skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I'm not from Germany, but I just came back (to the UK) from a holiday spent partly in Germany and partly in Denmark.

In Germany I paid cash for every casual snack-grade transaction, and some bigger ones like restaurant meals. It seemed totally normal and I was happy with that.

In Denmark I never saw the currency at all and I have no idea what it looks like. I never used it and I never saw anyone else use it. Contactless everywhere.

I much prefer cash and regret its disappearance from use in my own country - we are about half-way between the German and Danish experiences above, perhaps closer to the Danish end. A holiday in Germany felt more like a holiday because of this detail. What it feels like when you actually live there is another question.

But this stuff about cash is something of a distraction from the question of metal use - it's increasingly apparent that although electric cars may be an improvement on oil-driven ones, they are not in any useful way the solution. Being rid of cars and basically all powered individual transport may be both dreary and extreme, but what alternative is there?
Old versions of RPGMaker go on sale quite often at Steam, I got mine for like a dollar or two. It's old but just to tell a story works :P If I wanted to customize every aspect I'd be better off with a game engine.
How to choose the correct Python concurrency API
in my personal experience (with both transit and non-transit friendly locales):

within NYC: bikes are the absolute fastest for short distances, the subway is comparable but generally fastest overall once things stretch out a bit, cars get hampered by "conditions" including traffic and parking; so they're ok if you hire a car late at night, but otherwise pretty slow and likely to get stuck in traffic.

in the dense burbs (silicon valley, southern ca, hillsdale, long island): bikes are a mix but generally slower, cars are the fastest, transit takes 2-3x as much time, except during congestion where grade separated modalities often come in about on par with car travel time.

in the rural burbs: cars win. transit takes 2-3x as much time. grade separation is rare, schedules are light and traffic is rarely an issue.

i would want to see how these averages are being calculated. i'm guessing they're probably just doing a flat average over all zipcodes. this seems wrong to me, instead if you want to come up with a summary stat (which i think is probably a bad idea, as there are so many different types of cities with different behaviors for this sort of comparison) you'd probably want to weight by population. to say that the national average is 2-3x probably overweights all the rural transit systems where this is true.
Still, I care less about relative quantities and more about what can be produced with the absolute amount at hand. How many houses, cars or circuit boards could be made with 30,000 tons a year?

There’s always some bigger problem you can point to that seems to render the point at hand useless, but as they say, 30K tons of copper saved is 30K tons of copper earned.
No, the opposite:

git clone --recursive some/repo.git
cd repo/subrepo
sed -i"" s/hello/goodbye/ README.md
git commit -am 'lololo'
cd ..
git commit -am'subrepo with *local* sha reference'
git status # everything is clean!

now that I know that can happen, running `git submodule foreach git status` will surface the "your branch is ahead of" magic text that indicates what has gone on, but it would be tons better if the system understood what was happening and didn't allow such a bad outcome
Codyslab sorting copper pennies using magnetic inductance: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_gM9mOk6eb8

Seems very simple and low tech.
We need every possible contribution to fight the dooming climate emergency. Bicycles AND electric cars. Renewables AND nuclear AND carbon capture.

I am very much against cars in cities, just like you, but this is an independent topic.

If you try to fight climate change by banning cars you will run out of time and lose both fights.
I buried so. much. time. into RPGMaker2000 about 20 years ago as the name suggests. Maybe 15? What a great toy / development platform.
I live in such an area. With 2 exceptions, there is an area of just over .5 km2 (138 acres) where there are virtually no cars.

I can let my kids out anytime.

It was built during the "million program" where the Swedish state built apartments for a shitload of people and elevated the living standards for about 2 million people.

For some reason it is not considered a nice area, but in many ways it is heaven. I can bike to work in 12 minutes. My son's preschool is just 5 minutes away by foot. We have a moderately sized grocery store and a pharmacy within crawling distance.

All areas in the "million programme" are not like that, but one pretty general idea was that since people living there didn't have their own garden they should have access to ample green spaces.
yeah, I did get it to transpile with the babel command, but I couldn't get it to accept the babel-env preset, so it just transpiled from modern javascript to modern javascript, which is not very useful
DuckDuckGo has a nice timer https://duckduckgo.com/?q=25+minutes+timer&hps=1&atb=v325-1&...

Recently I've started using Kagi (I love it) and I am slightly dissapointed that it does not have any.
Type safety and encapsulation aren't the same thing. Encapsulation is about hiding implementation details from the user of an API, which is what the comment I originally replied to was claiming you couldn't do in C.
I had a really nice setup a few years ago that downloaded every new episode of whatever show I was watching. It think it was called sickbeard with a newzbin subscription. I rarely watch shows now though so I don’t think I would appreciate it as much.
So what? I can go 45 mph on a human powered road bike downhill. 28mph isn't as scary as it seems and you'd be glad you had that speed when you have to inevitably take that ebike into mixed traffic with cars. I believe for motorcycles they say speed is safety for similar reasons, to be able to escape somewhat from dangerous car situations going on all around your spongy soft body.
No. Like I said it was some recorded livestream. The video was like an hour long and kind of a "code-along" vibe. It's literally just someone recording themselves making some (rogue-like crafting/survival?) game in Bevy
Ford Catalogs from the 70s
Nichelle Nichols had decided to leave Star Trek after the first season. Her mind was made up. Then at an LA charity event she had a chance meeting with Martin Luther King who convinced her to stay.

If she had left there would have been no Kirk/Uhura kiss. As a teenager when that show aired it was a very big deal, the first interracial kiss on American TV. I know some Southern stations said they wouldn't air that episode but I don't remember if they did.

Of course without Lucille Ball there would have been no Star Trek at all.
I requested "A social network entirely devoted to evil", and I enjoyed the result:

> "It would be a place where people go to celebrate the worst aspects of human nature, and where nobody is ever held accountable for their actions."

https://deck.rocks/display?job_id=1798&hash=4996929284087063...
Different folks, different strokes I guess: there's no world in which I'd use an MS-proprietary language over a broadly implemented one, let alone a proprietary language changing all the time and that has a Turing-complete type system, so I don't need to complain about bloat and churn, which is the whole point of this thread.
Are you aware of a way to develop fault free code? Please share this knowledge then, please.
Don't most people think about stuff before they fall asleep? I know I do. Often it takes quite awhile to fall asleep for me and have plenty of time to do it.
The void * is (should have been!) an implementation detail, and you're leaking it in the interface - that's not encapsulation.

For example if I want to store a __int128 on a 64-bit machine I'll have to deal with stuff like memory allocation and lifetime myself, when the data structure should do that.
Can I ask a couple of questions about the mouse?

1. How does it compare in terms of response to a wired mouse?

2. How does it connect to different computers (dongle? built in Bluetooth?) and how does it cope with quickly swapping between different computers?
If your cohort is only 3 or 4 people, hopefully your sustainable livelihood isn't tied too much to that endeavor.
I learned to avoid lines with old people in France, because they will be paying with cash or even worse, cheques.

Yes, I've heard all about the benefits of cash on HN, but the millions of man years saved by not standing in line has to be worth something too. One Auchan was boasting that they got line time down to 4 minutes. In NL, anythng longer than 30 seconds is unusual.
The quote was contextual to the time.

But the problem did not start in the Reagan era. It simply evolved. And it still does. Recognizing the problem is critical. I don’t believe you have. Not that I’m claiming any different of myself. I’m ok with that personally.

I keep scratching my head on the insistence of many that we should look backwards for the advice on how to go forwards. Look backwards to see mistakes, sure, but this seeming obsession with the words of powerful men, typically long dead ones, a quote from a CEO, a political book, a religious one, the medium doesn’t matter nor does the subject.

But there’s always a wise dead guy that needs consideration. If not more.

It is puzzling to me.
I could see it working the other way around if the cardiovascular risk factors of sarcopenic obesity (low skeletal muscle mass is coupled with high levels of adiposity) are a contributing factor for dementia. [0]

[0] https://www.sciencedirect.com/topics/medicine-and-dentistry/...
Push your local officials to redesign your city and actually invest in local transportation, not just funnel it to contractor buddies.

I agree there's a problem with cars in cities, but there's not a problem with cars elsewhere.

Electrifying cars and trucks helps diversify how they are powered and keeps the logistics industries and tourist industries humming.

It also helps public transportation, taxi services, etc.

Cars in cities is a local problem, not a federal or even state one.

What are those local solutions though? Trains for sure, use Japan as the model. Privatized but government controlled, cheap, clean, safe.

Scooters? Those are an eye sore, they are laying everywhere, but are useful. Maybe at least bike racks for them?
It’s a lot harder to collect taxes from walkers and cyclists to build that infrastructure. Drivers in theory pay for the roads and everything else. Maybe not paying enough but still.
>Going to the supermarket instead of getting groceries delivered

In what universe
This has been happening to us for over a year. We contact support, the posting gets removed, and then a few weeks later it is back. It's infuriating.
Perfect cycling distance. In a sane country the bike would be the obvious mode of transport for most trips of this kind of distance.
F-Logic
Thank you, that push.recurseSubmodules=check is the knob I was looking for, and wish it were the default

I got excited about the submodule.recurse=true one, but at least for "git status" it did not descend into the submodule the same way that "git submodule foreach git status" does
What a snide comment.

You know nothing about the GP’s neighborhood or living situation. Dismiss it as “stranger danger” if you wish, but what if their concerns about the safety of unsupervised children is rooted in some genuine concern? Again, they just said cars weren’t the main reason. Doesn’t that imply something else?
Easier tax fraud mostly to keep your illicitly gained money away from the taxman.

Plus conservative population that is skeptical about new tech and strongly keeps outdated ways of working and doing business (visible in any company there). Letters are common as well and digitalization is pretty weak.

Like what's the last tech product you remember that came out of Austria?
Not car-specific but I do miss the days of huge paper catalogues. The multi-volume RS ones were great, but the real joy was something arcane like an optics, RF or connector company.

I was convinced to throw away my relatively small and likely valueless but prized collection to well-intentioned "decluttering" when I moved to my own house. The thing is, they actually did spark joy, as Marie Kondo would say.

Also data books. Sure, electronic formats are objectively better in nearly every sense from weight, dead tree count and Ctrl-F-ability, but nothing says you know what you're about better than a well-thumbed Philips data book.
Anecdote but I was there a few weeks ago and did have a similar experience. It was really annoying, so many small shops chose not to take card, and as tourists you usually get screwed on the exchange rates if you need cash.
Also a concert with 20k people attending, none of the card machines worked, and no one seemed to kick up a fuss just paid cash, while we had none with us so had to "enjoy" it without drinks or food.
Martin Odersky of Java generics (Pizza compiler) and Scala fame, worked on Modula-2 compiler at Borland.
I have been wanting something like this for .NET for a few months now. The framework is very flexible for new programming languages.
Thermal storage, for instance: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thermal_energy_storage
This comment makes no sense.

There are no regulations requiring a hooker to charge a flat fee. They charge what they want and Johns either pay it or they don't.

What an odd take.
Microsoft stumbled when they forgot that, while they had a student discount for their products, the real reason so many young people came into the job market with Windows experience was piracy.

When they went after businesses for piracy, people were mostly okay with that. When deep pockets are fined that does not lead to moral outrage. When they made it very difficult to pirate, they injured the hobbyist market.

There is definitely a place in the world for low margin products aimed at fairness and advertising. And with hardware, ignoring piracy doesn’t really work, so there are really only two options. Subsidized sales, or a very robust resale market. The latter requires explicit support for First Sale Doctrine, products designed for repair, and narrow enough gaps between new and old hardware that the newest stuff is attractive but not mandatory. Do some of those but not the other and you get accused of paying lip service but having no solution. And for the most part they are right.

There are YouTube videos of people buying eight broken Nintendo handhelds and trying to salvage 5 working devices out of them. These are noteworthy because it’s harder than it should be, and sometimes these people lose money on the project, only breaking even from the YouTube royalties. If social justice were a goal, you’d need to at least double that success rate, maybe more.
Commuting from certain suburbs into downtown Vancouver is great - a real train with many sections having tables and power outlets. Pretty much everyone gets a seat.

But if you're in other areas, getting into Vancouver is like you described. There's options for more light rail around here but no political will to get it done.
They don't come close to paying for everything else when you take into account things like quality of life, safety, and more. Not everything has a price.
Blind would be a cool one but it kinda defeats the purpose.
My hope that Microsoft’s professional oversight would be a healthy moderating influence has not panned out.
Playwright is amazing. Tests are reliable compared to other frameworks and work on all browsers. That's the reason we use Playwright for running our Synthetic tests.

Checkly is in the market for the last 5+ years and they are definitely feature rich compared to DevRaven. But functionally pretty similar.
> A key reason, we suspect, is that the majority of CEO pay comes in the form of stock and stock options…

So the argument is that if every company hired an Otter as CEO. We would see the same relationship that the more effective companies would have higher paid Otters, since it’s not due to higher pay letting them attract a better chief operating Otter capable of making the company more effective, it’s just showing that higher effectiveness yields higher pay because pay is directly tied to effective even if any Otter hired by the company would be equally irrelevant to the company effectiveness?
Who are you quoting? I never said that.
Simon the Sorcerer 2 – The Role Players
> How usable is this for someone getting started new?

Answering my own question - it appears from the top response here that the editor component is not yet ready

https://community.easyrpg.org/t/how-do-i-make-a-game/1060
It doesn’t matter if Russia didn’t directly invade NATO yet - it invaded a western country and it poses a threat to others, and that alone is enough for NATO to pacify it to ensure safety of its citizens.
Sounds like a good way for some clever person on HN to add fake job listings to LinkedIn and Microsoft's profiles.
I too am happy with my Logitech MX Mouse but there was an interval where I wasn't.

Here's the shaggy dog version. I got a job working as an AutoCAD draughtsman and the company only had a shitty mouse to work this expensive Windows-only software. I decided to purchase a Logitech MX Mouse ~$80 equivalent to prevent RSI. My boss thought I was crazy - what was wrong with the mouse they provided? Hah!
Soon it became obvious they did not care for tech or techies and I left. But I am on Linux at home and it really bugged me that I could not use my expensive mouse on my Linux laptop. Curses and swears! Fast forward 6 months and I was browsing a Linux magazine and it featured libratbag which is a DBus daemon to configure gaming mice. I couldn't believe my eyes. It promised to get my MX Mouse working on Linux. I got home downloaded the software and hey presto! my MX Mouse works on Linux. I am so happy with it and so lucky that I picked up that Linux magazine on that day.
ML's just a comparator where the designer doesn't (necessarily) understand the logic, right?
For me the best Oberon is Active Oberon, although I am quite certain Wirth would see that differently.
It depends on what side of town you're on. There is a big class and culture gap in the US financial system. Everyone on this forum from the US likely is well banked. But a large chunk of the US is not. A large number of people either do not meet the requirements (undocumented immigrants), distrust the system, or don't meet minimum balance requirements (or don't want to deal with those requirements).

https://www.cnbc.com/2019/03/08/25percent-of-us-households-a...

https://www.npr.org/2021/04/05/984475870/unbanked-what-it-me...
Back in the late '70/early '80s the UK 10p coin was similar enough in size and weight to fool some German vending machines as a "1 DM" coin (Deutchmark). The rough rule of thumb rate of exchange was 1 GBP to 4 DM back then.
> Currently recycling (an EV battery) is an expensive process where North Americans are footing the bill,” Chiang said. “That’s why they’re charging people thousands of dollars for recycling. That’s why the stat is only 5% of all EV batteries are being recycled.

Wow this was new for me, it makes plenty of sense to reuse the batteries when they’re no longer sufficient for an automobile - but is that’s something available to the general public?
From personal experience: possibly Twitter. Having a presence there has given me several serious offers to interview, for jobs worth having (FAANG and similar).

The folks in my field (ML/applied math/scientific computing) are all on there, and moreover those reaching out to me are always technical folks rather than recruiters.

(Twitter gets a bad rap, but the academic/dev parts of it are the single best way I've found to track the Zeitgeist of fields and topics I'm interested in.)
I have a PhD and so have Dr as my first name on LinkedIn.

All the automated messages address me as if Dr was my actual first name,
So “hi Dr” or “Dr,…”

So it’s a good filter for all the machine created messages, which is a very very high percentage of them.
Nichelle Nichols, Trailblazing 'Star Trek' Actress, Dead at 89
LinkedIn is a spam company
Some of it is pretty specific, but decisions like:

* Heavy or light foraging?

* Forage with smaller groups of cavalry or large groups of infantry?

* Terrorize the people in the countryside or try to stay on their relative good side?

* Do you have handmills?

* When is your campaign going to happen?

seem like the type of choices that could intuitively be included in a board game (although some of the content bumps it out of comfortable family game night fare) or even maybe hacked into a pen and paper RPG (I say hacked in because usually players aren't in charge of huge armies anyway, so we're already pretty far from, like, standard d&d).

It would be neat to play a game about logistics with tactics as an afterthought, for once.
I am neither French, nor American, but looking at the Citroen catalogs (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32297739) I was a bit disappointed. I like European car design in general, but nothing from that era survived the test of time.

On the other hand, I find Fords from the 70s quite good looking. I think these huge boats [1] are simple but quite striking.

[1] https://www.xr793.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/11/1970-Ford.p...
Active Exploitation of Atlassian’s Questions for Confluence App CVE-2022-26138
This is correct & I’ll add that reorganizing around sustainable ways of being is in fact an inevitably.

And a result of this inevitably will be huge winners who invest in sustainable ways of being and huge losers tied to old ways of doing things.
I really enjoyed this author's writing style, it's rare that I laugh out loud at a technical article.
… and the water is wet.

We have invested x50 times more in cars infrastructure compared to shared transport.

Why are we surprised that cars produce better results?
That’s very cool but I don’t think I like dancing all that much to do it for so many hours. I used to love raves but I think I only liked dancing for 6 hours+ in those because I was rolling.
> remains to be seen how performant the GPU is

I think this is going to be the real make-or-break thing about RISC-V: early tests have shown super impressive SIMD/vector benchmarks compared to ARM/x86, but whether or not that will make it into production is another question entirely. I've got high hopes for RISC-V, but it's acceleration/HPC workload performance is going to determine whether it topples ARM or becomes the next Itanium.
You might notice that Microsoft has destroyed all of its acquisitions
The Jetson nano being stuck on Ubuntu 18 is quite a shame...
Sounds like functionality that can be turned into a common library.
If Howard Gardner's Theory of multiple intelligences [0] holds true, I could see grit being a bigger factor with emotional (interpersonal) intelligence than with cognitive functioning.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Theory_of_multiple_intelligenc...
We've also had a HUGE influx of fake accounts in the past couple of months claiming to work for our company. According to LinkedIn we have 243 employees! In reality, we have 23.

See for yourself: https://www.linkedin.com/company/facetdev/people/

How are these accounts not being automatically flagged as fake?
A very small and cheap skateboard, for kids not even 10y, that I use irregularly in my commutes. Note: I was a real skater 30y ago.
My puppy. It was an expensive pandemic buy. But she has done more for me than I can ever imagine. I would pay 4/5 times the amount for her. Worth every penny
On the other hand, parts of Western Europe also still experience Post-glacial rebound and will drop, increasing the effects of rising sea levels.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Post-glacial_rebound#Vertical_...:

“the post-glacial rebound of northern Great Britain (up to 10 cm per century) is causing a corresponding downward movement of the southern half of the island (up to 5 cm per century)”

IIRC, the Low Countries also are sinking because of post-glacial rebound.