skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
You're being downvoted but it's a fact that cars satisfy some scenarios in a way that alternatives can only approximate. For example: if you want to stay dry, or you're impaired, or you are carrying significant loads, the experience in cars is objectively superior to bikes or public transport. One can tweak the urban environment as much as one wants, this will still be the case. And as you mention, the degree of freedom that it provides simply cannot be matched by public transport.

It is possible, however, to shave some of the excessive and frivolous use, so I wouldn't necessarily bet that we'll have more cars in the future. I would bet that they won't disappear or even reduce in numbers particularly dramatically; considering population growth and economic development, at global level the best one could hope for, if anti-cars, is to keep absolute numbers as they are today - already a very tall order.

Edit: downvoted for stating facts. Sadpanda.jpg.
They Made Millions on Luna, Solana and Polygon: Crypto’s Boom Beyond Bitcoin
Interesting read. Why I am not sure about "Ruliads" :-), it led me to a previous post of his [0], where he talks about how he found the minimal axiom system for classical propositional logic.

[0] https://writings.stephenwolfram.com/2018/11/logic-explainabi...
This is why I like to ask people to talk me through a change that I think I don't like, or might be wrong, before passing judgement. One of two things happens in the process of them explaining:

- they know something about the context that I was unaware of or have an insight that I hadn't thought of and so I learn something and change my mind
- they realise they've missed or misunderstood something, or were unaware of something which I can communicate to them, so they learn something and change their mind. Sometimes this can be as mundane as "this isn't idiomatic, we should prefer the community style.

It's almost always a learning experience for one of us, frequently both. I've learnt a lot over the years of reviewing other people's code.

In the cases where neither of these things happen it's because it's a question of personal taste, there's nothing wrong with the code, I just wouldn't have written it that way. In those cases I leave it alone.
> Moving to a smaller house (more expensive city) and having kids flipped the situation around. Avoiding interruptions at home was extremely difficult because I was always only a door away from someone asking a “quick favor”.

IMO full remote can eliminate the need to live in a small house in an expensive city.
My dear friend, throwaway-account-created-just-to-comment, I have also read Mein Kampf[1] a few times. Will you now, assume, I trying to be a Nazi or practice anything in that quadrant.

I'm reading up on religion, so I can understand or at-least try to understand, why some people are so tangentially religious that they will flip and take sides and have to be part of something to defend their thoughts.

Religion or beliefs are weird and many a people tend to get sucked in so bad, they neither see logic nor reasoning to try to be see the various sides/perspectives and what-ifs.

Now, I know why my wife always warned me before going to parties and social gatherings, "Do not explain topics to people even if they are wrong and you are right." No wonder, she is the go-to person whom everyone wants to tell their fun/sob/love stories but she never pass on any of the messages or talks about anyone to another. ;-)

1. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mein_Kampf
> "Wayland doesn't support Y" or "Z doesn't work on Wayland" statements only make very limited sense.

No. Essential features depend on the "compositor" because Wayland doesn't support them. You're mixing up interface and implementation.
I've had a few issues (NixOS, sway). Mainly screen capture. XWayland apps can record windows, but not my whole screen. Wayland apps can record my whole screen but not individual windows. I also don't know how to get XWayland to match my sway display resolution as it is only half the resolution.

Also libinput via sway doesn't have a way to disable the touchscreen if I'm using a stylus as far as I'm aware.

I'm sure there are solutions to some of these, but given I already spend a significant amount of time fiddling with my NixOS configuration I'm already quite an outlier with regards to the amount of effort I am willing to spend and even I'm exhausted.
This one is a masterpiece:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CK62I-4cuSY

To survive in the new internet economy, you need to come up with a new service or product that people will want. Not likely, right?

Using your brain to think of an idea, and your skills to implement it: Thats the old model.
That was because, whether you agree with it or not, the US government deemed their behaviour to be illegal.

And so the issue you have is not with Paypal, Visa etc unless you think that those payment companies should tolerate illegal parties transacting money. Because that is a very slippery slope especially given how much wealth in the world comes from the despair of the very poor and helpless.
Let me ask a better question.

What exactly are the valid use cases that are not already better served with centralized systems THAT DOES NOT involve illegal activity?
I still have a x260, but yes, I believe that's the trend. If frame.work manages to get a decent keyboard with trackpoint, I'm probably in. I don't know about the build quality yet.
> which I don't see a use case for besides simplicity

There is a use case for that. Maintainability. Drop one file to start. To delete, delete the file. To upgrade, replace the file.

For example, I really like tiddlywiki because no matter where or what, I only have to deal with and track 1 file.

It’s impressive what they’ve accomplished with just one file full of custom content. Even upgrading is possible.
China showcases low-carbon tech for 'green' Games
It very much depends on which country you are in.

So for North America or anywhere with a high iphone usage it makes sense and the small amount extra for the iPad is completely justifiable, but I think in other countries it ends up coming down to price.

For the 3rd world Android phone usage is probably close to 90% so its significantly less likely those people will change OS for their tablets if they get any. Significantly lower salaries so that 30% extra for the ipad is a big one.

Then the $100 kids tablet market is HUGE. No one cares if the kids tablet is slow as long as they don't break/ are cheap to replace.

If you are using the tablet mostly for consuming (web, movies, reading) then the real difference in performance between the 2 systems is not really noticeable. The most noticeable part is the time for an app to start / switch after that performance is very comparable.
Notice a major keyword you used there - “Bitcoin”. Which we all know has a real world use case (several countries have made it their national currency for crying out loud), just as the example you gave with Wikileaks. Nobody could stop people sending it, period.

Everything else (and yes I’m even referring to ETH) is crap. It’s not truly decentralized, doesn’t have a REAL world use case (get real and be honest please), and don’t have anyone (or entity) “in charge” of it. Those are the major (among other) things that a real crypto is supposed to have by very definition.

Everything else is worthless (a “get rich scam”), and we all know it. And shame on those creating that crap, along with those gullible enough to buy them. Seriously, wake up. It’s just the hard cold truth, and we all know it.

Sorry to break it to most people, but apparently most don’t understand this “common sense” concept that is stupidly obvious in my opinion.

Even in the case of ETH (the undoubted #2 crypto), what would happen if Putin decided to go after Vitalik with all his might and the supper of the entire Russian government? You really think he’d stand a chance (and that’s assuming he’s a saint as well)? Again, wake up everyone. There’s a very good reason BTC has no “admins” or “chair board”, because nobody can corrupt it. Even the creator(s) of BTC were smart enough to not use their real names and lock themselves out of the system, and then disappear. They know what was coming. And now so should you. It’s really not complicated. There’s so many extremely powerful , rich, and ruthless people out there that stand to lose everything if this succeeds. You really Think they aren’t going to put up a fight?!? Get real. But that’s only if they know who to go after….
> The classic sets still exist and how children play with Lego depends on their personality and what they have available (and how it is stored). Children are individuals and Lego allows a larger variety of play than most other toys on the market.

Yes. And also, many if not most kids combine approaches. Start by building based on manual, then they play with it and it gets gradually destroyed, then just use it is as material.

Have few favorite sets they keep, the rest gets destroyed and used as bricks when in mood.
Hmm I have no idea what Uber promised in the US, but where I am it's just a more convenient taxi. And it's pretty useful for that.
If you want to learn programming, knowing how to use type systems is valuable skill from day one.

For children see this (very different objectives indeed):

https://www.rollapp.com/app/kturtle
I suppose ETags could allow you to continue tracking someone even if they purged their cookies?
I mean you're being nitpicky with my words here. I'm obviously talking about malicious actors when I use the words "vulnerable".
Idealistically yes.
But you should focus on financial inequality first(for example with global remote work accepted as the norm).
If all of a poor third world country move to a first world country overnight this is just the same poor country on another continent.

I'm 100% for immigration, but realistically if you just allow everyone to move overnight, it's just going to make a big mess unless we first focus on financial inequality.
Nice hack. What happens if you run it on an unsupported platform? At the very least, I'd expect a runtime exception, ideally on startup. But how do you check whether you can actually evaluate that assembly with the given ABI?
Chipmakers are doubling down on coprocessors with Pluton, first to market in Amd Ryzen 6x series chips. It's a rootkit on your machine plain and simple.
Can you? I would be incredibly nervous about breaking unknown stuff and it not getting noticed without tests.

For context, I work predominantly with stats/DS problems, where errors may not actually cause obvious (or indeed any) warnings/errors.
This is a big issue. I personally not a big fan of both Slack and Discord. I think something like Github Discussions is much better. As far as other solutions...maybe Stackoverflow can have something like this too for open source projects
> After all it could be hacked? Or faked?

The whole premise of blockchain is that no transaction can be altered. What happened -- happened, unlike someone's text or screenshots on someone's servers on the Internet.
With copy-on-write:

$a = ['a'];
$b = $a;

$a and $b both point to the exact same bit of memory. Thus passing an array between functions is zero-cost.

When you do:

$b[] = 'b'; // append 'b'

a new array is allocated, the old data copied to it, and 'b' appended to it (basically, but IIRC, it is a bit more optimized than that).
I Turned My Dyson Fan into a Bladeless Jet Engine
Just the past few months?

NFTs are just an extension to what happened to bitcoin years ago, when it failed to scale but nobody in charge cared. The main interest in cryptocurrency is not in "A Peer-to-Peer Electronic Cash System", but in a global game of greater fool. Lack of scaling isn't important, because the people in control are perfectly happy with paying once to buy in, then selling once to cash out. If your expectation is that you'll make extremely infrequent transactions worth in the tens of thousands of USD, that you had to pay $50 to get it processed reasonably quickly is a rounding error.

Overall it'd been interesting to see how the supposed decentralized system didn't really last. Things got centralized anyway in that there's a very small team that develops the software and a small amount of groups that form an unelected governance systems, and the small contributors to the network effectively don't matter.
PSA to those attempting statistical analysis of the results: people can live in multiple places, and the poll does indeed allow such selection. Assuming in analysis that one vote is equivalent to one person may lead to inaccurate conclusions, as will attempting to build relationships between this data set and those where people are usually represented only once (like US census data).
> I think that a lot of people are anti-NFT because they hate them and all these explanations for the exact reason why they suck shift once you start talking to these NFT haters and engaging them.

This seems like you’re arguing against the weakest form of the argument rather than engaging with the specific criticisms offered by people who understand the technology at least as well as most proponents. For example, most of the criticism I’ve seen of NFTs in gaming isn’t just about the high cost or environmental but rather more the fundamental business questions about what problems the companies who make games have which are best solved this way. If it’s something a company could trivially do now but has chosen not to, it’s unlikely to have a technological fix.
How much Bitcoin do you own? Why should I listen to a user who was created 26 minutes ago, with this as their only post, telling me about how amazing Bitcoin in particular is?
Because it wasn't the only thing. Ribbon specifically on MS Office was informed by a lot of data gathered from users and attempting to make functionality more visible (also, it kinda promotes keyboard shortcuts - hit alt and look at ribbon)

Of course a lot of applications later "embraced" Ribbon without all that preparation, and to be quite honest, I don't hear much complaints about Ribbon in Office - outside of nostalgia it's rare.
What else is there to the narrative? This stuff is predominately solutions in search of problems and they are not innovative except for trying to financialize and/or securitize every conceivable digital artifact imaginable. It sucks comprehensively like at the ideological origin points.
Ah I see, you partake in cargo cult development. Thank you for elaborating and have a good day.
> But how is vaccine tracking, with temperature information, lot numbers, location, etc, being logged to a secure, fast, carbon-neutral DLT not a good use case?

Trust isn't an issue; a conventional database will be perfectly fine. Like, if you wanted to sell a product for tracking vaccines (assuming, for a moment, that health services and other large vaccine buyers don't have decades-old systems for this which everyone already knows how to use, which, if course, they do) why would you bring The Almighty Blockchain into it?
I would be absolutely floored if any of those other toy brick manufacturer had the quality of LEGO, they are injection molding wizards.
Overwhelming majority (but not all) of kids I know have parents that limit how much they can play on computer or tablet. They play with legos regularly (among other things).
Maybe they can orphan it. It will work in context
Uniswap V3 uses NFTs to represent liquidity provider positions.

> https://uniswap.org/blog/launch-uniswap-v3
No. I'm saying that institutional failure should be addressed/solved "in place", rather than blindly hoping that disbanding said institution would solve anything.

- There's a high likelihood that the institution was created because it's useful. Before arguing for its complete removal, the onus is on you to prove that you understand why it was originally needed, and why/how the circumstances changed in a way that makes it non-useful/not needed anymore.

- There's a high likelihood that if it's needed, just disbanding it and creating a new one will not solve stuff in the long run. Before replacing the institution one needs to show that they understand what are the challenges of reforming it (why reforming will be impossible/more difficult than recreation; and why the new institution will avoid having the same fate).

It's in a way similar to software: many engineers will jump at the opportunity to declare that "old code is garbage and should be rewritten from scratch"; but that is seldom a good choice, and once you start on that path, if you're simply trying to replicate the same functionality you are more likely than not to end up with new code that is still garbage.
In the specific example from AXA the payments didn't go via the blockchain, so there is absolutely no advantage to it here.

If the payment also is handled via the blockchain, there is a large number of potential concerns here. For me, I don't see how the really minor benefit here would be worth the rather big unknown risks. One important aspect here is that in fully automated systems like this, exploits are also much more efficient and can affect many more people at once.

It is also not clear to me how this would work for insurance at all. For automated and verifiable payment you need to deposit the funds into the contract somehow, and that is simply not how insurance works. If the insurance companies had do lock down funds like this, that business model simply would not exist. So in practice this would have to be some mechanism that only deposits a fraction of the funds. And then I, as a consumer that bought some insurance there would also be vulnerable if someone cleaned out that pool of money, e.g. by exploiting a flawed oracle or risk estimation process.

I don't understand enough of the details here to actually judge the risk, but to me that is a point against the entire thing.
I think you have to read the sequel Lila too, as it explains so much that the first book merely hints at, particularly all about Quality, which it explains the structure of in detail...and it makes perfect sense. There's less crazy, more anthropology. I don't know which book I like more.
Hopefully no distribution enables "telemetry" without opt-in?
US didn't kill Assange obviously. He's also not extradicted yet and not in the US. He is in prison for leaking US governement secrets ( but outside the US), those things are still illegal fyi. It was clearly known for him from the start that it could have a huge impact.

Being in the election against Putin and be poisoned by Plutonium because of just that, is obviously multiple levels worse.

Eg. US literally had multiple planes bombarding their country for terrorism as a direct cause of many things.

Russia was also under direct attack of Germany. It was in their benefit to deter Germany, US/Canada was not under attack.

What would be the current shit show of Belgium? Talking about 200 years ago as an argument is clear whataboutism. I don't blame anything on current Germany either ( and we have joint memorials in Ypres for example), but if you look at current attempts of what you're talking about and try to blame. You should again check what Russia is doing today ( and not 200 years ago).
Err, sorry I have a typo in my original post. The Y is "flipped" (not X). I feel a Northing Easting system should appeal to both surveyors and mathematicians b/c it matches the X-Y plane we're used to in math class. But unfortunately it doesn't match display coordinates which conventionally start in the upper left corner. If I output say an SVG and it's got some weird artifact or things are cropped strange due to some off-by-one errors then it's much easier to debug if your internal geographic coordinates are aligned to the final display coordinates. You don't need to do any mental translation and offsetting to figure out how the values correspond between the two systems

In fact I go so far as to output SVGs with degrees values (degrees relative to the upper left point) and then there is a global scale factor for the final image to fit whatever size I want - so the image units are in real degrees - this makes life a lot easier.

After reading all the responsese here my argument would be that you should use whatever internal representation is most convenient programmatically - and then you expose in your API or UI or whatever a system based on other criteria (though it's hard to see how lon/lat would ever be sensible here). Your internal and external systems don't have to have any relation.

As you've deduced my problem space isn't too concerned with projections at the moment. Both precipitation and elevation data comes in a GeoTIFF (ie. lat/lon grid). In fact doing any kind of projections would distort by grid and greatly complicate my life :) But it's something I will keep in mind. When you start looking at large areas then you effectively have different data densities at different ends of the region and this is not great (poleward things have disproportionately more data). Thanks for the extra information and references - it may come in handy eventually.
What reports have you seen that show the actual numbers? Genuinely curious.
As far as I know, there is only one report that has been released--that was by Gamestop itself for the 3rd Quarter (Aug 1-Oct 30). That number was 5.2 Million.

Now, the DRS movement, for lack of a better term, did not start to take off until late August/Early September. IOW, DRSing shares has not been going on since last January.

The next quarterly results (Nov-Jan) will be released around the end of March and, assuming that Gamestop continues to release the DRS numbers, will provide 2 data points.

The last point I would like to make is that the total number of shares outstanding for Gamestop is only 76.5 Million. 12 Million of those shares are Insider shares. Even if you Ignore institutional holdings and individual investor shares held in brokerage accounts, 5.2 Million is 8% of 64.5 Million. I would say that is not an insignificant percentage, even if the DRS movement stagnated after October.
Just remember when adding `apache-commons` crate to your project, use `apache-commons = "1.2.17"`, not `apache-commons = "1"` :)
Use JS + JSDoc comments with types + TypeScript to check types. No compilation step, but code is type safe.
Let's take a look at this particular small set from the old Pirates theme:

6259: Broadside's Brig [https://brickset.com/sets/6259-1/Broadside-s-Brig]

For what was a very small and cheap set at the time, you are getting 3 minifigs and a small building on a baseplate. The bulk of the parts are yellow- and white-coloured bricks for walls and architectural elements. There is a specialised yellow-coloured edge panel with a red brick texture, but it plays very nicely with the rest of the parts architecturally. You can easily combine this set with the bigger forts and harbours. The colours are compatible, the parts are compatible.

This is not certainly the case with modern Lego sets.
Those articles are 10 years old.
In other words, blockchains don’t help at all. The game industry has walled gardens now because that’s what they want and people keep giving them billions of dollars, not because nobody has heard of databases and APIs.
It's the same approach as Tauri then? Except of course, Tauri has Rust in the "backend".
You could filter those sites manually by yourself, if that is the only negative point.
That's a really asshole cookie banner. It looks like only essential cookies are checked, but the big red button accepts all cookies, ignoring the selection. You need to careful read and select the second button to only accept the selected cookies.
I’ve seen it so many times.. what is flawed with Wayland? Do you even have sufficient knowledge on the topic to have a fact-based opinion on it? Because 1) wayland is made by the very people who maintained X for decades, 2) it is a deliberately small-core protocol which is extensible - which allows future growth. That small core is quite easy and elegant, it can hardly be flawed, unless you have something concrete to say about that. It is pretty much “display this buffer of type X” and that’s it.