skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
What about people that can’t drive a motorcycle, like children? Or people that can’t afford a motorcycle? Or people that have nowhere to store a motorbike (I’ll like to see you hang a motorbike on a wall)? Do we just abandon them?

> we avoid the whole issue of converting car lanes to bicycle lanes and then reverting that decision because a traffic jam occurred and residents were not impressed, wasting money in the process

There are huge piles of empirical evidence that shows the complete opposite of this happens. Introducing bike infrastructure, at the cost of car infrastructure, almost always reduces congestion after a short adaptation period passes. Turns out if you give people cheaper easier ways of moving a round a city or town, they’ll pick them over a car.
I can't speak on older BlueLink cars (article is from 2017), but my 2021 Elantra has GSM built-in and the commands are sent/received through the web - no bluetooth at all.
If banking was a solved problem, then how come so many people don’t have an account?
Are you implying that, historically, journalists either 1) had some basic education in what they are reporting about, or 2) actually wanted to educate themselves in what they are reporting about, and that today, increasingly, journalists don't or don't want to do either 1) or 2)?

That is, at it's core, saying that journalists are, on average, getting more and more stupid.

This seems a bit strange and unsubstantiated, but could very well be true. What would cause a gradual decrease in the intelligence of humanity's journalists?

Or are things like science just getting more complex (more specialized) that an average journalists requires "too much" time to educate themselves about. That would then mean they aren't getting less intelligent, per se...
There's a lot of fiction in these games in order to make them fun.

If you had to deal with committees, contractors, NIMBYs, and real human cost of bulldozing houses for highways, it would have been a completely different game, likely a sad and frustrating one.

City builders also start from an empty free land, even though true greenfield development is very rare. SimCity has famously ignored the problem of parking, because it made cities look depressingly ugly. Even in Cities Skylines people pull cars out of their pockets.
It is "official" in the sense that GitHub lets you sort by these reactions.
I mean, speed reading is basically skimming (but without skipping words, if it makes any sense) and indeed, you won't be able to properly appreciate minor word choices in literary work. For me, speed reading is basically letting your subconscious brain absorb the words, instead of your conscious part. I once cheesily described it as "reading with your heart". You won't miss the feeling of the story, or the general content of a technical post, but you'll miss these tiny linguistical choices.

But opposite to what people are saying here, I find speed reading is great for technical documentation or for the first reading of a technical book. In pair programming sessions it's quite obvious because people will waste time reading SO answers that are obvious dead ends, for instance...
One thing I've done from time to time is just say "hey, I would like this a lot, I'd put a $100 bounty on it". Probably wouldn't work in the corporate case described here, and certainly is below the "actually paying for a developer's time" level.

But I've thrown a bonus in there for doing it. Maybe if it's already something they wanted to do, it moves the needle into "sure, let me give it a shot".
Yes , consider Phlebas is more like a series of episodes with a connecting arc. The goals are stated at the beginning
> The reality is the western world is falling behind in essential infrastructure in every capacity.

Could you expand on this? What do you mean?

> Its hard to build roads, highways, sewers these days without some pushback. We need to start changing our views and start seeing constriction as an essential human need and return to the old view of infrastructure as something we take pride in

For me, it's not "construction" by itself, but I suspect it's pushback against urban sprawl and poor urban design. I watched an excellent video about Houston: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uxykI30fS54 It takes awhile to get to the point, so you might want to skip to 3:42.
This is the one tip that I often see and can actually understand/agree would work.

I've just not been able to do it though. I think I've managed bursts of it when skimming something super quickly - which as OP mentions is not how I enjoy reading.
The ducting brings the temperature drop to an almost unnoticeable delta. If you are worried, just install it near your furnace. It’ll eat radiant heat from that corner that would otherwise go into the walls, egress windows etc. Every other part of the year, you either don’t mind or benefit from the cooling.

I have the stats from my own Rheem to know I’m coming out ahead financially during winter and also haven’t seen a meaningful swing in the basement climate.

I’m a regular participant in that linked blog, too. :)
> you quite firmly believe the project itself has a future, just that nobody else is able to do so.

Looks like some unwarranted feeling of self-importance combined with the sunk cost fallacy.

You still have options: make it paid only, stop taking contributions at all, hire someone to sort it out or find a volunteer to do so. Or walk away and see how quickly Amazon will copycat you.

Or accept that that’s the cost of having your pride.

Otherwise it’s almost a textbook example of emotional blackmailing some parents are known for.
> How curious that we are so perfectly able to digest it and thrive from it! I wonder why so many other herbivores didn't get so lucky.

Humans can also eat and digest shirts, pencils and small pieces of plastic. And you didn't provide any evidence of any adaptations we have to meat eating. Check and mate.
Zipcar was hilariously easy to bypass/override with physical access. I had access to a local Volvo for almost 3 years until I stopped checking. I never drove the car because of gps and the proliferation of cameras, but I would store random things in the trunk when I was passing by the area
Maybe we should reevaluate wether it's actually necessary for a free and democratic society to have these distanced families as a norm. The societal model you describe essentially evolved in lockstep with capitalism (people moving into cities/generally moving for work) and I'm not totally sure that it has to be this way. We could just live more regional and still be free and democratic as well! Indeed, currently it looks like rootlessness proclaimed by you and others as the preferable lifestyle will take away our freedom and democracy with it.
> In C# you can explicitly, in the language, basically say "Don't worry this won't be null" and the compiler takes your word for it and lets you do stuff that definitely isn't OK if it's null.

You can do this in Rust too. Unsafe Rust is still Rust.
Ted Kaczynski – Industrial Society and Its Future (Unabomber Manifesto) [video]
I just got a quote: $30K to upgrade a 1000 sq ft. apartment from oil fired steam (59% efficiency boiler from the 40s) and hot water to heat pumps near Boston. Includes removing oil tank, radiators and installing resistance electric hot water heater.

Or I could upgrade from oil to gas for $14K (to an 82% efficiency boiler). I have a strong incentive to do this since the cost of heating with gas will be 1/3.5 compared with heating with oil.

I think these are insane prices, but that's what contractors get around here. There is a $10K incentive for the heat pumps, but it requires a home inspection and probable upgrade of the insulation. IMHO, the incentive is not enough- it needs to make the heat pumps the cheapest option.

As far as fuel costs, the gas would definitely be cheaper. The electricity comes from gas (especially in the middle of the winter). The price is more because you are paying someone to convert the gas to electricity. The efficiency of getting the heat from gas via electricity is only a little more with heat pumps (when accounting for generation and transmission loss and much higher heat pump efficiency).

Maybe in the future the electric supply will be greener, but it isn't today. They are trying to build a HVDC line from Boston to Quebec for more hydropower, but Maine and NH are not allowing it due to NIMBY (a referendum in Maine, financed by gas companies, killed it).
>As the article specifically notes, the issues were introducing them all at once:

And you could say the same thing about Itanium. (In fact, Gordon Bell did.)

The real problem was Intel's focus on frequency above all else at the time. They were demoing I think a 10 GHz processor at Intel Developer Forum at one point.

A few years later as the world had pretty much entirely shifted to multicore, a senior Intel exec I was doing some work for basically told me that of course they knew the challenges around ramping frequency. But Microsoft was apparently very concerned about the ability of Windows to use multiple cores.

There was a lot of concern in the industry at the time around how well software--especially on the desktop--would be able to take advantage of multiple cores.
Font variety help legibility through creating distinctions in context and hierarchy, though.
Actually in fact it's so common there's a term for it:

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stigler%27s_law_of_eponymy

In my own area, I've run into things being rediscovered multiple times.
I wonder how it works after a few years. Many patches fail due to expansion/contraction not being exactly same in patch vs original material. I hope epoxy manufacturer took this into consideration
Why do you need to read books faster? What's the hurry?
Peter Thiel helped build big tech. Now he wants to tear it all down
You won't get a balanced answer here: HN is an echo chamber full of ignorance and virtue signalling when it comes to Crypto.
Where I live its the legal right of bicyclists to use the road in the same manner as cars do. Just because your vehicle is less agile than yours, they are not inconsiderate, e.g. you would not honk on trucks just because they accelerate slower. Or on school buses because they need to stop often.
Cached: https://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache:wlJHgN...
Once the number of cars is reduced significantly, it will be much easier and cheaper to have really good public transport, since there aren't so many cars on the road any more.

And we save costs due to less road maintenance (which is really expensive), no need to build new bridges/roads to solve traffic jams, lower health care costs, less time spent (i.e. money wasted) sitting in traffic jams, lower environmental costs, and you can put that in public infrastructure.

I think it's good to be mindful of these kind of issues: for all their downsides, cars can give great personal freedom and I think it's good to think how that can be maintained, but it's not like cars are the only way these problems can be solved.
But...we only got to the point that the industry can afford to integrate those features because of mass economies of scale — which came from the tradeoff I'm referring to..
As a maintainer of a graph OSS project with an optional commercial tier, we are 100% fine with his original approach.

A clearly written issue or a +1 vote (not comment, which causes an alert) is definitely appreciated. We get to learn usage patterns to optimize, bugs to fix, etc, before they hit users in our paid tiers. Sometimes feedback isn't well thought out, so we added templates to steer users, and that worked pretty well. Various tricks like that have helped over time.

Likewise, when there is a commercial tier or outside funding, as in his case of Grafana, much less expectation of code giveback. Typically the maintainers have blown the path to open governance, and through that, significant OSS community It's freemium, and the interactions are more about issues vs PRs. Yes it's better when a true OSS community, not just license, but that's just not how most big ones work nowadays. So a helpful ticket is fine.
The concept of Second Degree Fun applies here, although I think it should be called second order fun. Semantics aside, first order fun is something that you enjoy while you’re doing it. Second order fun is something that may be unpleasant or boring while you’re doing it but turns out to be enjoyable to recall or tell others about after the fact. A lot of life falls into the latter category.
Skimming through, I am surprised they don't call out this. I know for a Pixel 3a, you cannot even boot AOSP without compiling in the driver binaries:

https://source.android.com/setup/build/downloading#downloadi...

https://developers.google.com/android/drivers

And there is an entire vendor partition (On the Pixel 3a, it was >400 MB). However, even if a user built AOSP with those drivers, VoLTE, SMS on LTE, Wi-Fi Calling, eSIM, and a few other things (Sorry I don't remember) do not work.

To get those features, one has to extract them from a stock image:

https://wiki.lineageos.org/extracting_blobs_from_zips

I can't imagine this is any better for newer Pixel phones, nor for any non-pixel phones. This will be true for compiling AOSP or any Android ROM.
The problem is, that isn't really possible in all cases. Sometimes cars ignore people and just turn left (in the UK, right in the US), not really anything you can do if the cars just see differs to do that.
They are already gambling on gold.
Bikes cycle as part of traffic because it far safer, and substantially reduces the chances of them being hit and seriously injured.

If you think cycling in manner to improves your safety as a cyclist is inconsiderate. Then how do you suggest they cycle if they don’t want to be hit by a car?
One thing that helps me when my reading ability wavers from time to time is to use ereader apps with auto-scroll functionality. This used to be much more common around the 2000 era, but has mostly died out because eInk doesn't handle it well at all.

I have a lot of learning challenges. I was taught how to read wrong. The list goes on. I sorta forced my brain to learn bounded-box read-ahead/behind scanning by turning on autoscroll and letting it rip. My brain parts figured out the trick. Eventually, I was able to strengthen my reading skills to the point that I can self-regulate my eye-scanning & page-perusing movements on my own.

From time to time, when I'm having a not-read-good day, I still use an autoscroll app to help me retain focus.

There are a lot of chunking applets and extensions for the web browser, too. Those helped immensely to teach my brain how to read better. Eventually, I figured out how to do multi-line chunking/processing that way.

It took me much longer to learn all the various skills that usually get lumped together under the term "speed reading" than I expected. It took years to fix my reading skills. I wanted it to take weeks. It also took so much more practice than I expected.
We're decades into the open source era and people still need to be reminded of this. Incredible.
It's delusional to think that laws written by humans can beat the laws of physics.
Whether 2 ton vehicle hits you on a bike intentionally or not doesn't change much that you will get hurt and maybe die. No matter how much the written laws favor the bikes.
Don't waste your precious time on a sunday afternoon.
Actually good software and choice? I don't care about having to plug in twice a day because I'm not working in remote mountain tops and I don't care about occasional fan noise.

I'd rather be able to run the OS I want with the software I want than the crap Apple wants me to run with them calling all the shots. Apple silicon could be literally twice as fast and I wouldn't care. I'm not that impatient and freedom is IMO more important than speed.
not if I can get equivalent (if not better) performance on my existing hardware
> Everyone blaming "meat" for global warming is just a shill for the petrol industry, distracting from the real cause (fossil fuels).

Maybe because most of the petrol industry serves the animal agriculture industry and hundreds of billions of animals it needs to raise and kill annually? Or did you think they don't require any inputs nor produce any outputs other than a corpse?
The stench of road kill also really helps
There are bad actors in any industry. If the last two years have taught me anything is that centralised government is the next target to free society from tyranny, and Bitcoin is a part of that. Make cash while you can.
That is basically their point, that these alternatives are not successful because they chose not to use phone numbers.

Anyway here’s some alternatives:

Briar (no iOS client?)

Threema (not free as in free beer)

Wire

Matrix

XMPP

Telegram (can be used E2EE for 1:1 chats only and is off by default)
> The problem I keep seeing in startups is that a lot of startup tech founders and employees don't see a startup as an embryonic business that will grow over the long term into a money-making venture requiring calculated risks and priorities, but rather as a personal playground to do all the fun things they were not allowed to do at their old BigCorp.

I don't think this is an accurate or realistic take.

You're actually stating that tech founders, when starting greenfields projects, actually take the time to invest in frameworks that offer advantages over outdated legacy systems adopted way back in the past which are only in place because there is no chance in hell a company will spend resources to pay off their technical debt.

There was a point in time where adopting Java+Spring, or even React was something only some silly risk-taker would do when playing around in their personal playground. But as the investment paid off so handsomely, they have become baseline options.

If you are free to choose the absolute best tool you have at your reach, why wouldn't you?
> Do you take the same approach to cars? Or do you reserve such aggressive tactics only for vulnerable road users?

I assure you almost all car drivers get annoyed by slow-moving[1] obstacles in their path, whether car, camel or bike.

Why on earth would you think that someone would not get annoyed?

[1] Depending on how slow the obstacle is moving, the annoyance can range from muttering-under-the-breath to honking in disbelief at the inconsideration shown by the obstacle.

When you see a line cars all slowing following some obstacle for a large amount of time, it's unreasonable to expect that the drivers won't be annoyed. When you're on your bike, wouldn't you be annoyed at slowing to less than 10% of your speed for the duration of your journey because of a slower-moving obstacle?
For example? What could you do on k8s that you couldn't do on native aws?
*edit:* Recalled the quote, thanks raphlinus

This reminds me of the "Gell-mann amnesia effect":

http://www.sfu.ca/~easton/Econ220W/WhySpeculate.pdf

Media carries with it a credibility that is totally undeserved.
You have all experienced this, in what I call the Murray Gell-Mann
Amnesia effect. (I refer to it by this name because I once
discussed it with Murray Gell-Mann, and by dropping a famous
name I imply greater importance to myself, and to the effect,
than it would otherwise have.)

Briefly stated, the Gell-Mann Amnesia effect is as follows. You
open the newspaper to an article on some subject you know well.
In Murray's case, physics. In mine, show business. You read the
article and see the journalist has absolutely no understanding
of either the facts or the issues. Often, the article is so wrong
it actually presents the story backward -- reversing cause and
effect. I call these the "wet streets cause rain" stories. Paper's
full of them.

In any case, you read with exasperation or amusement the multiple
errors in a story, and then turn the page to national or
international affairs, and read as if the rest of the newspaper
was somehow more accurate about Palestine than the baloney you
just read. You turn the page, and forget what you know.
The bartender is morally (and occasionally legally) obligated to not serve alcohol to someone who is drunk. And to take car keys away from impaired people.

The analogy holds, imo.
> Ephemeral

> Talos runs in memory from a SquashFS, and persists nothing, leaving the primary disk entirely to Kubernetes.

Hmm so if the entire disk is unused where is /boot in this configuration?
A very high quality epoxy and covering with sealant/good paint.

My house I just bought had some now obvious coverups using a cheap wood putty. About a year later all of that wood is continuing to rot. In my case the expansion and contraction broke the paint and allowed water in and so the rot continued
In some situations, it is empirically safer for cyclists to clear intersections against red/stop signs. Usually because there's no other traffic crossing their path at those times.

Of course, the egregious cases you've witnessed are probably not those situations, so this is more as a reminder that sometimes the dichotomy of the law is not what matters most to the individual.
Dam , here in Turkey "kaka" [caca] literally means "poop" or "to poop". How odd.
Totally. Ensure twice or thrice. Stay at large safe distance, avoid crowded places, speedy places. Also your sometimes your breaking distance will be longer.. so if a car brakes hard, you'll ram into them. Distance. (that's why I take longer isolated paths now)
It is not possible to make autoconf set the compiler mode to exactly C99?
You're simply choosing different tech tree, memory retention or focus, as opposed to speed reading.

Speed reader usually sacrifices some details during reading, skipping conjunction is one of the example. So yes you need try to learn fast reading.
> Google Fonts logs records of the CSS and the font file requests, and access to this data is kept secure.

and https://www.theregister.com/2022/01/31/website_fine_google_f...

leads me to believe that Google has PI when people visit sites using google fonts.

Even if they don't use it for advertising purposes long term log keeping is not required to serve fonts.

It doesn't really matter what the service is doing, they didn't ask for consent to log the IP of people downloading fonts.

To be perfectly clear: it wouldn't keep me from sleeping at night and fonts permissions should be bundled with cookie consent or there should be a permission prompt (just like when asking for youtube vid.).
我想昧耳，昧心，变石头
HODLers are not defined by an external source. They are self-defined. It's like saying 'Catholics are leaving the Church'. And you say: 'Well if they leave the church they aren't Catholics". That doesn't make sense. The phase 'leaving the church' still has meaning and we know what it means.
That hasn’t worked for a while. Browsers will NOT use cached resources loaded for foo.com when loading bar.com, even if they are the same resource from the same CDN.
> Economics says

You mean, "many Economists with a simplistic, reductionist view of human societies' behavior say".
How can going from native 80x25 character mode to graphical mode cause any noticeable slowdown?

It's just text, small textures for the fixed width characters I assume.

Computer games were rendering millions of triangles a second over 20 years ago, even in software rendering engines.

If it's noticeably slow, there must be some unnecessary inefficiencies in there.

I use graphical VTE's like konsole though, which have way more than the in the article mentioned 128x40 characters, on a 4K screen, and I don't notice any slowdown in there at least, it can scroll as fast as you want, with full RGB color codes and unicode characters and 100K lines of scroll history.
Similar here; got my driver's license at 30. The first thing I noticed behind the steering wheel was that drivers in cars have basically zero visibility of their immediate surroundings due to the various pillars. Took me quite a while to get used to. But yeah, it also taught me a lot of things to never do on a bicycle since motorists are likely to not even see you.