skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I think we should literally just close most roads to cars, and restrict the remainder to trucks, taxis, busses, and anyone who would be allowed in a traditional handicapped parking spot.

I'm all for congestion pricing and I wouldn't be against a proposal to eliminate on-street parking—but I think a lot of drivers would just use parking garages.
what's with the videos? baby hits on the wooden "nails" ? the steak knife is pulling apart the meat and not cutting it ?
Yes. Similar images have been published over the years, all attempting to show how space inefficient cars are compared to other transit options. This particular one takes it a step further by calling out EVs as no better than ICEVs with regard to space consumption.
First iPod was 2001; first iPhone was 2007.

Apple developed a category of their own, and then killed it themselves.
I'd like to see specific comparisons in physical properties versus steel and specifically which steel they are comparing to. Including in physical dimensions since their nail seems fairly thick. Steel is, as I understand it, hundreds of different variants each with their own physical properties.

For example, they say 23 times harder in the article than regular wood. Wood has a Brinell scale of up to 7 although most is less. Times 23 that comes out to 161. Mild steel is 120. However hardened tool steel is 900.
I think it would be interesting to use the process for the extremely high tolerance-cut-metal blocks, where the items in the block are such tight tolerances that when inserted, you cant see them.

Then - cut all the items you want into the hunk/hunks of metal such that you can pop them out in-flight and assemble your mechanisms of chaos...

You can just have non-descript blocks in a case and say they are for scientific experiments but they look like un-machined pieces in the case. heck - even have a clear lid on the case with labels of different 'alloy make-ups' to make it look more like a metallurgical kit...
Simplify, Then Add Lightness
Haven’t they moved from Xray, which shows the difference between atoms thanks to wavelength, to ultrasounds, which show sharp edges and thus is suitable for anything iron, plastic or wood as long as it’s sharp?
When I was a kid I used to launch Estes rockets. They came with mostly balsa wood fins that would frequently break on landing. The balsa wood also absorbed paint unless you hit it with a clear coat first. This for some reason gave me the idea of rubbing Elmer's glue on to it, letting it dry, then sanding it and then painting it. Not only did it paint easily but I never lost a single fin again. The closest I came to that was when a fin ripped itself off the cardboard tube of the rocket rather than break.
Do we know for a fact it's a "hack attempt", whatever that means, or is it just a production problem which is all down to them?
No, he did not take horse dewormer paste like some person have when they had no prescription. He received prescription and took human formulation. This "horse dewormer" description is only some effort at a smear campaign.
I agree. It makes complete sense to mention the distribution you're using. Saying you use Debian is much better than saying GNU/Linux. People understand perfectly what sort of software Debian distributes, there is no need to mention anything else.

Mentioning that I use Arch Linux annoys people for some reason so I stopped doing that. I just say I use Linux.
I believe I read somewhere that massive rains like this don't help with the drought situation as much as you might think because it's just too much rain in too short of a time and a lot of it runs off into unproductive places (rather than getting stored in lakes, dams, etc.). Is that idea accurate?
Posted this comment on a previous thread. Recently switched jobs. About to start week 9. 40+ years of experience. Strong LinkedIn profile. Tired Github profile that needs an update.

I applied for only one job at the insistence of my wife because it was with a renowned company. I had to actually write out a C.V. to apply, and as of today, nine weeks into my new job, 13+ weeks later, my application is "still under review" according to the internal recruiter/manager. All other companies I spoke with were inbound leads.

I had, and still have, a lot of technical recruiters reaching out to me. Almost all of them failed to garner my interest based on a few simple questions I asked right up front. Before agreeing to interview, or even "sending over a resume" I prequalified all of the positions to ensure that it involved remote work and that the pay was within a range I was willing to accept. "Is this position remote? Or on-site? What is the pay range for this position?" A large proportion of the people who reached out did not respond to the questions, and of those that did, several gave responses that were immediate red flags or immediate rejections from me.

I interviewed with a FANGMAN company, on the recommendation of a friend, and I ultimately turned down the offer, but had it not been for my friend's insistence who works at the FANG, to "keep going" through the interview, I would have simply stopped the interview, and in fact thought about doing so several times. Whiteboarding and take-homes for people with decades of proven and verifiable experience and a couple of master's in computer subjects is still apparently a thing "to verify you know how to write code."

I had an interview lined up with another FANGMAN, which was to be a full day of "first round interviews" and then two full days with different teams to figure out where I would go. I withdrew my application once I accepted the offer for my current (new) position. The second was not a company I was interestd in, but they were doing interesting things in augmented reality.

I put in my two weeks notice, and the company I was working for made a counter-offer. Absurdly almost two hours after my last day on the job.

In all I had five offers on the table, at base compensation of $100K (absolutely absurd interview with a low-ball offer even after pre-qualifying the company to make sure the compensation was in the ballpark), $120K (reasonable interview, low-ball offer even after pre-qualifying), $150K (45 minute interview, knew the size of the offer going in, interesting work), $230K (a quick chat, then four hours of shooting the shit, exceptionally interesting work) and $260K (two full days, whiteboarding and take home (which I refused to do), career advancement).

My current position I didn't even apply for, and I don't think anyone even looked at the C.V. I got the job because of an old colleague who said "are you looking?" Having a strong network is important. My last two jobs, not including this one, both came the same way.

Total search time was from late June to mid-August. Maybe eight weeks total. I was being extremely picky with regard which companies I talked too.
How do we know that this article is biased and yours is not?

Why should we trust this source and not the one linked above?
Fun fact 2: Most of Google was using Windows in the early 2000s because of the need for Outlook and similar software that was Windows-only as well.

Even now that Macs are an option in most FAANG+, most non-fresh-grad hires either pick Linux or Windows machines and completely avoid Macs.
> "Surprisingly, our wooden knife is actually three times sharper than the typical stainless steel dinner table knife," he said. "It can achieve its purpose of cutting medium well-done steak very nicely without breaking."

Cool stuff, but that's not very sharp. Still a long way to go?
This is the kind of news where the most important part is a really short Twitter thread. This thread specifically: https://twitter.com/ashishkjha/status/1449789507814010883

Anyway, the TL;DR here is not mix politics, tribalism, or any biasing personal preference to medicine, science, or other areas where objectivity is needed.
Yeah, airport security is nothing but security theater. I wish we could eliminate it.
I know quite a few people who grew up on a kibbutz, Israeli communes that were formed mostly in the early 20th century. Most of them "privatized" in the last generation. They were quite successful. One of the bigger modern examples.

A noteworthy point made by most first-handers is that "mission" was a necessary component. Kibbutzim often offered a relatively pleasant lifestyle, but lifestyle alone could not keep them alive. They needed to be fulfilling a greater purpose. For Kibbutzim the mission was zionism, socialism or other ideal. "Ideology" is an important concept to kibbutzniks.

Kibbutz lifestyle and economics were good when the movement started to recede. It was the changing ideals that killed it, especially the decline of socialist beliefs in the 80s & 90s.

I think it's also notable that a lot of communes exist in the world. Most are religious. Many are quirky, even cultish. This probably provides the "greater mission" old kibbutzniks insist is essential to success.

A lot of the modern, secular equivalents are "eco villages." I could imagine a libertarian one or other anarchist idea set.
> I can't imagine why anyone here on HN still would use Chrome.

I do. It's the only option for watching Netflix/Amazon Prime/Disney+ on Linux AND casting to a Chromecast.
I sped through the video, looking for details on who does building maintenance and construction, who grows the food and does the actual labor. Not seeing any of that gave me bad vibes. It makes me think that this is more of a stylish residence than an actual self-sustaining commune. My father is a radical boomer environmental activist, and the whole video made me think of when he'd invite like 30 PETA and EarthFirst activists to our land after we had finally built a house on it. They all had that same kind of regionless accent, with the slow intonations and the cult-y, faux profoundness. Based on my experience with these folks, they are basically evangelical fundamentalists wearing turquoise and Patagonia, and should be avoided at all costs.

Somebody is fixing the buildings and growing the food, and I strongly suspect it's nobody living in these houses.
I live in a city center and used to walk/take public transport. which was fine.

biking is alot more convenient. I can only carry about what I would walking, but its not a big deal to go two miles to get something. and I feel much better for the exercise.

if zipcar hadn't been shut down after acquisition, I would still have the option to get something big from 20 miles away once or twice a year.

I don't know why you feel the need to assert that the last 100 years status quo is some statement of natural law...I've always hated getting trapped in those smelly little boxes and now I have a choice!
This feels like it might fit a series like The X-Files or The Outer Limits more than a full movie; there isn't much more to it than the twist; aside from that it's a story about some people.

If you don't mind them being shorts, there are some good sci-fi stories on the Dust and Omeleto channels on YouTube. e.g. this "One Minute Time Machine" - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vBkBS4O3yvY - has just two people, a bench, and a Time MacGuffin.

Or https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KOwKExagzdQ - "The Tunnel Ahead", 15 minute short set in an overpopulated world.

I do feel that many include space because it's fun and can be CGI modelled, or time travel because it makes for a cheap sci-fi plot, and if you rule those out you get things like The OceanMaker ( https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uWCGK4nneeU ) which I didn't like so much because nothing really happens. Whether there are more concepty ones with more nuanced plot, they probably didn't catch my eye to watch.
The Archie Jukebox 6000 was freaking huge because it used a laptop sized HDD. It was portable much like a boom box was portable, but at the size of a CD player and a small stack of CD’s it wasn’t clearly better.

The 2001 iPod cost 400$, but it was smaller than a CD player (4.02inx2.43inx0.78in) and could hold 1,000 songs. That’s point where it could start to kill off personal CD players.
When ceramic knives are produced, they insert a metal rod into them to ensure that they do set of metal detectors. I imagine they could do something similar here.
Controlling abusers police how their victims interact with the outside world. So being watched or listened it to on a call is not out of the question.

Also consider that revealing the abuse can be life threatening to the victim. How certain can you really be you’re not being overheard? And is even a 1% chance worth your life?
I don't hold myself and frankly answer that my crystal ball is on scheduled maintenance today.
There can be some ethical considerations where an all-knowing higher power (especially one offering a generous afterlife program) could deliver solutions which could never be achieved in life (as we know it).

Now for the truly faithful Trekkies maybe they rely on philosophy according to W.W.K.D.?

https://mixedtees.com/star-trek-wwkd
"We are sorry to read that. Please clearly describe your problem to us so we can help you. Feel free to call us on this phone number: XXX-XXX-XXX"

People don't always understand our perspective, we should guide them into doing the right thing and everybody will be happy.

Save your generic answer so you don't waste your time doing so, but being pedagogical should be part of our work in my opinion.
The difference between zoning and planning is like the difference between a speed limit and the old "Reasonable and Prudent" law in Montana or the Richtgeschwindigkeit in Germany.
It doesn’t make sense _to you_. You’re welcome.
The motto has been replaced by "do the right thing" a few months after Snodwens leaks.
He took a medication that has been given safely to humans for decades. The fact it is also useful for animals is meaningless. You literally described what off-label means, so it sounds like we agree on that part.
https://businesshala.com/i-spent-44-years-studying-retiremen...
Happy to see the curve was trending upwards even before covid.
Don't forget iPod touch which allowed Apple to slowly develop most of the iPhone features (e.g touch UI) and test it with customers before announcing the iPhone.
Google can both want to be hypocritical and continue to hire/promote people from marginalized communities and contribute to “woke” organizations (which to their credit, they seem to have, although recently we’ve seen the limits to what they will do).
Too early in the morning.

I read "squirrel hawkers" and thought of "hawker stalls" in Singapore, which have nothing to do with hawks. "A vendor of squirrels?" OK.
ReThinking cities is wildly expensive. And it will take a long time

One thing that is / will speed it up is remote working. Once we divorce the location of the city from the location of the people, the cities stop competing in attracting the company and need to attract the employees. Which will me a better facilities for humans not companies.

It's the one big benefit I see from remote working and amazingly I expect to see it within the same metro-area.

Don't have mega-cities and mega-mayors. Have lots of small neighbourhoods that experiment with each other.
I mean, of course I'm going to see this from the lenses of my personal experience (which is that nasty non-reproducibility issues usually would only happen when someone takes over some internal project that had been sitting in a closet for years and the original owner is no longer at the company). Stumbling upon reproducibility issues in 4 year old projects on Github is just not something that happens to me (and I have contributed to projects where, say, Travis CI had been broken in master branch for node 0.10 or whatever) and getting 404s on dependencies is something I can't say I've experienced (unless we're talking about very narrow cases like consuming hijacked versions of packages that were since unpublished) or possibly a different stack that uses git commits for package management (say, C) - and even then, that's not something I've run into (I've messed around w/ C, zig and go projects, if it matters). I don't think it's a matter of me having a narrow perspective, but maybe you could enlighten me.

As I mentioned, my experience involves seeing literally hundreds of packages, many of which were in a context where code rot is more likely to happen (because people typically don't maintain stuff after they leave a company and big tech attrition rate is high, and my company specifically had a huge NIH era). My negative OSS experience has mostly been that package owners abandon projects and don't even respond to github issues in the first place. I wouldn't be in a position to dictate that they should commit node_modules in that case.

Maybe you could give me an example of the types of projects you're talking about? I'm legitimately curious.
This isn't just Xmas gifts, it's servers, routers, hard drives, you name it, stuff that's vital for businesses. We have long delays for much of our IT infrastructure at my company due to this.
Most of the Wordpress developers I know are Windows users. (I don't know too many of them, but still.)
bald-faced
> digital purchases were never that big a chunk of the market

There was a 4-year stretch where paid downloads were the leading source of revenue for the music industry.

https://www.forbes.com/sites/billrosenblatt/2018/05/07/the-s...
Not only is fearing and avoiding places with natural disasters rational (people avoid traveling to the Caribbean during hurricane season) but they are children. Given that I don't know a single adult who has a phobia of remote disasters, I'm going to go out on a limb and say that your kids forgot about it the next time they played Roblox.
I didn't read the document, but it seems "forced Chrome login" is major step in this, the new WebExtensions manifest which reduces abilities of adblockers is probably a milestone in this process.
Neither does a box-cutter compare to a properly forged and heat-treated knife. But for fun, forged, Damascus steel scissors are a thing.
UTC doesn’t fix anything if you meant 6pm my local time on that day, come hell or high water.

Eg: Work at the local library is always 9 to 5 (again “local time”) and you mean precisely one hour after work lets up, regardless of whatever daylight savings or time zone changes occur between now and then.

You need to use either a naive date-time representation coupled with the additional context (“my time”) or use something like lat/long. Or you’re lucky and you live in or near enough to a major metropolis that has its own TZDB entry and it’s virtually impossible for your local time to diverge from that TZ, so you can use that instead (eg you live just outside NYC proper so you use America/New_York as your time zone).
I agree with other replies: infrastructure is the deciding factor (not climate or terrain).

The way to see and understand "infrastructure" is: what if gov't was cycling-centric instead of car-centric. All the "infrastructure" you see around cars? Do that for cycles. There would be safe, separate, well-maintained, direct routes to all points, all year long, 24-7.

My own belief is that this is not possible in the U.S. without a change of culture. We can't even get respect for pedestrians... in winter here, plows will dump snow right over sidewalks (it will take days for them to be cleared if at all in some places). my 2 cents.
CISSP.

A buddy of mine is KILLING it in security - and he got a 30% raise and a $100,000 sign on bonus from his new gig plus a $40K sales bonus less than six months after joining.

But you have to actually need to be interested in security to succeed.
Well, they explicitly say so in their privacy policy.

> We don’t show you personalized ads based on your content from Drive, Gmail, or Photos.
> So it's not usually very valuable information.

then you may be fine with that information loss. But is is one nevertheless.
How to cancel an HTTP request in Node.js
I personally gave up on Lenovo after trying several of their modern laptops and running into constant issues. The last one was a C940 specced out to the max, and for such a premium laptop costing nearly $2000 it was an embarrassment. Windows came with bloatware, I ran into several issues trying to run Linux, the battery life was so-so, and the performance wasn’t even that impressive.

I realized that modern Lenovos aren’t even that repairable or upgradeable (even the Thinkpad line) so hell… might as we’ll get a Mac right? I picked up a used M1 Macbook Air for $700 and have been absolutely blown away. Battery life, performance, display, speakers, the thing blows away any Thinkpad I’ve owned. Sure, impossible to repair or upgrade, but it’s not like you can change out the CPU/RAM/graphics on modern Thinkpads either.
The iPod Touch (September 2007) was announced after the iPhone (June 2007).
Thought experiments can be non-sensical, and it’s useful to argue about them. In this case I don’t agree that it’s non-sensical, I mean who says the data should be stored anywhere (it’s stored as Riker himself isn’t it?) but I like the 2 Rikers thought experiment.
If it's light snow, it doesn't matter because it's dry, so you only have to dress warm, not warm and waterproof.

You do care if your hands get wet when it's +2 degrees, because you will freeze and get sick.

What I'm talking about is cold rain, not dry snow. And if the snow gets heavier, you won't see, you have to wear ski goggles. Literally
A simple metric like # of people times meter lanes of road divided by square meter of sidewalk would be useful in characterizing areas. I recently vacationed in a neighborhood where the local grocery store was within walking distance but there was no sidewalk or walking path to get there. Any sidewalks that are put in are cut into personal property instead of the roadway, so there isn't much support for them among voters.
Pyridine and DMSO seem to be the best solvents for lignin.

https://bioresources.cnr.ncsu.edu/resources/solubility-of-li...

DMSO is a by-product of cellulose production.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dimethyl_sulfoxide#Synthesis_a...
directly sure, but it was a catalyst to apple's climb to the position it holds now.
Dunno, sounds great for everything but a kitchen knife.
Seems like a ton of people here enjoy synthwave! Here's a big ole dump of synthwave I've got on Spotify. https://open.spotify.com/playlist/0uLlGEXFZwaSjzSoeFKMBE?si=...
> why on earth would you be allowed to live in a place where nobody wants to live with you?

You might want to step back and take a deeper thought about this. We aren't very far removed from redlining and all manner of restrictions on where people live.

But even stepping back from mindless restrictions based on race, sexuality and religion, this is even problematic with objectively undesirable elements, like the homeless.

Lots of states and localities would love to make homelessness illegal. Many of them already toe that line. But what is a homeless person to do if each and every city outlaws their presence?

Will we build giant homeless refugee camps in the country's interior?
We all forget. Hope you do try Nerves and hope it treats you well. The nerves_livebook project is a wild fun way of trying it out.
The worst part? I've seen developers and companies actually complain about this. Just 6% of sales yet look at the huge amount of work they cause us!
While true, Apple also iterated (and took advantage of higher capacity disk drives). It took until the 4th generation to get the iconic version of the click wheel. It also took some time for Apple to offer iTunes on Windows. So while some of us could have been more forward looking at the time, it wasn't obviously a world-changing product out of the gate.
I'm assuming you don't generally do front-end work, because many many users are complete [insert PC word for zero capacity for rational thought].