skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I applied to my local council (in Australia) for a pedestrian crossing to be painted somewhere near my home where a footpath from a park comes out onto the road, and pedestrians need to cross to the other side of the road. Seemed like a real no-brainer to me.

I got a letter back several months later saying that they had reviewed my request, measured the foot traffic in the area on several days, and decided to not paint a pedestrian crossing because there was low enough pedestrian traffic that cars would get complacent and ignore it (therefore endangering pedestrians who would have expectations that cars would stop at a pedestrian crossing).

It's the first time I realised there is actually a lot of though that goes into where to place a pedestrian crossing, and when to not place one.
Syn – Parser for rust source code
It really depends on your country as well. For example in the developed nations there is no real poverty rather it is caused mostly due to personal failing. Most of the poor in America still marry each other, rather than seeking a relationship with a richer stabler spouse. I would say the poor in America can't be compared to the poor in South Asian countries, they hardly know the harrowing desperation that true poverty brings. Also the cultural values of such countries are actually quite positive when it comes to marriage. They prioritize a long term marriage, are ready to compromise and are family focussed. Usually it's a win win situation in most cases for someone who hasn't been able to find a mate in 40 years.
Almost all console and microcomputer games were assembly until well into the 80s. Atari 2600 games, for example, had 2kb of ROM and 128 bytes of memory. Careful handcrafting was required not only to get the game to fit in the cartridge but to "race the beam": reprogramming the sprite registers as the image was generated, line-by-line, to achieve more sophisticated graphics.

(Original Spacewar was PDP-11 assembly. Original Colossal Cave appears to have been FORTRAN.)
Does anyone know why box fans are so hard to get hold of in Europe? In Germany they seem very rare and expensive.
I love my 65% but having esc and ` on the same key is annoying.
I'm the complete opposite, I'd rather work the fewest possible days, no many hours per day, in order to have a block of time off to travel and make plans to do extended non-work related things.
What if we're all dogs? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/On_the_Internet,_nobody_knows_...
Many definitely are obsessed only with aesthetics, and it's especially sickening when you look at the subgroup of rare-overpriced keyboards.

But split is not the single most important ergonomics aspect IMO. A planck-like ortholinear keeb is more ergonomic than those "alice" splits that have staggered-row-layout, for me at least.
Disappointing lack of verticalness in that article. I was expecting some sort of tall, thin tower structure.
This is like the Christian ban on charging interest in theory it is doing it for a worthy cause but in practice just banning something isn't the answer because it doesn't address the source of the problem.

In efficient markets profits trend toward zero so having more traders will accomplish that goal better than banning traders. It is the same with interest, interest goes to 0% if there is enough saved capital to fund all investments banning interest makes it harder for the interest rate to go down.

It would be better if we built an economy that can handle low amounts or even zero profit by eliminating the dependency on yearly growth.
I can’t stop watching the ‘hanger reflex’ freak people out
Louis Glowinski, a Melbourne resident, published a spectacular book about growing fruit in Australia back in 2008 [1] -- it's a marvellous read, especially for the domestic geographical references, as well as the proper alignment of months to seasons (obviously most other works are from the northern hemisphere, and the prevalence of things like 'pick these in late July' which need to be mentally rot-6'd, gets tiring real fast).

Anyway, there's a couple of probably unintended running jokes in that book -- the phrases 'highly variable' and 'good for jams' are frequently used when it feels like he's trying to be polite about good, but often far from great, fruit.

I recall he used both phrases for this species.

I think with a lot of these kinds of fruit trees that haven't been carefully selected over centuries, you don't have lots of named varieties, and consequently they're usually grown from seed rather than grafted, so in turn, combined with climate and soil variations, it's a bit of a pot-luck on whether you have great, or merely edible, fruit.

So, yes, you're right, we could start breeding better varieties, but this is an expensive pursuit for tree crops, and few are engaged in it these days.

Apples get a bit of attention (look at the Cosmic Crisp f.e.) and citrus too, but realistically most of humanity's diet today is based around species selected by hunter-gatherers ~11k years ago.

[1] https://www.booktopia.com.au/the-complete-book-of-fruit-grow...
> Every leisurely lone time that I once used to enjoy now feels like pointless escapism and filler,

This is exactly how I feel. I've been looking towards early retirement through frugality as a means of escape from what has been a very stressful life to me, a life where I couldn't enjoy much because I pretty much constantly felt overwhelmed (almost bullied by the world in general) and anxious.

But as I'm slowly able to give myself more room, as I realize I absolutely could hide out at home and protect myself from that stress that's been tormenting since childhood, doing only what I really want to do, I'm also increasingly confronted with an emptiness, with not knowing what it is that I "want to do".

I suffer from depression though (which comes with the symptom of anhedonia, the difficult to enjoy activities), and I don't have meaningful social interaction in my life. Doesn't that interaction give you pointers on how to spend time by yourself? I've always imagined shared projects or goals could fill some of the emptiness I feel by providing purpose. I remember team activities as being motivating.
They leave genetic traces, and we’re fairly sure about the migration patterns of all people currently alive on Earth through those.

All of us are very closely related as far as species go, so there must have been a serious population bottleneck at one point. We’re all more similar to each other than two chimpanzees.
Kids can handle more than one game in the same childhood. But yes, do teach them poker. My grandmother taught us all poker when we were young.
I think the author is conflating vocational education with university curriculum.

It is often the case that universities offer courses that are much more theoretical than the practical application, even medical studies to some extent begin with very high level concepts and theories; the reason for this is because they’re attempting to optimise for better understanding of the underlying foundations of the discipline than for any particular job.

Vocational qualifications are extremely handy, but they have a bit of a bad reputation these days. Code academies are not seen as prestigious, despite being the authors ideal. The game assembly (TGA) is one such vocational studies program in southern Sweden with an excellent reputation in the local community for churning out quality (junior) game devs that are ready to work, but suffers with backend programming sections still; since most people who do game dev do not enter to be in the backend.

I would be extremely happy to return to apprenticeships, I would have killed for one going into this industry, but given that employers only care about getting new mid-levels or seniors and not investing in what they already have: it’s always going to be a losing battle as the invested talent atrophies and leaves to go to other places.
I doubt anyone will be checking tickets in the next three months.
Back in the U I had to use some atrocious desktop keyboards in local classrooms. One had power management buttons right above the arrow keys and they had regular keycaps to boot. After losing my work for the third time after trying to delete something I just popped them all out.
Journalist shares experience with Tesla's malpractices
> the ETH proof-of-stake switch isn’t going to be the driving force they causes GPUs to be abandoned in bulk.

The proof-of-stake switch is also pretty unlikely to ever actually happen.
With gmk you can set the esc key to tlde, and then a "short long press" to esc on the same key
https://threadreaderapp.com/thread/1429941683362357250.html
Overall very interesting article, but this bit caught my eye:

Linux did have lcall7 and lcall27 compatability support

There is very little information available online about that --- section 2.11 here might be a better description:

https://tldp.org/LDP/lki/lki-2.html

Further digging reveals that it's related to https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Intel_Binary_Compatibility_Sta... (which I couldn't find the actual document of) and might explain where the original set of system call numbers in Linux came from. This also reminds me of the "CALL 5" interface in DOS which was used for CP/M compatibility.
You are right, I was being sarcastic there. It comes from a place of hurt because for me the Internet was the only substitute I had for many of the formative, stimulating relationships and experiences in real life that I've badly wanted to find in my youth.
I think your comment is missing a crucial point or the principle, which is that "a computer can be viewed as one of the participants".

Thus writing a program is communicating your intent to the computer. I see that hard to dispute.
I'm not sure but I think you've misunderstood my point.

The readme gives specific steps to install including the creation of a conda environment.

It also uses pip directly which results in stuff being installed into site-packages.

Now - I presume conda is capable of handling this but for some reason it's not done that way. I'm familiar with virtualenv but not with conda so I'm not sure how I'd go about doing this correctly and I'm also not sure if the author had a good reason not do it this way in the readme.

So - I'm simply asking "Why is some stuff isolated and other parts not?"

My hunch is that the author doesn't care about virtualenvs/isolation and is just using conda as package installer. When it came to pip they just ignored this aspect.
I only recently have heard about the 'stoned ape theory'. It basically plays with the idea, that drugs (in this case mushrooms) must have played a crucial role in the development of thinking, thought and consciousness (as we humans know it).

https://www.inverse.com/article/34186-stoned-ape-hypothesis
Why don't you make them available in ~/bin and have a better shell life?
Why not map escape to caps lock with QMK or VIA? If you cannot miss your caps lock, place that behind a layer. There are quite some options to tackle this as long as you can flash a custom keymap.
Nitinol Engine running on warm water and ice
In these times of AGW, I just care about this:

> The Jersey City facility consumes 60% less energy and 40% less water than the first-gen technology created and used at Oishii’s R&D facility in Kearny.

So, how much more energy than growing the fruit in a traditional way ?
You mean growth dependence. When you are forced to grow every year and you can't grow by getting new customers you must steal existing customers from other companies by acquiring them.
I used to work as a software developer for 10 years then quit because of a complete bore out.

Another 10 years have passed and i have reached the following conclusiom: To make programming worthwhile you need to add a different thing to the mix and try to see programming as a tool for doing intersting things.
There is a branch of computer science, Human-Computer Interaction (HCI), where exactly the ideas in this article have been playing out for a few decades already.

Earlier this year I wrote about HCI as the intersection of technical craft and social sciences: https://www.designdisciplin.com/hci-profession/

Interestingly the responses I got from people in the HCI field was the inverse of the sentiment in this article. Here it seems that the author is arguing to increase social sciences in CS, and getting pushback. One of my arguments was to increase tech/eng competences in HCI, and I got pushback on that too.
What's worse, it's offset to the wrong side for like 90% of people. Just put it all the way to the right, where my right hand is!
> This is a very dismissive answer which seems odd coming from someone with a lot of karma

Are you kidding? Shallow dismissals masquerading as insight are easily the most popular genre of comment on Hacker News.
It’s the airplane with holes in its effect again. It does do that, but because the sicklier people stay alive rather than starving to death.
TextBuddy: A Mac app for manipulating text
So CS has some special need for academic cross-pollination that math and engineering don't share.

If so, I'm shocked. Bellotti asserted this several times without anything to substantiate the claim.

Kill It with Fire was on my reading list. I think I want to read more reviews now.
Link to threadreader: https://threadreaderapp.com/thread/1527658189784854528.html

Highlight:

> First: MUSK'S KEY SKILL IS CONTROLLING INFORMATION. It's not just crafting appealing narratives about himself and his companies, but also silencing anything that contradicts them. Tesla's entire history is lined with NDAs, backed by sheer terror of what Musk will do when cornered
Vegetables in general, but especially tomatoes, yeah! They're crunchy, sour, and taste like generic "vegetable".
I have a scandium Eddie Merkz. It's awesome! So stiff and light but not harsh like an aluminum frame.
Real life communities have existed yet we still have lonely people so suggesting we dont work on a solution that helps them because those exist seems like cruelty borne out of idealism.

>I don't see how it's impractical to encourage people to hang out with each other.

You are now writing as if you just promoted communities while your original comment I replied to specifically started with 'How about we not do that'.
> before Facebook is taken to court for allegedly violating them.

Where did I say they are to be taken to court?
I am aware of a very large company that still uses Lotus 123 for hundreds of millions of dollars of business.
are you making fun of me, sir?
Absolutely. I now spend most of my time creating content and trying to add to the conversation where I can.
I think we should leave comp sci as what it is.

> The bulk of software work today is about integrating computation into human driven tasks, predicting and anticipating how people think, what they need, how they react to new communication and work methods

Sure. But that is not what comp sci is about. If one wants better programmers then those aspect should be put in a different, more job focused, degrees like Software Engineering.

It’s should be a choice. If people want to focus on maths and computers, then let them focus on maths and computers without other fields. Degrees aren’t just about jobs.
Forum for local communities. Be it a local shop owner keeping in touch with their customers or a group of people from the same multi apartment building just having a place to be organised.

That being said I log into Facebook once every 6 months approximately. It was replaced by WhatsApp and Instagram for me, however my point still stands as much for those platforms as it is for Facebook.
If it wasn't for find's muscle memory, fd has it right as you'd usually list what you want to do in the cli first and then list arbitrary number of targets in the end.
When playing against friends–sure, because everyone loves to spam Hyper Beam when they're playing for fun. Competitive Pokémon is entirely different.
It seems like the prime difficulty in getting off the ground with a fully employee-owned entity is the startup losses (especially in cash flow terms) inherent in almost every business have to be borne by the employees.

That’s easier when the losses are small and the absence of salary is easier to take if you do it part-time (the “5 to 9er” lifestyle).
The rationale was here.

https://github.com/python/cpython/issues/85067#issuecomment-...

It seems a bit vague: « Exposing this attribute would help with introspection, making it possible to write efficient functions that operate on dict views. »
> It’s not a utility just because several billion people use it.

Yeah but you can also make the same argument for education: education is not a utility because several billion people like to be educated.

Facebook connects people and businesses, groups. It’s basically the same as if someone decided to ban you from using SMS or snail mail or libraries at this point.
Have you tried WSL? The NVidia developer CUDA repo has a specific folder for "wsl-ubuntu" where you only install the toolkit and it reuses the Windows graphics drivers IIRC.
For Emacs there’s org-mode.

https://orgmode.org/

IIRC it’s become popular enough that other software supports the syntax.
I'm mostly-maintaining a mechanical split keyboard gallery [1] to help with this. There are a lot of options, from keyboards you can buy from a major retailer (or easily get your IT department to buy), to hand-soldered kits where you need to 3D print the case.-

[1] https://aposymbiont.github.io/split-keyboards/
The WaitbutWhy (funny) post about "How to pick your life partner"[0] might be shedding a light to what you're trying to say/observe.

The ladder analogy is the most apt one. Everyone single think they're at the bottom of the ladder looking up at "happy couples" but in reality they are in the middle of the ladder, with unhappy bickering couples below them.

A lot of people with this attitude rushes in to relationships, drinking the coolaid, and people (kids) that have seen the parents/friends/siblings in their rushed relationships usually gets a more realistic view of it all

[0]https://waitbutwhy.com/2014/02/pick-life-partner.html
> Just managing those packages across a fleet sounds like a pain in the ass.

Use Homebrew?
Awesome, I love my ZBook x360 it is a great laptop and I can see that this new Dev One laptop inherits many design elements from the ZBook line. Linux is the cherry on top!
Sounds great! Even comes with a rendez-vous system so you don't need to mess with firewalls (like you need to with VNC and such).

I can't read anything on the front page though, the website shows up light-grey-on-white. Is that just me? Did the CSS fail to load somehow? Edit: never mind, the CSS sets the text color to #999 and a font weight of 200 for many elements. Apparently that's intentional. Going by the font list, I'm guessing the theming was tested on macOS and made to look nice without testing if the fallback fonts were even readable in the slightest.
It does not even need to be families. Even finding a suitable partner is hard. I have seen people being in relationships which sucked. They are having ahard time ending them, enduring the disaster. But at least it is not as much effort to leave a non-marriage relationship as a marriage, usually. I think it is worth trying to find a good partner, because if you find someone suitable, you will have struck gold. The statistics do not look too good though, at least from what I have observed.
The Strength of the Record – Doing documents right
This is not an interesting conversation honestly.

Some Americans think that the US Healthcare way is “the right way but Slightly Off-Track(tm)” and will not be suaded.

You asked a direct question, though, to what extent do social services exist.

Social services exist to ensure that we all have a decent foundation on which to conduct our business of living.

For some that will be as you say, providing basic food and housing. In fact in Sweden food is given to children for free in school; however in the UK it is only poor students that get it.

In Sweden water is free, in the UK it’s charged but it’s a utility that cannot be turned off.

Everyone draws the line somewhere else, but the basis is meant to be that we have a solid foundation.

Unexpected medical expenses shouldn’t decimate a household economy for a decade, it doesn’t matter how unprepared the household is. But this is my personal feeling.

In addition: tying health insurance to employment and having at-will working conditions strikes me as ensuring compliance/docility in the work place, which I don’t believe in.
In France, there is Les Tilleuls, https://les-tilleuls.coop/en (creator of API platform, PHP/Symfony/JavaScript/GO contributors)
I've recently got back into Card games after growing up on mtg, and there is a whole bunch of games where you don't buy random boosters but whole expansions. Netrunner/nisei being an example. They seem to still work with fomo, but you don't have to invest past a certain point to get actually creative/expressive play and deckbuilding.
>in a skill-based game like tennis, the quality of your results will almost always correspond exactly to the quality of your technique

No it doesn't, you forgot the opponent.
No matter how good you play, if your opponent plays better you lose.
Looks neat.

The cynical side of me wonders when the scammers are going to set-up their own servers for this though and start using it instead of AnyDe(x/sk)/TeamViewer. No way of being reported then other than the IP to the server host themselves.
In Ireland, computer scientists who wrote programs were deemed writers and qualified for Irish arts tax treatment, in the 70s
Ah, you are correct. Although I still take issue with "fast" in the comment I was replying to ;)
I'm not sure if the OP is the original author. It looks like the original author is only 14 years old. They may have picked up programming skills and possibly have higher IQ compared to their classmates or peers. It can often make it difficult to connect with others in the social circle. Programming was probably fun and intellectually challenging in the beginning but now the author might find it a boring. But with age, hopefully they'll understand that there are enough mysteries in the world to uncover and challenge their intellect. Good luck.
OP here.

I’m in India. People spend 2-3 years grinding leetcode questions too. So you can imagine how difficult the tests have become over the past few years and how pointless this whole test is.