skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> if they are completely screwed by traffic decisions than that isn’t really fair.

What does “completely screwed” mean? And is anyone really proposing something that will “completely screw” drivers, or is that more fear speaking than reality?

The existing system of prioritizing cars was never built on fairness for all, and hasn’t been fair to cyclists and pedestrians, nor even really to people who can’t realistically use private transport. It has to be okay for the most privileged among us to experience some changes in their road usage, if we’re to improve the situation for all.
One of the arguments I heard around corruption caused by lobbying is that centralization of power makes it worse. It kind of boils down to persuading one person is easier than convincing many people.
Saw a documentary where drug smugglers between Morocco and Spain used a laser to try to blind the police helicopter that was tracking them.
Can someone explain how the Merkle-tree concept is useful? I didn't quite catch that part. On the one hand it is says:

> all you need is the root hash of the tree.

but on the other hand:

> the .torrent file must still contain these piece hashes

So what are we saving here? If a piece hash doesn't match the downloaded data, we re-download the piece.
What's the defense against this for the average person? Every city has a different parking app or site, there's no way for someone to know like with their bank.
NFTs and Evergrande, doing everyone a favor by taking money out of circulation
It's not about simplicity, It's about expressivity.
That is entirely the point. Centralized is just obviously better.
> the pile of trash that the US healthcare is

There are significant problems but whose Vaccine did you take for Covid-19? Pfizer (Us), Moderna (US), Johnson and Johnson (US)...
There's bicycles made with accessibility options; tricycles, arm-propelled bikes (sometimes in the form of clip-on accessories for wheelchairs), e-bikes in all shapes and sizes, scooters, etc. I mean that doesn't make it an option for everyone, and a large percentage of people will continue to depend on cars, but at least here in NL with a good bike infrastructure, you see plenty of people on adjusted bicycles getting around, retaining their independence, and reducing their dependence on e.g. reserved parking spaces (which may still be further away from their destination than they can reach with adjusted bikes).

Anyway, e-bikes are great. My girlfriend (genetic joint issues) was able to join me doing ~20 kilometers on one of the islands thanks to being able to rent an e-bike for €25 for the day or thereabouts. I mean, there were even hills and the like there, she would not have been able to do even a quarter of the distance on a regular bike.
DevOpsDays? When that event moved to the cyclorama building it was the first time I had heard of the term.
Many people in this thread are saying they are surprised by their own shitty code, 6 month ago. I read this everywhere on the Web. It's like I should myself be finding my code from 6 months ago horrible.

I don't know. I tend to remember what code I wrote, and recognize my own code when seeing it, even years later.

My code from 6 months ago looks good to me. My code from 10 years ago looks "reasonable, if a bit messy". I remember what I was trying to achieve with what level of knowledge I had, and often what I had in mind at this moment (sometimes including unrelated feelings).

I'd probably write this code differently today and it's clear I learned things in the meantime, but a little bit of linting helps turn this code into "reasonable, if a bit less messy" (mainly limiting line length). I definitely find my way in this code and even find it kind of enjoyable. Sure, there are some details I don't remember but things are mostly here.

Do I have an exceptional memory, an exceptional tolerance to execrable code or both?

Re: the article, I've definitely felt "who wrote this shit" but I'm past it. Most surprising things have an explanation and this explanation should be sought before the final verdict… which is often not needed anyway. It's just a negative feeling that achieves nothing.
How can you get input lag of 20ms? do you have to slow down your code? I only implied it was network lag because it was so high.
As a defense of deflation, I'd say that "being incentivized to spend less doesn't mean that you're spending zero". Humans still need to eat and stay warm and fulfill their daily needs in a deflationary environment. You'll be very-well incentivized to work in a deflationary environment, you just might think a lot harder about buying something like a movie ticket if that money might be worth more in the future.
The US has a strange relationship with healthcare. and by that I don't mean professionals in white coats, I mean people taking care of their health in general, of which visits to white coated professionals is only a small part.

People seem to have this attitude they can spend money (or have someone else spend money) instead of taking care of themselves. Take a pill instead. Some think every little thing is an emergency or are otherwise unreasonably terrified (Recent Covid scare comes to mind. A very real and serious disease but some people inaccurately assess their risk and become neurotic). Unfortunately it doesn't work like buying a new car.

Many years back I dated a girl who was a physical therapist. She loved going to the doctor and hospital. When she felt slightly sad she would get "sick" and go get some attention which she paid through the nose for. I'm exactly the opposite and likely to Steve Jobs myself to death in the end.

I've read (don't know how true it is) that Americans take something like 60% of the worlds prescription drugs.

The whole thing is completely unbalanced and I don't believe other areas of the world are like this. Because of this I don't see an easy solution for the US. The government taking over health care is likely to result in deep dissatisfaction but the current system is super wasteful and frankly just bonkers.

The thing people don't want to understand for some reason is reality. Sometimes we feel bad. Sometimes we get sick. Eventually we will die. Sometimes medical professionals can help. Very often they cannot but that won't prevent them from billing you large sums of money. Also it's not rare for professionals to worsen the situation. Incentives are not always aligned and the body is a very complex system. Throw the US mid level manager hospital pharma insurance scam complex in the mix and incentives misalign even further.

The best dentist I've ever been to was in Mexico. Light years ahead of what I'd experienced in the US without the ceremony. The best doctor I've ever been to is an old time country veterinarian in his 60's. But that was for my dogs. Real practical sense a and humility with an eye to results and the understanding of uncertainty involved. I've always thought that's who I would like to treat me in the event of serious illness and practically speaking there little no reason he couldn't in most cases because I'm not very different then my dogs physically. In neither case was the hospital-pharma-insurance scam complex involved. That groups has made things immensely worse and killed large numbers of people.

Don't get me started on psych drug overuse in the US.
Reptiles have been laying eggs long before birds were around. Not sure why that question is still a matter of debate.
I'd keep talking to recuriters and interviewing in your situation.
But you do actually own that cap. Someone can’t take your cap away. An NFT pointing to a central server can be taken away. There is some robustness to IPFS of course.
And while it’s true that the player can “mint” new autographed hats, it’s different than the fact that anyone can make duplicate NFTs of what you own. The cost of doing so is much less than getting a busy player to take hours signing hats.

This is also why value of such things tends to go up after the player dies. It’s no longer possible to make similar works so the scarcity is locked. Again, not true with an NFT.
Whats the cause of amazon workers reportedly having to pee in bottles? Is that the government?

Yes, as a matter of fact, it is! Or rather, lack of effective government. An effective government would not only have laws to protect the workers, but also have a regulatory zeal to enforce such laws in ways they bite the employer, who obviously isn't treating its workers well enough.
I'm going to sound pretty dumb right now, but I'm from Leicestershire and have been to Rutland water many times when I was younger, but I never knew that Rutland was a county.
It's happened though, people have made NFTs of the art of various unaffiliated artists. It might not be the most common case, but it certainly happens.
The problem is actually in the wide gulf between illegal bribery, and regulated lobbying. The law says "This is lobbying, these are the rules, and required reporting", and the law says "This is bribery, and these are the punishments". There's a lot of activities involving politicians and money that don't fall under either.
That's a good point, life style does play a major part.

But I think this point also opens another subject, preventive healthcare. Many modern healthcare systems are starting to focus on prevention for 2 main reasons: increase quality of life and reduce long-term healthcare costs.

For example, in Finland public tobacco smoking is(was?) considered a public health issue. The government got actively involved to reduce consumption and this resulted in better overall outcomes in their healthcare systems for diseases caused or exacerbated by smoking.

IMO, obesity is a problem affecting the healthcare systems of many developed countries (Vietnam is not yet considered a developed country) arguably not at the same levels as in the US. But this again is part of how government chooses to get involved in fixing the healthcare system by enforcing policies or passing laws that help with prevention.
If it makes you feel any better about it, that tweet thread is from 2020, and the actual creator of the protocol itself hasn't worked there in a day to day capacity since 2017.[0]

[0]https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bram_Cohen
Also animals have they own languages it’s just they use smell or grunt or bop
Are you familiar with the Maps.org study and results? 100 participants with 17.5 years average of treatment resistant PTSD. The placebo at the end of 1 year: 80% had no improvement, 20% some [expected], the group who did just 2-3 sessions with therapeutic dose of MDMA (100-120mg) at the end of 1 year: 80% no longer qualified for PTSD diagnostic, 20% had some or no improvement; MAPS released/published their 69 page guide for therapists - the two main important components being varied music selection (with more specific definition/explanation given), and an empathetic listener - someone present who will actually fully listen and respond whole-heartedly if the client needs to share something.

Your final sentence also rings true for any remedy including SSRIs which many people have been harmed by, likewise your pointing out to this research not advancing due to political reasons - including system and regulatory capture - can be applied to existing treatments that were approved but perhaps should not have been; the conspiracy hypothesis that's becoming mainstream is that things like MDMA, psychedelics et al, were suppressed by for-profit industrial complexes via "the war on drugs" because pharma's patented daily-use recurring business model products couldn't compete with the very cheap to make, administer "2-3 times per year" chemicals that don't have anything close to the same "side" effect profile.

You can see how this regulatory capture still has a hold in Canada for the alcohol industry, where alcohol's a known carcinogen, and as a society we put warnings on tobacco products but no such warnings on alcohol - and this isn't the only incongruence in Canadian policy/culture.
Yeah, home-made vaccines are a thing, but they're usually made of inactivated viruses and have some disadvantages if used on a large scale. Still a fair option, and probably one we could have used early on for populations very much at risk, where the cost-benefit is worth it.

Problem is we don't do cost-benefit anymore. With Covid, pretty much any measure they approve becomes very soon mandatory. Vaccines approved for children? Vaccines are now mandatory for children (or strongly encouraged, depending on country).

That's... I don't even know how to call it. Bureaucratic thinking? A properly medical approach would be to have a bunch of tools with various degrees of risk and use them as needed. It's ok if individual doctors have to make more complex decisions. It's ok if guidelines are longer than one page.

Currently they seem to avoid allowing anything more complex than can be explained on TV.
I’ll take a stab:

Did you have high expectation parents or parents that were difficult to satisfy? Were you around snobby people all your life that were entitled and competitive in social hierarchies (think Mean Girls), justifying their worth via dangerous forms of validation (money, status, vanity, general elitism)? Did you yourself also amass these qualities throughout most of your life, or at least some of them?

A lifetime of being soaked in miserable baths like what I just described will create a disgusting internal dialogue that attacks both inward and outward (you hate yourself, and respect no one).

/signed

A Miserable person that knew many other miserable people.
> It is really frustrating how highway engineers, as a profession, are unwilling to consistently learn lessons from the Netherlands in designing cycle infrastructure.

These decisions aren't made by highway engineers, they are made by politicians.

The highway engineer puts a proper bikelane, makes the highway wider, and tells the politician that its going to cost 100 million dollars to do a couple of kms.

The politician says that there is no money for that, at most 10 million, and that they "promised it", and suggests whether one can't paint a line or something for cheap instead. Otherwise, the engineer is fired.

So the cousin of the politician ends up being paid 10 million $ for painting a shitty 1000$ line that serves no purpose.

There is a systemic difference between the UK and the Netherlands.

Suggesting that the UK doesn't have good bike lanes cause Netherlands has better highway engineers is as accurate as suggesting that the UK did Brexit cause their highway engineers are bad.
Wow that's insane. They should start with banning power hungry data centers whose whole purpose is to serve ads first.
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> But cronyism by definition operates at a human scale---a person can only have so many friends, after all

If your friends are Senators, Representatives, and the President, you can also deprive unlimited millions of people from opportunities.
I’m an American, and i’ve heard both “is a bliss” and “is bliss” my whole life.
Congrats - this is a big hurdle to adoption that is now gone. The engineering that went into this is impressive.
Bitcoin mining centralised by 2014, when GHash hit 51% and promptly spit into smaller pools so as not to frighten the suckers. In 2015, the guys controlling 80% of mining pools stood on the same stage together.

It's important to distinguish "decentralised" as in "can't sue me bro" from "decentralised" as in actual operational terms. Bitcoin contains tremendous operational centralisation at all levels.
The way I see it, it's not about the wealth itself, but the disproportionate influence in politics that it can yield. The wider the divide gets, the less democratic the country gets. Hypothetically.
I know this was a big issue for Thinkpads throughout the years, but as much as I care about the feel of a keyboard, I have never cared about the layout.

I guess we all have our pet peeves.
The blockchain that we now know as Etherium does not contain the blocks that were erased. The fact that those blocks still exist on a completely different blockchain is irrelevant. They have been deleted from the Etherium chain.
I lived in the NL for a year. Their road ways are a work of art. I can go on and on about their beauty, utility all day long. I mean look at this [1] and this [2] for instance.

[1] https://imgur.com/aEwTSm0

[2] https://imgur.com/4Lreaar
> My guess is that such a system won't be found in capitalism

It won't be found in communism or socialism, either.
+1

I wish we could have something like this here in the overcrowded cities of India, with increasing number of single-driver cars/taxis hogging evermore traffic. Motor vehicles run at an average speed of ~20km/h despite all the pollution and general danger, and will take about the same amount of time as commuting by bicycle - a cycling network will make it a lot faster.

Alas, amidst the political dramas, crooked bureaucrats and the real-estate mafia, I doubt we'll get serious town-planning in the next 20 y.
This is also why value of such things tends to go up after the player dies. It’s no longer possible to make similar works so the scarcity is locked. Again, not true with an NFT.
For the programmers working with the code, it definitely should be, but please let me know if you think there is a better place for explanations of code functionality other than the code itself. People like you are the reason why code becomes unmaintainable. You think some document separate from the code is a substitute for comments? It is not, your code is not as good as you think it is.

If you have an example on github of something commented the way you think is 'correct' please post it. I hope you're not confusing high level app documentation with code comments.
The elephant in the room here is that you can pay to win in any game by buying a monitor with higher reftesh rate and use a larger GPU that uses more electricity to have 2x more time to react.

Fortunately for us humans that seems to stop at 120Hz because most games can't even hold that at a steady rate with a 3090.

Now whether a 300+W gaming device is interesting in the long run will be answered this year by your electricity bill!
What if it's an Either type / some kind of discriminated union? e.g.

type PersonOrError = P of Person | E of Error

It can be either or a Person or an Error
It was 2500 years from Thales first describing static electricity to Napster, so just give the blockchain some time!
>> It's grossly inefficient

I think it’s more nuanced than that. There’s inefficiencies for sure but we need perspective to assess them against.

E.g. A triple heart bypass, the most common major heart surgery in the world, costs:

Approx 110k USD in the US system

Approx 50k EUR (56k USD) in Germany

And just under 9k GBP (12k USD) in the UK

>> I'm not sure how much more money the UK general public really thinks the UK government can come up with to keep giving the NHS "more!" money

Can you clarify what you mean by “come up with” in the context of the GBP which is a fiat currency?
But in the long term people need to take responsibility for their own choices. If you live in the middle of a medieval city and expect to travel 50 miles to a random market town at rush hour you are going to have a bad time. That was never a reasonable choice and puts an unfair burden on everyone else. Oxford can be made suitable for bike and pedestrians. It can never be made suitable for significant vehicle traffic.
> the ones who have their ownership verified on the blockchain are the owners

According to who?

Not according to the government. "Owning" an NFT doesn't give you any kind of reproduction or copyright rights.
No — that relies on the assumption that we're playing a zero sum game, which we're not.

There's nothing stopping wealth inequality from raising at the same time as living standards for the world's poorest do. In fact, it's exactly what's happening right now.
>There have been a lot of attempts to curtail wealth driven lobbying. Capital somehow overcomes all of them.

Exactly. It’s called “capitalism” for a reason. Karl Marx understood exactly how it worked when he started using this term to refer to it. It’s also the basis for Marx’s “political economy” which understands the politics are inseparable from the economics.
The medieval habit of 'two sleeps'
I suggest finding a therapist who specializes in cognitive behavioral therapy. They can help you with strategies to improve your thinking patterns and help you work on the origins of your problems. It's life changing, so find a therapist if you can afford it.
Not basically the same people. Canadian and US culture aren't the same. And the racial makeup is quite different.

57% of the USA is white, compared to 73% of Canada. Nearly 20% of the USA is hispanic, compared to 1% of Canada. There are many more Asians in Canada and much less people of African origin.
This article makes me more glad than ever that I saved all my old Stinkpads (a name I use cynically, yet affectionately). They're the only brand of laptop I've used since when they were made by IBM. I have 8 or so now. None of them quit working -- all replaced just because I wanted a newer model. Reliability and Linux readiness has never really been an issue (except the normal Nvidia driver issues). These, along with a stash of IBM M-101 keyboards keeps my ergonomics consistent since the 90s.
Bikes are a pretty big part of Italian transport, or at least more so than any other place I've been other than Amsterdam.

My girlfriend lived in a small town about 1.5 hours outside of Milan for a year, and was surprised by the bike path system that linked all the towns together around Lake Garda, and how old some of the people were who were riding to visit friends and family. Literally, age wasn't a reason to not ride a bike on these safe bikeways.
The front plane is bent. You can bend stuff in real life, but it's implied by the drawing that it's supposed to be a plane.