skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The car-hate posts can be quite emotional for a number of (valid) reasons, but understand that reducing cars and car trips doesn't happen in a vacuum. No one is arguing to instantly and immediately eliminate every vehicle out there. It's part of a larger process to replace personal vehicles with transit, walk-ability, bike-ability, and generally car-free or car-reduced places where people live.
Yes, that is a lot of grant money to waste, but I think the biggest loss here is 16 years of research in the wrong direction.
an example of this in action:

I live in Los Angeles. I want the city to archive its city council meetings on a video platform. Preferably, these would be available from a subdomain of lacity.gov instead of being available through youtube or another company of that sort (there are all sorts of namespace issues with today's approach).

The example here doesn't need to be limited strictly to council meetings either, the city could host all sorts of video on its own instance of the PeerTube site. I know there's currently a "LACityClerk" channel, but I'm sure you could find other Youtube channels concerning the fire department, LAPD, Department of Transportation, City Library, etc:

https://www.youtube.com/c/LACityClerk/videos

I (as a constituent) don't really care about the underlying hosting. Framasoft, seeing as how they are intimately familiar with how Peertube works, can sell that underlying hosting. The benefit for the city is they can centralize administration and control over this rather than just give all their content to Google.
You can't assure it, but again, you can control your own actions to help mitigate the danger of others being reckless. For example by driving defensively, scanning to the left and right when passing through an intersection, etc.
I've seen a lot of walls of text lately by people that look copied-and-pasted from their blogs/forum rants/whatever.
Seconding this, a large number of current social problems can be attributed to the way our cities is built. Homelessness (land use is inefficiently prioritizing single family homes and parking lots), public health (car dependency encourages minimal walking), and human connection (shared spaces become less appealing when they're not <10 minutes outside your doorstep). The places we live in has been structured in a manner unlike any other time period in human history and it's simply accepted without question. It takes a bit to wrap your head around but if you go in willing to suspend prior beliefs, it's definitely worth it if you want to understand why the world is the way it is in certain parts of the world.

Of course there are going to be caveats and cars will always have a use. What matters is that people have a choice of convenient public transport rather than cars being the only option that's practical.
People say alot of things that do not match reality, this is why these kind of self reporting surveys are bunk.

People work for money, plain and simple. If the salary is not there people walk. Period. This is more than just "pay the bills" but Pay the Bills + Savings + retirement + Kids + hobbies + etc.

10 years ago the "magic number" where salary started to become less important was 75K, today (and I have not seen the research) but my guess that is closer to 100-120K before your idea of "salary is not the most important thing" comes into play, even then though it will be in the top 5 until you are well in the 1 percent category which is 400-500K +
Imagine getting ads in your operating system.. How on earth are people still using Windows?
I'll never forget driving across Georgia on Jan 1st a bunch of years ago. They've got signs up that say to drive safely and show how many traffic fatalities there have been in the state that year. On a random day it just looks like a number.

But driving on the highway and passing a sign that said how many people had died today doing precisely what I was doing at that moment was affecting.
That's Blind.
Storing Json data into a highly structured RDBMS table can be problematic if any document contains arrays or nested documents.

I built a new general-purpose data management system that uses key-value stores that I invented to attach meta-data tags to objects. These key-value stores can also be used to create relational tables.

Because each table is basically a columnar store, I can map multiple values to each row key to create a 3D table. It seems ideal for importing Json data where any item in a document can be an array of values. I am trying to figure out how useful this system might be to the average DBA or NoSql user.

See a quick demo at https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1b5--ibFhWo
Heatpumps are great! Having a coefficient of performance equal to 4 (1kW electricity to 4kW heat) is possible today!

Unfortunately it is not as easy as just switching your gas heating with a heatpump.
For one, heatpumps have a lower flow temperature, therefore a good insulation of the house is required. Also big radiators such as floor or wall are preferred.

Moving to heatpumps might start an entire house renovation which comes at a cost.
Doing the work and billing the work are two entirely different disciplines.
How early are we in the cycle? Nobody knows. One could point to the huge dip when Covid hit as the start of it, so two years isn’t long enough to wait? You’d have to be Nostradamus to know anything at this point.

This is why DCA is the recommended strategy, as you never know when to go all in.
The Stir-Fry Masters You’ve Never Heard of [video]
It should be noted that the author's maximially downvoted comment was one that didn't make any sense[1] so it does give another tip on what not to do.

[1] Serving web sites off of a blockchain somehow.
This has always been the case. There hasn't been a substantive change to how representatives are selected in our country in about a century, but for much of that time we were a functional democracy.
On the surface, I agree. Books have taken us far, so lets not assume we've totally cracked why they work, though.
> We could say that AI should only be given access to exactly the same information that humans have access to.

I believe that it would be naïve to believe the owner of the AI (whether a person, and organization, or another AI) would play by those rules. Better to assume an adversarial game board.

One approach would be to simply not compete against an AI even in our world. Another would be be to be in control of the framing or environment where you can outplay, outlast the AI. Do not assume friendship because its goals will be different from that of humans, unless you can be certain of mutual dependency.

The game theory around human/AI coexistence extends beyond these quick thought bytes, maybe someone is working one a treatise.
> The reason why you don't attach your name to comments like this is because your possession of a name worth attaching would preclude this comment from existing.

Socialists are actually oppressed in many countries
All drivers avoid many close calls. That’s just inherent to being on the road.
Salary is not a "sign of respect" it is an indicator of how the company makes money and values software engineers. Software companies have software margins other companies... do not. Software engineers want to work at companies where software is the product because:

1. They get to contribute more to the success of the company

2. What they built typically has real users

3. They are valued and get paid commensurately with the near infinite leverage they bring to the company.

4. They get to work with other like minded software engineers.

5. There is probably an established career path for them if they perform well.

Good engineers typically ALREADY work at a place they enjoy. The market is too competitive for good talent to put up with any BS whatsoever. You are trying to get them to leave a good place for another hopefully better place. However, there is risk because they don't know your company/have to trust you a bit. You MUST compensate for this risk.

My risk premium is easily a 25-50% salary increase. Which means I need a job to pay about $100-200k more or have significant high probability upside (IPO etc.) for me to jump all else equal (passion products maybe an exception).

If you waste my time with a job ad that doesn't tell me up front what to expect I will:

1. Not accept your interview request or offer.

2. Will flame your company throughout my entire network.

Also if you want me to do a "take home" anything that will be $500/hr with a max of 4 hours spent.
Sure, but you would probably rather be driving a car if your bus driver was suicidal that morning.
No because Uber's reimbursement for their drivers is so low that most lose money once expenses get factored in. This is because I er looks at drivers as an expense and have consistently cut rates over time.
> No NTSB team is going to mobilize to investigate those tragedies. Nobody is going to seek the underlying causes or ponder the multiple contributing factors. In fact, if we ask safety officials, as a group they officially blame driver error and reckless driving for fatal car crashes. In other words, don’t look at them.

Perhaps a touch too hyperbolic? Here's what the NTSB has to say about the matter:

> The National Transportation Safety Board, an independent federal agency, has the authority to promote motor vehicle safety, determine the probable cause of motor vehicle-related crashes, and make safety recommendations aimed at preventing crashes. Over the years, NTSB has made recommendations to NHTSA.... Below is a list of open recommendations.

https://www.nhtsa.gov/ntsb-open-recommendations-nhtsa
I have a feeling that this may be one of the understatements of the millennium.
Also if I agreed to a fee of £7k and tried to charge a client £46k without agreeing a new scope of work with a new signed appointment contract I would probably be struck off and fined £20k by my professional regulator.
I’ve read a few books on the subject. They explain that as the objective in the early work. So no don’t really think so, I think most people don’t take the time to understand / read context.
40% of US believes the earth was created in the last 10,000 years. Any model relying on rationality has no chance here
You can set your hourly rate as part of your profile. That's what you get paid, they add something to cover their costs when your profile is sent to the client.

To change your rates, you have to go to their support group and ask for the change. I'm not sure how hard it is to change I haven't needed to change it yet.
Yeah, you can't, and that's what I was thinking about - there's some reason exact upvote/downvote numbers are hidden, and by disclosing "total votes" one would disclose those numbers too.
It is not impossible. Car haters like to think it is impossible.
Reddit is forcing users off the platform by a lack of innovation, promotion of inauthentic and mediocre posts, and over-moderation... and now they're gravitating towards other places online (in my opinion) after teaching them about how brigading and suggestive comment spam can generate money, but quickly kill a massive site.

I think we're reaching the next phase of the Internet, where big platform influence wanes, and where hopefully small communities figure out how to better govern themselves against nefarious actors.

We should lean on many of the older (proven) community standards again in online communities, and bring back displaying BOTH upvote and downvote data like we used to see... We also need to emphasize more choice and less algorithmic control over what trends on sites (from a "customer satisfaction" perspective). Letting real human readers decide what's relevant and best...

The only way to effectively manage a horrible inauthentic user plague/threat is by crowd sourcing real and authentic human beings that have a solid stake in maintaining positive order. Also, avoid embedding ads in everything as well as selling promotional services... It really does morally corrupt sites and apps.
It's possible, but I don't know that we should rush to believe that's the case based on an anecdote of a single flawed experiment when there's simpler explanations.

(Especially since it's only a problem if the higher pay motivates more bad applicants that are hard to distinguish from good applicants. If it encourages 100 people who have no relevant experience to apply, that brings the average down, but it doesn't increase the probability of making a bad hire.)
> but getting one to front page does give you a lot of karma too, apparently.

Don't overestimate that effect. I'd say a hundred or maybe two hundred is realistic, but quite often a front page submission only nets you a dozen.

Of course there are outliers in the other direction, but 500 or more is a rare event. You need to keep in mind that karma is discounted, a story that displays n upvotes will add << n points to your account.
But the drunk driver can still invade your line on a split-second and frontal-crush you.

If you’re in a bus instead of a car, you will be much more protected against that kind of thing.
Uber's attempt at Uber Health - https://www.uber.com/en-US/blog/hospital-uses/

American Medical Resource Institute guidance on discharges - https://www.aclsonline.us/blog/what-to-do-when-theres-no-one...

> You did your part and got your patient through surgery with flying colors. But, uh-oh, the ride your patient was expecting to get home is a no-show. What should your ASC do?

> Well, according to the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services, your ASC has a legal obligation to only discharge patients to a responsible adult when they have been under the influence of sedation.

> Unfortunately, now that Uber and Lyft are such convenient options for transportation, many patients think they can simply hop in a rideshare vehicle and that’s the same thing as being discharged to a caring family member or friend.

> However, the law in many states is still unclear on whether a rideshare driver counts as a “responsible adult” who is actually taking responsibility for the patient’s care just by stepping into the vehicle. In fact, in a recent Outpatient Surgery Magazine poll, 69 percent of surgical facilities said they never discharge an unaccompanied patient to take an Uber, Lyft or taxi home.
I can't imagine that would actually work if the political system isn't completely corrupt.
Holy hell. Someone please correct me, but the beta-amyloid camp has been under attack, establishment researchers still keep going despite weak evidence, and now the best drug they have might have fabricated data???
> The discussion here is about biological sex and its medical implications. People who change their gender, or exhibit traits of the opposite gender, aren’t relevant to this conversation.

This seems obviously false. If the link is based around sex hormones, as an example, then being on HRT clearly changes your risk.

As with all things, correlation vs causation.
Cool. So if I understand you correctly, you effectively want to decouple hosting (where the bits are) from exposure (how I as a user find and view them).
I'd highly recommend reading Confessions of a Recovering Engineer before debating my communication of it. There's a lot more depth to the arguments than the one-sentence summary a novice (me) can give :)

Namely, Strong Towns isn't anti-car! In fact, they explicitly arguing _against_ removing cars from city centers in most cases, for reasons related to those that you mention. If I remember correctly, many towns tried to do this in the 70's or something, and most of them failed; cars are still required in most cases.

That being said, _requiring_ cars and _allowing_ them are very different things. Being anti-bulldozing city blocks to put in 6-lane highways isn't anti-car, it's pro people!

Again, highly recommend engaging with the source material rather than taking my word for it. I've been consuming and parroting (sometimes badly) their content for months - they have been thinking about these questions for literally decades!
Land ownership as a concept sits uneasily with me. Much of the land is owned by people who are descendents of Henry VIII's cronies after it was taken from the monasteries. More is owned by descendents of those that got wealthy through the slave trade.

Given that land is essentially finite, my view is that the closest thing to ownership should be a form of stewardship with certain rights.
Oh my god if true, and it looks to be true this is huge.

The amyloid beta (Aβ) hypothesis has always been fishy but this paper is basically the bedrock of the current investigational trajectory.

The Aβ hypothesis was almost dead in 2006 when this method was invented and results posted and it sent shockwaves through the research world. Since then spending on Aβ research by NIH has gone from $0 to $290 million all it seems based on a lie cited over 2000 times in further papers.

The article is pretty convincing as is the independent verification that not only concurred but found additional evidence.

Sylvain Lesne has some ‘splainin to do.
Roadside bombs were Iran-sourced, and played into political actors desires to 1) stay in Iraq 2) invade Iran. Well and 3) actors who want us out of Iraq.

Suicides of soldiers work as a deterrent to military action. No political actor wants that tool to be removed from their toolbelt. They want their "Defense Department" to be deployable at will with no hesitation from the American Public.

Traffic deaths are a necessary evil of transportation, economic activity, and the profits of the oil industry.
No one was talking about allocating headcount.

> Science does not care about your skin color, it only cares that you're right.

This begs the question.

> You might notice that current Democratic policies only advocate for raising income taxes.

Sanders and Warren both advocate for wealth taxes, and have higher support among the college educated cadre of the dem party!
What's interesting here is that it's a very specific, narrow form of control. The driver of the car feels in control, because they're operating the motor vehicle, yet on the macro scale, they're operating a motor vehicle because of a whole host of other decisions outside their control. For most people, they don't have the option to not operate a motor vehicle and still live where they do, work where they do, etc. Likewise, the road construction and design operates a powerful influence on how they drive and how others drive around them, as well as how safely they can navigate to their destination - this too is out of their control. Regulations on the construction and maintenance of vehicles they and others on the road drive are also out of their control, but affect the environment in which the driver operates, and rules around who can drive and under what conditions similarly are not in the driver's control. The driver of the car exhibits control over only the narrowest and most immediate circumstances of their condition, and yet that veneer of control is sufficient for the majority of observers to put the blame nearly entirely on the driver for the outcome of their trip, absolving or ignoring the numerous other systems and decisions made which put them in circumstances in which accidents are alarmingly frequent.

The article covers suicide, and here too the veneer of control at the point of action hides the entire complex environment in which someone dies of suicide - the social, economic, and political landscape that creates the conditions in which a former service member takes their life is not strictly personal, but we insist on treating it as such, because at the point of action, it is indeed the individual who commits the act.
How many suicidal bus drivers have we had? I mean ever.
One of my most upvoted posts on reddit is a vagina joke. There was someone famous who was going to miss something important due to the birth of their kid and someone responded with "Birthgate" and I responded telling him it was called a vagina.

My most downvoted post was a post about tournament card games where I was actually correct, but no one liked the answer regardless. It is also one of my most awarded posts.
Software automation remains poorly defined
Buy what?
Not only does the Nest ignore my preferences, I think it actually lies about the current temperature.

Example:

Setting is 72, reading is 73. AC is not on, I guess the thermostat is trying to save energy. I lower setting to 71, reading instantly drops to 72! I don’t think it’s a coincidence, this has happened several times.
Yes, the company has hired two engineers apart from me, and they seem more integrated than I am (one of them was hired a month after I started). Next week, a new hire will begin as well. We are all in the same age range: 27 to 39 years old.

I normally start to click with people after 1 or 2 months in the job. I'm worried because 4 months have passed by, and I have zero connections. However, as I said, the job is enjoyable so far.

I might need to check my mental health, but I wasn't depressed before starting here. Last year I was in another position, and I was content during that 3-month short contract and didn't have any problems to bond with coworkers.
I've been running a DIY model for about a year as well. My only complaint was likewise that installing the wifi antenna was _very_ tricky. I briefly thought I had broken it before it finally came together for me. (It sounds like they've mitigated this issue by now, so that's great.)

I also had a few of the Linux issues that others have mentioned, but upgrading to the newest Ubuntu solved them.

Overall a fantastic machine, and probably my favorite laptop I've ever owned.
Are you the mythical person buying 15 vacuum cleaners at the same time?
This is precisely what you should filter out: 2nd-tier non-FAANG companies who have obviously and unthinkingly adopted SV/FAANG interview processes and expectations when they aren't required.
I still have FB and IG accounts, but I don't use them much anymore. The non-chronological feed on both sites eventually required either lots of effort (do all of posts, videos, stories, replies, likes, etc. all the time) for organic visibility or pay for visibility. I get why that increased revenue (spend money or spend time), but as a casual user I don't care enough to do either at the scale required, so eventually I got disinterested.
They're all over Kurosawa's filmography. Check out Yojimbo for some striking examples. Really, just check out Yojimbo; it's a lean, fun, funny samurai-noir romp.

(As a side note, I always liked the sly nod in The Last Jedi to Kurosawa's influence on the series, with the police helmets on Canto Bight.)
Interesting take, we couldn't disagree more! ^_^

Maybe you have a photographic memory (or gain nothing from reminisce).

Personally, for me, I have a terrible memory; I forget things that I am deeply emotionally connected to, or rather, I don't forget them, but I quickly become unable to access those memories, and I need something of a link to recall it, and when I do, all the emotion comes back with it and it gives me deep happiness.

Having something to browse through and examine gives me these links into my own memories, and allows me to remember and re-experience those things.

After we're gone, sure, if our mementos mean nothing to anyone else, they're thrown out. That does not matter the least, but you miss the point, that when that happens, we're not there to make use of them anyway! :)

"Only worth the nostalgia value", well I disagree both on your framing of nostalgia as having little value and of their singular use.

Also, especially music, does not change.. if you like it, you like it.. I still listen to the same CDs now at 36 as I did when I was 9.. (Megadeth and Iron Maiden never gets old to me!)

Thanks for your comment, interesting with an opposing view :)
hurry! Ask the WebAgency for a 50% refund or their name will be the HN frontpage.
very good,
do politicians next