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I both agree and don't agree, having recently cycled across the US and experienced areas with no cycle paths, painted cycle paths and separated cycle paths.

Obviously separated paths are the safest, although unfortunately in the US they often aren't maintained as well as the road surface, so for long trips it's usually more comfortable to cycle on the road anyway.

But when it comes to painted lines, the situation is a bit hazier. You're right that drivers tend to be ruder and more obnoxious when you - as a cyclist - leave the painted cycle path for some legitimate reason, like to avoid an obstacle or poor road surface... On the other hand, at least drivers who drive in places with painted cycle paths know how to share the road, even if they resent doing it.

For example, I can't count the number of times in the US where I cycled straight ahead in the straight ahead lane after the shoulder abruptly turned into a "right turn only" lane, only to have ignorant drivers beep and hurl abuse at me for doing what I was supposed to be doing. In areas with painted cycle lanes, the drivers understand that in this situation they are supposed to watch for cyclists, give way and then cross into the "right turn only" lane on the cyclists' right, instead of fuming and raging because a cyclist dared to follow the signage.

In places where drivers tend to be more educated about how to share the road, it might be the case that painted lines are more trouble than they're worth, but in the US I think it's still useful as a way to teach drivers how to handle having cyclists on the road.
I don't think so... the PC gamer population is estimated to be about 1750 million, there are estimated to be around 1 million crypto miners.
Check out Spacy, it provides PoS tagging (among other things): https://spacy.io
> The percentage of Jewish students probably peaked about the time I came to Harvard and dropped precipitously with the boost of affirmative action into virtual quotas.

Does anyone know what this percentage is, or was?
Having tried both Node and Rails, Rails was a horrible experience. I hated every minute of it and will ignore any job listings including it. Your whole project is in a billion files and everything works by "magic." There is so much complexity and different flies that it sucks to work with. Meanwhile with Node you can start with a simple index.js and work your way up.
> Intubations which aren't required and actually harmful and traumatizing.

If this happened you certainly need get it to a lawyer. It is not much, but there are some way for recourse. You almost certainly have permanent damage after intubation.
He is talking about 3rd party websites that trade in skins
The important difference is that Nintendo has no incentive to implement interpretations of items from Activision. Since it is dependent on Nintendo implementing each item, even if it were a decentralized network, the utility of it is not so secretly still centralized to nintendo only activating the meaning of items for their own content. An incredibly inefficient method.
Therapy is the best for this kind of thing. Strongly recommended.

I delayed therapy for years, thinking it was for people with "major psych problems" when really, you're just learning how to identify and manage your emotions. While this sounds almost stupidly simple, it's actually extremely hard work that most of us never learn! A good therapist will act like a master coach, helping you through the process, as you learn "how to drive" emotionally.

Finding a good therapist is also hard. And there's very little help for you in that process. Here's some advice I got from a trusted psych, which turned out well for me:

* Use Psychology Today's Find a Therapist tool: https://www.psychologytoday.com/us/therapists

* Look for therapists who focus on only a few therapeutic orientations (I like CBT)

* Avoid therapists who offer CBT alongside psychodynamic therapy, or family therapy - these are different, largely incompatible modalities

You'll probably have to meet with / call a few before you find someone you click with (which is important). Patience is important. The whole process takes time - took me 2 years of weekly work, but it was tremendously helpful.

Also, exercise. It doesn't have to be anything special / major, just get outside (preferably) and move your body. A walk around the neighborhood is fine. This has a number of positive psych and physical effects.

Be well!
my in laws ordered a covid test, paid via paytm, the person came and took the sample, took the money and never returned results.
BTFS is the product of an entirely different group of people than the ones who were responsible for the uTorrent purchase. BitTorrent Inc was itself bought by cryptocurrency company TRON in 2018. Few people who worked at BT Inc prior to the acquisition are still there, and AFAIK none of them ever worked on BTFS.
Right, so discretionary spending goes way down. I may be incentivized to work, but who can afford to employ me?
NFTs are stupid.

The masses however can not read out a word to its fullest letter like "cryptocurrency" they stop at "crypt" oh, and say "crypto". These are the people in the "crypto market" now to buy "coins" and "tokens" to get rich because "they believe in it" (but because theyve been told and seen someone made x1000 buying a token and selling it later to someone else) They are like flat earthers and evolution-deniers and "covid is ebola black bubonic plague vaxx everyone 110%" people.

These people can not pick between 1000 coins which one is real innovation in consensus algorithms or whatever, and which one is a scam, like BitConnect or IOTA.

These people know this, so they do the next best thing which is hunt for coins based on logos and overall marketing looks of the coin. This was not enough because the cryptoh projects used fancy words, its easier to just pick on logos, and even easier than logos with a project and website is to trade logos marked as NFTs.
> The T430 was the machine that hooked me on to ThinkPads almost 20 years ago.

Ah, I misremembered... It was actually the T42. The T430 was still a pretty good machine.
My employer makes us do this and I absolutely hate it. It slows me down so much. I now have to effectively maintain two machines that cause issues at twice the frequency. The server isn't even notably faster than my MacBook. Moreover, in my experience, the uniformity of these cloud development machines also encourages developers to get lazy and start making all sorts of assumptions about the environment the application runs in. This makes it impossible over time to run the application locally and will cause issues during the inevitable hardware upgrades in the future.
If I have to watch the TV show, that seems to me to call the book into question, not the critics.
Yes. This is true. It also confirms that owning an NFT of a thing is not the same thing as owning the actual thing.

You are not guilty of owning CSA material until it's found on your computer.

You do not own that cat picture unless you have some documentation that transfers copyright from the author to you (like a receipt, a contract, or similar). An entry on a blockchain is not that.
I usually say that when I am pretty positive it was my code that's now... shit :)

Unfortunately, I was still warned that this may portray an atmosphere of non-acceptance when done in "public" channels since readers might not be aware that this was my code and that I am making a self-deprecating remark.

Honestly, I am not sure whether to keep doing it or not. I like the relaxed and jovial atmosphere that comes out of it (it's more of a joke that all of our past code is shit, and ultimately, that what we are writing today is the shit of tomorrow), but I struggle to come to peace with the PC crowd. Am I really messing it up for someone else?
You should see China. Big sheds crammed with rusting bikes were a commonplace sight, though that was 10 years ago now. You could tell the Americans by their helmets and going 2X faster on fully inflated tires.

Thing is, it doesn't matter. It is a bit of a rubbish problem, but there is no health hazard. If it gets people to ride bikes, that's far better than cars cramming every road everywhere.
The past 40 has seen an increase in housing regulation. NIMBYs create restrictive zoning rules.

Developers can only build after attending dozens of meetings. City council must grant an exception to the NIMBY laws.

Only wealthy developers can afford the process. Various council and board member get kick backs for the exemptions.

Housing is an important example because its the most expensive thing most people purchase. Grift is enabled by individuals electing representatives who oppose construction, not capitalism.
Get your resume out there. You appear to be signing up with an inept fuckup who will casually mess you around. He's testing boundaries with you before you've even started, to see what he can get away with.

Even if you stick with it, these are the traits of a guy who will accept you spending 80 hours a week wiping his backside, then screw you over on the startup payoff.
Historically, I believe this is true for all Norse cultures. The most common surnames in Sweden (like Andersson) are afaik based on the most common given names when surnames were changed to be static in families, which was a gradual process a few hundred years ago.
Fossils are not artifacts, they weren't dropped or cached by anyone. They have never been anyone's property. They are "natural". The rules are therefore different, more akin to someone picking mushrooms than someone finding a lost gold ring. When something has never had a human owner, gaining first possession can really matter.
I wonder if parsing NFTs (especially with smart contracts) could be turned into a new attack vector for something like stealing accounts in online games. In most games people can't get other clients to run their code without forcing them to download some mod or hack. With NFTs it might be enough to join the same server as them.

edit: To clarify, I'm not talking about regular NFTs as currently added by game developers where they're basically just a ticket to an ID referencing something created by the game developers and hosted on the game servers. I'm talking about trying to create a system for NFTs shared between games from different developers.
https://www.indigo9digital.com/blog/failureofsears

http://www.internethistorypodcast.com/2014/07/what-ever-happ...
That’s so far from true. I can buy anything I want with USD and it has a relatively stable value compared to the goods I’m buying. Certainly more stable than NFTs or Bitcoin.

The ubiquity and stability are the value.

Other than that, theoretically, sure. They are no different. But that difference makes all the difference.
It really depends on what you’re doing. When the cheap machine still lasts 5+ years the value proposition of going expensive just isn’t there.

IMO, the reason to buy a more expensive machine is simply the benefit of using a faster machine for several years. If you’re spending 20 hours a week on a PC then it’s worth stretching the budget a little. However, that generally only applies to one or two form factors not everything phone, tablet, desktop, and laptop. If the only thing you use the tablet for is Netflix in bed then a cheap one is probably fine.
I think this is the same problem matrix has: you end up entering your login details on foreign domains. There's really nothing stopping them from capturing that login via malicious javascript and using it for some malicious mitm, or just saving it to try on other services (you can't expect everyone to use a randomly-generated password). I don't see why you couldn't just enter 'server.com' (your xmpp server) and have an OIDC flow performed (the same complaint goes for matrix).
Negative bonding can be a fast way to feelings of camaraderie, but it can also cause resentment to fester.
Not for salaried (exempt) roles your not
I have definitely seen more than 10 arguments. Usually these are the god functions that no one wants to touch and keep adding one too many parameters as it is updated to support new features.
I think he’s saying that NFTs don’t matter, not that you don’t matter. You don’t need to get upset.
I think this is a good example of an NFT.

To the detractors: can you explain what an NFT is without saying blockchain or distributed ledger? An NFT doesn't need those to be an NFT.
I think there is something to worry about, but it's not 'unprofessional writing' or any kind of external downward pull, I'd say a lot of the problem is how much time professionals now spend in unprofessional contexts, even during working hours (he says, typing while clock-watching...).

This is a post on someone's personal blog with some reflections on something they saw at work. I'm not sure why we should expect him to write professionally (leaving aside the question of whether swearing is acceptable in professional writing or not).

I also wouldn't necessarily expect HN to only carry professional content - although some of what's shared here might be interesting from a professional viewpoint, it's not a portal for professionals (what even is 'hacker' as a profession? What percentage of the HN community are amateur hackers rather than professional hackers?).

Ultimately, it's a discussion forum on the internet, where self-proclaimed hackers share things they think are cool, and if others think it's cool too, then it gets shown to more and more 'hackers' until not enough new people think it's cool enough, at which point it gets shown to fewer and fewer people.
Do you think universal healthcare would affect pharmaceuticals?

I think it would not be relevant to the vaccines as we would still spend money on R&D under the pandemic threat.
Agreed.

I have seen too many cyclists hit and bloodied up by automobiles that I would never think twice about cycling on the road in my area, either.

It's just not safe.
Wealth inequality is to complex a topic for a good\bad flag. On the one hand it is good because it shows there is a real reward for delivering something people want or need. On the other hand it can be bad when people end up homeless and starving not because the resources don't exist but because they are being horded by the wealthy.
Every subsystem goes "ah buffering for a few ms or a frame doesn't hurt anybody" and in the end you have click-to-photon latencies of 150+ ms.

This starts with incorrect debouncing in input devices (which can cause 10+ ms delay on its own even in dedicated "gaming" hardware!), slow/inefficent poll rates, wrong input handling in games (many still seem to receive input on the "main" thread ticking along at the frame rate, which causes huge amounts of input lag at lower framerates and also clamps inputs to frametimes, which causes significant position errors), incorrect V-Sync implementation (like the broken "triple buffering" in D3D9-11 games, this should be a thing of the past nowadays), graphics drivers favoring throughput over latency as they are almost exclusively benchmarked on average fps (used to be that they could buffer up to 9 frames, or ~150 ms) etc.
I suspect that the giant switch was exactly the reason why it was not originally possible.
If you're interested in visual editors and if you're looking for something perhaps more accessible (and I can't honestly say how much it really is, I have not looked at it) then consider taking a look at 'less', the pager.

Less does almost everything an "editor" does, at least visually, except change text. It pages through text, forward and backward, line by line, it handles lines that are too long, tab expansion, it searches, even has an extended command set. (Can less do syntax coloring?)

It also handles files too big for memory. These are all editor problems. Mind its solutions may not be optimized for an editor, but it's certainly smaller.

Today, modern machines "suffer" from "too much" performance which actually frees you from not having to worry so much about the actual backing store, especially early on. Do you really intend to be editing a 2GB file? Honestly, how big is an average text file? And how many billion cycles per second does a modern CPU handle? Sucking the entire file in to RAM, and just pushing stuff around with block moves will take you very far on a modern machine. Not that you should not look at the other data structures (there are many), but you don't have to start there, depending on where your interest lies.

Also consider hunting down the book "Software Tools". There's two editions, the original and "Software Tools in Pascal". It's by Kernighan and Plauger. They go through in detail and write a version of the 'ed' line editor.

And if you really want to work on an editor, the CP/M world would love a new one. There, it's all about efficiency.
There seems to me a massive difference between corporate interests openly bribing lawmakers in a brazenly material fashion vs. a group of concerned citizens merely voicing their concerns, yet the two are always conflated. Money is not speech and corporations are not people, I don't see why people tolerate this.
Amazing to see this merged. As far as I can tell this work goes all the way back to 2014 (1), and has been a huge effort.

1. https://ocaml.org/meetings/ocaml/2014/ocaml2014_1.pdf
Cameras are very sensitive to lasers, there are lots of reported instances where a camera was damaged by e.g. a light show at a concert, even though it's presumably harmless to the human concert-goers[1]. So I don't think the fact that the camera was damaged would necessarily mean that it was dangerous to eyes.

[1] https://petapixel.com/2021/08/02/sony-officially-warns-that-...
"Humans still need to eat and stay warm and fulfill their daily needs in a deflationary environment."

EDIT: to add onto that answer, I'd say that just as there are still savers in an inflationary environment, there will still be consumers in a deflationary environment. Incentives matter, but are not absolute drivers.
If your point is that transient hysteric financial trends could allow for financial gains rather than actually having some game design merit then who cares?
In Deno's case, there are two things:

Deno API, which comes bundled with Deno and is present globally, always, without importing: https://doc.deno.land/deno/stable. Includes basic stuff like stdin, stdout, stderr, file management... etc and standard Web APIs like Fetch API, web assembly interoperability, localStorage, FormData, TextEncoder/TextDecoder, etc.

Deno std lib, an official library that presents what you could expect from a standard library, based on Deno API: https://deno.land/std@0.120.0, but you need to import it, because it's no different than any other module in the wild. Mime types, more encoding options, extended file system management, etc.
I sometimes wonder whether a 14yo kid should be mining bitcoins on his home PC, leaving it on all night every night.

I don't like it but his parents don't mind - they have no clue what it's about. I'm the Uncle, wondering if I should say anything or let him have fun. So far I haven't said anything.

There's not much learning going on mining coins, is there? I might be wrong, but I was hoping he'd be into creative programming and making things on his PC. But for the teenager it's all games, bitcoins and good times!
>A 3090 is $2300 right now, even paying the scalper tax.

Where can you find that? lowest I can find is 2800 new. There are some pre-owned for 2700 and some open auctions at roughly 2300 but those will land substantially higher than 2300 I would imagine.
I agree; I'll buy all 60 plots if it's real! I feel people are so overly keen on dunking on crypto at the moment, that they are blinded to agreeable satire. The proof that people claim makes it sincere isn't compelling.
Hey.
A lot to unpack here. But, first, THANKS!! for everything you do and the care you have for doing things right. Please don't take criticisms such as mine to mean that "everything is wrong and everyone is wrong" instead of its actuality where there is something wrong amidst several right.

With that out of the way, I did try to explicitly say that my experience is not first hand and that it is of that from my parents and my frustration that they cannot get tested as often as I can in the NL, and trust the local healthcare setup as I do here.

I for one am a lot relieved to hear from you that the digital systems are put to good use in verifying COVID tests, administration of vaccines, treatment, bills etc. Unfortunately, my parents concerns were still not addressed by these re-assurances. One may still test positive for COVID, but not really need the excessive medical procedures that the private hospitals/doctors do with monetary aims. Even worse, a doctor could simply admit someone for a couple of days and run all the tests only to come up and say after 2 days and a bill of several thousand rupees, - "your covid test was negative", please be careful about your other problems we took care of.

Secondly, if the regional testing centers or doctor's offices are as badly managed and under-staffed as my dad claims in his region, it is hard to trust the rest of the system to work, and not be scared of contracting covid just by visiting the test centre. I realise that India is big, diverse and unequal so it may not be the case where you are.

One of the reasons, I am stupefied, angry and scared is also from your list...

> our hospitals lost a lot of money and our entire budget.

> Did I tell about the overtime payments to doctors, nurses and paramedical staff? All from the hospital funds. Patients paid nothing

At least from a sample size of two (in a country with a couple billion people), it is not true. My uncle and aunt were hospitalised. for "mild" covid late last year, and came back home after 4 days with a fat bill, lot of frustration from defending against what they perceived as needless tests, and of course COVID. A private hospital could still keep the COVID cost to whatever regulatory maximum is, and still do absurd tests to milk the patient's insurance policies :-(

The only way for this system to gain trust is transparency. For patients to take hospitals to court with trustworthy judicial system. However, here we are where India reports a few lakh people died, and researchers claim it is wrong by several orders of magnitude :-(

I trust the sincere work of yours. But, we have a long way before that can be applied to the majority.
> We also have reports of systematic hospizalization where ambulant treatment would be possible and recommended. Intubations which aren't required and actually harmful and traumatizing.

Source?

BTW - it's only an anecdote, but a coworker in DE had a very different experience. After a week of significant symptoms but self-administered rapid tests coming back positive, they contacted the hospital for a checkup. Upon entry they received another rapid test: as soon as it came back positive, the hospital verified that their lungs were functional and then sent them home as quickly as possible.
This is awesome! I just wrote a blog post along the same lines (https://staktrace.com/spout/entry.php?id=883) and I would like to join forces with you. Let me know if there's anything concrete I can do at the moment, otherwise I'll just keep an eye on your work and help where I can.