skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
My first time in Amsterdam I was terribly confused by the bike lanes. We’d never seen an entirely separate and dedicated bike lane like that so we walked in it. It was a Sunday morning so fortunately there wasn’t much traffic but eventually an exasperated local on his bike stopped us and explained that we were basically waltzing around in the middle of the road and could we please stop. He was perfectly polite and his information was quite helpful but I got the sense he had given the same lecture many times before.

Unless someone explains it to you, though, I’m not really sure how anyone could be expected to know?
This is good news, really looking forward to see it succeed. I might jump on board next year as well.
In every discussion about advertising you typically get a comment similar near the top that tells us that advertising never actually works.

For a lot of us working in a related field, we know it to be false, there’s plenty of online business that rely on online ads and are profitable.

Yes they are invasive to your privacy. Yes some of them fake their effectiveness. Yes to all of that. But saying that advertising online doesn’t work at all and we all bought into a giant scam is just not rooted in reality.
In the age of modern technology and the internet I think the sense and meaning of privacy is lost because everything is out there on the net waiting to be misused, abused, hacked, stolen, leaked or caught just like fish in the ocean.

If I was US gov. I would've made law in the early 1990s that says every website, blog etc. is private property and no entity has right to crawl it if not given permission basically eliminating early Internet Search Engine industry meaning the behemoth like Google would probably never exist.

I would also made law that says that private information of a person can only be used in order to facilitate payment transactions with operators that provide and sell goods and services meaning ecommerce e.g. (Amazon, Ebay, Uber, Airbnb etc.)

Basically this law would eliminate early Internet Social Networks like MySpace and Facebook which thrive on using private information of the people for creating ad solutions for advertisers. Subscribing to social networks(buying Social Network service) would made privacy and security situation much better than it is today.

But internet and world would be much different place and I think that using Google and Facebook for "free" comes with big trade-offs that every person needs to evaluate personally or government needs to step in with clear and strict privacy laws.
Remote controlled insects (2018) [video]
Magic: The Gathering. It doesn’t involve screens and it’s still largely reliant on players supporting local business. Multiple birds with one stone.
There is for all practical purposes a singluar linux.

Why? Because you can bundle your own "userspace" to support your game, and that's what steam does for you with it's runtime: https://github.com/ValveSoftware/steam-runtime

It has to pick up a few things from the surrounding environment, but steam entirely standardizes the vast majority of it, and the rest of it is really really similar between every linux-running OS.
It is nonsense?

Just a few months ago, facebook was banning people for the “lab leak theory,” and now it’s a widely accepted possibility.

Facebook bans people now for writing about vaccine side effects.
There's a whole lot of other possible confounding hypotheses here: more frequent outdoor activity, increased ventilation in buildings, increased sunlight, lower population density, lower spread from international travelers, less robust reporting, the "worst medical systems in the world" resulting in a smaller relative fraction of the population at high risk of covid surviving everything else, less cultural offense at being told to wear a mask, etc.
Can’t something just be in process before claiming it’s a success or failure?
The special representation isn't TAI (seconds from epoch), the complex and special representations are the human readable formats. It's the human formats that incorporate intractable aspects of solar mechanics, law, and geography. TAI is the simple answer here.

It looks like you have a human readable (CTE) and binary format (CBE), and you use human-style formatting for the computer readable binary format. This seems incongruous to say the least, especially when I look at how you're representing other numeric types.

While human readable formats are complex, there are standard functions which generate them from epoch time. It's trivial to do this in a display layer, and strongly recommended architecturally speaking.

Also, leap seconds do go away if you use TAI. That's the entire point of TAI. Leap seconds are a display layer issue, just like time zones. They can be applied when translating an epoch to a localized format.

You cannot have seconds-level granularity with the way you've designed your time format. Sorry, but this is just a fact.
I'd like to see more examples and probably data serialized as zed.
https://www.allsides.com/media-bias/media-bias-ratings

CNN is especially eggregious. NYTimes should also be on the left column which is reflected in the votes "Somewhat disagree" with the current characterization as Center-Left (scroll down).

Edit: I am just pointing out a free publicly available dataset of what the population thinks of the media. Make what you will, don't shoot me.
in other news, engine coolant is wet
> You are being manipulated and abused just like the consumers you are targeting

Their first sentence was more correct: consumers are also getting value and the question is more whether the true cost is worth the benefit. For some people it definitely is, especially those who are skeptical and thus learn/measure/etc themselves. For others they give away far more than they get. For society/humanity as a whole it’s an open question, even more so once you start to include the second-order effects (in both directions, good and bad).
It is odd and leaves out some of what actually happened. CNN is still the #1 draw on basic cable. What actually happened is that the boost they got in viewership from the pandemic is starting to roll off. And, of course, younger people care a lot less about any cable TV content, so there's a long-term roll off too.

It's a few months old, but this AdWeek story is more clear: https://www.adweek.com/tvnewser/q2-21-ratings-cnn-is-one-of-...
The worlds largest record label once threatened to destroy my startup
Theory: CNN watchers are more economically affluent than watchers of other channels and are too busy working jobs and running businesses and exercising and traveling etc. to watch CNN.

Higher income households spend less time watching cable TV. Lower income people spend more time.

A channel with high viewership is actually attracting the bottom bucket of society.
Yeah one reason I like Jacktrip, you can optionally use servers to connect. Low latency is nice but it doesn't help in a performance when you can't connect to your group of musicians
Given the two dozen or so known causes of myocarditis, the vaccine does not stand out here. The risks of complications from the virus do stand out, in stark contrast.
You’re seriously mistaken if you think a one way road with a 25mph speed limit is “perfectly fine”.

In countries with decent infrastructure you don’t need to look out for bicyclists “coming from behind”.

I also find it interesting that the guy protected by a ton of steel is afraid of 200 pounds of mostly flesh coming from behind on a one way road and is unable to imagine how that 180 pounds of flesh on 20 pounds of metal might feel about the ton of steel coming from behind them on that “perfectly fine” 25 mph one way road.
Apple are doing exactly the same thing. I'd even say they're slightly ahead of Microsoft on the storification of their desktop OS.
Nice, that's the parsimonious way to handle it.

I'm really digging this system in general. I hope it gets more traction.
> I've never understood the criticism of Firefox on HN

My only real criticism is that they keep making dumbass moves like putting ads in the address bar instead of trying to ask for money

Do a pro plan for silly people like me who would pay for a promise of no ads. Do an enterprise version of Firefox that hooks in to Active Directory or whatever for syncing

Just get lost with the ad plays haha
my background is also in physics and mathematics. in fact i think common lisp is well suited to a physicist-hacker type mindset. i could probably write a lengthy blog post about why i think this could be, but some of the key appeal factors are:

* unmatched interactive development which could be used for exploration of problems such as dynamical and complex systems

* although it is a very high level language you can perform low level optimizations in common lisp itself

* extremely powerful macro system that allows you to develop in a declarative style to reflect your problem domain. for example you can program in a syntax that is natural to general or special relativity, quantum mechanics, etc.

* fast and free implementations such as SBCL

* the language is standardized so your code will not need to be unnecessarily maintained (this is good for university professors that have repeating long-running courses)

i am not sure what type of references you are asking for but i will list few open source projects that might be interesting to you:

* CLASP - common lisp implementation build on top of LLVM. this project is headed by a computational chemist (prof. schafmeister) [0]

* PetaLisp - for HPC [1]

* MAGICL - Matrix Algebra proGrams In Common Lisp by Rigetti Computing [2]

* Quil - quantum instruction language developed on top of common lisp [3]

* CL-CUDA - use NVIDIA CUDA in Common Lisp programs [4]

* MGL - Common Lisp machine learning library [5]

* Maxima - a computer algebra system developed in common lisp [6]

i think these are plenty to show that there exists serious interest in using common lisp for scientific computing. it is possible that some of the people behind these projects are on HN and maybe they can further expand on this

[0] https://github.com/clasp-developers/clasp

[1] https://github.com/marcoheisig/Petalisp

[2] https://github.com/quil-lang/magicl

[3] https://github.com/quil-lang/quilc

[4] https://github.com/takagi/cl-cuda

[5] https://github.com/melisgl/mgl also https://github.com/melisgl/higgsml

[6] https://maxima.sourceforge.io/
I mean, the courts can do all sorts of things. I would say this sort of thing can happen indirectly in the civil side where a jury finds you less likeable than the other person and levies a large judgement against you. At the least you may be stuck with a large legal bill that could force you to downsize. There are also neighbors who may harass you or make life unbearable.
In theory, yes. In practice, what control do you have over the hardware? Can't basically anyone with a few million dollars to throw at the problem compromise any form of Secure Boot? If you're NSA, no need to go so far... they've probably got access to the Microsoft root signing key.

If the schematics and code to the TPM were free and there were "tamper evidence" mechanisms in place, we could argue secure boot had some benefits for security. But in its current forms, it's just preventing users from owning their devices with little evidence for security for determined attackers.

Machines should be simpler and auditable: that's how reliable security works. Adding piles of shit on top the other piles of shit is just producing more overall shit.
Yea, thanks for sharing it.

The animation looks better, more Vercel style.

Few things that missing in that implementation and mine have:

- root search, for example when on the root menu you can open and just type "dark" and get "Change to dark theme" action without navigation to theme

- no step back, if you got to the theme menu or posts :) you need to select something or close.

- breadcrumbs, can be useful for a multilevel menu
organic is great, now we need more of that for all aspects of life, and hopefully some simple large integration of efforts to keep them stable and efficient (after all we have near free computing to communicate, analyse and organize, so why not)
Here is how to contact your state Attorney General in the US:

https://www.usa.gov/state-attorney-general

If everyone asks them to do everything in their power to investigate the the illegal activities and prosecute all parties involved, we might have a chance at one biting.

Sending a message beyond an offensively small fine is crucial.

If you are in the EU or other locations please post similar information so it can be a global effort.
Knoxville and Nashville have walkable potential in the core, and of course Asheville, NC, but outside of that, the south is as you said very pedestrian unfriendly.
> This was always the case ever since secure boot launched and any OS that didn't have it's first stage bootloader signed by Microsoft could not boot. Even To this day, to install arch or puppy on my XPS i had to disable secure boot. Ubuntu and other major distros are fine here though but this gate keeping doesn't make it ok in my book.

But this is kind of a circular problem, isn't it?

If everyone's bootloader is signed and recognized by every Secure Boot implementation, then signing is useless since it doesn't afford discrimination between "known good" and "dubious" bootloaders.

I'm not familiar with XPS computers, but to me what's important, as another sibling says, is that the user be able to load their custom keys with which they sign their own bootloader. This is how I run Arch on my HP computers.

This way, I can be reasonably sure that when I boot my arch linux, it's actually mine, and not some random live medium based of arch's (or whoever's) install disk that will sniff my passwords or whatever.

To me, this is what SecureBoot is supposed to offer, and I don't see how you would implement this if you could easily get anything signed and accepted by most PCs.
Yes, on practice the draft becomes the actual standard.

That is, unless it's in a regulated industry that is required by law to follow the actual standard. Then it disobeys the law most of the time, and "disobey" the market the rest of the time and everything breaks. Also, it leaves the people with a secret law that nobody can know the consequences.

The ISO governance should be changed ASAP. It was never good, and nowadays it's a disaster.
you only have one internet-capable device you use each month?

i got a phone, two tablets, two laptops, a desktop and a TV.

my phone uses Blockada and firefox with ublock origin, they both block some ads, but some still get through.

one of the tablets is an ipad, which only has the buildin adblock. a lot of ads go through that.
the other is a kindle paperwhite, thankfully without any ads.

the laptops and desktop pc are all using chrome/firefox with ublock origin. most ads are blocked, but some go through just as with my phone.

the TV has several devices connected to it:

- xbox series x: unblockable ads
- nintendo switch: unblockable ads
- nvidia shield: unblockable ads.

for a while i tried to use Pihole for DNS-level adblocking, but it didn't really decrease the amount of ads i saw per day, so i eventually gave up on that.

so yes, i do everything i can to remove adverts from my life, and am nonetheless unable to remove them entirely.
as such internet adverts will still influence me and few people invest as much time into blocking them as i do, which makes them generally more effective.

the reason i pointed out AdBlock Plus specifically was because of how many people use it. most of these people still see ads, because that specific adblocker only blocks advertisements from advertisers which haven't paid eyeo (the corp behind that extension) money.

https://adblockplus.org/en/about#monetization
Have you tried walking in Birmingham? Some of the "cycle lanes" here are just a pavement with a sign. There is no separation from pedestrians. And the majority of cyclists (especially Just Eat delivery riders) seem to think it is legal to ride on every pavement. Amsterdam is way better.
I'm an online Tesco shopper, usually using "Click and Collect" because the shop is only a 3 minute drive away.

Point is, I use the app and/or website every week - both are pretty awful, but the website is the worst.

Main pain point is it's just so slow - you search for something and it takes seconds to show the search results, then you click to add something to your basket and it takes seconds to do that too, and occasionally it fails silently. A few seconds might not sound like much, but if you want to add dozens of items it's really frustrating.

Then there is the search function, which is absolutely rubbish - you apparently have to know what secret-squirrel keywords are bound to each product. For example, if I search for "seeded bread", the particular brand I want doesn't show up, same if I search for "Hovis seeded"; but if I search for "Hovis seeds", then it finds it. So if you can't find something, you're never really sure if they don't have it, or you just can't find it.

Another gripe with the search function is that results aren't ordered as you expect. Tesco has a "favourite" tag applied to things you've purchased before, so you'd expect "favourite" products to be shown first - nope.

Which brings me on to the "favourite" feature - if you buy something just once, it gets tagged as a favourite, and there is no way to manually tag or untag products. So it could be there is a product you really didn't like, but it shows as a favourite for months afterwards.

Then there is product reviews, which AFAICT aren't shown in the app at all, only on the website. And they silently delete perfectly reasonable bad product reviews, which is just really shitty behaviour.

Also, the whole design and UX feel of the website is just... off. It really feels like a website created by junior devs in the 90's - ugly, slow, disfunctional and downright clunky.

The app is a lot faster in general than the website, but still slowel enough to annoy, and it lacks some features that are available on the website, such as reviews and "shopping lists". The checkout UX is horrible though, it feels like you have to slowly tap through too many screens, and you now have to enter your card CCV for every single change you make, which is irritating and yet another screen to slowly tap through.

With all the money behind Tesco, I really don't understand why their online shopping experience is so crappy.
Show HN: I made an online esbuild playground
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28961528
If people are interested in it, it's relevant.
> My wife also works in tech and can comfortably support us both. I hope in a year, I'll be rested and ready to jump back into tech with a better sense of purpose and direction.

If you have this luxury, use your precious time to work less.
Sure, but it's so insufficient that to even bring it up is a red flag. It's like if we were all getting together to try and solve climate change and someone said "I'm super religious, I spent the last week in nature speaking with God, and it's clear to me that while there are other things we can and should do, this will never work without everyone individually praying every day." We would collectively be like "huh, convenient that the thing you're already super invested in seems to be critical to our efforts here, despite being completely unbacked by evidence...."

It's simply not the case that people will start making better decisions to the point that homelessness diminishes to background noise. It's a non-solution. We have to question the perspective of a leader who keeps pushing clear non-solutions.

The end of the road of the personal responsibility argument is "'good' people shouldn't waste their resources on irresponsible people". But homelessness isn't the result of an outbreak of personal irresponsibility (is anything?), so typically when leaders start talking about it, something else is up.
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28920954
I think the parent means controlling them with an eye towards making the project successful, on time, high quality, etc. not ticking the compliance checkboxes.
Percentage of Hacker News job postings that mention a remote option 2017-2021
In my experience the number one thing that is positively correlated with biking adoption is infrastructure. If the population can safely use bicycles and they can be easily accessed/stored/rented then they are more willing to work around other inconveniences.
ISO shouldn't sell anything. It doesn't have a profit motive and can be financed by governments without any problem.
I have only been to Amsterdam and the airport in the Netherlands, it was a while ago, but no way did Amsterdam have a better infrastructure for bicycles 10 years ago than Barcelona has today.
I could be wrong, but the main streets didn't have the nice two way lanes like in Barcelona and the red light, coffee shop district is similar to cuidad vella and Raval, both in spirit and infrastructure, both are not optimal for anything.
I heard Denmark is on a high level too and maybe the Netherlands as a whole are much better. It has to be said that Barcelona is an exemption, Madrid and other cities don't even come close, apart from some few very rich pueblos on the coast.
At least in Barcelona you can use the main roads to get tangentially near your desired destination and from there it's a bit less luxurious.
I agree that left turning cars are very dangerous for more vulnerable vehicles. For example , to turn left , you have to get to the proper lane in time(not so easy, many people report map applications to have notorious delays in parts on the city), then check for ongoing traffic, sometimes the innermost are bicycles, then cars, then another lane plus pedestrians with no regards to red light green light rules.
It's also true that the lanes are often interrupted by other rather large streets etc.
But overall, it's a breeze going from one of the big parks to Barceloneta.
Big negative point is in summer, it's no fun, the heat can be horrible, and if you are on a red light next to a bus, the fumes and other car emissions are in your face and the temperature feels like it jumped 10 deg Celsius within 3 seconds.
To clarify, I am sure there are better small cities in that regard, I only tried to say Barcelona has the best solutions compared to other large cities.
The negative point of course is, it's downright hostile to car drivers, some people enjoy driving a car(I don't ever own a car unless I live in a remote area).