skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Yes exactly, the point I guess I was arguing with is how you define 'a certain amount' of freedom. Freedom is clearly not absolute in the real world so why should it be absolute in the digital one? Particularly when the overwhelming majority of 'normal' people do not care about the basics of digital hygiene and security.

There was a time I had a very Stallman view on software. Now I think my views are that having closed source devices, where security is managed by 'trusted' third parties, is absolutely fine for people who don't care. However, there should always be a choice for those who do want to exercise their freedom, and typically those who care about their digital freedoms will be technical enough to manage their devices responsibly. Clearly though in the mobile market in particular we're very far away from realising this.
You're looking at on car usage after all the rules were changed, and all those drivers know no better, or worse, have no choice. But imagine a city designed for no car usage! How would all those car driver vote then?

SF has terrible public transport by international standards. You have to rebalance your baseline, I'm afraid.
As is clear from my other comments I also find this stuff unfair.

I try to keep in mind that on balance it’s a good thing that performant programs have become dramatically more accessible recently, and that most of the C/C++/Fortran/Haskell antagonism is a result of enthusiasm around that. For me it was BASIC -> C, but I imagine JS -> Rust is every bit as exhilarating.

But I do hope at least a few people read your comment and are inspired to learn a little background. Rust is cool because it remixed the broadly-accessible FP algebra, a kickass C++ toolchain decades in the making, and a big bet on linear typing.

I didn’t set out to be the jaded, un-hip old guy but here we are :) It’s a nifty new LLVM front end with type classes and the Either monad. Neat. Get off my lawn ;)
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Kindles are Linux devices too, or at least they were through the end of 2017 when I left a team that worked on them. It seems likely they still are. You could SSH into them over USB if you had the root password, and even internally we used public hacker tools to get those passwords. I'm not positive this is the same one, but it looks familiar. https://www.sven.de/kindle/
There are some coins that are just unsexy currencies and nothing else, with clear goals to optimize speed and minimize intermediate costs, and I think that's precisely why they're unsexy now. It seems to me that this space has been a fractal of ponzi schemes designed to defraud small and poorly informed players and when something actually works, it's immediately cast aside and shunned because it had no use to the carnival energy that large players are trying to maintain.
Yeah, they should get vehicle-to-grid capability.
> And I’m sorry you feel that the pro-coup, pro-Dobbs, pro-demonizing-gay-people party isn’t as well liked as you feel they’re entitled to be.

Lol wtf?

I’m saying I think it’s wrong to assume rural folk care what people in the city want to do. Most rural people are pro public transit that I’ve met. They just need cars where they are at, so they don’t like the idea of regulating it heavily such that they MUST move to a city.

> Rural areas account for 14% of the US population

Well over 70% of people need cars to transport themselves and others. Public transit is not practical in the suburbs either. Electric cars might and busses work to a degree, but the overwhelming majority of people need vehicles. At least based on the current suburban layout.
Ask HN: Why are paperback O’Reilly books never printed in color?
I regularly buy technical books from O’Reilly for which I pay anywhere between 30-60 euros. The print quality is ok (not great I would say) and the images are always back and white. I recently got a free pdf o’reilly book and the images where in color there. I found this to be a big improvement. Some images are much clearer and it gives the book a more premium feel.

Why are the print versions never in color? I usually pay between 40-60euros for these books which I don’t consider cheap. I assume the majority of the price of these books goes to covering fixed costs and that the cost to print one book is only a few euros. Why not spend a few euros more to get a more premium product while barely increasing the price?
I'm sure that would work - over the years since I learned much more about computers, and realized I needn't have worried so much.

My misconception came from an article I read at some point which described assembly/C (I think) programming as more risky, and I just took it at face value.
Ghostscript (well, gv) got me through the 1990s and beyond as part of my TeX -> dvips -> gv workflow.

Kudos and thank you to those who maintain it and the associated packages!
Reminds me of the fact that American universities graduate literally double the number of petroleum engineers each year than ecologists
Also the stress levels are wildly different: get on the T, open a book and relax versus dealing with confused tourists and crazed Uber drivers against a backdrop of shoddily-patched roads and indifferent signage.
It’s all trade offs, there isn’t an objectively better plan.

The US for example encouraged but didn’t mandate the general public get vaccinated. It’s easy to say that’s the wrong choice, but people would have seriously objected.
See the "Lake to Bay" project, connecting a decent walking path from Lake Union to Elliot Bay. It will involve crossing streets. It will feature additional benches/seating and improved lighting. The initial proposal by a local resident was extremely well done.
I’m surprised this doesn’t mention that part of the reason cities supported the adoption of cars was the fact city streets were covered in horse poop… you also had to feed, house, and care for the horses.

Frankly, this article feels like a puff piece.
Afghanistan, from a reputed source like Reuters:
https://www.reuters.com/article/crypto-currency-afghanistan-
idUSL8N2QU39A

> I want to understand if this is a widespread, sustainable trend.

Why? What if there is not widespread trend and it is only anecdotes? Why should every new technology be "widely adopted or bust" instead of simply being a new interesting tech which a hacker can tinker with just because? Blockchains, NFTs and smart contracts are far more interesting than yet another iteration of a web framework or yet another way to track user data.
Maybe I'm old, but it's just stunning to me how many pro Wayland people seem to strongly miss this general point.

Whatever good things Wayland's been up to, it's been historically dismissive if not outright hostile to backward compatibility and integration, and that's not acceptable. I keep hearing, well it's what the old X people want, and I don't care.

Similarly, don't come with the goofy "It's open source so you don't have the right to criticize." False false false. That wrongly implies it's a bunch of plucky happy-go-lucky volunteers doing this out of the kindness of their hearts. Nope. It's companies with agendas and they need to do better.
"I also think there's a misinterpretation that alternatives to cars means nobody should drive anywhere"

From reading the comments on this thread and the other regularly posted ones, I don't think that's a misinterpretation at all.
Do those have topics have anything to do with the class of Wikipedia article mentioned in the study?

I’m not saying there isn’t bias, but the existence of bias in certain controversial subjects isn’t necessarily evidence that articles about cases are subject to the same kinds of issues. I’m not saying they’re immune either, but it’s not clear that the two are related.
I didn't nominate a population, you did that all on your own :)

Also, note that those poor people in developing countries helped fill our oceans with plastic, so everyone's a bit guilty.
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Doesn't it add (chemical) salts in water to remove impurities such as calcium? [0]
Can't those salts create hypertension [1] ?

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ion-exchange_resin#Water_purif...

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hypertension
Right, I would strongly prefer a city designed for less/no car usage. My complaint is that this article misrepresents history and misrepresents the current situation.

Public transit 100 years ago was worse for everyone than car ownership today. Living in a car centric city with a car is an overwhelmingly better lifestyle than riding public transit in the 1910s. At the time that cars became popular, they were a huge improvement in quality of life for the vast majority of people. Today we have technology to build better transit that is an improvement on car ownership for most people, but we're not building it. I'd like the narrative to be "we can do better", not "we used to do better but secret evil forces hurt us".
Punishment isn't typically defined that way though. That's a bit of a harsh definition

In psychology it's often defined as any behavioral method used to decrease an undesired behavior - split into positive and negative punishment. Positive punishment is adding stimuli that they don't like (physical punishment is included here, but lecturing can be too), and negative punishment is removing things that they like. If a child asks rudely for ice cream and you don't give it to them because of the way they asked, that's a form of (negative) punishment.

Your countertop example is too - from a behavioral perspective, that's just a form of (positive) punishment - you're making them do something they don't like in response to unwanted behavior. You might have an added rationale to connect things, but that's still what the behavioral effect is.
Not the op, but the major group tempted to do this would be recruiters, who get paid by companies, not candidates
I keep hearing this and yet I keep being able to use X just fine.
It used to be that other people used to manage the “business” aspects of the job. Cloud forces that management down level.
I think the flaw in your line of thinking is that sex workers don't get to choose their clients.
Then there should have been a set of core protocols, so for example, something like core-desktop. Going for the bare minimum just to be super flexible and support desktops, phones, tablets, fridges and graphics cards with RGB lighting is the typical overthinking that hurts everyone and slows adoption. Wayland was conceived in 2008, and has had paid full time devs working on it. For that, the current state is pretty pathetic.
You'll need to convince someone that you can successfully do the next level, figure out who that is (most likely your current manager) and start talking about it.
I support solutions to this of the form "let's make transit faster while keeping driving the same speed". I strongly oppose solutions to this of the form "let's keep transit basically the same speed but make driving slower".
It doesn’t become true just because you keep repeating it. The point was always to allow for an API where you only had to think about how to render one snapshot, and not care about what the previous snapshot looked like. Virtual DOM made that possible, but it was never more performant than just writing the resulting DOM manipulations manually.
Thank you for your kind.
It is hard to forget problems, so I remember anyway :)
As I said above: where to start a blog? What kind of subjects interesting for HN?
Unfair. The blog post is pretty clear that it’s a recap on things learnt about entrepreneurship and not, as you label it a “startup”. It is most certainly not inviting its readers to embark upon that business pursuit. I think the advice is clear: go sell something, anything, on the side and you’ll be amazed what you learn. Now bring those learnings back into your actual business aspirations.
I also suspect a lot of people who argue to completely replace cars with public transit either haven't tried traveling with young children on public transit, or haven't had the luxury of using a car when traveling with young children. Because taking young children on public transit is pretty miserable.
Sent, still no response. Maybe he is at weekend.
People got cars in large part because new development was done in car-specific ways rather than dense ways that support alternatives. I recommend Robert Caro's The Power Broker, which goes into how new development was shaped by roads without planning for rail or mass transit, and how even as this was being built in the 1950s people understood induced demand and how roads couldn't scale and advocated for the inclusion of planning for mass transit but were overruled. This led to sparse suburban development that required cars, but didn't have to be the case. Once it was in place it was prohibitively expensive (and in many cases impossible) to change.
> Life is better by nearly every way you want to measure it...

https://external-content.duckduckgo.com/iu/?u=http%3A%2F%2Fs...

Also life is much better today for a weak, stupid person. 100 years, or even 40 years back, your life would be hell due to people giving you a hard time.

Today you would be put on a pedestal and worshiped for your shortcomings...

> We'll have to get ourselves out of the climate mess the same way we got into it - with technology.

And get into another one by doing it. Flawless logic.

Human beings should start being humble and realisitic about their capability to predict the effects of thier actions on environment, and start messing with it less. Not more. If humanity as a whole, has the capability to JUST FUCKING STOP, I would have much hope for the future. But no. Humanity has as much ability to course correct as that of a flying hippopotamus.
Oh. I'm sure some do that, and I'm sure some don't. It's a generally unregulated business, the workers charge as they see fit. If that's the way they want to do business, then so what? If those terms aren't acceptable to you, then walk away.
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Well I make sure the post is on topic. So funny stuff goes to humor groups. Inspirational quotes go to all the wisdom/spirituality/philosophy groups. Even better if it’s your own material. I find reposts of other’s content a bit shallow and meaningless.
The answer really depends. Are there growth opportunities in your department? If yes, express interest, perhaps take on some of the responsibilities while in your current role if possible.

Are their growth opportunities outside your dept? Develop a relationship with the manager of other departments, understand what they're looking for. Work to meet those requirements.

Otherwise, consider looking elsewhere at a different company. Don't be afraid to move laterally or take a small step back if there is a strong possibility of growth in the near future. Especially if it's a slight different and promising career direction.
Ask HN: How do you practice math with your kids?
They say if you want to foster reading in your household then you should read a lot. Read fiction, non-fiction...always have a book in your hand.

Can you treat math the same way you approach reading? Reading can be seen as a casual hobby and activity, but math doesn't appear to have that same level of casual approach.

I have young children and would like to approach math the same way I do reading. How do you practice math at home to foster mathematics in children the same way you can with reading?
The crazier the world gets, the more the Amish lifestyle seems sensible to me.

It's an election year. I wonder if they take long-term visitors....
Interesting - normally I never look at /newest, but after reading your comment I had a brief look. And apparently some users post 4-5 links in quick succession. At first I suspected they were bots, but apparently said users simply decided to post a few links today. Not the typical submission pattern I would have expected.
and majority of that agriculture land is for animal agriculture (which is probably obvious to everyone by now)
My ex went from botany to library science (to become a research librarian for botanists/agriculture) to bioinformatics. So it's possible to go in a similar direction while still leveraging the botany degree, at least.
You should. I wouldn't consider a project not in php and applicant tracking is important.
> because most people had cars.

That's mostly an American/European thing though, world wide there are only about 1.5 billion cars, 275 million of these in the United States, another 250 million in Europe. Together those account for ~ 1/3 of the cars but only for about 12% of the world population.
I'm not sure I understand your analogy. My thoughts were along the lines of users unintentionally installing malware which inflicts harm onto others, or say refusing to install software updates 'because it works' which in turn puts others at risk.

But to use that car analogy, in my country it is a legal requirement to have your car undergo a safety check every year for cars older than a certain age. That is very analogous to installing software updates in my opinion, and yet we don't enforce legal requirements to install updates on personal devices.
I guess it is probably 1000 words a day on average. I don't know whether the book have plots, graphs and other illustrations.

It is fast writing, but doable. It requires knowing the subject in advance well--that's a given--consistency (starts and stops double the time, the longer one writes, the easier it becomes), and to copy and paste here and there paragraphs and articles that one has written and saved through their career--there are many "additional_material.txt" in my folders.
... in UK
Florida Is As Much Of A Star In 'There's Something About Mary' As Cameron Diaz
A 'nano-robot' built from DNA to explore cell processes
I have the Festool Domino XL [1] and IMO router jigs like in that video are only superficially equivalent. The real benefit of the Domino is how it indexes cuts against edges using the mortise spacer tabs/accessories and the 0-90 degree fence, height adjusted using precise stops. It makes "measure twice, cut once" much smoother and setup is so fast that it's become my default method of joinery for anything where aesthetics matters. I sometimes use a single Domino jig for small parts [2] and clamped scrap wood spacers for awkward cuts, but the rest of the time I just use the built-in Domino functions and the included spacer accessory (which extends the length of the tabs to 200mm).

It's hard to describe just how much more useful the tool is compared to router jigs, pocket holes, etc. It changed how I design my work, how I prepare rough stock and cut it to final size, and how I work with wood movement.

[1] though I have the Seneca adapters and all that, I wish I had gotten the smaller one. Unless you're doing serious structural joinery the smaller Domino is much more convenient, and you can double up on tenons instead of reaching for a bigger one in most cases anyway.

[2] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qP3JGfjUGbM
What a big new US law that reshapes science agencies could mean for researchers
I'm sure they did at some point, but worth noting that prioritizing Google's own tools have been challenged in EU courts for being anti-competitive.
73 Tech Predictions Will Make You Laugh
In 1995 Newseek predicted that Internet will fail: “No online database will replace your daily newspaper.”

“Any useful idea about the future should appear to be ridiculous.” — James Dater

I love skeptical predictions. So I made the ultimate list of quotes told to inventors and entrepreneurs about their projects throughout our history.

It feels like an SNL sketch.
Other cities have done it quite a bit quicker, Amsterdam had a head start to begin with because the old city always was hostile to vehicles simply by the way it was laid out.
Ah crap so I’m going to be booted from gsuite in a year because I upgraded but won’t renew in a year while others will be fine? I barely use it too. Didn’t want to deal with moving the domain email yet.
From the article: "It has been over a decade since a student was enrolled in a botany degree in the UK."

Botany is a very different specialty than genetics.
Functionally, you don't usually need to know this kind of thing. But it's something that is taught in CS 101, pretty close to day 1. Yes, you should know stuff that basic!

A better fit for your question would be, should a dev know the difference between big endian and little endian? (Hint: Yes)
> As I look out my apartment window on a Sunday morning, with pleasant weather and a walkable green neighborhood, I still count far more cars going by than people on foot or bicycle.

And how much dedicated infrastructure is there, in terms of space and money, for walking vs biking vs driving?

People always ignore this, that driving even in "walkable" neighborhoods generally still has ENORMOUSLY more money and more land dedicated to it. If you look at how much space the road takes up, vs sidewalks and protected bike lanes, and how much money those things cost to build -- it's not even close.

That, plus in the US there's usually a lack of mixed use zoning, so there's hardly anywhere to walk to (though I don't know whether this is the case for your neighborhood in particular).
It was definitely annoying and if you didn’t have a screwdriver to get inside it was “bricked.”

The one thing I was never brave enough to do was overclock. Supposedly it was just unsoldering a capacitor which would do something like 3x the clock speed.
The planet can't afford to bring every person on this planet to a 2022 first world style of living. Industrializing America and Europe trashed the planet pretty thoroughly. With that said, poorer countries are no less aspirational than the west was, hence why Brazil burns its rainforest and others consume limited resources like sand, etc. and freely pollute and pillage the ocean. Judged on action, they have no interest in their tomorrows at all.

How do you propose we reconcile this gap?
I'm hoping self driving cars will not happen for another two decades because they will cause more traffic, not less. The limiting factor for a lot of possible car trips right now is that a driver is required. When that limitation disappears you'll see an explosion in car trips without an occupant.
Meanwhile my Caladiums are growing nicely
For sure, and some economies were "lucky" enough to wait until the late 20th century to develop. The public transit systems in Singapore, Hong Kong, the entire Pearl River Delta, etc are all IMO far better ways to get around than driving a car in most US cities.
This is pretty ignorant about what "towns" in rural America are like. My wife went to high school in a "city" in Iowa that's big enough to be classified as an "urban area" by the census bureau.

The town is still tiny and walkable, but having a car is essential because you can't feasibly organize your life around staying in town. My wife didn't live on any of the surrounding farms, but her best friend did, so without a car she couldn't visit her friend. Half the kids at her high school were from the neighboring town (neither town was big enough to have a high school for themselves), so without cars those kids couldn't visit each other. And kids in the other town couldn't visit the Pizza Ranch or the movie theater, which were in my wife's town. There was no mall or major retailer in town, so on the weekends the kids would cajole some adult or older teenager into driving them to Sioux Falls South Dakota, which is about an hour away. That is also where the nearest Costco is. Back before cars, people in those rural towns were cut off from modern amenities. They made their clothes at home, didn't buy mass market consumer products, etc. Most of them don't want to go back to living like that.

And in reality, it wasn't practical to organize life around the town alone even back then. Before cars--even in 1920 more than half of American households had a car--they rode horses to access stores and amenities in neighboring towns.