Politicians don't give a damn about deflation. They will tell you how governments must be responsible with their budgets and do debt ceilings and austerity, while simultaneously promising income tax cuts for the rich which they finance by cutting public investment. It'll trickle down.
Not the worst. Seems acceptable imo, yes its a long function with giant switch statement but its pretty clear what it does and easy to read.
LiveView is, unfortunately, somewhat of a footgun. The idea is super neat and works great on localhost -- but then somebody clicks a dropdown with a dynamically rendered list of whatever in production and has to wait half a second for a piece of UI to appear, and that's really bad.
Way to make sure that the next ones don't make it out alive
It's honestly cool when "origin story" just doesn't do it justice and you have to pull out "bootstrap story" instead :)

I got into a few situations like this myself, but none exactly this crazy :)

How'd you fit 96MB RAM into a 386, btw?? My 486DX2s (2005 represent) only had room for a few MB of RAM. O.o

How'd programming GUIs go without a mouse? Typing in x/y/w/h into the properties box? I'm guessing you have a slightly higher baseline awareness of accessibility (focus order, etc) than most, huh.

Also, out of curiosity, what sort of programmable calculator was it?

Wow, programming environments have always been headscratchingly big. (For a one-pass compiler and IDE, 70MB is kind of... surely the (converted) Win95 API headers didn't require that much space...)
I think people are able to segment moral behaviours very effectively. Uber’S ride allocation system would be very far down the list of things I would feel bad about gaming.
Lately on Amazon the term "hard" has been misused or
redefined for "military scifi" / "violent scifi".

That aside,

I just have a regular understanding of most fields in science. I know a bit here and there.
More astronomy.

My field is computer science, so I have
some knowledge there.

What I wonder about is if the average scifi reader expects or even could tell if something is "science" and not fantasy. Huge absurd things of course.

I have read so many different descriptions on how FTL works.
I dont think (ignorance on my part) that we have a solid theory for how it can be done.

- Warping of space/time (or higher dimension),

- "portals" left by "an ancient civilization"(that sort of evades the issue)

- wormholes

- "Taming a god"

- through special cracks in space/time that only a special navigator (species) can feel.

- improbability drive (I do love Douglas Adams).

and many more.

When you read can you take the existence of FTL on just being there, do you reject the ideas fully, or do you judge it on its merits if the description extrapolates current knowledge into a future where we can FTL? (if ever)
Hey!

I don't think one goes against the other. Meeting in personne would never be replaced by an app, but with work, kids, distance, it can be really easy to loose touch.

This app also focus on questions that you may not have even thought asking your friends or even yourself.
Kudos on Launching. I’m in support of anything that gets people out of the social media routine and into more meaningful interactions. In fact, I’m building a Messaging app with exactly this in mind.
Gig workers are uncertain, scared, and barely scraping by
Funny, because I've started a privacy-friendly analytics tool [0]. It really happened by "accident", as I initially tried to solve my own problem (analytics for my website without an ugly cookie-banner) and only later discovered there were many existing solutions.

Now that I went all-in on it, I think there is much more to it than what you can see at a first glance. There are a lot of dividing factors, like support, features, ... or in our case a unique design and good support for resellers (agencies) and technical people (server-side integration). We have been called copy-cats, but that doesn't mean different people won't find similar solutions for the same issue like it happens with us or in science from time to time.

[0] https://pirsch.io/
Those are separate issues to do with driver responsibility and enforcement of existing laws. Applies to existing bikes just as much as e-bikes etc

Also how are these people using their phones? Last I checked you need to keep your hands on bars to prevent you from falling over.
Google had to do it quickly because government threatened Google employees in Russia with consequences.

Protesting single events like this is not constructive without providing alternative actions. If Googlers would advocate for Google leaving Russia, China, India, Saudi Arabia, etc. it would be a consistent view and reveal the position where Google and Apple are.

They must choose between being global and values.
You are right, it was actually the Amiga I was thinking of. I was an Atari kid (music).
Many of the stories from the ancient world probably have a basis in fact. All the old civilizations in the area have a story about a massive flood, for example, like the story of Noah. Other biblical events have been linked to vulcano eruptions, comets, and other natural phenomena as well. The Bible was written as much a a holy text as it was a history book for its people. Some parts of it were made up or exaggerated (like the whole "slaves in Egypt" thing) but others were attributions of divine interaction by people who couldn't possibly understand the forces of nature they observed.

I think it stands to reason that at some point a city in the Levant was destroyed violently. A comet exploding and taking out a city seems like a very plausible reason for how such a event may be attributed to holy intervention. You can discuss whether or not it was some divine being sending a comet towards a particularly bad city or not, but I'd definitely tell stories about divine punishment if I saw the remains of a destroyed city like this. Even today, I think you'd find plenty of people who'd claim that whatever the people in those city were doing was bad enough to upset the divine powers enough to bomb them from space.
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Sounds like it may have been a fair bit worse than Tunguska. I don't remember any shocked quartz or diamond like carbon from that one.
sure, so the AI knows you're driving and it can NEVER see your face.
I was eight years old when Logo taught me that the computer does what I tell it do to - no more, no less... Everything I learned ever since is just implementation details.
Using a VPN only sidesteps the MITM risk to my VPN provider, their ISP, and everyone after that on the line. That's probably better than my normal internet if it is known comprised, but isn't really a much better solution.

And yes, the equivalent more secure option is running a website on the boring old normal internet. This solution actually gives more power to centralized operators, allowing your ISP and government to take over the connection whenever they want, a problem that doesn't exist for normal websites.

If your more secure alternative must be decentralized, then Tor hidden services are the go-to option, running on a decentralized network with actual working and battle tested security.

You can claim the problem is "infinitesimal" all you want, but until you point out a problem this solution solves that has more users being actively attacked than every person in China, I'll just assume you must be trolling.
"25kph is average cycling speed of a male cyclist, 20kph for female."

Wait, what? I bike commuted for a while in both Cleveland and Boston. I can pretty handily maintain 30kph, and regularly hit over that when either warranted by traffic conditions or on a slight downhill.

I do not consider myself a fast cyclist by any measure.

I am quite confident that even the most casual group ride of semi serious cyclists would drop me in 5 km on a good day.

Is my view of cycling speeds that skewed, or is the distribution very weird in some way?

As for the extra 5kph making a difference, no it's not a huge deal in time. It's immensely important to riding safely in faster traffic. I find that the closer you can ride to the speed of traffic, the fewer boneheaded things people do to get past you.

Being able to do 40kph for short stretches to basically match the speed of cars through a dodgy intersection is a huge improvement in safety. 30 isn't 40, but every little bit helps.
That's the bit I'm missing: which ants are they eating if they are integrating all new falling ants in the underground colony? They just eat the otherwise dead?
Tell me your passport number, names, DOB and I will look it up and let you know… /s
Here is the website to model a bolide impact as referenced in the paper for those that didn't catch it.

https://impact.ese.ic.ac.uk/ImpactEarth/ImpactEffectsMap/
https://archive.is/neKB0
It seems the impacts can chuck a lot of dust in the air, changing weather patterns for quite a while.
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This starts out strong and then trails off without a real conclusion or opinion on glue systems. A bad build system or lack of maintenance can happen to any project.
can't you print pdf from reader view? FF reader view is pretty good imo...
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Depends on the size but if it's big, I tend to convert them into epub/mobi to read on a ebook.
Wtf is non-structural pattern matching? Pattern ~ structure. It's like saying eruptive explosion.

Stop trying to look more important and smart by using more (unnecessary) words.
There is also https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bRcu-ysocX4 by Eric Cline, an (alternative) accompaniment to his book "1177 BC: The Year Civilization Collapsed".

- I do recommend the book, but for most folks the YouTube lecture is probably enough detail :)
Instapaper.
MS doesn’t require a MS app unless they’ve changed something recently.
Is PH really still relevant these days? Based on the comments it feels more like a circle jerk of a dozen die-hard users and the rest being semi-automated spam mostly from India. No tough questions, just self-congratulating Emojis.
Veritasium did pretty good video about this: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4Wrc4fHSCpw
To add to that, MS Active Directory hashes are very weak. One round of MD4. Very easy to crack.
There was one ant that fell in while carrying a pupa. That pupa ended up being born in the darkness of this hell hole prison, never knowing any other kind of life. So when the wood 2x4 came down from the sky the other ants were scared and skeptical. But this pupa was not afraid and would be the first to climb it. When he reached the top, he saw the light for the first time and finally knew the world that had been kept from him all his life. When his brothers saw he had succeeded, they followed his scent trail upward, and that’s how the pupa became the new leader of an army brought out from the darkness.
I did just c) - I'm joining https://normative.io as an engineer at the beginning of next year for this particular reason. The company helps other companies decrease carbon emissions by generating sustainability reports.

I'm _very_ excited to be a tiny part in helping humanity solve one of our biggest problems.
Not sure if UAE is the same but my friends who worked in Saudi paid $0 income tax (some token amount of US tax to avoid the gaze of the IRS) and had their house and car arranged by the company. So a $200k salary in SA was much more akin to a $350k salary in California in terms of the amount of money you’d save.
A new passport number comes with each replacement/renewal so I would suspect this is just security theater and you can upload any sample passport with the text changed. If they are insisting on the same exact passport again they could accept a fax of a random artwork and it would be more secure and just as permanent.
For comparison: Sydney has a median house price of AUD $1.4M right now, and a house on the water is $2M-$6M easily.

Median income is $56K for Australians in general, and about $90-$110K for areas of Sydney that have water views.

Recently the federal deputy treasurer made a speech that younger residents of the city should consider moving to the country to afford a home. The not so minor issue with this statement was that you have to go very far down the list of towns by size in the state to get to a place where he himself could afford a home on his government salary of well over $200K a year!
CMIIW that's what asp.net webform try to tackle. And it failed miserably.

IMO, having the ability to separate presentation with backend is valuable.
> We have radars

What if your strategic enemy secretly figured out how to evade detection?

> also you have radiation.

Ah, the lack of radiation explains it: this city-killing explosion was the horrible work of a top-secret kinetic impactor weapons program developed by [insert strategic enemy here]!

> how do you retaliate if you have no idea who attacked you?

The same way the USA justified invading Iraq: lie. The inevitable blizzard of online disinformation wouldn't help things either.
Is there something similar to Godwin's law for when white male comes up on internet discourse? If there isn't there should be :)
The ads in a publication like Byte (or many of the other computer magazines of the day) were a different beast. Quite often, they were the only way to learn about new products and the products advertised were relevant to the audience of the magazine. It is a far cry from the mass market advertising found on Facebook (or television, or radio).
I was just looking at runtime type checking. Apparently the reason nobody does it is because of the roughly 30,000% slowdown compared to not doing it.

I e said it before and I’ll say it again: runtime type checking saves you from the case where you pass None instead of an actual object but not much else. How wrong would your program have to be to pass an instance of Animal instead of an instance of BankAccount? And how quickly would it error out with “giraffe does not have an attribute routing_number”?
I was once fined for riding a bicycle on a 10 m stretch of sidewalk because the road was congested. A moped and a full sized enduro were on the sidewalk at the same time and got the exact same fine, which is kind of annoying.

For reference this was in Paris more than 10 years ago.
That's fine, but it's still going to be very hard to explain to people (or hell, even remember) how it's spelled, so they can search or download it.
well, I think on a geeky place like this forum a geek should never be asked "why" he needs something: p

I do photography, video editing, video conversion on the personal side and research into distributed and parallel
execution for a programming language I am working on at work.

I have a lot of VMs running at the same time,
compiling the programming language is time consuming.

I have also made some hacky alterations to the Linux kernel
so I get to compile that one a lot too.
This is kind of illustrating my point: you're so heavily indoctrinated to empiricism as the one and only way to model reality that you are ready to deny your own conscious experience of reality simply because it is not objectively measurable.
Yep. The time when print magazines and ads were actually interesting.
Against any two, not any number.
LOGO was my first introduction to programming in 3rd grade back in 92-93 in Delhi/India.
Sounds like a job for Red Shirt Jeff.
This is a strange argument, to me. I don't have any devices made by Microsoft, and have not for years. And I'm lazy and disinclined towards "linux on the desktop" neckbeardism. ;)
We're the core team behind the popular Python autoformatter: Black. AMA: Python
I had great experience with Lona framework [0], for smaller projects; You do everything in Python, and have a representation of your UI as a set of python objects. Then changes in python objects are propagated back to web.

- [0] https://github.com/lona-web-org/lona
To be fair to Google and Apple, the iPhone 5S has also only had security updates since 2018. They did add contact tracing features, but so did Google through the Play Store.
No, I have no intention of using Google or Apple anything.
Finally! You've done it! All the other front end architectures Are meant to be non-practical. Say what's special your solution in the title. Avoid using empty words. Less nose, more signal
This is a lovely game. I LOVE that (at least for me) it feels very discoverable.
The fact that you're being down voted shows the HN bias in action
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Write your senator and politician first! It’s easy and they actually do count the letters and calls they receive and use those to make decisions.

Next I’d say decarbonize your life! Most people emit everyday carbon from a small number of big things: transport, home heating and cooling, etc. Luckily, all the fossil fuel powered machines that do these things have electric replacements that actually save money in the long run! Electric cars already have the lowest cost of ownership of any car and heat pump space and water heaters are waaay more efficient than burning gas or oil. So replace you car with an electric the next time you need a car, replace your furnace with a heat pump, replace your gas stove with an induction stove, etc. Pretty much everyone in America needs to do this ASSP if we have any chance of hitting 2 degrees and your example would influence those around you.

You can also donate to Rewiring America which is the only organization I’ve found with an actual concrete engineering-based plan to meet climate goals: https://rewiringamerica.org
True, the 8086 instruction set is ugly as hell. The 68000 was much better. I never saw the PDP-10 or S370 assembly , so I can't comment there.

AFAIK it was a quick and dirty stopgap processor to drop in the 8080-shaped hole until they could finish the iapx432. Intel wanted 8080 code to be almost auto-translatable to 8086 code and give their customers a way out of the 8bit 64K world. So they designed instructions and a memory layout to make this possible, at the cost of orthogonality.

Then IBM hacked together the quick and dirty PC based on the quick and dirty processor, and somehow one of the worst possible designs became the industry standard.

Thinking of it, the 80386 might be Intel coming to terms with the fact that everyone was stuck with this ugly design, and making the best of it. See also the 80186, a CPU incompatible with the PC. Maybe a sign Intel didn't believed in the future of the PC ?
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I am seeing a nightmare scenario where hr-types push something like onto teams. We'll be expected to spend time taking videos of ourselves and our morning routines or whatever.. instead of doing what we were hired to do.
There is an ongoing project built on top of act (the "local" github runner) that accomplishes this: https://github.com/ChristopherHX/github-act-runner
As I read TFA, the attack would take ~128 GPU-years to break most or all ZeroTier addresses, not per target. And the author says that there is plenty of room for optimization. And fpga or whatever might be much cheaper than GPU. And "attacks only get better."
You mean this app is?
A friend did some consulting for them a couple of year ago, this is a broad summary of events:

- contacted

- discussed scope of work, grandiose, with big budget

- Evergrande people pressured the company to start doing work before the contract was executed by the big wigs

- Evergrande people pressured the company for deliverables before the contract was executed by the big wigs

- a few deliverable delivered (at this point we're a couple of months in)

- still no contract, still no payment

- Evergrande people pressured the company for more deliverables before the contract was executed by the big wigs

- company delivers a few more deliverables, still no contract and still no money

- company stops working and demands payment and contract

- a few weeks later (we're not 4-5 months in) payment arrives

- Evergrande people pressured the company for more deliverables before the contract was executed by the big wigs

- company delivers some more deliverables, at this point Evergrande has good executable deliverables for their project

- Evergrande ghosts the company, no contract, no payment for the additional services since the one and only payment

Damage approx $150,000 (unpaid work)

Life goes on
How the platform economy sets women up to fail
We use sqx: https://github.com/launchbadge/sqlx. The devs create and commit the up/down migration files and the cicd runner runs the migrations against the db.
A bit off topic... When I was a child, we had at home a "big yellow book" (mind you, I was 4 or 5 at the time, so maybe not that big) that taught about how computers worked in the first part and in the second part had Logo and BASIC games you could type into your PC.

Since it was a book for children, it was full of illustrations but it went into some details (or maybe I'm adding stuff into it in retrospect). The main protagonists were a boy and a girl, with a pet (maybe a dog?). I think I remember the boy having some kind of curly/fluffy hair. I remember the eyes of the characters were distinctive, but can't really recall _how_.

Any idea or pointers about finding this book? I don't remember anything about the title, author, publisher, etc.
Nice, simple mechanic done well
Google to Buy New York City Office Building for $2.1B
We're in for a few decades of poorly implemented automation, to the degree many will feel they live in a dystopian nightmare. The arrogance of our management class to think society can be automated without a society wide analysis of what that automation's unexpected side-effects are going to be is equal to the colossal disaster we're going to see. I serious feel sorry for everyone that is going to live through this period. We're gonna be creating misery for a few decades, until the assholes on top figure out this needs massive pre-planning and the seat-of-the-pants methods being used now is just setting up for a planet-wide disaster.