skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Let me provide some context. I live in Denmark now which is arguably one of the best places in the world for alternative transport (bikes, trains, walking). Pedestrians and cyclists are an absolute menace. Driving in Copenhagen is harrowing because it means slamming on brakes many times to avoid running over someone. This is in a city with big, dedicated walkways and cycleways. So I can tell you for sure it's not an infrastructure problem. It's a culture problem.

There seems to be a deliberate choice somewhere in this culture "problem" which has favoured pedestrians and cyclists. A belief that drivers should give way to other forms of "better" transport. In Denmark this appears to have developed well before climate hysteria really took off, so I don't think we can ascribe it to that. I think urban planning has intentionally designed infrastructure to relegate drivers to be second class citizens in the Copenhagen. Knowing the Danes, the reason is quite obvious: cycling and public transport is far more efficient than cars. It's also much healthier for the population, and costs society less by several metrics. Every km that someone cycles instead of drives saves the country US$1.41 (https://cyclingsolutions.info/cost-benefit-of-cycling-infras...).

I imagine there has also been pragmatic research into the stifling effect of public transport and cycling/walking with regards to stricter enforcement of road rules like "jaywalking". The Danish Cyclists' Federation is against mandatory helmet laws because of the reduction in the number of people who cycle (https://www.cyklistforbundet.dk/english/use-of-helmet/). Meaning that it's actually better for society to allow minor traffic "infractions" by the better form of transport, if it means increased adoption of said transport.

These trucks are probably a product of this attitude, which I also see in other major European cities. There isn't an appetite to make the environment for pedestrians or cyclists worse, in any way. So they will continue to jaywalk, and cut in between cars in traffic, and trucks will be expected to yield to them.
The beep isn't for the driver. I don't want it to beep after I step out behind it, I want it to beep before.

Despite that, there is an alternative which sounds more like a hiss. The main benefit is that you can identify the direction from your hearing. I have to look in all directions to find where the beep is coming from.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fa28lIGuxq8
Scott Morrison is not keen on ABC interviews
Greetings from Reykjavík Iceland
Not to be confused with the 3D modelling program, Blender.
It's also nice to stick to the original 14-character limit on Unix file names.
My point isn’t that $5 is an insignificant amount of money, but that people who are willing to spend $2 on non-essential web services are generally willing to pay $5.
I agree that there is a difference between video games.

However, I do not agree with your example. Elements of randomness don't mean a (video) game is trash, and I personally think Mario Kart requires effort to be good at. :)
Because there would be no food or goods to purchase?
> Tech companies like Spotify and Pandora are just intermediaries. They may help to "deliver" commercial product, or advertising, however they do not create the product.

They do create a "product", the delivery system. This is a creative product as much as any of the music. A lot of software was written to allow this and all of that is the "product".
Crime is getting pretty bad these days. (https://www1.nyc.gov/site/nypd/news/p00041/nypd-citywide-cri...) It's not as bad as the worst period in New York's history, but that's not an excuse.
They look like tanks nowadays. It's pretty interesting to see how the design has improved to reduce repair time. The battery is no longer locked underneath the scooter, now you can just lift it out if you have the right tools. Which makes sense, the scooters probably got more expensive and to compensate they need to focus on ease of repairability.
The "you can be refused an account if you do not comply with EU rules on money laundering and terrorist financing" line is key here; this requires an address. This is also what leads to the catch-22 of "you need a bank account to rent something" and "you need an address to get a bank account".

Things are a lot easier now with IBAN though, and a bank account is less of a hard requirement than it was 15 years ago.
Examples lying around in my house:

Bathroom scale: lovely it powers up when you tap it, but eats up 2 button cells a year for a few dozen uses a year

Kitchen scales, bit more use, at least once a day but again 2 button cells a year

electronic caliper: Same, eats up 1 button cell a year, just sitting in my toolbox

Strangely enough none of our kids toys with batteries seem to suffer from this problem

How much extra cost does a hard on/off switch add to the bill of materials?
I didn't, but this made me think of the game Cataclysm, which came out on the Acorn Archimedes in 1991.

https://youtu.be/3Byyz1Vlv8w
Sri Lanka just didn't have any kind of fertilizer, neither organic nor inorganic. Of course that doesn't work, especially not on farm land that had been heavily fertilized in the past. The ground is dead for years because chemical imbalances can only be corrected in the short term with additional fertilizer. Yearly crops don't root deep so after a harvest the next rain will just remove any remaining nutrition, which at that point is heavily one-sided anyway. You have to practice long term crop rotation and you cannot use the field every year.

That will obviously use more land. Plants do grow better if you shower them with nitrogen but there still are ways for agricultural growth without regularly poisoning the soil. But yes, that will inevitably mean more expensive food.

They just accelerated their plans "slightly" because there was no money for fertilizer, inorganic or not.
Thanks for sharing that about Tolstoy.

> The peasant work song is art, Wagner's leitmotifs are pretentious.

So you have declared!
If history's any record, this will be another paper launch, meaning unless you are extremely good at snatching up the limited stock, you won't get your hands on a next-gen GPU for a good while.
I feel obliged to mention "Compilers: Principles, Techniques, and Tools" or more commonly known as the dragon book. I loved that book.
Fastest growing as defined by number of engagements on social media, in one single study. The only thing worse than a puff piece is social media commentary on a puff piece disguised as some sort of analysis.
The Fed and Congress are still beholden to the actual economy, the gods of prices will ruthlessly sprinkle inflation all over if there is too much fairy dust in the hands of people.
You don't know that for certain though. I'd rather pay extra if an appliance is broken, than wait for a gamble on what may or may not be a decent replacement.
How is that related to double parking?
Ah yes, the magic cloud where you don't need to lift a finger and everything is safe and works and everybody is having a good time!

The only ways I have seen admin jobs disappearing is that they're renamed to "DevOps Engineer" or a company starts in a magic cloud with no admins and devs doing everything which more often than not turns into a dumpster fire and then they start searching for admins.

You may need less people to manage the cloud but someone certainly has to manage it. Unless someone has a specific responsibility to manage infra or someone personally cares about those things then things go unchecked, ports open to the internet that shouldn't be, no backups, etc., devs are usually concerned with making their app work and not those things.

And this isn't a knock on developers, there's only so much info you can retain and focus on so many things on a day to day basis that there's a need for people to specialize in certain areas.
> He didn't invite anyone to take it and open it.

He specifically put it on porches with the explicit intent of having it get stolen. That's pretty close to an invitation.

Intent matters to the law. Laws are not a set of rules blindly applied like many of us have come to expect from computers.
If you watch the video referenced in the article, he says at the end they will move the monitors for actual play.

And besides, ease up. It's someone nerding out with AV equipment not an attack on your ideals as a technologist.
Accurate, though.
I see no need for a DBA for microservice based apps where databases tend to be very simple.

Olso there isn't a need for DBA if you are using other storage strategies.

But in many, many cases there is going to be a large OLAP or even OLTP DB out there, in dire need for someone to love her and take care of her.
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Uber is running out of runway I see. Who knew that losing money on every trip you sell was an unsustainable business model?
Depends where you live. Here (Munich, Germany) all street parking is actually done and accounted for by the city and for a few years we've actually had a quite awesome system that I am 100% happy with. Just as if it this was not Germany where you often can't pay without cash :D

So it's an app where you use the same account to log in that you can use for public transport, and the geolocation so far has always matched me up with the correct parking spot and I can just start (by-minute pricing) and stop again, it reminds me if I forgot to check out and it gets paid from my billing info that is in that account, same as when I take the subway.

Now if we're talking about private parking lots, that's where I am probably ok to keep on using cash or card, and nothing with an account.
You're assuming cars are the only valid transport option. London isn't the US, you can just take the subway or bus instead...
Why are limited resources cheaper than unlimited ones? Won't the increased, focused demand for energy lead to innovation in that space?
Rendering some stats you have about your users in a "video" (could just as-well be a PowerPoint presentation turned into a GIF) is a pretty weak form of "personalisation".

This perfectly demonstrates the point of this article - it's a canned and mass-produced product.
Hey HN,

I want to explain my motivation for working on this course. I'll start by saying that this is a paid course.

HTML and CSS have a relatively low barrier to getting into. Moreover, browsers are very lenient, and the HTML specification itself allows you to make mistakes. However, we've been neglecting semantic HTML for a very long time (and sometimes accessibility).
This is why I wanted to work on a detailed step-by-step course that teaches HTML and CSS while focusing on semantics and accessibility from the start.

For example, `div` is only introduced in Chapter 49. Most challenges require you to pass automated accessibility checks (color contrast, main landmark, headings hierarchy, etc.)

Let me know what you think!
I wonder about that, too, and Google gives me lots of items that seem to debunk that, for example https://www.researchgate.net/publication/318263505_Avian_egg..., which to my amateur eye seems a rather recent and extensive study. It starts with

“Hypotheses proposed for the adaptive function of egg shape typically invoke a decrease in egg loss for cliff-nesting birds laying conical eggs that roll in a tight circle; an increase in incubation efficiency when egg shape is associated with the number of eggs in a clutch; or other advantages related to strength, diet, and development. For example, spherical eggs might be advantageous because the sphere is uniformly strong and would be robust to incidental damage in the nest.

Spherical eggs, with their minimal surface-area-to-volume ratio, also require the least amount of shell material for a given volume and possibly optimize gas exchange by providing a large surface area for pores. In contrast, conical eggs may be beneficial because they can accommodate an increased concentration of pores at the blunt end, creating a specialized respiratory site for accelerated neural development in precocial birds. Moreover, conical eggs may protect the blunt end (from which chicks usually hatch) from debris contamination or, in colonial breeders, increase resistance to impacts because a larger proportion of the eggshell is in contact with the substrate. Finally, it has also been proposed that adaptations for flight influence egg shape indirectly through the morphology of the pelvis, abdomen, or oviduct.”

and concludes

“Our macroevolutionary analyses suggest that birds adapted for high-powered flight may maximize egg size by increasing egg asymmetry and/or ellipticity, while maintaining a streamlined body plan”

It doesn’t even mention “better protection against drops”.
> Do we really need to point out that Congress did not, in fact, declare war?

Congress did, in fact, declare war. It is well established in law that the Cobstitutional power to declare war doesn't require using any particular words, and that it may be conditional on either external events or executive determinations. The AUMF is, Constitutionally, a conditional declaration of war.
There are four stages of mental stillness as per an awakened meditator mentioned in his book [0]. As per my understanding, you seem to be at stage 3 which is a great achievement.

> On your journey so far, you’ve come off the freeway and you have driven through a suburban road. Now, you’ve hit the countryside road, the third stage of mental stillness. Just like effusive rivers rush into the sea but the sea remains unmoved, the mind of a yogi remains unaffected by the rise and fall of thoughts and emotions. Sea is not always calm, it has tides and it can get tempestuous, but such choppiness is not an everyday affair. A meditator in the third stage can have rough periods but they are far and few in between. From my experience, less than half a percent of meditators get to the third stage of mental stillness. This is not because they are not earnest about it but because wrong meditation does not lead to improvement. When a meditator has gone past the first two stages, they develop an unfailing stillness of mind that reflects through their actions, thoughts and speech. The energy of a stage three meditator has a quieting effect on those around him. The third stage is the countryside road. You can drive for several miles before you come across any other vehicle. Green fields, meadows, pastures, pristine air, blue sky, expansive views, beautiful landscapes, quiet surroundings, no rush – ah, the pleasure of countryside driving! You can go slower or a bit faster, you choose your own pace. The conditions permit you to do that. A meditator who has reached stage three learns to harness and channelize his thoughts. Most of their sessions comprise spans of quiescence and bliss with
occasional thoughts emerging here and there, on and off. They don’t get up all relaxed from their meditation, for relaxed they already are, otherwise it would not have been possible to get to this stage. Instead, they get up feeling supercharged, refreshed and alert. A great meditator is always alert. Alertness is not only the reward but an essential ingredient for good meditation. A stage three meditator can easily sit unmoving for three hours.

I'd recommend you also read on Kundalini [1]. You have a great chance of awakening it in short time and experience the supreme level of bliss and peace.

Also, I request – it'd be great if you can join https://os.me/ and share your practice/experience as posts with spiritually inclined seekers out there.

0: https://www.amazon.com/Million-Thoughts-Meditation-Himalayan...
1: https://www.amazon.in/Kundalini-untold-story-Om-Swami/dp/818...
I do not think the article argues that Agile somehow incites racism and bias, it argues that it doesn't account for them while it should.
Good example of correlation and not causation.

I think you are definitely onto something here. I used to take 10k IU vitamin D a day and still felt meh, but getting a bright ass white light (2300 lumens) in my room has uplifted my mood, increased wakefulness, and boosted my general productivity alot. I used to have a warm Phillips Hue and I couldn't do any work in my room without wanting to nap.
Well since everyfuckingone is posting links, https://matklad.github.io/2020/04/13/simple-but-powerful-pra..., shows an alternative approach (looping instead of pure recursion)
Uh, you amputate parts of your little finger [1] all the time? That sounds ... rather horrible and I really do hope there's some usage shift that I'm missing.

[1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yubitsume
Double parking is a major pain especially for people cycling: it's dangerous, it blocks traffic, and there is a reason why it's not allowed.

But it's not only double parking anyway, it's also speeding, running lights, aggressive driving...
Hmm. I don't like how "I have an eldest child" is used to imply "therefore my second-oldest child can't have the same age [when rounded down to a year number]". As the article says: "although one could be a few minutes or around 9 to 12 months older". I could imagine parents objecting to the claim that one twin is older than the other (or even saying they didn't keep track of which was born first); but a child having been born 10 months before another is something I'd expect parents to remember, and I don't think it would be weird in that case to call the older one the "eldest".
I use Alfred and am keen to use it better. But when I look for Ross online I don’t find much. Are there any resources you can recommend?
Absolutely brilliant idea (ok it is an idea I have had myself, I am glad someone has done it)

One thing that is not clear is the
estimated costs - is that per app, or do you charge for the server and I can run multiple apps? I think $10 a month for something to power 50 or so apps (maybe I don’t use them all the time, if I do I expect things to get slow or you allow say 2 concurrent apps) would be great.

I think this sort of thing will encourage people to use foss instead of the big walled gardens. Maybe this is the real web3?

My idea is a bit different: most web apps probably just need something like a firestore DB (Parse I guess would do?) so you charge for that and then apps are just a JS bundle format. Like android you have a store but also allow direct uploads at the users own risk.
You mean switch from Database Administrator to Database Architect?
Good to see support of sensible regulations, but I feel the author may have got caught up in some pro-UK propaganda:

https://www.channel4.com/news/factcheck/

Tl;dr like many sensible regulations this was an EU initiative.

https://www.transportenvironment.org/discover/seeing-believi...

Not because the EU is nice or anything like that, it's just the right level to mandate safety standards so that standard designs can be made cheaply at scale and not be undermined by a race to the bottom.
It's things like this that make me believe that open democracies like the US are doomed to be outcompeted by countries run like China/Russia/Singapore (some work better than others). Buy Now Pay Later for consumer goods is obviously bad. An effective government should be able to just say "it's gone" because it's bad. But in the US there would have to be a law passed, which would be essentially impossible, and even if it was, it would be extremely hard to define the boundaries.
BNPL providers are held to far higher standards than Credit Card, Personal Loan, or Payday Loan companies. I'm not sure I understand the HN addiction to attacking them.

Unlike all the examples above, Afterpay doesn't charge interest, has capped late payment fees, and has a very low debt ceiling. It's the perfect way for younger people to learn how to manage debt.
Equality of outcome is an impossible red herring that I'm surprised keeps occupying so many people. You cannot have equality of outcome and still let people make their own decisions. Equality of Opportunity is the important one we should focus on, and that's going to be hard enough, but every step we manage to get closer, will empower more people and give them more freedom to make their own decisions.

Let's just forget about equality of outcome. There is no such thing.
Instagram created Cinder https://www.infoworld.com/article/3617913/instagram-open-sou... to address Python Performance.

YouTube video processing uses C++. It also uses Go and Java along with Python.

PInterest makes heavy use of Erlang for scaling.The rate-limiting system for Pinterest’s API and Ads API is written in Elixir and responds faster than its predecessor.

Takeaway: Basically you need to either build your own PythonVM/CPython fork for better Python performance or use another language for the parts that needs to scale or run fast.
Right, per his chart "Full Speed" should be known as USB 1.1 Full Speed and USB 2.0 Full Speed.
One could argue it makes even cheaper options like walking and cycling into more palatable alternatives. In any case, the vast majority of people in London use public transport to get around.

I'm not sure how it works for tradespeople who need to carry equipment. I'd hope there are schemes to subsidize more efficient vehicles for those sorts of cases, although I wouldn't be surprised if there aren't any.
I find the psychology of brands fascinating and troubling.

There is something infantile at work. From their advertising it's
clear they try to hook the attachment associations of young children.

There's something about the semiotics of brands, the repeatable,
familiar experience, that bypasses adult reason. I honestly find it
really dark and sinister.

And that extends to Facebook, Google and all the tech brands with
their bright-coloured childish logos, toddler-friendly rounded edges,
and poor quality products.

Seeing British high-streets strewn with garish fast-food brands and
the litter that spews forth is disgusting. Am I a snob? It's not even
cheap. Much better value can be found in any small cafe.

Only once or twice in my life I've been to a Pizza-Hut, because others
were going and I was swept up in some social pressure. I'd rather eat
"real" pizza from a small restaurant. Going to a KFC or McDonald's
horrifies me. But sometimes the smell and the crowd provokes some
primitive feeding instinct in me - a draw to the trough.

These companies are certainly adept at psychology, and so I think
anyone who feels emotion in relation to big brands should question
what that's really about.
I'll quote my comment elsewhere:

"BNPL providers are held to far higher standards than Credit Card, Personal Loan, or Payday Loan companies. I'm not sure I understand the HN addiction to attacking them.

Unlike all the examples above, Afterpay doesn't charge interest, has capped late payment fees, and has a very low debt ceiling. It's the perfect way for younger people to learn how to manage debt."

I should have mentioned that their late payment fees are (very) low.

If you want to get rid of BNPL, you'd have to get rid of literally all forms of debt - BNPL is far and away the most consumer-friendly form of debt that I know of.
It’s per pod/app you run and depends on the resources you allocate. Price for minimum required resources is given for each app and starts at $1/month.

Yeah, the goal is to make running FOSS as easy as Google Photos, but with more privacy and community-maintained code.

Also hoping to channel some funds back to authors, but that’s more complex than expected. Just getting started with it.
To clarify, I'm using the word "user" in a large sense. It includes family members around me, for whom the mere notion of "cookie" is already a mystery, and who use routinely websites with technically essential cookies.

Thanks for sharing about sugarcoat, it's an interesting development I was not aware of.