skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I don't know that it can be universally achieved car or no car, great public transit or no. But it's important to try for it. The key of course is to provide plentiful housing in varieties that support people at a variety of incomes and at every life stage, places to shop for everything from daily consumables to appliances, public services, and most importantly a large center of offices and places of employment.

Basically build an arcology and set a transit goal of 15 minutes across the radius of it. Repeat this pattern whenever the transit gets too long, which is usually about a subway stop or two across -- creating many "town" centers. Pubic transit needs to include buses, trams, and maybe subways each feeding into each other from slow and low density (buses) to faster modes at higher density.

I think the best city I've ever been in that featured this was Tokyo. It looks like a giant megalopolis, and it is and acts that way for a part of the population, but for many people it's a bunch of small neighborhoods and towns. Even then, the average commute time is about 40 minutes each way.

Even relatively small European cities seem to hit about 40 minutes plus/minus 5-10 minutes.

In the U.S., you might experience <40 minute commutes maybe in either very small car centric towns, or close to the core of a few cities like Portland, or maybe Chicago. Even within NYC, you can easily hit over 1 hr each direction.

One place I've been to and know folks from near Washington D.C., Reston VA seems to offer consistent under <30 min door to door commutes, and that's without major public transit in place yet. It's growing, but toss in a tram-line and it'll be as good as any U.S. city can get to a European core. It's not without accident, it was apparently originally build and modeled off of European towns.
In my humble opinion, Spirited Away also kind of falls apart at the end. I never really got a sense of resolution from that movie. Not so for Mononoke.
Astronomers whose software uses UTC and isn’t able to change to UT1, and who don’t need precision less than 1 second, but more than 3-5 seconds or so will be worse off. This seems like much less net inconvenience than what the tech industry has to deal with when it comes to leap seconds.

I hear the argument that we have to deal with this eventually to keep time in track with mean solar time, but the adjustments are so small that I don’t see any real impact on regular people.
You can lock with a right click.
Stretchable graphical mythology: https://essenmitsosse.de/pixel
Where is it possible to raise capital [25k] through DeFi for real world?
We've been working for the past months to establish a low risk business model, idealize and code a DAO governance perfectly aligned with what is, I think, to be the best of what crypto has to offer in the real world, equitability, financial inclusion and inclusive governance.

The financial business model is functioning well and very limited risk since we produce commodity. We are at the point of simply trying the whole process of the business with the first structure of our DAO governance plus raise capital through crypto, bring it in the real world and distribute the yield back in crypto.

We initially thought of making our own Pool of liquidity with rules according to what we need but there are many many laws to offer investment in the real world and the lawyer's costs are very expensive for the means we have atm.

Thus, we are asking ourselves, is there anyway to raise a certain sum of capital, 25k for now, then 10-20X this amount in 6 months without collateral in crypto.

I know of goldfinch.finance, but all their loans are over half a million to 10-15millions, which is not where we are at yet.

We can provide 20-40% apy on USD based on a low risk business model that can almost infinitely scale since we are in the commodity business.

Kind regards :)
I don't know why you got downvoted. It's really odd that they don't enforce this stuff server-side.
Maybe this would have gone over better with the community if they had made the most popular mods redundant before rendering them unusable?

> Finally, we’re aware that many legitimate users install modifications to add features they wish VRChat had natively. We're very aware of the popularity of these modifications, and we’re aware that EAC means those modifications are gone, too. As such, we've been working towards native implementations of features like a main menu that's usable even when you're lying down, a portable mirror that you can use to calibrate your full-body tracking (or provide a face-cam), and more – all planned for upcoming releases.
New Google Workspace features for Android on larger screens
no blame works without exceptions when the team makes it impossible to screw up big (test coverage, multiple reviews, modularity, canaries, DR strategy etc.)

if you do retros and the same thing keeps coming up and it's always coming from the same person, then the manager will have to solve that
My prior is that any random variant would likely do nothing. It’s all about location, location, location. First off, a variant would need to be in a gene to do something (not entirely true, but a good enough approximation). Then, the variant would need to be in a coding region/exon. Finally, the variant would need to change the amino acid (there is a Twitter/biorxiv war going on about this specifically now). You have approximately 0.1% unique DNA sequence compared to someone else. But there are 3 billion bp in the human genome. So that’s an expected 3 million variants. And that’s just to start. And just to add to the prior probabilities — you’re probably living, right? So, whatever variants you might find haven’t been lethal yet! (Even better if you’ve made it to adulthood!)

And to complicate things further, one variant in a gene could do nothing if the other copy is still good. Even if you have two bad variants in a single gene, they might be on the same allele (from the same parent). In which case, you still have one good copy! It’s like how Iceman got hit twice in the same engine at the end of the original Top Gun. He still had one good engine to get home. For many genes, that’s all you need. For others, you might not even need one good copy as other genes could take over the same job.

Yes, there are some variants that you don’t want to see. Things that might indicate high likelihood of disease down the road. But even that is bound by statistical probabilities. Good news — some of those can’t be seen by this type of sequencing.

You’re absolutely right though — it can be scary. After looking at many genomes, it can be amazing that we all work as well as we do.
> At least it still works on Linux.

But Linux probably no longer works on VRChat

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=G2u7NOpzcBQ&t=5052s
Not at all. Most of CA's agriculture is distributed nationally (or internationally), not growing staple foods for local consumption.
I thought that was obvious? The easiest way to completely destroy the productivity of a team is to constantly switch tasks and never release anything. The team will quickly realize that the work they do doesn't matter and will switch to pretend-to-work mode or find another job.
https://www.arcimoto.com/

Not nearly as cheap, but street legal in the US and looks like loads of fun.
> If you dig into the time routines that use tzdata, you see they must use an unstable conversion process that _may_ converge, but has a simple counter protecting it in the case that it _does not_ converge and in that case it just gives you a best guess time that may still be wrong anyways.

What does this mean? Can you explain in a little more detail, or link to somewhere I might read about this? I haven't used tzdata myself, but I understand it in broad strokes as a list of time zones, and a list of which offsets apply to which timezones at which given dates. What am I missing?
Art generally doesn't scale.
Ask HN: Where to find test Stripe data?
Hello,

I'm working on an analytics tool for Stripe. Where can I find test Stripe datasets? I don't mind it being fake data, but it needs to follow real relationships to some extent. I have a small store that has some data, but it's not nearly big enough to generalize.

I did find https://github.com/stripe-samples/test-data and use that, but it's very limited.

Appreciate your help!
Hey I just mentioned your app in another comment! I don't suppose your app is open sourced haha?

Big fan of the original many years ago. Will definitely check out the sequel

Noodles and all the Conceptis games were the only puzzle apps I never deleted off my phone
> you can ignore it

No can do. Psychology is a funny thing.

> or even write a script that hides it client side

Sure, or just update the code and host it myself. I was just making a casual comment, which the author is free to casually ignore.
I have a separate Windows machine I use for all of my gaming, including VRChat, that does not touch my Linux network or any of its files. I started doing this around the time Windows 10 came about because I didn't want to take a gamble with what any of these "security" implementations would do. I tried VRChat because it's free and works with and without a VR headset.

Modded clients aside, it's fairly easy in VRChat to have an avatar with too many performance hitting effects that can outright crash other players on lesser hardware in PC worlds. I've heard anecdotes of the Quest version, while receiving recent improvements, is also prone to crashing on mixed PC/Quest worlds. To be fair, the default view settings are aggressive enough to cull the more offensive avatars (for both performance and moral objections ) back to a safe default and it can be adjusted to taste. Avatars are also graded by their performance impact and you can see a full spec sheet of their polygon counts and various performance metrics right within the game.

They do a decent enough job providing good defaults and the content is gated in a way you can individually whitelist people and specific avatars/worlds as you experience them. There is a global "Trust Tier" system that allows you to move up the ranks by racking up play time and friend count, new players are tagged as visitors for a long enough time that it's not too hard to weed out bad actors. I don't believe I've encountered any modded clients personally but I will be interested to see what kind of effect this has in the in-game world.
'“Modified clients” are a large problem for VRChat in a variety of ways. Malicious modified clients allow users to attack and harass others, causing a huge amount of moderation issues. Even seemingly non-malicious modifications complicate the support and development of VRChat, and make it impossible for VRChat creators to work within the expected, documented bounds of VRChat.

'In order to prevent that, we’ve implemented Easy Anti Cheat (EAC) into VRChat.'

All this stuff sounds like it should be enforced on the server side, not client side.

'EAC is the industry-leading anti-cheat service. It’s lightweight, effective, and privacy-focused. In short, for any game or platform looking to prevent malicious users from breaking the rules, it’s a powerful solution.'

EAC is the industry-leading DRM ass. It sometimes persists game installations and you need to go to greater lengths to purge the system of its trace. I don't know what 'privacy-focused' even means here.

Honestly this whole post smells of PR.
Well, that jumped the shark quickly
How Is Google Cloud Tau T2A Performing?
It doesn’t really matter either way. At a meta-level this isn’t about Alzheimer’s, and it isn’t about “fixing science”. Nobody in this discussion has any constructive idea how to cure this horrifying disease, or how to build a scientific establishment that isn’t vulnerable to fraud. If that’s all we cared about this would be a boring policy discussion about how to fix peer review. But nobody here is interested in having that discussion: this discussion is about whether we should discard the input of the scientific community as hopelessly corrupt.
The taxation is just as bad.
Thanks for the feedback, I appreciate it. Yes, Vely does not parse C. Placing Vely statement outside of functional context (say in between functions) will result in gcc errors. Vely allows error reporting to show both generated C or line numbers in Vely code, so depending on what the error is, it's not that difficult to find.

Making Vely understand C, at least insofar as necessary to prevent issues like this is something that I might add, and it probably wouldn't cost that much. It's definitely worth a look.

From a purely functional perspective, assuming Vely statement is placed properly in a functional context, understanding C (as in parsing and then parsing Vely within) might not bring much benefit. Syntactically speaking, Vely is built to not require much about host language. Though, Vely understands enough to emit meaningful messages, such as in the case of writing:

if (cond)
vely_statement

where you will get an error that will prevent code from doing unexpected things. There's quite a few of those safeguards built-in.

Being embedded, Vely is a compromise. That was the goal to preserve pure C performance.

Beyond the above, one can still do anything that C can do and that may not be safe; but if Vely is used for what it does, the chances of that go down. Being able to rapidly do stuff in C that is richer and safer is the plus side of it. Without a compromise with being embedded, it would be yet another language that does everything great but with ever declining performance.

And that is fine, if such loss of performance and increased footprint is acceptable; there is nothing wrong with that. Vely's niche is to stay in best performance bracket, and yet bring that performance to general and web application development.
Amazon’s best-selling new charcoal grill is ... the Pixel Buds Pro?
I agree with this. My new washing machine has full-touch controls. It's great otherwise (includes full drying!), but it's way too easy to change the settings when it's running or turn it off when you're walking past it and accidentally bump against it.

Luckily I've found a workaround - I turn on the child lock once I've set up the wash program, so these accidental touches are ignored.
This is only partially true. Once the knowledge that unofficial clients won’t work gets out people won’t go looking for them.
The Rat Problem (US Army, 1950)
A "click and hold" to lock a tile into place would also be great and mobile accessible
Interested to see T2A vs T2D in terms of performance
and traveling overseas
You can do whatever you want with your computer, just don't try to connect to their proprietary servers.
I'm not a VRchat user. But it's sad they decided to ban modified clients. Giving the community a way to customize their experience is a great way to grow an ecosystem and learn about what your users want.

The problems they mention are all solvable without banning mods:

> Malicious modified clients allow users to attack and harass others, causing a huge amount of moderation issues.

These kinds of issues should be solved on the backend. Rate limiting, pattern matching, etc.

> Every month, thousands of users have their accounts stolen, often due to running a modified client that is silently logging their keystrokes

Keep a list of "blessed" open source clients that have a reputation, and allow people to report them. Chrome and Firefox extensions have solved this

> Additionally, all modified clients – even ones that aren’t malicious – are a burden for creators. We regularly speak to many that have spent hours (or days) debugging user issues, only to realize that the culprit is a modified client.

Provide better debugging info for your creators! They should know which client (or at least that a modified client) is being used.

> This pain extends to VRChat support too – any time we update, we get a massive amount of bug reports that end up just being broken modifications

Ditto. These tickets should be easy to auto-close if you force folks to include info about their client.

I understand all this requires time and effort, and simply restricting the client-side of things is a low-cost solution. But if there's already a vibrant community of mods out there, I think you have a responsibility (and a vested interest) in trying to preserve that.
This type of simple math is very misleading. The first 100Mg are of course easier to collect than the next 100Mg. And the next 100Mg after that will be even harder. Diminishing returns as the amount of garbage available for collection becomes increasingly rare.
Show HN: Open-Source Notion UI, Lotion
My friend and I love the Notion UI, so we open-source a version we have been building.

- Block-based editor
- Drag to reorder blocks
- Basic Markdown-parsing including bold, italic, headings and divider
- Type '/' for command menu and shortcuts

Tiny fun detail: When you move between blocks with your arrow keys, your cursor will remain at roughly the same horizontal position (vs jumping to the start or end of a block).

Lotion is quite limited for now, and we would love any contributions (e.g. image blocks, video blocks, code blocks, etc.)
But the output is actually effectively emitting special string types (or flags on the main string type — whatever) in the background transparently (either at compile-time or runtime). And that’s possible due to a language design with sufficiently expressive typing with good syntactic sugar.

I’m talking about the alternative world where people use tainted strings and have to manually taint or untaint strings explicitly everywhere and that is nuts. You have to do that when your language has nothing to help you with. If you have to resort to that, I think you need to give up.
https://marijuana-anonymous.org/
I am into grilling and griddling and cooking, so comes natural to me :>
Need more than ₹35 say Swiggy workers who threaten strike against new policies
Yes — agreed, and that’s why I believe it makes this admission/forecast all the more salient! (Thus the “likely already” comment — see, https://www.ft.com/content/28a1f975-8374-4b87-b2ba-2e60ddf20... or https://futurism.com/china-population-shrinking/amp)
I’m glad you’re being honest now at least. You’re not very good at hiding disdain. Not the first socialist with that trait. (Far from unique to socialism. It’s pretty common in humans.)

No, the issue isn’t as simple as lust for power. You finished the identification and the solution selection. And now we are to move on. At least to the solution. I’m sure we can breeze by that too, if only you can get this simpleton blow-hard to think, right?

It isn’t simple lust. But again you don’t really want to go down this road, as you keep accusing me of. The world is cleaner when power is bad and people can’t handle it themselves. (Let’s solve that. With… very careful objective power. Yes yes.)

So I’ll make this as clear as I can. If you think identification is complete, I disagree. The comment I linked made that pretty clear, or so I thought.

Your very strong desire to move on has now been stated. As has mine to not simply assume that the elders have solved the problem. Now what?

Feel free to keep tossing bait though. You came just shy of admitting it. So I’ll take it the rest of the way for you.

It really impresses upon me why socialism is the best choice for a harmonious future. Thanks for that.
Great book and great series, if anyone is looking for a sci-fi recommendation.

The Wikipedia page needs to be updated. The synopsis is woefully-lacking, and there are four books in the series:

https://us.macmillan.com/series/theunincorporatedman
> I've told the kids they can only watch that movie once they're old enough to drink.

So, 6 months old? (When I grew up, whiskey was a common cure for toothache, gripe, or any other bother infants had...)
VRChat mods include things like general QOL improvements, but also most accessibility features are mods. Things like preventing flashing colors to avoid seizures.

They want to ban them because they compete with VRC+, their premium service.
"Vely" stands for Vel(ocit)y. Though I then realized in Korea it's short for Lo(vely). Could be worse.
> I don't believe I've encountered any modded clients personally but I will be interested to see what kind of effect this has in the in-game world.

Wow, I only played for a few hours and it seems like every lobby had someone trying and succeeding to crash people.
These are amazing! I just hope Google won't pull the plug on this viewer since the images are hosted on gstatic.com.
It comes from both. How much of it comes from the atmosphere depends on the burning temperature.

Cool fires produce almost none of it from the atmosphere, so all the NOx comes from the fuel. Hot fires produce so much of it from the atmosphere that the fuel is almost irrelevant.

High-efficiency engines, that produce the least CO2, CO, and particulate matter run on very high temperatures, and produce a lot of NOx and ozone.
I'm aware of several communities which seem to rely heavily on custom mods. Not sure what they are going to do, though on the plus side maybe we will see more innovation in the multiplayer VR marketplace.
Careful. Excluding open source, sharing code from a former or current employer sends a signal about how you're likely to handle the prospective employer's IP.
engineering is a hard field to be in. everybody thinks they are super smart and smarter than the rest. this is true especially with googlers and in general in the bay area. it borders on the delusional. the crab bucket mentality is real and the result of peope not reflecting on the industry in general. fear creates micromanagement. so, your colleague should take it all with a grain of salt and focus on what is important to her and what she wants to achieve. even if she did a crazy good job she would still get a lame evaluation and some talk about the raise is for next year. tell her to relax, read books and practice skills and make sure to network and learn how to negotiate, such that when the time comes, she can jump ship.
I watched it as a teen at a friend's house around year 2000. Might have been an early bootleg, he was really into bootlegged Japanese VHS tapes. I found the story and tone really disturbing. I remembered it this way, and wasn't really interested in seeing it again.

Didn't watch it again until maybe a year ago when my wife wanted to watch it. She's gotten really into Studio Ghibli and we've been working our way through the catalog. Even so, I was actually still hesitant to watch it.

I found it much different than I remembered. Layered story with actual shades of gray that Hollywood isn't capable of producing. Only movie I can think of where there are multiple factions and none of them are clearly good or bad. Compelling narrative all around. It's genuinely a masterwork only outdone by Spirited Away.

Point of my story is, I wasn't ready for it, I don't know if America was.
Bullet journaling was a truly fantastic discovery for me as someone who was diagnosed with ADHD as a teenager and still struggles to stay on task as an adult. Something about working though a tactile list of exactly what needs to get done today and what’s up tomorrow is extremely helpful.
For the first time this year I’m trying an app (Things) instead of a paper journal with mixed results. More definitely gets entered into it as my phone is always available, but it’s not quite as satisfying to finish the list and I don’t find myself as driven.
Side note: if you’re not a creative type (I’m not) your bullet journal does not have to be as beautiful as the ones you see online. My paper journals were VERY utilitarian and ugly.
Valley, very, vary.
Malware author can’t send you an email with an attachment targeted at the OS(es) you happen to read the email on. So this definitely helps to some extent.
shape of water was good for it's ethereal scenery and underlying storyline, but for the 2018 oscars, i thought 3 billboards got robbed for best picture. that was the last year i paid any attention to the oscars (especially considering the thoroughly mundane green book won the following year). hollywood has nothing interesting to offer anymore.