skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The best platforms are those that build a single product. Then we can argue for days about whether it's the platform teams responsibility to do X or the product engineering teams responsibility.

In close second are the platforms that are used for a fraction of a product and will never be wholely migrated onto because they are not fit for purpose.

Third place goes to the platforms that never actually have any product built on top of them - a theme so exciting people love recreating it at there own workplace.

We're all just temporarily embarrassed Linus Torvalds that want the world to build on our apis.
The Common Lisp HyperSpec has a similarly nerve-wracking proprietary license. The result is that nobody is able to so much as reupload its contents in a different web UI, let alone make substantive additions to it, even if the additions are clearly labeled as such and the original content is not modified.
>They just don’t care (for a variety of reasons).

They don't care because they're not incentivized to care. It will remain like that until maintaining projects well is at least as good a path to a promotion as creating new projects.
Here is one idea: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Airpark

> In US at least even inside gated communities u can't leave kids (3-6) by themselves because cars.

This part is sad to me because it seems we are stuck envisioning a place where all the houses face the roads, and all the walking paths are next to the roads and the only place kids can play is in the road or next to the road!

As an alternative, imagine a house that backs up to a park. Instead of playing in the front by the road, play in the back without conditions (I can recommend you some examples).

Or, imagine even in a downtown of a city, a one-block-long gated community with dense townhouses facing each other, an oasis away from traffic (again I can share examples)

These exist today, they aren’t just in some urbanist sketchbook. They aren’t super common and maybe people just don’t think of them.
Much easier to build a brand online as this guy has done
Photography is an instrument the results of which are strongly dependent from the ability of the artist and technologist adopting it.

To the best of my understanding, DALL-E offers limited control and cannot be compared to a brush with paint, a photocamera, a virtual canvas for curves for illustration, a coding console.

Why? Because the weight of the user, its "importance", its "impact", is limited with that tool. (A commissioner is not an artist. A photographer may be.)

As HN member Moe wrote, «Bad analogies are like Vietnam».
In dense urban area, granted there's just a bit of bike lanes.. bike will get you faster anywhere. I was shocked to see it took me less than by car.
Bit of an aside: Nuclear plant security should not be comparable to fossil fuel plant security, it should be much much tighter.
She’s making a comeback in hyperpop with various collabs!
It's not even side projects!

The Google i18n font repo (https://github.com/googlei18n) went private all of a sudden in the last few weeks and it broke my Yocto build (and hey boot2Qt team, if you're listening, you're broken too).

I've been steadfast in not adopting any of the Google toy side-projects (e.g. Brillo, Weave, Things, etc etc) but now I'm expanding that rule to anything and everything from them at all, including AOSP. It's all quicksand.
And that number includes all nuclear accidents as well iirc
Congress Looks Set to Finally Pass Historic Climate Legislation
> The difficulty with tech blogging in general, is that even the best produce at most one genuinely great, authentic piece per year.

Au contraire, the limit as I can see it is more like once per month.
No, there's no a priori reason why public transport should be slower. There are cities where it isn't the case, London for example.

Cars get stuck in traffic (because they are traffic). Trains don't, and can reach higher speeds. Buses have (or should have) their own lanes, and priority at traffic lights, so that they don't get stuck behind cars. A single bus lane can have more passenger throughput than several car lanes; it's an absurdity that a bus should be delayed by single-occupancy vehicles hogging the space.

If public transport is slower than driving, your city is doing it wrong.
Or it could simply be that users of public transport tend to be poorer, and therefore live farther from work for lower rent.
Dr Gero truly was a genius
Alternatively they want to drive people towards their timer app to harvest more data.
Your footnote number slipped into the link URL https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0065088/
I currently live in Japan but I have lived in major cities of the West as well.

For big items the locals will usually do home delivery, and for groceries the norm in most of Europe and Asia is to buy them every few days in smaller amounts when you need them (since centuries ago) and therefore you do not need the car.

For the camping you would rent a car. I said that the car was still something I expected to be able to use. Switzerland for example is famous for its car journey holidays but most people use public transport.
During the beta, i must have done thousands of requests and was initially blown away, but now i can tell the "look" of a Dall-e generated image... it has these weird blurry spots that make it seem like a memory of a dream - the main schema is there but if you focus on any one point, the illusion is broken. Looking forward to the day that it is so polished that I cannot differentiate it from a human art piece.
What ever happened to the neighborhood paperboy?
FTA:
"The revamped bus network, which required just a 4 percent budget increase, launched in August 2015. The results so far are encouraging: Weekday ridership has stabilized after declining for years, and is up about 10 percent on Saturdays and more than 30 percent on Sundays."

In other news water is wet. The catch-22 with transit has been known for half a century. Declining riders = fewer $$$ = fewer routes = declining riders. The only way to stop this is with investment to increase schedules. Yet riders are blamed for not using it.
Try submitting tomorrow. Perhaps you triggered some automatic filter and it will be solved automatically tomorrow. There are some false positives from time to time.

If that fails, send an email to the mods. They reply soon, usually the same day a few hours later.
https://www.google.com/search?q=askew
These feel like tools for creativity. Although the end result might not be masterful, it's super cool for quick iteration and exploration.

Suddenly, people who don't have the skills to do that can start doing it and once you pick an output I totally see how you can improve on it manually.
Hey this is a great answer! Really nice to see a "yep my thinking has evolved over time in these ways", which always feels really rare to me.
Look at their benchmarks. They compare against innerHTML and against (I assume) inserting new DOM nodes. Million is slightly faster than the former, slightly slower than the latter. DOM manipulations are fast these days
YOLOv5 vs. YOLOv6 vs. YOLOv7
Two new YOLO models for object detection: YOLOv6 and YOLOv7 have come out in the space of the last two months. However, deciding which model is better for your use case is not straightforward. We discuss how to evaluate YOLO models.
Miners generate a timecoin every second, which they can spend on work, family, hobbies or any other activity.
What will happen when Linus is no longer with us?
Happyness is boring.
Can anyone recommend online courses in botany?
Building something I agree with you, that's difficult. Shutting something down is a one bit affair. After that how long you take to remove the now dead code is an entirely different matter.
It's striking to me about the US's fuel 'dole' and comparisons to the Roman's grain dole. Not the same at all, but the similarities and how different governments through time prioritize the goods and services to achieve their ends is fascinating.
Unsafe languages are fossil fuels and Carbon is natural gas. Yeah, a small improvement over coal, but an incrementalist addition that only reduces the magnitude, not the direction. Still digging in the wrong direction, IMHO.

And I standby my original assessment that the design is very obviously lacking in long-term experience in another language.
Also particulates from car tires eroding against all the asphalt. (All the asphalt and other pavement is also an environmental concern.)

We're going to have to reconfigure some pretty basic aspects of our civilization if we want to prevent environmental disasters, and this goes beyond climate change.

Too many birds crash against our windows.

Too many earthworms die on sidewalks when it rains.

We use too many toxic chemicals, we waste too much energy and food and water.

We can change all of this. We can live in ecological harmony and improve our standard of living at the same time.
Chromatic Adaptation
Imagine thinking you're their user. Google's users are advertisers. You are merely the product being sold.
Do you have a blog? Alternatively are you open to questions
> a rogue daemon running as root

Why would daemons be running as root in 2022? What does that anymore, especially on macOS?
> IRC, as an example, Newsweek lost its trusted status

Precisely, it lost its trusted status, but the GP posts that WP trusts publications that have gone bananas. So your example speaks in favor of Wikipedia's reliability.
If you read the article it is clearly about America.
This is a very astute observation, and one that I've seen in practice all too often. Thank you for this remarkable insight, I will definitely put it to use.
Slightly tangential but if you've ever looked at the data transferred on a youtube video in the network tab they're actually suprisingly tiny (as far as I've seen). Often only like 10 MB for multi minute downloads. Top notch compression (not surprising).
Same experience here in Oslo. With the different rent-a-car-by-hour companies popping up, I'll just rent a car for a few hours every now and then. I could do that like 10 times a month and it would probably be cheaper still than owning a car, most people don't realize how much it actually costs. Sharing a car like this makes so much sense.
Video recordings of the lectures seem to require access to Harvard's Canvas platform? Is it possible for outsiders to watch them?
Both 'timer' and 'stopwatch' suggest the Clock app to me in Windows 10. When I open it there is timer and stopwatch functionality available in the menus.
An approximate ratio of the prevalence of feature without a dedicated team (or singleton) would be 99/100.

That said we could argue for days about what a feature is.
Still works on duck duck go. :)
My first platform for programming! Simple Menus, Goto statements, images. I loved making games on this thing.

And yes, it was highway robbery at $90+
I travel from JC, and I can get to almost any point in Manhattan faster by PATH+subway/walking than by car+parking.
Doesn't play a sound for me until I focus the tab (using Brave).
Emergence (complexity): When two plus two equals ten. A little cool air from the north is no big deal. A little warm breeze from the south is pleasant. But when they mix together over Missouri you get a tornado. The same thing happens in careers, when someone with a few mediocre skills mixed together at the right time becomes multiple times more successful than someone who’s an expert in one thing.
Biking's not my thing, but it's telling that surveys in the local MA area sometimes now say "aside from protected bike lanes, what would you most like to see?".

It is an indication that walk-and-bike interests are making good progress, and I'm glad to see it.
As an outsider of New York it’s pretty bleak to compare the shininess and opulence of all the new billionaire’s row towers to the decay and grime of the subway.

It doesn’t have to be like this.
low enrichment grade (<5%) is there for this reason. Centrifuges to enrich fuel are really above wanna-be nuclear threat, and who can do it (NK,Iran) doesnt need to steal some bars here or there they have their own supply chain.
I am a researcher / explorer of Arecaceae species and pay the bills with cybersecurity work, this article definitely struck a chord. It is very difficult to get anyone to care about even the rare and beautiful species these days, let alone help the efforts in conservation.

I am working on a website that helps links people wanting to help learn and protect forests with the people with the background knowledge and those who are getting their fingers in the dirt, please reach out if you are interested in participating.
"Google does not care about their users". Well.. I am not sure about that

Google cares about its customers, not its users. Google users and Google customers are two different entities.

but there is always the option of not using Google products, or using as few as possible Google products.

A New York Times columnist tried this maybe a year or two ago. With the help of an expert, tried to go completely Google-free, meaning no access to any Google API. It turned out to be impossible, since so many apps, programs, and services rely on Google behind the scenes for everything from flight data to CAPTCHA.
Put down devices, let your mind wander, study suggests
You're talking past the GP.

Double buffering is still widely used by native code (e.g. inside the browser, inside video games, inside native toolkits). Ergo, "VDOM is obsolete the way that double buffering is" makes no sense.

OTOH, "double buffering from code running in the browser is now obsolete" may make perfect sense, following changes in how the browser itself interacts with the HW.
Banks on the UK used to love them. To log on to your account they would open a pop up with no URL bar so you no longer knew who you were connected to. There were some easy exploits to replace the popup with a fake.
How to Build a Memory Palace
"Privacy"?? Once you get charged with a crime, all you have is the presumption of innocence. You don't have a privacy right anymore.

He IS being well-advised not to talk to anyone, though.
> 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

One is more likely to be mugged in New York than in a Kansas suburb. Long before cars existed, people have been terrorized by highwaymen on country roads with little help or recourse. If anything, cars have likely reduced muggings as fewer people on the streets have created fewer opportunities to be overtaken and robbed.
Linux Mint (Cinnamon) does not come with a timer or stopwatch pre-installed. I didn't realize this until I needed a stopwatch a few weeks ago only to find nothing.

There are tray applets available for this, but none that combine both a timer and stopwatch, so you have to deal with two extra icons in your tray or just use Google.
Back in the day, my internet connection was so Comcastic that I couldn't watch a video on youtube, either. I'd have to cache it with youtube-dl and watch it the next day, or whenever it finished. It was weird the first time I tried to watch a video on the web page and it actually played.
The same thing exists for Latin dances like Salsa and Bachata and are quite popular around the world at the moment.
With third party doctrine in the US, the gov is allowed to get all data from 3td parties, so blocking cash is the equivalent of giving the gov all your data without need for a warrant. While I understand this article is about Israel, such cash blocking laws would be death to private transactions in the US.
It all started to go down when they went public. There's no ethos anymore.
i think a better approach might be to wrap destructive actions with preview functionality that is carefully tuned to summarize succinctly what is unique about resources that are going to be deleted along with the cardinality of the operation.
I don't buy milk from grocery stores. I use lightning to buy from my local farmer.
It's always important in these conversations to take into account the Downs–Thomson paradox[0]. If public transit gets stuck in traffic and takes longer than taking a car, people will take a car. And since taking a car is the least efficient way to use a lane, things will continue to get worse and worse as more people decide to use a car. You need to ensure that your public transit is not getting stuck in traffic.

[0]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Downs%E2%80%93Thomson_paradox
Google Sheets is more powerful than you think
Trained in physics, computer scientist and engineer by profession, now retired.

My opinion wasn't about the feasibility of this, but rather that of a tax-paying citizen who expects to get value for money spent. I don't see it in this, and I don't really expect the authors imagined they would be describing something that was likely to get any funding attention - the project is too big, and too far out there from an engineering perspective, given the little we'd get from it. So, yeah, I think their writing a long feasibility study is just published paper padding.
>> But the roads would have been used for something, at a guess, was it trams and horse carriages, and that these didn't pose much of a problem?

> Much less so, horses would not trample people unless spooked (and they don't have anywhere near the acceleration or speed of a car, especially as mass increases).

That's what one would expect, but surprisingly that might not be the case.

I haven't been able to find a lot of articles about pedestrian deaths from horses but those I did find tell of rates comparable to cars.

1900 pedestrian horse fatality rate in NYC for example were higher than the 2003 car rate [1]. In England and Wales cars are more deadly than horses were but not by much [2].

The BMJ article notes that direct fatality rate comparisons might not be appropriate because treatments have greatly improved since the horse and buggy days. Horse rates would likely be lower if current treatments had been available back then, and car rates would likely be higher if we only had 1900s medical systems.

[1] https://legallysociable.com/2012/09/07/figures-more-deaths-p...

[2] https://www.bmj.com/rapid-response/2011/10/31/cars-and-horse...
Even if that happens, it's not going to change the core problem.

They'll just what microsoft did, and say "look, we are good people now". The world will forgive and forget, and use their product hapilly. But because the underlying cause hasn't change, only the context, as soon as the context will change again, we will be back to square one.
> Not only does my car have better seats than the bus, but I am guaranteed one

at the expenses of everybody else.

there is nothing more wasteful than turning up a very heavy, powerful and polluting machine to transport a single non disabled human for a few kms.

anyway, your seat would be guaranteed also on a bike, a moped, a horse, a donkey, a 20 tons truck, a bulldozer and an helicopter. Doesn't mean they are all equally good options.
Doesn't mean city planning should consider the comfort of your bum a priority.
This is an interesting and thorough response, and I liked reading it, but GP was talking about internal, captive-audience stuff. Box is an app you sell. B2B, yes, not B2C, so your users are “enterprise.” But it’s still a product that competes with others and that seems very unrelated to GP’s point.
Previous discussion on HN:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32253053
Red Hat has been slowly becoming more like Microsoft used to be.

I have to use RHEL at work and since RHEL 8 the desktop experience is just painful:

GNOME 3 is the only desktop offered. Our IT team hates third-party repos, so EPEL and any chance at an alternative are right out.

I tried to use GNOME 3, but I really do not understand what the designers were thinking and how they intend for it to work.

How do I minimize a window that I do not want in the foreground? There are no buttons that seem to do this without using tweaks or extensions.

When using two or more monitors, why does only one monitor switch to a different virtual desktop while the other does not?

Trying to use GNOME 3 is frustrating and I would rather use pratically anything else (Windows, MacOS, KDE, CDE, Xfce, WindowMaker, Blackbox, Fluxbox, etc.) because at least they would follow some of the last 40 years of desktop environment conventions that GNOME 3 seems to have completely discarded.
They also recently removed the phone finder. I often used to Google "where is my phone" and use the quick widget. That's now gone.
I'd rather die and be tourtured for using bitcoin than suffer under someone else's dystopian wet dream.
It's nowhere near Amsterdam I'm afraid. Biking in NYC is pretty scary and vast amounts of public space are given over to car parking.

(BTW, I am lumping in biking with "walkable". A better term is "active travel")
I don't need this, but I just wanted to say that everything Vercel puts out looks very nice and polished. Top UX in my opinion.
New Ghostscript PDF interpreter
How interpreting PDF in Postscript became untenable
> and you will find that the most efficient and effective methods of shaping behavior of those that employ positive reinforcement.

I attack my opponent when he's waking up (Oki position), he uses a Dragon Punch / Reversal and punishes me.

I attack my opponent when he's waking up (Oki position), he uses a Dragon Punch / reversal and punishes me.

I attack my opponent when he's waking up. He uses a dragon punch/reversal and punishes me.

I block while my opponent is waking up. He uses a dragon punch, loses to my block and I punish him.

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An entire genre of video games, fighting games, revolves around conditioning your opponent and getting into their head. The rock-paper-scissors battle of attack vs block vs grab takes place so quickly, you often don't have the time to react (though some players do have insane reaction speeds).

When you can't leverage reaction, you leverage conditioning. And over the long term, the only way to really learn the game at a high level is by getting your bad habits repeatedly-punished by a stronger player.

Perhaps its not "efficient" to learn, but in this case, it is the only way to learn. Expert players are bad at vocalizing what is or isn't working. There are very few coaches, and almost none of them know how to take you to the highest level (even if they themselves have reached peak form).

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There's other forms of punishment as learning. Ex: fall into a pit in Mario. You die, so you try again.

Or "Boar Lure" in AoE2. If you fail, your villager dies, and/or you don't get the precious early-game food you need to sustain your production.

Or in Basketball. If you get crossed up, you fail to block the opponent and they get a free shot at the basket.
Reading this infuriates me. I can’t believe so much effort was put into giving cars higher priority than pedestrians. What a tremendous detriment. And it’s so hard to undo! People always stick to the status quo; we need even more work to undo all of it. What a waste.
A speaker made out of woks
When I was growing up, I'd take the city bus across town and it would take 2 hours, vs 25 minutes by car. It showed me I needed car for work, or I'd be spending 4 hours just on buses.

30 years later, When I was working downtown, park and ride was nice mix of getting there early, free parking, and I just a short walk.

Now lets talk about those HOV lanes that now opened up for paying people, we literally made limo lanes that clogged up and made the buses slower.

No new roads, and its just going to keep getting worse, so much worse. I've seen it get continually worse over 30 years.
I deal with issues like this about once a month. It may not happen where you work, but it definitely still happens.

If it really never happens where you work, consider yourself lucky.