skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Weather tends to be a factor in some areas too. But generally the damage that a vehicle does to the road is proportional to the per axle weight raised to the fourth power; bikes don’t even register in terms of road wear.
This appears to be quite an old document (2012 judging by some of the dates in the screenshots, and the network map) but fascinating nonetheless, thanks for posting!

I'd be interested in learning how the signalling tech has evolved over the years. There has always been a push by PTV (the government body responsible for public transport in Victoria) to establish a "turn up and go" timetable where trains depart often enough that you shouldn't need to plan ahead. One of the restrictions of the old signalling system was a fairly large minimum distance between trains that prevented frequent service. This caused some congestion, especially in the hub and spoke model of the Melbourne network where many lines converge to share tracks as they approach the CBD.
Strange definition of good.
An argument could be made that the ability to move money shouldn't be restricted to the "law abiding".

Governments not only have the power to restrict the movement of money but tax records and transaction details let them know 90% of the most important details about everyone.

Additionally, sure without crypto there wouldn't wouldn't be these kinds of ransoms but the same attack could be used for terrorism/warfare. These ransoms just provide the incentive to develop solutions. A terrorist attack that had no option to decrypt the data could completely shut down entire countries.
How do you combine them into one number, in a way that isn't "cooked"? Proposing we mash up all data ever into one figure, without detailing how, is useless
30mph is often needed to keep up with cars in areas where the bike infrastructure is poor or nonexistent. If you can't maintain the speed of traffic, cars will try to pass creating a more dangerous situation for the ebike rider.
This makes no sense.

Why would anyone on Mac or Linux do this?

And to that point, why wouldn't you just buy a developer machine rather than shoehorning terminals into Windows?
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Given the brain’s regulatory role in virtually every aspect of homeostasis, I’m surprised that folks are surprised that by mental exercises autonomous functions can be influenced if not controlled. Wim Hof is interesting, but any Hindu can tell you that yogis have been performing similar feats for millennia.
I got started making websites with Notepad and eventually Apache.

Nothing wrong with Apache, but syntax highlighting would be nice to have in Notepad.
This assumes some fixed, absolute "background" space through which the universe is moving; the idea being that you'll stay in the same position in "background" space but all of the things you care about (e.g the earth) have moved on.

Is space not relative?
PC Tools, anyone?
I tried to log into the IRS.gov portal, but it says I can't because I don't have any credit score. (I don't have any credit because I'm an immigrant)
> What I have in mind, ideally, is a relatively quick and cheap activity, using behavioral, psychological and/or pharmaceutical techniques, that two people who have already matched for general compatibility (e.g. with a kind of dating service) can take in order to induce a mutual limerence-like state that can naturally turn into a stable long-run relationship.

It's both sad and amusing to read discussions related to love that are so logical, cold and mechanical.

Limerence is not love and if you want to use pharmaceutical techniques to form a "stable long-run relationship", why not just lock "pre-matched" men and women in a room with a bed and put them on a perpetual Soma-drip?
You've never made a fist "wrong" for punching? Lot's of people have done this when "pretend" boxing with friends. I do it when trying to convey I'm definitely joking about "putting up dukes" in an overly comedic way.
Cactus Comments [1] is a comment section replacement, but the comments are just posts in a Matrix room - effectively a public Matrix room viewer!

I've thought it'd be cool to expand on this to build a strictly chronological social network - that just interleaves messages from your group chats (or a group chat that only you can post to, which becomes your "feed").

[1]: https://cactus.chat/
Of course preference is included in CPI. Weightings are adjusted periodically as consumer spending patterns shift, and price elasticity is explicitly factored on a quarterly basis in chained cpi
I’m not a fan of Jony Ive’s, and quite resentful about Apple products, but the sentiment here is quite negative. Some are ad hominem, others are harsh on the design itself.

How does this affect you? The company paid him. If they don’t like it, that’s on them. If other companies think his design suck, then they won’t pay for it. Maybe they’re paying for his name instead of his design. Prince Harry is some kind influencer for a startup / Vc or something now. Is he qualified ? Who knows. Does it affect you?

Apple doesn’t owe you anything to be honest, but he doesn’t work there anymore.

I understand the culture in design and fine arts is to critique. But since when did HackerNews become a forum for critiquing subjective aesthetic appeal and goodness? Jony Ives is still probably a better graphic designer than most engineers here. As for people who trained in design, if Jony Ive’s isn’t your inspiration, we get it, but are you doing groundbreaking design or designing another unsexy B2B CRUD app. Are your own designs and bloated CSS / assets inflating your ego or actually useful to users? Are people just envious that Jony Ives was the one who won the lottery and gets to design for Apple?
Ethereum has one ten-thousandth of the power of a Raspberry Pi 4 compute module. We had efficient distributed computing long before Ethereum. Ethereum absolutely is something that appeals only to those on the economic right, for those willing to sacrifice all but the tiniest amount of computing power in service of libertarian ideology.
I saw an article the other day about a woman in California who rents a studio apartment (i.e. no dedicated bedroom) for $1900 a month, and was worried it would jump up to the usual $2,300 a month after the covid special pricing ended.

Meanwhile, for $2,000 a month in the upper midwest you can rent a house with multiple bedrooms and bathroom on 40 acres of land, or a nicely remodeled house with a small yard and river views in a town if you prefer. Or, with enough for a minimum down payment saved up, you could also buy a small house on 5 acres in a forest.

Granted, you'll pay more for owning a car, but... deciding between studio, or a prime house for $300 less per month, and the car doesn't sound too unreasonable.
America’s Woke Universities Need to Be Replaced
I’ve seen similar captchas on similar sites, using a slider move move something to solve essentially a spatial puzzle.

But these seem absurdly hard.

Is there a point at which a captcha is frustrating enough it turns away humans?

I mean most captchas meet that bar for me, but these seem excessive.
Database indexes are definitely one of the most approachable concepts of databases for computer science majors. If you have studied data structures and Big O notation you have all the concepts needed.

While I agree that how a query planner works is one of the most ‘magic’ aspects, I think the output from the query planner in most databases is very approachable as well to regular common programmers and will get you quite far in solving performance issues. We know what full scans are (searching through every element of an array), etc.

The challenge is usually discovering that the jargon used in your database really maps to something you do already have a concept about and then reading the database documentation…
I used a VoIP number with Discord, because, f them, "I don't [need to] have a mobile phone". Also I think we should call ADA violations on any company that requires people to have a mobile phone.

It's possible to use a VoIP number. Happy to share how if you can prove to me that you don't work for them.
I'm pretty terrified of the idea of any relationship built on pharmaceuticals. It seems dangerous and unsustainable in the long run.
My family printer was bought in 2008. I parted with it when I left for college. After getting by with school printer, office printer and public printer in my apartment building, I finally bought my own after the pandemic. Oh boy are modern printer marvelous. Compared to my old one, the Brother laser printer I bought

- Is super compact and can be left anywhere

- Connects to home network by WiFi and supports AirPrint etc

- Supports automatic duplex printing

- Has an automatic document feeder that supports automatic duplex scanning

- Has a large touchscreen so I don't have to navigate four levels of menu just to copy something

- Can print from and scan to my Dropbox

- Has never jammed

All for just $160 refurbished.

While I am a big fan of reducing e-waste, if I had an old printer and use it with some frequency, I would seriously consider upgrading, now that I know what I am missing out :)
Raspberry pi imager has an advanced menu that can be accessed with ctrl+shift+X. It allows you to configure a lot of settings to include networking before even installing the OS to the sd card.

I’ve run cups on a pi zero w for a while and it required the occasional restart, took quite a long time to load a job, and the margins were a nightmare to get right. Some of those issues may have had to do with the specific printer/drivers I use. I’ve since moved on.
Which is exactly why I was confused. Stories like this make the situation more clear.

https://edition.cnn.com/2018/05/27/us/florida-woman-escape-n...
If the CEO of a company says they need to go to the next meeting that's not a flex.
511 pages PDF, what a treasure trove!
A Mac menu bar app that displays the CPU speed limit due to thermal issues
So we have benefited from decades of cheap consumer electronics and now people had to wait 10 months to get their playstation at RRP so their proposal is to build double the number of playstations for decades and landfill half of them so in the extremely rare case, they will have just enough.
My last experience with Tinder over 3 years ago was that it's a carefully controlled dopamine drip. You get a lot of matches at first on the free tier then it slowly decreases until it convinces you to pay then you get a lot of matches again to justify the price and then it decreases again to keep you hooked.
Oh Myriad looks super interesting. As I figure out what I want to do as I pick f# back up more seriously I'll have to keep this in mind.
I can definitely agree with this.
There's a workaround to fix an account afflicted this way, use a yubikey to add as a security key and then add a 2fa through the google authenticator standard (which works with 1password). Once that's setup google will never ask for your phone number again.
Fashion design is a counter example.
Depends on your city I guess. You didn’t specify where you live, but I’d broadly categorize the cities I’ve lived into two categories.

The first is car centric, with lots of roads and deep set backs. These cities are amenable to bike and public transit transformation in terms of space, but usually have political resistance to change. These cities will be the easiest to add extra bike infrastructure to, once a political mass is reached. My current city is like this, and the current bike path master plan is trying to add enough paths for 96% of the city to be near bike infrastructure (currently it’s 10%).

The second category are really dense, and do not have the space for any extra lanes. But these cities dedicate a huge amount of space for parallel parking. Theoretically the city could remove parking for bikes, but practically this means purposefully pricing people out of car ownership, which is obviously unpopular. These cities should focus on public transit, which is by and far the most space efficient way to move people. For a lot of these cities this is less about installing new lines, which is expensive, but about making the existing system feel cleaner and more dignified. It will always be hard to make improvements when even the crappiest sedan is considered a step up from taking the subway to work.
Logic can work on anything. In fact, it exists to serve emotions. I don't have a logical reason to keep living, I just want to do it so I do. But the logical reason to stay married to my partner is that it makes me happy to do so.

The only reason people are sour about perpetual Soma drips is that they wouldn't work well long-term. Most drugs would be really good if they had no negative short-term and long-terms effects.
> Cryptocurrencies are superior to fiat money only if you accept the ideological basis for them.

Hmm, ask the people who depend on the Turkish Lira, Argentine Peso, Venezuelan Bolivar, Lebanese pound, etc. if the ideological basis of cryptocurrencies delivers enough utility for them.
Maintainers should do exactly what they determine is best for them and the project.

open-source puratism isn't a guiding principle for maintainers believe it or not.

Running a discord allows maintainers to foster somewhat friendly relationships with users instead of purely transactional & functional relationships.

Your comment comes off as entitled although I will concede that slack is not cool. Good day.
so what can the actual members be charged with? conspiracy or RICO?
Couldn't agree more. The modern buildings are boring, dumb, tasteless and just plain ugly. Not only that, they look very outdated in 10 years. 20 years down the line, the sight of these buildings are just unbearable.
2021, let me introduce you to Microsoft Access, but now for the web
I think at scale, the method used in Chile with the Cerro Dominador[0] using CPVCSP could be adopted. Their system was about $1B for 210MW and has ~17.5 hours of storage.

So ~$4.76B for 1GW or ~$4.76T for 1000GW.

This also ignores future upgrades with would use sCO2 turbines vs typical steam and higher delta_C molten salts (typical delta_C now is only 300 for KNO3 + NaNO2 + NaNO3, but systems using CaCl2 + MgCl2 would have a delta_C of ~1500, and meta-material salts could be engineered with even higher delta_C) so the same solar fields can have even higher outputs.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cerro_Dominador_Solar_Thermal_...
It’s surprisingly difficult to move around large amounts of fiat money without being caught. Large scale gangs get good at it by necessity, but many people have gotten caught. More importantly the effort to launder money is a major disincentive for criminal activity as it shifts the risk vs reward ratio.
Discord makes sense for my project due to the dynamic nature of it. I agree it's probably redundant for stable projects with minimal updates
The people still vote, ergo "popular vote". The difference is that the US use indirect democracy with th EC as representatives.

I think it's mostly the way we use "popular vote" in the US that is incorrect.
Read the entire forum, not at all suprised by the diversity of opinions and intelligence here(which is to say, zero).

The WOFF fonts are 6kb each. When decoded and extracted, they only contain 2 or three symbols. You're looking at baskerville, and all ives has done is modify a few symbols, none of which are shown on the website, and call it a new font. His work is the epitome of minimism, even when designing a website to showcase his work- zero functionality, zero actual features, no actual new font, just more empty words.
My partner and I actually tried the questionnaire and eye contact technique when we started dating.

There are a lot of confounding factors - We were already good friends, and I already had a crush on them. But it probably didn't make anything worse. It's funny to see it pop up on HN.
Rolls-Royce backed to develop nuclear reactors
Overall expenditures are still pretty close to pre-covid trend. Stimulus prevented aggregate expenditures from falling below trend, as they have in previous economic shocks. What’s happened is people have shifted spend from services (particularly healthcare and travel) to goods.
>I rather listen to the hedge fund guys, at least they have skin in the game, don't they

Haven't you ever heard of "talking your book"?
That makes no sense to me. One particle goes in one direction at a particular velocity and another particle goes in another direction at another velocity. They diverge over time. When you travel through time, which particle’s path do you follow through space?

I often think along the gp’s lines and would love an explanation of why it’s wrong?
Effective altruists writing about almost anything is highly amusing.

I suggest as a followup essay: Art seems like a high priority. Research suggests you can make yourself like a painting by taking a special drug cocktail while staring at it for six hours.
It's a little more complicated than that.

You buy 1 BTC from me for 60k. Now let's say I want to buy BTC again, but you want to sell it for 120k, so now I buy 0.5 BTC from you for 60k, and if everyone agrees that 120k should be the fair price, we've just bid up the market cap and value of BTC without really increasing the fiat.

Now imagine that with different crypto, stocks, other financial instruments, real estate, etc etc and in different combinations and with margin and derivatives and what not.
I assumed it was software pdp11, but no, it is an "FPGA implementation of PDP-11"

http://www.strobedata.com/home/ospreydx.html
Yeah not much of a shutdown, in LA seems like retail and restaurant workers were back working pretty fast, only a handful of places by me failed to pivot into takeout orders and shut down, I'd say 9/10 restaurants anecdotally are still open today which is about what I'd see with typical restaurant turnover over these two years anyhow even in the before times. The city only felt empty for like a month, then it was back to business as usual only with masks on. Traffic picked up again pretty quick. It was only bars and large events that suffered and even then, those have been back for a long time now (at least for bars, restaurant bars with outdoor dining even longer).
Go is better than Java any day of any week if startup time or memory footprint are of any concern to you at all.

Also Java is OO which is... terrible to say the least.
I have a class 3 ebike (28 mph). I found the 5 mile commute exhausting even though I wasn't exerting myself much. Mentally exhausting, I guess. It's trivial once - it's a grind doing it 2x every day. This is in San Francisco. I'm in good shape, I run 4-5 miles a couple times a week.

I think the worst part is a stop sign every block.
Similarly in Singapore - a lot of jobs require that, even if a direct candidate is ready to be hired, the job is advertised for a month (government mandate). As a result job ads are poor quality and extremely specific to get around visa constraints.
What’s the difference? My LaserJet is plugged into my Google Wifi Ethernet port, and I thought what I was doing from all my iOS devices was called AirPrint. It’s not?
> Discord is nearly infinitely better in the sense that they have any tooling at all, but it's still considerably far behind

Could you expand on this a bit?

A lot of this thread seems to be coming down to opinions. Are there specific moderation features that Discord lacks?
Well, it’s based on a survey. (And surveys are cursed instruments [1].)

> Generally, owners' equivalent rent is obtained through surveys asking homeowners the following question: "If someone were to rent your home today, how much do you think it would rent for monthly, unfurnished and without utilities?" [2]

I would guess that some owners’ ideas of what their house would rent for might lag the market?

[1] https://carcinisation.com/2020/12/11/survey-chicken/

[2] https://www.investopedia.com/terms/o/owners-equivalent-rent....
As a company it’s probably better to just deal with 2 years of chaos every few decades than to have tons of unused inventory sitting around all the time.
Successful drone industry: China making quadcopters.

Expensive drone industry: US government buying unmanned air vehicles, totally unrelated to quadcopters.
> that is being leveraged more and more.

That is what I’m asking, being leveraged to do what exactly.

Abstract doesn’t work for me, I’m asking for real world use case.

> globally decentralized compute infrastructure that executes programs

What is the benefit of this? Who needs this, and where does this add value over not-this? Where does this provide a superior solution over a solution based on not-this?

That is my question above, that is yet to be answered.

Think a pitch deck: What is it, What is the Problem, What is the solution, How is the technology solving the problem, Why now, Competition and so on ...

I'd love to see the pitch deck of Etherium, or any blockchain technology really..
Architectural. A sea change from thinking about client-server web and game like applications where you are explicitly synchronizing state - to AR and VR objects/functions "running persistently" in the metaverse/cloud, and "updated" from control logic - ie application is responsible for the "semantics" of what happens, while the metaverse handles presence, shared interactions, and rendering.
It seems the immune response of Wim Hof method occurs as a result of intentionally creating an adrenaline response in the body. Apparently other breathing techniques do this prior to Wim Hof (Tummo breathing). Andrew Huberman, a neuroscientist at Stanford talks about the science of this https://youtu.be/JPX8g8ibKFc?t=2161 (at that timestamp he talks specifically about adrenaline breathing)
Tcl's usage at Intel is not particularly special. Perl/Tcl were the workhorses of most (hardware) engineering companies. Back in 2010, a close friend who was working for one such company said that putting Python on your resume won't help you as none of the managers had heard of it. When I joined work around that time, I discovered he wasn't exaggerating much.

While Tcl may be a particularly good language for somethings, well over 90% of the teams I've found using it do so for legacy reasons, and they correlate very highly with poor SW engineers with even poorer SW practices. When I interview for jobs, I steer clear of any that lists Tcl. Not because of the language, but because it's a fairly useful signal about the quality of the team.
I would consider consumer electronics to be discretionary purchases. So what I suggested is the opposite of that. If disruptions are an acceptable risk, then you should prioritize efficiency. Consumer complaints are meaningless if they don't have a viable competitor to shift their money to.

But we must prioritize resiliency when an economic shock would result in societal instability. I'm willing to pay more for food to be available 100% of the time versus paying 20% less for food to be available 80% of the time.
If you include Louis XIV as a modern leader, Louis Philippe and Louis XV were better leaders.

Maybe you meant "famous leaders".
> Meanwhile, for $2,000 a month in the upper midwest you can rent a house with multiple bedrooms and bathroom on 40 acres of land,

Probably do that in rural CA, too (certainly you can get a nice single family home in many CA suburbs), and not be as far (but probably still too far) from the job the individual in question has that enables paying $2,000/mo in the first place. And similar work closer (to either rural CA or the upper Midwest) would pay less.
We can't afford not to import goods. The cost of manufacturing in the U.S. are too high relative to other parts of the world. Can't do anything about that on our end of the deal short of tarriffing ourselves into total economic isolation and being forced to produce everything nationally.