skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Ages ago when I was still a grease monkey I read a bunch about cars like the Chaparral 2J and recall something about the car leaving a horrible mess in its wake. The car was effectively a giant few-hundred-HP vacuum cleaner with no bag, blowing everything it sucked up straight out the back at anyone following. These were open cockpit Can-Am cars, I'm sure that was pleasant.
That’s the point: the replies are saying that the content is more of an issue than the tone, and so OP should focus on the hints for the former.
They had fireworks. Of course they may have been magical.
This article could have been written about any industry at all, like healthcare, aerospace, or fast food, and have made essentially the same points, on the same timeline, and with the same conclusions.

Maybe something happened in the 1960s…
lobste.rs ?
> And its one of the best investments the government ever made.

I don't think the experiment is over.

The benefits of a highway-based society have been reaped during a period of 1) cheap fossil fuel energy and 2) cheap land. Both of these are becoming more scarce which threatens to tip the ROI negative. Strongtowns.org has done some research that most American cities and suburbs will be facing insolvency in coming years because their revenue is insufficient to cover the costs of a road-based infrastructure (including water and power lines) that scales quadratically.

To say that highways have been a good investment you would need to compare them with alternatives and examine their opportunity cost. A major problem with car transport is that it has worse scaling than most public transport: each household must personally invest in a car, garage, and fuel; private businesses must invest in parking, which drives up real estate prices; each car decreases the throughput of the roadway, requiring more roads to handle more cars--and when you run out of space for roadway then commute times increase. With most aspects of car transport you never get better than linear scaling.

So the real question is: if you took all the money that has been spent on cars, roadways, fuel, repairs, etc. would it have been better spent on trains, buses, or some hybrid system?
The importance of contextual design in our ever-changing digital world
There are several sentient species simultaneously, and the resulting xenophobic/genocidal struggle takes huge toll - in particular the populations of those various species are small (in my view Tolkien is a bit unrealistic in the sense that in his world the most powerful species hadn't totally put others out of existence like for example Cro-Magnon did to Neanderthals). Industrial revolution is about scale (the machines make economic sense only in mass production) and small population can't have it.
Brake steering by applying different pressure left/right is not allowed.

11.1 Brake circuits and pressure distribution

11.1.1 ... all cars must be equipped with only one brake system. This system must comprise solely of two separate hydraulic circuits operated by one pedal, one circuit operating on the two front wheels and the other on the two rear wheels. ...

11.1.2 The brake system must be designed so that within each circuit, the forces applied to the brake pads are the same magnitude and act as opposing pairs on a given brake disc.

https://www.fia.com/sites/default/files/2022_formula_1_techn...
I imagine you'd disagree, you're the OP and founder :)

But metro areas are important! If I'm looking at SFBA jobs, I wouldn't restrict myself to the 7x7, right? But adding all the little peninsula towns by hand would be a chore.

How about adding a metro area filter, not just plain city?
The reason that Tolkien didn’t write an industrial revolution into the history of middle earth is that he hated industry. Hated how it destroyed bucolic village life.

Having this take on LoTR is pointless. Just an annoying waste of time.
The reason why apartment minded folks say little about generic 5-over-1 units and a lot about suburban housing is because most folks live in dense areas for access to their services. Due to SFH zoning there's little to do in most of suburbia outside of your home, so a lot more focus needs to be on the home to be attractive and entertaining.

As for cultural reasons behind preferring apartments, everyone has various reasons. I doubt you'll find consensus among those that dislike SFH development over what it is they dislike, but they're unified as a bloc in their desire for density.
Either one seems more practical than rockets on a car. And modifying pneumatic tires to minimize this problem might be possible, if it's something that just hasn't been prioritized because it wasn't that big of a problem before. Also, a sophisticated fan system might be able to make the downforce larger, yet less variable than natural downforce.
It’s not a wild generalization; I’m not sure why readers understood it that way.

My logic is, if people are living paycheck to paycheck and don’t have an extra $300 for a gas limit; why would you think that their available credit is any different.
I love these odd devices. Not because I actually want one, but because diversity in personal electronics is important and the more there is the better the chance I'll get my dream device, which is a modern version of the Xperia play.
An OLED screen, a mechanical keyboard and a trackball are all cool ideas for hardware but I feel like software will be what makes or breaks this. Without a lot of low level tweaking I could see that 8000 mAh battery draining a lot faster than in an iPhone.

I hope it succeeds though - would love to see a future where viable open source alternatives exist for mobile on par with what we had for desktops and have for laptops.
There's a whole lot of devices like this around at the moment but the keyboard layouts are painful.

Their brand is "no spacebars included", but it absolutely rules out any serious use.
> > I don’t think that people who talk about football are stupid

> Hah. I actually do think they are

I'm not super interested in sports. But I think there's not much value in snap judgments that discount people because they happen to like one non-harmful thing.

If sports are your number one interest, you're not likely to end up my best friend. But, otherwise...

Even being mostly disinterested in sports-- my friends and connections that feel differently bring me little treasures of interest from their domain. Perspectives. Work ethic. Improbable things that have happened. Subcultures of fans and their views. Statistical analysis. Adversarial thinking in sport. Coaching. Analogies that many people understand because of their understanding of the story in sports. Etc.

This is the benefit of having connections to people who like different things and have different perspectives. You can count on them to curate the "best" of their interests to share with and explain to you.
Brave isn't.
This was exactly why I posed the question, but then later I found the before and after images on the NASA site mentioned in my edit.

It would have been nice if the journalists included the before image as well.
This is like 25% in the article:

> First, Middle Earth actually has coal! Something I was kinda surprised to discover. As mentioned in the quote introing this section, the Dwarves are explicitly described as mining coal in The Hobbit.
> standard compilers and CPUs

I'm not sure what you mean by that, are you including modern Windows/Linux/Mac PCs?

> silent incorrect code execution

Do you know of any non-contrived pieces of code that silently do the wrong thing, on platforms that could otherwise run Electron?
So it would be ok to publish the welfare rolls, because applying for WIC or Section 8 is just filling out forms and there are FOIA laws?
I'd by happy with even $20 an hour, shit even $10 for doing their stupid take home assignment would make me less angry. At least they are buying me a couple of beers.
In Dec 2012, details of gun permits issued in Westchester, Rockland and Putnam counties just north of NYC were posted on an interactive map [1]. This was a nearly perfect test of the theory that criminal behavior would get worse in response to easy access to this kind of information. I found no news reports indicating people had been targeted one way or the other, and official stats [2] indicate serious crime decreased.

[1] https://www.npr.org/sections/thetwo-way/2012/12/26/168075748...

[2] https://westchesterindex.org/community/serious-crimes
This is my sentiment as well. Although trying convincing people to give it a genuine try is difficult.
> In theory you could have A and B that were naturally correlated and add a causal relationship between the two that exactly canceled that correlation but that would be infinit[el]y unlikely to happen by chance.

That hardly seems relevant, since we're talking about causal relationships and chance is the opposite of causation.
I say, bloody well said Smedley
I recently had a first round interview with a hiring manager, not a recruiter. It served as the screening call and hiring manager call.

I was a bit surprised, as I’ve long said how much I want to talk to the HM as early as absolutely possible.

Of course then I learned said HM had only been at the org for two months and the entire Infra team was ostensibly just the hiring manager on the other side of the zoom call and I was suddenly a great deal less enthused and interested in the role.
I dunno, OP’s approach seems pretty common for serial founders.

The High Frontier is a fun book.
We are days away from seeing James Webb’s first scientific images
I think during the lockdown phase most people worked hard to do their part, whether they liked it or not, because it was seen as temporary, and hey we're all in this together fighting a friggin' pandemic, and other reasons. And companies of course had no choice in the matter either. So everyone made it work, as best they could, to a greater or lesser degree.

Now we're transitioning into a post-lockdown "new normal". Some companies and people are finding that full-remote is great: they've figured out how to make it work (hint: culture, trust, and communication are huge factors). Others, not so much.

I think the next few years are going to be interesting. My suspicion is companies that have figured out how to do remote well are going to absolutely crush it, and companies with a poor culture that go back to 100% in-office are going to have a bad time. (I'm currently at one of these companies and am actively looking for a new job.)
Except it's full of terrible fakr products and shady overseas businesses and shady company policies which often screw the customer over and fake reviews everywhere. Tons of crap products that will break or not work instantly and shady companies who refuse to give a refund unless you provide a 5 star review. Their delivery service and prime is also a rip off, it's literally no longer worth it.
More often than not that's a good example of set-based thinking avoidance. The application graveyard is full of projects that felt their transactional data was too sophisticated for "dumb rows" and reinvented an inefficient relational model. I'd love to hear more about these "smart objects" - they're usually not that smart and typically can be represented relationally.

Even for use-cases like graph based models you still find Twitter and Facebook using MySQL to build the graph on top of. It’s simply heavily abstracted for the majority of engineers at those companies (where I'd wager the <20% proficiency in set-based thinking holds true) but it still fundamentally relies on SQL.
> It is actually the user who will now be free to decide

The user will be free to decide? Really? The user, most of whom are understandably ignorant to and/or disinterested in the nuances of privacy and tracking, won't remain captive to decisions implemented by programmers, hidden in code, concealed behind encryption and not exposed as a choice?

Free to decide. I can't fathom that anyone actually might seriously believe this overly simplistic fairytale. This kind of freedom doesn't exist and the kind of rules the EU plans to implement don't change that. All they do is shuffle around influence from one set of global billion-dollar companies to another set of global billion-dollar companies.

Or are you telling me that the EU will require mobile operating systems, app stores on those operating systems and all third party apps running on those operating systems to give users absolute freedom to control all aspects of how their privacy is handled?

At least now we have Apple in a position to (and motivated to) enforce privacy standards on behalf of its ecosystem. It's not often that capitalistic forces are so squarely focused at the consumer interest; dismiss it at our collective peril.
This was so much fun to read and went farther than I could have expected
If it is settled science, I would hope you could find and share authoritative evidence that it is. What I’ve seen over the years (and I’m not that old) is that the mainstream “consensus” changes every 10-15 years, and that many landmark/foundational studies eventually turn out to be industry-funded/manipulated (sometimes decades later) or products of misconduct/incompetence (e.g. https://www.vox.com/science-and-health/2018/6/20/17464906/me...)

I’ve read the book I linked, and every single claim is backed up by research, and many of the cited studies are high quality meta reviews. That doesn’t mean the conclusions are good, just that there is a very deep pool of contradictory findings to pull from.

I’m with you that some level of fat intake is healthy and that sugar/starch are suspect, but I just think it is dishonest or misleading to say it is “fact” or settled science given the uncertainty and ongoing changing nature of the scientific findings.

P.S. the NYT was years late to the party on the shocking sugar revelations; https://www.motherjones.com/environment/2012/10/sugar-indust...
For those who still wonder what if Mordor actually had an industrial revolution, here is an amazing fan-fiction book

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Last_Ringbearer
I'm not that into LOTR, but this was a very interesting read.
I don’t think these “crazies” employed by the Saudi govt constitute a small percentage. That’s why we shouldn’t call them crazies, as a large section of Saudi bureaucracy supports Salafis. The king of Saudi can’t eradicate them, as they are not 50 crazies working, but they are thousands of salafist sympathizers.

Once Saudi started wallowing in Petrodollars, the Saudi state and its foundations exported their preachers to countries where Muslims and others lived peacefully for a large extent, only to stir up.
Scott Manley and Everyday Astronaut are both good follows on Youtube. Fly safe.
This sounds like an interesting idea, it would be nice to have a better and faster browsing experience. Is it going to be a 1-time payment or a subscription kind of thing?
Sure but that’s not how laws or zoning are supposed to work. A retirement home is zoned the same as a fraternity.

It is like suing your neighbor because you’d rather they have 2 kids instead of 3. Or suing the corner business because they opened a coffee shop instead of a donut shop.

The idea that you think you have a say in your neighbors private business is the real problem.
It's one thing to consider energy use of a webpage (I'm guessing a lot of "slide show" functions chew up gigawatt-hours of electricity every year) but it's another to implement infrastructure which consumes power to save power.

One also needs to be wary of lost opportunity cost for equipment. Frankly, just put the money into funding for utility-scale solar installations where everything is more efficient.
> Alas, nobody else does this.

I'm confused by this statement. Every company I have worked at for the last 15 years has had hiring managers and usually some senior engineers on the team screen resumes. How else do you even decide who to move to the phone or in-person interview stage?
"Money." — The sad answer to many of the vile things humans do…
Not necessarily - maybe your rent can just go up to market rate + 10% (or some nominal fee because you’re taking up spots in the low income section). Maybe an extra clause that you have to move out within X months after going above the limit.

The laws just needs to disincentivize staying there when you’re not eligible. You obey traffic laws because it’s costly to ignore them. There can also be some buffer to income so you don’t have drastic changes just because you earn an extra 5 to 10K or something per year (depending on family size).
In the bay area of CA, where NIMBYs are really powerful, we call the super-NIMBYs BANANAs - Build Absolutely Nothing Anywhere Near Anything
The industrial revolution is in the book, it's the actual antagonist of the story. Tolkien was a devout Catholic distributist and Hobbingen was his ideal Catholic community of self reliant Hobbits who answer to wizards and kings, not to factory floor managers and administrators.
My friend, we in America have the most incarcerated individuals let’s not talk about outrages mistreatment of the lower classes.
No UTF-8 in DNS. Well, not any more.
I'm not sympathetic. I've lived with a lot of construction noise over the past 5-10 years, and yes, it's annoying, but I would never object to a project on those grounds. Cities are not static, and if you want to live in one, you have to accept the fact that there will be construction noise. Invest in a good pair of comfy earplugs, or a white noise machine, or something like that.

For me, it's more painful, because I tend to stay up late and wake up late. Construction usually starts between 8 and 9 in the morning, and by then I've usually only had 5 hours of sleep or so. But that's life! I can choose to move, or to adjust my sleep schedule, or just deal with it! I don't think any of this should give me the right to torpedo useful projects that others benefit from. The people that do are just exceedingly selfish and un-neighborly.
First of all, WIC and Section 8 are Federal programs/statues.

Their state counterparts are explicitly excluded. Why? Because there's no obvious public interest in them. This is in contrast to firearms, where I have a public interest in knowing whether my neighbor has the ability to shoot me the next time I make a complaint about him.
I gotta agree here. I don't do leetcode challenges. There was one point in my life where I began studying them to pass these filters, but I rather be doing anything else than leetcode...so I stopped. I've never been unemployed so its easy for me to decline jobs when they present me with these challenges. If I were ever out of a job and struggling to get a job I am pretty sure that would change my tune. Until then I reject those companies.

Now thats not to say I won't do coding assignments, but I weigh those pretty heavily. If the employer seems pretty amazing I'll do them, if they seem meh then I decline.

On the flip side, I've had interviews where they asked me no technical questions and no coding challenges. That is an enormous red flag to me.
Everybody with a state ID should have their information publicly available? They voluntarily filled out government forms after all.
> I promise that if you took a group of NIMBYs and proposed tearing down 5 single family homes to build a midrise apartment building they'd object. But if you also proposed—to the exact same group of people—tearing down a mid-rise to build 5 single family homes, they'd object.

I suspect that you're collecting all of the people that are against things that you support into one group, when they're really multiple, often opposing groups. NIMBYs just seem to be a bag that upper-middle class millennials store their resentments in. For a similar sentiment, see "haters."

These terrible people whose deep cynicism causes them to hate everything that is new because they don't believe that anything is possible don't exist.
We do that for the military. Society definitely has the magic OK to say that people can trade money for risk, even to life and limb. I'm also relatively certain that a very good chunk of the US military is A: Willing to risk their lives in such a situation, and B: Not going to make the absolutely batshit insane choice of stopping others who were trying to resolve said situation.

In more general terms, there's a whole bunch of jobs out there where the pay is higher because of risk to life and limb too.
The one thing about 9/11 that nobody has been able to explain to me, even my most skeptical friends, is where is any footage or photographs of the plane that hit the pentagon?

I’m not talking about scattered debris. Or burnt desks and papers.

I’m talking about the plane. Or what’s left of it.

Anyone seen any actual footage or photos?
Yet most of us live in agile standup factory farming shops and where each time we interview we have to win a star search competition.
Definitely a forgotten program. Another one from that era (that actually survived until Win 10 I just learned) is the "Briefcase". It was basically a primitive file syncing tool for multiple devices.
This is similar to how my team operates.

On my team, the PR author is ultimately responsible for their work. All review comments are considered suggestions. The Approve button is used only to indicate completion of the review. If a reviewer has a problem with the merged work, they can open a new case describing the problem.

We train all developers to have sufficient competency to work on any part of the code. If some code is too complex for a developer to understand, it is simplified. Documentation is prioritized and included as part of the work effort.

We have worked together this way for about 7 years, with high developer satisfaction and low turnover. The quality of the product has steadily improved during that time.
See above. The law makes reasonable exemptions, particularly when the information is either universally obtained (nearly everybody has a state ID) or is a consequence of privation and not in the public interest (welfare programs).

CCW permits are neither of these: you opt into them, and they reflect no amount of privation while being entirely in the public interest.
> (in my view Tolkien is a bit unrealistic in the sense that in his world the most powerful species hadn't totally put others out of existence like for example Cro-Magnon did to Neanderthals)

Homo Sapiens Sapiens is 200,000 years old. Hominids are 5,000,000 years old at least. For most of the history of Cro-Magnons there were multiple hominid species. All non sub Saharan Africans are two percent or more Neanderthal and Denisovan admixture goes as high as 10% if I recall correctly.

For the overwhelming majority of human history there have been multiple species.
Wow that's crazy! Was it cultural issues for example foreign born coworker who doesn't understand how respect in the USA works in text form?

That's an interesting point about high skill/experience/knowledge inequality leading to unequal code output. It seems that the less skilled person wants you to sign off on the code in which case they turn their brain off a little and defer to you. I think approaching the matter as a peer suggests you expect this person to learn from you and so you are giving them room to grow, explore and ask questions but this means they need to commit more time to solving problems because clearly if you just did the work for them then you'd arrive at a solution much quicker. Sometimes it feels like we are under so much pressure to produce that there isn't time to really master something just let your coworker flex their strength and the problem goes away.

Thinking back on your experience would you say that the extra friction comes from time constraints?
Great America, a beloved Bay Area theme park, to shut down within next 11 years