skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I generally that those "against car ownership" are just PR and PR-convinced guys, really, that's not intended as an insult but as an (hopefully) open minded consideration:

- those who work and live in a "small" area, witch means in bike/foot range for anything do consume far less, yes, but to sustain those sober lifestyle many others run on km and km on gasoline trucks & other transports means;

- European style cities (where from I came from, switched to a mountain area few years ago) are a nightmare in the modern world because being dense means being unable to evolve. There is no room to change because there is no space to move and when something exceptional but not so exceptional happen is a disaster;

- most tend to think living in apartments, very concentrate is efficient, like a big factory tend to be more efficient than various little and spread, that's false actually. Environmental costs of tall buildings is FAR superior to many equivalent (even bigger) single-family homes, those buildings demand structure and infrastructure that single home do not need at all and not only: as dense cities they can't evolve. So we can build a "A-class state-of-art" building today, in 100+ years it will be the same building, probably in a dangerous shape, very inefficient and can't be rebuilt.

We need a certain density because transportation costs and social life, idea sharing etc demand a bit of aggregation but we all know pushing aggregation is a vary bad move. Actually the dominant idea is "small and smart cities" but even these can't really scale because today we can build them (well, at a hyper-big cost) for today needs, tomorrow we will be still unable to evolve them because of density. IMVHO the sole scalable model is the Riviera one, where living and working buildings are spread together but residential parts are single-family home with enough room to be rebuilt on generational change, and factories except for those who demand a certain size, can be single-purpose areas so something that can be rebuilt at a certain point in time with enough ground around to do so. That's also have another positive aspect: it stop the possibility to concentrate to many people in small places making them nightmare like many modern city-states.

In the Riviera model we have schools like campus where students can aggregate to develop ideas and social life, but again they are single-purpose complexes so easy to rebuilt/change as needed, there is a bit of travel but not too much, a bit of aggregation perhaps less effective than a dense city one, but without risk to became too dense etc.

In medio stat virtus. A lesson too many forget.
Not sure Lisp variants count for the purposes of the person you’re responding to; it’s not a new language and most Lisps actually do their own GC.
Didn't know this circuit was still around. Good memories. And fun projects!
You use a lot of words in your post but none are "Ukraine".

Ukrainians have the right to decide what they want to do and what, if anything, to give up.
Speaking as someone who likes rock climbing and also road trips, I'm not sure what the alternative is. Even in Europe (especially in Europe), you need a 4-wheel drive to access most of the climbing areas.

I live in Canada and currently just have a hybrid, but it does limit me in what areas I can drive to for climbing
It depends on the city, but in bigger cities it's frequently the traffic from cars that keeps busses from being on time.

Separately, there's a chicken-and-egg problem. In order to run busses every five minutes—which is what you really want—you need enough bus riders to fill all those vehicles.
> Remember that the Raspberry design team is from Britain, same as Douglas Adams.

And Eben studied at St John's College, Cambridge, same as Douglas Adams
In denser areas they do, but honestly most new development malls are looking like that now a days with huge garages and an effort to maximize the developable land. I think Easton in Columbus, OH is a fair example of one of these newer malls with garages, and outside of a big city too way out in the exurbs not too far from cornfields. There are some lots but as the area has been infilling they've been adding garages.
I used to work at a startup that aggregated apartment listings. Long gone now, we couldn't compete with Zillow or Apartments.com. But what we were doing is just aggregating all of the rental websites we could possibly scrape into one interface.

It was hard. There are so many scams out there. If you are not hand curating listings, you have to rely on somewhat novel approaches to filter out all the bad data. For example, any mention of 'Jesus' or 'God' automatically blocked the listing. Sure there might have been legitamate listings, but anytime I would go in and check 99% of the time it was a scam. You also have scams of people listing units they don't own or have any relation too. They ask for a security deposit up front and just pocket it, leaving the new tenant to have an awkward conversation with the real resident.

Data is often unformatted too. Scraping out bedrooms and bathrooms can even be a challenge on websites like craigslist where the listing is just one big paragraph. (Not anymore, craigslist has come a long way, but that's how it was 10 years ago). Often times you had to just search for the closest number around the word "bed" or "bath". Don't even think about getting features like "driveway" or "laundry" out of them.

In the end, we ended up utilizing some pretty intense ETL pipelines to collate historical data, census information, property assessment data, and other things to try to get a more accurate picture on our listings.

But that didn't win out. What won out are the sites like Apartments.com or Zillow, where legitimate property owners can post their listings in a formatted searchable way. We could scrape them and post the same listings on our site, but at that point we were just pushing our customers to another platform that honestly worked better than our own.

We couldn't have the most up to date data, that was determined by how fast we could go back to scrape a listing. And often times we were knee deep in a battle to avoid being blocked by these companies. Often times, after we had exhausted our proxies, the only thing left to use was Tor.
Right, what's more independant than a bike? Cars, machines with thousands of moving parts that must be maintained with gas, oil, tires, insurance, registration, and other maintenance aren't in my view.
Being afraid of SWATting is absolutely realistic, yes.
Ha Ha Ha. Advice to those thinking about advanced degrees: Don't pay for a Masters unless it is required for your profession (e.g. Masters of Social Work is required to be a Clinical Social Worker). And never pay for a PhD program in the US. If it's a strong program, the students are fully supported (though perhaps not well supported). Graduate school is not every one (academia is not for everyone), but it should not put you in debt.
The thought of wealthy westerners sipping coffee and writing about the evils of an old lady is on par.
> If I want to work for a company, and the company wants to hire me, we should be free to enter into a contract. A third party shouldn't have the power to say "you can't unless you pay us dues".

Seems like you only want to prevent unions from doing this, but not employers. You also want to prevent them entering into contracts with employers. It's not really a consistent argument is it?
> There's been progress in project organization tools. There's Github, and Slack, and Stack Overflow. It's now possible for a large number of people to collaborate on something and still get it to work.

Does this stuff come from academia? That's what's being debated.
Number of households would be the relevant measure here, not population.

Population can stay the same, but number of single people wanting to live alone means less people per dwelling, which means more demand.
one could argue that it’s mostly a feature of the US.

Only if one was unfamiliar with pretty much every British prime minister, and almost every king or emperor on the planet in the last 3,000 years.
What are the chances that millions of business operators across the world and over the course of decades are completely wrong about how traffic, including parking, affect their businesses? We could choose to believe that business interests are not public interests so to hell with what businesses want, but lets not harbor the lie that the businesses are mistaken in their experience.
The Iraq war still would have happened.
Professors are "supposed" to help avoid the retirement effect by not accepting new grad students, in some cases where this is not viable they can continue with an emeritus title and provide the entry point that their students need. Similarly, a professor leaving for another institution will likely make right by their students.

In the case that none of the above is possible the institution will probably try to do right by the student, but it's a bit of a crap shoot. Even if the institution confers the PhD, the student is still beholden to the publish or perish culture of academia - and their (former) advisor would have helped navigate them to a thesis which their former advisors peers would accept. If the latter doesn't occur in a big way; then the student won't have a good career ahead.

I've known 1-2 people who for various reasons decided that the grad student life was the optimal career station for themselves as it provided the benefits of an academic career without the overhead of grant applications etc.
Absolutely, some people will do that. I personally know some that will drive 500 meters rather than walking (even in Europe) or that will drive instead of taking public transportation even when the public transportation is faster and cheaper.

But, many do due to the lack of alternatives. Especially in the US/Canada, but also in Europe (especially anything built recently). People will drive because they don’t feel safe cycling/walking, or because their destination is too far. Or they will own several cars while they could just go on with one.

I don’t think anyone is really advocating for completely removing cars from the street or cities. I personally don’t own one (and this is a priority for me - I don’t want one), but I do take rides with friends or a cab from time to time.

What most advocates want (including me) is to stop prioritising cars in every single decision. Mixed zoning laws will remove lots of car trips if you can just walk to the shop when you need a couple of items or a coffee. Making streets car free (bar few exception) will make people come out and enjoy the street. Making people pay a fair price for parking will avoid subsidising a huge amount of land for private use. Removing parking will add lots of space on the streets for things that people enjoy. Better public transportation will favour everyone, especially poorer communities. And proper ciclying and walking infrastructure will allow more and more people to do so safely.

If after that someone still want to use private cars, then be my guest.
> Most of the discussion here is about whether mandating business practice would be a good or a bad business move, but hardly anyone is questioning whether this is a good or legitimate role for those in government to decree and mandate.

Isn't the Government already limiting the workweek to 40h?
As a midwestern suburbanite, these threads remind me that urban dwellers spend a lot of time thinking about me and the way I live, while I never think about them at all.

This is probably dangerous.
> Is it possible to have a "healthy" amount of playing? Let's say just a couple of hours in the weekends?

Yes, depending on the individual. I relate to your story, and my advice to my past self, now that I've practice going longer without things I feel compelled to do (consuming alcohol, caffeine, mindlessly eating food to avoid emotions), is to intentionally (or accidentally, but that needs luck) take a break to unhook the brainstem and gain perspective. Sounds like you've done that (four months off). In my case, the urge to get lost in videogame-land is annual, and I'm able to enjoy gaming again, sometimes teetering on the brink of the event horizon, with the understanding that if I burn hot I'll burn out and move on. This happened recently; played intensely for a month, accepting the book will end and I'll be free again, and enjoying the journey, no regrets (except the twinge of "I could have read so many books instead", countered by "my day job is so exhausting, this indulgence is maintenance-mode paving the way for growth").

Regarding feeling of flow, Blindboy spoke of it somewhat recently on his podcast (he also streams himself composing music while playing Red Dead Redemption 2, showing the audience his creative process and a healthier flow-state), noting that while videogames give us a sense of accomplishment it is too often a hollow one, far surpassed by creative flow. Minecraft and the like are exceptions, perhaps? I have enjoyable memories of the places I've made in that game.

Setting barriers for myself, as you've done, has been helpful, but I may not respect myself enough to have the barriers be fully effective--if I'm not pausing and choosing my next steps wisely, I can easily fall in.

It has taken me years to have the healthier view I have now, and I have a lot of work yet to do (not obligatory to improve, but the path helps me have a sense of meaning). Guidance from childhood friends, who I keep in touch with via games, has helped. For awhile I'd quit all videogames except for multiplayer with them, so it's a bit messy but we can talk about the challenges and our friendship is deeper than gaming, so that helps.

Practicing breathing (inspired by Breath, by James Nestor) has helped me make better choices in the moment. Still a work in progress.

Doing one thing at a time helps, too; sometimes I feel the pull of wanting to consume media while cleaning up after dinner, and I decide not to, and I thank myself for it afterwards.

I hope this ramble helps. Good luck!
Funny you ask: I'm moving in a few days to a remote place in France. Closest village, by walk, is 50 minutes away according to google maps. It's also all steep uphills and downhills, so bicycling there is hard (I do have a MTB for fun and, darn, it's hard to cycle there... Although the local policemen from the village do use bikes on non-rainy days).

By car it's a 5 minutes drive. So 50 minutes vs 5 minutes. Bicycling would be 15 minutes then 15 minutes back but I'd be toast due to the hills.

Closest highway: 45 minutes drive.

Closest city: 1h15 minutes.

Driving my kid to school in the morning: second closest village, 12 km / 7 miles. By bicycle? More than 40 minutes just to get there. Car: 12 minutes.

Of course I don't get the "vibrant" city life.

But I do get shitloads of nature and a sky so clean at night I can not just see stars but the Milky Way too.

As to where it is: I won't give the exact location but let's say "somewhere on the french riviera" (think Sonoma County vineyards meet the mediterannean sea: a little piece of paradise on earth with ultra-low density of population).
People only "want" to drive the ten minutes to the grocery store because that drive would be a half hour bike ride or a 90 minute walk. But they'd much rather the grocery store be a ten minute walk away.
> There’s the George Harrison point where he said he’s scared to touch the piano because he might be touching someone else’s note.

Here's how wonderfully copyright incentivises creativity.

And those guys are pros. Imagine what new people might feel.
Simple, we don’t optimize for edge cases. I live in the suburbs. You know how many people around here have 4wd Jeeps for their commute to the office that they have never taken “off road” a single time?

The solution is someone like you who does outdoor stuff may shell out for a 4wd vehicle. That’s OK!! You just park it in your neighborhood or in your garage like everyone else. The majority of people who don’t do these activities just walk and bike around and probably take their hatchback to visit someone once in awhile or pick up a larger piece of furniture.
Pair this up with the electric sheep paradigm. Evolving the images and prompts together. Voted by people on their screensavers.
Not just you. It can give no results and partial results, which is sometimes fixed on a re-query.

But it also is just poor for code. I think it wants to find full words, so searching for substrings generally results in too few matches. That's made worse by its special character handling in word splitting and query parsing which makes some text impossible to find.
I'd like to see some sources on the reason for having underdeveloped social skills. Sure, exposure to situations is necessary to an extent. You still have shy urbanites as well as kind/inviting rural people. I would venture a guess that much of it is culture based (eg southern hospitality, NYC has a reputation for being gruff/big personalities, etc)
That's what I thought. I requested a load of blood tests but doc didn't find anything.
They seem to believe that by working to actively make roads and parking worse, then some sort of car-free utopia will emerge. Of course, the actual effect is that things are just worse.
Haxe (the language Heaps uses) was initially written by Nicolas Cannasse, who worked at Motion Twin for a while; not sure if he was part of the team that did Dead Cells. So it's not a big surprise.

Still, that's a big +1 for Heaps/Haxe then Dead Cells runs fantastically.

EDIT: Ah, looking into it more Nicolas also founded Shiro Games who made Evoland, Northgard, etc. So it might just be following him around (not to disparage it, still looks great).
Wrong comment? The comment is saying move out of big cities. I agree.
Think about creating a github repo and put up some of his work. Advertise that.
Where I live, small shops often have 5 or 15 minute parking time limits directly outside so there's usually a space available when I want one, despite the rest of the street being full.

Sounds like your city needs to write and enforce its parking rules better.
Scrolled through the page only to see if someone already mentioned cooking.

You have to cook for at least 3-4 people to make it worth the regular effort.

I cook 2-3 course meals at least 5 times a week.
No promotions, we all get paid the same. Everybody is doing their best, and it's a small company, hierarchies and different salaries add unnecessary overhead and friction.
>There is 1) survival of the fittest and 2) random genetic mutation.

There is 1) survival of the fittest and 2) random genetic mutation and 3) survival of the luckiest.

You could be part of the fittest, most well-evolved tribe of people on the planet that gets hit by a meteor which completely obliterates your entire lineage, while a much less "fit" group of people on the other side of the world soldiers on. These survivors didn't survive the meteor strike because of any inherent strengths or benefits of evolution or genetic mutation, but they are the only ones left out of sheer chance.
Sam Harris did a great long form essay where he described this concept very well: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lying_(Harris_book)

He even goes into detail about Santa.

EDIT: I think the bit about Santa is only in the audiobook, but he talks about it in this article: https://www.samharris.org/blog/the-high-cost-of-tiny-lies

As far as a question like that, I might not answer it literally truthfully. I’d probably say something like “oh it’s nothing.” Both me and them understand I don’t mean I was literally not thinking about anything, I mean to say I don’t want to talk about it. As long as that’s understood by everyone it’s not false speech.
Insane.
Both how you knew this and the original code.
(One thing with the bike lock is I can get a pretty nice one for the price of a tank of gas)
I found this story absurd enough ($5k/hr?!) that I looked into it more and think the full story should be told:

- Her hourly rate is closer to $400/hr. The Berkeley guy said it was $5k/hr because he just took the total pay and divided by hours spent on one thing. But she spent hours on some other things too that he didn't included in the denominator.

- He originally tweeted her address and other harassing things, which is against Twitter's rules. That tweet was reported and taken down.

- Stanford has threat prevention staff that alerted her to his tweets and also alerted the authorities, as is apparently their policy when people are tweeting harassing stuff about their faculty. She never personally reported him to the police. I wouldn't fault her if she did though.

- It's clearly not racially motivated.

- Despite all that, she tweeted an apology to appease the mob.

- Finally, I don't like either of them. He is a harassing doofus who is trying to make her seem racist. She is trying to dumb down math for California students in the name of equity. He's worse but I don't really like her either.
> it often takes 2x as much time to get anywhere if you take public transportation outside of big cities

This is almost always going to be true, regardless of the country. Living in the countryside is always going to mean inefficiencies in terms of transportation. I couldn't say how you'd solve this, just increasing buses and trains is just too cost ineffective given how sparsely populated most of these areas are.

I do align with the whole anti-car crowd when it comes to cities though. We should encourage and enable people to use literally anything other than a car for city movement. Anecdotal but I know plenty of people that'll take their car for all kinds of stupid small trips that could've been at most a 10 minute bicycle ride.

Getting to sit in your car and pressing a little pedal sure is comfortable, and I feel like it's impossible to get people out of the mindset that using another mode of transportation is better for them, as well as everyone around them. All these little trips such as getting groceries once a week, driving across town to go see a friend, etc., really do accumulate to be a problem and you end up with cars littering streets left and right. And then we're not even talking about health yet.

In a city at least, the benefits of car ownership for the individual, take far too big a toll on a the livability of a city as a whole.
That is exorbitantly expensive by comparison and only makes financial sense when you have a large enough population in the area to support it.

Local governments are not rolling in cash. If your town substantially raised your taxes to pay for that project, would you also complain about that?
It's more complicated than that. Cost of labor is driven by what management is willing to offer and what employees can afford to accept. If a 32 hour effective cap leads to employees demanding 20 and employers offering 15 they can keep on offering until their firm goes out of business if they like.
fuel vs freezing to death, not quite the same.

And Europe is not filled with rich countries.
It is almost a given that he wouldn't have. He had squeezed through on the technicalities of the electoral college (not unlike Trump), significantly losing the popular vote (also considering that the hard-left Nader had his best result ever, attracting 3m votes and forever discrediting the wisdom of voting for a third-party candidate). GWB's ratings pre-9/11 were consistently low almost from the start. He set up a cabinet of old-school industrialist cronies, led by Dick Cheney, focused largely on exploiting energy markets and neutering antitrust laws, and substantially expanded the doctrine on executive privilege to block laws he didn't like or hide Cheney's shenanigans.

Then 9/11 happened, he made the best of the photo ops, and then rode a wave of proto-fascism all the way to Katrina.
If only there was a solution to this problem. If only we could make the public transit go from “sucking” to “not sucking”. Guess we can’t. Throw in the towel. I’m buying a truck and America better damn we’ll go bomb someone to make sure gas is cheaper than milk.