skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I believe in Pythagoras' Theorem despite the considerable uncertainty about the context in which that idea was produced
I'm sure it would, but 'cost per mile travelled' is a pretty standard measure, it gives a sense of proportion. Maybe it could also have a 'cost per kg CO2 saved" "value of time saved" etc etc.
Autobahn?
I think you mean Gemany, the other person was talking about the Dutch (Netherlands)
> don’t necessarily need the nitty gritty detailed skills

I think that's the challenge.

Understanding computational thinking isn't very useful if you waste your afternoons fighting against crap like encoding, Windows paths, line endings, networking, setting up PostgreSQL correctly...
> I'm not a trucker, so you would have to ask them about the gas they complain about.

You presented it as a (I presume good) example of your point. So I'm asking you because it definitly does not sound logical.

> Enable all european truckers to work anywhere.

That's not an answer to the question what the EU has to do with cheap gas prices in countries like Poland being a issue for a Swedish truck driver. A Polish truck driver working in Sweden is going to bring his own cheap gas from Poland and undercut Swedish transport companies? It just doesn't make sense how that is related to allowing to work everywere.

The wages could be a problem, sure, but that gap has also been largely plugged [1]. But gas prices...?

> I don't see how this is relevant to anything said previously, and yes, that is quite obvious.

Its relevant because if it's a real problem Sweden can lower taxes on the gas prices in order to remain competitive. That's not something the EU needs to do.

My point is that local politicians are quick to point to the EU. However it wasn't local politicians that managed to for example get the mobile roaming fee's gone for good. If you want to have a laugh just look at the UK. Vodafone et al said the roaming costs wouldn't return after brexit. Yet somehow the roaming costs are back for UK citizens...

[1] https://www.euractiv.com/section/road-safety/news/controvers...
> we start operating like lawyers with partnerships

One analogy is; lawyering is like singing a never-ending song, whereas software is like a self-playing piano.

The lawyer is needed until the song is finished, which is partly up to himself.

A software consultant delivers a self-playing piano and must come back, cap in hand, asking for more work to improve it.

When software is working, it is assumed to be "finished" or "correct". Additional work is assumed to either fix bugs ("earlier mistakes"), or implement new features and improvements (which are optional and involves a sales process).
That's why I've added the following rule to allow recaptcha.

@@||google.com/recaptcha/\*$script
", but".

That's because that highway code was designed for huge and heavy cars that need lots of time and space to come to a stop and that pose a danger for other road users.

Not for agile and light cyclists. The rules just do not make a lot of sense for cyclists.

E.g., in the Netherlands there are traffic lights for cyclists. They turn green for all 4 directions simultaneously, for only a few seconds. That's enough to have tens, sometimes hundreds of cyclists cross a road, WITHOUT any collision or danger.

Cars are just too big and heavy for most urban areas. They belong on _highways_ indeed.
Textile Markup Language
The issue is, we want tasks where it s easy to generate lots of data that a human of any level of healthy intelligence can solve with simple intuition and low prior skill.

I.e. exactly the kind of tasks where ML excels.
That's probably more true outside Japan than inside it. By then, just to mention one factor, Miyazaki and Takahata had already smashed the Japanese box office multiple times with "militant" environmentalist films like Nausicaa and PomPoko. In fact, I remember the whole environmental theme being a bit of a clichè in my part of the world (Western Europe) by the late '90s - for us, those themes had really exploded in the '80s as part of the debate over nuclear energy.
I've long since suspected that a small part of the housing crises in the developed world is due to the high minimum standards for apartments and housing.
> I don't see it applying to me.

It only applies to a small set of people from top unis or those who have the FAANG brand names on their resumes.

Otherwise, I know several people who tried for months to switch jobs and finally gave up due to exhaustion.
Most journals I read offer both reflowable HTML and PDF. I don't know anybody who prefers the former.

A PDF (and the paper copy it generates) is more convenient for markup, and for memory. I can look at papers I read decades ago, and know where to go to find things, because of what I might call positional memory. Somehow, my brain has information such as "The key Figure is at top of third page" or "that equation I think is wrong is at the bottom of the second-last page". I'm not alone in this. I suppose it's just how brains work (e.g. people who do memory tricks "store" the information in an imagined space).

When I look at reflowed text, I just get lost. I can't make notes that "stick" with the text if I enlarge the font. And memories don't form in the same way as for PDF/paper.

I suppose this might be field-dependent. I think in some fields the key point of a paper is a single sentence, which could be identified easily in reflowing text and then copied into a separate file. I don't read papers like that, though. That's why, in my line of work, PDF/paper is superior to reflowable text.
> There's no autonomy, just endless pressure, confusing directions and last minute reactivity.

So, software development in a nutshell? Maybe I only have seen bad examples, but I've never seen the agile/scrum/whatever-of-the-day stop these things from happening. You have these things and at some point they add the process on top cause "we sure do need a process".
They're providing this market by removing housing from the local people, which drives them out and drives up prices for those who stay. This, in turn, forces all the inhabitants of a city out of it, thus ruining the character those inhabitants gave it. All so some tourist can 'live like a local', at the expense of the actual locals being able to live like a local.

And it's wholeheartedly AirBnB's fault and problem. Not to mention there's often new apartment blocks being built to act as de-facto hotels but having none of the regulations in place, which isn't quite competition at all.

Basically, tourists aren't locals, they should have a right to live like locals. Especially at the expense of the locals.
Looks like the only sane thing to do is to block routes to GAFAM AS directly on your router instead of relying on DNS tricks. I knew people doing that over ten years ago and i thought they were kind of crazy, but in retrospect they were right all along.

What if your website is hosted by Google Cloud Engine or AWS, should we block it? I certainly would. Please find a decent host that does not use their customers as human shield/leverage to engage in criminal conspiracies against privacy.
In the golden age of the internet, we defined interoperable protocols to exchange information and you were free to use different service providers or clients. Now services are built as closed gardens with little interoperability between them.
Around when they decided they could use their "spam" filter to filter out competing or idependent mail providers.
The make/model appears to be a COMPAL CH7465LG, and it's got a 1.2GHz dual core CPU, a RealTek RTL8365MB switch chip, 4 GBE ports and WiFi, so it's arguably enough of a router in it's own right.
Treatment reduces drinking in monkeys by 50%
> Are you referring to patient rounds?

I think it’s a reference to the Mayo Clinic team-based model [1].

For simple stuff, a single doctor executing a textbook is fine. For complex cases, doctors of different disciplines meet to discuss, create and keep track of a care plan. The analogy being most problems a programmer is tackling are assumed to be novel cases.

[1] https://catedradecronicidad.es/wp-content/uploads/2020/06/Ma...
Regarding "getting information was difficult"

I've worked in game development for 25 years so YMMV: a few years ago I had an internet outage for a week or so and had to work on the engine just using my library of books. It was definitely slower and more cumbersome BUT it was a much more rewarding experience. I produced substantially better ideas with better documentation and with MUCH better execution. I don't think it was just because of the quality of my library. I think it was because I was afforded the space to think, something that had not happened for quite some time.

I now make a point to investigate my library before blogs, forums and the pitiful stack-overflow. Slower learning has lead to deeper thinking.
Trinidad (Caribbean island)
Well, in the city centers, bikes are a LOT faster than both cars and pedestrians.
Within cities, bikes should share the road with motorists.
Outside of cities, they should share with pedestrians.
I can pass that request on, though, I cannot make any promises of any sorts. We don't publish a roadmap of which new features/products we plan to develop, and when they will be ready. We prefer to make announcements on our social media channels when things go live.
This is the first request for a managed PG feature that I have seen so far, so I am not sure how likely it is that we will consider adding it. Our dev team naturally wants to implement features/products that are highest in demand. --Katie
Why does the height of day rates affect it? (Honest question.)
But it really is up to governments to enforce regulations. Companies have no choice but to ultimately comply if they want to keep operating in those locations. E.g. see Uber.

This is not similar to Facebook, since "overtourism" is not as obviously harmful as misinformation. How would you even define it? It could be argued that it's another aspect of globalization which benefits the local economy, the travel industry and mixing of cultures.
True, but in their mind that would be even better if I were dead.
Love all his movies. But...

This sounds like a project a developer would do, that's just a bit too much. One that has too many features. One that said developer has been thinking of for the past 10 years.

The passion project.

And passion projects generally fail.
Undoubtedly building cycle paths would improve a couple of dimensions (less traffic, pollution etc.) but it would also cost something, I'm simply advocating a cost-benefit analysis, and pondering whether some kind of funding-by-the-users is possible (like happens for other vehicles: fuel duty, road tax, etc.)
Sometimes, but in retrospect, what I was doing was really basic CS on top of a field of chemistry that had had zero love at that point.
Thanks for mentioning the Server Auction servers. For anyone else who is interested in our Auction Servers, we have an FAQ here: https://docs.hetzner.com/robot/general/server-auction-faqs --Katie
They don’t even have to be essential services. US equal rights law would apply to any public accommodation - AirBnB being a perfect example
Finland doesn't have the obscenity that is homeless kids coming to school tired because they couldn't sleep, hungry, scared because of violence and instability in their life circumstances, and otherwise with so many strikes against them it would take a miracle for them just to graduate, let alone thrive.
A cron job on the network gateway that creates iptables rules to drop connections to x IPs sounds like a good plan.
I don’t know, people here are saying they hated it but I didn't; I think it might have landed where it could.
It's a government.
Kazakhstan’s Internet Shutdown Offers Lessons for Russia-Ukraine Crisis
I think there was even a american soldier that was hited by a crossbow.
"in the future you'll own nothing and be happy"

No thanks.
Well, yes and no.

In the 1990s, a lot of desktop software was Windows-only, and used the Windows toolkit directly, so they supported the OS theming [1] including high-contrast options.

The idea you'd avoid the OS widgets, or that you'd want a touchscreen-but-no-keyboard UI on desktop software for consistency with a mobile version simply hadn't become mainstream. (Java had started testing the waters with cross-platform applets embedded in web pages but that's another story)

Of course, this was in the days of 1024x768 so large fonts were for the partially sighted, not like today's "high DPI mode" for people with 13" 4k screens. And most developers didn't test with different OS themes, so large-font settings could mean labels too big for their widgets, vital buttons getting pushed off screen and suchlike.

Other applications (well, MP3 players at least) would come with their own 'skinning' system allowing you to style them completely independently of the OS. And many games had their own full-screen menu systems that ignored OS theming, just like they do to this day.

[1] https://blog.codinghorror.com/a-tribute-to-the-windows-31-ho...
I get these spam links all the time, and a disproportionate number of them are for SEO and similar services addressed to me specifically.

I don't think they actually expect the links to be published, so much as they expect the webmaster to read them in their moderation panel.
Ask HN: What’s Getting thing done alternative?
Have tried GTD for a while. Realised it’s not for me. I would like to know what alt-GTD productive systems HNers are using.
Many one-way / no-entry streets in Manchester specifically have ("except cycles") on them, not sure about London.

E.g. https://www.google.com/maps/@53.4423463,-2.190167,3a,75y,71....
That is the commonly accepted way to write k interpreters after all. ngn/k looks more like k than C too.

https://codeberg.org/ngn/k/src/branch/master/a.c
I’m just hearing Charlie Brown teacher muah muah muah noises here, what did you say?

Let’s just have no moderation at all then - HN for people who believe in the market of ideas (that’s what you lot like calling it, right? Some nerd shit like that)
"Shit" is so commonly used in developer/tech circles that I'm more surprised someone would zero in and take issue with it. I would not question their credentials and reliability over a word.
Agree with this. I've had to delve into the guts of Kubernetes and it's not perfect for sure but far better than the crap we deploy onto it :)
You either teach an engineer to write, or a journalist about engineering. One is significantly harder than the other.
Are you disappointed by the original paper, or the Wikipedia article about it?
Ensuring planetary survival: balancing the multifunctional nature of soils
No it's not. The MOT is a test that you have performed maintenance so the example stands. You can do 0 maintenance and still get your MOT. likewise in software you can do zero maintenance and still have a good well working product that follows best practice.

In the case I gave it's hours book on the maintenance project that is the test but you could very well have other measures and I've seen these in many projects. Things like linters, dependency bots, unit tests, e2e tests, code coverage, Cyclomatic complexity ...etc.
Sure. I still think I'd make the same argument: that's a team working on one problem, not discussing/managing the one of them working on each of multiple different problems.

Otherwise we can say any team sport discusses tactics for a game and this is a daily stand-up and it works for them so why not software.
If Google or Apple were to do that, then bad actors could do the same - even if they have to run a bank of old Android phones. Then we'd need some way of distinguishing bot from non-bot - so we'd be back to captcha.
Just a tip, if you find a place that looks nice to book on airbnb, try checking for booking directly. I found a place on airbnb and was in a hurry, but later when I checked the cabin rental's website, I found that the money I spent in fees to airbnb could get me an upgrade to a much nicer cabin if I had booked directly with the cabin rental company.
You sound like you're a part of the problem.
A rant about clothing, and motorists are "rational in hating cyclists", because "10-20% of them are assholes"?
Here's also a basic overview and how it compares to our Storage Shares (a Nextcloud-based product): https://docs.hetzner.com/robot/storage-box/faq/storage-box-v... --Katie
a billion dollars can get you a LOT of bike infra. Or comparatively little road infra.

And "infra" can be planter boxes and moving paint, for a start.

This thread was a reminder that even in the Netherlands, when you design roads for higher speeds and try to change that by plopping down a sign, it doesn't work.

https://www.reddit.com/r/Netherlands/comments/ss3t0u/whats_u...
I feel like airbnb is not as affordable these days. They started allowing extra fees (like electricity bills etc) for short stays and always pile up absurd cleaning/other fees so by the time you leave the apartment you end up spending more than a decent hotel would cost.
twilio site actually prompts a captcha after a few unsuccessful login tries but it just says "Pick any square". I've tried a few times and clicking any of the 6 options underneath work lol.
No, of course I have a tiered architecture. HDDs + SSDs + RAM. By mmap-ing the file, the Linux kernel will make sure that whatever data I access is in RAM and it'll do best-effort pre-reading and caching, which works very well.

BTW, this is precisely how "real databases" also handle their storage IO internally. So all of the performance cost I have to pay here, they have to pay, too.

But the key difference is that with a regular database and indices, the database needs to be able to handle read and write loads, which leads to all sorts of undesirable trade-offs for their indices. I can use a mathematically perfect index if I split dataset generation off of dataset hosting.

It's really quite difficult to explain, so I'll just redirect you to the algorithms. A regular database will typically use a B-tree index, which is O(log(N)). I'm using a direct hash bucket look-up, which is O(1).

For a mental model, you can think of "mmap" as "all the results are already in RAM, you just need to read the correct variable". There is no network connection, no SQL parsing, no query planning, no index scan, no data retrieval. All those steps would just consume unnecessary RAM bandwidth and CPU usage. So where a proper DB needs 1000+ CPU cycles, I might get away with just 1.
Autobahn just means Highway, regardless I think the person you're replying to was making a general observation that public infrastructure, much like software is never really "finished".
Yeah, this never worked well in windows (I remember switching 'show window content while moving' to 'off' whenever 'on' became the default).
Taskbar 'autohide' is still a clusterfuck (I don't remember a version of Windows, where this feature didn't have at least visual bugs). New centered taskbar in Windows 11 is just bad usability (only smart thing about start button was, that it was in a corner of a screen thereby making it easy to hit with a rough mouse movement).
> Surprisingly the UK are trying to rid or weaken GDPR significantly after brexit.

Isn't that the whole point of brexit - to get rid of various EU customer protection laws and regulations?
Yes, usually accessed via fidonet if you weren't at a university.
And 75% of the Russian population lives in Europe. But then 77% of Russian territory is considered to be on the Asian continent.

And Pluto (the former planet) has about the same surface area as Russia.
Good catch! I might be misremembering this event and it was actually Perl, not C. I see Learning Perl, 3rd Edition was published in 2001, which does put its publication at about the right time in early 00s.
Windows devs are known to use macbook pros - really tells you all you need to know.
Sure, but why do you have to know it? Who taught you it? Why is it important? Do you just absorb things without context?
I get what you're saying but around here we have cyclists who ride 2 abreast to stop dangerous passing (a common problem) and it pisses of drivers, but we have farmers who drive tractors even slower than the cyclists and nobody seems to mind.
Just for what it's worth, this web still exists!

I wrote a python script that generates + uploads webpages...

This is the problem in a nutshell. I'm aware that it still exists technically, but my own experience mean that as soon as I start I think "I'll be doing this more than once, I'll automate it!" and I dive in to a thorny bush of build scripts and dependencies and questions like "How will I notify myself if the script fails?" which takes a lot of the fun away.

My expectations of what a website is, and how it should work, and my awareness of the pitfalls of the Old Ways means I can't really go back to how it was before. I don't want to. I miss the good bits, but I know there were lots of bad bits as well.
Residents have a say in how their city functions. A well run city balances the needs of its constituents - schools, access to shops, bus routes, community centres, parks, parking etc. It also balances the need of business, tourism operators, hospitality etc.

None of that works when an operator like Airbnb ignores it all. Nimby’s give community consultation a bad name, but the alternative is the Wild West. No thanks.
If #include <𝒸𝓊𝓇𝓈𝒾𝓋𝑒.h> is wrong, I don't want to be right.
Because some people (as in, a vast majority of the global population) live their lives in a low-income bracket and one could consider it a very unpleasant thought to live your entire life sharing bathrooms with strangers.
Maybe this tutorial will be helpful: https://community.hetzner.com/tutorials/install-and-configur... -Katie
> Both countries are democracies, current leaders were elected in democratic elections

Elections in which the ruling party has no real chance of being deposed, and thus no incentive to compete, aren’t democratic.
> It also resulted in teaching to the tests

Or outright fraud, much more reliable than cramming.
I hate DSU to be honest for this exact reason there's no way I'd way a whole day. I feel compelled to explain though that at the very least there is a definition of what you should be using it for and few companies I'm work with have ever used it for that. It's mostly used as a status meeting and becomes a micromanagers daily meeting to beat people up about poor progress.
Counting spots? Not the biggest challenge for a robot.

I wonder if there are any disability legal concerns with this?
Linux gaming works very well. Perfect without any issues ever? Probably not but neither is Windows. The main remaining difference seems to be due to anti-cheat, but that's only mainstream multiplayer gaming, not "any sort of pc gamings".
The golden age for me was also on Sun workstations. I could leave my SPARCstation 20 running the C compiler for half an hour, go for a small walk around the factory floor, go and get some coffee and actually think about the next problem I was tackling and scribble some notes on paper.

Edit: also no YAML!
there was of course payment for products and services. but there were also demos, shareware, and the equivalents of today's "social media" and "metaverse" but everything was not cynically designed to extract money from people.
Vpavlenko/study-music: Study music and sound in the broadest sense
So now Adblockers need to become like anti-virus software, heuristically determining a piece of Javascript as undesirable. The arms race will continue.
New captcha question: "What is the should of 20?"
Your argument is: "we should ban sales of milk because people pollute with used containers".