skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
When I saw the house I eventually bought, I had seen one property I was interested in but was on the fence about. When I saw this one I was pretty much sold. Great property. The house was old and very little had obviously been done with it for decades. And there were some things (like on the small side and one bathroom) that would probably have been showstoppers for a lot of people but weren't an issue for me.

Various things cost me a fair bit of money, effort, and angst that I'm glad I didn't know about at the time. But, at the end of the day, I got a ridiculously good deal--especially by today's standards--for a semi-rural place only about an hour out of Boston.
> invest maybe 90 minutes to simply get to the closest grocery store

But that’s not how cities in Europe are laid out. The closest grocery store to me is 3 minutes by bike (1.19 km) and I live at the edge of my particular neighborhood (shops are usually concentrated near the center of neighborhoods). Even the city center (where the more specialized shops are) is only about 8 minutes by bike (or about 15 by car due to traffic).

Especially within the city a bike is always faster.
Thanks! Interesting (the cURL stuff)
Not everything has to be commercial. And in fact, most of the good stuff — e.g. HN comments — are not commercial.

I don’t mind paying for certain things, but the crypto trend is very much pay to play.
> Who cares whether india is a democracy or not?

Every human being on the planet who doesn't want to live in a dictatorship subject to the whims of one or few strongmen, or to be disappeared with no legal recourse for saying or thinking the wrong thing, or to have the valuable things they've built stolen by the unaccountable powerful.

There was a brief interregnum to history after the fall of the USSR, where we all thought authoritarianism would disappear if we just all get rich together, and that the culmination of human social evolution was liberal democracy and free markets.

Unfortunately none of that is true, and authoritarianism is on the rise again. You can pretend not to see it or that it doesn't matter if you wish, but that won't change the reality.

And Russia is no longer a democracy, the US has never attacked Japan post-WWII, and US has been extremely generous to China until Xi Jinping took over and began his campaign of regional and world domination.
Absolutely. Cities can be beautiful and livable and affordable and pollution free. Currently most US cities are not. Most Americans have to own cars or other vehicles just to get around. It doesn’t have to be that way.
> California had just had its net population change going negative for the first time recently.

based on 2020 census, California is still growing.

2020: 39,538,223

2010: 37,253,956

6.1% increase

https://www.census.gov/data/tables/time-series/dec/popchange...
This article was written by the same guy who claims that what happened to the Skripals in England was "probably food poisoning" and that the poisononing of Navalny was "done by the mafia".
https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jacques_Baud
Lying is a natural part of Human experience and communication. It's part of the game. Do you not lie to your kids about Santa Claus (or whatever local magical creature it is)?

I rarely have to lie though because most of the time I can leave out information and be just as effective.
I bought four gallons of milk at my last shopping trip, this will last my family a week or so. I also bought five dozen eggs which might last two weeks. Perhaps the reason people in high-density areas shop in smaller quantities is partly that high-density areas price out families like mine who would be shopping every day without the ability to efficiently buy in larger quantities.
TWN, SK, and JPN were all authoritarian when industrializing. Similar with US too, to be honest.
Yeah, this is heavy editorializing
> Anecdotally certain areas in London shops with parking near or in front of the premises seem to survive better than shops that have no parking at all.

Presumably those are areas that don't have the bikes and buses the article talks about. You obviously can't make driving impossible without providing any alternatives.
It doesn’t if your family business is farming.
I'm thinking more like a manually annotated disassembly of something.
> I need to find a good GUI authoring layer for SQLite

MS Access with an ODBC connector.
I suppose many folks here are in those blessed industries and positions where employers and employees are in much more balanced relationships than mostwhere.

Which is how it should be; I don't think anyone would doubt that GP is correct in this regard. But - very sadly - not how it works in most of the reality.
Government power isn't the only power. Workers cheer government regulation as one of their only leverages against employer power (or the power of capital).
I've written a couple side project games in Heaps and I'm a big fan.

If you're familiar with Pixi.js, Heaps and it's language, Haxe, will feel very similar. Haxe is a pretty cool language, it's similar to TypeScript but compiles to native binaries for almost all major game consoles.

Heaps was apparently the framework behind Dead Cells if that says anything about the level of polish you can accomplish with this set of tools.
The hypotenuse of a triangle with unit length sides is real enough.
Living in European town -- no one wants to buy huge quantities in the first place -- gotta store them somewhere and make sure they're not spoiled yet, why bother if there's always a shop downstairs that does pretty much that. Just buy what you need for tonight (or for a week if you're a hoarder).
Not necessarily. The biblical flood and a majority of flood myths around the world, go back much farther than that. Many seem to have been inspired by events during the Younger Dryas period, around 12,000 years ago. There's a "black mat" layer in soil all over the world, suspected to be the result of some sort of cosmic impact - a comet or asteroid hit North American ice, resulting in cataclysmic flooding and a radical reshaping of the geology. The fires from the resulting storms pumped so much ash into the sky that we now have a visually distinctive indicator. Anything above the black mat layer is younger than 12,000 years.

North American megafauna disappeared at this time, which is a pretty serious crack in the assertion that overhunting by people caused their extinction.

Storms from this event left evidence of massive flooding in the years following the impact all over the world. I have no doubt that there are cultural myths that stem from not recent flood events but the younger Dryas impact is likely the source for the oldest myths, as the destruction seemed to be so profound that it would have wiped out any coastal settlements all over the world, leaving us with evidence of the survivors and nothing of what they lost. Various sites and clues around the world hint that even 12,000 years ago there may have been relatively advanced cultures that built in stone and wood, planted crops, likely had advanced shipbuilding, math, astronomy, and navigation.

There are petroglyphs at sites all over the world resembling stick figure men that seem to be inspired by massive plasma discharge patterns in the sky, and the Younger Dryas impact hypothesis provides an explanation for storms powerful enough to produce such patterns.

https://www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/pnas.0800560105

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Younger_Dryas_impact_hypothesi...
it is very important to cover the legal aspect of such thing now

otherwise some dumb people will want ai generated content to be allowed everywhere

i'm pretty sure they are doing their move now because it causes them ton of issues with YouTube

allowing ai generated content, would mean allowing ai generated comments on youtube, wich is already happening and causes lot of issues

if you can't tell what is AI generated and use comments/discussions/like/dislike in your algorithms for ranking videos, then it'll be very easy for 3rd parties to push and play the game, including ad revenue

the inevitable will come sooner rather than later, get ready for your online passport!
Nobody is saying that car use isn't common, just that it commonly overestimated.

I've predominately used means of transit other than cars over the last decade. That means that stores that are located more remotely with less dense parking are less likely to get my business.

In addition, "high parking" stores are very frequently built in areas where pedestrian access simply doesn't exist because of a lack of sidewalks, cross walks, etc.

I think it makes sense to accommodate both use cases by promoting centralized, density preserving parking structures even if it requires car users to walk a little further their final destination.
It seems logical to me that free markets are also not necessarily very efficient at price discovery, there are after all a ton of costs involved in price discovery, information gathering about market counterparts to see if they are trustworthy, drafting and policing contracts, etc etc etc. However, even with these added costs markets are the only thing we've discovered that still works well beyond a certain scale.

For R&D departments and startups, plan economies can still work because the complexity is still small enough that humans can comprehend it.
The hard part is not setting up your own email server. It is ensuring delivery. There are many instances where even if you have configured everything correctly, your email will still end up in spam. Outlook is even worse in that certain emails sent to outlook will get dropped and not even end up in spam.
We definitely need to stop this double standard bullshit.

Lots of US companies continued business-as-usual with nazis during WWII and they not only did fine at the time, but they are strong then never today because nobody cares.

In a ideal society, where people care about the moral of corporations they do businesses, no US corporation would stand up because all of them do harmful things, sometimes deliberately, worse than continuing doing business with Russia. But as I said, nobody cares beyond what is told them to care about.
Rubber Drucker? Ah . . . Management By Objects! /s
Carter's administration supplied US arms to Indonesia fighting East Timor:

"I saw intelligence that came from hard, firm sources in East Timor. There were people being herded into school buildings and set on fire. There were people herded into fields and machine-gunned. ... We knew the place was a free-fire zone and that Suharto was given the green light by the United States to do what he did. We sent the Indonesian generals everything that you need to fight a major war against somebody who doesn't have any guns. We sent them rifles, ammunition, mortars, grenades, food, helicopters. You name it; they got it. ... None of that got out in the media. No one gave a damn. It is something that I will be forever ashamed of. The only justification I ever heard for what we were doing was the concern that East Timor was on the verge of being accepted as a new member of the United Nations and there was a chance that the country was going to be either leftist or neutralist and not likely to vote [with the United States] at the UN."[1]

[1]https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Indonesian_invasion_of_East_Ti...
They define "wokeness" with a definition that GTP-3 would come up with:

">“Wokeness,” for the purposes of this essay, refers in broad strokes to a cultural, social, and ideological movement in the West that challenges previously accepted cultural narratives (the very narratives that prior eras of relatively stable political consensus relied on), and increasingly determines outcomes in primarily elite institutions. Surviving the acade­my, getting a job in journalism or a major tech company, filling out a grant form: these are just some of the activities that increasingly require one to be adept at navigating (and by necessity, parroting) the cultural mores of a new social faith."

I edited this because I couldn't reply. FYI

My point is, how can you critically read an article when the terms are vague?
I agree. I don’t see why we have to force ourselves to live with 2-3 car households, insane taxes to pay for the upkeep of roads, and dependency on oil, gas, plastic, car manufacturers, and all of this other stuff when we could just build better neighborhoods. It’s mind-blowing. Americans in particular go to Europe “wow it’s so awesome here I could totally live here!!” And then it’s like they land back home and their mind is wiped clean.

We don’t have to not have cars either. Why not 1 car per household for most people and most of your day-to-day activities within a few miles? You could bike, ride a street car, walk, any number of things. You can still live in rural areas and have a truck. I like trucks and acreage too! Just stop dictating that we have to have life this specific, obviously bad way.
> Where do your groceries come from and how should these people taking care of ensuring you get to eat get around?

Obviously before cars were invented it was impossible for people in rural areas to bring food to people in urban areas, so all the people in urban areas starved to death. /s

Humans managed to feed urban areas for millennia before the internal combustion engine was invented. I'm sure if city design was changed such that people could walk, cycle, and take public transit to work and to shops, various ways of getting goods (including food) into urban areas will be thought of.

And putting emphasis on urban layouts where people can get (say) 90% of their day-to-day needs satisfied without relying on automobiles does not preclude cars being available for the remaining 10%. Such layouts simply turn cars from being a need-to-have to a nice-to-have item in one's life.

We're talking about changing the emphasis of urban design. Most "bans" on automobiles focus on person transportation vehicles, and not eliminated commercial delivery. It may in fact be easier for deliveries since all the single-passenger cars will be reduced, thus potentially lowering general traffic volumes.

See the Not Just Bikes channel for various videos by a Canadian who grew up in a car-centric suburb to people-centric Amsterdam:

* https://www.youtube.com/c/NotJustBikes/videos
You save a lot of money by not owning cars.
>Of course we live this way, we designed our cities to make us live this way…

I feel like you're almost making a moral statement there, it doesn't have the nuance I think exists.

1) You have people like my parents, siblings, and friends in the Midwest. The idea of living somewhere where they don't have the practical privacy of living on a farm literally horrifies them. I can't convince them otherwise, I've tried. They view me as simply "weird". Literally no hope, but maybe you can convince their kids.

2) You have people like me who love the energy, convenience, and stimulation of high density living but still end up driving and having a car because the cost differential is just way too extreme to logically justify living where I want to.

There's a mystery to me in it. I spent time in Bangkok and Shanghai and why does it seem really easy to rent a centrally located place in a quality tall building, as if it's just normal, and without a prices that seems insanely disproportionate to other life expenses? Yet in the US, it's very rare. There's not enough demand? Labor costs are too high? Laws like building hight limits in the US prevent it? I've heard there are taboos in Europe for high buildings as well.

I think there is also an element of culturally dictated space demands that comes into play. You can have these nice dense places in Bangkok because people will see 300 SQ ft and still rent it. In the US people told me I was brave for trying to survive by myself in "only" 500 SQ ft. They could never "stand not even being able to breathe". You won't have an easy time changing people's minds about this. Personally I'm willing to live in 150sq ft if I'm at the heart of the fun.
The headline is demonstrably false, so clickbait.

I see a space for cities/towns that were laid out before cars were common, and also for living out in the country.

Most current development (in the US) seems to go to high density car-dependent developments that aren't walkable to anything. (They could partially solve this by making 10% of the development commercial, but choose not to.)

I assume most of those new developments will be abandoned in my lifetime. There's no reason to choose such housing other than existing stock. They don't seem to be built to last, and don't provide basic amenities for young, middle aged or older people.

Sadly, the people building them can cash out well before the value of such housing drops to zero.
I often struggle with the article's described problem when programming. Bug in own added code leads to stress, hence debugging in stress mode. I do not feel it has much to do with muscle memory while typing, more with the effect of anticipating/hoping for the best outcome while testing.
What helps for me is to change code (tiny refactorings or adding functionality) and test in baby steps when I'm not very confident. This would filter out any wrong assumptions of existing code or misunderstanding of the system on-the-go without much stress. A big disadvantage of this approach is that it can be tedious and time consuming.
Other approaches are to make yed drawings and like the article proposes, rubber ducking to a real person or by writing down the description of the problem and related questions.
I secretly hope to get better or faster approaches in further comments,to reduce stress while debugging.
> Your ignorance of common knowledge

The Star of David and Scarlet Letter (or letter "A" for adulterer) were both symbols people were made to wear, so they could be identified as "undesirable". The Star of David is probably far more well known world-wide because of how much more recently it was used (some people still alive today were forced to wear it) and the atrocities that followed. Either way, in history it's never been a good thing when people are shaming and identifying people publicly by "marking" them.

> I'm defending an assault of my character

I hope "Maybe we could pin a symbol on their avatars, to make them easy to identify" was missing a "/s". Unfortunately, from the other comments in the thread and your follow up: "Here we are identifying bad actors in the field of business, analogous to a marriage.", it seems like proposals like this are unfortunately real.

And it's unclear how comparing your proposal to a Scarlet Letter would be a good thing. The Scarlet Letter (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Scarlet_Letter) is a cautionary tale of public shaming:

> The major theme of The Scarlet Letter is shaming and social stigmatizing

Plus, the analogy doesn't even make sense.

1) business is nothing like marriage

2) this isn't even a business situation since you have no fiduciary relationship with the author (you got something, but paid nothing), and you have no contractual relationship with the author, other than you unilaterally agreeing to be bound by the "AS IS, WITHOUT WARRANTY OF ANY KIND" terms of the MIT license

3) adulterers (or "bad actors" in a marriage) are rarely punished in modern society, and are no longer "marked" in any country I know of

Badges of shame (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Badge_of_shame) are long gone from modern society because of how cruel, unusual and humiliating they were.

This idea of creating a symbol and process to "publicly identify bad actors" is more in alignment with 17th century Puritans and 20th century dictators, not any modern social structure I know of.

The better thing to do is: if they broke a law or a Terms of Service, or a Code of Conduct, then warn, suspend or ban them from the platform and/or repository where the offense took place. If they didn't break any rules, then let them be and use your GitHub stars, free speech, forks, etc. to promote alternatives.
There is always proofreading and editors involved for grammar and style anyway. Some authors also keep a typist /editor formally or sometimes informally :friends/family /spouse .

However all that apart typing without backspace is very different. Try it sometime , you have think ahead a bit form your sentence /block fully , it is harder , I think it will always be slower but maybe for someone used to that it is different.
This is pretty dumb, why would anyone want to represent themselves the same way someone else does? What is this? A format for ants?
this is the worst experience ever on a gaming mouse that scrolls 1 tick at a time
If there's a stroad, it's a suburban society, not an urban society.

Urban societies have existed for millennia, and before cars, people weren't all riding around on horses to accomplish their daily life. Personal transport was the exception, not the rule.

People in the US think that stroads and roads and cars are the only way to live, because we have outlawed other forms of living. Our lack of low-car city designs isn't because people don't want them, or because they aren't conducive to modern life, they simply don't exist because they have been banned from the marketplace.
The point is, just like Google, Apple and others, they want control over users computers. They want a walled garden.
> Whole Eastern Europe has mostly Russian military hardware and guess what, we are basically enemies with Russia and we manage.

There is a difference: you don’t have a choice, Russia is the enemy as well as from where where you’d sourced hardware. Moreover, per my understanding, a lot of hardware and spares are manufactured in E. Eu, due to Soviet era, so things are slightly better due to that.

India is different, the enemy is China-Pak nexus. Russia has never been India’s enemy, rather has been friendly as a counter against US which for decades was more friendly towards Pak and even China. Kissinger hated India for some reason. Also, India doesn’t manufacture a lot of spares for military hardware. India is trying to reduce dependency on Russian crap by buying from West, note the Rafale deal. So it will happen, it will just take time. Note: India has the 2nd largest army in the world, so things take time.

> India started buying when it didn't need to

India started buying exactly when it needed to, when the price went over $100 a barrel which has a huge economic impact. Just like Eu is still buying Russian oil and gas. It’s not fair to express your own reasons while not understanding the other’s.

No one in India is doing this out of love for Russia, the history is in the past, but out of strategic reasons - which is what countries do.
I want to work with people that are interesting.

It's not the apperance per se but the "spirit".
A very functional minimalistic resume is as good as a fancy design, what matter is that there is a underlying method/idea/attitude.

Of course the contents are just as important, but a candidate that provides a markdown file with the most important points in their career and their hobbies, is much more interesting to me than a word resume template that lists ever side job, languange, micro skill, scrum certificate and letter of recommendation.
Oh, I'm not suggesting they turn this unique experience into a boring Youtube video! But I'm wondering whether instead of rendering the scene client-side in WebGL, they should have sent the browser a series of pre-rendered, 2D frames for the user to scroll through and interact with.

It should end up as exactly the same experience, except possibly without the ability to turn all the way around, depending on whether or not they want to spend bandwidth on a 360° stream. (They would still need to send a slightly larger FOV than the viewport for their little mouse look effect.)
> You obviously can't make driving impossible without providing any alternatives.

This sums up my complaint about Strong Towns, Not Just Bikes, etc. They want to do things that will make driving impossible (or at least miserably difficult) now, and only maybe later do things that will provide alternatives for everyone.
> reorganizing housing across the whole society to massively increase density and to mix commerce zoning with homes

Exactly.