skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> If we liked living together we wouldn’t be so car centric

It's entirely the other way around, car centric planning results in less community. It's much easier to be angry at the other 2t metal boxes than at your fellow human being.

American cities used to be just like European cities: designed for walking, mixed use developments, small shops, public transportation everywhere. It's only after the delusion of the car being the future was popularized - in large part due to very successful advertising by the automotive industry - that policy was written to heavily subsidise car-centric development to the point of making everything else illegal. There's even real, convicted conspiracies of the automotive industry purposefully buying public transportation just to kill it.
> Two people can't make for the richness of intellectual conversation that three or four can.

Hailing frequency open. (o:

I have found that four or more participants brings verve and more perspectives to the subject. Deeply engaging discussion is far more enjoyable (to me/to some) than tiresome chatter, quips, memes, and n-depth packed nonsense spewed for the sake of content-creation.

The anti-culture of consumer fetishism and media monetisation serves a completely different purpose.
listen to the sibling comments, they are good advice. Also, think of parents and children and rewards: It's better to reward the child for trying, not for their results (e.g. grades in school). You can positively influence your results with more efforts, but you cannot force it. Thus, you shouldn't judge yourself on the results too harshly. What should count, at least for your state of mind, should be that you tried earnestly. Be proud. Try again if you want to or do something else entirely but don't think too much about it. Life goes on and having the right mind set is all you can give.
A ZIP code is an identifier made of numerals, it is not a number in the mathematical sense. It does not make sense to multiply, add, subtract, or divide them - even though the numerals are assigned in apparently ascending order. There's nothing preventing a future decree from making one that starts with a Z, or a 0, or putting a dash in the middle of it. It is foolish to store it as an integer type.

You can cluster them for distance without storing them as an integer. Just throw them in a graph data type and compute edges having actual integral weights. The ZIPs themselves are not what you want to be doing your math on.
There’s an additional wrinkle in that this choice tends to lead to intermediate sellers who take the latter choice and turn it into the former choice with additional friction and fraud risk (and no additional profit to the producer, which might give them incentive to scale up production to meet the overage of demand.)

High end GPUs are readily available on EBay and other secondhand markets and I’ve resorted to buying them there to get them in for ML training machines. (Same with consoles, concert and sporting event tickets, and other limited production, desirable items.)
And yet only one is a requirement for life (sans bidet)
Great suggestion, thanks very much. Looks like just the right thing to move onto from pygame.
Your comment seems to be at direct odds with https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29759980

> This is not a breaking change. Everything that works on Vim8 script will continue to work.

So seems it won't require much porting unless people want to do the porting.
Im turning my little art studio into a no-money collaboration space this year for software developers who make art or want to collaborate with artists.

https://tombetthauser.github.io/greensquare/

If there are any devs out there who make weird art, music, writing etc or want to Id love to see your work and maybe find some overlap to collaborate!

Also this is a great happy new year post :^)
I don't see how we wouldn't be able to --unless they were able to perfectly able to reprocess everything back into semi-original form. I guess another possibility is if the civilization were so small that coming across artifacts by pure change is very low.

We have evidence of Dinosaurs from over 200MM ya --and even older fossils originally made of perfectly compostable matter.
As some other commenters have noted, in cities like Amsterdam and Tokyo there are enough nice safe public spaces that even young children are free to play outside on their own and there's much less planning required to go places since you don't need a car.

That being said, I'm sure there are plenty of North Americans who love having a ton of space for gardening etc. But I would guess they're actually in the minority and that most people choose to live in sprawling suburban developments because they're the only affordable option to guarantee access to good schools and a safe neighborhood.
I mean I suspect that the flu pangenome was evolving "meta-capabilities" to evade the way that our flu vaccines are selected by the authorities, you can see, vaguely, a declining efficacy of the flu vaccine in the last 5 years pre-pandemic (admittedly this could also be noise, or it could also be a measurement artefact due to better tracking). However, we'll probably never know since the flu patterns totally got rekt these past two years, which means any large-scale evolutionary trends, if they existed, probably, got the reset button pushed on them.
https://radwatch.berkeley.edu/current-air-activity/
https://radwatch.berkeley.edu/current-sampling/
Are the two links of particular interest / relevance to naturally occurring radioactive materials, distinctions between fallout and reactor isotopic compositions and etc.

(Broken links are all over the page because as I said, underfunded and mostly run by students these days)
Though one can compile a file, which one later can load into memory.

Some implementations can't dump memory: ABCL (compiles to JVM), ECL (compiles to C), ...
You might consider reading the linked article, or the one for the Beluga XL, which would answer your question.
FreeBSD Journal – Storage
Please don't buy GPU's to mine cryptocurrency, you're contributing to a global chip shortage and I really want to play Halo Infinite in 4k.

For real though, cut that out.
> I don't understand, if the vaccines work then why the issue?

Vaccines work the same way car seat belts and airbags do: they improve the/your odds. They make you much less likely to be infected, and because less likely to be infected, less likely to pass it on.

> If seatbelt-wearers outnumber non-wearers by four to one, but account for roughly the same number of deaths, it suggests seatbelt-wearers are about one-fourth as likely to die in an accident as non-wearers. That shocking statistic turns out to be not so shocking as all that.

* https://www.theglobeandmail.com/opinion/article-is-the-case-...

* https://archive.fo/ayjkf (for paywall)

"Unvaccinated 60 times more likely to end up in ICU with COVID-19, Ontario data shows"

* https://globalnews.ca/news/8230051/covid-vaccine-hospitaliza...
I thought at first this HAD to be a troll, but nope!
paying -> playing
More or less furthering the gap we all knew was coming at one point or another (opinion from former Vim user but current Neovim user). Neovim ecosystem mostly write plugins in Lua by now, and most new Vim plugins will probably require something from Vim9 Script at one point.
Actually what's to blame for Bitcoin's high price is the finite supply of Bitcoin, and the fact that there's wild speculation on its price (which incidentally is what makes it really horrible as a currency, but that's another topic).

And you're mixing up profitability with stock price speculation, which are two very different things - witness the Gamestop incident. Once the stock is sold to the public, its price fluctuations don't actually affect the bottom line of the company unless there's a buyback.
If nvidia straight up just stopped selling any cards, declined all their client/customer base, and just put 100% of their global output to mining cryptocurrencies, I think it's a good chance nvidia can do a 50%+1 attack on both bitcoin and ethereum at the same time.

Once they successfully do the attack, they can take over the blockchains and allocate all cryptocurrencies to themselves, cash out, and it'd probably register as a good profit on their income statements.
Probably still ranks #1 in ultimate HN comebacks:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35079
Could it just be the Dunning-Kruger effect in play? it takes a while to realize how much you don't know (some don't stick around long enough to realize that or lack the self-awareness and self-inquiry)
Thin isn't as useful as it sounds. For a few application (drones) light weight is important, and thin probably does mean light weight. However for most solar application a bit of extra thickness is just something you design into your mounting system, and since thicker is stronger (think hail and other weather phenomenons) you typically design panels far thicker than needed to support the cell anyway.
For anybody who missed this very insightful comment :-) see the
"Criticisms and controversies" section:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Epic_Systems#Product_and_marke...
If you are open to other things, I wouldn't worry about it. Programming languages are tools, and learning others tools isn't that hard. People can jump from C++ to Rust, Java or C# in a small time. And this especially applies if people are coming from more powerful languages like C++ - so that other language features are often more a subset than a superset.
You are right. I am not saying relationships are less important. I do believe relationships are more important to most. “Focusing on ROI” is just a presumption for the next statement. One also doesn’t have to focus on relationships all the time.
>> based on news (e.g. Twitter, YouTube, Reddit)

This may be part of the motivation.
So taking this whole comment chain into consideration, why are Windows 11 and Teams going out of their way to be awful to use?

We agree that the Free Market(tm) incentives are to maximise desire even at an up-front loss (Fireworks, Lighting the bridge) but the parent said that it's free market economics that prevent Teams and Windows from being desirable to use.

Is someone wrong or am I misunderstanding something?

Is there more profit in awful things? Why does the Harbour bridge have lights then?
Ask HN: Best resources/blogs/videos for Engineering Manager?
Looking for inspiration on improvements, things to read and so :)
How the first viral media spawned German peasant uprising
I agree with all of your points, but how does this system handle bad faith actors purposely muddying the waters?

This is behavior that humans do exhibit sometimes, so I don't think we can pretend everyone is always acting in good faith.
"We must do something. This is something."
It actually looks like they use photos.

https://gorillafund.org/karisoke-research-center/noseprints-...
vim is cool but it's simply not worth investing time to learn a language that only works for one specific editor.
I’ve found if you inquire with genuine interest, many metaphorical brick layers have a lot to say about laying bricks, and can get quite impassioned about it. There’s often a lot more depth there than you see at first. (Presumably, most people aren’t genuinely interested enough, so the brick layer doesn’t usually get into it)
Thank you for all of your insights into China over the last couple of years. They tend to be blunt and unvarnished but verify as accurate relative to what I know about the country (which, arguably isn't much, I've never visited but am in fairly close contact with some people living there).
> and there are no ICU beds for them

According to the CBC, the lack of available hospital beds pre-dates Covid and exists even when Covid case counts are low. From Why Ontario hospitals are full to bursting, despite few COVID-19 patients:

"The data suggests many hospitals have returned to the overcrowding levels seen before the pandemic, when CBC News revealed hospitals filled beyond capacity nearly every single day, with patients housed in hallways, conference rooms and cafeterias not as exceptional cases, but as a matter of routine.[1]"

It's unfair to scapegoat the unvaccinated for systemic failures that aren't really due to Covid at all.

1: https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/toronto/ontario-hospital-occu...
This kind of thing is what Wildlabs is all about: https://www.wildlabs.net/
I'm reading through the neuroscience and related literature to compile a list of data and systems relevant for designing algorithms of interest. I'd like to share my hobby with other like-minded people.
And who decides how much that should be?

The recipient. Right now I can't stop you from sending me spam if you know my email address. Spam filters work somewhat, but I should be able to say: block everyone except these 100 people on my contact list or transactional emails I have opted into. Everyone else needs to pay me $0.50 before the subject line even hits my inbox. And maybe I can even set up tiers for times of the day or days of the week, or charge more on days when I get a lot of email.
I can understand liking nuclear power, but you like... nuclear weapons?! Or has my sarcasm meter failed miserably?!
Free will doesn't imply immunity to being influenced and/or predicted.
Try switching to an email service that supports custom Sieve scripts, which you can use to permanently reject messages based on variables you configure.

These are handled differently than message user agent filtering. Incoming messages are immediately rejected and the sending server is notified.

It's much easier than trying to contact some company that doesn't bother validating email addresses. You already know they are technically deficient so just bounce everything. Problem's at their end, let them work it out.

Fastmail do this, as do a few other hosted email providers. Highly recommended. I also use Sieve filters to reject attachment types beyond the default set, such as Microsoft Office files (.docx, .doc, etc.).

Here's some documentation to get started. No affiliation, just a happy customer. https://www.fastmail.help/hc/en-us/articles/1500000280481-Si...
"habit building" is something that requires conscientiousness up front! It is not all that helpful to tell low-conscientiousness people that they should get some conscientiousness if they want to do the thing that gives them more conscientiousness.

I'll try reading these books, but I expect it to be less helpful than taking stimulants every day.
>> Every country, just about I suppose, is home to people from different ethnicities, religions, and cultures

Degrees matter here. Most of the world's population live in countries where less than 1% of the people are immigrants. That's not very global.

Western Europe and countries founded by colonists from Western Europe (the US, Canada, Australia, New Zealand) are following a different pattern than most of the world.
Yeah, they could do that, but what most of these claims ("X could easily profit Y by doing 50%+1 attack") miss, is that once that attack has been made, who'd trade anything with the currency that was attacked? Lets say nvidia does "conquer" Bitcoin and have all the bitcoins, who'd in the right mind would continue to buy/sell Bitcoins after that? The market for Bitcoin would collapse faster than nvidia could excitedly scream "PROFITS!" to their shareholders, making the whole attack unnecessary in the first place.
> The state has subjected scientists to the tender mercies of the US criminal justice system, usually for charges related to relatively unimportant issues implicating research integrity.

Does anyone know what this refers to? Is it prosecutions of Chinese researchers in the US?
I'm just pointing out that your claim that a vaccine making a virus more virulent being "nonsense" is not supported by >50 years of scientific research. Especially if that vaccine is leaky, which the current vaccines appear to be.
Some favorites:

- Bruce Dawson - Chrome engineer (https://randomascii.wordpress.com/)

- Matt Pharr - Graphics researcher (https://pharr.org/matt/blog/)

- Pete Shirley - Graphics researcher (http://psgraphics.blogspot.com/)
It's not all about data and research I agree. My point is that something concrete must back up my points. Even if that is a strong reasoning system when data/research are absent. Nevertheless, cherry picking stuff to make an artificiall point is not how i roll
diff.blog does have a weekly digest that would be sent to your inbox :)
The union has nothing to do with UTF-8, so let's ignore it. If you want more details about it, search for "c++ small string optimization", but the one-sentence version is that it's just a way to avoid a heap allocation for strings <= 16 bytes long (including any NUL terminator).

So ignoring that irrelevant optimization, std::string is basically:

struct std_string {
size_t len;
char* buf;
};

For storing valid UTF-8, the len is unnecessary, since a NUL byte is not valid UTF-8. You can still tell how many bytes of UTF-8 you have by using strlen, because when you find a 0 byte, it is never part of the string, it's always the NUL terminator. So the len is not strictly necessary for valid UTF-8 -- leaving us with just char*.

And not trying to dodge your question about UTF-8 logic, but my point was you can dodge that whole question, because std::string provides the same amount of UTF-8 logic as char* -- that is, none at all. If you've been getting by on std::string, then you can get by on char*. If you only need to support UTF-8 input and output, and you don't need to manipulate strings (replace characters, truncate them, normalize them for use as keys in a data structure, etc.) or only need to do simple substring searches for ASCII characters, then you can just use char* or std::string. UTF-8 has a great design, which was consciously chosen to make all of that possible.
PC Hardware can come from an Era with so many manufacturers and true-actual fierce competition, resulting in complete commoditisation of components. However, now in 2022, there are only 2 CPU vendors,2 GPU vendors and even with storage the number of manufacturers is small. Only TSMC can deliver 5nm and Mr Cook has all that capacity on lock (AMD and Intel will get a look only when he is done with it)

Mining like with politics is just some easy target to blame, the problem is Monopolies and duopolies.

Events have catalysed a market rife with monopolies and duopolies: these rule the supply chain, they have seen the true prices the market will accept, how can we expect prices to go back to "normal"?
Ask HN: Do you have a problem (to solve)?
Do you need a better version control system? A way to avoid social media during work? Do you need a shiny lib to do X in Ruby? You name it.

Maybe someone already has an app for that or willing to build it.

Please set a price tag you would pay, if you are able to.

Simple brainstorming rules: there are no stupid questions, open mindness, self control.
> […] one person's choice to not get vaccinated will not effect the others, and it should be up to them.

But it will effect others:

> But here’s the thing. A crankish libertarian – I count myself as one – might understand that seatbelts save lives, and still object to being required to wear one, on personal freedom grounds. That’s perhaps tenable when it comes to seatbelt laws, since the only life in peril from not wearing one is your own.

> But vaccines not only make it less likely that you will be infected, suffer or die: They also make it less likely that you will infect others, to suffer and die – and infect still more people – in their turn. (And yes, despite what you might have heard, the evidence[1] is also clear[2] that vaccines reduce transmission rates.) This is hardly a theoretical concern, in the midst of a pandemic that has already claimed nearly 30,000 Canadian lives.

> So if anything the case for vaccine mandates is even stronger than it is for seatbelt laws. The cost to personal freedom – a jab in the arm – is slight. The risk of adverse side-effects is negligible. The savings in human lives is provably enormous. How on earth could so many otherwise sensible[3] people have persuaded themselves otherwise?

* https://www.theglobeandmail.com/opinion/article-is-the-case-...

* https://archive.fo/ayjkf
While the levels of radiocesium found in honey are not harmful to humans, I wonder if it has any deleterious effects on the bees themselves? Could this be a contribution to the "colony collapse disorder" we are seeing worldwide?
It’s more image than an official distinction, and it is hardly accurate. For example, both Tianjin and Beijing are autonomous cities not part of provinces, while neither Shenzhen or Guangzhou in the Bay Area are autonomous. The cities and provinces around Shanghai are incredibly wealthy and each hold their orbits. But like San Jose becomes an adjunct of San Francisco, so does Hangzhou of Shanghai for some reason.
Not really, just a side effect of tons of code and lack of agreed upon specification cross-platform. I've worked with audio programming before and it's an absolute mess - namely Windows, which uses archaic and obtuse COM APIs.
Ask HN: How to know where most people listen a given artist on Spotify?
I'm thinking of making a service that would show young artists in what cities there are a bulk of their fans, so that they could go on tour where it makes the most sense, and so that they could have a joint tour between artists. Spotify does show stats with top cities, but only for artist logged in, not for anyone requested. If I crawl this info from an artist's page, for every my user registered, then I first need everyone registered, which is problematic.

So, dear HN, maybe I'm missing some obvious way so work around that?
Or, maybe there are readily available data for me to purchase?
Or, should I just beg Spotify to add an api to do that?
Does she have a dual citizenship?
Not you, as an individual, but as a society, absolutely. There are plenty of laws that regulate or forbid certain activities.
Who would they cash out too, they would have destroyed the market that cost them so much to acquire.
The same thing happens when kids buy $500 of Robux because you left your card active in their account. The solution could be to require 2FA for a transaction over a certain amount.
Saying that adding more load to an already overloaded system is fine isn't as helpful to the argument as you think…
You could ask the same question about why he decided to make the async api and terminal mode incompatible with existing equivalents in neovim. Sadly, the ecosystem seems to be splitting more and more between vim and neovim.
If you haven't seen it already, the YouTube channel Not Just Bikes has a great video making the other decision (ie. moving to the Netherlands) with some compelling reasoning: https://youtu.be/ul_xzyCDT98
Duolingo has a platform where volunteers can contribute to develop new courses. If you are fluent both in Bengali and in English, you should definitely consider signing up.

https://incubator.duolingo.com
What's the best way to contact you? It's been ~2 years since my last robotics project, but interested to learn more.
Set-MalwareFilteringServer -BypassFiltering $True -identity <server name>

Then restart Microsoft Exchange Transport service.

New year: Building a postfix-dovecot server.
Complex metalwork discovered underneath ancient Greek 'pyramid' (2018)
Only tangentially related, HN's favorite historian wrote about the concept of nation state a few month ago: https://acoup.blog/2021/07/02/collections-my-country-isnt-a-...
Same here! Good luck and success with the devs :) I hope you can make the world a bit better by spreading your experience & knowledge!
New data on using J&J vaccine to boost itself