skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I don’t pay a lot of attention but I do perceive some efforts to get karma. Eg lots of posting articles, more jostling in comments than is necessary. Wherever there is a measure, some people will optimise for it. We’re human.
> I always find that this person has a limited number of places he goes, with the rest being inconvenient to get to.

This is just a description of traffic patterns in the US, in general. You presumably don’t cruise through random suburbs on the other side of your city on your way to work, or while running errands, or really for any reason other than needing to.

Where I live, it’s both faster and cheaper for me to not own a car. It hasn’t hurt my traveling much, either, although you’ll have to take my word for that (until I figure out how to anonymize all the location data I collect for myself).
In my city the bike is usually faster than the car simply because you don't have to search for a parking spot for 30 minutes.
Heh, the first result now is a YouTube view w/ ads.
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When you place a buy order, you are buying it from a bank or private seller. Ford got paid a long time ago.
Arcan has been in works since even before Wayland iirc, but frankly nothing has a chance without the big-name support that wayland gets
If only we had something like that on Linux systems. I wonder how that work on the kernel side.
Well, let’s increase your awareness, then.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cyberwarfare_by_Russia
WideTable: An Accelerator for Analytic Data Processing (2014)
Is it a feature that has gone app only? I can’t imagine you can no longer say “hey google set a 5 minute timer” since that’s one of the key use cases of digital assistants.
> Don't even get me started about the time it takes to find parking in this city... I am guessing that that time consideration is not in this study.

For a while when I lived in Austin, cycling to work from where I lived would be comparable to driving in terms of time. That's despite the fact that I was only going roughly 15 mph when in motion. I'd often catch up to drivers at stop lights, and I could park directly in front of my building. No time spent finding parking and walking to the building. Some drivers are quite arrogant about the advantages of driving and are quick to dismiss the time spent parking, but time spent parking is a significant factor in many places.
> The only real benefit of public transit is you can read during the commute.

I think there is more to it than this. When driving, your nervous system is continually activated as your attention is (should be!) focused on everything going on around you for the entire time. 10x this when stuck in bumper to bumper traffic, making thousands of micro-decisions about when to break, how fast to speed up, how much room to leave ahead of you. The difference between 30-45 minutes of this and 1.5 hours of sitting peacefully on public transit is dramatic.

But on all your other points I fully agree. The answer though is not to throw out public transit because of these pitfalls - it is to massively double down on improving public transit to mitigate these pitfalls.
Building a registry has been very seriously attempted at least twice but ended with the acceptance of the futility of the endeavor.
The query "my ip address" still works for me.

https://www.google.com/search?q=my+ip+address
The tube in London is significantly faster than driving in all but the most unusually low-traffic weekend days.

What is terrible thigh are the buses. It is almost like it is a regulation now that they cannot go faster then 12mph. And even if they could go faster than that, they stop literally every 100-200 meters so you are constantly stopping and starting. It is infuriatingly slow and plodding as a result, despite the fact that they have dedicated bus lanes here.

I simply do not know why there are not more "express" bus routes in London that only stop at major places (e.g. perhaps linking tube stations that are on different lines, or going "across" London (c.f. tube lines that tend to head to the center).

I think it is the result of a bit of a socialist ideal about everyone sharing the same journey as some sort of proletariat-unite fantasy where we all share the same bus: children on their way to school, workers on their way to the office, grannies going to visit their grandchildren, etc etc - no matter your status or walk of life you're all together sharing the same journey, all equal, all together etc. That is all very well and good, but different people are under different time pressures, so lowering the bus to handle the lowest common denominator of someone who just wants to get it to go 0.5 to 1km down the road ruins it for those that need to cover distance. So those that can pay to go places faster than those that don't
If the borrower defaults, and thus cedes the collateral to the lender, does the borrower also get to default on their tax obligations now that the shares aren’t theirs? Or is that added to their debt mountain?

There’s lots of schemes around borrowing but never paying it back, deferring payment until death, paying it back such a way the money is just returned to you via some other entity, etc.
the subway is fine. visitors are always taken aback by the general grittiness of new york. traffic in the city is unpredictable and cars often spend a lot of time sitting at lights. parking is a nightmare. post pandemic reliability has reduced, but it's still pretty stellar. vagrants and criminals are an internet mirage, like when you start a new job and everyone is just parroting shit they read on glassdoor.
I'm using Dell XPS 13 9380 right now and it serves me well, although I'd prefer the keyboard layout of Lenovo Yoga 2 Pro that I used previously and which I find perfect. These days it's getting increasingly hard to find a 13" laptop with acceptable keyboard layout :(

I don't know how does the situation look like with larger laptops as I wasn't interested in them when I was looking around for a new computer the last time.
"Remind me to <thing> at <time>" has been dead for a while now too. I would use this several times daily.
Near the bit that describes "repeated squaring", there is this formula (note the "http"):
http://www.scottaaronson.com/cgi-bin/mimetex.cgi?x^r%20=%203...

Firefox doesn't want to load that due to mixed content (https page loading http), and also doesn't want to follow the 301 redirect to the https version. Chrome appears to follow the 301 redirect (or maybe lazy-images.js does something different) such that the page renders properly.
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I agree with all you say with the exception that it is very distinct from being a programmer or an artist like a painter or graphical designer.

As a programmer I love that when I type [i*i for i in range(10)] I can predict the output and that the output will always be the same.
I get frustrated if the same action produces unexpected and non-reproducible results.

Good Dall-e prompter is more like a guide who can navigate through the unknowns. He knows how to use seemingly meaningless words to manipulate the beast. I think it's some form of art and at the same time like being a technician of a complex machinery or wild animal trainer.
I think this is only really true for subway routes. The stop and go nature of buses slows a commute down and you don’t have a traffic-free route to make up for it. Subways are so much faster between stops that you can make up for the delays due to stopping.

In general, I feel once you make the conscious decision to build for cars and allocate vast amounts of space to parking everywhere then you’re going to generally do better with a car. Transit will only be more in line as you drive the % of drivers down and reduce the resource allocations for cars.
This sounds 1) very cool, but 2) also a monster risk for spreading COVID and other diseases (literally pairing people up for close contact in as many combinations as possible).
Tailscale + pihole is another way to achieve using same config everywhere. It's pretty easy to setup (by a HN definition of easy, would not suggest for any typical user). https://tailscale.com/kb/1114/pi-hole/

NextDNS/Adguard-DNS are more user friendly options.
I think we are saying the same thing here. The work ethic is based on different bases for both - you would never be needlessly harming your health if you are passion driven for example.
Thoughts on static linking in Rust and how it affects distro maintainers
"X bytes to {kilo,mega,giga}bytes" never, ever works for me. Every single time I have to manually fix the input and output units.
Did some research on this a while ago and I‘d wager that 5x in LOC & growth is a bit off: https://github.com/morris/vanilla-todo - probably it’s more around 1.5x (which can still be problematic). Would be interesting to rewrite the study declaratively and compare again.
Use a different user. GrapheneOS can forward notifications from background to active user.

I also use a separate phone for my side business and ignore my work-provided phone 99% of the time cause I'm not on-call.

Siloing the data on your device is a good idea, be sure to silo your time properly.
I remember in Sixth Grade (in Maryland), our teacher telling us that there was still a law on the state books, that said (I can’t remember what he said, precisely, but this is the gist):

If a car is going in one direction on a road, and there is a horse (I don’t think he specified whether or not it was harnessed, but I’ll bet it needed to be in harness) coming the opposite direction, the car needed to pull over, and yield to the horse.

If the horse refused to pass the car, then it was incumbent upon the car owner to (in escalating order):

1) Turn off the engine.

2) Cover the car in a blanket.

3) Dismantle the car, piece by piece, until the horse passes.

I could see a cranky old farmer having fun with that law.
Pipewire is compatible with the Pulseaudio protocol, so Pulseaudio clients work on Pipewire. In contrast, Wayland is a protocol. A Wayland-compatible compositor that also speaks something else would still be a Wayland compositor.

I think the fact that Wayland isn’t a program is a big part of the problem. The dominant Wayland compositor in use is gnome-shell, and it’s obviously extremely GNOME centric. With X11, the interaction between clients and gnome-shell was intermediated by Xorg, so, if gnome-shell wanted to support Xorg (which it did), it had to support relevant features of Xorg. Xorg supported server side decorations, so gnome-shell did too.

But gnome-shell as a Wayland compositor supports whatever set of features it likes, and clients that require additional features don’t work on GNOME, so they largely don’t get written, so there is little pressure on gnome-shell to support them. A Wayland competitor won’t help here. An alternate Wayland server that sits in front of gnome-shell might, but it would be a mess.

Ultimately the best solution would be to break GNOME’s mindshare dominance. If enough users demanded something better/different, then IT departments and sales would notice, and GNOME would need
to either catch up or get left behind.
>You have to get to and from the station / stop twice every trip.

And you have to get to and from your parking spot.

>an area where the density is so high that the space constraints make cars prohibitive.

Yes, these areas are called "cities".

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There are a lot of factors that go into determining the relative speeds of public transport vs private motor vehicles. Here are some of them (for buses):

- street network topology: grid, spaghetti, cul-de-sacs?

- are there highways slicing through the city, or is it mostly smaller roads?

- speed limits on those roads

- is there a congestion charge?

- are there dedicated bus lanes?

- is there priority for buses at intersections?

- spacing of stops

- boarding, payment, disembarking procedure

- frequency of rides

- directness of the route

- viability of other non-car transport modes e.g. cycling

Different answers to these questions give different journey times. Whether transit is faster than driving is the net result of all these questions. And most of them are political in nature. It's a choice, not some iron law.

Plus, there's the obvious existence proof of fast public transit: airlines.
> For timer to disappear like this would most likely be caused by a ranking change which prevents it from appearing as the top result (the only position it can render itself in).

Does Google really not have some sort of "Always rank this result first" flag?
They are likely referring to force * distance = energy. Which in context is a pitch for pumped hydro storage.

This all sounds well and good, however it’s highly unclear that utility scale pumped hydro is viable. To make it work you need to have plentiful water, limited evaporative loss/other losses, and two large basins to store both the charge, and discharge of water.

In the event of drought, these facilities could become impractical. Hydro facilities have their own environmental concerns. Combined with shifting climates and rainfall patterns there are many challenges to be solved. (some of which go away if the hydro storage is in underground ceiled chambers… which also has a cost associated)
You can easily disable SIP yourself, by rebooting into Recovery mode.

However, Apple Music may be part of the system. The system cannot be modified, it’s not permitted. You can download things that prevent this though by intercepting the key press.
This is a website where everyone gets some of their compensation in lottery tickets at a smaller company selling a service to a larger ad conglomerate with fraudulent conversion metrics, or they get paid half theyre comp in easily convertible shares at the larger ad conglomerate with fraudulent conversion metrics

I really cant spot a reason to treat “crypto” differently

The similarity being that there is just other aspects of these projects and technology to focus on, that can be interesting
For a nice way to start discovering plants around you I recommend the excellent iNaturalist app/site: See a plant, snap a photo and the app will suggest what it thinks it is. Other users can help with identification if the app fails.

Besides beeing a kind of nerdy pokemon go (how many organisms can you collect?) it's also crowd-sourced science.

My latest catch is this guy:
https://www.inaturalist.org/taxa/62060-Palomena-prasina
plus you know the massive personal and societal cost savings of reduced fuel consumption
Odd not to use the github feature to move a repo, such that github will redirect from old urls (for web UI as well as git https).
The 90 degrees and humidity make it very unwalkable
The line between these gacha games and slot machines is getting thinner by the day. How many RPG elements do I need to add to a slot machine in order to get them installed legally into arcades? Or by schools?
Do people actually enjoy car-centric living, or are alternatives just not available or something the average American has much exposure to? If you want to live somewhere in America that's walkable/bikeable/good public transit, your choices are a lot more limited than if you're willing to live somewhere where you need to drive everywhere. And those limited choices tend to be more expensive, which I think says something about their popularity.

Interestingly though, it seems like there is a trend to expand car alternative options, at least in some areas of the country. There's not much you can do about an exurban bedroom community because density is so low and nothing besides other houses is remotely within a convenient non-car distance. But in places that could be less car-centric, you're starting to see expanded public transit and bicycle infrastructure. And even in what would normally be a suburban area, I've started to see more mixed use development with higher density housing options. And of course more high-end condo type housing in large cities themselves. The fact these all tend to be relatively expensive places to rent or buy a home suggests to me that demand is fairly high, so clearly not everyone loves the car-centric choice.

I also think there is a segment of Americans who love the idea of low-density, car-centric, single family development in theory, but they're running into the reality that trying to build that for everyone means that people are going to have to live increasingly far away from anywhere they want to go. Even if you don't mind driving everywhere, car-centric becomes a lot less fun when everything is a 30+ minute drive away and gas is becoming more expensive.
Amsterdam is perfectly walkable. I'm still more worried by every combustion powered vehicle, specially those who think they are above the rules. Motorbikes are becoming a problem, while a bike is not gonna kill you.
Maybe there's a rising tide of interest in certain cases that lifts both Wikipedians and jurists.
As the other reply pointed out, those speed limits are pretty aspirational. The average trip time in central London decreased 30% [0] quite a bit after introduction of the charge, but things have slowed down again for various other reasons apparently.

I don't think the congestion charge is unreasonable considering the negative externalities the vehicles cause. Aside from work or delivery vehicles, it seems bizarre to drive into central London by choice.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/London_congestion_charge#Traff...
I've made plugs with a hole saw that turned out pretty OK. I drilled out the knot with a hole saw and made the plug by removing the center drill after getting about 20% through the plug board.

I used a slightly larger saw for creating the plug and then sanded the difference (after marking the plug with a set of calipers) on a belt sanding jig, which allowed me to essentially turn the plug.

The end result wasn't as good as Paul's, but it allowed me to get the job done.
There seems to be a growing number of ISO Prolog systems running in the browser, including native systems ported over to a browser target. I guess a common restriction is the lack of ISO I/O predicates (which don't make sense in a browser or wouldn't help portability if implemented over HTTP in an ad-hoc way).

[1]: http://tau-prolog.org/

[2]: https://quantumprolog.sgml.io
> Something like 42+7 giving 49. Turns out that this was getting classified as "porn seeking"

Sounds like the results were either 34 or 69, then...
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That's a Brave (mis)feature, I tested and it works for me alt-tabbed out on Firefox.
> Subways are so much faster between stops that you can make up for the delays due to stopping.

That 2 hour trip to the airport? At least 1.5 hours of that is subway/train.
You're the one comparing the worst heat wave in recorded history to business as usual.
I think in such a legislation it has to be clearly defined what a "search result" is I'd be surprised if the legislation would count the timer widget as such.
Apple and Amazon beat expectations but still see profits slip
First you need to understand that the intent of the query string is to set a timer. Human language is ambiguous so there can be many competing interpretations.

Then you have to take all the intentions and ask backends to fulfill them with their actual results

Then you sort the result by the correct order for the user.

Then you need to render the search page. At this points some results may not want to be present anymore because they are not the top result.

That's a 50'000 foot approximation of what happens when you query Google. The process has tons more complexity as you zoom in.

It is amazing engineering, but probably not the first way you'd go about implementing a count down timer.
This seems to be a tremendous amount of material to cover - with associated programming exercises to boot - for a course that requires only intro courses in CS and Statistics as prerequisites. So one does wonder how superficial it might be and how much students adhere to the warning about Google usage. Or perhaps Harvard students truly are that smart and hard-working that they can manage to go deep into all this material while managing with the rest of a full course load! https://harvard-iacs.github.io/2021-CS109A/pages/syllabus.ht...
They (distro maintainers) just assume things work like they've always worked in their C-land, and that that is the model now and forever. Well, too bad.
> But it’s hard for me to think of a city I’d rather walk between to random points in.

In the US? Sure. Now imagine a place where there are hundreds, thousands of cities that walkable or better, and you don't have to be a gazillionaire to live in one.
To be a self sustaining business, probably. For the hobbyist creators, there's a long tail of creators that don't need to go maximally viral and still enjoy a healthy following.
A sibling comment suggests this has more to do with where you work than how modern your C++ is, which rings true to me. Different kinds of programs need different kinds of memory management patterns, and some are more error-prone than others.

In my experience there also tends to be a long tail of memory corruption bugs. After flushing out those that are easy to run into or that have a major impact, everything seems fine and you can go years without really spending time on them, but they're still lurking at the edges of automated crash reports and mysterious bug reports you never quite manage to reproduce yourself. And when I do manage to track one down, it's as likely as not to be in, around, or even caused by modern C++ features.

Tetris puzzle or not, it's really quite nice to systematically rule out those kinds of issues. In some domains it may not be worth it, but in others they can hide major security issues or similar. And either way it sure beats periodically digging through crash dumps trying to piece together something that looks impossible from the surrounding source code.
Mine was a hand me down from my older sister. Our public school did have some TI-82s that they lent out for classes, but that wasn’t always the case and the cost of a calculator was certainly a burden on some families.
Swallowing Our Bitterness (2021)
I’m sorry that you had to see those things, but the idea that the average person will “probably” see them is a persistent myth. I’ve lived here my entire life, the entire time riding subways and buses for school and work, and I’ve never once seen an assault or someone defecate themselves.

I have seen lots of homeless people, most of whom were sleeping or minding their own business, and I have seen people urinate in subway stations (but not since I moved to Brooklyn). But both are a far cry from the mental image of general mishegaas that assaults and defecation projects.
It is highly regulated everywhere in the US, but a lot of people in every state are working to improve the regulations and reduce the burden while making sure that food safety is a priority.

Success leads to more success. Be happy that California has made an improvement; it will be used to make things better in your state next.
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Significant clarification missing from the title: "IN AMERICA"

And to some Americans' surprise, not everywhere is like that. When you build your cities around cars, no other mode of transportation can thrive. Over a century of sprawl and road widening can't have an overnight fix.
I’d suggest reviewing the site guidelines on comments.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html

I posted a response on some of the challenges with marginal economics in renewables and responded to your comment with a peer reviewed and cited journal article on these issues and the relevant data point from this study.

Your response contains an ad-hominem personal attack, and does not contribute to the discussion.
Back in their Don't Be Evil days they actually clamped down on another part of Google that gamed their search results: https://searchengineland.com/google-penalizes-google-japan-1...