skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
As I noted below (likely going to be voted down for being uncool even if accurate), just painting crosswalks may significantly increase pedestrian risk by attracting crossings to dangerous intersections. So don't get too energized.

Most real efforts here include OTHER steps to calm traffic, and then a painted cross-walk is added to attract pedestrians to that area. I hope Boston is doing more than just slapping crosswalks down with paint on high speed multi-lane roads - because people will be killed. Reducing lanes of traffic where peds cross, slowing traffic (stop signs, lights, speed limits with enforcement) all are much better starting point.
Some high-end Smith and Wesson revolvers use scandium-aluminum alloys in exactly the same way to reduce weight. It does seem to be an alloy that is restricted to high end consumer goods in hobbies where consumers are willing to pay to avoid ounces - my guess is it would also appear in some specialty backpacking gear.
can we download to a glb file?
So in general, any fasm code should be compilable with fasmg?
In some cases, perhaps some tiny modifications are needed?
If you want to use two brains, 'partner mode' for the New Yorker's crossword has been great. Two persons can work on a single puzzle in real time.

There may be other sites that allow it -- the software seems to power a few diff crossword sites (with certain features enabled/disabled).
Given the advanced age of the author I'm reminded of a project in Bavaria where older people lived in an autonomous community. Healthy people as well as people with typical old age problems and with some assistance from caregivers, but for the most part the focus was on those people taking care for each other.

I think it was generally considered successful. People were in good health, it seemed like a genuine way to get older people to have a social life that isn't just playing games in some nursing home and it kept them self-reliant which gives people a lot of dignity.

I don't think there's really a clever answer to the philosophical loneliness that's also part of the article that people deal with even when they're around others but as far as physical and communal isolation goes I think projects that bring elderly people together and give them responsibility and active lives is a good thing. A necessary one even I think given the demographic changes almost every country goes through. Many 80+ year old women in particular will outlive their spouses.
If only the MacBook Air was user upgradable like the old 2017 models. There’d be little reason to buy anything else.
It happens with technology sometimes, but all time the with finance. Having worked in hedge funds most of my career (as an engineer but I see enough of the business side) it's hilarious how clueless but confident people on HN are about anything that touches finance, trading, stocks, crypto, etc. Nothing wrong with being clueless, but the hilarious part is the confidence of the posters about what they are writing, which they probably got from Medium. If you don't know better you'd think they know what they're talking about.
That much is definitely true. Nothing beats a bit of real or at least video contact.
The logical thing in this case seems to be to make the crosswalks an X pattern: have them go right through the roundabout.

Could probably add a mid-block crosswalk for crossing to the other side. I doubt that’s what will be done, but it seems like that could work.
> It shouldn’t be cheaper in a market that’s allowed to function.

in a perfectly efficient market, renting and home ownership costs exactly the same - not cheaper nor more expensive.

However, most home owners living in their home pay a premium for it, because they both want to secure their bid when they buy, and they are likely buying on more than just financial implications (like the location is great for their kids, etc). Therefore, a home owner is actually more likely to have a higher cost of capital over all - both the deposit and the mortgage added together, even if the mortgage interest by itself may be lower than renting.

Think of it this way - if renting was more expensive than the total cost of ownership, then an investor would borrow the capital needed for buying, and then rent it out and arbitrage the difference risk free. It is this mechanism that keeps the rent and the price of ownership at approx. equal.

In recent times, the price of ownership has grown due to the pandemic, and high availability of credit. Rent will follow, if it hasn't already, as landlords will not just eat the loss.
No unfortunately for me using create-react-app an ERROR like this article's config produces blocks compilation as well. I would need it to output a WARNING for compilation to continue but I can't see how to do that with no-warning-comments
Could you add some citations.

> As to the driver always being at fault, obviously that is incorrect

You may have to retake driver's ed because when a pedestrian is crossing an intersection, they have right of way.

> In fact, the pedestrian may have to pay the driver in some cases

Do you have any proof of this?
Repeat after me: welfare is not a job for governments
Now, if we could only get the IEEE onboard with open access.
The author seems to be suggesting that the reason it’s “hell” and “horrible” is that we’re not “used to” it and it’s “rare”, concluding “it doesn’t have to be that way” and “we can go so far beyond that”. If that wasn’t your takeaway, then great—I wish there were more designers like you.
No offense, but that kind of misses the point. Did you read the essay at the link? It really is very well written.
I have always had a tough time applying the tool of reason to the problem of loneliness. In a way, I don't feel like I've ever been lonely. Not that I have never felt the same way that people who do describe themselves as lonely feel. I have and still often do. The 'problem' is that I've always been able to isolate the reason I'm feeling that way and administer some kind of intervention. And I know, that getting older will not bring with it any greater problems than I have now.

Is my soul yearning for spiritual connection? I've got a good friend for that. My libido looking for an exhilarating one? There's bars and the ubiquitous 'more-than-friend-but-not-quite-committed' friendship we all seem to have but never seem to really look to for that sort of thing. The least lonely person I know is in his late 70s. He's always talking to someone whenever I see him.

But every American I know outside of my usual social circle seems to be painfully, debilitatingly lonely, and I can't make heads or tails of it. Perhaps most are trapped in a hell of looksism. Instagram has ruined their lives because they can't bring themselves to work that hard to look that good. Maybe they're too shy to cultivate third places. Perhaps they're looking for some kind of spiritual connection and, since American religion has so thoroughly shit the bed, they have absolutely zero idea of how to even approach it.

It often seems like they just want to find someone almost exactly like themselves. I remember one guy I met at a bar, who wanted dearly to find his next best friend in me, would start berating me almost immediately after we started hanging out together. Like I didn't fit the role he wanted me to play in his life and that's gotta be my fault.

The vagueness of the problem makes it so devilishly difficult to approach with reason. But just about any difference between what someone's life is like and what they want it to be seems to manifest in their psyche as loneliness. And the reason they themselves come up with is often just utterly counter-productive. But you can't challenge their reasoning head-on, it's like fighting the tides.

It's a sad, quiet, seemingly uniquely American epidemic, borne out of our thoroughgoing insecurity and status-desiring.
Just wanted to say 1000x this.

At the end of the day, we've got to live with the choices we make. And the choices we choose not to make are still choices.

And if you can't make yourself make those healthier / better choices even though you know the payoff is worth it, then you need to address the root cause that's driving that irrational behavior.

(Don't mean to sound callous but this feels like the right audience to be hyperlogical with.)

Easier said than done, but trust me it's possible.
Honestly, you're better off skipping it.
I love the memoization/caching stuff.

I know someone will blurt out “Haskell!” or whatnot, but I wish memoization was more first class in popular languages. It’s a great way to maintain performance without having to reason about the implementation details of your code. A decorator in the stdlib gets pretty close.
Show HN: A web app for visualizing your Git activity
That's why I avoid reading stock market news during bear periods.
I think the point of good friendships is that they aren't this way.
What song is that? What came to my mind was 'If you wanna be happy for the rest of your life' by Jimmy Soul which is a doo-wop song you couldn't write anymore.
If you wanna be happy for the rest of your life never make a pretty woman your wife, so for my personal point of view, get an ugly girl to marry you.
> Because the next step from subsidized housing is to renting.

Why?

I mean that as a serious question. Housing costs in the US are absurdly front-loaded compared to renting, but they didn't used to be and there are other countries where they aren't. Why "should" housing be so expensive that six months or a year or careful saving on a living wage isn't enough for a down payment?
>They can't date older women because older women spot their bullshit a mile away and steer clear.

I think you should stop demonizing men's natural sexual preferences. Key word here is natural, we don't choose what we like. Nature choose for us, and young women are better at having children. Same reason young girls choose tall, rich men, because they are better at surviving and have more resources for raising children.

Nature maximizes reproduction and that's what we like.
Fictional Monkeypox Outbreak Exercise Scenario [pdf]
Abandon Tinder. It works for certain demographics but it is amazingly awful for everyone else. You can absolutely still date, in fact I'm constantly surprised by the older people in my life who seem to have no problem finding dates. You do have to have something going for you beyond looks, a certain kind of success which may not be financial.
Pop!_OS ships with Pop Shell [1], an ambitious and well polished GNOME Shell extension inspired by i3wm.

[1] https://github.com/pop-os/shell#readme
The rules at a dangerous (and all) intersections are basically due care by the pedestrian.

"No pedestrian may suddenly leave a curb or other place of safety and walk ... into the path of a vehicle that is so close as to constitute an immediate hazard."

The problem with dangerous intersections (think 40 mph or multi-lane, or with a bend in road) is that it may be difficult to cross (think at night etc) is that many vehicles will pose an immediate hazard as they come around the bend or at speed when you looking at standardized stopping distances and reaction times.

We have a crossing near me that is around a modest bend where folks are moving at speed. There is almost no time to stop even if paying attention. To paint a crossing here at an unsignalized intersection that would attract folks to cross would be criminal in my view.
This is fine, except when the candidate knows substantially more than the interviewer about how to solve the problem. I was once asked to implement a spsc circular buffer, and I used C++11 atomics rather than a mutex. I wrote up a working solution, but most of the interviewer's followup questions fundamentally didn't map to my wait-free solution. I spent most of the time explaining to the interviewer how atomics and non-blocking algorithms work. The FAANG rejection email came a few days later.

So I don't think these interviews evaluate the candidate's ability to solve complex and abstract problems. They seem to evaluate the candidate's ability to grind contrived sophomore-level computer science homework. Experience solving the real-life version of the problem rather than the academic one is unwanted.
Don't use Tinder! I signed up for Tinder and got no dates. I had too many dates on Hinge.
Hosting Go in Go is kind of an interesting idea! I enjoyed what I found on boring technology club and in general I agree, shipping is happiness, but! That's on the job. Outside of work I also do a bunch of stuff and there I do, uh... whatever. The point being that my personal projects are all about doing things I just wouldn't do at work, too much hassle. Anyway, I enjoyed the link.
If you care about people not ending up on the same program again, shoving them out the door the second they can nominally pay full price themselves doesn't help,
I happened to need to do this in NixOS yesterday, and look how easy it is:

security.acme = {
acceptTerms = true;
email = "mail@whatever.net";
};

services.nginx = {
enable = true;
recommendedGzipSettings = true;
recommendedOptimisation = true;
recommendedProxySettings = true;
recommendedTlsSettings = true;
virtualHosts."whatever.net" = { default = true; enableACME = true; addSSL = true; locations."/".proxyPass = "http://127.0.0.1:9955/"; };
};

and then each additional proxy takes just one more line. Not quite zero boilerplate, but almost!
Are folks still excited about py? I see talk of rust and Julia and it all goes over my head, but when I watch a talk given by Raymond about basic data types and iterators (his creation), I get excited again (I’m glad to see he’s still contributing! Boy does that man have a talent for teaching)

I think while the experienced here might scoff at it, it still remains one of the most accessible and -fun- languages. Also I just adore iterators and any language without it is a no-go.
I'd use the same idea in the justice system, where the presumption of innocence is paramount, and apply it here. It's better to let 9 criminals go free, than to jail 1 innocent person by accident, and it is better to assist 9 extra people in need, than to let one person in need to not get it due to the rules.

Somebody needing assistance is presumed to need it, until proof is found that they are cheating the system. This will let some people use the system fraudulently, but it ensures that it catches the vulnerable that truly need it.
Title could use an edit; Pop!_OS is misspelled.
PLEASE PLEASE do not give bad advice here, you may get folks killed.

"No pedestrian may suddenly leave a curb or other place of safety and walk ... into the path of a vehicle that is so close as to constitute an immediate hazard."

That is the LAW.

The issue is at some intersections particularly at night, a car coming around a bend at 40mph will almost always pose an immediate hazard particularly if you look at standardized reaction times and stopping distances.

A city doing this properly, before painting a crosswalk, would look at doing things like reducing multi-lane travel, reducing speed, signalizing the intersection, doing bumpouts, increasing sightlines (red curb pain, tree and vegetation removal) and much more. Then once it is safe enough, they would paint a crosswalk to attract crossings to this safer crossing.
Like with everything, there are engineering tolerances.

6061 can have up to 0.15% "Other", as long as no single "Other" component is more than 0.05%. So no more than 0.05% scandium if you want to call it 6061.

See https://www.gabrian.com/6061-aluminum-properties/
Your last sentence hints at why so many relationships fail these days. Most people do not look at relationships as something that requires effort and needs to be nurtured. Instead they look at them as transactional affairs, and like any transaction extracting more value than you are willing to give back is the modus operandi.
In Canada for example, they stopped giving routine smallpox vaccinations around 1972. So you'd have to be "old" to have had it, for some definition of "old". :)
Russia and the US became very friendly during WW2 as well. Stalin and Roosevelt had a solid relationship while Stalin and Churchill did not. Churchill did not like Stalin for various reasons. But Roosevelt was the glue. Unfortunately, US elections at the time stipulated that the Vice President was chosen by the Democrat electorate and there was a coup to replace Roosevelts first pick (a guy friendly to the ussr) with a nobody from Missouri named Truman. Stalin never respected Truman and US relationships with the USSR deteriorated quickly after FDRS passing. Churchill and England became the dominant western voice in post ww2 trade and the iron curtain was eventually dropped.

Truman had so many financial struggles that the pension for presidents was created for him to live a dignified life after leaving office.

http://academic.brooklyn.cuny.edu/history/johnson/fdrpoland....
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1944_Democratic_Party_vice_pre...
If you like this kind of stuff I highly recommend CuriousMarc on YouTube - excellent humor, guest appearances from Ken Shiriff (his silicon-die reverse engineering posts are frequently on the front page here) and other smart folks, a fleet of logic analyzers and high tech diagnostic equipment, etc. Much fun while repairing vintage computers.

The restoration on the Apollo guidance computer is a classic.
US fears China may have ten exascale systems by 2025
This post has a strong HN energy.

In data engineering, once data went through several transformations, the final event count can explode by a lot.
This is similar to a goal I had during childhood (very naive obviously) - that I should try and write a heartfelt essay addressed to all the terrorists around the world. And if all the newspapers published my essay on the front page, all the terrorists would, on reading it, put down their weapons and simply live peacefully from then on, with tears in their eyes as they reflected on their wrongdoing. I was sure there could be a sequence of words that would capture the hearts and minds of all oppressors and dictators around the globe. I just had to figure out what should it be, and then get newspapers to print it.
If UBI is paid out through printing extra currency, it will induce inflation.

But if UBI is paid out via extra taxation, then it will not induce inflation (or at least, not overall - it might induce some inflation in goods/services which wouldn't have been in demand but for the UBI, such as low cost labour). The higher taxes taken from the higher income people will reduce their demand, and thus balance out.
We need to start thinking about doing something about the aging problem. The tools are here, it's a matter of getting it done. SENS foundation is trying just that[0].

0. https://www.sens.org/our-research/intro-to-sens-research/
I was more thinking of scripts, yeah, like you describe.

Where I get hung up is, if I need to keep the traditional syntaxes in my head for scripting, why bother storing another one in my head for interactive use?

...that said, I do use ag and rg for other interactive tools, like cross-project search in Emacs.
You seem to be applying a cultural slant to this. I'm curious, how does it differ outside of America in your perspective?

I agree that part of the problem at least in America, is a mismatch in expectations caused by a media-infused, image-obsessed culture. There is a need to "perform", be larger than life and be interesting. It is incredibly suffocating and makes relationships more transactional than they should be.
As far as I know Qing military organization was weird for the time. There was no single central Chinese Army as such. There were some forces which officially reported to the Imperial government (the Green Standard and the Eight Banners), but these were of limited use. The armies that put down the Taiping Rebellion were raised by local governors, and were loyal to them not to the Emperor.
Maybe take a look here:

https://www.shouselaw.com/ca/blog/do-pedestrians-always-have...

In general because a driver is so unlikely to be hurt, I can't imagine them suing? But these lawyers say this:

"If the pedestrian did not have the right of way and got hit by a car, the pedestrian may be responsible for the accident. With that responsibility comes liability. If the pedestrian is liable, he or she may have to compensate the driver for the costs of the crash, even if the pedestrian was more severely hurt."

I didn't pull caselaw here, because the issue here is that liability WOULD be very easy to show against the crosswalk collective attracting ped crossings to dangerous intersections. That is my (very unpopular) point. I would hope someone would sue them if they had a relative killed though or particularly a child.

Editing to add:

The "right of way" is not automatic, pedestrians have a duty of care still. I think folks are getting confused between pedestrians can cross at all intersections (true, it is not jaywalking even if no crosswalk) and things like a driver is always at fault etc.

i. Pedestrians must use reasonable care at all times.

Pedestrians are required by statute to obey traffic signs and signals. Further, every pedestrian has the duty, before entering a street, to make reasonably careful observations to ascertain traffic conditions to be encountered; thus, a pedestrian has a duty to look in the direction from which an approaching motorist might endanger the pedestrian’s safety, to exercise reasonable care at all times while crossing the street and to continue to be alert to safeguard against injury.

ii. Pedestrians cannot walk in front of a motor vehicle.

Under the law, a pedestrian who is aware of the approach of a vehicle should not begin or continue crossing a street in such proximity to the crossing or traveling at such speed as to constitute an imminent peril. A driver has the right to assume that a pedestrian will not leave a place of safety to step directly in front of the driver’s vehicle.
Question about this part:

key = operator.itemgetter("name")
people = sorted([p1, p2, p3], key=key)

What's the advantage of using operator module instead of just

key=lambda x: x['name']

?
I'm good at leetcode and probably fairly good at programming, though I struggle when problems pass a certain threshold of complexity. The issue I have is that I get seriously demotivated working for boring ass CRUD applications that most companies end up implementing and it like makes me sick just trying to push through that over time.

Not really sure what to do in my situation either. I know it's different from ops but I thought of it as sort of a corrolary.
Interest on lending, and trading fees from liquidity pools. During a bear market in crypto certainly these yields will decline.

The 2 sources I mentioned above are essentially flows that accrue during the bull markets. It's not magic, when people want to long assets they borrow stables. If you lend into these markets you'll get the yield. With liquidity pools you can get some transaction fees even during market volatility and draw-downs, in the short term at least.
bearblog.dev service seems to be gaining a lot of traction. Seen a lot of posts lately on HN front page that use it..
“If Loud Aliens Explain Human Earliness, Quiet Aliens Are Also Rare”: A Review
We don't know what the default state of human attraction is because we don't have access to a control population of human beings without the same shared societal history of the rest of us.

Which is to say, it's incorrect to broaden your personal attractions to all men, and especially incorrect to try and couch it in some argument of biological naturalism.
It's faster (better performance). It could also be preferred just as a coding style.
feudalism had avenues of escape for the serfs
UBI is a pretty small money faucet compared to the endless spending on foreign wars that the US political establishment regularly undertakes. Just give out the same amount of money to poor people instead of using it as a middle-class jobs program that kills foreigners.
Thank you for doing this, you deserve a superhero badge! It's very inspirational.