skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
While they have Rumspringa as late teens and can theoretically choose not to get baptized and become adult members, choosing not to means exclusion from the only community they've ever known, into a world they have not been educated to make a living in - particularly, the girls.
> The existence of a state, that does not violate people's rights, is perfectly consistent with libertarianism, and is arguably essential to it.

the 'original' libertarians (anarchists) would probably agree...
This is at least amazing for a few lucky website owners and YouTubers.

Maybe someone in the EU anti-trust area discovered Google had a timer and threatened to fine them?
I can fly to Schiphol airport, get on a train without even stepping outdoors, ride to a suburb on the far side of Amsterdam in time for a morning meeting, walk to my hotel, all without even a taxi ride. On this side of the ocean, I have to call for a limo to the airport because the commuter rail schedule is too sparse, the trains are too crowded for being under-provisioned. The diesel locomotives are as polluting as if everyone on the train drove their cars instead. There is no long term parking at the train stations. The subway stop at the airport is far from the terminals. Bad transportation is a drag on the US economy. How much productivity sits on our highways for hours each day?
Sweet Jesus, that is even more cynical than my own take, but you must be right..! Amazingly, this could very well be the reason imo...
> What happens to mortgage rates when the Fed starts to offload their massive MBS holdings in earnest?

The Fed doesn’t target a run-off number, it targets a rate. That’s why it says it will run off “up to” $35bn per month.
I think it's more that any threat to auto sales would cause marketing and lobbying spend to go up accordingly. Those two things determine what information Americans get exposed to, and what gets subsidized and what gets regulated. The US car-centric attitude is about half t-shirt slogans, half the necessity to have a car in a place built for cars with hourlong commutes, so why not love them?

Regulations on marketing, campaign finance, and quid-pro-quo would go a long way in demolishing political hurdles between us and a lot of better things.
> Your comment history is fascinating.

Can we refrain from the reddit-esque creepy "gotcha" of digging through post history of another user instead of addressing the argument at hand?

> You posted yourself about the ridiculous subsidies that US suburbia gets so you clearly understand that the way Americans live in the suburbs is completely out of touch with how much it really costs

Yep.

> and very few people if any would actually choose suburbia if they had to bear those costs.

I don't agree. It's arguable we do already bear much of these costs, as a lot of infrastructure is paid for through development fees (higher housing prices) or through federal & state grants (which we all pay for). I understand cities subsidize suburban areas to some extent, but that's largely from business tax that, again, we all pay for in higher prices.

> Americans are “choosing this”

Look at the pandemic trends, that haven't really reversed since. People left cities and suburban / rural property values shot up compared to big city real estate.

> oning laws are preventing better alternatives from being created

No, they're keeping nice neighborhoods nice low density neighborhoods. Like the inhabitants of those neighborhoods want them to be.

> Whenever I have Americans over visiting Brussels

Something tells me "Americans who want to visit Brussels" has a strong pro-density sampling bias. You're also seeing the initial reaction and not the long term reaction.

> His mind was blown

But would he really live there, or was he just surprised by the different infrastructure?

For clarity, I live right in the middle in one of the most walkable places in the US. In the past, I’ve lived in suburban and rural areas. I understand the pro's of walkability, but I also understand suburbanites and rural folks don't want those pros because of the cons that come with them.
My solution for this is a script that commits all my changes then tags the resulting commit with a basic descriptive name. Something like this:

git discard bad-idea-didnt-work

Which creates a tag discarded-bad-idea-didnt-work, then resets back to the previous commit.

I can still find and rescue the changes later by looking at my tags.

Others have suggested using the stash for this but I prefer to keep my stash stack free for shorter-term contexts, eg. if I'm halfway through something but need to go checkout another branch briefly.
... but nothing like rails, hence this article and discussion
I feel like part of this is a lack of gardening. I used to love gardening and watching plants grow as a child in my grandmother's garden. Carrots, beets, berries, onions, etc. All pretty easy, as long as you aren't worried about having too many! Even though I don't have a lot of knowledge about plants, I do certainly have more of an appreciation.

I was just looking at a house yesterday and spied a garden growing in the side yard and remarked I think those are onions! Of course the agent had no idea apparently what an onion plant looks like, which kind of surprised me. But then after a bit, it also didn't surprise me!

Of course I have to mention the amazing and great youtube channel "Crime pays but botany doesn't", here's a neat recent video:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ThU0SUcf6Ws
So are users completely at the mercy of its recommendation algorithm - suddenly you appear at the feed of millions of people, if the system finds your content viral enough?

Or is there room for people to game the system? I.e. publish content, and pay click farms to make your stuff look legit?
I used this all the time when teaching! Why, Google?
How many people are working with you on the project?
What does any of this have to do with the Amish?

You can’t be sure you’re arrived at the truth. Nothing about the philosophy of science expects you to be sure; it’s an inductive process that encourages increasing confidence, but never absolute certainty.

Evolution doesn’t “prefer” anything. It’s a stochastic adaptation process. The existence of religious beliefs is incredibly interesting from an anthropological perspective, but doesn’t really tell us anything about evolution itself.
Poland is in the sad position of being in one of the least favorable places for renewable energy in the world.
For the same reason you wouldn't design a web framework in Ruby that doesn't use classes. Technically possible, but you'd be fighting against the design of the language.
You seem to have a very benign definition of "worst". At worst, they are going to see their country collapse, a repeat of 1917, then misery and/or death of all people important to them.

Because that's what people have in mind when you friendishly suggest them to 'topple' their government.
Because it fills the street with cars that are trying to go twice as fast as public transportation. That's the point of the entire thread, I think.
NYC fully meets the definition of walkable.
The shoplifting rates in big cities rose by about 70% from their 1980 to early '90s, then fell fairly steadily to around 60% of '80s levels until around 2007, then started rising again. They got back to their '80s level around 2015 and and swung around that by about 10% since then, until there was a drop at the start of the pandemic.

In small cities the pattern was the same except the peak around 1990 was a bit lower, the decline through mid-2000s only got down to a little below '80s levels, and the 2015ish rise wasn't as big (although because the earlier decline didn't get much below '80s levels the small city rates were higher than big city rates).

This article has a nice graph of this from an FBI report [1].

[1] https://thedispatch.com/p/mismeasuring-the-shoplifting-crisi...
I don’t know about other people but I tend to just watch every video until the end because they are so short that I don’t have enough time to decide if I like them or not.

Maybe I’m too old for TikTok.
It's crazy how all the zoning policies were hand crafted by the General Motors board of directors. Oh wait, they weren't, they were decided by the municipalities.

US zoning policies are the way they are because that's the way the people in those cities wanted to live. Have you been to a city council meeting in a US city where they've discussed zoning changes? Tons of local people will come out against denser housing and against public transit and against protected bike lanes, and then there's usually only the builder from out of town or the transit authority arguing for it. Single family housing in far flung suburbs is built out so much because that's what a lot of voters want.
Then raise the wages, and raise the budgets for that research.

Do people that write this drivel think college students read it? And even if they did, do they think the students will just turn their lives around into doing something else just because someone online is complaining about not enough people doing it?

I think these pieces miss a crucial point about skepticism. In a highly competitive capitalist landscape, if there’s not a lot of people entering then it’s safe to assume there’s a good enough reason. Without googling, I’d be willing to bet there’s fewer people becoming librarians lately, and fewer becoming actuaries, etc. These jobs are often passion-related and I think collectively the young people are realizing that following your passion leads to an increased risk of poverty and hardship.

The last time I heard someone talk about botany was when *I* was in college several decades ago. Back then, there wasn’t people around me talking about machine learning very much either but that’s probably half of what I hear recent graduates in my industry talking about.
With more self driving cars there should be fewer accidents which translates to even faster driving times.
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These notes might be a great source for what they cover, but as a whole I find this to be a good example of what is currently wrong with data science education. While the syllabus has bullet points that include "1. data collection", "2. data management", and "5. communication", the content and schedule have a 90%+ overlap with a standard machine learning course. They even use a statistical learning textbook (a good one, but still).

Statistics departments keep trying to latch on to the excitement (and money) around data science by changing the superfluous things like department names and course titles without actually adjusting what they teach. I would love to see a version of this that actually engages at a non-superficial level with topics such as database design, theory(ies) of data visualization, methods for storytelling with data, and interactive design.
Zynthian – Open Synth Platform
I am quite interested reading all this from both sides.. I saw a talk where Rich talked about clojure avoiding the HttpServletRequest calling it life sucking, and that one huge advantage clojure has is it's all data... but without wrappers, don't we have to then use these life sucking things? So many java api's are like this, the reason I use clojure is to not have these things, so I actually prefer the all clojure approach..
That's the problem, and why people choose cars over public transportation. It's a solvable problem however, and countries like Japan and Switzerland have done just that.
'Helmetless' – Daft Bootlegs
Nice work! I wish I would have come across this sooner or I might not have started building https://webden.dev for the past year haha. PLAYCODE is definitely more robust as far as features (courses, virtual file system, pro version, users, node.js, transpiled projects, etc) but it's cool to see your big focus on speed. The rest of the ecosystem felt so heavy and bloated when I originally started looking.

Also, thanks for sharing your story! Very inspiring!
There were recent stories in the US of a Hyundai subsidiary parts plant using child labor in the US. They blamed it on a staffing agency. But, yeah, labor relations is a contact sport in Korea.
Yeah, in the US (from a distance), the political hurdle seems to be the hardest. In terms of actual effort, it's definitely possible to make big strides: https://twitter.com/z_a_c_h_k_a_t_z/status/14646977114422067...
I suspect that whatever climate benefits generated by eliminating commutes will be counteracted by the urban sprawl fostered by your first point.
Did this manual ship with the console? Or was it just for repair guys?
All of the SEO farm timer websites in the SRP will be plastered with Google ads too.
This is the most beautifully dystopian nonchalant black mirror reality...
The person you’re responding to is making a positive claim, not a normative one: from the anthropological perspective, religions solve coordination problems. That doesn’t mean we ought to solve coordination problems with religion, it just means that it has a moderately successful track record.

See above re: fundamental misunderstanding of truth in science.
>With their traditional mission of defending custom and seeking equity, police were unwilling to abridge pedestrians’ rights to the free use of city streets.

How times have changed. In regards to police/government respecting citizen's rights. I've always wondered what a person from the past, say pre-WWI era would think if they were to time travel to the present. They would probably think we live in an authoritarian police state. They'd probably be right.
Isn't the same true for, say, apps in an App Store?

Did anyone actually analyze what is happening there, i.e. how fair the system is or how much it is like a lottery?
I didn't say for the "whole society" but as a whole, i.e. if you sum up all the positives with the negatives. Heroin provides value for people who like it and somehow can use it without getting addicted. As a whole though I'd argue it's a net negative on society.
Leaning more towards hype and FOMO after glancing through that.
And I suspect this points out one of the more common future uses of the tool. Not replacing photographers per se, but certainly taking a large chunk out of the already shrinking Stock Image market. If instead of having to find a stock image that I can use as the base for my work (usually with at least SOME tweaking) I can just describe what I'm actually trying for as a final product...

I'm not going to be getting rid of my Sony A7riv anytime soon, but this certainly would discourage me from trying to increase my library at Getty
Presumably if lots of people trust your extension with access to their banking website, a nefarious actor could make steal more money to make that price worthwhile.

Well, assuming they can transfer money out of people's accounts and get away with it, which obviously requires additional effort.
But okay, for whatever reason they did it. Why is the dice roller still there?

It is already questionable why a search engine needs these features, but why remove one and not the other?
> Well, I'm glad that I've finally got you thinking about it now.

Wow, on being condescending, takes one to know one I guess.
I didn't even know that was a thing.
So does the majority of South Florida, every street has a sidewalk, you can walk across bridges, highways, etc. One of the best in the US.
In a sense they see their future in real time and pick and choose, no time travel necessary!
I guess I need to roll my own timer.
It doesn’t. My hope was if Apple and Microsoft provided this feature, we could build a common foundation on top.
did... this have a cost?
are there any savings at all?
> Can we refrain from

No, own your opinions. You posted something where you literally had to give the disclaimer "This isn't sarcasm", because it reeked of sarcasm. I went through your post history to understand you and your point better. This isn't a fucking gotcha, it's a show of faith and compassion.

> No, they're keeping nice neighborhoods nice low density neighborhoods

Not just zoning laws in your suburbia, zoning laws in the city itself. And no they're not; I'm starting to get the feeling you're not arguing in good faith.

> But would he really live there

I'm helping him organize his move later this year. Does that answer your question?
Or indeed graphics tablet, drawing tablet, or pen tablet. This usage of "tablet" predates the currently more popular one. Drawing tablets are commonly used by today’s digital artists too.
I suspect this is where an API and additional cost reductions will move the needle even before we improve the models themselves (which seems to be coming at a rapid pace right now). I can see a scenario like this working well in the future:

1. Get close via prompt debugging to what you want (effectively where you are now)

2. Run an image generation pipeline that creates 10,000 images or an infinite stream

3. Run each image through an 'image to text' step for vector similarity filtering

4. Take images that have very similar 'image to text' similarity scores to the original prompt and present to the user.

Once we can run models of this quality locally, it can even be a job that runs overnight and you wake up in the morning to a set of results to look at.
https://pomofocus.io/ is a nice-looking website with Pomodoro timers.
As a pedestrian and cyclist in NYC, "fully" is not accurate.
Presumably the idea is to give a little more info than the standard jodie's ipcalc which comes with your OS, and far better ipv6 support?

The examples don't make it clear what happens when you type "ipcalc 1.1.1.41/27", which I often do to find the top and bottom of a given /27 (or /29, or /26, etc). I'm not interested in typing

"ipcalc -pnmb --minaddr --maxaddr --geoinfo --addrspace"
Since this post is recording its death, here's the HN post that recorded its birth:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6429564

Edit: Another blog post from someone that noticed it: http://googlesystem.blogspot.com/2013/08/google-timer.html
They love their users, but only those who watch or click on ads.
Let me take this opportunity to introduce you to one of my all-time favorite Mac apps https://github.com/kristopherjohnson/MenubarCountdown

It performs its job perfectly.
I don't think it's tenure. Chang did not have tenure at the time.
They are holding it hostage. When leap seconds are no longer a thing they will bring it back.
In São Paulo, Stockholm, Sydney and Amsterdam.

None of which are top tier cities when it comes to public transport. Why not talk about Singapore, London, Hong Kong, Paris and Tokyo?

The paper also ignores the last part of a car trip: finding a parking spot. In cities that takes often as long as the trip.
The NumWorks calculator looks very interesting. Too bad it does not have a RPN mode.

Otherwise the SwissMicros calculators can be recommended. They are all RPN and are modeled after iconic HP calcs. They are just very pricey, especially for non-graphing calcs.
sudo sticks what you're doing in your auth.log file which is fired off to your syslog server, so you've got a chance of knowing how you messed up, or who else messed up
link: https://course.fast.ai/

discussion from 9 days back about the 2022 version: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32186647
The guy managed to swim around icebergs, so there's that.
Still showing up for me?

https://www.google.com/search?q=tip+calculator
The difference with train tracks is that they have been specifically constructed for the purpose of transporting heavy machinery. By not being allowed to access them by foot you are not losing any right that you previously enjoyed. Roads and streets, on the other hand, predate automobiles by millennia.

Hence the philosophy that is followed in the UK, where there is no such thing as a "jaywalking" infraction. People have had a right of free passage along public highways (English law definition [0]) and general rights of way (Scotland [1]) for centuries, and this right cannot simply be taken away just because now there happen to be heavy fast moving objects that are allowed to use some of them. You are free to walk on and across the road at any point and time whatsoever, as long as you do not cause a danger to other users.

Note that this doesn't apply to motorways (≈freeways) though, as these were expressly constructed to carry automobile vehicles and are therefore legitimately of limited access.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Highways_in_England_and_Wales

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Right_of_way#Scotland
"trusting in what life will provide" is a bit new-age I feel.

The analogy is comforting. But maybe something more realistic would be like this:

--

Picture two hamsters. One works constantly to pay off his hamster-mansion, and hamster-sports-car. He can't spend much time with his family. The hamster-kids are at a fancy hamster-school far way.

The other hamsters earns less, but makes time for playing boardgames with the hamper-family. They have a modest hampster-home, and all take a low cost trip to visit their hamster family throughout the year.
> America got to be car-centric not because of nefarious car companies or other special interests

Why make up a history when there's a real one? There were real people that did real things to push a reluctant culture in a particular way. I think you're using Panglossian reasoning here.
Technically even large shell scripts can be expressed / executed as one liners :)
I clearly spoke out of turn when I mouthed off about Rust's table not defaulting to a Swiss design, and I thank you for straightening me out.

But to the degree that C++ has an RTFM vibe, and I really don't think you'll hear Andrei or Meyers or Sutter talking that way much, it's uniformly applied and not particularly partisan. In my experience C++ pros would rather be writing Haskell and that's where you get all these over-templated "header only" libraries.

Rust is in a glass house on "blame the programmer" stuff, because it's "blame the programmer for being dumb enough to not be using Rust exclusively".

The memory safety catechism makes sense for my SSH client, or web browser, or web server, or shell, or another few dozen security critical things. And frankly I'd feel safer if someone did a ground-up reimplementation of `bash` in Rust, I'd use it in a heartbeat. Tailscale writes their shit in Go for a reason, you don't want even the possibility of a use-after-free in your VPN.

But most of the software I run? It runs as me, and if someone is running as me behind the firewall, I'm in deep shit already.

`rustup` has `curl --proto '=https' --tlsv1.2 -sSf https://sh.rustup.rs | sh` on the fucking home page, ditto vim/emacs extensions, etc. I'm calling bullshit on the every damned thing needs to be DoS or timing-attack hardened. It's marketing, and my original point is that all the other great modern features of Rust make a much better list of talking points.
I’m a fan of this one:

Never give up on a dream just because of the time it will take to accomplish it. The time will pass anyway.

Earl Nightingale
Woman is the gatekeeper, unless you want include rape-y options. But then the more traditional society is, the child raising is on women. And it’s women who raise next generation of men…
I don't think that Dall-E as it currently exists is a big threat to professional artists.

It's not super hard to imagine a noticeably improved version of Dall-E being a serious threat to professional artists, though. It's a question of how hard it will be to make some linear improvements to Dall-E.

As a side note, I created an image in MidJourney from a prompt, which got a fairly pretty image that had some serious facial asymmetry problems, then uploaded the image to Dall-E and erased half the face, letting Dall-E fill it back in with a much more symmetrical look, and that kinda felt like the future. Using various AI models as tools for the things they do best.
some Product Manager at Google will now get promoted for "removing legacy infrastructure, cutting costs and increasing ad revenue by directing traffic for popular search queries to partner sites"