skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
European cities were built a thousand years ago to be dense by default because that was the technology.

The US is very young and not dense, save for a few downtown clusters.

There is definitely a lot that can be done, but it really comes down to user demand. People actually prefer cars if it’s the viable option. But depends on distance, timing, distance, and goals.

We shall see how ridership shifts in Los Angeles - probably the greatest live experiment in trying to force habit change currently in progress. Anyone here have inside baseball numbers on the habit changes in LA?
It's interesting to apply Zuckerberg's views to his company 12 years later.

Meta's actions towards social media make it seem like it's now a zero-sum game. They copy features from Snapchat and TikTok, or buy companies like WhatsApp and Instagram, precisely because those companies are taking value away from Facebook.

The whole metaverse thing is a touch different. It does look like they're trying to build new value there -- of course, who knows if they'll pull it off.
You're falling for the exact same fallacy as the dipshits in the article fell for. The FBI was selling the ANØM "service" for $4000 per phone per year.
New tropics ozone hole is 7 times bigger than Antarctic hole, study says
>Lots of "secure" messaging apps do this for intel and surveillance and not just the white hats.

That's a broad claim. Do you have specific examples?
Who posted it doesn't really matter when the title has been changed this much. The title being so drastically editorialized is the real issue.
Jacobin is not a quality of journalism that should be getting posted on here. Breitbart wouldn't be allowed on the front page either.

They regularly call for extrajudicial confiscation of property of certain people by class. History is clear that this is equivalent to calling for extrajudicial killing of people by class (they are going to defend their property)
I think people in the US do not value the first amendment enough. In my country, I can go to jail for sharing the wrong post on whatsapp or liking the wrong image on facebook. Freedom of speech is a great leveler of society tilting the balance away from authority. The downside is you need to put up with some chirping. But it's an extremely cheap price to pay for what you get in return.

It also takes a mature society to understand the need for freedom of speech. A society that understands that beliefs are not definitive and learning is a continuous journey. It's only with the free flow of ideas do you allow this to happen. Otherwise you are saying there is nothing left to learn.
It also tends to shift the focus, at least in mentally framing the issue, from DRYing out implementations to information. If you're thinking less about implementations (man, I wrote a fold by hand for this thing--maybe I should put all the folds into the same function?) it guards against the "overcomplications" people seem to dislike about DRY. You're thinking more about replacing repeated materializations of the same information with references to a source of truth.

That's why I'm pretty dogmatic in applying DRY to infrastructure as code, for example, as opposed to generically for every code base, because finding or depending on repeated identifiers that have to be the same is such a source of error here.
you either have wind or you have solar. most of the time in a country as big as france there is always a place where you have tons of either one.
storage is only needed for spikes, which btw. is also needed for nuclear (or you can use gas).
btw. your argument is the one I think is so stupid from the pro nuclear crowd, as if peak nuclear is a solved problem. (p.s. it isn't no country in the world does use nuclear for peaks not even france.)
Seems like they're really just telling their ACTIVIST techies to shut up. Which I have no problem with. I hope someday that modern activists realize that their strategy of cancelling, banning, and harassing anything and anyone they disagree with is counterproductive and makes people support the opposite of their aims.
Because it is this

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Collective_action_problem

A big country like the US or China is responsible for less than 20% of emissions. Either one of those countries could invest in alternatives and sacrifice greatly and it wouldn't solve the problem.

Because all countries would have to pull together there is this curious phenomenon of delinquency taking different forms. Under Donald Trump the US was contemptuous about taking any action at all. That lets Germany look like "the good guy" when it turns off its nuclear power plants.
As of 2 years ago, there were good XMPP clients for every platform except the iPhone. On the server side, both ejabberd and Prosody are in great shape. There is zero excitement for administering them.
I'd love to see a more technical article on what the "badly formatted command" looked like. How do their systems allow "badly formatted" to be created?
Same here. It's scary how much Google owns of my life.

I suppose it's a tradeoff. I can accept the small risk of a huge inconvenience (if my Google account were shut down) in exchange for the daily usefulness of Gcal, mail, docs, etc. I wish they'd just move to a paid plan.
Regarding AMD GPU firmware, let's take the linux case, "bug fixed" firmware images are shipped in the linux firmware repo. The drivers loads those images once some AMD GPU is detected. What's weird is the huge amount of additional work the driver does after loading the firmware images in order to setup the hardware programing interfaces (the command ring buffers and the irq ring buffer). It should be near-0 work beyond loading the "bug fixed" firmware images.

The now open sourced nvidia kernel modules should do something similar I guess: loading "bug fixed" firmware images.

The "near-zero" drivers means the default firmware does provide already the hardware programing interfaces at power on. On such complex hardware, expect bugs in this default firmware. Currently, we have a driver written in gcc kernel C dialect and for linux, not ideal.

I spotted a RISC-V GPU the other day. I guess I wish for CPU/GPU ISAs without toxic PI tied to them (like x86/arm) to succeed. I dunno if AMD GPU isa has any PI tied to them though a la arm though. Rumors: AMD may be interested in RISC-V ISAs for its GPUs and CPUs.
that would get way too much time to reach an acceptable state for one person and creating your own game engine is much better
Generally, I never think in terms of writing "DRY" code. I think the presumption of re-usability is a primary reason.

I architected a React.js framework that needed to exist in our existing portal environment and play well with all of the other frameworks and scripts. My solution was tightly coupling bundles of code for widgets deployed on my platform. I have conventions all devs need to follow and it does result in not very dry code.

The benefit is that everyone can work independently and not affect each other. Testing is easier to do as there are less logic paths. Performance is still optimized with code-splitting, so the extra code really doesn't affect performance.

Whenever people try to create a DRY one-size-fits-all solution, I find them very inflexible and prone to breaking. Add to that, they are generally poorly documented, so making changes can be very stressful.
Is there any concern with encrypted packets sent over radio and the FCC?
Maybe HaLow is more open.
Ed doubters might find this episode of Lambda Island enlightening (and fun): https://lambdaisland.com/episodes/ultimate-dev-setup
It's a shame filter: custom() died. It would be easier to skip shader-like and just go right to shader.
M17 is possibly what you're looking for? Not specifically mesh but could be used similarly or extended. It's a a protocol that provides data and digital voice transmissions and works (with some modification) on a few existing commercial grade handheld radios running OpenRTX open source firmware. The only thing we need is a radio that has a Bluetooth module.
Meta/Facebook is actually a good company, and I trust them. They're really clear about how they use your data, and as far as I can tell (being a FANG worker), you can trust what they say about data usage

In fact, I'd trust them with my data more than a bank (competency is more important)
I do miss the days when I could buy hardware (or appliances, for that matter) and just use it as hardware, without signing into it. I miss not having everything have a mandatory online presence.

But the bigger issue here is that this account is owned by the company formerly known as Facebook, and that company has given me absolutely zero reason to trust them with any data whatsoever. I don't mind having a Steam account, because Valve hasn't had scandal after scandal of them abusing user data in egregious ways.
Not sure why I can’t reply to the sibling comment here but I still cannot trust Meta/MZ for anything - even if the stated goal of eye tracking is to “improve the platform”

“They trust me - dumb fucks” Mark Zuckerberg

Edit: can reply as previously desired and edited to reflect that
That is a sign of a piece of hardware that you do not own.
Build new value? It looks like they're building a new walled garden...
You would need to have a preexisting trust relationship with the issuer of the NFT. If it was originally minted with a keypair known to belong to the conference organizer or a trusted third party TicketMaster, then it'll probably be honored at the venue. If not, caveat emptor.
With regards to your comment on the rates, most LBOs are done with floating rate loans/ bank loans/levers loans, as such they trade at a spread over libor/sofr, which chops ~3% off your interest rate…
This link is screwed up... ignore it.
Yeah, many VR consumers are interested in face/eye tracking as well, because it's the logical next step for improving social VR (which a social networking giant is obviously interested in). No need to read further sinister motives into it.
You are mostly right. There is some additional value provided:

With known feed urls e.g. https://www.meetup.com/%s/events/rss/ we can save the network call to meetup.com and produce the feed url immediately. This is also an argument for making a browser addon or at least some client code that can produce it.

Discovered feed urls are cached which saves the direct network call to a possibly slow site.

The service produces third-party feeds for websites that don't have it e.g. https://twitter.com/elonmusk => https://nitter.net/elonmusk/rss
I can reply to this comment now but will repost the previous reply:

Not sure why I can’t reply to the sibling comment here but I still cannot trust Meta/MZ for anything - even if the stated goal of eye tracking is to “improve the platform”
“They trust me - dumb fucks” Mark Zuckerberg
It's a bit pedantic, but Facebook does not sell your personal data. They use it to target advertising. And at this point, every large tech company does the same thing. Apple, Amazon, Google, Microsoft. They all make significant revenue from advertising and they all use data they collect from you to target ads.

So, not that targeted advertising is so great, but it's looking like pretty much any hardware device from big tech companies in the future is going to work this way. I don't think Facebook is any different from the others any more.
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We are talking statistics, individual experiences can always be different. If you personally had bad reaction to shots, certainly seems reasonable to not get more at this stage. Whether such reactions are likely to be heritable is above my pay grade to tell. I personally had bad lingering effects from swine flu, if shots prevented that for COVID, I am grateful to be spared that experience.
Update 2023: now a facebook account is required!
I prefer "habitability" over either term. "This place is a mess, we're constantly tripping over things, how about we make it a more habitable codebase to work in?"

No matter what you call it, though, if teams aren't empowered/encouraged to make the code more habitable, it won't happen. You could call it "partying" instead of "removing tech debt" and folks still won't do it if the system around them discourages it ("must work on next feature now!").
The Macintosh UI one is gorgeous. Such simple systems. I wished our computers, or maybe just our phones, would be so simple and non-distracting still.
With Apple Podcasts, you can't even reliably start a podcast on your phone and continue it on your phone.

I kept finding it would lose its place in a podcast. Not a big deal for a thirty-minute one, but if you're listening to a long one (say 3-4 hours), it's a huge issue - especially as (at least at the time) there was no "skip X seconds ahead". You had to try to move the slider button to the correct timestamp.

I'll second the recommendation for Overcast. Maybe not perfect, but it's good enough and it's free.
Ecaclty this. Microsoft is setting the standards that it expects its OS to run on. Might increase the average windows 11 laptop prices but at least will make sure people don't buy those crappy speced laptops that OEMs put out.
That’s a feature, not a bug. Not having moderation and proper customer service when you have scale saves you a lot of money. When all you friends play Roblox you don’t have good options.
It will work with software implementations (e.g. llvmpipe/lavapipe is used in CI). That will be slower though. However you’d be surprised at how many devices have a usable GPU. Not all have NVIDIA RTX’es of course, but a simple iGPU will do. I tested it on a fairly low specced Dell office PC with an Intel Iris iGPU and that works just fine. Also most mobile devices will have a GPU these days.
The oculus is clearly a hardware, not a software product, so GP's point stands.
He literally said exactly that after landing from his first space trip! And with the slightest smidge of understanding of economics, that conclusion is inevitable.

https://www.theverge.com/2021/7/20/22585470/jeff-bezos-blue-...

https://www.nbcnews.com/think/opinion/jeff-bezos-thanks-amaz...

https://www.businessinsider.com/amazon-workers-react-jeff-be...
I loved getting the daily newspaper. Easy to scan - very little editorializing (except where it's clearly labeled) - and you feel thoroughly informed with 30 minutes of reading.

The only reason I'm not subscribed anymore is the cost ($50 a month in our area!) and the sheer amount of physical paper you go through in a week (especially looking at you, weekend editions - 10x as thick with no news!).

I'm not sure how I would fix digital news.
I'm not OP; I wasn't aware of the project until I read the HN headline.

"Lightweight replacement" also implies missing features, IMO. This project has - at the minimum - authentication, storage and hosting in a single binary that can be self-hosted. This absolutely can replace Firebase for some use-cases (e.g. on my LAN/homelab)

Aside: your tone is weirdly - and needlessly combative. If you see no value in this project to yourself, that is fine, but it appears to be making you angry for some unfathomable reason.
I created my static site with scripting, CSS, and HTML skills from the 1990s, an oughties Comp Sci degree, and w3cschools. HTML5 makes it scary easy to make a pretty site which works on a wide range of screens (no more full-width columns of black text on a white background!)
Too bad for the Chinese dissidents but that's not a valid reason to support worldwide libertarian anarchy.
It's because printing a book costs almost nothing. The publisher would rather sell one extra book and trash 10, than lose out of that sale.
I think I don't believe anyone who just lumps furry porn, cartoon images of childlike anime, and paedophilia together. I auto-dismiss them.

Especially when finding the furry porn required an investigation into catching said person's non-work Twitter that was named pseudonymously.

You guys over-index on this nonsense because outrage is a drug injected directly into your brain. There's enough wrong about this platform that could be improved, but you're all more interested in just raging online and so you must invent this whole Axis-of-Evil. This, coming from someone whose sexual interests are pretty damned vanilla.
As good as Ian Goodfellow's work has been, I think I have to disagree with him on what is part of the back propagation algorithm. Rumelhart et. al 1986 also describe it is a single algorithm from start to end. It is true you can use other things than stochastic gradient descent though, Mitchell also points this out by saying their algorithm was a backpropagation example using gradient descent.
Freeciv can be played here: https://www.fciv.net - I'm working on improving the 3D version these days.
This requirement is for laptops only. OEM desktops won't require a webcam.
I think you're reading way too much into this.

Meta has a VR platform and needs some form of auth. Reusing their existing auth was the lowest friction approach both in development and user experience.

I doubt they care very much about recruiting into their platform through VR. Their main business goal with VR is to own the app marketplace through Oculus Store. So far, they are far ahead of anyone else in the space.
Or get a blending in item, like a bag from a cheap local supermarket. Also doubles as my camera bag if I feel I wondered into the wrong place.
The training isn't expensive, Spinnaker sailing is a cost effective outfit accessible to many. It's actually pretty rare for the wealthy Palo Alto kids to do anything noteworthy beyond academics or business. Good for him!

Not everyone can get a boat for half-off, though. They are unquestionably a complete and utter money pit!
Thank you for reminding me about Journey! I didn't realize it was multiplayer the first time I played it, which speaks to how well it was implemented (no matchmaking, no waiting, no usernames, etc - you're just playing the game and someone appears).

I still have fond memories of traipsing around the ruins in that game with complete strangers. The restricted communication made it more memorable for some reason. Plus, just a great game overall.
btw. the gas push was not only by germany, in fact if you have nuclear you have the same remaining problem as renwables. germany btw. was one of the countries which wanted to block the nuclear part. In fact there were some countries (and still are) who wants to block the whole law (both of it).
in fact the gas turbines that are getting funded do need to support hydrogen.
(btw. the whole law is mostly about funding)
I love that there are offering like this too. When I bought the The main thing for me was "is this thing linux compatable", so pre-installed linux was worth the extra $ for me.

I just couldn't bring myself to try and figure out which notebooks where compatible. I couldn't figure out how to determine if a machine ran linux. There are so many models and subtle differences. So I ended up with a "Clevo" rebranded notebook, without actually seeing it physically first.

Its big, oddly decent (I came from a 2015 macbook pro, which is a high bar) and besides one fan grinding, its been solid. (That might be on me.. but I could get a spare and replace it..) It plays steam and over the 4 years I've owned it linux has gotten better and better.
The key assumption in this article is that 2-4 people control public speech, and that this is a unique situation, requiring unique responses.

While the control issue may be true (I personally don't think so), it's not at all unique. The 3 TV networks had the same or greater control over what speech and news got presented from say 1950 to 1995. By 2000, something like 10 US cities had more than 1 daily paper. Just a few media conglomerates control TV, radio and what's left of newspapers now.

The situation isn't unique from the small number of people in control. What's different is who gets to talk. From my standpoint, more voices and more diverse voices are being heard, not just rural or suburban white folks. And that's what eats authors of articles like this. It's not that only a few people are in charge,it's that the wrong people are in charge.
Funny to also realize you are not noticing the giant banner on Stackexchange :)
Same as fingerprints
and faceid though.
It could also just be a new thing for English overall that I've associated more with the USA because I listen to or watch a lot of American podcasts, videos and streamers.

I'm not the type who gets worked up at American vs British English :-)
I’ve had one just laying around since they announced this. I have an updated or anything. Still not quite trusting Facebook…
The humorous part of this is from 1991.

https://www.gnu.org/fun/jokes/ed-msg.html
A little copying is better than a little dependency - Rob Pike

DRY code is a good value, but it is not an all important value. It's one of many values, and must be kept in balance.
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In that case, there's plenty of data that shows the plane is safer mile-for-mile. There have been enough flights (of all jet models, not just the A380) and enough crashes to provide a reasonable estimate for the odds of a crash. From there, it's basic math to prove that the motorcycle is far more dangerous.

The challenge with nuclear energy is we don't have a big enough sample to say with certainty, just from the data, what the odds are of a disaster 1000x worse than Chernobyl.

My understanding is Chernobyl itself could have been 1000x worse and rendered much of Eastern Europe uninhabitable if the appropriate steps weren't taken in time, so to a neutral, non-expert observer, that would seem to indicate the odds are greater than zero.

This is what many anti-nuclear people are concerned about, so if you want to get them on your side, you need to explain in detail why that kind of event is no longer possible. Just stating that it hasn't happened, as if that were proof it can't happen, isn't convincing.
We have over a year of data now from Apple's app tracking transparency feature. Only 25% of users have opted in and the trend line is not promising. I think the HN crowd is way ahead of the curve on this topic, but still a good indicator of global sentiment.
That's a couple orders of magnitude below the bar of what I am referring to.

I agree, if you're a person with a serious targeted privacy threat, and you think there's a magic bullet, you're kidding yourself. Any serious data privacy solution is going to involve a ton of associated meatspace solutions beyond buying one SKU and calling it done.
For once, something I'm actually more than impressed by the overall effect. I love the fact that someone was familiar enough with all of the abilities of CSS plus other effects to be able to pull it off in the confines of CSS.
Not sure what you're up to; there were things in the image nobody had the source code (or the current version) anymore, but even with the source code it was a nightmare; it would undoubtedly have been less bad had I then had tools like I recently built for ST80 and the knowledge gained with them.
> In 2021 the 6 remaining nuclear power plants produced more power than all installed solar capacity in Germany. 3 were closed at year end.

65 billion kWh from Nuclear and 220 billion kWh from renewables actually

https://www-destatis-de.translate.goog/DE/Presse/Pressemitte...
It is a piece of art. Functional and well designed.
Yes. Roblox absolutely is an amoral system to draw money from children, but it's not particularly focused on whales. Rather, their current big initiative is convincing parents to sign their kids up for a Robux "allowance," which is a monthly subscription that gives the kids a certain quantity of Robux per week or month so they can "learn budgeting."

Still, I would be really surprised if a big chunk of revenue didn't come from whales. That's just an organic part of how these sorts of things work. There will always be a small percentage of players who have access to money and feel okay with spending a lot of it on online games.
this is ISM, so no
Not if you're operating within part 15 limits. But if you're operating your Lora radio as an amateur radio operator, then yes.