skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> "bikes are much closer to pedestrians than cars, yet we ask them to share the road with cars."

Not in terms of infrastructure. A mistake that planners often seem to make is to build "cycle lanes" that resemble footpaths: lots of zig-zags, stops and starts, clutter, obstacles to manoeuvre around, and diversions at junctions that make cyclists take longer routes than cars and force them to give way to all other traffic.

The best bike lanes resemble motor traffic lanes: straight and continuous with as few interruptions as possible.

If you build bad cycle lanes, most cyclists just won't use them and you haven't really solved anything.
I like hotels just fine but:

- AirBNB is better for extended stays, where being able to cook / heat food, or make breakfast is a necessity (for budgetary or dietary reasons… or the fact that having to constantly leave the place to eat can become stressful).

- I work while traveling. Working from a hotel room is usually not nice (if possible at all), unless it’s an expensive room.
"The hacker is using a helper contract deployed 30 days ago, to call an OS contract deployed 4 years ago, with valid atomicMatch() data.

"Likely a signature phishing attack from several weeks back, the attacker is exploiting now before … these listing phishings will expire in six days, so the hacker is acting now to steal items listed on the V1 marketplace.

"This is not a generalized smart contract exploit, rather a latent phishing attack."

https://twitter.com/0xfoobar/status/1495208279210876930
Do you mean CSM?
It shouldn't take that much energy to stop if you are cycling at a reasonable speed. If you are cycling, through an area where there are pedestrians, at such a speed that you cannot stop reasonably quickly, you are cycling too fast.
Glad to see it no longer requires an account. Without terms-of-service it felt like the goal was to create an email list.

Searches don't work for me (Firefox): Cross-Origin Request Blocked: The Same Origin Policy disallows reading the remote resource at https://p0cw55g40k.execute-api.us-east-2.amazonaws.com/prod/.... (Reason: CORS header ‘Access-Control-Allow-Origin’ missing). Status code: 502.
No, this is what row-level locks are for.

And concurrent updates happen all the time in real life. This is why every DB in (serious) production has transactions and rollbacks. It happens all the time. If you're not aware of concurrency issues on your DB or your mid-level backend code isn't equipped to handle them, you're writing bad code indeed.
> Britain benefited hugely from infrastructure support programs, for example.

how, exactly?

compared to UK government expenditure: the funding from EU programs are a rounding error
I think they used LaTeX internally, but I've no way to be sure. They provide latex style sheets and sample files, and so those were my starting point. Of course, they are a big organization, and latex is a simple system, so they might have a program that translates it to something else, e.g. using latex to create PDFs and something else for other formats. But at least at the galley-approval stage, it was still LaTeX.
Funnily enough I got this captcha 2 days ago and tried searching out to see if anyone else had thought about how ridiculous this captcha is - couldn't find any discussions elsewhere though at the time. Glad someone has brought it up though.

There has to be better way to determine if someone is a robot or not surely.
He's going where the profits are... its a long term view and he's right on the money I suspect.
>Its a speed limit, not a minimum speed.

Technically and legally yes, but in practice it's the minimum you are expected to drive.

>I would recommend getting a bike

I do have a bike and I always get off the road to let cars pass when there is one nearby.
Exactly, Markdown is a great example of the "pave the desire path" philosophy.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Desire_path
For me (and the culture of the 3 companies that I worked), standups were about collaboration, no micromanagement. Far from it, btw.

Your conversation above just sounded arrogant for me.
I am puzzled about why you're puzzled!

They knew they weren't good at executing on something, so they partnered with a company with a proven track record, and leveraged their brand to make sure both Mozilla and their partner got value.

It's a very successful business model, and has been used everywhere (entertainment is a great example, most IP owners license the creation of content outside of their immediate domain to other developers - toy manufacturers, video game studios, comic book and board games companies, etc).

In a world where the relevance of Firefox is waning, investing in a brand where user centricity, privacy, and security are key, and maintaining high standards on licensees is a winning strategy, especially if Mozilla owns the customer relationships.
>> Randomly choosing a value means that references can be broken

It also means no data is reliable; hence the entire thing is worse than useless.
Only in the context of being knee-deep in milk cartons.
We literally can't contribute to Firefox development. Only Google and other big corps, that strike deals with Mozilla, can.
Add Pi to locale?
> There are also other markup-languages, which use other established syntax from the old times.

Would you care to share some examples? I'm genuinely interested, while nothing obvious that would fit this description comes to my mind.
What is event-driven architecture? Halodoc builds event-centric systems
It can be said sarcastically, sure, but if someone wanted to say 'fuck you' they'd just say it.
> I'm gonna go with an emphatic NO on this one:

The point of the post is that its two steps forward, one step backwards. Not that everything used to be better back in the days.

There's countless of examples why the tech world is better today. HTTPS alone makes it more difficult for a MITM attack, for example, but its not a panacea.

> Buying software, especially computer games for Windows 95/98 was a complete gamble. Maybe one third just worked, one third required Direct X/Soundcard Driver/Graphic/Bios fiddling to get something running (though crashes were frequent), one third just outright never worked at all.

That's why I worked with references, so I'd read a review in a magazine, or learn from a friend which hardware was stable. For example, I used a Plextor CDRW which used SCSI. This lead to massively less buffer underflows.

> You spent eight hours a day in front of a giant, non-flatscreen cathode monitor that blasted your eyes with light and radiation, making you look properly stoned when you came home.

Radiation from CRT monitors was harmful?
Lance Armstrong once said he used to tell younger riders from his team to remove their cycling eye glasses (shades?) and helmet when approaching the finish line, so they could cross it with a bare face to the cameras, especially when winning the race. He said this would "re-humanize" the rider to the public, creating the opportunity for social projection, fame, success etc.

In my own experience as a cyclist, whenever I see myself in a tense situation in the traffic, I remove my glasses, stick them in the helmet and look at drivers' faces in a non provocative way. It helps, I think, in most of the times. I think the driver regains the sensation that I'm not a thing/object, but a human.
Visiting the site today you are greeted by large popups and imitation download buttons (same size, color, style) so it's easy to assume they are still following dark patterns, even if it's not the case.

After garnering such a reputation I'm surprised they didn't do more to make it clear it's not the same company, though I see its Slashdot Media, which doesn't have a great reputation anymore either, if I recall
I love FreeDOS still exists! I used it ocassionally in past to load a new BIOS.exe to update a Dell Latitude laptop not having any Windows OS installed.
No, I'm stating that if you search for crime statistics in London, east and north east come out highest. And I'm one of those statistics.
So would sleeping halls. Both models exists, yet in the developed world we tend to see either as a worst case crisis accommodation not as a viable alternative for long term accommodation.

So yes, it solves problems in those places where lack of any accommodation is a big housing problem. That is important, but it affects a relatively small proportion even of the homeless (most homeless are not "rough sleepers" who end up sleeping outdoors, but people who bounce between temporary housing exactly or crash with people; e.g. in the UK rough sleepers seem to make up in the region of 5%-10% of homeless people).

It may vary by location, but at least in the UK, for most homeless and poor, the problem is not that they have nowhere to sleep, but that they have the kind of substandard accommodation that people in this thread seems to think will solve their problems, and that they lack security - e.g their accommodation is temporary etc. because even this kind of substandard accommodation is not easily accessible to them in ways they can afford.
Sorry, missed your comment (haha). I don't recall it in full detail, but just remembered it look like a more modern UI with rounded corners and more padding. But still the same colors and functionalities.
Cross-reference checking is a huge problem on it's own, almost unrelated to the formatting being used. Some language tooling do provide cross-ref checking, generally as an extra step part of the documentation generation process. I don't have anything to add to the table compared to what we do already...
"this is america, stupid"

This won't be allowed in the EU under GDPR[^1].

[^1]: https://matomo.org/blog/2022/01/google-analytics-gdpr-violat...
How to Win Friends and Influence People talks about this. Learn to be a good listener.
I'm not saying it should be done for free, but they could do a much better job in funding engineers.

It was awful when they let go the Rust and Cranelift engineers.

Reminds me of Oracle - where the lawyers and MBAs have just seized control.
You have been lucky then. At the places I have worked the product people have not fought with thech but if anything they have fought against tech on this matter.
Responding the the person claiming that stand-ups === being "managed no better than a burger flipper".
I haven't done the actual math but I'd estimate you could print, bind, package and deliver a book using less energy than it takes to perform a single bitcoin transaction.
I welcome this idea and will gladly pay immediately when they launch. After that, they will have to earn the money with quality content. If the service provided is good, I don't care for CEO's salary or whatnot; if not I don't care for the CEO either way.
Your comment made me chuckle; and not because I mean to minimize what you said.

I drive a 7,500 lb diesel pickup truck as my weekend “I’m going to the boonies to play with my man toys” vehicle. It’s a big and imposing vehicle that I operate responsibly. On longer highway trips I tend to lay in the speed limit into my cruise control and simply cruise (fitting eh?) in the middle lane of a 3-lane road or the right lane of a 2-lane road.

Guess what? I get honked at for driving too slowly even when I’m traveling at 70 mph that also happens to be the speed limit.

Just yesterday an especially irate specimen became upset when I was using the left lane to pass at 70 mph (otherwise known as the speed limit) to go past a very large truck that was using the right lane at 60 mph. Someone honked at me, flashed their headlights, then eventually passed me, got in front of me, and performed a brake check on me.

Imagine how upset this wheeled menace gets when they see a cyclist taking the entirety of a narrow road! Sigh.
In the old days, if the system couldn't satisfy a memory allocation
request, the malloc function in the C library would return NULL and
the application would respond accordingly. These days, if the system
can't satisfy a memory request, it perversely returns a pointer to
nowhere in the hope that the application won't try to use it. There's
no portable way for an application to distinguish between usable and
unusable pointers, and even if there were, the system could decide
later that it has given away too much memory and therefore must
repossess it by killing applications at random. (Don't get me started
on "memory safety" in languages that ignore finiteness of the heap.)
Yes, I know it's possible to configure a kernel like the old days, but
then it better be on a dedicated server because otherwise desktop
applications that have come to rely on this behavior would get flaky.
We already grow enough plant matter on land to feed to entire world population, we just feed most of it to animals instead.

If we stop fishing, we don’t need to use more land to grow more food, we just need to shift consumption towards plants and away from inefficient options like cows.
it's the only parliament in the world that can't legislate
The work you've done is nice, but using a package for this issue gives off bad code smell. I'd much rather refine my functions and their relations rather than require an extra dependency that reduces readability for my coworkers.
I‘m amazed every time anew that there are still projects using Sourceforge instead of GitHub/GitLab.
This is a good example of a theoretical problem with PEGs. It also applies (of course) to recursive descent parsers. I don't think this problem is a practical issue, though; I can't speak for others, but this kind of problem hasn't come up in practice for me. PEGs do cause other headaches from time to time, but are still head-and-shoulders easier to get right than other styles of working with grammars.
You should also note that across much of Eastern Europe, the "ex"-"communist" and "neomarxist" parties were always either nationalistic and populist (e.g. the PDSR/PSD in Romania) or subservient to Russia. This means that there was a very easy pivot from "communist" parties to far-right ultranationalism, usually with a good dash of oligarchy, authoritarianism, and/or kleptocracy which also characterized the old regimes. There are very few, if any, leftist ideals held by any remnants of the Cold War-era government parties.
Did you look at the capture? For cheese it was a camera not actual cheese.
Which is fine, but will it be enforced? So far GDPR rules haven't done a whole lot of damage except make sure everyone knows what a cookie might be. Until the EU is willing to better enforce the GDPR rules, Google will keep doing what they're doing.
Alright thanks, it's pretty sad we've handed cross-platform development to the web mostly. I see if I find something great along the way.
Why not choose another route to drive where you are not endangering cyclists? Why not choose one of the many other ways to get where you are going so that you don't have to be in other people's way? Why not relax and realize that having to slow down your vehicle for 30 seconds in order to pass a group of cyclists safely is an incredibly minor inconvenience? I can keep going but I think you get the point. We live in a society where we share some resources with other people. Sometimes that causes contention. Sometimes when I'm walking on a sidewalk I'll come up on a parent pushing one of those double strollers slower than I am walking. I find it slightly annoying because they are in my way. But I am also an adult who realizes that the world does not in fact revolve around my desires, so I slow down and wait for an opportunity to walk around them, smiling politely while I do.
When you accept a salaried position, you understand that there are going to be weeks your "effective hourly" fluctuates. Some weeks I have lots of work. Some I don't. I have sympathy but that's not wage theft.

Actual wage theft is very common in food service. As in, you earn the money and someone else takes it.
People wouldn't whine about it if they were actually delivering more value than 3mm/year.
> It's 2022 and in spite of the often-praised superiority of LaTeX, we are still getting paginated PDFs on ArXiv, instead of responsive text that reflows on different screen sizes.

It's not about LaTeX per se. You can typeset EPUBs with it too, if you want. So reflow ability is not a shortcoming of LaTeX.

Publishers send you a Word or LaTeX template, and require your manuscript as a PDF, conforming to that template. If it's LaTeX, generally there's a switch to render the text in "Review mode" with line numbers and similar additional details, and omitting author data if the judgement will be done blindly.

So, the tool itself, regardless of its brand is the proverbial wrong tree to fight with. Also, it's a reality that reading a 25 page manuscript is not very efficient on a screen, at least in my discipline. I have a dedicated "Paper printer" at home for printing such manuscripts and taking a stab at it with pens and highlighters.
On what basis?

For all it's faults Google was great. Now it isn't.

Why wouldn't we think the EU is just the same, but on a longer timespan. Maybe if we had been more critical of google in the beginning, despite it's initial comparative goodness, it would have found it harder becoming rooted.
Seneca does have his high marks. "On Saving Time", while just a few paragraphs long, is a real gem as well. Who can you show me that understands he is dying every day, indeed.
I'm not saying you are. I'm saying that if someone says X and there's groups saying X than expecting that person to be part of that group is kinda normal and not some kind of character assassination.

Speaking of ineffectual administration - I think it might be hard for some people to grasp that any bureaucracy is going to look inefficient. The point of bureaucracy is to replace ad-hoc decision making with a repeatable, documented, audited and justifiable process. Ad-hoc "the dictator decides" is always going to be faster.
Well, if you wanted all odd-length strings, you'd write what GP wrote. If you wanted whatever it was your grammar accepted, you'd write what you wrote :)
Putting aside the fact that at least 50% of the world doesn't speak English and might not even know what "cheese" is, a lot of the world does not subsist on dairy products or use cheese and will not recognise images of cheese. Neither will they understand the traditional American schoolbus which is a very distinctive thing and will pick any old bus that appears on the photos as long as it looks like a large motor vehicle. Very few people percentage-wise will know what "crosswalk" or "sidewalk" or "mailbox" mean because these are very specifically American terms

Just for context, 65% of India is rural and a ton of these people do not have access to the internet and will have zero idea how to get through these arcane captchas. The internet is effectively locked off to them
I'm not sure this was authored in full good faith. Things like dismissing Kubernetes attempts to "abstract away the servers" as being pointless because we already had virtualisation is at best ignorance of the differences, and at worst, gaslighting.

It's clear that the author doesn't like Kubernetes, and to be honest this documentary is unlikely to change their mind because they are not the target audience.

All the "criticism" about Kubernetes being a Google strategy could well be valid, but it's not exactly new, unique, or particularly impactful here.

(Disclaimer, I work at Google, nothing to do with cloud/k8s)
Huh? I was responding to someone saying that stand-ups === being managed "no better than a burger flipper".

I don't agree with that point, especially since food service has the most toxic management of any industry.
As with all communication methods, it just fundamentally works better (or at all) if you're already charismatic. And when you are already there, the form you use for conversation does not matter - all that matters is that the other party feels heard. Sadly, you cannot train charisma.

In situations where you have a gathering of people with very little charisma and they're all trying to not hate each other, it just won't work. Because nothing will work - this is how groups of people are.

That said, I would never say that in a work context. In a work context I would tell two people with a conflict that they cannot solve together to request mediation from someone that I already know is charismatic :)
I think it will parse "a", it will parse "a a a", and "aaa a aaa", and "aaaaaaa a aaaaaaa" and so on, but nothing else.
At least here (Italy) you would want to ask for Zeiss lenses:

https://www.zeiss.com/vision-care/int/spectacle-lenses-from-...

cannot really say if they are actually "better", but my usual optician (whom I trust) swears by them, I recently had a new pair of lenses (on an old frame) for around 250 €, cannot say which exact version/option they are, the whole Zeiss catalog (in print) is a huge volume with tens of options.

I would advise against "remote" in this case, as unlike "normal" lenses (for myopia) where the "only" additional parameter is interpupillar distance, for progressive lenses it is also important the size and shape of the frame and your personal "posture".

As anecdata only, with an earlier pair of glasses I had issues because the frame was too big (or tall or however the lense center was too high) and I had to slightly bow to focus long distance, had to change the frame with a slightly smaller one so that I had the right long range focus when standing upright.
Well signup is currently rate limited so its not like they can handle 10 million users on day one neither. It's still mastodon code, and it's pretty hypocritical/weird that they have a closed fork where they kick you off if you're deemed untruthful. They could have added capacity to the existing network and actually delivered on the anarchy/free speech angle.
Damnit. That's what I get for responding at 5am.
Ways to increase the speed of website for a better user experience
It is difficult to articulate how much worse Henry Kissinger and Phil Bokovoy are for the world than Alexandre Cazes and Ross Ulbricht.
I didn't say they were. I was implying that wage suppression by Walmart and others means people can no longer afford food and some resort to stealing it. Not Walmart workers specifically, the 'working poor' in general.
> It's a bit like arsenic: it doesn't have to be negative but usually it is

This is a good analogy. In stories, arsenic is almost without fail evil. In reality, it has use in medicine, agriculture and ceramics [1].

> If 99% of the people engaging in an activity are doing it badly then I'm all for reigning them in

We agree. And I have no horse in this race. But that 99% figure is largely confined to tech-based marketing. The people painting print ads and planning PR stunts aren’t hurting anyone.

[1] https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arsenic#Uses
The rise of prestige Chinese games
Yes you're right, I had already edited that while you were posting your reply. I thought you wanted to point out the usual simple "a" / "aa" problem.
>In post-Communist countries you have social services, healthcare, and infrastructure at the level worse than in US.

True to a degree, but not everyone can get a visa for the US, and unless you've got an outdated view of the eastern block, safety there far better than some shady parts of some american cities. You can live without a car and walk everywhere without the fear of being mugged by homeless people or opioid addicts.

>You're alone with your cash and every doctor, agent, and clerk looks to screw you over.

That's true nearly everywhere you move as an expat without knowing the local language, laws and customs , even in Germany.

> It's attractive only for natives with family locally, or maybe for someone who is fluent in the native language.

Not really, plenty of entrepreneurial people in the tech space from Germany, Austria and the UK, etc. looking to make money and tired of the governments robbing them blind, relocate their online businesses to Romania for the massive tax saving.

>No salary would convince me to relocate alone to Romania.

Understandable, but you asked me to point you out a country with lower taxes than those, not to a country with perfect social system AND lower taxes.