skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
IMO there's only really 2 underlying issues people have with public transit:

1. In nearly all of the US (maybe everywhere except parts of NYC?) it is a worse experience than driving (requires planning, takes longer, can't carry more than one or two bags with you).

2. It is déclassé.

I think #2 is at least partly a result of #1. Also note that #1 is true even for most cities in the US, because cities in the US are unbelievably car friendly compared to cities in e.g. western Europe. I don't see any public-transit solution that doesn't involve intentionally making the car experience worse, and that's going to be a tough sell to voters.
> ... or at most two experiences for everyone ...

Or three or four, if you count the people who have been shadowbanned, and the people who enable viewing from shadowbanned accounts. But those two groups seem to be in the minority.

I do like the approach https://lobste.rs takes, where there aren't separate subreddits, but instead just tags for various articles. You can then browse by tags, or inversely, exclude them from the home page.
The tipping point would be when you can come up with a compelling answer for the question you laid out. You don't just rewrite it in C as a reflex to that question.
>Wide distribution of scientific information no longer requires scientific publishers.

Wide and voluminous distribution of bad information requires filters to extract the good, peer review has some form of filtering functionality, although I wouldn't say it is great I think it would probably be better than the filter that a Facebook or Twitter of Science would provide (or just Facebook or Twitter if you don't like the 'of science' locution)
Albuquerque has roaming packs of Chihuahua dogs! Lost pets.
I haven't found one, unfortunately -- just setting team-wide architecture policies, and then using linters extensively to make sure those policies are adhered to.
The only strawman argument of valuation was you dismissing the OP's perfectly sensible doubts about whether $1T of legal claim to business with actual physical capital and profit expectations was truly equivalent to $1T of cryptographic strings valued because number go up by pointing out technically, their market caps were both calculated in the same way, as if nobody should ever consider fundamentals or how much of the market cap of assets of the respective classes could be realised in a selloff (or indeed how much wash trading took place to completely fake market cap)

But yes, your persistence in insisting the conversation should be about what you care about, and not about the original subject matter got me to acknowledge that some cryptoassets - which are unlike the high profile, high market cap unbacked cryptoassets the OP was talking about - imitate stocks and may generate future revenue streams from selling things other than tokens. Glad you enjoyed that bit. I do hope the insight passers by come away with isn't that DAOs and stocks have equally strong legal claims and rosy expectations and float is all that matters though.
I'm really tired of this "SF is the dirties city" trope. Yes, there are areas that are incredibly dirty, but those areas are something like 5% of the city, and most of those areas are concentrated in a few specific neighborhoods. Most of the city is fairly clean (but to be sure, it's no Singapore) and reasonably well-maintained.

I've been in areas of Manhattan that would rival SF's dirtiest areas, but I wouldn't claim that NYC is a "dirty city".

I'm more worried about the threat of violence from mentally-unstable people on SF's streets, though that's something that's also concentrated in a relatively small number of places (unsurprisingly often coinciding with the dirtiness).
The indictment describes the numerous ways in which the perpetrator managed to obfuscate the insider trading. It didn't stop the USG from finding him and prosecuting him.
Writing your own code is not what my post is about.

It is about the fact that even air gapped hardware wallets can phone home.
I see this framed as a touch vs. mouse debate often, and it's understandable since non-persistent scrollbars originated on smartphones, but I think even touch interfaces would benefit from persistent scrollbars.

At my work, we recently had a bug filed where a lot of users were reporting that one of the pages didn't have all the controls it ought to. It turned out that those users needed to scroll down to get to those controls, but they didn't realize they could scroll. At the common viewport size they were using, the page looked complete. It didn't look like there was anything to scroll.

If there was a persistent scrollbar, the user could have easily seen that there was more content to scroll to.

Now, you could say that the design of that page was bad if users had to scroll to important controls, and you might have a good case. In this case, the controls weren't the most important part of the page, and modern design favors decreasing density. There are always going to be cases where users aren't going to realize they can scroll.

Windows phone tried to solve this is in the most disorienting way possible by making sure things were always getting cut off on the sides that you could scroll, but other than that blip in history, there's been no standard replacement for the scrollbar for informing users they can scroll.
There are plenty that provide non-voip numbers, but Discord will randomly challenge you later on if you do things like VPN heavily or block fingerprinting and if you can't access the number your account is toast.
That mob is not so metaphorical...

"Do Kwon, the founder of the cryptocurrency Luna and the stablecoin TerraUSD, has reportedly been in contact with police after a possible investor in the coin “trespassed” at his home, according to a new report from South Korea’s largest newspaper, The Chosun Ilbo. Crypto News reports the investor lost roughly $1.56 million in the collapse of Luna, a claim Gizmodo could not independently verify.

An unnamed man rang the doorbell to Kwon’s apartment around 6:23 p.m. local time Thursday night, according to Chosun, and Kwon’s wife answered the door. The man reportedly asked something like, “Is your husband home?” and then proceeded to run off...

The unnamed man who arrived at Kwon’s home faces a charge of trespassing because he allegedly entered the apartment complex by slipping through a gap in the apartment building’s common door, according to Chosun. CCTV footage from the incident and surrounding area is reportedly being reviewed..."

https://gizmodo.com/luna-price-do-kwon-police-south-korea-ho...

See also: the Mt. Gox protestors who staked out the company's headquarters in Tokyo, almost a decade ago:

https://www.theverge.com/2014/2/19/5425220/protest-at-mt-gox...
All of Twilio is banned. Mint blocks some shortcode SMS.
> But I Need To Code on a Plane?

I flew across the US two weeks ago, and every flight I was on had WiFi. It wasn't free, but it was available.

But I mostly agree with the author anyways. Just take a break. We don't need to be working 24/7.
Military spending on advanced spy telescopes like Keyhole lead to Hubble.
Not only is what he described simply not realistic, it's likely far more unsafe than "driving normally" because the behavior violates the expectations of many/most other drivers and when people are thrown into situations that violate their expectations things get weird.

"But he should have been using a reasonable following distance" makes for easy low effort internet points but internet points won't get you out of a hospital bed.
Price is right on the iPhone SE. Not an Apple user anymore, but it is very competitive versus Samsung, Google Pixel et al.
Every day I'm more mystified and scared of where does all this money come from, and where it goes... To me it feels like nothing makes any sense. Who has this much money to throw at essentially gambling without any real revenue sources.
Covid deaths: Simple solution, lockdown, virtual learning, 6-feet apart, cancel sports and after-school activities, miss graduations, etc. All the mental fallout from this: Too complex, just a way of life. Drip drip drip.
> There is too much dogma and not enough pragmatism in this space.

And rejecting other viewpoints out of hand isn't dogmatic?
That's precisely why it should have been caught earlier.
If you have a source of radiant heat close to you, be it a fire or an electric log, you can keep the room temperature lower. Best of both worlds.

The problem with wood fires is they require a ducted external air source, or the chimney will exhaust your expensive heated air.
How would email being compromised leak a debit card number? Can't think of any service I've used online in the last decade+ that would send me the full debit card number that way, or even make it visible when I sign in to their website.
probably because self-driving has fuzzy accountability and is the same driver in all vehicles.

if a taxi driver crashes, youve got a bad taxi driver somewhere you will probably never interact with. If a self-driving car crashes, you've got possibly hundred of thousands of potential accidents waiting to happen from the same "bad driver"

the regular car accident conversations have all been had. what else is there to say?
You expect to go to jail for being caught stealing $1,000 from a cash register. So you shouldn't be surprised when you go to jail for stealing $1,500,000 in cryptocurrency.
They are for one time verification for spam accounts, not legitimate or long term use.

If you are Western based I would really not send money to them at risk of your payment accounts getting hit with "sanctioned" problems.
How many transactions are needed depends on how many bits can be sent home per transaction.

A Bitcoin seed phrase is 128 bit. 32 bit can be easily brute forced. Leaves us with 96 bit. If you can send out 10 per transaction, that is only 10 transactions.
They serve to indicate the scroll position and the relative size of the scrolled view (and the fact that there is a scrollable view in the first place), and to quickly scroll a longer range.
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The source is written in C. The provide a docker container that lets you simply download the repo, make changes, compile and then load to your flipper.

I hadn't actually written an original line of C code since the 1980s. After a couple evenings of following one of the tutorials, I was able to create some new functionality to a button that currently doesn't do anything.

At least one person on the Discord (Flipper Devices, I think) watches when someone mentions how they think it would be cool to make changes to the firmware, When that happens, they upload a PDF of the K&R book "The C Programming Language" to the chat.
Exactly, RCTs take the mystery out. Nice work!
> for most of the more interesting consumer decisions, those that are “new” and non-habitual, prediction remains hard

Translation: Computers can't read minds.

A bigger generalization is that, whenever a software feature becomes essentially mind reading; someone's either feeding a hype engine or letting their imagination run away.

The best things to do in that case is to pop the bubble if you can, or walk away. I will often clearly state, "Computers can't read minds. You're making a lot of assumptions that will most likely prove false."
> Because he started it?

This paper is from 1988:

https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/2893291/
I'd say that apart from algorithms, it does not matter, and depending on the kind of job, not even that..

But in my opinion, a computer program is also an algorithm, albeit a specific one that can solve the problem that caused the program to be written in the first place.. And so I'll kind of argue that, if you can't grasp the general concept of algorithmic thinking, you can't really program a computer.

Anyway.. If you can code.. Write code, make some stuff and put on github..
Write some computer games and get them into the linux distributions and so on..

Then you have stuff to talk about in the job interviews, pulling up something on github and talking it through will convince them that you can do stuff, and since it's your own code, you can easily explain them what it does and why you wrote it that way.
Unfortunately, it's normal.

There are a lot of Democrat partisans here who upvote any pro-Biden nonsense, however poorly supported, and downvote any con-Biden facts, however well sourced.

Advancing their cause matters more to them than seeking truth.
1Blocker, and Vinegar. Darkmode everywhere with Dark Reader.
I've recently started using devcontainers for some of my projects. VSCode makes using them pretty seamless and convenient. I'd be shocked if Codespaces on Github didn't have first class support for devcontainers by the time it becomes available for individual users. It seems like a logical extention of their utility.
"very difficult to handle, and it's almost impossible to make many of them nicely reproducible"

Those same qualities that make a study hard to reproduce should also create skepticism that the first study was done properly.
Horrible story and a rabbit hole of reading that only gets worse. There is a linked vice article about how the 'perpetrators' are mostly trafficking victims forced to work 15 hours a day as essentially slaves - beaten, tortured or murdered for underperformance, resistance or attempts to escape. The vice video contains some mild (if you are desensitized like most of us) videos of chained workers being beaten and tasered with a cattle prod.

All comes down to gangs, corruption and self-policing 'special economic zones' that have become crime heavens.
This is totally off topic, but aside from the numbers being lower, we do the exact same thing with gun deaths.
And people who might've benefited from an actual, more reliable treatment who might have been developed, had the scientist refocused to other hypotheses.

This is infuriating.
well, certainly it's possible to fool yourselves with A/B testing, it doesn't mean you must be fooling yourselves. I've also seen similar results in recommendation settings in mobile gaming, not once but over and over again across portfolio of dozens of games/hundreds millions of players. You don't need to predict 20% better on whatever you are predicting to get a 20% increase in LTV and it's even better if you are doing RL since you are optimizing directly for your KPIs
Where its most become like reddit is the concentration of the politically motivated users and how quickly they act to shut down any discourse they find unsavory.

Reddit became very homogenized because of how quickly the left wing activists were to downvote, report, flag, etc. It made it impossible to have any discussion where you were right of far-left. A lot of those users have made their way over to HN, where it's even easier to have multiple accounts.

Yesterday someone posted a link to CBS News article about a Chipotle being closed after the workers tried to unionize. The article was very matter of fact and sparse. No editorial, no details about what sort of negotiations might have broken down. There was little to discuss about the article and I suspect it was posted by someone naively sympathetic to any labor organization effort trying to spread fodder to label Chipotle as a union-buster. The article still only has 17 comments. I commented asking why this was posted to HN and my comment was flagged in less than 30 seconds. So I commented again, and someone replied that its pertinent to startups because of how automation will cause job losses. The news article did not mention this. My second comment was flagged shortly thereafter.

HN will keep becoming like reddit because there is no recourse for the activists flagging comments or downvoting something they disagree with to hell. HN was already poorly moderated in that there is one moderator. This trend will continue and even the people who might agree with the activist will get bored and leave since there will be no intellectually stimulated conversation to have.

I'm not sure where the honest people go next. Maybe I'll just go outside, its pleasant out.
We're talking about the site design. The stuff actually in the site is a separate issue. Most redesigns afaict make the site slower, which is the wrong direction. The content presumably stays the same either way.

Case in point: plenty of HN readers click on the comment thread but not TFA. I believe that a lot of the time, that's due to dread of some godawful slow loading page contaminating their browser with tracking cooties and who knows what.
Well, this is clearly not the way corporations see it.

The way corporation executives see it is: "I am going to get a nice bonus this quarter by boosting profits and whatever happens next is the next guy's problem. By the time anything becomes a problem I'll be partying in my superyacht."

And this is the way many problems are treated as well.
>the reality is that two orders of magnitude more deaths occur each year on our highways.

What is the throughput of highways vs public transit? I wouldn’t be surprised if it was two orders of magnitude greater person hours on roads in non public transit.
Sounds like you need a better index :-)

If you need fulltext search, I've enjoyed using Sphinx and Lucene in the past. Is the column you want to do fulltext on 1 TB? 1 TB of RAM in 128 gig DIMMs is <$10k these days, so might as well get at least that much if you're running anything like the bills these guys are talking about.
This isn't how salaried position work though, not in the US anyways. You will get paid X if you work 10 hours a week or X if you work 50 hours a week. There is no difference in pay. Would you be open to losing pay? Do you want to be accountable for every single hour of work you do? Most don't.
I'm not so sure about this. I'm not an expert at all, but I can see in the world around me that biases are real. Sure, heuristics are important in the trade off between accuracy and speed, so I see that they are necessary. However, isn't the problem that we use the same heuristics to bet on a coin flip as we would use to bet on whether we make it past a lion to safety? It seems like the "right" is model is only correct in a small number of cases, but we can't change our unconscious biases to fit the situation. It seems that the bias model explains why we make bad decisions in many areas of our lives.
Agreed, bulk collection gets dominated by crap, which individually has little value.

But there's some absolutely essential priceless diamonds hidden in the crap. And they can't be found/known at the time of collection: only with the future development of other events & knowledge do they become retroactively evident. So you've got to collect & preserve as much as you practically can, or else great things are lost forever.

Further, even the mounds/magnitudes of crap can turn out to be important for understanding the past. Ads that annoyed readers at the time help communicate how people, & businesses, & technology were really operating – not just the self-serving stories people craft later. The most-fumbling and awkward early uses of a new medium – hypertext, or RealAudio, or Shockwave Flash, or whatever – reveal enduring lessons about the evolution of technology & culture, including roads-not-taken that could still hold promise.

This shouldn't surprise us. Much of what we know of past civilizations comes from archeologists studying trash dumps that, via dumb luck, were well-preserved.

So if you tell me, "the Wayback Machine is a giant unedited trash heap of the internet", my response is: "Yes! That's the point! You get it!"
> It's clearly rational for the scientists to spend time on the pursuit of grants. Otherwise they wouldn't be doing it.

This is one of the reasons why I left academia. The insane run for grants was just starting and i said that I do not have any intent do do that.

I was a scientist. Doing science. Not filling in papers and going to belly dancing shows.

When I was told that this is compulsory and nobody else is going to do it, I sad good bye and left for the industry. I was earning 10x more, had no worries about funding or copier paper. Plenty of my friends did it and then academia was crying because of the brains drain and how unfair it was. The salme who said that grats are compulsory (they were sitting in the various jurys to accept them, instead of doing science)
Get over it: The local preschool is a Linux and open source company these days: their website is hosted on a linux box.

Their open source code editor is actually closed source, I'd tell you to check yourself, but you legally are not allowed to reverse engineer it either.

And it pushed the open opensource alternative, Atom, out of the running.

dotNET? Obviously in response to the progress of mono, which now supports .NET 4.7 (current .NET is 6), C# 7 (current is C# 10)

I don't know if lagging 2-3 versions behind is normal for mono, however, if they are currently "Sponsored by Microsoft", shouldn't the situation get better?

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the article lists the copilot issue, and the .net bull, that's 2 of the 3 open-source things microsoft directly does. paying lip service to a kernel, does not make a company an open source company.

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Azure runs linux on their boxes because the Windows-only Azure in every other universe, closed its doors due to nearly no customers
Proposal: if a paper isn't reproduced in ten years after publication, then it gets automatically retracted (which can be reversed as soon as it is reproduced). Any papers that cite the retracted study (in a way that the conclusions depend on it) would also get retracted. That would be powerful incentive for all the researchers who cite the study to try and reproduce it so their papers don't get retracted.

You could still search these retracted studies when doing research, of course. You just can't cite them.
Yes, having a "friends" feature like on reddit would be welcome... though I find myself using it only very, very rarely. Even though I have well over a dozen accounts marked as "friends".
For some reason, the Canadian truckers' honking protests were the main topic of discussion here for weeks, with commenters inevitably taking stances for one side or the other. It was ridiculous and I'm pretty sure HN lost plenty of potential users to sites like Lobsters, which just kept posting and commenting about cool tech stuff.
> No need to waste time with 7 rounds of interviewing only to find out the salary is 50% of what I currently make.

No reason why you cannot ask up front what the salary range is.
As I'm not a basketball fan, I can't really comment on how Michael Jordan compares against other greats of the sport in terms of level of dominance, longevity, sportsmanship etc.

This being said, I don't think anyone NEGATES Carlsen's achievements though. Certainly noone in the thread. So this looks like a textbook strawman to me
To the parent’s point, VW was saying for recent years they were going fully electric. This EU bill doesn’t harm them. In fact, it likely helps them against slower-moving competitors.
I think Facebook Marketplace is thriving but mainly because it inserts itself into people's other behavior, maybe not because people think it's the best platform for exchanging goods. In fact, it could really use some of the moderation features of Craigslist.

After much creative destruction, we're back to inserting classified ads next to the stuff people are reading to pass the time.
>Poor Maintenance. Brakes, nails in tires, low air pressure in tires, tires not suited for climate, other cars leaving oils on the roads, poor road maintenance, unexpected or untrained weather, check engine light (25%), potholes impact tie rods and steering, worn shocks, uneven loading. Very few drivers do this or pre-drive check every drive.

Your list started off good and then quickly went straight to bad faith BS.

Nobody is getting in a crash because their worn out gas cap is causing the emissions system to pop a code.

Furthermore, it's pretty clear from the statistics available and the widely varying conditions across the US with regard to vehicle inspections, weather and road conditions that these factors pale compared to human judgement related causes.