skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
In most places in America walking is not a practical mode of transportation because of distance

Which is 100% our own fault. We could build suburbs with walkable shopping and schools, but we don't. Hell, even in my sort-of-walkable suburb (Reston, VA) sidewalks and bike lanes are both a bit of a bodge. It's on in the last year that there's a continuous sidewalk from my house to the school complex <1 mile away (but the neighborhood was built in the early 1970s). And despite that continuous sidewalk with zero major road crossings, there's still public school bus service (which actually takes longer to get kids home than walking because of the way it loops around). But, kids and parents sit patiently at the top of the street instead of walking a few blocks.

Separately, it would be nice if we had more sidewalks, but they are financially unsustainable in low density areas.

They're less expensive than roads by an order of magnitude. The only place they aren't feasible is true rural zones. But, the vast majority of Americans live in cities or suburbs - there's no good excuse for not having sidewalks in these areas.
To default deny everything other than HTTP is patently absurd and it should not be used as an excuse for poor engineering.

The security argument is poor at best, and dangerous at worst. The fact that one can SSH over HTTP means organizations are no more secure than if they just allowing direct SSH access. Forcing everything over HTTP serves to obfuscate what could be dangerous traffic (SSH-based exfiltration) as innocuous web-browsing.

The real way to implement default deny is to block everything except that which is required. If new ports were required for HTTP2 and HTTP3 then you would simply open those ports. If you didn't want to support HTTP/1 because it's unencrypted and it closes the connection after each request you would block port 80 and be done with it. Instead, we build super-complex software that changes its behavior based on a version string in a GET request.
In the US you aren't allowed to cross the road wherever you wish as a pedestrian? That seems bizarre to me, in the UK it's completely normal for pedestrians to cross the road wherever they want to.

> and I guarantee you'll see a spike of pedestrians getting hit for a while.

I guarantee the UK has a lower incidence of traffic collisions than the US, per capita or per miles driven.
More like blue flu than any real policy changes. The society at large threatening to hold the police accountable for their actions seems to have made them decide not to do their jobs even less than they were before.
>Ubiquitous cameras and wifi that can easily track everyone by their appearance, gait, heartbeat and other signatures etc. become commonplace.
>Deepfakes that make any sort of video evidence useless, while AI creates plausible “parallel construction” to win court cases against anyone

I'd say that those two scenarios directly contradict each other in many ways.
Confirmation Bias in UX Work
Are you part of some private community, that is able to make purchase orders on behalf of its members?

Otherwise, what you describe is not normal. The bill would be paid by whoever issued the PO. If it wasn't me, I'm not paying. If it was not on my property, then not my problem, and if it was, you have also trespassing on top.

So the only alternative that occurs to me that you are a part of some community, with common maintenance of shared property and where the bill is footed by members.
I do the same thing. I keep a text file with friends' names and from time to time check it too.
Thing is, I don't think any individual investor is going to experience "on average" stock market patterns, they are going to experience a particular random walk. I think averaging is "better" if you are risk averse and concerned about worst case scenarios.
In most places in America walking is not a practical mode of transportation because of distance; it’s miles from your house to the grocery store, for instance.

That is true to an extent, but it is equally true that there are lots of areas that could be quite walkable, but aren't due to lack of infrastructure. My friend lived less than a mile from the mall, but it was impossible to walk there since it was cut off by a 4 lane road with no way for pedestrians to cross. My grandparents lived in a gated community that was literally across the road from a Walmart, but the only way to get there was to drive 1 mile up the road, turn around, and drive back.
Both are likely ;)

The idea that you need to throw unit testing out to be successful is kind of silly.

When you’re growing a very complex system (huge micro services pattern and dealing with sensitive data) you’ll be happy you have tests to save your ass.

…speaking from experience.
Note that the proposal comes from a Select Committee of MPs - this isn't the Government. Select Committee reports often propose recommendations that the Government disagrees with and does not implement.

Actual report is here: https://publications.parliament.uk/pa/cm5802/cmselect/cmtran...
Cars are bigger and faster but with the same fundamental reliance on humans not to speed or be dicks as when Model T was on the road.

Fwiw, many groups are attempting to build self-driving cars it would be easy to produce cars that drove at sensible speeds as an intermediate step. That this hasn't happened says something about how a society values drivers', and drivers rights to break the law versus those of the innocents they routinely kill or maim as result.
Presumably the goal is to also reduce congestion, by having variable rate tolling that charges more for driving at high demand times and less for low demand times.
No, it's not. "People" didn't build Discord. A company built it, then sold it to Microsoft for more than $10 billion. There is nothing guaranteeing that it's still going to be around in the next 5 years, let alone the next 10 or 50 or 100.

Remember the last "better alternative" that was also very good, worked on all major platforms, also got sold to MS for multiple billions?

To go back to the OP's point and the article. If you are a neophyte who cares about nothing but the immediate convenience, sure, stick with whatever Big Tech is pushing you. But if you want longevity and stability, DO NOT BUILD YOUR HOUSE ON SOMEONE ELSE'S LAND.
> People don't like hearing that the market can be beat because they don't like feeling inadequate.

I didn't dispute the fact that the market can be beaten. There's overwhelming evidence for that (e.g. Renaissance, Berkshire). I didn't even dispute your claim that you have beaten the market. I merely asked for some evidence to back up that claim. The fact that you responded without providing any evidence makes me think you actually haven't beaten the market consistently. Perhaps you have had one or two good bets that provided spectacular returns.
I dunno, I am very bad on the phone and an introvert but I found that even after a few years I have people who are genuinely happy to speak with me. I forced myself to call one of them last week and reconnected. Not my best friend but feels good
I wonder if this is because the languages we use today like C#, Java etc evolves mostly horizontally, like standard library improvements, syntactic sugar, performance etc, instead of vertically like higher abstraction and modularity.

What I’m trying to say is that we lack abstractions to model our intent on a higher level.

I think that is why we invent things like micro services because we can’t express modularity on higher level good enough , when that type of abstraction should be built into the language itself (and irrelevant if it is on a separate network node or not).

I guess Java modules is a go at this, don’t know if successful or not.

That is how I at least feel when I’m maneuvering huge projects, a building block is missing.
The worst case with credit cards is not lost money. It's identity theft. Give your credit card info to the wrong person and you'll end up dealing with tens of thousands of pounds of loans taken out in your name.
What the hell are you going on about?
Et tu, Larry? Why so many celebrities are shilling for crypto
Does this mean it is trivially easy for any student or employee to make their institution stop paying publishers by getting it banned?
I have a Pomera DM200, I sometimes take just this device to places and type up random story ideas and other sketches into it.

Ultimately modern laptops have nicer keyboards, but there's something fun about the constraints of devices (like just having no real formatting options, so you just type out stuff).

I think if you can imagine uses for the device in an offline environment you can have fun. Trying to interface with the modern web is always tough though... like "good web browser experience" is a hard ask

https://goodereaderstore.com/products/kingjim-digital-memo-p...
Do they not already have even better data via mobile networks?

I am in the US and I assume the government has access to my location history to however accurate mobile networks are at any time, because I always have my phone on me.
This 'nationalworld.com' post barely contains any useful information, where they have applied their interpretation. It's better to read the original pages from the Transport Select Committee, where the information is better presented.

The 'news' page is here: https://committees.parliament.uk/committee/153/transport-com...

And their summary is here: https://ukparliament.shorthandstories.com/road-pricing-trans...

If you are time and curiosity rich, the full report is here: https://publications.parliament.uk/pa/cm5802/cmselect/cmtran...
This is all of human history. People always want the ideas they believe to be harmful to remain unaired - and this is a reasonable stance from a utilitarian perspective, assuming the censorship works. I don't like it, but that's the nature of prisoners' dilemmas: free speech requires a degree of cooperation among all participants to adhere to rules of engagement, and this trust is both easily broken and profitable to break.

Progressives cancel Rogan for spreading anti-vax sentiment, Conservatives try to cancel schools for studying CRT. Socrates was cancelled to death; it seems to be an eternal factor in political engagement.
Has anyone seen some numbers on the .net core vs .net full usage? A lot of my projects are stuck on full, either because of incompatible dependencies, CLR APIs not implemented or winform. I can’t be alone. As a result I kind of stopped following what’s new on .net. It feels like a python 2/3 split of the user base, though a lot quieter.
I think you overestimate the amount of redundancy required for a usable writing system. For instance, Thai has a large number of confusable characters: consider pairs such as คด, ชซ and ขฃ. [0] is an interesting exploration of letter shape in Thai — redundancy is good, so Thai people have invented numerous strategies for making letters more distinct.

[0] http://wrdingham.co.uk/thai/tellthai_preface.htm
The thing is that we really, really want to be able to stop giving the OPV vaccine because - aside from the fact that it requires a bunch of resources and there's always the risk of disruptions to vaccination from civil wars, other pandemics, etc - the original unmutated vaccine itself paralyzes and even kills a small fraction of the people it's given to, and at low levels of disease those cases can easily become more common than actual polio-related paralysis. That's why it's not used in the developed world anymore.
Agreed - although remember the MOT only starts once the car is there years old. There is no MOT for the first few years.

Also, and more of an edge case, there are some vehicles that don't require an MOT, such as vintage vehicles (which also don't pay VED) and don't public sector fleets (such as police cars)
Recipes aren't allowed on Wikipedia; see https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:What_Wikipedia_is_no...

Apart from anything else, there's no WP:RS for a recipe; each authoritative chef will have their own perfectly-legitimate version.
Because you don't know if it's overhyped or not.
> Bradbury predicted that people, disturbed by confusing or challenging ideas, might one day demand censorship for themselves and protection from any information that pierced the veil of their own simplified reality.

> In a society now dominated by reassuringly reductive tweets and memes, where supposedly learned people choose to boycott long-form podcasts, encourage publishers to ditch books by controversial authors, or lean on streaming providers to severe ties with comedians and other artists, this prediction from 1953 sounds eerily familiar.

Assuming this is the underlying thesis of the article, this is a simplistic view of information.

In real world, it's not always obvious how to distinguish "controversial" with "crackpot". With today's ease of publishing, there's plenty of information on every crackpot theory, which requires a practically impossible amount of research from the individual to systematically falsify. Some of them are harmless (flat earth), some of them are potentially dangerous (e.g. ivermectin).

Spread of potentially dangerous information is a lose-lose situation. If let spread, it will cause (on large enough scale) harm, if not, the popoluation will scream at censhorship.

The related link to a Don’t Look Up screenshot in the article page is actually very telling - in that movie, the audience knows for certain that the asteroid/comet will destroy earth. In reality, it's not so black and white, and doomsday theories are a dime a dozen.

Articles like this don't help at all to shape a cognitive approach to modern excess of information.
On the Surface Book’s 267dpi 13.5″ 3000×2000 screen, I found subpixel antialiasing to still make a visible improvement over grayscale (yes, with being careful about gamma and such to avoid the confounding factor of different stem darkness/thickness), though it was definitely much slighter than at half the resolution.
>No, it is not. It is the physically correct way to do it. 50% more red light is emitted than blue or green. That is a red tint.

That is a red tint. And that's why it's not the correct way to do it. A subpixel antialiased white line that is seven subpixels wide, on a black background, should not produce (8-bit RGB triplets): 0-0-0, 255-255-255, 255-255-255, 255-0-0.
Yes you're right I am confused. Do you know if there's some sort of internal market within the post office, similar to how GP surgeries run in the NHS? Or some sort of franchise system? I think that's what's thrown me a bit. I've heard individual post offices being talked about like they're 'owned' by a specific person and typically the people referred to are business types who have multiple things going on
>paid reparations

Not sure how well that aged now that the US essentially took all the money from the Afghan central bank.

Also, there have been leaked documents showing that the US would delibrately target ambulances and civilian infrastructure. I don't understand why anybody would take the US military's word as gospel without substantial evidence (and no, apologising and paying reparations after controversy is not compelling evidence that these actions were not delibrate).
Worth baring in mind we in the UK have one of the most extensive ANPR (automatic number plate recognition) camera networks in the world.

We are already tracked on almost all our journeys. You are unlike to be able to make a journey on any A/M road in the UK without being tracked. Occasionally a criminal case appears in the news where it’s clear they were able to track the culprits across the country with the network.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Automatic_number-plate_recog...
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Why Won’t Anyone Teach Her Math?
The beautiful new world where everything is trackable and storage is so cheap that everything is stored.

Future generations won't even think it is weird.
Another piece to this is that being able to drive a car is in many parts of the US considered essential to being able to work, buy groceries, etc.

Which I think leads to lax driver training and enforcement. Suspending someone’s license is potentially destroying their livelihood.

Whatever the cause, our driver training, enforcement, penalties, and general respect for piloting a vehicle in a safe manner seem lower than many European countries.
Doom has some pretty crazy stuff built on it.

Just the other day I saw Doom Shinobi[1], which is impressive but there's far more impressive stuff by far, SRB2 being one of them, and another one being... Sonic Robo Blast 2 Kart[2].

Pretty insane how far people can take the engine.

[1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6ec6FHhHDII

[2] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gAqQ68-Cx0w
Well, Thomas did apparently got to have $100M+ in his wallet amid all this frenzy, at least on paper.
The unnecessary over-engineering is still a factor in large corporations.
Where did you get that figure?

Here's Virginia's cost guidelines for roadway[1] (2000, so the numbers are surely higher now). Even at $350k/mile, sidewalk is 2/3 the cost of a paved suburban road.

1 - https://www.virginiadot.org/business/resources/gasb-roadway_...
> The fix, honestly, is moving to 200% resolution screens (such as 4k 24" replacing everyone's 1080p 24", or 2880p 27" replacing everyone's 1440p 27")

I'd absolutely love to do that but there are only 2 or 3 monitors available on the market right now which would work well with integer scaling at 4k or higher resolution. The Apple Pro XDR, Dell 8K, and LG 5K monitors are the only ones that come to mind. There is an old 24 inch 4k monitor from LG but it wouldn't be a wise decision to buy it at this point.

It seems that all the progress in monitor hardware is happening towards increasing referesh rate to unreasonable and unnecessary standards.
Watson failed because it's marketing pretending to be a technology.
I guess the plan would be to base pricing in such a way that it will incentivise good behaviour? For example, a journey distance of 1 mile or less could be made so expensive that people choose to walk instead.
Show HN: Spodcast, a Spotify podcast to RSS proxy
UK Gov is not proposing any such thing. It's a proposal in a select committee report. Clickbait.
It's just a 12 megapixel image saved with unnecessarily high JPEG quality settings.

Compare: https://imgur.com/a/axLxDBT

Photoshop's "fair" JPEG settings result in something that's functionally indistinguishable and only 347KB.
When I played Sonic 1 and 2 as an adult, I couldn’t tell if it was supposed to be more fun going as fast as possible or slowing down and collecting stuff. Loved the games as a kid, but couldn’t enjoy it as an adult.

Sonic 3D Blast however was more fun to me since you’re exploring a level rather than holding right arrow.
Indeed. It doesn't allow differential pricing per road type. Driving 10 miles through London is almost certainly worse than 10 miles down a country a road in terms of impact. Is that something worth giving up everyone's privacy? I personally don't think so, and I'm not even particularly privacy conscious.

Might that be more open to fraud than a telematic solution? Doubtful. Those people who would attempt to commit fraud that way will be just as likely to do so otherwise.
> For a long time basically anything of relevance happened on freenode.

Until the powers-at-be tried to take advantage of their position, and then everyone else just left and continue their lives peacefully on libera.chat

The point is not IRC. The point is about open standards and freedom. Use IRC, XMPP, Matrix. I don't care, as long as it not something where the landlord can come and take it away from us.
The report calls for pricing to be dynamic based on time/congestion and take into account geography - a straight annual mileage report would not allow for this.
That’s been my approach too (with a spreadsheet though) and at first I just jotted down names but once i reach out to someone I update the spreadsheet with a durable contact info (not a work email)

I think phone numbers and social profiles are probably the most future proof, as I see a pattern of people moving away from personal email for anything other than spam and shopping related receipts
My comment was tongue-in-cheek. I don't have evidence that all countries on earth have sidewalks in all rural areas.

That said -- I was born, raised, and have spent most of my life in rural UK and it would be absolutely preposterous if those areas didn't have pavements.
Thomas also mentioned in the thread that it seems "Space Falcon" is a real NFT project. The actual domain ends in .io though, and somehow the scammers managed to acquire the .com domain and I'd imagine they'd then only need to replicate the frontend UI instead of coming up with an all-new one. Still very sophisticated for sure.
.NET 5 nixed the "Core" naming I think. It's all .NET now. (They kept "ASP.NET Core" for libraries)
I’m not agreeing or disagreeing with any of you as I don’t have enough knowledge on the topic, but what you say would effectively mean that there is no other possible color besides RGB, which is technically true, but is a nigh useless distinction as color blending is a real phenomenon that happens to human vision. In this way, subpixel hinting, while a hack with quite a few tradeoffs, just hijacks color blending used for producing color normally on your screen for sharper fonts.
.NET 3.5 SP1 support ends Jan 9, 2029. For .NET 4.8 there currently there is no support end date. Don't think it's gonna be sooner than 3.5.

> .NET Framework 4.8 is the latest version of .NET Framework and will continue to be distributed with future releases of Windows. As long as it is installed on a supported version of Windows, .NET Framework 4.8 will continue to also be supported. https://dotnet.microsoft.com/en-us/platform/support/policy/d...

I think for new apps, you should choose .NET Core. But for legacy apps, I suppose you can take your time. .NET Core actually has much shorter LTS lifecycle. Only 3 years: https://dotnet.microsoft.com/en-us/platform/support/policy/d...

In our case, a fairly big monolith .NET 4.8 web app is being migrated to .NET Core by splitting that monolith into microservices that run on .NET Core. Can't say if it is for better or worse, more moving parts in infrastructure for sure.
That seems like a 99% solution, but the farmers or amateur racers who put mileage on their cars outside of public roads might be annoyed by that solution. Same with people who spent a lot of time driving outside of the UK.

But based on the privacy implications of the other approach, I'd much prefer yours, maybe with a way to submit documentation of off-road/out-of-country miles.
They're not running out of oxygen. The real limiting factors are glycogen depletion and build up of waste products from anaerobic metabolism. On longer races cyclists can consume extra carbohydrates which helps a lot.
Insanity. ~75% of the petrol price in the UK already is basically tax (fuel duty + VAT), and even more if you add indirect taxes too.

I'm actually glad that I don't live in the UK anymore.
Either make the MOT required from new or have a sub-MOT milage check. It's a completely trivial problem.
No.

You're not replicating Mozart's mind. You're replicating your interpretation of some painters' interpretations of what he looked like; a selection of word sequences bearing some statistical similarity to what he wrote down; a fantasy of your own devising as to what his voice sounded like, and you don't have rules for producing Mozart's music -- as this article demonstrates, pretending that you can produce satisfying music from a set of rules is not convincing, in the same way that GPT-3 output cannot convincingly pass a Turing Test as soon as you ask questions about meaning.
This is a good example of why utility curves are not, well, lines.

The utility of $2*X is not exactly twice $X. It can be more or less, and that can differ between different people.