skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Yes, People use these services. You can check out Goldmediatech, Bairesdev, Wildom, among many others who do this at a large scale in Latin America. Its doable
Where I'm at there is a major project to overhaul a road, let's call it "Broadway", with conservation drainage, walkability(like 10ft wide sidewalks), medians, trees, and bike paths.

The project kept getting derailed due to bicycle special interests having a literal fit because a section of the road was too narrow to have the walkable sidewalks(priority number 1), the cycle lanes with adequate safety, and not congest the rest of the road. A consulting company made recommendations based on traffic simulations and the requirements to have the bicycle route go off onto a parallel side street through this section.

Oh man, what a shit show it turned into. But most of the pushback against what the cyclist special interests wanted(lanes through this section, fuck everything else) had to do with the practicalities of balancing the requirements. Not the meme arguments people who hate cars often throw out as scarecrows.
Bing used to have better maps data than Google. Birds Eye was really cool. It was a brief window when it was better. MS Research had a project that was basically streetview before streetview existed. ~2010, there was a whole platform within bing maps for applications to integrate. One of them had photosynth, which made reconstructed, explorable models available within the map, long before integrated mesh became a standard mapping feature.

There was lots of cool stuff available, but that whole org was held back by, I assume, internal politics. It was so bad that Azure Maps, another Microsoft product, doesn’t even use Bing data (or at least didn’t when it was announced and last I checked). Very sad.
The most we can really conclude is that they don't currently appear to be possible. We have a sample size of 1 with how many universes we've studied. As far we know, this could be a simulation, or a brief moment in time when the ever-shifting laws of physics look the way they do, or the dream of a supernatural being.

By all means, our physics works (now) and its the best we've got so lets bet on it and drive our society that way, but to suggest some things will never be possible not only creates 0 value for society (perhaps even negative value), but is also the stance proven wrong so many times needlessly. The truth is, we really just don't know and can only make our best guesses.
Right, indexes don't "go away" as you normalize, but the amount of data indexed drastically shifts and four unique indexes are pretty much guaranteed to be smaller in size than one massive combinatorial index of (all, four, possible, values). Not just in the case where any duplicates exist, but just alone in terms of the database's overhead in things like field delimiters and page metadata. While the specifics will vary a lot with specific DB implementations, generally with varchars involved you can usually assume a worst-case in terms of field delimiting (and from there sometimes a worst-case in average page size and how that impacts B-Tree balancing).

In general, Indexes alone can't save you from a normalization problems. From certain points of view an Index is itself another form of denormalization and while it is very handy form of denormalization, heavily relying on big composite indexes (and the "natural keys" they represent) makes normalization worse and you have to keep such trade-offs in mind just as you would any other normalization planning.

It is theoretically possible a database could do something much smarter and semi-normalized with for instance Trie-based "search" indexes, but specifically in 2002 so far as I'm aware of most of the databases at the time such indexes were never the default and didn't have great multi-column support and would have been expensive to compute if you did turn them own. Even such "smart" Indexes would likely still have suggested you normalize first.
Culturally transmitted skills and values
I inquired about selling to a few in a different region. They all expected you to pay for repairs they identify. That's far too open ended of an agreement for me. Perhaps it was limited to structural issues, but that wasn't clearly outlined. I also assume they complete their own repairs using their own staff. I expect that gives them the opportunity to quote me at $1000 for a repair while their cost is lower.

In a red hot market, I opted to let the market decide the price and terms.
With regular maintenance and replacable batteries, I don't really see any reason an average eBike wouldn't last for many years
University of Austin: FAQ
Thank you, glad we can help you out! Hope your project is a smashing success.

When it launches, I'd love to interview you for a community story like https://fusionauth.io/blog/2020/11/18/reconinfosec-fusionaut... if you'd be game. My email is in my profile.
Note the (d)evolution here. IRC was an open standard, with numerous client and server implementations. The other chat apps are all bespoke proprietary solutions. Ditto with email/NNTP vs other async options.
It’s not that simple because there’s no objective way to get a number for the most important question: how many people would have bought if they couldn’t pirate it? The publishers have quoted estimates which basically assume 100% conversion and I’d be quite surprised if there weren’t senior managers who wholeheartedly believed that because if your job amounts to “sell more” that’s a very tempting way to say that not hitting your targets wasn’t your fault. This is especially what you tell politicians when saying you need police investigations into pirating and various legal protections, too.

These numbers are, of course, wildly optimistic but it’s harder to say exactly how far off they are.
For me, “retire in a few years” is worth sticking around. Then you can go over to the dream company.
No way, that server has been stable since I rented it 10 years ago. ;)
That brings up a good point. If forums are going to work, they need some form of federation that doesn't suck.
That was a favorite joke of my kids: I’ve invented time travel, but I can only go in one direction at regular speed.
Yep, the latest example was my credit card company rejecting my GV number. They easily have the means to see that I've been using it for 10+ years and it's definitely me. Luckily they wanted my business more than they cared about that policy; a CS droid was able to "force" the system to allow it.

Requiring cell phone numbers isn't about anti-spam or 2FA or anything else these services and sites claim.

It's about linking your account to a real person identity, so they can sell that to someone - either live, or later when they get bought out (privacy policies almost always have a clause that allows them to just fork over all your info to whoever buys the company.) "Where was phone number 111-555-1212 at any point in time" is really valuable these days.

SMS for 2FA is less secure because cellular accounts are almost trivial to take over. Carriers never intended for their accounts to become so important to security. These days you can get a second password added to prevent shipping out a new SIM or transferring the account, but that's bypassable by a cellular store on the corner, and poorly implemented (my carrier just adds it as a CUSTOMER VISIBLE AND EDITABLE comment on my profile. WTF?)

If you get someone's unlocked cell phone or a SIM card, you can get access to their email account, their bank and credit cards...damn near everything. How fast can you lock and wipe your phone if it was ripped out of your hands while you were using it in a public place?
Robinhood says a hacker got access to data for 7M customers
There’s a whole list of them. It is difficult to find a comprehensive review that doesn’t seem like it has an agenda.

Copper sulfate and neem oil are a couple.
Strong rec for Greg Egan’s Clockwork Rocket series, which explores the role of the +++- metric tensor in chronology protection in our universe, by contrasting it with a universe with a ++++ metric tensor. As per his style, it’s a fiction book set in a universe with these different physical rules, as the characters work out the consequents (and consequences) of these rules, which of course have been thoroughly worked out by the author. It’s a weird genre of fiction in that parts of it are basically unreadable if you don’t have a physics education.

Egan seems to fall in the camp that A) the direction of time might be a purely cosmological phenomenon rather than a local one and B) time paradoxes in a universe that admits causal loops can possibly be resolved by just making them unlikely. His pitch is fairly compelling.
Same here. The old vBulletin / PHPbb format felt positively archaic once I got over the shock of how different the basic interactions are.

I can understand some hesitance from people who are naturally wary of infinite scrolling, as the vast majority of implementations are terrible. Where Discourse succeeds, though, is in managing state such that it doesn't feel brittle when you're deep into a thread's history. The developers built an infinite scroll that has feature parity with classic pagination, plus the far better UI of a "timeline" scrollbar.
I think all of your points are true for badly made UIs, regardless of if they are flat or not. I like flat UIs, partially because they look and behave like digital things instead of trying to resemble something else and partially just because they usually (entirely subjectively) look better. We have a deeper well of inspiration to draw from for non-flat and more experience with them (so it's easier to make them "better") but I don't think anyone can say they are inherently "better".
More importantly, I don't recall IRC ever replacing mailing lists / newsgroups / forums. People generally knew when to use either one appropriately. But these days, it's not uncommon to see a project page straight up saying that if you have any questions, Discord is it.
A return to the glorious days of the gentleman scientist! All you need is wealth and nothing to do.

I wonder what such people currently do with their time? Actually, HN is a great place to ask this, as lots of them are here! wait
Xenforo is also used for a lot of vehicle-specific forums. It works very well; modern design / features while still having good usability & UX.
Couldn't find national numbers, just lots of regional queries with hospitals:

https://www.mdr.de/nachrichten/deutschland/panorama/corona-k... (2011-11-05) covers Eastern Germany: 2/3 of covid19 patients not vaccinated at all, 3/4 not fully vaccinated (== 2 shots, or 1 shot in case of J&J)

https://www.hamburg.de/nachrichten-hamburg/15579956/corona-p... (2021-11-06) Hamburg: 205 of 240 (== 85.4%) ICU covid19 patients unvaccinated, 5% not fully vaccinated, 9.6% fully vaccinated

https://klinikum-darmstadt.de/aktuelles-news/ungeimpfte-coro... Darmstadt (2021-09-21): "nearly exclusively unvaccinated" ICU covid19 patients. 50% of ICU capacity is filled with covid19 patients.

https://www.br.de/nachrichten/bayern/corona-fast-nur-ungeimp... Munich (2021-10-02): One hospital was at 100% unvaccinated covid19 patients (that's the twitter screenshot from 2021-09-28). They asked the other hospitals: 5 + 1 and 10 + 2 of unvaccinated + "vaccinated but couldn't build resistance for some reason". Further away in the region 100% unvaccinated (ICU and "regular" covid19 treatment)

So I haven't found national numbers but lots of regional ones, and while there are a few counts lower (at 2/3 and 85%), there were also hospitals with entirely unvaccinated covid19 populations, both on ICU and in regular care.

[edit to add:] Found an article about nation wide numbers and it covers the 90%: https://www.rnd.de/gesundheit/corona-intensivpatienten-rund-...

Title: About 90% of covid19 ICU patients not vaccinated.

The bullet points state: In August and September, about 1/10 of covid19 ICU patients were fully vaccinated. Those were often people with an impaired immune system, e.g. due to chemotherapy.

The numbers were (assembled and) released by the federal health office on request of a member of Parliament.
.NET seems to be getting better every year. Really interested to learn and use it for daily basis.

I just wished more startup are using it more as their tech stack to improve the ecosystem to be on par with Java. Almost every big tech companies are always using java now it's just hard to use .net when you won't get a job that doesn't suck
I have a regular phone number in Singapore from a new range of numbers that doesn’t work with many services, even with some government services.

Customer care typically replies by having me first prove that the number is real (by showing a phone bill for getting an verification OTP, think of the irony) and then goes silent because they can’t work around their (human) robot way of thinking when something is unaccounted for in the handbook. (Already shifted a significant portion of my regular spend on groceries to a different provider, but they don’t seem to care)

It’s very frustrating because there are other ways to prove my identity (government even provides a digital Id / signature app) and contacting me.

Services should work with the minimal needed set of properties from the user, discord and slack are very annoying , there’s no need for all this hassle for a small question. I would spend the extra time looking for an alternative product where I can than signing up.

What happened to people caring where users drop off in the funnel?

Losing a user or customer once you’ve spent all that time, effort or money acquiring them by having barriers that don’t have any benefit is just silly.
Do you ever use forums for asynchronous communication?
Yes, 1000% this. I've found reddit and stack overflow to be way easier to search for content than slack/discord. Creating a subreddit for your app/service/topic is trivial and moderation tools are decent as wel.
You open a support ticket for your web hosting provider, and they do the upgrade/fix.
> And what exactly are you going to use your 4k 120hz screen for?

The same thing I am going to use the MacBook Pro's 120hz screen for. I think this banal argument can be made for most of consumer tech including why do I need a Retina display when I am perfectly fine with 1080p, but I believe all of these things add up to improve our daily quality of life since we spend most of our time staring at those pixels.

> also, does either DP or HDMI support 4k@120hz?

I think HDMI 2.1 supports it.
I have lived in Austin for 10 years and Dallas for 20, and I think Dallas is in every way better than Austin.

Less expensive

More things to do

Real airport with good fares

Better weather, not as hot in the summer time

Variety of businesses so it's not just tech bros and poor mexican labourers

More cultural variety
*Pin quality, not relevance
It does but only on Windows and for C# projects:

https://www.jetbrains.com/help/rider/Working_with_Windows_Fo...
Openssh allows "weak" ciphers as long as they are still "strong enough" for some values of weak and strong enough, typically where there is no known or imminent way to attack it even if it isn't as strong as other options.

Switching to only ciphers currently known to be strong puts you a level above that where even if a new weakness was found (publicly or not) it may not be enough to make it breakable.

Whether most really need to worry about any of that is another story. I'd say if you're job task isn't to research how to secure SSH better don't go changing ciphers just because you read it in a blog post. If it is your task consider it one point of data as you dive into understanding the nerd knobs.
I think I mostly disagree. But this probably depends on the definition of cyclist. If these path users are lycra-clad individuals trying to go as fast as they can and desperately trying not to lose momentum, the experience will be poor. Similarly if you have e-bike users who are basically taking silent mopeds down a trail and swerving between people things won’t go well. But if it’s someone who is not obsessed with speed just trying to go from one place to the next on a wide path it’s probably fine. E-bikes are an advantage here because they remove the incentive to avoid slowing down to preserve momentum.

Ultimately it depends on the cycling culture in a place and a lot of that depends on whom cycling is available to. If it is more accessible you will probably find people acting more sensibly and more like pedestrians.

A mixed use trail can provide refuge from busy roads. This is much more important if roads are awful for cyclists and I this can often be the case in some parts of the world. If roads are good for cyclists then the obnoxious people who would otherwise endanger those on the trail will be happier going faster and straighter along the roads. But they will only get better if cycling is more popular which will only happen if it is more accessible.

I think mixed use paths are not particularly bad and are also necessary on the way to better infrastructure.
But they'll register for Discord/Reddit/Slack.

Then presumably complain about the Internet becoming 6 big platforms and a search engine.
I didn't read it beyond the abstract either but if the arguement is anything like the abstract suggests it is hugely flawed.

In contol theory we can make statements what states a system can reach when coupled with an arbitrary controller which also includes ones that can simulate the entire world. The fact that we can't prove a general intelligence to be well behaved is irrelevant if we can draw the system boundaries and choose the interface.
> You have to see how this is a completely selfish position right?

That depends how busy the sidewalk is, and how the cyclist behaves. Conversely, I see videos of many places in North America where cycling on the road, even in dedicated cycle lanes, is a suicidal activity.
Curious what you mean by lack of proper threading in phpBB and vBulletin? Are you talking about threading of responses within a broader "Thread" (top-level post entry)

e.g. for a refresher some random vbulletin site: https://forums.devx.com/forumdisplay.php?105-VB-Classic

Because each of those entries on that page are a thread to me, but if discussions within a thread go off on a tangent there's not really a way to group/organize those sub-threads.
This... makes a lot of sense.
Those home pages look pretty good and I like the go, single-exectable approach, but I have to say those docs look like more than I want to hassle with. That said, looks like you might be on a good path.
I don't understand what you're asking for. There are already electric motorcycles which don't have artificial speed limiters. Those require a motorcycle license and can be driven on any road.
It also supports MP3 audio narration in user-created missions, but only via linking to your own Dropbox, which would host the MP3.

(I‘m super paranoid about hosting user-created content and copyright stuff.)
Your link doesn't work on mobile. Yes, I get that it's a dev site, but as Shopify is aware most users encounter most sites for the first time on their mobile device. I'm not the only person hitting this page on their phone wondering "I wonder what this looks like - is this interesting enough for me to remember for later?" With no demo page the odds that gets a yes are far lower than if there were a demo page.
Being manipulated by "SEO hacking" tactics IS a Google problem (or search engine problem) to solve.

Even as far back as the 90s many sites were putting "invisible" paragraphs in their pages to boost site ranking with often completely irrelevant keywords to what was actually on the page.

The early search engines that made it were the ones who put in the engineering effort to filter these kinds of tactics out. Google is just resting on their laurels as top dog in the search space and has been for a very long time.
+ 2 just for fun

- pipx

- nix-shell (my current solution)
It won't be cheap, for the exact same reason nuclear energy isn't cheap.

Once upon a time, people thought nuclear fission energy would bring "power too cheap to meter". They did not realize all the associated costs.

If fusion ever comes, it will be expensive, even more than fission is now. It can still happen, if big gov and big corp put their money into it, but it's kind of unlikely. Solar plus fission is the more conservative (less risky) way to go.
Your link doesn't work on mobile. Yes, I get that it's a dev site, but as Shopify is aware most users encounter most sites for the first time on their mobile device. I'm not the only person hitting this page on their phone wondering "I wonder what this looks like - is this interesting enough for me to remember for later?" With no demo page the answers that gets a yes are far lower than if there were a demo page.
Because you can make a bot do what you want and a non-bot do something else.
And then people can live in their closed ecosystems where exporting data will be ever more difficult.
Thank for the tips but I'm complete.
> you're positing a world in which the widescale adoption of nuclear power has no effects at all

No I'm not. I'm saying that if the US went highly nuclear that it does not directly follow that the rest of the world would also. I'm saying it is a bad assumption to make.

> Right now we don't see it as a big deal to restrict nuclear exports

It still is a big deal, but it was even a bigger deal 20-30 years ago (the timeframe we are talking about). As a good example, less than 10 years ago I was working on a project that involved nuclear technologies and a university partner. I was not allowed to talk specifics to any of the international students that were _directly_ working on the project (you bet they were smart enough to figure out what they were making). While nothing was classified, it still fell under ITAR and the FBI was talking to me several times a year. Nuclear technology exports are still a very big deal.
It’s not just the laws of physics. If you assume the past cannot be changed then you can’t physically interact with it, and you can’t even observe it (observation is interaction). And if you assume the past can be changed then the universe makes no sense and all discussion is futile.
> If you are logged in as a sudo user, provided allowing only an ssh key, can you can't do anything unless:
> - you know the password

This assumes one isn't using password-less sudo (NOPASSWD), which several distros do set by default and many users change to it for convenience.
Are stitched clothes really efficient? If we can regulate core body temperature, it becomes a matter of draping. And fashion.

I have often wondered if in some near sci fi future, humans would simply wear protective skin suits that are embedded with sensors and regulators. It can even measure vitals like our wearables do. Clothing can be holographic and we can just purchase digital fashion for appearance sake.
Discord pushes SMS verification because it a)gives them your identity which is valuable and b)avoids them having to spend money on proper bot/troll mitigation.

VoIP number bans don't accomplish much because there are lots of services that sell real-sim-backed numbers and nowadays there's even eSIMs.
No, but they do scale exponentially. Consider a random mathematician from a century ago, who I selected because he had a student in common with Sierpinski: https://www.genealogy.math.ndsu.nodak.edu/id.php?id=15165

Rajchman had two students, one of whom (Antoni Zygmund, who also studied under Mazurkiewicz, and founded the Chicago school of analysis) had 40 students, five of whom had over 100 students of their own. 18 of those 40 had at least one student of their own. Consequently Rajchman had 1658 descendants in only a century, a mentorship growth rate of 7.7% per year despite Rajchman himself having his career cut short by being murdered by the Nazis in 01940 and apparently ceasing to mentor anyone officially for the previous 15 years of his career.
Not so fast. (Or slow.)

https://plato.stanford.edu/entries/qm-retrocausality/