skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
In theory (but not always in practice) the steepness of the road accessing the underpass should be within the limits stated for the type of road (so - again in theory - not too steep).

A good example of how NOT to design an underpass (very steep AND curve in the middle), this is Florence (Italy):

https://www.google.it/maps/@43.7754979,11.2351912,3a,75y,53....

But they did put on a sign to prevent pedestrians to access it, so the mugglers won't go hiding there ;).
One sub out of tens or hundreds on the other side won't change reality
easy. eat less meat.
The pins usually don't fit exactly (because they still need to be able to move up and down), meaning that you can turn the lock slightly even without the pins at the right positions.

If a pin is pushed up completely, and you turn the lock slightly, the pin can get stuck in the right position.
This is done with a torsion wrench, keeping torsion on the lock while trying to get the pins in the right position with picks, hooks, or rakes.
It's on the top of the HN page for whatever reason, and seems to have resonated with some here, and given others just something semi interesting to talk about. Certainly seems to have gotten you talking about it, even if it's to try and understand why others are.
I have not dedicated so much time to video games for years. It is probably the same response that some have to smartphones. For me, I saw my time being wasted on nothing. While I am good at wasting time, it was a particular thing I felt was hard to just timebox.

My vice instead is spending too much time reading or tinkering on my laptop in my spare time, even sometimes when I should be doing other things (probably like now :) )

I like the smartphone for things that are useful - primarily maps, a chat application with my wife, translating words between my first and second language that will absolutely plague me if I don't know the answer to and looking up some things on the go. That's good enough for me with that.
I looked at your comment history, because I was thinking , “wow that guy must have it pretty good in Berlin.” And yes, as you say, you have a very very high purchase power in Berlin. I think you will find that it will be quite expensive in NJ to replicate your quality of life as you are not nearly as far up the income percentiles for the NYC metropolitan area. We spend part of the year in Warsaw and feel like kings, then we go back to Florida and feel distinctly more plebeian. I would say everyone can adapt, but for example if you wanted to replicate the amenities in Berlin you will find yourself in an extraordinarily expensive and near-unicorn walkable neighborhood. If you prefer a car based life then your cost of living in rural NJ will be much lower (and you will also probably be able to afford a nicer car without all those auto and fuel taxes).

I don’t know much about the relative school quality for your kids, but do know that in the US schools are funded locally so people spend a lot to be in the zone of a desirable school or otherwise go private. Since the difference between good and bad schools can be enormous, you will end up paying for this one way or another.
idk I follow only gaming subs and they all seem all right to me. The players just share guides, fan arts, news etc. Sure every sub has some asshole mods but generally it's still not as bad as front page subs (/r/news, /r/politics/ etc.) where basically there is only one message accepted
It definitely doesn't hurt to ask questions, even if you don't always get answers

Many years ago I asked my employer why my salary was lower than the contractually agreed minimum salary for 21 year olds in their organisation. I never received a reply but I did receive a raise and pay backdated to the point where I was hired.

Years before that I asked my bank why I can't just use all the ATMs since they all have money in them and they're all connected to the same network. I never received a reply but some years later the ATMs were indeed all usable (of course, subsequently many began to charge money for withdrawals, so it's still worth going to the "right" ATM if you care)

More recently I asked my bank if they can avoid giving me a contactless capable credit card when they issue new cards. At first they said this was impossible, but when time came to renew my card and I mentioned being disappointed that it would now be contactless, the call taker said actually she can do that, she'll cancel the renewed card she's just had issued and send me one without contactless, but it will take a few days.

That card expired, and a few months ago I received its automatic replacement, this time it does have the contactless logo like all the others, but it came with a slim "Contactless-less" sheet explaining that the bank noticed I don't want a contactless card and have told this card not to allow contactless transactions despite the logo however, it is actually a contactless card and so if I change my mind I can just call the bank and activate the contactless feature.

[ You might wonder why I don't want a contactless card. Contactless credit cards can OK modestly sized payments based on proximity, which is convenient but clearly poses a risk of fraud I don't want. My phone is also capable of proximity based transactions, but it is not limited to some arbitrary size of transaction and I need to explicitly unlock it to allow the transaction. So, the phone "is" my credit card for the purposes of routine transactions, but it has better security. ]
I really liked the structure of this blog post. But It misses the positive aspects of using dictionaries. Like when you are the owner of the api you consume and just want the JSON to flow through your “application tier”
Plain context manager doesn't actually introduce a new scope:

with open("foo") as f:
s = f.read()
print(f) # closed file object still exists

A macro that looks like a context manager would work but beware the edge cases.
I think so. But we mostly cook, so ingredient availability/price is more important than restaurants, which however I also found much better in France. Of course it probably depends on the areas you visit and how you select restaurants. Paris is full of tourist traps. In the US regional differences were enourmous.
I'm using it daily, simple and great distro
Please edit your post, this is very wrong. It’s more like 50% to 40%.

https://ourworldindata.org/world-lost-one-third-forests
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> wand.cast(…) is a lot more brittle

That's not how it works. Multiple dispatch looks like a normal procedure call, it would look like

cast(item, user)

or if you need to know it was raining

cast(item, user, worldstate)
Honestly, I'm not sure if anyone is really interested in advice from someone who somehow managed to get permabanned on reddit.
Actual tunnels are usually pretty awful for cyclists, pedestrians and motorcyclists since they tend to be hot and full of exhaust fumes.
Yes, that's one of the most confusing. http://leewoodprojects.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2010/04/2955... is a more useful diagram (unfortunately I can't find the original source)
>If I may Viral, I suspect one takeaway from Yuri's criticism (at least it was a takeaway for me) is that with multiple dispatch correctness bugs like the ones listed are hard to find (impossible even).

Maybe one approach would be for the community to create some certification tests. Although this wouldn't help with corner cases it would allow packages to run some testing that (if the tests are good) might throw up problems with constitutionality? Also if there were bugs from composition the certificate could be suspended until they were fixed.
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>Now of course maybe the cyclist shouldn't have been going that fast

Now replace cyclist with motorist.

Would it be in anyway acceptable for someone to plonk an unmarked concrete block in the middle of an unlit road?
I grew up in Tokyo as a child and used the subway twice every day to commute to and from school. I randomly sampled a few of these and the memories and feelings it evoked are incredible. Amazing what a difference a small jingle can make to the psyche. Thank you for posting this.
Being fat and lazy is under your control, being bald is not.
And hasn't Dwayne Johnson (The Rock) been the highest earning actor for years?
Another option besides types is using a schema library. You can do more things, like define custom validation rules over eg several fields, publish the schema as data (eg at an API endpint, openapi or json schema etc), reuse it in another language (depending on schema system), version it explicitly, and machine generate it if it comes from some external spec (like a db schema).

Also great for property testing / fuzzing. And other fun meta datamodel stuff like eg inferring schema from example data.

In general programming language type systems are pretty weak in comparison because they're not very programmable. (In most languages, for most people, etc .. there are fancy level type systems approaching formal proof toolkits but they're hard to use)
Fyi... if you're getting a bounceback... It seems the author doesn't want this on Hacker News.

The webpage html source:

<!DOCTYPE html>
<html lang="en">
...
<script async src="/assets/js/turnBack.js"></script>
...

which has this code to bounce you back:

const undesirables = [
"news.ycombinator.com/",
// "lobste.rs/" // does not work due to rel="noreferrer"
] ;
if (undesirables.find(site => document.referrer.includes(site))) {
window.location.replace(document.referrer);
}

(The https://jwz.org domain by Jamie Zawinski is another example of a redirect when referred by Hacker News.)

EDIT to downvoters... I don't mind the downvotes but could you explain? If my information is inaccurate and doesn't contribute to the discussion, I'd like to learn what is wrong. Thank you.
There are several 'ghost' station that are missing from this list:

https://www.ltmuseum.co.uk/hidden-london

More details here: https://www.ltmuseum.co.uk/hidden-london

Angel is a fascinating station - it used to be an island platform like Clapham Common and Clapham North, but was rebuilt in the early 90's due to safety concerns (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Angel_tube_station#Station_reb...) and until Terminal 5 opened, had the longest escalators in the UK.
I developed this over a weekend

rewq.app (after opening it once, you could swipe the name on the keyboard. The TAB key next to `q` triggers the auto-complete and completes rewq.app)

I use it making shortcuts to links or lists. Like, music -> ...music..link.. , so on.

When I swipe, rewq<TAB> ? music

The url opens. :-p

FYI ... Also comes with a chrome extension.
So looking at the lock’s YouTube video it may be susceptible to an attack where you set all the pins to their lowest, turn the key and then jolt the lock several times while continuing to turn the key.
Because eventually all the tasks that a normal human can do can be done cheaper by a machine. Whenever more automation enabled economic growth in the past, a (large) part of the new economic activity had to be done by humans. We were lucky that the growth was big enough that more new jobs were created than old jobs were lost. In the near future the fraction of new tasks that can be done by humans will shrink. It is plausible that economic growth as a whole will shrink too.

And of course there are the short term effects to consider too. If truck driving is automated, a fifty year old truck driver is unlikely to find a similar job. Changing careers gets progressively harder as you grow older. Many people will be unemployed for the rest of their lives despite other new jobs being created.
> You later changed to "worth it"

I didn't change anything. I think it's clear that I passed on opportunity to go to Seattle because I didn't think it was worth it (why else would I pass on it)?

> I suspect you also realized that if you find yourself "bored" in NYC, the problem is not the city.

Where did I write that I was bored in NYC? I think it's great, but I also think it exhausts the experience of "large,
dense American city built mostly in XX century" to the point where seeing another one doesn't add that much. Aren't Americans travelling to places like New Orleans or Nashville precisely because they're not like most ordinary American cities?
I specially don’t use Nim for this reason. I don’t want to dedicate any mental overhead to differentiating between array access and generics. I know it makes the compiler engineers unhappy but I like my <T> syntax just fine and it seems to work well enough for C#.
I don't get the popularity of the "mobile first" paradigm. I get it as a cost saving measure, but when you try and make UX fit mobile and desktop both will be worse off.

> bastion of independent thought
was never a thing, nor is it possible for reddit-type platforms.

The mechanics of voting and karma organize content as groupthink, and the divisions of subreddits structure grouphink by type of content with mods that enforce their vision of the type. There is very little you can do for independent thought in this content if mods aren't actively trying for that (and they never did). What you get is content decided by the average person interested in some field, with added selections of moderation. This can be good for a few things but thought or indepth conversations aren't one of those.
You can see how many articles they have and how they are all weirdly same and they all just kind of seem like an argument but not really.

There is “how it works” article but even that seems written in this weird style.
The result of my experience, which you question, is: not a single other nation would characterize the US Democratic party as “left wing”

I literally spent most of my rhetorical time abroad trying to convince folks that there was any difference at all between our two main parties.

You can scoff at me, but you will encounter this conclusion over and over again.
The world sees our two parties as beholden to corporate interests, as are centrist parties all over the globe. Money apparently makes the world go around
As far as I know, outside of egregious violations, most subreddits have their own internal rules.

Different communities seem to go through various periods of success, and my experience has been that it's just as often the fault of a lack of moderation as it is from moderation itself, but MOST often, it's the scale of the community.

Once a community reaches a certain size, moderation is just impossible for the handful of volunteers who do it.

Either way, the article strikes me less as "reddit is declining!" as it is "oh man, things changed and I don't like it."
Some more thoughts about the risk taking: that inevitably happens to everyone, even the least reckless. Magnitudes certainly differ, but it's always far from gone. Because when cycling, the brain unavoidably enters a state that would be called hypermiling if it happened while driving. The bad thing about stopping or slowing down isn't so much the time lost, it's the exertion required to get going again. And that logic does not just happen on the conscious level, it's much deeper. You'll hate applying the brakes even if, on the conscious level, exertion is the only goal of the ride because you're not going anywhere but doing a workout. "Stopping leads to exertion, don't stop" must be some preset circuit in our brains that has been there since before bipedalism. It's certainly also noticeable when driving (we hate the red light even when not in a hurry at all) but it's much stronger when the exertion isn't just a gentle touch with the right foot.

Back to that straight tunnel from the picture: something like that is extremely rare, because bike roads are rarely built completely separate from other roads and when they are not separate, the descent/ascent parts inevitably get folded into wherever they fit.
What do you mean "at the time of publication"? It's still read-only, unless I'm missing something obvious.
There isn't that much free land for new tracks, plus mountains everywhere. If any country anywhere called for an underground network, it would be Switzerland.
One word: transgender.

Any light criticism or joke results in a subreddit and site wide ban.
Does anyone have a good Reddit alternative, that's kindof a niche like HN?
Just the fact that you’re focused on the food makes me think you’re totally wrong. ;)

France has one of the highest tax-to-gdp ratios in the world (46%). If you like government constraints it’s not the place to be.
I'm enough of a domain expert in certain niches that I've participated in creating certification exams. The reason it can develop into a negative signal: the question banks are rapidly exhausted by the exam dump industry, and for even some esoteric exams 90%+ of the question bank with exactly correct answers are generated within a year of the exam's introduction.

With the popular exams, it is mind-numbingly fast. Think days to weeks. Crowdsourcing / MTurking the question banks is depressingly effective if you sweated over nearly a thousand question bank items for a few months with a few other expensive experts.

Labs in the exams are a way to blunt this, but I think the exam dump industry has probably come up with a way to defeat labs as well by now, because the labs run a fixed set of scenarios with variations in parameters but not the general gist. It's better, but still hackable.

What I've come up with requires discipline by a team documenting the issues they've fixed in the past, but it is so far 100% foolproof. Pick a random relatively self-contained issue your team fixed in the past; this is the most critical step governing the quality of this technique's results. Reproduce the issue in a scratch environment.

Sit down the candidate in front of a workstation set up to their preferences you gathered in advance, with all the tooling they prefer, simplifying your superfluous environment specifics where possible (like logging them into various accounts ahead of time). Set their expectations ahead of time that they will be team / pair troubleshooting for half an hour, that you aren't evaluating whether they find the root cause or not, you're evaluating how well they work with others troubleshooting an issue in some system/language/etc. they claim they are a domain expert in. Dive in.

Without fail, the ones who exam dumped their way to a certification will thrash about. Hard. Most common is they will not know where to even start, deer-in-the-headlights. Even telling the candidate straight out where to start, by using your 20/20 hindsight and artificially picking a starting point 1-2 steps away from the root cause still does not unlock them; jumping to a known good starting point is useful for the experienced candidates who freeze under interview pressure, as they usually unfreeze when given such a big head start from your IRL issue that you ran into for the first time.

You can often get a good gauge of how much and how deeply the candidate worked with the stack they claim competency in by how they navigate around, ask questions, probe for error messages, etc.
You immediately get a dozen ban notifications if you post in KotakuInaction.
APIs are fundamentally at odds with an ad-based revenue model.

If you let third-party apps provide a UX for your data, the app developer will naturally try to make the bext experience they can for users. The first step to doing that is to ditch all the ads. Now you're paying all the cost to host and serve the data, but the third-party app is killing your income.
> First, is it just me, or have I already read this article

> There's a type of online writer who functions as a human GPT-3, and given a prompt like [[ team culture tech ]] will produce text by paraphrasing and re-synthesizing from the ~decades of prior art on the same topic

This feeling and the rest of the comment put to words something very real. Not even just in articles but once you read about 15 management books the same thing starts to happen. It's all just different words to say the same things that all just seem to morph into one another.

One thing that is related to this is but not really: "what the internet thinks about X". For a lot of topics you can see that whatever a 4chan board or a subreddit initially converge on in a given topic is the source for everything else on the internet for a long time after. You'll pick a topic, research it there, and will find that most articles or comments in other sites will largely be different packaging of the same information.

Tracking the source of a new insight from a board/subreddit like that and over the weeks seeing it bleed into other sites, then eventually into real life news programs and so on can be super interesting. Sometimes there's really big events that anyone can see ripples of (like the GME craze), but many other times it's more subtle. The sources vary, sometimes it's a netflix show or something else, but "noticing the hidden source" in any article is a fun hobby in itself if you like the internet.
The “just worrying” labelling technique [pdf]
This to me simply means we're failing with educational standards. Which, well, we probably are. At the same time, it's not as if professional development is a given with 'years of experience' and companies frequently fail to develop people in any meaningful sense.

There's merit to the idea of awarding a college degree if you can pass all the assessment, without necessarily taking the classes, but that's a different thing again. Ideally, college should be about introducing theory and reasoning which gives a solid understanding of the field in a highly focused manner that an employer almost certainly won't provide. I certainly know people who consider their college experiences extremely rigorous - electrical engineers and so on, so it's absolutely not the case that college can't be rigorous (for any field).
I was super confused by that, here's the network sequence

https://imgur.com/E77sJj9.png
Sounds like an interesting way to get locked out of your house.

You would need successful uses of the key to reset the ratchet or every 5 times you opened your door it would become inoperable for 10 minutes, assuming the spring for the timer hasn't rusted or got a bit of grit in it or whatever.
> Global PV cell production is about 1 million square meters per annum.

I think you are of by a few magnitudes as this is only 1 square kilometer? The largest solar park in India is 56 square kilometers in area (or 10 million solar panels which are at least(?) 2 square meters in size).

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VyTY1M66mUc
It means that sourcehut is suddenly an even more attractive option!

And that a lot of github's autofills will read "please see my sourcehut repository for details"
> people who describe themselves as "very religious" or belong to a church are the minority.

i’m not sure this is at all an accurate depiction of americans and religion. last i looked into it—which admittedly was like two years ago—an absolutely terrifying number of americans believed in angels and god. if i’m remembering correctly, it was a wild shocking number, like more than 70%.

i mean, if we’re limiting it to only self-described “very religious” maybe, but believing in god and angels is suspect enough in a persons rational judgement and that absolutely is not a minority of people.
Any tunnel I've been in has been fine. Motorcycles can't enter, they have to go on the road, not the cycle lane. Smaller "scooters" can be admitted but there is plenty of active ventilation to deal with that.

In the case of the Maas Tunnel in Rotterdam there is a second tunnel for combustion vehicles. Pedestrians have a tunnel of their own below the cycle tunnel.
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