skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Make no mistake: I think we should properly price the externalities, we should mostly get cars out of the densest urban centers, we should require speed governors and geofencing in all new vehicles, and we should drastically increase the costs on drivers of injuring pedestrians and cyclists (coupled almost certainly with entirely new (and much more expensive) insurance products).

I'm not a huge fan of cars. (More accurately, I'm not a big fan of drivers. Cars are very useful. The 25th percentile driver is a loud, dangerous menace.)
We talk about exponential growth a lot more than exponential collapse. Historically, social networks collapse as quickly as they grow. Even mighty Facebook recently hit the peak, and in their most important markets the network effect is utterly collapsing.
> What if your work was a walkable distance?

It is a walkable distance, and it’s unsustainably expensive for how little space I get. Not to mention the fact that there aren’t any ownable properties in walking distance to work—renting an apartment is the only option.

Sure, huge investments in creating an amazing mass transit system would be awesome! But that’s nowhere near happening in the next couple decades. So why should I (or anyone) be asked to pay more to rent a tiny apartment near work where I can barely escape the city using existing public transit options?
You're right edited it now, thanks!
If I want an asset purely for price speculation I'll buy Bitcoin.
Chances are if you can drive to those things in under 30 minutes, you can probably ebike to them in just over 30 minutes. I bike a lot in my city. For a given 10 minute car ride, the bike trip works out to 12 minutes. In traffic, the bike is faster than the car, because of lanesplitting ensuring you never wait for a light cycle. The car wins out when you have an open freeway, but thats only in the late evenings really in socal. Personally though I generally stick to the parallel running residential roads that hardly see cars at all, even here in busy LA, since I can practically take the entire road and just bike down the middle and avoid people potentially backing out of driveways.
Depends. A random metallo-organic compound vs a random protein? Yes. But the problem can be further up the chain. Synthesis can be expensive and difficult, and you need a relatively large crystal (at least for X-ray). If you have low symmetry, you need several relatively large crystals all of which need to collect enough data before they die to integrate across the datasets. It typically isn't thought to be as challenging, but it can be.
Yes my bad. Edited, thanks!
Offices Are Expensive
in French, "la Deudeuche" [de-duhsh], for a very roughly approximated anglicised pronunciation ([dø.døʃ] is the proper IPA, but I feel like it wouldn't resonate with everyone... at least I would have no idea).

short for "deux chevaux", i.e. ... 2CV.
“Their goal was to take 100% in a few days though.”

Citation needed.

Trying for a move and adjusting when you don’t get the quick gambit isn’t failure.
When I met her (briefly, at a book signing) she was charming and charismatic ... such a strong presence.

I'm saddened that she is no longer with us.
It was Dijkstra's article, but he submitted it with the title "A case against the Go To statement". Wirth was the journal editor and he choose to rename it to "Go To statement considered harmful".

Knuth ties into this because he published a response "Structured Programming with go to Statements", examining many situations where goto statements are hard to avoid in the standard structured programming paradigm.
I heard a joke in Uruguay that they were called "pedo" (fart) because only the owner could like it.
What are your thoughts on safety? That's always the things that gets me before I go any further into motorcycles/mopeds/etc.
The invisible hand moves the market toward profit maximization not customer satisfaction
Is physical currency still common in the US? I haven’t used physical currency in probably 5-6 years, outside the 10 SEK the tooth fairy leaves.
Complaining about (VCs funding) teams of a few people destroying the world - it's like complaining about water flowing downhill.

If I had to identify the skill I think they have (and the valley trick in general), it's an ability to reason more accurately than most about replicators, scale and growth.

This is largely orthogonal to any moral basis (although there is a sort of inherent darwinistic streak to the whole enterprise).

There's a certain sort of inevitability about activities that generate momentum and scale, it's like finding a natural force. The opportunity is like a boulder at the top of a hill.

From this point of view, you start to see that someone is going to push the boulder eventually. Some boulders are harder to move than others, and there are great opportunities if you can identify teams proposing to put a lever in the right place.

You can also flip the view a bit, focusing on teams with the "right stuff", and fund them on the basis that they might find a boulder they can move eventually.

There is no shortage in this world of boulders waiting to be rolled down hills, but they are not all the same, you ideally want the biggest ones that need the smallest pushes, with a long way to run. It's better if no one else can copy your action or take your boulder off you or redirect it - and that's not easy - if it were generally easy for everyone, someone else would have done it already.

When you see the huge boulder rolling you might wonder "why didn't they push it that way instead", or "who made them so powerful they're in charge of that thing" or "why do they deserve to be in charge of it". The world isn't quite like that. Sure "they" pushed it, but they had to push it in the direction it "wanted" to move (or else it would have just sat there) and thereafter, things tend to acquire their own momentum.

Some degree of magical thinking is a fairly natural and forgivable response (IMHO) for human beings in uncertain ventures, harnessing powerful forces and involved in complex systems they don't fully understand.
Afaik it could be sold in the US just fine (this is a car created in 1948, safety regulations were not really a thing).

The issue is that it could not be sold: it was particularly low-powered even for french cars of the time, the original model barely reached 40 mph (out of a 9 hp engine), and the later fastest models topped out around 70.

The 2CV had literally been designed to cross freshly ploughed fields and drive on unpaved roads, it just was not suitable for the interstate-expanding American market.
“Russia failed to achieve its primary strategic goals.”

According to who? The war is ongoing and getting worse for Ukraine the long the west doesn’t invest more heavily
I've been a big fan of Citroëns for a long time, but I cannot quite get the 2CV. I get it's cute, but I think the Dyane is actually cuter. I can see how it lives up to André Citroën's 1930s vision, but what has always truly captured me is the engineering in the hydropneumatic suspension.

Fortunately, my first car was (and is) a Citroën DS 23. I have not tried Citroën's new suspension (seems to be limited so far to the kind of car, I don't particularly care for), partly because I've grown disgruntled with Citroën since about the time PSA (or whatever they are called now) started the DS brand, but I really ought to.
There were other Modula-2 compilers for CP/M. I used Hisoft FTL Modula-2 quite a bit on my Amstrad PCW to get a speedup from Mallard Basic.
There are already plans being made for next winter, where if the shortage of power hit expected levels then some places in northern Europe will have to be disconnected from the grid in order to save the grid as a whole. It is times like that when government will borrow or even print money in order to fix the situation regardless of how expensive the answer is.

The average operational cost of a nuclear power in the US is around 2.5 cent to 3.4 cent per kw/h, which is still higher than many other energy sources. The spot price in some locations in Europe is feared to reach $1 per kw/h this winter. Gas furnaces are part of the problem, but society is dependent on electricity for basic function. Voters only accept limited amount of pain before forcing governments to take action and bail people out.
GGP had originally referred to the author of the article as Knuth, GP (and I) both replied correcting that. GGP comment has since been edited.
Same for me. It is approximately 5.8kms from my apartment to work.

I have walked it before during a bus driver strike, took just over an hour at a leisurely pace - 11mins per km.

Normal days - it takes me around 6 to 8 minutes to walk to the bus stop. There is a waiting period for the bus to arrive since you want to get to the bus stop before the scheduled stop - sometimes the bus is early.

Then it takes nearly 30minutes to get to work - frequent stops along the way, 5 minutes waiting at the bus/rail interchange etc.

Finally 7 minute walk to the office from the bus stop.

Total of usually 50 minutes door to door via public transport and it costs $8 both ways.

If I took my car, it would take me 15 minutes and $17 parking fee.
Minor moan... such a shame the tool is written in C and not Rust or Go.

Instead of being able to compile out of the box, I've seemingly got to install some tools I've never heard of (mesa and ninja). They could have at least allowed you to compile using bog-standard make.
`Ans` stored the value of the last expression, so you could use that as a “return value” of sorts.
I wish they had a hacker/developer pricing tier. I don't need 150k requests with their full feature set. I need 200/month.
Speaking of Toronto, I once had the pleasure of being driven around the city in a Méhari.
> If you said that a dating website turned video sharing platform would become on of the bedrocks of the online content creator economy you'd probably be laughed out of the room 20 years ago but that's what YouTube is today.

You've omitted a significant portion of YouTube's history. A dating website turned video sharing platform that struggled for years until one of the world's largest bought them, has become a bedrock of the content creator community.

The core of what YouTube was has little relation to their current position in the industry.

No one would have laughed at you for saying in 2002 that a video sharing website would enable people to make money. Video streaming (Real, QuickTime, Flash) had already been around for years. Porn websites were already selling access to videos (MPEG-1 or WMV) in 2002. Affordable DV cameras existed as did user friendly editing software. The first 3G cellular services were rolling out as were phones that could stream video over those networks.

Computing power, storage, and bandwidth were limitations in 2002 but no one at that time would have laughed if you said "this will improve over the next two decades". Apple was by 2002 selling computers by advertising how easy video editing was on their platform.

You'd have a better point if your horizon was a little further off. YouTube (in concept) would be far more laughable to someone in 1992 or 1982 than someone in 2002. Everything for YouTube needed to exist was extant in 2002. YouTube itself was only two years from existing. Cryptocurrency is a lot less interesting today if it's utility will take another 30 years to become evident.
Implementing a “mini-LaTeX” in ~2000 lines of code
>> Why TM-2 made such a fleeting appearance is shrouded in mystery. It was released in 1986 by Echelon under license from Borland and then quickly withdrawn.

I wasn't there, but dots can be drawn. Niels Jensen, Borland founder, and his team created turbo pascal, then added Philippe Kahn to the mix to head the US company. Niels and his team also wrote a Modula 2 and C compiler, but Philippe instead chose to buy Wizard C, and market that as Turbo C instead.

This lead to a split inside Borland, Niels and the rest leaving to form JPI which released their work as Topspeed C, and Topspeed Modula 2.

My speculation is that Modula 2 was killed at Borland as a direct result of the split.
Here is a modern version which supports all loops of Oberon and Oberon-2; it also has generic modules and a kind of exceptions, and it is still quite small and simple: https://oberon-lang.github.io/
> Some people were leaving scooters in bad places and it seemed like companies didn't have a solution to this

I don't have an anti-tech mentality, I have an anti-externalization-of-costs mentality. If those scooter startups did not have a solution to scooters creating dangerous obstacles on sidewalks, maybe they should not have dumped them there in the first place and left the problem for the locals to figure out.

It was particularly bad because, whenever a new scooter company started operating in our city, it happened by them dumping thousands of the things into the streets overnight without prior warning. I understand that a slow ramp-up is difficult because you need a certain density to make the service viable, but it was all executed very badly without engaging the local community beforehand. It just made the companies come off like a bunch of douchebags dumping their shit all over the city. Like those drunken assholes that throw their empty beer bottles into the sandboxes at the public playground.
You are mistaken.

Pensions typically pay out at a fixed rate until you die, and even then your spouse can continue collecting until they also die.
there lots of scammers who do it. it is probably nothing from linkedin team itself.

you may want to apply for the job to see what happens
It works a whole lot better for me.
A cheap LED head torch. Only ~€10, charges with USB. It’s amazing how many times it can make little things much easier, once you’ve got it to hand. The ability to point it precisely where you’re looking and then benefit from it following our head movements is a minor game changer!

A 3D Printer. I avoided one for years, and have never printed anything frivolous. But the ability to make useful things for the house at (almost) a moment’s notice is great. Also, I’m really enjoying learning CAD, and the ability to easily create physical objects that I have designed is very fulfilling.
I must admit I haven't used (coming from windows development) docker a lot before, and I was doing it on my Macbook. But all the other tools worked.

So tools like yours existing mean, that there can be trouble having several "docker composed" applications running at the same time? That may explain my (for me inexplicable) errors when trying Tooljet.
CollapseOS has a “just to show it’s possible” port to the TI-84+ - https://incoherency.co.uk/collapseos/hw/z80/ti84/index.html
In french, it is pronounced "2 chevaux", as in "2 horses" (horsepower), abbreviated "deuche", or "dodoche"
Come to Austria. The entire country revolves around cash.

I rarely see someone pay with card at the supermarket and it's most likely a foreigner. Small shops and cafes don't even take cards, only cash and the rare time they do it's only for larger sums.

Also tips are common almost everywhere.
The 2CV makes perfect sense if you look at why it was designed: 'an umbrella with wheels'.

The Dyane is much better as a car but it was also a bit more expensive and people really loved the 2CV for its lines and thought the Dyane to be too blockish.

My second car was a DS (a DS 21 to be precise), I loved it and ended up touring the former east bloc with it (and ended up living in Poland because of it).
The copper penny hoarders are beating you to it [0]. I met a "retired" guy who is driving around the US buying boxes of pennies from banks sorting them into copper or not. He sells the sorted copper pennies to penny hoarders [1] and uses the non-copper pennies to spend at the Walmart NCR cash registers (they have to love him). He said he does not get rich but makes enough to get by.

We went out for a meal and discussed the feasibility of sorting the pennies by date using ML. The real gold mine would be that an AI approach might potentially identify numismatic grade pennies and really pay for itself.

[0] https://www.wikihow.com/Hoard-Copper-Pennies

[1] https://moneyning.com/make-money/how-to-cash-in-your-pennies...
A buddy of mine builds custom arcade machines @arcadeArmy.com - He is currently doing a "river" table epoxy build cabinet.

his machines are beautiful and amazing - and he can make any game cabinet you like.
It depends on the city honestly. In LA county, cars save you time but you can get everywhere, eventually, on a bus. Again, the key word is eventually, so bring a book and it will be like teleporting. Ridership reflects this. If you can afford to buy convenience you do so. 70% of LA metro riders are very low income, median income for riders on the system is $19,000. In other words most riders can't even entertain the idea of affording a car. Even a 20 year old beater car in CA might be a few hundred alone just to register a year, whereas low income people can ride metro for free.

https://www.nlc.org/article/2021/05/14/expanding-l-a-metros-...
Mostly only required for drugs and gambling these days.
I carry cash almost entirely to tip servers and other service industry employees in cash. One Americanism for another, huh? But that’s only bills, no coinage.
Industrially? China pollutes less than the US per capita?

Well, the US doesn't have 900 million peasants to dilute our numbers. Moreover, at 3:1, China is still a greater gross polluter, if you take the reporting from China at face value. From other data collected in China where there is 1. Profit 2. Political repercussion - the outputs always seem to match up with the government prescribed allowable limits....

Those arguments are assuming the carbon tax will work as it is on paper. I am assured by ever other treaty that China and other 3rd world countries will be granted exemption.

China is not even the point.
It's the whole "Third World" status protectionism racket.

The entire program will not work unless the entire world plays by the same rules and adheres to the same standards. This will not happen
They need OpenGL ES 3, and apparently the Star64 will have that, remains to be seen how performant the GPU is:

https://www.imaginationtech.com/product/img-bxe-2-32/

Anything between VideoCore 6 and Jetson Nano would make Risc-V interesting!
why would i use your proprietary product when there are (lots!) of open-source alternatives available?
I “rescued” a plush gray cat from my grandkids house. I call him Meow Kitty. He is my best friend.
SQLite is the most stringently developed C code I'm aware of--the test suite maintains 100% branch coverage, routinely run through all of the sanitizers, and it is regularly fuzzed.

It still accumulates CVEs: https://www.sqlite.org/cves.html.
International oil traders flock to India seeking new ways to buy Russian crude
NY subway for virtually any destination is faster than driving, during busy hours.
I had one of the faster models but even those could not reliably overtake a truck, chances are that when you tried to come out ahead of the lee of the truck you'd be blown back. More than once I had to sheepishly fall back all 60 feet to go back behind and let others pass.
is that a large enough driver of demand?
I think you just need LTO if you want full optimization without regards for the ABI constraints
“Legends in the Cave” Mike Dailly – Lemmings, GTA, and More (2022) [video]
A retrospective talk by Mike Dailly on learning programming in the Z80 era, and onward to Lemmings, Grand Theft Auto, Game Maker Studio and more.
Fonts and tag manger is their shiv for when third party cookies and analytics are regulated.
I'm actually quite fond of the 25 cent coins I got from the US. They work in shopping carts here (you have to put a coin into a shopping cart to get it, and you get the coin back after you bring it back, but they usually only accept 1 or 2 euro. I'm much more likely to still have the quarter, since I can't spend it here.)

I got bunch of coins when I had to use a laundromat in the US once, they only accepted quarters. Exchange $20 at a different machine and get a ton of metal. I suppose its like legacy software.
> Every developer I know either simply dislikes the LinkedIn experience, or knows about the company's shitty behaviour and despises the company (to the point of deleting their profile

omg, I had that feeling too (and I actually removed my profile): good: I thought I was alone :)
> And once we knew (p-1)(q-1), we could then use some more little tricks to recover p and q, the prime factors we wanted.

I am curious to know about these tricks to recover p, q. Does anyone know?
To me, that sounds like your public transportation can’t handle peak demand properly. I think that’s actually solvable by building more transportation and scheduling more trains, busses, etc.

There will of course always be a trade off between peak capacity and spending, but this isn’t any less true for cars.
Right now the only metric I care about is: does it actually ship.
Ghost gun buyback seen as opportunity to print money
Eh, it still depends.

Is it riskier than keeping an updated copy? Sure. Is the expected return period of a hack given your circumstances above a threshold that is acceptable to you? Maybe, maybe not.
Tax deferral is based on the account type. So if you held an S&P 500 fund (example: SPY) in a 529 or traditional IRA then yes it would. Taxes are complicated so you’d need to figure that out based on cost basis etc.
This is the only reason I do not like riding a bicycle (or other private transport), you have to take care of it, park it and return to it. Just being able to walk and hop on public transport is a great feeling.

I guess it's something cagers just learn to live with.
I bought the Mango Pi MQ-Pro a month ago and while at first the software support was missing (only Tina Linux was available), later some ISOs started to appear. Right now I'm using the Armbian headless image based on Ubuntu 22.04[0] which works almost perfect and allows me to work on porting things to RISC-V.

[0]: https://bret.dk/armbian-on-the-mangopi-mq-pro/
170-kilometre-long mirrored skyscraper The Line in Saudi Arabia
It's just a matter of what tools you happen to have preinstalled. Meson and Ninja are easier to install than the entire Rust suite or Go (using their official guide, anyway). They're in the standard repos rather than piping curl to bash or manually managing tar.gz downloads.

I would appreciate a Makefile for a project this simple but I do prefer the Meson/Ninja build system for projects like these.
Google maps says that my primary school is an over 4 hour walk from my house.
I've heard similar about Germany (someone from Germany, please chime in).

There's a lovely under-appreciated privacy about using cash.
Nichelle Nichols, trailblazing 'Star Trek' actress, dies at 89
Your CV kinda gives it away though...
I'm pretty sure he was a "change it all and we will make our own opportunity" type of dreamer, per the article.
It was trams and horses and people and early cars. It was pure chaos, almost like images you see from countries without strong traffic laws. Here was downtown LA:

https://www.discoverlosangeles.com/sites/default/files/image...

As you can imagine, average speeds for every vehicle in this situation was very low. Downtown LA was notoriously congested, and the city for a long time had a height limit imposed where no structure could be taller than city hall, to ensure congestion didn't get even worse and to encourage more sprawl. This eventually put pressure on the city to replace these streetcar routes with bus routes, since its much easier to navigate a bus in this environment than a streetcar that cannot easily detour and has tracking that is damaged constantly by other traffic. The highways were planned (and still do with bus and some rail in LA county) to carry transit as well as car traffic, and to disperse the population from concentrating so much in these early congested regions. They were also used to permit infilling of the gaps between these population centers (e.g. hollywood and downtown la were once separate municipalities with some distance of rural space in between).