skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
When I was a kid, nobody thought it was anything unusual to have a reporter from the local newspaper come out to your house and write an article with your home address and phone number.

And now those articles are searchable on newspapers.com!

I do have to admit it was fun finding my mom's old Red Cross activities and my dad's chess tournaments. Any chess players remember Sammy Reshevsky? He was a friend of my dad's and would sometimes stay with us when he visited Eugene for a chess tournament.
Perhaps you could suggest an alternative?
There has got to be a big market opportunity for people who create "wordpress for xxxx" - alternatives for different sectors.

The sector where WordPress gets "mis-used" most is real estate. It really isn't designed for that usecase:
https://smallbusinessforum.co/why-an-alternative-to-wordpres...
You can also provide the plane with WiFi access this way. A passenger can easily activate WiFi in combination with Airplane Mode on most phones (including iPhone)
Ireland's Data Centers
But it's going to take a whole hell of a lot of special sauce to survive when you're the first random mid-level restaurant competing against places that can attract customers through line of sight.

You can't simplify away the varying value of certain land for certain uses and still pretend you're doing economics.
"Back" in 2019. Or.. last century as it feels like. Anyway, one of the comments in that quota thread appeared to say it's interesting to ask if current googlers could pass the test. The inference being a significant cohort might not.

Culture fit is mainly what matters after core competencies. When I ask the guys doing selection where I work they say coding exercises and whiteboard coding reveal a lot about how people think and even at worst, are the least-worst choice.

They consistently seem to say that domain specific knowledge is the least useful criterion.

I do suspect some google interview people get off on the "no" trip when people express confidence in themselves. Some people just enjoy power trips. And it's next to impossible to be proven wrong. (Never applied to a FAANG don't have any scars or gripes)
Heh, so much of the web runs WordPress. There are Facebook domains running it, huge news sites, banks, budgeting software, etc.
Rust: Forbid Pineapple on Pizza
>> CPU arch is not really that important

It actually depends more on the memory ordering. To speed up the running of x86 apps, the M1 has a strong memory-ordering mode designed to match x86.
It doesn't really make sense to think of it like that. "Money" is simply the value of what's in everybody's accounts, plus cash but that's a tiny percentage. When a bank makes a loan, new money is created. When a loan is paid off, money is destroyed. The role of the central bank is to keep enough money flowing in the system to create economic activity. Too much money and you get speculative bubbles. Too little money and the economy grinds to a halt.
These days it's not much more gendered than the word guys which is now frequently used to refer to mixed sex groups. And anyway Doug McIlroy is male so what exactly is your complaint?
You can also afford to have an ultrasound!
This article reminds me of a book I'm reading now, "Four thousand weeks: time management for mortals"[1]. One of the repeated themes is that every choice you make to do something, you are choosing not to do any number of things at that given time. Obvious when hearing it, but it's really made me ponder about how I choose to spend my time.

[1]: https://www.goodreads.com/en/book/show/54785515-four-thousan...
Custom Wordle – Make and share your own word
> What part of the system creates this difference?

American local zoning laws forbid building anything besides single family homes in the vast majority of land. Some are even stricter banning even renting out rooms in those one-story homes.

(More accurately land nearby commutable jobs, sure one can build apartments in the middle of nowhere, but the housing isn't needed there.)
Yeah, sure. But can an average human keep this speed for extended periods? I certainly can't, but granted, my fitness is lower than average.

I think the main problem is that with an e-bike your grandma could suddenly be cruising at that speed.
> Replacement of cars is realistic until it rains, snows, wind blows too much or you need to haul something, have multiple passengers and such.

Don’t all those things apply to a city like Amsterdam? Granted, there were still a decent number of cars on the road, but I was amazed how many people were doing their daily travels on bikes.

I’ve only been there once on vacation, and I didn’t pay attention enough to know whether the city design you mentioned is used.
As the prior reply mentions, much of LA was already established - at least as small towns - prior to 1930. I can’t see how nuclear war could have influenced it.

What is unique about LA is the water rights. To get access, those small towns had to agree to get incorporated within greater LA.
The best interview strategy for me is to give a short take-home assignment (coworkers go through it in under an hour max.) which is somewhat related to the domain space we are hiring for.

Some solutions are rejected on the spot (bad practices, does not solve the task correctly), other candidates are invited for a technical interview. Some generic questions, then we go through the solution - with emphasis on less than perfect areas. It is quite easy to see when someone is bluffing, and you also see how the person deals with feedback.
Just a bunch of opinions without any data
> Agriculture on the level of, say, the 17th century, demands a lot of time, but only in specific periods dictated by natural processes. In the meantime, as a male peasant you are "almost free", with scattered duties here and there

Yeah no. That meme came from estimation of some economist that completely ignored what actually male (or female) peasants done. And conditions they actually lived in.

And they already knew how to make candles.
> What can we do to get a people's e-bike that has 30 miles of range, requires no maintenance, travels 15-20 mph, and retails around $500?

I agree, we need a "people's" e-bike. Bare in mind it's not unreasonable to pick up a used human-powered bike for less than $100. It needs to be cheap, safe and serviceable.

I always thought the best way forwards for such a thing is to use existing mountain bikes, use the existing gearing, brakes and chain drive and add a motor/battery/control system to this. Do away with the pedals entirely, most e-bikes are far too heavy/hard to pedal to do any kind of serious cycling. If you have no intention of pedalling the thing, weight is not so much an issue.

> DC motors have fallen out of favor for "brushless DC motors." BLDC motors have a longer life, better low-end torque, and are easy to control electronically. These are a good solution, but improvements in motor technology driven by automotive R+D should trickle down.

I would still opt for a DC motor. Sure they are less efficient, have less torque, etc - but they are incredibly simple to drive. I imagine it might even be possible to build a reliable mechanical based controller.

> Bicycles are already absurdly efficient. E-bike battery packs are small as a result. Their small size means a less energy-dense battery might be better if it obviates the need for a more complex battery management system (BMS).

If you're not doing hills and rolling resistance is not so much an issue, lead acid batteries are cheap and pack a reasonable punch. They are incredibly easy to charge and have an excellent charge cycle life time.
I’m a total convert to ebikes and use a VanMoof (mentioned in this article as an example of vertical integration - its a great bike when it works, but it has a high failure rate. My parents use more traditional brands with a much lower failure rate but about twice the price) to move around my fairly bike unfriendly city. This article gets a lot of points right, but a few important ones wrong.

Firstly, I find it pretty surprising that the author would want to remove the drivetrain. I frequently do 75km (47 miles) in a weekend on a single charge on my bike, and I imagine that a lot of that range is due to the power that I’m providing to the bike rather than relying entirely on the inbuilt motor. The ability to go far is central to the goal of replacing as many car journeys as possible with sustainable transport such as bikes. In addition, bikes provide decent exercise with relatively little effort, built into day to day. Cycling makes us healthier. Also, if you run out of battery then you’ll just have to push the bike, rather than cycle a bike roughly the weight of a city-share bike back home, which isn’t a particularly difficult task for most. I do however see the benefit of this type of bike for some who use bikes as an accessibility tool, although maybe in those cases a scooter with a seat would be more convenient since it’s smaller.

The second idea in the article which made me double-take is the idea of removing direct mechanical brakes from the bike. As somebody who commutes around a busy city on a daily basis, this had me wondering if the writer actually cycles in a city or not. As a bike commuter I need to deal with drivers who want to kill me, pedestrians who jump out from behind obstructions with no warning, and other cyclists are too indifferent to their surroundings that they’re likely to injure the both of us. I need to fully trust that when I squeeze that brake lever that my bike will come to a stop in the exact way that I intend. Including if the electricals fail for some reason.

Finally, not bike related, the writer demonises the idea of making specific streets bike and pedestrian only, banning cars, and even seems to dislike the idea of the 15 minute city, where you aren’t required to leave your local neighbourhood on a day to day basis. This might be coming from the perspective of living in American city where the car is king, but it seems incomprehensible to me that somebody wouldn’t want to have all of their daily necessities easily accessible by foot, and be able to bike, or scoot, or take public transport to pretty much anything else they could need within a 15 minute window. There are both social and economic benefits to this, as it increases neighbourliness as people get to know each other, and also moves away from a small number of big box shops to a much greater number of local green grocers, butchers, book shops, and so on. Reduction of emissions is another huge benefit of course.

Overall I agree with the article directionally but think it gets a few pretty important things wrong.
Datalog.
> The market is still lacking a Toyota Corolla equivalent.

Here is Europe Rad Power Bikes are everywhere. That's the closest to the people's e-bike I can see.
Same on iPhone, although that seems to be mentioned on the page.

(For completeness: yes both Firefox and Safari, but that is to be expected as every other browser on iOS is just a skin, but you never know if a website looks up the user agent.)
It is windows' fault. Its their platform, architecture, their default configurations, sandbox, UX for security, etc
The Control/Responsibility Matrix
> Why is it that small craft work but large craft don't,

Because the goal of small craft is to go with the flow wherever the wind brings you, because that's fun.

The goal of commercial crafts is to go or transport stuff from A to B, independently of wind, and they are really bad at that.
That's not a bad argument, it's a statement of fact. I'm using it to point out that using Rust carries risk, whether you realize it or not. Just because you've accepted the risk, doesn't mean it is a universally good decision and C is now bad. Maybe coming down from a tree pays off, maybe you get eaten by a jaguar.

People who don't put in the effort to really learn their tools, need tools with training wheels. It's perfectly fine for a language to put in checks to protect you against yourself and be "fast enough for practical purposes", just don't confuse "almost fast" with "always fast". Rust programs have to pay the price for runtime checks because Rust doesn't trust you to know what you're doing.
I don't think either utilitarianism or deontology can claim precedence over one another. We are doomed to have the two fighting in the human brain for as long as there will be human brains. And different people will come up with different conclusions in the same circumstances. A third principle is "First, do not harm". Not just for the medical profession but for everybody in any circumstances. I think in many cases that one should let that take precedence over both utilitarianism or deontology. Both utilitarianism and deontology assume we are smarter than we actually are. We cannot compute the pleasure of all human beings in the aggregate. Nor are we very far-sighted prioritizing between principles in many cases. I am sure this conclusion is a disappointing one to the philosophers in the room but I think it is true.
So you are looking for active suppression. Aka law suits?

You deny a general chilling effect that patents have on the market overall? That people will, companies, and insterors will simply avoid patent encumbered technology

You simply refuse to acknowledge that generally accepted reality

//Sidenote. Stop asking me and others to look through your comment history. I am not going to do that. Make your points here and now
I am a little bit younger than you, and I do remember XP looking weird to begin with, but there is no doubt for me that the classic design is better and prettier than this modern flat stuff.

I know, because I accidentally ran the test on myself when I picked up a test devices at one point and marved at how beautiful the new iOS was, then I realized that I had picked up a super old device that was running iOS 6, which was the last one before the flat era.

XP was a huge upgrade over 98, and Win 7 was the last good operating system MS has made. If I could get a security/stability/driver upgrade to Win xp so that it works with modern hardware, I might still have been a Windows user today.

Except WSL Microsoft hasn't added any useful features to Windows that I can recall or are excited about since.

That said, I don't think you should put too much into the exact version of Windows emulated here - had it been 98, 95 or even Windows for Workgroups it would have been equally awesome.
Have you heard of Transferwise? Would solve your issue.

Separately, if I send you some Bitcoin right now, the fees will be tiny, not sure how you're getting to 5-10%. Volatility is a real concern and you can easily move 5-10% because of that.

ETH is a different story.
Measuring HF noise around a city
On the scale and type of tourism, they could fit out 100 rooms and treat the rest as a "potemkin village" and nobody would know.
If you need the vaccines to get immunity, why haven't most people who never vaccinated died or ended up in hospitals?
You can use php-fpm and nginx’s built-in fpm cache. No plugin required.
This is the insight I wanted.

Now I want to hear what FSF has to say about this...
+1, separate go module looks good to me.
No, it’s because people want single family homes and America had the space to build them cheap in new cities.

When I lived in Singapore most people live in apartments (government public housing). But damn near (not all) would love to own a landed home (single family home) if they can afford it.

In Canada my grandparents bought a beautiful single family home when the city was around 60,000. They could afford it because it was on the outskirts, out their back window were farms.

Today the city is 1.4M and their neighborhood is “central” and highly desirable.

LA saw a population explosion around WW2 because the armament industries paid well and it wasn’t hard to buy your own home due to the massive empty space.
Bentham is always credited with utilitarianism, but Francis Hutcheson (1694-1746), the PhD advisor of Adam Smith, formulated "the greatest happiness for the greatest number" nearly 100 years before Bentham.

Smith referred to him lovingly as "the never-to-be-forgotten Hutcheson." Oops.

Hutcheson also devised a system of "moral computation" (complete with a series of equations—and applicable to AI systems) and specifically indicated how it should be used in conjunction with human intuitions.
You shouldn't run your web server as root. I think the most common way of running WordPress is to use nginx in front of Apache, so you can easily run Apache as a special WordPress user for extra security.
I feel like the examples that were given were quite narrow-minded. Utilitarians aren't narrow-minded robots, I think most people will include the bigger picture when making decisions, including ethics.
> The mayor has a vision for a "15-minute city" where you rarely leave your neighborhood. The concept offends my American sensibilities of wanting to roam free over wide ranges.

Interesting comment, but I think a better take is that 15-minute neighborhoods don’t force you to leave your neighborhood for short trips. Is it really American to be forced into traveling outside of your neighborhood to go to things? I think it’s more free (and therefore “American?”) to have more local options, which of course doesn’t preclude distant options if you desire.
> WordPress is insecure by design.

Is there a proof for that?
>but no one actually uses them.

The two companies I worked in (and still work as of now) both were using fasthttp and non-stdlib json parser (jsoniter and jstream to be exact).

In fact in my experience - nobody uses stdlib implementations outside of projects were stdlib is actually enough (and that's a lot of projects actually) and temp\prototype projects.
You're right. Skyscrapers don't achieve any meaningful density because of all the space between them, which offsets their height.

The City of Paris (the classical mid-rise downtown without the La Défense skyscraper CBD), has a population density of around 20000pp/km2, climbing up to 50000pp/km2 in 11th arrondissement.

Downtown Tokyo and London are about the same.

In the developing world, some cities achieve much higher densities with only low rise buildings. Cairo is twice higher at around 40000pp/km2, but granted, the lack of urban planning and mass transit makes it inefficient too, and quite frankly, unlivable.

The only skyscraper district than can rival those is midtown Manhattan, which shies at around 20000km2. However it takes tightly packed skyscrapers to achieve it, at a much lower overall energy efficiency.
Very cool. Im quite surprised where I live the number of times the house is shadowed by a passing plane. Once a month at least.
I’ve been an ebike rider for a month now. My initial impressions are first, that this is amazing. Being able to commute a long distance in full winter clothing without needing to shower at either end is game changing.

Secondly, the mass of my bike is worrying huge. With a hub motor and a battery on the seat tube, it is very easy to injure oneself doing “normal bike stuff”. I’m very used to being able to just put the nose of the bike into a space and then lift the tail across to park the bike. I’ve done that a few times with the ebike and come very close to doing my back some serious damage.

Thirdly, in terms of social acceptability it feels like the transport equivalent of vaping. People seem openly interested in the bike but it’s always with a light undertone of something between skepticism and you’re an asshole. Maybe that will change when these become as affordable as push bikes. Until then, in a world where cyclists are already outsiders (the way you have to shut out the world in order to concentrate on the big road picture as a cyclist, while being so physically present in other people’s personal space, always seems to upset non-cyclists) ebike riders are the outsiders’ outsider.

Related to this point, 25km/h — the speed limit for ebikes in my jurisdiction — is too fast for mixed pedestrian/cyclist paths and too slow for roads. I would love to see that limit raised to 30km/h aka 20mph and have all urban routes limited to 20mph for all vehicles. Then I wouldn’t be constantly annoying road traffic for “not using the bike lane” when it’s clogged up with prams, people, and push bikes trundling uphill at walking pace.

I’ve always been the kind of cyclist who is quite comfortable bloody mindedly asserting their right to use anything a car is allowed to use, occupying the whole lane as a car would, much to the irritation of car drivers who 110% of the time would rather I didn’t. When I’m driving my car I also find this kind of “I’m a car too!” cyclist both within their rights and also somewhat selfish. With ebikes it feels you have to use the “fast” lane of share-with-cars rather than share-with-pedestrians, so maybe the upside is that this will nudge transport policy towards genuine bicycle lanes as opposed to these mixed bike/people abominations.

People are ultra lightweight vehicles unencumbered by metal frames and they are (and have the right to be) highly manoeuvrable. They can switch direction at any moment — they should be given dedicated lanes where they can be as chaotic as they want to be. Same for bikes, if slightly heavier. Same for cars, if quite a lot heavier.
Unrelated, but I saw this same article pass by twice here.

The first time the headline was: "How trust undermines science" and I didn't care for it.

The second time, the headline was "Trust undermines science" and thát made me want to read the article.

There is such a thing as a mental clickbait filter.
Does't the proposed solution both solve the issue of FaaS and also remove the main benefit? (ie having stateless function with clean state when it starts running)

Also it feels to me like FaaS is good when someone else is running the infrastructure (so you really don't have to know about the underlying infrastructure). Why are people self hosting this? Is it for local test platforms before deploying to a managed FaaS?
Yrwind's Constant Weight Diet
Antilibrary?

https://fs.blog/the-antilibrary/
By this extension, you should be saying it is the Linux kernel’s fault all these sites were hacked.
From the depths of time: a 30-year-old bug with a funny explanation
Artificial RF Ground (2011)
I think the difference is these people need to be constantly looking at the keyboard, as they depend on the letters printed over the keys.

But yes, they can be fast in short bursts.
You might find this interesting: https://youtu.be/Uhx-26GfCBU

People bike in bad conditions all over the world — the difference is that their infrastructure allows that. The bike paths are top priority when plowing, for example. Here in North America, bike lanes seem to be rarely cleaned and maintained even in very bike friendly cities.

The last part of your comment is definitely true, and I hope this is explore more in America. It’s called the “fifteen minute neighborhood” in some places
Bill Wyman from the Rolling Stones Is His Own Grandson
You should look at the works of Paolo Soleri, an architect who designed buildings to accommodate the living needs of up to hundreds of thousands of people. Despite their size, they have light and air throughout. Pretty remarkable.

https://duckduckgo.com/?q=Paolo+Soleri+arcology&iar=images&i...
It might be a good idea to archive current job offers in your local area. I always checked if a company had anything posted on SO Jobs. It was a clear indicator that engineering and development had priority. It also spoke a lot about their culture and work environment.
And yet I have enjoyed food for nearly 32 years, and I am if anything underweight. Enjoyment is not synonymous with overindulgence.
The "nobody knows but it works" quality of the pretreatment for the donor heart is fascinating. How many different cocktails did they try and what motivates the choices of ingredients if "nobody knows" -really? it's probably shorthand for everyone knowing classes of substance which are efficacious and nobody being clear on why, but there are theories.
The writing of response (the write to the socket).

Go: fmt.Fprintln(w, "Goodbye, World!")

Java: os.write(response.getBytes());