skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I've had great success with a lot of smaller engineering teams (3-8 Engineers) just using a simple grep of codebase to write out TODOs to a seperate file at root directory of the and make this part of the build process. eg

task updateTODO(type: Exec) {
commandLine "bash", "-c", "grep -ri \"\\bTODO\\b\" src > TODO"
}

Advantages:

- It's unintrusive and the TODOs get updated automatically (Also doesn't create sudden build failures like some approaches suggested on this thread)

- It's in the git repo so accessible to everyone easily and you don't need any special tools/plugins to see TODOs. Even better, I can just give a link (since it's just a github link) to the TODOs file to someone like a PM/PO to get time for my team for engineering tasks without needing to go through creating tickets and "BaCkLoG GrOOmINg" stuff.

- Every few months, we organize a refactoring sprint where having all TODOs in a single place allows engineering team to sit together and see what the TODOs are that need to be handled.
Former "large China FAANG" employee here so I can speak authoritatively on this.

These things above fail to take in the culture aspect. Generally, "being present" is considered "work", so the idea is to be present in the office for all of these hours.

When "we" (Americans) showed up at 8a-9a, busted out an enormous of amount of code, email, meetings, etc then left at 4p-5p was quite a shock to our native compadres. One of the managers actually asked us to slow down as they weren't able to keep up and were causing problems.

A snooty person would claim "oh look how much better the American system is", but it's much more complex than that. First, the Chinese have a very interesting total life integration. You still get married at late biblical ages (15-19), your parents move in with you and take care of the kids, you generally don't own many things (including a house), and your job and coworkers are friends and very much part of your life; you'll eat three meals a day with them and talk long walks. Your job pace is much slower and therefore, hours much longer.

Americans tend to live these absurd double identities, where we have coworkers our spouses will never meet, and we rarely interact with said coworkers outside of work, which is quite a culture shock to the Chinese. There was just another thread on HN about "fundatory activities", and how badly they can go over, which simply wouldn't exist in China.

In the end, just a different system, based on completely different national ideals. It's hard to understand until you're there living and breathing it.
I don’t think vehicle licensing should be easy, and should fairly strict as I understand it to be in Germany.

The extent of training increases the investment a person has around the regulated activity. The person is more likely to abide by the rules because (a) they have a deeper knowledge, and (b) they don’t want to lose the privilege of being able to carry it out.

Increasing the strictness of license requirements could be a small nudge towards decarbonization to slow the growth of personal vehicles on the road.
Very strange that you went that direction instead of the more obvious "if slaves are property then they don't count at all".
Yeah, its no different than greasing thr palms of s dirty cop to make a traffic stop go away.
Ontology! Since my earliest memories, my mind continuously wanders off to questions like, 'what is the nature of... things? What is the substance of... substance? What qualities of a thing can I think away, and still allow the thing part of it to remain behind?'

For the longest time, as a kid, I was under the impression that it was the same for everyone, and that figuring these things out was what everyone was busy working on - the purpose of human life. I never slowed down - still working on it with nearly every daydreaming moment I have.
The duty cycle is indeed a problem. When I used to work for Intercity West Coast back in the day, the sleeper coaches got serviced and then sat in the yard for the whole day since they can't be used for much during the day.
That is a horse of a different…I’ll show myself out.
I'd recommend gloves to anybody who's going to handle thermal paper receipts more than casually: https://www.mcgill.ca/oss/article/health/turning-heat-therma...
You can cut diamonds with your focus on the third full day of a water, salt, and black coffee fast.
Several related recent discussions

Attorney General to investigate social media companies’ role in Buffalo attack
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31432967 https://ag.ny.gov/press-release/2022/attorney-general-james-... 112 comments

Amazon’s Twitch, Discord, 4chan face New York AG probe after Buffalo shooting https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31429883 https://www.cnbc.com/2022/05/18/new-york-ag-will-probe-socia... 46 comments
Nothing you said was factually wrong, but the last sentence makes it sound like "bored bums" were the reason it was abandoned. Here's the relevant part from the article you linked:

> And not every trip seems to have been truly necessary for the passengers. "On rainy days the kids would take the bus out of boredom" says Templin's mayor Detlef Tabbert (Die Linke ["The Left" political party]) to manager-magazin.de. Groups of men with a crate of beer were also not uncommon. "If something is for free, it will be used - whether it makes sense or not", says [marketing responsible of the local transit provider][marketing responsible of the local transit provider] Pohlan

In the end they went back to paid tickets, but charged 44EUR for an annual ticket that can even be transferred between people as needed. That still leaves them subsidizing public transit, but that's a political decision based on what the alternatives would be: pollution, road infrastructure (another form of subsidy), better quality of life, ...

A decision that, as you might be able to tell, I personally happen to strongly agree with.

Edit: forgot to paste the translated paragraph :P
Don’t think they’d be stupid enough to try, surely the victim would go straight to either the company or the media with black and white proof?
How would you disprove it? Ask literally every Meta employee whether they participated, and assume no one would lie about that?
Chrome's devtools also has a concept of local overrides. It has limitations, but doesn't require an extension.

https://developer.chrome.com/blog/new-in-devtools-65/#overri...
Ayn Rand novels have this theme IIRC.
This was autopilot, which is essentially just advanced cruise control. Full self driving is a completely separate product from Tesla.
Compiling for your target is good, not using the PLT for mem* functions helps a ton, feedback-directed optimization and LTO and/or post-link optimization helps the most. For CPU-bound workloads of course.
It's either that or probably go to prison. I know what I'd pick :)
>> reduces the need for concrete by about 30%

Reduces the need for structural concrete by about 30%. Graphene makes the concrete stronger. That is important but not the entire purpose of concrete. Lots is used as space filler, liquid rock to seal against wind/rain/snow. Concrete is also used because it is heavy. Making it stronger won't reduce its use as a heavy anchor point for a structure. A giant wind turbine needs more than a strong base, but a literally massive one to prevent tipping over in strong winds. Graphene infused or not, that base still needs to weight the same.
On these trains you expect a seat outside rush hour.

It will be a less comfortable seat than a long distance train.
I am also old enough to remember print newspapers.

They used to serve a number of important purposes.

Classifieds: want to buy or sell a car? get a job? Buy a house? This was the place to do it. Not actually going to do it but just want to peruse what’s available? This is the only option.

Comics: laughs, puzzles every day. No Internet, no where else to get this.

Traffic, weather: these might actually make a difference in your day

Yes, before the Internet, newspapers actually did things that were useful
Yes you do, because otherwise the sex worker reporting the extortion to the police will also be admitting to a crime. So it won't happen.
I wouldn’t want to participate in a course like this. I’d say it’s the lecturer’s job to explain a topic well enough so that the students can summarize it.

If students have to memorize a summary before the lecture then something feels wrong. Good for the lecturer, I guess.
Would be nice to have a Rust client SDK that could be used across desktop platforms, but particularly on Windows. I suppose though that could involve some nasty build system wrangling, to embed Google's WebRTC library in a Rust crate.
Successfully executing on that design requires way more global data than the autopilot system alone requires.

... which is not to say they shouldn't do it. In fact, in the 21st century with ubiquitous communication we could even consider mandating that of all cruise controls. But if we were to codify that into law, we'd want a data source a touch more reliable than whatever Google, Apple, an Waze have cooked up as the speed limits on each road in the map (since those limits are currently at the safety threshold of "advisory to estimate travel times," not "someone could die if these numbers are wrong").
In the meantime I just paid 200% more for heating oil than it cost me one year ago. And I cannot use this public transport offer. But I am contributing to it with my taxes.
If I said you were an awful human being would you take it as a compliment because awful's root etymology comes from the same place as awesome and it still has a definition in dictionaries of "inspiring awe" or would you for some reason insist on using the definition that the majority of people today use for the word?
She used sexual favors to get an employee to unban the account that shouldn’t have been banned in the first place. I doubt those are proper procedures as defined by Meta’s guidelines.
Hacker News is a brilliant resource to discover new digital tech innovations and research that solve / progress problems we know of.

I'm wondering what platforms our community recommends for finding new problems to solve?
I'm daily driving NixOS both at home and work, but to be honest I don't really use the Nix features all that much, I just have a system that's predictable.

Every now and then I spin up an OS container w/ Ubuntu or the likes, forward X if I'm doing something that isn't supported in NixOS yet.
The original was contradictory, it was the result of a political compromise. The current version is not - not legally anyway. Three new amendments to the constitution made the earlier contradictions about slavery a dead letter of no legal effect.

That is what amendments do - they change things, and those ones came at no small price. So what is the point about complaining about a problem that six hundred thousand people already lost their lives in a successful attempt to resolve? Slavery has been illegal in this country for a century and a half.
Thanks for clarifying. I was actually thinking the founder of OnlyFans and admittedly have a really bad tendency about 25% of the time to only read headlines.
Farebox recovery ratios in Germany before Covid were around 75 %, so abolishing all fares would mean quadrupling the budget for operating subsidies [1]. While I am not opposed to some moderate fare reductions, you could pay for quite a large bit of service improvements with that amount of money instead, and I believe that would be rather more effective in increasing passenger numbers (and especially in getting car drivers to switch).

[1] Some of the big cities are actually even closer to break-even as far as day-to-day operating costs are concerned, so in those cases the budget would have to be increased by an even larger factor in percentage terms.
> So someone had to be crossing lanes one way or the other for the collision to occur in the first place. Maybe not, I am not a traffic expert or familiar with the area, but that is how it looks to me as an experienced driver.

The victims were making a left turn to get to the other side of the road to head east, the defendant was heading west.

> Perhaps they were not following all traffic laws as well?

They were the fourth car turning left. If the light was extremely short, maybe the light had turned red and they were late, in which case they were in the intersection illegally. NB that were that the case, they still would have right of way as they had entered the intersection before the Tesla. The defendant would still be fully culpable.

I don't see any situation in which the defendant was not driving recklessly. He was almost certainly driving at 74 mph directly at a red light, unless all four cars ran a red light across multiple lanes. When the light turned green he had at most a second or two to have stopped, if it had not changed. He did not even touch the brake.

Realistically, he was driving with his eyes closed because it was 1230 and he was tired. Emergency braking would not have saved the two people he killed. Evasive driving would have still caused a crash at that speed. The only thing that could have saved their lives was respecting the red light, and the car was not programmed to do that.

Even if the car was fully self-driving, the "hands on steering wheel" thing is a very clear "pay attention" signal. There's a valid argument that complacency is a natural result regardless, but this was not complacency. He had zero awareness of what was happening outside the vehicle, and that is reckless.
Fixing the map https://www.openstreetmap.org/fixthemap That's not coding but looking at data issues. There's many data validation tools https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Quality_assurance#Error_...

Specifically I'm looking at USA postcodes that contain special character, or are too short or too long. I've done that now for 10 European countries. It's 1000s of small issues, some errors are 10 years old, a huge fun variety. For each I open the online editor, a nice satellite image is presented, and fix one issue. For example finding a restaurant's website.

If you're interested in your local area http://osmose.openstreetmap.fr/en/map/ or https://www.openstreetmap.org/ click the layers button and click 'show map notes'. For global projects there's https://tasks.teachosm.org/explore
Evaluating FreeBSD Current for Production Use
> You've obviously studied this, but having actually lived in a city center police sirens are actually fairly rare. Despite what you say they rarely sound them at night unless they really have a need, at least in Nottingham.

I do think it's highly variable by city. People from NYC will talk about hearing sirens multiple times a day (and night), whereas here in Austin I'll go days—often weeks—without hearing one.
Ehh she stalked the Meta employer.

BTW: For example in Switzerland it is legal, you even have (in theory) to pay taxes. But still the problems are the same (human trafficking etc), nothing changed, and if you go to the police you have accidents like floating dead in a river a week later. Legalize it but make nothing to take the mafia away from it brings nothing, in fact it gives them a legal way to make money.

Maybe it should be a state owned business only and not a private thing, sounds crazy but if you work for the state not even the mafia would dare to touch you, you have stable employment, insurance and medical services.
Not to doubt you, but have you actually measured that they're moving the same amount of air?

Circulation-to-noise ratio is something that pretty much every fan manufacturer cares about; I'm a little bit skeptical that there's an innovation here that wouldn't be applied to consumer-grade fans in general; or that you wouldn't be able to find a good box fan outside of the entry-level Walmart offerings that doesn't offer the same quality for a cheaper price. The "vornado" fans seem to get recommended a lot in this area, but I don't know if they're actually moving more air or just directing it better.

Anecdotally I did look into a few fan options from purifiers that claimed to be silently moving the air, and was pretty disappointed with the specs on what I was seeing. The conclusion I drew was that increasing the size of the unit and the intake area was the best way to allow for reduced fan speed/noise/power-consumption.

But it is completely possible that there's something I missed; again I haven't done my own testing.
You can't white hat this anymore, what is described is already pretty dark grey.
China cuts key mortgage reference rate
Ugly male? No.

Ugly female? Worth a shot.
True. And in fact, extortion already is illegal.

But if you want to actually address the problem, you do need to decriminalize prostitution.
OP seems to have used phenol-free paper.

https://twitter.com/flockaroo/status/1527603279907127296
I think being a sex worker is probably more work than being a software developer at a FAANG. Certainly higher risk. Absolutely a real job. Better than, say, pharmaceutical rep.
Walter Isaacson’s Steve Jobs
The public transport politicians use (London Underground, London buses) is publically owned.
Talked with friends occasionally transporting packages in Central Europe for Amazon. In case they want to appeal some vague "fees" deducted from bank transfer, they have to call Amazon's office in Dublin and they're put on hold until they give up. Oh, and English only of course.
I like this. Is a "friendlier" way to browse data. Said that, I have to add:

Exploring large datasets requires a COMPLETELY different mindset. When your data starts growing, it's impossible to keep it all in a visual format (for 2 reasons[0]) and you have to start thinking analytically. You have to start looking at the statistical values of your data to understand what's its shape. That's why the `.describe()` and `.info()` methods in Pandas are so useful. After many years doing this, I can "see" the shape of my data just by looking at the statistical information about it (mean, median, std, min, max, etc).

After some time you don't need to rely on visual tools, just can run a few methods, look at some numbers, and understand all your data. Kinda feels like the operator of The Matrix that is looking at the green numbers descend and knows what's going on behind the scenes.

[0] Your eyes are really inefficient at capturing information and there's only so much memory available: try loading a 15GB CSV in Excel.
It could easily be on github with a prohibitive license.
Just start. Get the pen or fingers moving. Write about anything. Stupid, silly, insulting - doesn't matter. Make yourself laugh. The point is to warm up. Just like free-writing, eventually you will get into a flow.
Not that these work perfectly, but immunity provisions for calling 911 in case of an overdose exist.

https://www.ncsl.org/research/civil-and-criminal-justice/dru...
That was the integration into the Swiss train schedule.

They improved the line (electrification which allows better trains, moving tran station in Lindau from the island with old town to the shore etc.) in the first year they went from 4h30 to 4h. Where the trains were standing for about half an hour at St. Magrethen at the Austrian-Swiss border. In 2021 they improved signalling and adjusted schedules and got rid of that half an hour wait, so it's now at 3h35.
In that video he says "A model S or Model X at this point can drive autonomously with better safety than a person right now"
This is still a screaming deal. It's been a while, but this is like getting multiple Monatskarten for for single Tageskarte prices.
Shaking your ass on a camera adds more joy to the world than implementing dark patterns for ads imo
Numbers are still significantly higher than Winter 2020/21. So with lessening restrictions this winter is poised to set another record (for infections at least, deaths might not be as high as last year). People don't care, true. But that's about feeling, not about numbers or facts.
Pretty efficient market.

Depending on your check mark, subscriber count, and audience, you can easily sell any blue checkmark for 1-10k.

Access to the Twitter dashboard? 50k

0day account takeover - 150+k, rarely happens anymore
Isn't it the original job?
In my last on-site programming job I spent at least half of the time either talking with colleague about not (directly) work related stuff or I spent it in the break room. Nobody cared, we got our work done, everybody was happy.
It's quite hard to follow an agreement like that when the other side is constantly breaking ceasefires and refusing to follow it themselves.
I'd count them negatively personally but the grade school arugment made there has to die, the people who wrote that did so with the hopes of abolishing slavery in the future. It's exactly the opposite of how it is framed.
Thank you for this amazing link!

4-day-workweek arguments from 1986 !!!
Newton the Alchemist: Science, Enigma, and the Quest for Nature's "Secret Fire" by William Newman details Isaac Newton's long-term studies in alchemy.
I might even prefer that to living in suburbia if you also added room for commercial zoning.

I think the way we designed cities around cars could really stand a serious second look. Cars are really a necessary evil for me. I just bought one after 6 years of not having a car. I wish I didn't need it.
>don't blame the cops (because: if you get ripped off on eBay or your child goes missing, you do want some kind of resolution, right?)

I'm not sure where you live, but in my neck of the woods, going to the cops in these scenarios might even be slightly worse than not going to them, let alone better.
To add to this, your interpretation is of course correct. On a more general note, the person who wouldn’t think at something like I did think is either a saint when it comes to noise, has way better noise insulation than my appartment has or is a liar.

On a more serious note, I have a friend who used to live two blocks away from where I live, at an even worst spot when it came to street noise (just close to the exit of an underground passage, where riders use to floor it as they exit it at night) and that noise was one of the biggest factors of him and his wife moving from where once they had their first child. He had indeed contacted the local police more than once for this noise thing, long story short it was all for nothing.
Seriously, Instagram is full of essentially soft core porn as it is.
It was bad on Main Street, but 2008 brought the App Store boom, so us developers, of which HN is biased towards, saw stupid money being thrown at us with everyone rushing to become the next "Fart App" millionaire. For tech, 2008 was a golden age. This time tech is the one getting hit.
I feel like the ultimate answer is that too many people offer similar quality content for free. For a while I subscribed to the NYT, but ultimately the differential in quality to what I can find on the web wasn’t worth the cost to me. For anything I find interesting enough to form an opinion on I have to do more research anyway, since there exists no single source that is so well made that I don’t have to worry about its bias.

What I do pay for is my city’s local paper, since unlike state or national news local news is much harder to get a suitable quantity of online.
Maybe that number includes grants for capital expenses (building new routes and stations, step-free remodelling, public transport priority, etc.) as well? According to https://www.vdv.de/vdv-statistik-2019.pdfx#page=35, for day-to-day operations farebox recovery ratios are rather around 75 %.

Edit: Looking at your link, it seems the difference might be accounted for to some extent because the 75 %-figure
- might possibly not include heavy rail

- like I said definitively doesn't include grants for major capital projects and only looks at day-to-day operating expenses

- is looking at things from the perspective of the local transport operators, respectively counties/cities that mostly are directly responsible for financing any shortfalls, so the compensation payments for the state-/federal-level mandated fare reductions for pupils and handicapped people are included as part of the regular farebox income