skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The main difference is that the decision of painting the road or segregating traffic in the Netherlands is based on traffic volume and traffic speed. High speed high traffic zones get segregate bicycle traffic. Low speed low traffic routes can cope with mixed traffic and just a side lane for bicycles.

The decision of just painting over curbs for cost is the main infrastructure mistake and 'false saving' in a lot of European cities outside NL.
> How can you call it lack of consensus when it’s 80-20,

Because, even if this were a valid (random sample of the target population) survey, 1 in 5 is a lot, especially given the fact that the distribution of pronunciation is not homogeneous geographically or by other divides that define distinct subgroups of language use.

> I think it’s pretty obvious that there’s a strong consensus it’s a hard G

I think the existence of ongoing debate among speakers of the language as to the correct pronunciation is strong evidence that there is no consensus.
What part of that requires a blockchain NFT? I just took a flight this weekend and had a ticket on my phone that let me on the plane. Is that different?
This is basically why you should always refrain from banning your opposition by means that aren't an argument.
I wonder about folks who get upset about “Who wrote this shit?”

Do they never read their own code?

Or maybe they never see their own code?
So by your definition much of Europe (which has a robust private healthcare system) isn’t socialized?
When I commuted to work I cycled 16+ miles a day rain, snow or shine. I also own 2 cars, I love working on them. I've built a few bicycles and regularly maintain them for my friends and family. I think I have a pretty decent perspective on both sides.

Cycling in the UK is 1% of road traffic, and are drowned out of the conversation on how roads are built up until very recently. They are the most vulnerable things on wheels. They are treated as second class citizens on the road, and are subject to abuse car drivers do not get. I'm not 'anti-car', I'm 'anti-getting-killed-while-cycling'.

If a cyclist crashes into a car, the cyclist comes off worse. If a car crashes into a cyclist, the cyclist comes off worse. It's not even close. The relentless amount of hate cyclists receive in the UK is genuinely shocking to me, and any time any sort of positive action is attempted to be brought up (e.g. building new cycling infrastructure) the haters come out of the wood-work to act as if they're being oppressed.

Do you cycle? My money is on 'no'.
All these places are "real" in that you can visit the physical place that they are supposed to exist in. However, they're also all described as wonderful utopias by the people selling them and turn out to be much less complete/pleasant than claimed. Such dreamlands are always based on lies and exploitation.
It's a clear example of why "I possess the private key for a NFT" does not infer ownership of the NFT's contents.
Dell Latitude and Precisions from this era are also an excellent choice, paired with a docking station @ home with dual monitors, you're golden.
I've taken to calling them "Pandemic Deaths", ie deaths caused by the pandemic, regardless of specific source. Makes it a little harder to split hairs.
Abingdon Road is the difficult one because it genuinely isn't wide enough for segregated tracks. But it's also the easy one because there's a parallel, direct backstreet route (Marlborough Road/Wytham Street), and Abingdon Road itself has few enough businesses that it's not really a destination in itself.

The Quickways proposals are focused on East Oxford where there is enough space. Broadly speaking, all of the East Oxford arterials have enough space for a segregated track on at least one side, usually both. It's only the immediate vicinity of the Plain where they're very narrow. But you could get two protected tracks along the Cowley Road as far as Marsh Road, assuming you reworked the road furniture and parking spaces; one protected track along the Iffley Road from the Plain to somewhere round Magdalen Road, and two from there on; two along most of Headington/London Road, Marston Road, and so on.
Yes, people have had capitalism since Homo Sapiens emerged. It just became more sophisticated, enabling higher levels of productivity.

Institutions like contract law and constitutionally limited government helped the reign in corruption to some extent. If corruption is to mean deceit, abuse and exploitation, corruption has existed since as long as humans have existed. That is why homicide rates in prehistory were 30%.
Apologies, I meant to say zero cases where COVID is the cause of death, but I didn't make that clear.
Even dragging them into court for part recovery, is a victory.

Also, if it is a larger corp, even 50 people, small claims court means you are expending far less energy, and funds, than they do.

A corp of even 50 will probably hire a lawyer for advice, and to prep the case, even though the lawyer cannot be in court.
The lawyer may try to hound you, trying to pretend they can compel discovery (again check local small claims laws here!)

Many small claims courts don't even allow recovery costs. Meaning, they just spent $20k, and pulled half a dozen employees into repeated discussions, you spent $100 on filing, and some of your time.

I have so little sympathy for miscreants who have no valid reason to pay, other than the one cited above. Pfft. Need to test it, will take half a year.

Come on! Their incompetence is not a valid reason to place an account in arrears.

I work, you pay, that's that.

(No anger here at all!)

So drag them into small claims, and watch them waste multiples of what they would have originally paid.
>>If you disagree with that, (and live in a democracy) let someone know!

You know, I'm not sure that in the current moment in time there's much correlation between living in a democracy and the efficacy of petitioning the municipality/ government/ etc.
I thought that mining might be usable for heating or regulating a grid, but no, that implies mining will run only part time and only when it is profitable. But this is not the case and will stay so for long time because it is motivated by expected future price increase of crypto. When you expect huge future profit, that motivates you to run it all the time no matter what the cost. Even with subsidized electricity, mining is done at loss more often than profit. We have thus created a monster that can't be tamed merely by removing subsidies.

Not to mention yet another reason for mining 24/7 - rising global hashrate makes your equipment quickly obsolete.
I have 3 colleagues in their early 70s, we develop silicons for AI and DL. One is the tech leader, another one is algorithm/compiler, the last one doing FPGA. I asked one of them about the retirement, the answer is: "tried that, too boring"
Apple Watch glucose and blood pressure sensors still years away
I thought this was a Spaceballs reference.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=riqXhieWU3M
Capitalism quite clearly requires strong regulation. At least, any sort of positive capitalism that doesn't immediately succumb to monopolies, cartels and corruption.

The problem is that the loudest voices arguing for capitalism, also tend to argue against regulation, accountability, and that sort of thing.
The term cyclorama is also used generically for the back curtain of a proscenium-type theatrical stage, even if not painted.
Yes, so. The typical American response to that is: "the government controls everything. Let the free market do its job!"

And then wonder why they get shit care for a huge price BUT swith nice marketing and a smiling "health dealer" getting you a 0% lease... oh sorry, we got you confused with a Chevvy!

And also, "we have the best care in the world because our docs are better selected". This one never fails to make me laugh, as a swiss MD
I buy my refurnished laptops from Techsavers (https://www.techsavers.com/). They have local outlets in few EU countries.
Are you suggesting that healthcare-as-a-market would start working if externalities were priced in? How would that help?
Would this let a complete novice tag and classify words, say, to only highlight verbs? Would that task be easier than typical methods?
I work at FAANG - my take is, all questions can be solved based on these 10-15 data structures / algorithms. They are just gift wrapped with a lot of fluff, but underlying each of them is one or a combination of one of these data structures / algos.

As an aside, to everyone who has asked me how to get into FAANG - I always say you should be able to code DFS/BFS in your sleep like your life depends on it. 1/5 questions is surely going to be a tree/graph search.
It's genuinely absurd to try to map the Libyan civil war onto crypto currency. There was nearly a "51% attack" on Bitcoin, though it's not accurate to call it an attack (and it was far more than 51% of the hash power.) The SegWit2x upgrade almost went through despite upsetting many Bitcoin enthusiasts, but was ultimately squashed by the loose coalition of miners that proposed it when faced with fierce opposition. They could've forced the unpopular change, and only chose not to.
There is some crazy amnesia here about the US healthcare system. Some 40% of the US are already covered through Medicaid/Medicare - "socialism" is long here!
One idea is to put a deposit fee on the scooter, like Michigan has for bottles and cans. Therefore, the choice of whether to dump the scooter or return it is just based on your willingness to pay. Meanwhile, collecting and returning scooters could be a source of some cash income for folks who are otherwise hard to employ.

I believe the main reason for the dumped scooters in cities that had them, was that the scooters were an investment boondoggle. It was easier to create fake growth by converting investment money into new scooters, than to actually figure out how to make it work.

I live in a mid sized city (about 250k in US midwest) and a network of bike routes evolved largely on its own, with a bit of help from the city and county. Cars prefer the fast roads, bikes take the slow roads. The speed limit (35 mph ~ 60 kph) is high enough to make up for time lost at stoplights, but of no benefit to cyclists. Instead, we find our way through the narrower neighborhood streets that have relatively little traffic.

That works everywhere except some peculiar intersections, and the dense central district. In those places, the city is creating separated bike lanes when they have to rebuild the roadway anyway. And a number of old rail lines have been turned into bike paths -- too bad for trains but great for bikes. Destruction of roads by the freeze-thaw cycle gives us a chance to renew our urban planning ideas every few years!
It's not very constructive, is it? "It's human nature to be exploited"

Then again, not a lot seem to happen when pointing at short-comings or issues of prioritizing profit and growth above all else in society either.
Yes Thinkpads are very inexpensive so it makes perfect sense to max out. At least it did back then. I don't know about now.
That isn't the point here. The point is, when you are sick, you have to get medical attention.
This is not acceptable in the US either. You’re paid for your time by law.
Market forces are objective, real, external. They eliminate weak competitors, and cronyism weakens companies. So if capitalism is defined by existence of the market forces... than you are wrong. If you define capitalism as market + capital and the your claim is that market in combination of other (than private property) ways of allocating capital would work better... I still disagree.
> Cryptokitties, cryptopunks etc. are only valuable because they were the first ones doing these things, sort of like the "million dollar webpage" back in the day.

Exactly. A few original JPEG NFTs will survive, but 90% of the late comers and copycats will fail.

> There is literally no point in making an NFT without utility now, unless the minter is someone popular

Precisely. That ship has sailed and this is why you see a popularity of copycat NFTs JPEGs upon copycat JPEGs since that they know it is a scam. They are taking advantage of the market before it collapses just like the wild west of ICO scams in 2017. Now the SEC has put a stop to that and has regulated them as securities, [0] making unregistered ICOs as illegal. Similar regulations may happen to NFTs.

The only form of NFT that seems to have some value, valid use-cases and utility is a blockchain domain name which is likely to surpass the nonsense of useless NFT JPEGs.

[0] https://www.sec.gov/ICO
This is kind of an odd viewpoint.

Whether we spell "shit" or "s**t", you say the same word in your head.
Capitalism describes

Capitalism doesn't prescribe

We should praise Capitalism for describing humanity better than other *ism
Capitalism is not something that exists outside of government, governments create capitalism through property (and other) laws. And since capitalism forces firms to focus only on profit, it similarly forces them to attempt to corrupt government to increase their profits. The problem of cronyism exists inside of capitalism, not outside of it and not separable from it.
> Can I use it as an in-game item?

I don't know why people are so obsessed with this idea of in game items as NFTs. It's a terrible idea.

Games have no reason to be decentralized. All of the information can be stored on the company's servers, like an MMO, or if it's not critical to maintain scarcity, locally on devices without the whole network, like pokemon (the pokemon themselves, which can be traded and such).

You can't reasonably expect games from other companies to implement the same NFT scheme. That's just not how games work. A longsword in dnd is not a longsword in final fantasy, nor is it a longsword in dark souls, nor is it a longsword in minecraft. And even if it were, why the fuck would you want scarcity on longswords? 99% of all items in any game are typically very easy to obtain, with a few rare things standing out, and with a natural progression built in. What would it even mean to bring your 50 hour investment in a top tier perfectly slotted jrpg omni magic blue elemental Atk+++ Spd+++ Crt+++ Mag--- weapon to a game like call of duty?

Even if we're just talking about a single game universe, like a dnd setting. Maybe there's now 3 baldurs gate games, for some reason not designed by the same company, but all willing to share the same exact item spec. Where is this concept useful, still? Can I bring my +10 longsword (a big deal) to the beginning of the game and just trivialize the singleplayer mode? Is it more of a multiplayer thing so we want real world wealth and status to be the primary driver of character strength?
> We did get reports early on that the crematoriums were working far more than usual.

That's precisely what I'm talking about, right? That information got out; the world was able to see information indicating a higher death toll that official numbers implied, despite attempts to keep it quiet.
Aaaah completion-date 2035. I see where that’s going (although I’ll be happy to be surprised)
> "And maybe in places like India or China, and other parts of the developing world, they would say, ‘capitalist industries are causing environmental harm and inadequate healthcare"

I don't think that's limited to "places like India or China".
They still make and sell a T-based laptop keyboard in the form of https://www.lenovo.com/us/en/p/accessories-and-software/keyb...

They always had silly, hard-to-search-for names (it seems the variants I have are called "Thinkpad Compact USB Keyboard with Trackpoint" and "Thinkpad Compact Bluetooth Keyboard with Trackpoint"): https://support.lenovo.com/nl/en/solutions/pd026745, https://support.lenovo.com/de/en/solutions/pd026744

While they are not original T keyboards, they are supposed to match more recent T layouts. At some point, they had bluetooth and USB variants (I've got 5-ish of them around the house, I love the trackpoint for HTPC use), but this seems to be a newer iteration of those.
He got caught very quickly, I’m not sure what this proves (that idiots exist in every country?).
Project Fugu
I do have some sympathy with your latter point, but there comes a point where you have to say "if not now, when?". Oxford built one world-class segregated track in the 70s (Marston Ferry Road) and has basically regressed since then. I'd be a bit more forgiving if it were Piddleton-on-the-Marsh, but Oxford has "A Cycling City" signs at every entrance to the city...
> The problem with anecdote, whichever way you cut it, particularly in a charged debate like this, is that they get picked up and snowball just like the election being stolen

Rationalize all you want, you just stated that you don't like this information. Sometimes words reveal ourselves.
Thing is, anyone working for money and also acting as a gatekeeper at distributing more money will have a conflict of interest impossible to ignore. Especially when the person is from a low-trust society, as facilitated by freelance sites. And, these people are better skilled at negotiation/bullshitting AND can work "cheaper" (or so it seems) so they will always have an upper hand in negotiations vs good ones, unless the client is deeply technical - but in this case, read above, he'll manage devs himself and hire them individually => no potential for a custom software dev company there.
I would be surprised if part of Milan's plan wasn't just to paint some bits of roads a different colour and call it a cycle path. These large initiatives tend to be a mix of solutions, from paint to dedicated cycle paths. This has happened pretty much anywhere a city has announced upgraded cycling infrastructure. Some cities ratio it better than others.
Same thing you do with knowledge of more people having died in anything, say "damn, that sucks" and continue living your life, unless you're in a position to do more than that.

As for the mortality rates of bubonic plague and covid, it is quite a bit more sensible to be concerned about covid right now and want to avoid catching it.
"Torben had constraints I knew nothing about"

Indeed a good point, the constraint of laziness and stupidity :P
Some of these things sound small - IT mailing a computer is standard, and you feeling you had to cancel travels plans to wait for it sounds like an over-reaction. Them using your personal email is a valid point, but something I'd just give feedback on as an improvement to on-boarding. Communicating about tools you'll use is fine. Asking if you want to be on a call is fine.

The one thing that seems out of line is expecting you to be on a call, unpaid, before your start date. That is far enough out of line that it is a problem. I'd just say no to such calls. It is your managers job to keep the place running until your start date, not yours.

But honestly, the bigger red flag to me is $150ARR. First of all, $150 what? K? M? If 'K' this is too small to have 500 people and be looking to IPO - red flag. If 'M', they are too big to not have their act together on having professional managers - yellow flag.

If I were you, I would take this all as evidence that they have grown beyond their current skill level, and it will be a dysfunctional company. But most medium-sized companies are in this boat. The question you need to ask yourself is whether the compensation is sufficient that you can put up with the crap or not?
GreenCell is very popular here where I live. Dozens of computer shops have them on stock (https://greencell.global/en/standard-batteries/2012-green-ce...)
Average debt is like $500,000 and average wage (across all specialities) is $250,000. The debt burden isn’t that high.

And sure, comparing it to Silicon Valley looks bad, but so does every other job. “Amazing how bad other jobs look when you compare them to the top 1%”
NodeJS's ecosystem looks like more of a liability and less of an asset to me each passing day.

This perspective is making Deno feel easy for me to jump to for my next backend project, now that I'm actively fighting against dependencies.
For a start, I can't myself confirm the existence of this 'NFT' and its record of changing hands or originator the way I can with all actual NFTs.
https://github.com/golang/go/issues/44840
I use Sequel and the Parallel gem all the time. Good stuff.
>The crash will be biblical, obviously.

You don't know that and you especially don't know when. So please don't use words like "obviously" for things that aren't obvious at all.
My brother just rebuilt a house up in Maine. Previously the house had 1Mbps (with a tailwind) DSL. They wouldn't even reinstall it and houses further down the road couldn't get it at all.

You could get a Verizon hotspot (and ration data). But Starlink is pretty good. Video streaming does stutter a bit--you're better off downloading. I could actually work up there which I couldn't really with the old DSL.
Who regulates the regulator ?

If it is the government then it goes back to the people being aware of their interests and not allowing themselves to be manipulated. Which is never going to be the case.
Actually its based on facts. I understand not everyone understands cost curves, exponential growth/decay, and the rapid adoption of "new" affordable technologies, but renewable energy is coming and you can't stop it.

Renewables were the world’s cheapest source of energy in 2020, new report shows
https://www.weforum.org/agenda/2021/07/renewables-cheapest-e...

Solar is now ‘cheapest electricity in history’, confirms IEA
https://www.carbonbrief.org/solar-is-now-cheapest-electricit...

Why did renewables become so cheap so fast?
https://ourworldindata.org/cheap-renewables-growth
> to see something on that side, you'd basically need the vision capabilities the telescope itself

I'm not sure if that's correct - there's a lot of photons hitting the telescope (the night sky), and night vision systems can work off of a relatively small number of photons
This is a good mind set to cultivate, but then I remember working on non-legacy projects.

My current project was started in the middle of 2021. The same people have been working on it for 6 months. I've been working on a related project and shifted over at the beginning of the year. I know the constraints and there haven't been deadlines.

The staff engineer decided to pick technology by what's cool. They haven't invested in development workflows. The infrastructure is held together manually by those who have admin access. Subsystems that need to communicate don't.

I have much sympathy for legacy projects, but those projects got to where they are because people made poor decisions. My current project is well on it's way to being a legacy project in just 6 months.

The team I'm on today doesn't say no to requirements and scope creep. They are too invested in tech and aren't adjusting. They don't cultivate truth about how parts of the project aren't coming together.

I blame problems on leadership much more than I do on individual contributors. I wish the commit log included the tech lead and managers on the project when code was written.
Would it make sense to ban electric heaters?

Well, mining Bitcoin is not more wasteful than an electric heater. If we assume that cryptocurrencies provide no benefits, a computer mining crypto is equivalent to an electric heater.

If we assume that cryptocurrencies provide some sort of benefit, then mining Bitcoin is more energy-efficient than electric heaters.

So, if you want to ban Bitcoin mining, you should also ban electric heaters, if you want to be morally coherent.
> Maybe for the next trendy language we could think about the Object-capability model before it's too late. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Object-capability_model

There is an object-capability model in the upcoming OCaml 5.0, however it's only in the Eio library, that deals with IO https://github.com/ocaml-multicore/eio#design-note-object-ca.... There's also Emily, a subset of OCaml based on POLA (Principle of Least Authority) https://www.hpl.hp.com/techreports/2006/HPL-2006-116.pdf. I'm unaware of any plain to extend OCaml in that direction though.