skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
If you choose to ride a scooter and you hurt yourself because you ran into some tree roots that is on YOU. It is not the city's responsibility to provide a perfectly manicured path from arbitrary point A to point B as you drive too fast while potentially high.

"I always knew that catastrophic e-scooters crashes would become part of the urban landscape."

The author really got her "I told you so" in early here. It is easy to be right if you are negative about everything and wait long enough.
Maybe English should go the Finnish route and abandon gendered pronouns entirely.
>He was probably referring to secure boot when talking about UEFI, which effectively prevents you from installing linux

??? Most distros have signed boot loaders and run fine with secure boot on.
Assuming Perimeter worked as intended, it would finish the job automatically eliminating the fear that no one would be alive to fire a retaliatory strike. Moscow would not longer have to fire their nuclear weapons in a panic.

During the Cold War, MAD implied you had to be suicidal to launch a nuclear strike against another nuclear-armed adversary—the adversary fires everything in retaliation and kills you. So the mission in a first-strike shifted to taking out the adversary's leadership preventing them from launching a retaliatory strike. This created a situation where the US and the Soviets were incentivized to fire at the slightest provocation: if Moscow thinks Washington launched a nuclear strike, Moscow better fire before American nukes come down.

With the Dead Hand, Moscow could activate Perimeter which would listen for certain indications of nuclear strikes and if it was determined that a nuclear strike occurred, automatically launch Soviet nuclear weapons in retaliation.
Will it be free if it sells ads or will people pay for the privilege of watch ads?
“ My question is - should taxpayers be on hook for the millions he is looking for?”

Obviously not, but with how crazy society has gotten, maybe these Idiocracy-lite situations will become more common and they will have to be priced-in; meaning that eventually nothing can be done because everything will be too expensive due to liability and labor shortages.
Wait, he's suing the city because he thinks his crash is city's fault for lack of maintenance, despite it literally being illegal to ride a scooter there, and, on top of that, being too drunk to drive?

Imagine a drunk driver suing the city after crashing into a tree growing on a median, for failing to clear the median to make it safer to drive there. It would be a amusing story in the nation's every single morning radio show.

I get that the guy is now paralyzed, but he has no case, all he's trying to do is to socialize his wrong choices onto LA taxpayers.
Broad clauses aren't themselves problematic, but if the contract is take-it-or-leave-it (a contract of adhesion with no real negotiation), there's a different angle to approach it from.

https://www.law.cornell.edu/wex/adhesion_contract_(contract_...
Babel Plugin Melody
Except if they didn't make usability / design compromises then there would be much less R&D needed and they could take that money as additional profit for the next gen. I have no problem paying more for a more niche system. What I don't want to encourage is adding useless crap onto the machine in an effort to justify the extra $$$.

System76 is a worse offender in this regard than Purism, my problem with Purism was a build quality issue, which is understandable. I still wish they'd have make it more rugged and less pretty, but at least there weren't any glaring design issues.
Maybe you should understand what you're talking about before you start in on somebody else.

Reddit is VASTLY more hostile to the average user than twitter. On twitter, all I have to do to stay in good standing is abide by community guidelines. You might disagree with those guidelines, but they're there and are generally easy to follow.

On reddit? Not only does each user have to pay attention to the reddit guidelines, but each subreddit is its own fiefdom with an absolute monarch (head mod) who can ban you at any time, for any reason, without repercussion and there is no appeals process. I know because I've done it. There were people causing trouble in a sister sub to one I run, and I did not hesitate to permaban them when I saw what was going on. And from all the other subs I run. They cried, complained, bitche and moaned to reddit admins, and nothing happened. Mods don't owe users platforms.

Because on reddit, you are free to start your own subreddit. You are not free to just post whatever you want, and there have been many subs that have been banned for not abiding by the rules.
>It's going to hurt even more to find out they really don't enjoy your company as much as you thought they did

This is the crux of the issue. There are many people who often feel like cancelling on plans, but it is absolutely not because they don't enjoy their friends' company. It might be because they have a mood disorder, or chronic fatigue, or social anxiety, etc etc. The whole reason someone might want an app that lets you cancel on plans, but only if the other person also wants to cancel, is because it's almost impossible to express this feeling to someone without that person drawing the conclusion, to some degree, that you enjoy their company less than they thought.

If you genuinely don't enjoy spending time with someone, that's a much easier problem to solve.
> Why should Apple avoid autocompletion of porn site domains?

Because if I’m sharing my screen on a business call, and I start typing something into my browsers’s address bar, I don’t want it to autocomplete something nsfw which just happened to share the same first letter.
BBC Archive: Children predict the future (1966)
World of Tanks maker closes studios in Russia, Belarus
Software engineering isn’t the only profession that requires focus, so don’t hesitate to expand your search for tips.

Separate room with closed door is the minimum if you have kids at home. Headphones with noise isolation are a cheap investment for a software engineer.

If adults or teenagers are actively interrupting, that’s more of an interpersonal issue that should be solved as such.
Also when descending a hill they dramatically reduce the strain on your joints
That is exactly what profilers do. Xcode gives you a heatmap of what percentage of the execution time has been spent in a particular function (at least in ~2013 when I used this function the last time)
I like innovation, and I'm all for making programming easier.

That said, from the example documentation..
<start>;

option of "v";

capture major {
some of <digit>;
}

".";

capture minor {
some of <digit>;
}

".";

capture patch {
some of <digit>;
}

<end>;

// v1.0.0

Show that to someone who isn't familiar with regex, and they'll have no idea what it means.

Someone who is familiar with regex, will likely prefer the regex format.
Those outsized subreddits seem like spam to me!!! You have to scroll and expand and collapse shit to read comments!!!
IME, you will get that information if you get a math degree. You are less likely to get it, unless you read the textbook (that is, not from the teacher) from any K-12 or non-major math classes because that's not their focus (for better or worse). But often the motivational cases for the math are present in high school and non-major math course textbooks. Just not part of the class because that's not what you're going to be evaluated on.
What makes you think you know how much time I’ve spent on a track?

> On a track, speed is kind of the point, so reducing speed is not an appropriate way to reduce your risk profile and increase safety.

False. Reducing speed will reduce risk on the track. You’re conflating racing and safety.

> By my logic, when taken to the extreme, you should never take any action that you haven't planned ahead and signaled clearly to other drivers.

I’m still not sure why you don’t acknowledge the clear and obvious reasons why speeding increases your risk under your own stated reasons. Speeding increases the probability of an event the driver hasn’t planned ahead.

> Speed does not cause accidents

Is it useful to play this semantic game? Don’t you think it’s more valuable to talk about which choices lead to greater risks? There are many valid ways to classify the ‘cause’ if an accident. Blaming the road when you’re doing 35 over seems like a way to stick your head in the sand and discount a bad choice. When it comes to public road safety, don’t you think we should focus on the things we have control over, and not pretend like accidents are uncontrollable, especially when the stats and safety experts all point to excessive speed being a major factor?

Since you drive track, you are well aware that roads are designed with certain speeds in mind, and that exceeding the design parameters is more likely to result in an accident.
> eventually nothing can be done because everything will be too expensive due to liability and labor shortages.

I have to wonder if you wrote this in 1987, because that's kinda already the reality we're living in in 2022...
Ask HN: Datasets on US Internet Connectivity?
I'm trying to learn more about rural internet connectivity in the US over time, and was wondering what the best source of data is?

I've seen the Census ACS has been asking about internet subscriptions and types, but only has robust estimates since 2017. Are there any datasets out there that show more historical perspective on this?
BTC uses a lot of energy, some of it excess clean energy, but mostly just dirty energy. It is far from helping the environment.

Storing excess clean energy, now that would help the enviroment.
Using excess clean energy for BTC means storage needs to compete with BTC, making storage economically less feasible.

So BTC not only uses lots of dirty energy, it also hinders innovation in using excess clean energy. BTC is just terrible for the environment.
> Science writers should be more careful to point out when we are using metaphors.

I think she should replace "science writers" with physicists. In my experience, it's when physicists give overflowing and superfluous explanations of things that cause the most trouble, because they are viewed as authorities. Neil deGrasse Tyson, Michio Kaku, Brian Greene, PBS Space Time, and many others. It's interesting, because I once read an interview with Brian Green, and the question was: what career would you have chosen if you weren't a physicist? His answer was both surprising and unsurprising: a Baptist preacher. One should note that he actually has the speaking style of one.

It brings up an interesting point in that physics at the highest level sounds almost like what ill-informed amateurs produce. I have degrees in mathematics and some understanding of physics, but I've watched a few lectures of Ed Witten before, and he might as well be just making it all up. I know, it can all be backed out such that it all follows from known mathematics and physics, but one does have to marvel at the similarity, and I think this is what so-called cranks get emboldened by. It makes it worse when physicists use words like "believe".

I think physicists have done a poor job explaining that what they do is model building. The models are not reality. What reality is currently lies in the realm of philosophy. The models physicists build are simply our best descriptions based on what we observe (string theory aside). The article gets at this a bit with mentioning metaphors, but it still doesn't drive home the point because she's referring to metaphors of metaphors (i.e., metaphors for the physical models). Once you understanding that physics is about building models that describes what we observe in physical reality, it lowers the barrier of "authority". In that, in some sense, the entire point of physics is often to find out how we're wrong just as much as it is to clarify where we're right. I think many don't understand that when "is" is used in physics, it really means "is modeled by" (or something to that effect).

I'm reminded of this scene from one of my favorite movies, A Serious Man: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NbzWYjVrvpI
Doesn't really matter for this purpose, I'm not arguing that the military is inherently wrong, or that military service is.

I'm asserting that by far the most likely use of a wealthy nation's military is going to be a bad one. Encouraging people to join the military in that context is bad.

People have an incredibly wide range of reasons for joining or supporting militaries, and I would absolutely not universally condemn all of them. Just this one.

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That aside, just because I benefit from something doesn't make it ok. What kind of first grader ethics is that?
It depends on your tooling

I just searched for the largest code files on my system and found a 100k file

I opened it on the online repo and gitlab did not want to show it at first. When I clicked on show anyways, Firefox broke trying to load the website and I had to restart it. (then I could not post on HN anymore due to the noprocrast setting there)

When I opened that file in an IDE, it was shown quickly without any issues. But there is a notable delay when typing, so 100k lines are too much.

Other IDEs might already fail with smaller files

Although when the IDE has a "search in the open file" and not a "search in all files of the project" feature, one file is much easier to use than multiple files
It seems like everyone agrees that it's not really a problem to take off half a year or even a year.

I'm curious: Are there people who have taken longer breaks? What were the consequences for the careers?
Melody was posted here (not by myself), but the project was still in very early stages, and so I wanted to post an update that Melody now has:

- A Babel plugin - https://www.npmjs.com/package/babel-plugin-melody

- NodeJS bindings via WASM - https://www.npmjs.com/package/melodyc

- A playground - https://melody-playground.vercel.app/

- VSCode and JetBrains extensions - https://marketplace.visualstudio.com/items?itemName=yoavlavi... https://plugins.jetbrains.com/plugin/18693-melody

- A CLI and REPL

- A documentation book - https://yoav-lavi.github.io/melody/book/

The idea behind Melody is to represent regular expressions in a readable, maintainable format that plays nicely with larger projects, multiple people, diffs and so forth, while adding some QOL features.

See the repository here: https://github.com/yoav-lavi/melody
It's not just about traveling outside: working in a different part of the house / apartment is trivial with a laptop.

This would be the perfect use case for a desktop paired with an iPad with keyboard, but the limited OS makes this unappealing.
I have a tendency to some of these types of quirks, as well. I don't know the author's situation, but the reason why I ruminated over other people's thoughts for so long was because I was brought up in a household of narcissists and sociopaths. I had to step very carefully depending on what mood the people around me were in, lest I be smacked down (usually verbally, occasionally literally) for saying or doing something to set them off. It becomes exhausting and as you can imagine leads to numerous personal and social problems. They start so young that you never have a chance to realize that it's neurotic behavior.

That said, I don't care for the label "baby". Different people have different skills – socially, intellectually, etc. – and not having a particular skill or set of tools doesn't make you a "baby". It makes you ignorant of those things. I think the label of being avoidant was much more precise language.
The references should allow you to follow some sort of red thread. They will probably aid in closing the knowledge gap as well. It's probably like in this article (it was a good article btw) though, you need more maths. Either you use university curricula to find out what maths you need as a starting point or you focus on the maths that pops up in the papers and work your way from there.
Freedom of association is also a core liberal value.
Isn't using the literal meaning of that oath similar to claiming that an American oath [0] is to a sheet of paper? It's indicative of either ignorance [1] or lacking good faith.

0. https://history.army.mil/html/faq/oaths.html

1. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Monarchy_of_the_United_Kingdom
The journey of sharing a wired USB printer over the network
“Mother of Giants” Turing Machine
No one knows. The Blitzjs team is working on a pivoting Blitz, so its not worth comparing old Blitz with Redwood for now.
The Musk hype has done wonders for TSLA shares. I'm not sure he need to take it private.
also: don't make plans you don't intend to work to keep (esp. for the sake of being agreeable in the moment) - would much prefer someone doesn't make a plan they don't intend to work (emotionally or physically) to keep - learning to use yes and no responsibly is one of the more important aspects of maturing
Reposting the comment by daft_isnt_it which was flagged and is marked as dead (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30908306):

Dear fellow HN users: please do not flag things simply because they are representing a stance that you disagree with; we should use down-voting for that if we have the karma. This post does not violate our guidelines:

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There are many good reasons why one might want to refer to a person's biological sex in conversation.
For example:

"Why is that man being allowed to compete in a women's sporting event?"

"Why is that man flashing his penis in the women-only area of the nude spa?"

"Why is that man calling himself a lesbian and haranguing actual lesbians for not being sexually interested in him?"

And so on.
I highly recommend re-reading the entire formal standard for technologies you work with routinely, on a roughly annual basis. It's a triple whammy of refresher, update, and niche discovery.

I attribute this advice to Æleen Frisch; albeit without pulling my very dog-eared copy from the stacks, I recall that words to similar effect can be found in the epochal Essential System Administration (2002), possibly in the form of reading every manpage in your local Unix base system.
This is a huge, huge, HUGE reason to have a dedicated workspace whether it involves a desktop, laptop, TI-85, abacus, or hammer and chisel.
Why should Bird be responsible for anything here though? There's no evidence or claim that there was anything wrong with the scooter that caused the accident...
Good point, I shouldn't make assumptions. However I think that making these options so easy (via an app) will have a net negative effect on society.
>You can't measure how much the other person truly wants to cancel, because attempting to take the measurement will alter the outcome.

I get it. Again, the point is, so what? Take the measurement and alter the outcome. Or decide you're the one being the baby and keep the plans.
If google would make a paid adblocker extension that allows you to "pay" to not be shown any Google ads anywhere, on your phone, on your PC, youtube, google search, or any other website that shows them, I wouldn't mind paying for that.

Since no one offers what I want in a way that gets them paid, I'll use the free method instead.
> As far as I know Redwood has no server-side rendering solution.

SSR is priority number one for v2. In the meantime, a number of users use Next.js as a client that talks GraphQL to the Redwood backend. It works very well!

> there is actual financial backing for Next.js

Today I announced I will be providing $1M of funding for future RedwoodJS framework development this year, so now we have funding too. =)

https://tom.preston-werner.com/2022/04/04/redwood-v1-and-fun...

The truth is, we can both succeed at the same time, there are so many great app ideas waiting to be explored, and different tools will work better for different situations!
This got me following a rabbit hole to research about the first video games. Looks like the very first might have been one called Tennis for Two from 1958. So video games are even older than 60!
Really looking forward to this. Back in the day I played it on my Amiga 500, but last year, after watching Retro Ahoys video [1] I got my old 486 out of the loft and bought a Roland MT-32 just to play it - highly recommended, as is the video.

[1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9F9ahZQ7oP0
Well it depends on your mood and period in life, as a fresh grad student, the first time I found a 12" thinkpad I was shocked. The small screen made me focus, the keyboard (x32 days) was slick as one can be.

These days my issue with laptop is the thermal constraints that cut off luxurious CPUs. Seeing a ryzen 5 sff pc gives you so much more oomph.. it makes the oversized toolchains invisible, no need to worry about VMs, large codebase recompile etc etc
Would the Reagan administration really allow a doomsday device gap? Think about it.
This book has and continues to change the way I communicate with others. Its sitting on my desk now. Empathy and Honesty, what a beautiful dance.
I was against the war in Iraq and still am, but IMO the jury is still out whether the war in Iraq made the world less safe. Saddam was a brutal dictator including gassing and genociding the Kurds. The Kurds now have a fairly stable government in Northern Iraq thanks to the invasion and are a center of prosperity in the region. ISIS has been largely suppressed, and there's been no repeat of the Iran or Kuwait wars of Iraq since the US takoever.
Briefly Noted: First Edition
It’s not an apples to apples comparison unfortunately. He’s using custom assembly for the direct call benchmark but C code for the indirect benchmark.

The C code contains no optimization annotations either, the compiler could be inlining the indirect benchmark and/or devirtualizing the indirect call itself.
In February Biden left the Russian Arms Control Talks in reaction to the Russian troop movements. They were discussing reinstating the INF. With intermediate range missiles like the SS20 and Pershing with especially short reaction cycles. Which we actually got rid of in the 80s.

Could you be more specific with treaty violations?
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Intermediate-Range_Nuclear_For...
Has the tests for missiles with a disputed range

On a side note, when searching for it google also told me that the last policy round apparently allowed the first strike use of nuclear weapons
https://www.armscontrol.org/act/2022-04/news/biden-policy-al...
The "about us" section of the webpage :

"Who are we? NS is active in the public transportation sector. We encourage the use of public transportation and keep the Netherlands moving. Our travellers are our 1st, 2nd and 3rd priority in all of our activities, and we do our utmost to make their trip as pleasant and sustainable as possible from door to door."

This is also fascinating. I would expect to find "NS (Netherlands Service) provides rail services for the entire country". Instead they choose vague grammar, more the idea of NS rather than what NS actually is.

"I am a programmer" => "I encourage the use of computers to provide solutions for common business problems". Just a strange use of grammar.
Really enjoyed reading this.

Makes me wonder though about how we inevitably generalise people's personal stories into rules of thumb. I'm acutely aware how one person's journey for an antidote to their personality dysfunctions isn't always medicine for another person.

If Hayley has dominantly anxious-avoidant attachment style it'd explain her ambivalence. The antidote is engage executive regulation (to supress the anxiety and flight response), and downplay emotional resonance.

Common a formula as it is, could be a muddle for you or I if we don't have her underlying predispositions.

What does it say about me that I wrote this.
True, that wouldn't be "compulsory military service" though imo.
I implemented the same thing for my master thesis project