skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Even if they ran entirely on solar, cars still pollute. Dust from your tires, for instance, has a noticable impact the fish populations. Electric cars are heavy and put more strain on roads. Battery chemistry can be difficult to cleanly recycle.

EVs are great, and I'd love to see them replace ICE cars, but they are not enough. We need to rethink our dependence on the car.
It is interesting to me that they explicitly block Tor. Russia appears to allow several commercial VPN providers. I only know this because I watch a handful of Russian youtube vloggers that try to show how things are going in their city or in their travels around Russia. That makes me wonder if they have an arrangement with those VPN providers to provide data on some of their users. Or perhaps another theory is that the vloggers have been coerced into working for the state but try to make it look like they oppose it.
FastAI's machine learning for coders: https://course.fast.ai It's amazing.
I think the simple reason why we have so many subscription-only services is that few people would buy it at the LTVs that these companies hope to (and often do successfully) extract via the subscription.

And people who see through it hate it because they realize how ridiculous the actual price is.
This study should have been controlled by asking whether courts had access to the curated legal databases (primarily LexisNexis, I imagine):

> "...the increase was bigger for citations by lower courts — the High Court — and mostly absent for citations by appellate courts — the Supreme Court and Court of Appeal."

Secondly, is it possible that the study designers themselves used LexisNexis to research their Wikipedia articles? The study design was based on:

> "...creating new legal Wikipedia articles to examine how they affect the legal decisions of judges. They set off by developing over 150 new Wikipedia articles on Irish Supreme Court decisions, written by law students. Half of these were randomly chosen to be uploaded online, where they could be used by judges, clerks, lawyers, and so on — the “treatment” group."

If these Wikipedia articles were based on LexisNexis research, and that same LexisNexis database was being used by judges and clerks, this would seem to introduce some major biases (making the study rather worthless in terms of measuring Wikipedia influence).
I wouldn't even trust a 3-year-old to run around on pavement unsupervised without giving themselves a concussion.
Electricity is far cheaper per mile both economically and environmentally.
Typically not on their own - it's very easy to calculate an optimized structure that is incorrect, so you typically want some sort of justification for your structure. Typically you would be calculating one of these geometries along the way to calculating other interesting properties to either compare with experiment or make new predictions (or both). The "gold standard" is... comparison with a crystal structure from X-ray diffraction.

In my field (small inorganic molecules used as catalysts), I typically calculated the structure along the way to calculating the molecular orbitals for describing the electronic structure (important for understanding many properties of the catalyst and its reactivity) and predicting the infrared and visible spectra (useful for comparison with experiment and for explaining the electronic and magnetic properties of the molecule). It's the whole picture that's valuable, not just the structure - and the more experimental properties you include, the harder it is to fake the whole thing.
you would be surprised how the world operates outside of tech

it's scary excel sheets and a lot of ducttape

hell I wouldn't be surprised if the next round of innovation will be born out of tech people going into gov and realizing how much man hours there are to automate
Sure, but there are a couple of things to consider like peak consumption (everyone gets home from work and plugs in) or potentially much better utilization of electric vehicles from av adoption which might happen in the timeframes needed to get this tech out.
What is the right answer, then?

For what it’s worth: the right answer is still cars, just indirectly. Yes there are more factors but those factors are caused by how American suburbia is designed and evolved over the last fifty decades, which, surprise …

Walking to school is impossible in most of the US. Biking to school on six lane stroads is unthinkable especially for a child. Mobility is freedom and independence, and that independence is removed from American children. And so things evolve in exactly one direction: that of less and less freedom to roam the dangerous streets.

Parents of children in the 60s and 70s were raised with their full freedom and had no reason to prevent their kids from roaming the streets. It takes multiple generations for these changes to take effect in the mindsets of people. America will take decades to heal from its car centric mistakes… when it finally starts.
clojure can turn a data api into a first class clojure library with relatively less effort.

e.g https://github.com/cognitect-labs/aws-api
It's like a discussion on abortion. There are fundamental disagreements that have little to do with technologoy. Everybody keeps repeating their conclusions and predictions, only time will tell who is right.
Cars have only increased in size, but the main issue when everyone hops in a car is that it creates unsafe environment for everyone not in the car

Even if we ignore the threat of being run over, constant noise, pollution, less space for walking etc

Cars create a vacuum where if you were mugged in plain day light next to a motorway everyone knows the chances of being helped by a motorist is incredibly low

But if there are more pedestrians around you, the chance of getting help from a stranger goes up

Cars create dangerous deserts everywhere and that's why we don't let kids out
These AI created images may not be a replacement for bespoke illustration or photography, but if the choice is between stock images and DALL-E, many people would prefer a DALL-E image that fits closer to what they want than what they may find by searching a stock image website.
Is S&P 500 Index fund tax deferred? How much tax will you pay when you sell the shares and take cash?
Jab to 'cure' genetic heart conditions could be just a few years away
> In a venn diagram "pedestrians" and "car owners" would be nearly a perfect circle. Singling them out as opposing groups with conflicting interests isn't helpful.

Only in an environment where public infrastructure is designed to require a car for social participation. The venn-diagram is substantially less circular when public infrastructure accommodates and encourages other modes of transport, like walking and metros.

> America got to be car-centric not because of nefarious car companies or other special interests, it got to be car-centric because cars work very well for our use case. Consumers and voters (another near perfect Venn circle) have expressed their preference continuously for nearly a century.

Again, only true if you ignore the wider context. US infrastructure policy for the past 50 years has basically made car ownership an absolute necessity. It doesn’t matter what one’s personal preference is, if you wish to participate in US society, you must own a car.

For concrete examples of these policies, look at US zoning policy. It basically requires that only single family homes are built, and makes it almost impossible to build new dense housing. Despite the fact that historical sense housing in walkable areas is currently some of the most expensive real estate in the US, showing clear and strong demand for such housing.

Further US road policy prioritises automotive speed above all other factors. Pedestrian accessibility, or accessibility in general, pedestrian safety, is given little to no thought at all. An approach that is now rearing its ugly head in the US pedestrian fatality rate, which is far high than almost any other developed nation.
My first lesson of Product-Market Fit from spam email
I remember years about trying to organise my photos by year and month in respective folder with a shell script using exiftool to get the year and month for folders.

I failed to get it to work, my lack of knowledge with bash scripting. I might try again some time. I'm convinced it's a one liner.
There really is no better platform for exposure. Just over a week ago my TikTok had just under 1k followers. I'm currently at 5.2k.

Compare that to something like Twitter or Twitch. You can go for months, even years, without ever getting noticed.
how is this different from other online editors,e.g.codepen etc
Yeah.

I know the talking points (it's impossible to go on the Internet and not know all the Rust talking points) but you have a few beers with some Rust people and pretty quickly you're hearing how anything that isn't Rust all the way down is somehow like, tainted, with the dreaded binary quality of being "unsafe" as opposed to "safe". A serious Rust hacker who shall remain nameless once broke out that old chestnut on me: "A barrel of wine and a spoonful of sewage makes a barrel of sewage." in reference to Rust software that links to C. It's not a coincidence that somewhere, every conceivable library that anyone could ever want is being rewritten in "pure Rust".

And it's a shame because Rust is fucking cool and I want to be using it even more than I already am. But I'm not going to become a Scientologist to get into a party in LA and I'm not going to throw away a mountain of excellent C and C++ because it's, unclean.

I'm optimistic that as Rust continues to have its center of gravity migrate away from strictly OSS and into ever higher stakes industrial settings (which it's clearly making great headway on) that the religious fervor will mellow and it'll become a "getting shit done" language that also happens to be a really cool language!
It’s good thing we moved from these old urban walkable designs to a car centric lifestyle, which the vast majority of Americans enjoy. The tradeoff of owning a single family home with a good plot of land is well worth the loss in walkability.

This isn’t sarcasm.

Edit: I understand HN really doesn’t like pro car and pro sprawl viewpoints, but downvotes don’t feel well placed.
“Going with coworkers” - Typically means going with predominantly coworkers with perhaps some plus ones showing up. So going without coworkers, at least in context, sounds much more like the decision to go alone than to find other, non-work-colleagues to go with.

Assuming the word choice was deliberate, which, no reason to not, if it were about coworkers vs not coworkers a more typical phrasing would have been “with friends from outside of work instead,” or even “with other people you know instead.”

It doesn’t have to be an assumption that those are the only two choices. Enumerating all choices wouldn’t be helpful, as there’s more than three.

Replacing group A with group B is less interesting, more obvious, and potentially not an option, or at least not an easy one. If it were, said lamented would likely be eating at a new restaurant with friends rather than lamenting. Or their friends aren’t brave and hate new restaurants, which functionally is the same as not having a group in that case. If they are all at McDonalds because “going to that little place on the side street that looks dingy and smells amazing” is scary, well…

Going out alone is less universally accepted, some find it weird, some find it uncomfortable. But a lot of us enjoy it. (Literally dozens of us). So sharing that idea will likely lead to more interesting conversation.
What ‘The Jetsons’ predicted right – and wrong – about the future
These types of analysis start out the basic proposition that systems are designed for a specific goal from the start and that we should judge them based on those goals. Our justice systems have emergent properties that have arisen after many years and are due to many historical accidents vs. a planned or purposeful approach. They should also be judged on their outcomes, not their professed goals.

I will talk about the US, since that's what I have the most experience with and it's where MIT is located. The US does not adopt either of those strategies mentioned in the article, even if it does dress itself in the rhetoric of either moral justice or practical utility (the former is heavily favored). The outcomes of policing, legal system, and prisons is that poor and Black people are heavily oppressed and only the property rights of the weathly are taken seriously. White people's drug crimes are punished less than Black people's drug crimes. Heck, even the criminalization of drugs is oppressive against the already oppressed.

What is wild is that we don't see the police and judicial system as an occupying force. Why do police departments need MRAPs, M-16s, and plate carriers? Why do we have to keep gasing, shooting, and beating our own citizens? Why does the NSA and CIA feel the need to monitor our every word?

We can do better, but we have to admit that our system is not working for a lot of people. This is a blameless post-mortem, so all I want to do is fix our system, not assign blame. We have to make this better, for the sake of all.
That feels like making a bike lock manufacturer liable if someone uses an angle grinder and steals your bike anyways.

In practice, both a good bike lock and remote attestation raise the bar against attacks significantly, without providing 100% security.
tangibly related: does anybody know how google and other search engines fair in indexing TikTok/Douyin?

I wonder if the inability to go viral relates to the difficultly of finding tiktok videos off-platform. Admittedly, every TT video I have ever seen has been sent to me via a share link.
That's a sure sign of a stock market bubble.
> Isn't it also for the safety of pedestrians?

No, since it puts the onus of their safety of the pedestrians. It made collisions between cars and pedestrians the fault of the pedestrian by default, and excluded them from the road surface.

> It's not a good idea to walk on the train tracks either.

"High speed" train tracks take very little space compared to the road network criss-crossing cities, and thus the exclusion area is essentially nil by comparison.

Pedestrians are not excluded from tram tracks.
The thing is that even in that sense collapse will select a random universe. So you will get a universe with killed output or whatever you said it.

Also quantum parallel universe is not what you expect parallel universe to be. Universes interact with each other.
Nix is fundamentally a source-based package manager, so it'll try to build packages from source. However, since Nix packages are reproducible, it'll check the official binary cache first to see if it has already been built on Nix's infrastructure and download from there it's there. That's why Nix acts like a binary-based package manager most of the time. However, if a package fails to build or does build but isn't available on the binary cache yet, it would inevitably fall back to source builds. You'd occasionally run into this if you use the unstable channel of Nixpkgs. You can check https://status.nixos.org/ to get a sense of how high the chances are of missing the binary cache. Basically the chances are high if the channel build is failing.

While source builds aren't completely avoidable, you can alleviate much of the pain with a combination of declarative package management and dependency locking. It's what long term Nix users most likely end up using:

* nix-darwin for managing system-wide configuration

* Home Manager for managing user-level configuration

* Nix Flakes for locking dependencies

Once you have a working config, the same config would run anywhere, anytime. You can then use GitHub Actions to automatically update dependencies and check if they all build before merging. Also as a last resort, you can always revert to a previous config if something goes wrong.
Why do you believe that land use is absolutely no concern? What data do you have for this?

https://www.nature.com/articles/s41598-021-82042-5

Notes that at 80% penetration, solar will occupy roughly 5% of total land. The paper goes on to study methods of ensuring that this land use change does not drive net carbon increases from vegetation loss etc.
Wait, hold on.

Do you actually believe that humans can function optimally on only rice, beans, and peanut butter?
I'm new in this field and one thing I have a hard time understanding is how to apply all these ML algorithms, python libraries, etc. on very large data (i.e. how to deal with the memory problem, etc.). If someone could point me to links and/or hands-on courses I would really appreciate it.
I'd not seen that part of it before. I think the trick word here is "manifestly", and some sources seem to indicate that this means that the people would have to have expressly given consent for onward processing.

For example: https://iapp.org/news/a/publicly-available-data-under-gdpr-m...

Also Article 9 seems to be restricted to non-processable data about sensitive matters.

Anyhow, it's definitely a good example of how convoluted the language around GDPR can get, and how much of a minefield it is to try to follow it.

The usual caveat applies, I'm not a lawyer.
> Part of the problem is that most of these startups simply have too much overhead to offer their product for free or cheap.

The point of a startup is to make lots of money, to provide a large return to early investors; they definitely don't want to offer their product for free, and only want to offer it cheap if that's all the market will bear and they can get enormous numbers of sales by doing that.

> Like I never understood why most of these basic tools morph into 100+ people companies.

The giant company was the goal all the time. The basic tool was just a starting point.
One would think the deterrent of being hit by a fast moving object would be enough. I’m not sure how arresting or fining people improves their safety or welfare.
It’s a bit less straightforward than that.

“Jaywalking” as a term is derogatory; you can look up the etymology, if it were invented today it would be called “stupidwalking” or some such.

It was pushed hard by car companies, and they lobbied to make cars the primary user of the road within cities. So a pedestrian choosing to cross would by default be in the wrong, unless in the “correct place”, instead of the opposite.
Everything is politicized and weaponized.
As someone who has loved the Karma scent from Lush for so long, I totally love Patchouli! It's coming back. Let's bring it back.

On the other hand, it blows my mind reading this and feeling a bit stuffed up - one smell and about 3 seconds would be so much more information than this article. Not that the article is bad, but I can't even imagine what the scent would be without already knowing it. If only we had smell-o-vision.
Oh nice, seems very relevant to me - Thanks for sharing!
I think the political hurdles would be far worse than any expense, especially here in America where the car-centric attitude is so deeply embedded.
> What if Sally lives close to a grocery store and Dave does not. Sally could walk to get her groceries on her lunch break, but Dave has to drive or take public transit, which is an additional expense.

But how does this play out in practice, where you don't know how far a random customer or employee lives from a grocery store? Do you use some visible characteristic as a proxy measure instead?

And would you still call it 'equity' if you used that proxy to measure not just need, but also ability, or indeed any other characteristic?
I don't think it can be that simple. The photo is just a list of facts about the light incident to a small region of spacetime.
The Pentagon has a huge "public affairs" work force, not to mention the ~60,000 undercover "signals reduction" force.

https://www.newsweek.com/exclusive-inside-militarys-secret-u...
Does this work similar to rqlite or dqlite from a usage standpoint, or does it solve a different use case?
This is thought provoking, but suffers from a fundamental flaw. Let’s play this out…now you’re alive and have Satoshi’s keys, but all of the would-be bidders and pumpers in your universe have killed themselves, value goes to zero.

I think you may have accidentally discovered the Quantum Bag Holder Paradox.
The nuclear stans' focus on deaths may not be leading in the direction they want.

The way to account for the cost of deaths is by the "statical value of a human life", a finite quantity that is considered what would be reasonable to spend to avoid one death. The NRC uses a figure of $9 million when evaluating reactor safety systems.

Using that figure, deaths in normal operation contribute negligibly to the cost of energy from nuclear or renewables (but not for coal; there deaths contribute greatly to the real cost.) Because of this, if nuclear stans are focusing on deaths, what they're doing is implying that the $9 M figure is much too low. And that would imply that the NRC is not imposing enough safety systems on nuclear plants. I doubt this last point is one they'd be happy with.
"Improbably, though, the Libermans see this endeavor as part of an effort to stem twenty-first-century inequality. If they can sell life shares, they think, others can, too."

This may work for them, but idea cannot be generalized and absolutely will not solve the problem they say it would solve which is inequality.

Young people who haven't achieved anything yet will have very little potential value to investors, in general. But, those who have rich or well connected parents are statistically more likely to become wealthy themselves, and therefore are better investments and so those people, who already have systemic advantages, will be the primary beneficiaries of such a system. Also, it is the already rich that are making these investments, so if it pays off they become richer still. So inequality is re-enforced with this system.

Exceptional people like prodigies in sports or music etc. might also get a higher prices for their shares, but for them its probably a bad idea to sell them because they will themselves lose out on future earnings because they will have to pay out to the shareholders. They would be better off getting a fixed rate loan if they needed funds as their success is very likely.

In other words, those people that would make the best investments and get lots of money from this are the ones who don't really need it, and those that do need it won't get it because the investor would most likely lose money.

Again, this idea may work for specific cases, but it is not generalizable.
Sorry, I'm not seeing the downsides. That all sounds like a big improvement.

And regarding point 2: do you think human artists are as good as they are without already having seen lots of great artworks produced by others? Human artists don't create art from an empty vacuum of nothingness either.
Show HN: Snipthat.io – save interesting text snippets you find whilst browsing
I always wanted a place where I could save interesting snippets of text I find on the web, things like tweets, HN/reddit comments and little parts of blog posts and the like.

This tool is a browser extension, all you do is highlight text, right click and then you can send it to snipthat.

There are currently no logins, when you first get the browser extension you get a UUID which links to your snippets.

Site is very much in an alpha stage, I intend to add logins and you will be able to link your UUID to your login so you won't lose anything.

Any feedback / ideas appreciated!
> Just because something works doesn't mean it can't be improved upon.

True. It only implies that it could be broken.

You may not see the value in usernames, but that doesn't mean there is none. It's a variant of Chesterton's fence: if you do not understand the value of something for its users, don't mess with it.
> I’m having a heck of a time getting the screen resolution and font sizes where I want them and I’m kind of lost.

services.xserver.videoDrivers = [ "qxl" ];
services.spice-vdagentd.enable = true;