skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Advertising a green and car-free city has become some hobby of progressives as of late but I doubt these models are realistic. Individual transport doesn't go away anymore. You don't need it if you don't have family members that need your support and live elsewhere, you don't need it if you don't need to transport furniture, tools or other heavy and common household utility items, ...

Yeah, sure, but the logistical problem is work getting more centralized and therefore cities attract more and more people. Instead of planning high-density residential zones, you should look at commerce and industrial ones. Yes, I am a Sim City enthusiast and that makes me the perfect city planner. Oh, it doesn't? Right, but the same is true for the Starbucks slurping progressive that just bought his first bicycle and involuntarily advertises in the interest of large real estate groups.

I happen to live in a city that has a car free center (Europe). It is a beautiful city with broad biking lanes. Completely awesome, but it simply doesn't really scale. There is a fixed upper limit in how many people the infrastructure can support. It was changed 15 years ago and today inhabitants have even more cars than before. There are some that go without a car now, but it comes with a significant hit in mobility.

People are drawn to the city because of work. It is as simple as that. Tokyo has problems with congestion because most offices are located in the city center. That is an obvious design flaw and exists because of historical reasons. The suburbs are spread out, but the exact same problems would exist with high density housing. With public transport available, the distance becomes a secondary concern, so the spread is not really a problem. The problem is that the work is centralized in one place where everyone needs to go.
> Consumers still paid the same prices.

Source? In the US, retail businesses compete heavily on price. If one shopkeeper pays too much for their supply, then their competitor will price lower and sell more.

There is a reason why all big retail companies have tiny low single digit profit margins in the US. If they don not keep up with advancements in the marketplace and offer competitive pricing, they go out of business. I do not see why the same would not happen in India.
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I blame the federal reserve's 'maximum employment mandate'. It is official economic policy to sacrifice price discovery, i.e. efficiency, to make sure there's work for people.
As a non-designer developer, I'm going to say this is dictated by UX designers and has no technical merit.
My preference trends towards "put about 10k rows into the browser and let the user use ctrl+f to find what they're looking for" which is probably also wrong for all sorts of reasons.

Only thing worse than pagination is infinite scrolling.
>This is not the answer the Australian government is looking for.

Which blows my mind. Australia has the opportunity to do very large outback scale energy capture projects that would effectively drop the cost of energy to 0 in the long run. Develop and bring the auto industry back as EVs. As a society you could effectively eliminate one of the highest costs to your people.

>The solution needed by politicians is highly technological, expensive, allows us to keep selling coal, and isn't understood by people so can be easily spun into ridiculous tales by politicians.

I'm not aussie and only vaguely follow their politics. Australia has to export. If they drop back down into a losing balance of trade it'll be very bad news.

>"Just plant trees" would be ridiculously expensive and is totally impractical, the politicians would say.

It also isnt a solution. Us Canadians have 10,000 trees per person. We ought to be considered carbon neutral but we dont because our boreal forest is considered a pollutor. So trees aren't a solution.
I actually had 3 of these with PII 300MHz @ 450MHz running OpenMOSIX. Good times.
Also pro tip: Find a partner who’s an extrovert and has natural social abilities. It’s made things a lot easier and pushed me out of my comfort zone socially in ways that made my life a lot better and more interesting.

Reading through the other replies it looks like a lot of people diagnosing neurodivergence. Maybe that’s true, I guess I might be on the spectrum somewhere if I think about it, but I’m not sure knowing that really helps in any practical for solving for just social misunderstanding.

Lean into situations, don’t be afraid to make mistakes, make light of it and be open and people will gravitate to it and help get by.

But also remember the goal is to find what you like and live like that, while being able to get by in a world designed for social butterflies and extroverts.
Move out of your comfort zone. It's what everyone who had ever succeeded at anything has done from Einstein to any living person you look up to.

Don't ask. Do.
Yes, I struggled to know what to link really - ideally it would be the spec, if only I knew there was one and where to find it! No Wikipedia page on them even.

I've upvoted someone's question on a StackExchange site in the past asking for a standard, and I think accidentally opened a duplicate a year later or something myself:

https://diy.stackexchange.com/questions/177403/euro-modules-...

Anyway, I ended up with this link just because I thought it made the modular concept quite clear; not endorsing theirs specifically. My faceplates and modules are from different manufacturers, many of the modules unmarked generics.
Sure, you can start mining when there is an oversupply of energy. But why would you ever stop mining? Idle mining is a waste of money, so it will be running 24/7, and everyone else will need to conform and change their energy usage.
The guys behind it work at Spatie[1] which you have probably heard of some of their packages, and Freek has a blog[2] that has a lot of PHP stuff on - lots Laravel, and lots just general new language stuff (covering PHP8 features etc)

[1] https://spatie.be
[2] https://freek.dev
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Unrelated but where in Greece does it routinely get to -20c?

I'm wondering because was born and raised in Israel (similar climate to Greece) and even at the mountain tops -20c would be very rare (and there are generally no settlements of significant size at the peak of the tallest mountains, most people live in the valleys or coasts).

Even in Germany where we live now (1000s of kilometers further north) -20c is very rare.
Yep. You can build complicated mobile apps and easy web apps. Try Buildbox
>>It used to be affordable earlier.

It wasn't affordable earlier. In fact internet/data plans were fairly expensive before the 4G days. It's a lot saner now.

>>Companies collapsed and merged and now the duopoly is jacking up prices so much that poor people have to pay 100rs just to keep card active

Please stop spreading lies, I still freshly remember the earlier days of paying some 500 rupees for a recharge and getting barely 150 minutes of talk time and that too with some 25 days of validity. And yeah the SMS, and other services were charged like 1 rupee per SMS.

One of the big wins Ambani claims to have achieved is how Jio exposed scammy pricing practices were in the telecom sector before.
35km/h may be a push but 30km/h is fairly easy to maintain for me. Perhaps you have a different style of bike? Mine is a city bike with very narrow wheels.
Practice, practice, practice. No matter what level of social skills you have, the only way to improve them is by practicing, making mistakes and learning from them.

So get off the laptop, join a club and go meet and talk to people!
Thanks for the insight. I've assumed hand written assembly, except for those parts where you try to squeeze out the last bit of performance, would be structured more like a human would think, but alas I might be wrong. :-)
But then again the two games I tried were compiled with Watcom, which according to mmy research was pretty advanced when it comes to optimizations, for its time at least.
The biggest turnoff for me was finding the right tooling though. It's not like there are many tutorials for reverse engineering, and those that exist mostly aimed at security research or cracking, targeting modern software.
I found that Ghidra was unable to even load a Watcom binary, it crashed. A year later there was a patch for that, but then Ghidra didn't understand the Watcom calling convention. Found some incomplete plugin for this, but it was just blindly marking all functions as Watcom calling convention. Then I gave up. It might not be the best idea to start learning RE with a full blown game, but at the same time, if you wanna do this "for fun", it actually has to have a fun goal.
No country has met welfare goals in past 30 yrs ‘without putting planet at risk’
Do you buy anything in actual blockchain currency? Say, tomatoes?

What happens in the next crypto crash, with exchange risk being huge, and then you can't buy tomatoes because they're denominated in a stable currency not linked to your crypto?
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> No, publishing and free expression (especially of factually accurate information) is extremely democratic.

If I publish someone's name, address, and personal routine to am online forum and ask someone to assassinate them, is that "democratic"? It's "factually accurate information", right?

No, obviously not. People's personal information is off-limits.

Unless, you think that it's not - in which case it's ok for large companies like Google and Facebook to gather it, as well, and I expect you to hand yours over to them (as well as the US government).

Regardless, it's quite clearly false that publishing someone's personal information with the intent to make them unemployable because of your partisan political opinions is "democratic" - you're doing your best to enforce your own values on someone else as an individual. That's the opposite of democracy - tyranny.

> It's really surprising to see people pushing back lately against free speech and a free press.

I'm calling this for what it is - feigned surprise and an appeal to emotion used for the purposes of emotional manipulation.

And if you think that doxxing people counts as a "free press" that explains a lot about the other things you've written.

> If you find the truth to be malicious, perhaps it's reality you have the issue with, not the speaker.

As we've seen, your claims have no relation to reality, and are additionally indicative of extremely malicious intent (truth and malice are not exclusive anyway - you can say "I'm going to mess you up" and that's both truthful and malicious). Please stop trying to justify doxxing people - it's both evil by itself and completely inconsistent with the other positions that you've stated on freedom and privacy.
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The increase in travel time comes from: extra path length from bouncing between the sides of the inner fibre (depends, maybe 20%?) and from refractive index slowdown (about 70%). But then you have to worry about the greater total path from going into space, and also mux/demux/boosting delays.
Good reply.

> Show genuine interest in other people, make the effort, remember their name, pay attention to what they share.

When I do all of the things you mention, they are very intentional. For example, during conversations I actively think to myself, "I need to remember this so I can bring it up next time I talk to them because that is a nice thing to do and will make you friends, which are nice to have." It gets easier over time, as I "train" myself in good social behaviors like that, and I think I'm decent at it now. But it definitely felt like a skill I was actively putting effort into developing around my early 20s and it still feels like a very intentional and high-effort activity to this day.

One thing I often wonder is if other people so intentionally think about their social interactions this way, or if it's just something that "most" people do by nature, and my behavior reflects some deviation from average in myself.
I think character is more important than social skills.

I've met people who were a bit awkward or quirky, but were liked by everyone, because they were nice and kind people.

At the same time, there are people with great social skills on the surface, but might be selfish narcissists and you wouldn't want to be around them.
We don't have enough information to help you. But, you should know that for most people social skills come somewhat intuitively. Some folks (and probably a lot of Hacker News users) have to actively cultivate and manually think through social interactions a bit more than the general public. If you think you're bad at social interactions, there may be a few things going on:

- You're not actually that bad at them, but they do make very anxious. Because you see that social interaction does not make other people quite so anxious, you assume you're doing something wrong.

- You're actually not very good at social interaction.

- Some combination of the two.

Anyhow, the best thing to do is try to assess what category you fit into. Find some friends you trust who can actually give you objective advice, and most importantly, be calm and confident enough that people will actually tell you the truth. For many people, a difficult question such as "Am I really awkward socially?" can be just as difficult to answer as "am I fat?" ie, most people will not really answer that question honestly, because the average person would only ask that question for the purposes of being reassured. The point here is to try to foster a conversation with someone who knows you well, who might be brave enough to give you honest advice.

I mention anxiety specifically, since anxiety can short-circuit most social interactions. If you're worrying about how you're coming off, then you're not focusing on the other person. And if you're not focusing on the other person, then anyone would be liable to misread and misunderstand. Take cues, ask questions, and make the conversation more about them than about you. That will get you a long way. Most people are will to forgive minor social faux pas if you're kind, if you're genuinely interested in talking to them.

If you're only 18, then I have good news for you: you're not finished learning about yourself, or about people, and you're almost certainly going to be much more socially capable in your future. Just maybe not your immediate future. :)
In Voltaire's "Candide", there is a character who insists that this is the best of all possible worlds. Every hurt you have ever felt, every illness and death anyone has experienced, everything is exactly as it should be. That neither humans nor God could improve upon the world as it is, because any change would make things worse somewhere else.

As the story shows more and more tragedies, natural disasters, wars, and famines, this character needs to come up with increasingly convoluted explanations for how those can possibly exist in the best of all possible worlds. The reader sees just how foolish this idea is.

The efficient market hypothesis to which you are alluding is just the same, stating that the market state is the best of all possible markets.
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Counter argument:

Teach children what variables are as soon as you can.
Tim Gowers uses the differentiation of e^x as an example of something bright UK maths A-level students often don't understand fully:

https://gowers.wordpress.com/2012/11/20/what-maths-a-level-d...
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Link? Would love to pick a handful up as gag gifts.
Bitcoin absolutely does have counterparty risk, but it's pushed onto the exchange.

The coins are yours, but their value is almost zero unless you exchange them for currency. (Very few places accept BTC directly)
Exactly like with company scrips, company credit or such means.
I'm using Laravel/PHP for a new project and it's been a joy. A true joy. After spending the last 6+ years writing backend services in Node, PHP feels like a breath of fresh air. No restarting the server, no compiling errors from babel/typescript wackiness, no blocking threads, server-side templates out-of-the-box, and so much more.

PHP has come a really long way, I really hope to see it's resurgence some day after everyone has been burned enough from running JavaScript as their server.
Not enough cues? Hell, more like actively pushing and misleading you to buy from third-party sellers even when you explicitly filter by first-party only. Why would they leave potential sales on the table?
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You should probably edit (in this case) the 'bg-blue-300' class in your broswer's "developer's tools".

Some of us edit the styles as normal practice for a large number of sites, especially after the widespresad use of thin fonts, grey text etc.

Surely there will also be tools (add-ons) to replace css elements as needed per domain...
Or video chatting with gf ...
This is kinda what HDMI CEC is (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Consumer_Electronics_Control). When I push the button on my AppleTV remote, the TV turns on, the receiver turns on and switches its input to the AppleTV. When push the power button again, the TV and receiver both turn off. Same thing when I grab the Playstation controller and turn it on.

I have a remote for my receiver and my TV, but I never ever touch them. The nice thing was that the only configuration required was to enable CEC on the TV and receiver. Everything else just worked.
It isn't that trivial, as a device that should be earthed is not allowed to be sold with a Euro plug, they must have a Schuko plug. And likewise, an extension cord featuring Schuko sockets must have a Schuko plug, so there is officially no way to connect a Schuko device through a Euro plug.

The real problem is with classic sockets as shown in [1]: these are two-pin (unearthed) sockets that can accept a Schuko plug nonetheless, and are widely used even in residential newbuilds, at least in NL. I think the building code has been updated now, but it's very common here to have entire rooms where the sockets don't even have a third wire in the wall box.

[1] https://www.plugsocketmuseum.nl/ContEUR_part2.html
> Learn to stand your ground without being confrontational and cleverly diffusing conflict using poise and language.

What do you think is the most effective ways of doing this?
The city I live in was designed for horse-and-carriage transport. Most of the buildings in the town centre have preservation orders. What's underground is often a mystery - a recent construction project discovered a cellar that nobody knew was there.

So back-fitting cycle lanes is rather difficult, when the roads are already too narrow for cars, and can't be widened.
Not so much. There are several degrees of freedom in this design, see ryg's Reading bits in far too many ways [1] for the introduction.

[1] https://fgiesen.wordpress.com/2018/02/19/reading-bits-in-far...
I’m more used to modular sockets/faceplates, but with a small strip of separation between each socket/switch.

Personally, I’m using https://www.berker.com/de/e-katalog/schalterprogramme-und-ge... in my apartment.

Previously Gira switches/sockets were installed, which are sadly just slightly out of spec.
Whichever way you do it, the distribution process will add to the final price because someone needs to pay for transport to the city, distribution to the retail stores etc. A non-profit may only charge enough to cover their cost but it is nonetheless an additional step in the supply chain.

However, it would still be cheaper than attempting to send products directly from manufacturers to retail customers in a completely different city.
I find this beautiful:

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https://github.com/kahun/awesome-sysadmin

https://www.opsschool.org/

https://www.reddit.com/r/sysadmin/wiki/index/

Also recommend the hangops slack team: https://signup.hangops.com/
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The plugs don't come out of the socket as easily on their own when upside down. There are other reasons, but having had way too many plugs come out on their own, this is the biggest one I notice.
I think the key, from someone like me a bit latin, living in Asia where everyone is a bit muted and shy, is to think of others a bit more. What do they want, what can lighten their burden, what can make them feel a bit better even if it's not in the greater interest, rational or even moral ?

Sometimes it's telling a joke, sometimes it's making a sacrifice, sometimes it's a white lie, often it's just a smile to show them they're not alone. When you understand that to get others to work for you, the fastest is to work for them, things get much easier.

The worst people in this are usually too intelligent (difficulties to understand weakness), too correct (difficulties to embrace mistakes and roll with them), too strict (difficulties to think outside paved roads), too afraid (difficulties to take a stand when they should) or too moral (difficulties to ignore little infrigments). Be less of those and maybe you'll improve ? You also can make the best friends by making the right ennemies, I've noticed (usually by going against people like I quoted - maybe people like you, you can get others to be attracted to yourself)
For DynamoDB you want as little relational data as possible, everything must be 'denormalized' by default. Joins will kill you in these (nosql) databases.
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Wow, you weren't kidding. What an awful interface.
IMO, it's unfortunate that you see my comments/threads as invariably destructive & agenda-driven, essentially putting them on a level with this [1] (although that user wasn't banned). I'd be glad to continue the discussions about the pandemic. Your site, your decision.

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29328994
I studied as an Erasmus student for a year in England. Every European student I knew had an "epiphany" moment where they realised that standard European plugs work on UK sockets, if you stick a pen in the ground "hole" to unlock the rest of the socket holes.

Converters are a pain to use, they are always flimsy and there always too few available. It is usually not worth getting UK specific plugs for the short-ish duration of the Erasmus period.

Safety and the increased fire hazard was, in our student-mindset, a small sacrifice for the convenience we got in return.
Yes but.

I'm looking right now at a mtr (traceroute) screen from a rural fibre-to-the-premises broadband connection in Lancashire, north-west UK, achieving 2.5ms RTT to Manchester (the nearest major city, ~60km) and 8.5ms RTT to London (~325km). Things are improving.

That's only ~10x and ~8x the light travel time, assuming straight lines which is best case. ~8.3x and ~5.3x respectively if you consider that light is much slower in fibre than air.
This is helpful as it has three very useful examples for people who want to learn social skills.

1.) The tactic is action, action, count and action. Greet the couple, smile, count (“and one and”) and move on. That’s enough time to give someone an out. The tactic is not “stand there silently and stare.”

2.) Part of having social skills is knowing when and where to have intense conversations. If you choose to have an intense conversation at a place where people mingle, that’s really not very helpful.

3.) Again, most social skills are about giving people an out. If someone is standing there awkwardly, have some compassion. Ask yourself if you’re having the conversation in the right place and be kind. It sucks to be that awkward person standing on the fringes. Our job as nice adults is to make them feel incredibly welcome, even if it means having our intense conversations in private.
Might be important in the age of ransomware: is data protected against someone that has all your passwords? All cloud backup is probably gone in such case. All NAS and other network connected backup is gone too. Physical backups should be good if in write once mode (dvd disks for example).
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