skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Along similar lines, I think the fact that many cities aren't particularly bike-safe causes (some) cyclists to behave more assertively to the annoyance of motorists. This adversarial relationship hinders potential political cooperation. Admittedly, when I'm driving my car or riding my bike, I often find myself getting mad at people for doing things I know I also do when riding my bike or driving my car.
I have the base model M1 MBA and it works great as far as performance goes. I don’t do any development work on it, just the typical stuff of internet browsing, looking at photos, some TV/movie watching. I remember at the time the consensus was that performance of 8gb on the M1 MBA was equivalent to 16gb on a Windows machine. Something to do with the architecture of the M1 making memory swap more efficient or something like that.

So I think you’re overstating the importance of 16gb and 512gb for the average consumer.
This post says "[flagged] [dead]" because was automatic lay killed because it was flagged by too many users. Users can click the "vouch" link, and enough vouches unkill the post.

I had not read or flagged the article, but I took a look now. It looks like a lot of unsupported speculation and heresy, no way I'm pressing the vouch button.

Also, articles about problem with vaccines are flagged a lot. I prefer to keep a nice conversation when the info is good or at least reliable, and try to explain where is the problem with the post instead of flagging. But in this case it looks like a lot of unsupported speculation and heresy as said before.
Are you and I watching the same video? I see a drastic difference in most of the video, other than the major city (New York?) at 7:55.

I mean, look at this screenshot [0]. Do you really think there's not much different?

[0] https://preview.redd.it/cpuficwfgdy71.jpg?width=1920&format=...
This entire post is the perfect example of why to stay off social media. Wow. You bought into some social media community hook, line and sinker.
It's not really all that grating anymore, just a bit dry in delivery. On a separate note, I think it's really dumb that voice actors can't easily record works without explicit, particular permission from an author. They should license it from the author with some sort of profit sharing per copy, but the current system means there is often only one audiobook version unless a work is public domain. And when I say license it, I mean some sort of form contract available to anyone without huge legal fees.
Izumi-reflect: Scala typer simulator
Number of motor vehicles per capita. US = 816 per 1000. Netherlands = 499 per 1000.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_by_vehicles_...

499/816 = 61%. Only a 39% reduction.

But there are geographical differences that make it even harder for the US to get rid of cars even if it had the same culture/institutions as the Netherlands.
> Bob Martin saying "The solution to the software apocalypse is not more tools. The solution is better programming discipline."

A lot of Robert C Martins pieces are just variations on his strong belief that ill-defined concepts like "craftsmanship" and "clean code" (which are basically just whatever his opinions are on any given day) is how to reduce defects and increase quality, not built-in safety and better tools, and if you think built-in safety and better tools are desirable, you're not a Real Programmer (tm).

I'm not the only one who is skeptical of this toxic, holier-than-thou and dangerous attitude.

Removing braces from if statements is a great example of another dangerous thing he advocates for no justifiable reason

https://softwareengineering.stackexchange.com/questions/3202...

Which caused the big OSX/iOS SSL bug in 2014, see https://www.imperialviolet.org/2014/02/22/applebug.html

This link and thread on hackernews is good too

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15440848

The current state of software safety discussion resembles the state of medical safety discussion 2, 3 decades ago (yeah, software is really really behind time).

Back then, too, the thoughts on medical safety also were divided into 2 schools: the professionalism and the process oriented. The former school argues more or less what Uncle Bob argues: blame the damned and * who made the mistakes; be more careful, damn it.

But of course, that stupidity fell out of favor. After all, when mistakes kill, people are serious about it. After a while, serious people realize that blaming and clamoring for care backfires big time. That's when they applied, you know, science and statistic to safety.

So, tools are upgraded: better color coded medicine boxes, for example, or checklists in surgery. But it's more. They figured out what trainings and processes provide high impacts and do them rigorously. Nurses are taught (I am not kidding you) how to question doctors when weird things happen; identity verification (ever notice why nurses ask your birthday like a thousand times a day?) got extremely serious; etc.

My take: give it a few more years, and software, too, probably will follow the same path. We needs more data, though.
I seem to recall fb doing similar. It's similar to banks or telecom providers requiring a persons home address (or worse: to prove it using a utility bill).
Thank you for that perspective and congratulations!

If I may ask a similar question: did you feel, once you signed up the first employee, that there was a point early on that staff growth was too slow or too fast?

Congratulations again!
I've been working in games since the early/mid 90's, from before we had 3d accelerators right at the start of my career to today. Many of the comments I've read so far from other devs ring true, but seem to miss an important point.

3D accelerators, to a large extent, changed what we (game developers) needed to focus on. If I'm doing a software rasterization of a bunch of triangles, then the speed at which I sit in that tight loop rendering each pixel is of utmost importance. Getting a texture mapping routine down to 9 clock cycles matters. The moment I worked on a game that used 3d accelerators, that all changed. I submit a list of triangles to the 3D accelerator, and it draws them. It rarely matters how much time I spend getting everything ready for the 3D accelerator, since it is rendering while I am processing, and my processing for all intents and purposes never takes longer than the rendering.

Once we had that architectural paradigm shift, the clock cycles it takes for me to prepare the drawing list are entirely irrelevant. The entire burden of performance is in getting the 3d accelerator to draw faster. This means that optimization is in reducing the work it has to do, either through fancy shading tricks to simplify what it takes to make something look right, or reducing the amount of geometry I send to the 3d accelerator to draw.

The neat thing is that we've gone full circle in a way. When it used to be important to hand optimize the inner loop of a rasterisation function, now we have pixel, vertex, and fragment shaders. The pixel and fragment shaders are getting run millions of times, and we used to have to code shaders in shader assembly. Now they're generally written in higher level shading language, but nonetheless, optimizing shader code often becomes quite important. It feels like the same work as assembly optimization to me.
The lesson that really made me finally understand how blockchains work was Anders Brownworth's "Blockchain Demo"[1]. He builds up a blockchain through interactive steps starting from a hash function, to mining, to coinbase transactions. Highly recommend.

[1] https://andersbrownworth.com/blockchain/
Yes, we held off on upgrading from 8 to 9 originally because a lot of our dependencies didn't work with 9's module system. A few months ago we jumped straight from 8 to 11, and it was easy, because all of those dependencies have since fixed their module system problems. (What finally pushed us to move to 11 was that some of our dependencies stopped supporting 8!)
That would be great. It needs simulated traffic picked up from predictions, too.
Many of those things are still there. I've run an old-school style forum since 2009, and it is still going strong. Many of the people using it are very different than the HN crowd: non-tech savvy, relatively old, mostly women relatively low-income. The design has barely changed since it was first created, though I've incrementally added useful features (and not useful features) specifically geared towards helping the community.
The key is think they get something in return. They don’t have to actually get a lot, just think they do.
It will be similar but who knows if you could do stuff like change rotting suspension bushings, change cabin air filters, replace rusting brake lines with third party parts or if Tesla will sell you these parts themselves directly (I'd expect not). I looked up how you change the headlight bulb on a tesla and it apparently involves removing the front wheel. Most other cars that's a thirty second job.
The EU being that terrorist organization whose member states orchestrated and funded the destruction of Libya, among other atrocities?

Not sure that lends much credibility to the proxy organizations they fund and influence. This is not some benevolent group dedicated to improving and protecting life around the globe. It is a corrupt, morally bankrupt hive of war criminals and arms profiteers. If ever they pretend to care for someone who is not rich, it is obviously with ulterior motive.
Microsoft does the same thing. Crazy beans.
There is no hypocrisy inherently in considering some conspiracy theories absurd and some not. "Conspiracy theory" and "hidden agenda" are gigantic categories. Regardless - "I bet you...", followed by some engineered hypocritical opinion, is practically ad hominem. It usually signals that you have drawn the "us vs them" lines, and do not intend to engage intellectually.
I have no problem with this, actually. If only people would actually take advantage of this.

One the banes of good meetings are people who don't belong in your meeting but whose feelings will be hurt if they aren't invited.
Hey, more careful drying makes a big difference. That dryer lint is your clothing disappearing.

The next genearation or two will need to be increasingly conscious of resource-preserving behaviors. It doesn’t matter if a couple of people reduce their consumption. It matters if most do.
+1 to what Dan said! `*Provider` handling of client components is a workaround for lack of server context right now. When server context ships, we'll migrate to it in Hydrogen.

There are several other things that are specific to Hydrogen that will likely change during the dev preview period as React introduces new features (like server context and SSR with RSC).
That just adds another argument against safe bike infrastructure in US politics. Poor people are even more undeserving than lycra-clad yuppies ;-\
"making trains and buses free isn’t as simple as it sounds."

It might be expebsive, but it's definately as simple as it sounds.

I do not see how vandalism will be any different than it is today
ProBoards exists and is nice to use, but it's not obvious to me it does anything better for software than Github issues.
In this case, the dispute appears to have been a civil one between parties contesting control over the property: the former clinic operator and the landlord/owners of the property, the St. Vincent de Paul Society. The people had no advocate at that proceeding, and the court and authorities were unpersuaded by IGR and Carlos Figueiredo Bezerril.

Courts are normally given all but total immunity in all jurisdictions. I'd argue that the court and SVdP were criminally negligent here.

(I'm just reading these details now through the Wikipedia article. I'm interested in a more complete report, because quite clearly things were fouled up quite badly.)
I really liked the iPhone 5c's design. The colors were fun, and the case options weren't super bland. The 5 was there to fill in the need for more traditional iPhone design, but the 5c felt like a little throwback to when phones were a little more fun and weird.
Every once in a long while (very long now) you'll stumble across a dialog box that looks like it's from Windows 3.1. ODBC is one of them that's still that old.
If they have a goal and this is the best (only) tool to achieve it, you’ve got a few options:

1. Get them to reevaluate their goal(s).

2. Get a new job with values that align with your own.

3. Make an emotional plea and see where that gets you.

4. Actually look into alternatives and make a case for one (if it exists).
How much does this add to the binary's size?
Mailing lists (and newsgroups!) are really really really simple forums. Still used widely in the open source community. Lots of hosts out there, very low investment in cost/time/maintenance, the 'friction to post' is a feature not a bug, you don't need a weird client or server, the archives are publicly searchable, you can filter them at your leisure and use different lists for different topics.

If you want to gamify your community engagement, StackOverflow/Reddit is better. But if you just want answers to questions, a mailing list is the simplest thing in the world. If you have a lot of questions, you need to make a FAQ, and StackOverflow basically does that by sorting.
> That has nothing to do with the software being open source or not, it's a question of whether you have a robust archival system in place.

With Slack, your only option is to pay per user in order to have access to older messages, which is almost certainly going to be cost-prohibitive for most projects. I don't have a source for this, but I believe using a bot that automatically archives conversations elsewhere is against Slack's free-tier ToS.

I agree that this doesn't inherently have anything to do with closed vs. open source, but these sorts of shenanigans just aren't possible if you're self-hosting an open source discussion platform.
The thing is that StackOverflow is not meant just for the asker; it's meant to serve as a searchable Q&A repository, so that when you google "how do I do X?" it's one of the first matches.

If you ask your question in a messaging system, it will help you but then be lost to the wider audience.
Not in particular — this was meant as way to clarify that Hydrogen isn't a drop-in solution for e.g. Android or Unity apps.

Though we're exploring the use of Hydrogen + React Native > Android/iOS.
Curiously, the middle finger has been used as a duress signal by prisoners of war: http://www.usspueblo.org/Prisoners/The_Digit_Affair.html
Metallurgist admits faking steel-test results for Navy subs
I completely agree. His exit signaled the return of flat screens rather than the terrible curved glass edges, slippery corners and the mess of designing for design’s sake. I don’t know if he was responsible for the butterfly keyboard but I wouldn’t be surprised.
It's... complicated...

I rode a bike to school when my limited money would buy a very bad car or a nice bike. So I opted for the bike and had to ride it because that's all I had. I did that for a couple of years - even in the cold and ice. My commute distance varied in my biking days, from 6 to 20 miles.

I always obeyed all the traffic laws, though occasionally in the early AM I'd find lights that would not turn green for a bike no matter what I did.

I had people scream at me to get off the road, and otherwise be exceptionally rude. I occasionally had bike lanes and appreciated them, sought them out because it provided better spacing. But the busses on those routes were frequently in the bike lane and were, frankly, slower than I was. But navigating them was always a pain until I got well past them.

On slower roads (20-25 mph) with no bike lane I would take a lane to myself and keep up with traffic but only when I could reasonably keep up.

In the end, safety won out, and I abandoned the practice.

Now, as a driver, I am appalled at the behavior of cyclists. With my experience I take interest in and carefully watch their behavior.

Running red lights and not stopping for stop signs is the worst. And it's pretty universal.

Bad spacing in the lane, little to no accommodation for drivers when they could provide a bit more space for a comfortable pass. Sometimes they can't help it, and I get it, but when they can and don't... I always tried to be crystal clear about my messaging to the cars around me. I'm taking the lane here for my safety because there are parked cars in the bike lane or otherwise on the shoulder. I'm done now and look, I'm providing lots of space for everyone to safely pass me.

So the rude behavior I encountered was finally somewhat understood.

I really appreciated having good bike lanes. But cyclists do themselves no favors in how they conduct themselves, which will hurt them when pining for better road accommodations.

Even the cost factor is complicated. Everyone factors in the cost per mile of the bike, which is excellent, but the input calories are non-trivial and if you're not running the numbers on just ramen noodles it turns into quite a significant financial cost.

There are definitely health benefits.
> bicycle commuters are stereotypically rich folks

Stereotypes are only useful to the extent that they contain a kernel of truth, and this one is just false. The largest group of American bicycle-to-work riders lies in the $20-30k/year income group, i.e. poor people. With each increase of $10k/year income there are fewer riders.

https://i2.wp.com/cityobservatory.org/wp-content/uploads/201...
Ah - I think I answered my own question. The doc comment is focusing on you can only use it to build _web_ storefronts and I was reading it as you can only use it to build web _storefronts_. It's a general purpose React web framework built on Shopify, but it doesn't yet do React Native or etc.
Yeah. It really isn’t how it’s done in the US, technically or otherwise.
Used cars are more fungible and have a higher volume of comparable sales constantly underway.

Repair costs are also better known and less daunting.
> In theorizing the bribe, Mumford had warned that after enough people accept it, “no other choices will remain.

Makes me think of Richard Stallman when we apply this to software.
That is true of the codeword calls for help. As a hand signal, this has more utility even if it's known because you can hide it from your attacker.
This is a very important point. Bikeways, like roadways, are a system.

My South Bay commute has nice bike paths part of the way, but they stop just short of a major highway-freeway intersection. Sure, it would be tough to build a good bike lane through this busy, high speed intersection. So there isn’t one. So the bike path just… stops. And you have to navigate this scary section to proceed. So almost nobody does.

It’s such a shame since we have among the best bike-weather in the world, and a fairly flat basin to ride in. A little more infrastructure would help a lot. And e-bikes have their place for people going more than 20 mins and need to arrive feeling presentable.
Another set of reasons that it is rising is because governments, central banks, banks, and Mastercard are taking it seriously and are developing plans and rules for cryptocurrencies. They see a benefit in lowered costs for big transactions (think clearing houses), tracking where money goes (whether you think that is good or bad, China sees it as good), automation of money and contracts, and more. I suspect some of the banks are interested in anonymous derivatives, shadow banking, and off the books transactions. These are all very clear motivations for using crypto on a large scale. The news of this is driving crypto up since once these big players get involved the value of some cryptocurrencies will likely skyrocket, though some will also tank as new regulations take effect.
> Similarly, sometimes you're hoping for someone that can be productive immediately, not after 2-6 months of getting used to something new.

I've often seen organizations spend 6 months or more to find the perfect Foo developer when they could have hired someone right away who had Foo-adjacent skills and was very willing to learn Foo.
> This would depend on first fixing poverty and homelessness

How convenient for the car lobby that their luxuriously subsidized travel mode already excludes the poor, making them immune from this line of reasoning!
Not really. GitHub is also "readable" through a search engine, and can be used (read-only) without signing in. GitHub also allows you to use automated tools to read and manipulate the data stored there. Discord does not allow you to do any of those things.
It’s not about whether the wings are open or closed, it’s that the “dead” ones are drawn with the wings raised up above the head. It’s as if people were always drawn with their arms raised straight in the air -- not an impossible posture but a pretty unusual one.
Trump and Biden are fascist.
> Anecdotally 1/4 of the folks in my neighborhood currently have a for sale sign in their yard because of the price increases.

If I might offer some thoughts as a real estate agent... so we are seeing some of this in my market as well. In particular, we're seeing houses that are sitting on market longer than they have the rest of the past two years. This is causing many people in my market to prognosticate that the market is slowing down / we're in a bubble / this is the top, etc.

Instead the problem is that there are sellers who see dollar signs and are listing their homes much higher than the market can actually bear. It's not that there aren't buyers or that the cost of capital has increased, they have just gotten greedy as seller. So - I don't know what market you are in, but my guess would be that many of those opportunistic sellers will be disappointed and that the market will self correct - not that it will crash, but simply self-correct.
The sun only puts out something like 1500w per square meter onto the surface of the Earth in perfect conditions. Unless we figure out how to generate more solar power than hits the panels, they'll never work on an average car, even in perfect conditions.
Why would we discuss a seal that anyone on fivrr could have come up with for $5? If I came up with this seal, would you still be interested in talking about it? You'd probably be wondering how it ended up on the front page of HN...

The seal isn't anything special. It's a small area with too much going on. It's an eye strain to understand what is happening on the seal b/c so much is happening in such a small area.

This article isn't on the front page of HN b/c of the seal, it's on the front page b/c of who designed the seal. Thus, people will talk about the designer not the seal.
Plenty of pitfalls await Zuckerberg’s ‘metaverse’ plan
I looked it up and the installation seems pretty involved, so I gave up.
Tcl is too much like shell script programming. It's one of those "take one basic concept and use it for everything" systems.

Could be worse. Could be Forth.
Lots of monarchies involved some form of picking the next king which went beyond inheritance or conquest.
The software didn't change; the people did. Starting in 2014, everyone went online.
I agree that it's a little less legible, but it's also two words that need to be read once before the seal itself becomes recognizable. In my view that's an acceptable tradeoff
> The only people who can afford to be within a bike commute are at least above-average income-wise.

No. The income bracket most likely to bike to work makes less than $10k/year.

https://i1.wp.com/cityobservatory.org/wp-content/uploads/201...
It is indexed but it is impossible to follow a conversation in a busy channel, like the others
For calls and sms you'd need a client configured for that modem. I think this is what callcenters use?
All of my original iPad games also don’t work because Apple refuses to let iOS devices downgrade to run software it was only just using.