skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
OK but this is a completely different beast to what you posted earlier, which is:

> It’s good thing we moved from these old urban walkable designs to a car centric lifestyle, which the vast majority of Americans enjoy.

Your (non-)argument that american lifestyle being car-centric is a "good thing" is VERY different to "I enjoy suburbia and I'd like it not to be destroyed".

Your corner of the earth can remain. If some people are trying to destroy or change it, those people aren't me, nor anyone else in this thread, and they may or may not be "walkability advocates" or what have you that's pretty irrelevant.

The majority of walkability advocates argue for the following:

- US suburbia should not be subsidized as much as it is, it's putting cities in dangerous debt.

- Zoning laws preventing the construction of denser neighbourhoods that aren't skyscrapers should be relaxed.

- City centers should become more walkable and livable, less car-centric

- New constructions and renovations should focus on being human scale, instead of giving massive amounts of land and priority to cars.
> Walking to school is impossible in the US.

This is not true where I live in Tacoma, WA. In fact, in our neighborhood on the North End, I would guess somewhere around 40% of kids walk to school. There is an elementary school two blocks away from me, and a middle school five or so blocks away. The private schools are a bit further and would require driving or cycling.

The neighborhoods I used to live in the residential areas of the Seattle core(Madrona,Leschi,CD) were similar.
I think that this is the fundamental issue of why we don't have more public transit. It's just next to impossible to beat the convenience of cars. The only place I have been in the US where public transit is more convenient than driving is Manhattan. That kind of density is really the only place where you can do that.
Some would argue that these "failures" due to "market forces" are simply an excuse, a ruse to cover up their monoplies elsewhere (i.e., search and ads).

Give how often they sunset things it often feels like a solid argument.
I may be missing something important here, but I'm not a nuclear fission SME. Please do correct me if I'm not making sense.

Doesn't the modularity (multiple 60MW reactors in a single installation) in the NuScale design obviate the "Xenon poisoning" issue, since shutting down one or more reactors doesn't mean halting power generation as it would with a single, larger reactor?

Presumably the reactors can be shut down and powered up independently so addressing the "Xenon poisoning" issue should be just a matter shutting down, then powering up some fraction of the reactors, scheduled to maintain the base load required, no?
says the study’s senior author, Xuanhe Zhao, professor of mechanical engineering and civil and environmental engineering at MIT.

The study also includes lead authors Chonghe Wang and Xiaoyu Chen, and co-authors Liu Wang, Mitsutoshi Makihata, and Tao Zhao at MIT, along with Hsiao-Chuan Liu of the Mayo Clinic in Rochester, Minnesota.

It's likely all or most of the researchers were immigrants/foreign. And yet we have overly restrictive immigration policies for high skilled workers that basically means we educate them and then return them back to their country.
The best example is mentioned in the post: Lil Nas X. His song "Old Town Road" went viral thanks to TikTok, and "real" fame followed afterwards.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lil_Nas_X#2018%E2%80%932019:_B...

> Lil Nas X began creating memes to promote "Old Town Road" before it was picked up by short-form video social media TikTok users. [...] Lil Nas X estimated he made about 100 memes to promote it; the song went viral in early 2019 due to the #Yeehaw Challenge meme on TikTok. Millions of users posted videos of themselves dressed as a wrangler or cowgirl, with most #yeehaw videos using the song for their soundtrack; as of July 2019, they have been seen more than 67 million times. Another core audience tied to social media is children who are hidden in the statistics of adult listeners. Quartz.com says the song certainly owes part of its success to the demographic, and notes they are attracted to the song being repetitive, easy to sing along to, and using lyrics about riding horses and tractors, which children can relate to. It debuted at number 83 on the Billboard Hot 100 chart, later climbing to number one. The track also debuted on the Hot Country Songs chart at number 19 and Hot R&B/Hip-Hop Songs at number 36. After an "intense bidding war", Lil Nas X signed with Columbia Records in March 2019.
Photos are full of creative decisions of the photographer (framing, timing, etc) so we consider them a work of art. But if a painter draws a bridge the thing that copyright protects is the painting, not the info which bridge it was out when it was painted.

You could make a compelling case that CCTV footage is just information without artistic input. That argument has a Wikipedia section discussing it:

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Threshold_of_originality#Pre...
> The compiler literally takes all the mental overhead away.

Increasing the strictness of the language has one effect: decreasing the number of potential solutions for a given problem.

If the restrictions are carefully chosen (like they are in rust) this leads to generally safer code. But don't fool yourself, the restrictions don't merely generate new solutions - they reject the ones that don't pass the tests.

A more extreme example is formal theorem provers. Carefully constructed proofs will take a lot of effort, but it will also make you confident that the code does what it needs to do.

The rust borrow checker is just a more restricted theorem prover that doesn't touch the logic, it just deals with the memory side of things. It's indeed very helpful in trying to explain what's wrong (and even suggest fixes), but it doesn't take the programmer overhead away.

In a more complex system rust inevitably makes it harder to come up with solutions. It will reject valid code just because it can't prove it's right, not because it's actually wrong. As a programmer, you're going to come up with such solutions, and while in time you get more used to writing code that rust likes, and rust too gets better at accepting correct solutions, you're going to have to fight the borrow checker sometimes.

I don't have a ton of experience with rust, but I encountered cases where equivalent C++ code would've worked just fine, but I had to change it because rust didn't like it.

Rust is an amazing language, but it definitely doesn't 'take all the mental overhead away'.
It's not clear to me that this is an apples-to-apples comparison. Specifically: is the same commute by public transport longer by car? For example, you might be comparing a ride from Garden City to Lower Manhattan by train to a ride from Garden City to JFK Airport by car. If so, then this is completely meaningless.

There are also socioeconomic factors to consider. If you're poor then driving into Lower Manhattan just isn't an option for you. Car ownership is already expensive. Insurance in the NY metro area is particularly expensive. Parking anywhere in Manhattan is going to be really expensive.

So you may end up using data like this as a reason to eliminate what is for many people their only option.

At the other end of the spectrum are places like Houston, with a 26 lane freeway. It's also currently building the largest urban ring road in the world (IIRC) at >180 miles. Those are eyesores by themselves but it's absolutely criminal not to eliminate 2 lanes of a 26 lane freeway to run light rail along the length of the freeway. Stations are pretty easily combined with parking structures and integrated with bus routes.

What you realize after awhile is being car-centric in America is not only a question of profound selfishness but it's also de facto segregation. Not from inorities per se, just "undesirables" ie poor people. It's why wealthier neighborhoods like Santa Monica tried to fight rail expansion into their area.

The cost of car ownerships, much like most of the US outlawing building anything other than single family houses (typically on ridiculously large lots) is a deliberate economic barrier. US cities are really no different to Cape Town.
>The new network isn’t just about saving time. It’s also opened up job opportunities for those who are now within walking distance of frequent service. “The goal,” Luhrsen says, “was to connect those places of density within the system -- to get people to jobs, to get them to schools, health-care facilities … seven days a week.”

This ending paragraph is basically why I don't care about the title. At this point, convincing people to switch from cars to buses/trains en masse is a tiny glint of light on the horizon. Far more important in the near-term is simply providing adequate transportation to those who can't or don't wish to drive.
Because I have first hand experience on a good swath of the search stack. Shuttering a standalone product is mostly an organizational effort. Removing a search feature is a coding adventure. One feature is sprinkled across the code base like pixie dust, magically becoming a count down timer to serve a users query. It is simply too high a cost to go and remove a single feature. It is also highly unlikely that leadership would approve bricking a swath of search features for technical reasons, it is just not in the organizational culture.

It's a bug that'll be fixed when someone notices.
Rob Walling's book, "Start Small, Stay Small" was full of great advice for exactly this demographic. Some of the advice is kind of dated at this point... what would people recommend these days? It's still probably worth a read, because some of the advice is fairly timeless.
This is just so unfair to a project whose explicitly stated purpose is to be a better C++ and just that to ease the transition and porting of code from one to the other. Even they say, if you are not working with a C++ codebase, don't bother using Carbon, use something else. Great shot but make sure to aim at the target next time.
I'm not sure what your point is.

https://youtu.be/muPcHs-E4qc?t=462
If you can create (3) later then that’s great. A lack of (3) is not sustainable because you are unlikely to get paid, and your peers ignore your work and ideas, which can be demoralising.

I think one can get used to not getting paid (if you have independent funds), but being ignored is something one can rarely get used to.
I'm not a software engineer; I both freelance and use my tech skills as extra incentive to hire me into non-tech positions. (I'm a generalist to my core). So my answer is going to look a bit different than people who've gone into Tech.

However, I feel/felt pretty good, ethically, about all the tech work I've done, which can separated into a few buckets:

* Work for education systems and libraries. Yes, there's a bunch of stupidity and politics, but at the end of the day, I was making things that helped people learn, and that felt pretty good.

* Work for local or small businesses that otherwise wouldn't have their problems solved at all. In these cases, the businesses were either small enough that I knew the owners + how they ran things and could be assured they weren't exploitative dicks or what they did was important enough (e.g. hospice care) that solving problems and saving them time makes my local community better. (If I help the local lingerie place with IT things, they can serve more people and fewer women are uncomfortable, my local hospice running better means more care for my and my friends' parents, etc.)

* Work for non-profits or other organizations whose missions I believe in. I dabbled in nonpartisan political/civics communications work, for example, and I felt just fine using my tech skills to help people understand things like how elections are administered.

The key thing I've found to finding work that doesn't make me hate myself is the funding model of the organization.
I don't know if you read it or not but the article also emphasizes that this cutter cuts a tapered plug.
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As someone who used nyc transit for years you could often walk faster given the number of delays and issues. Driving is definitely faster throughout the city unless things are gridlocked. Parking is the problem. I moved to seattle for work but also to escape the hell of logistics in nyc. To go anywhere outside immediate walking distance was a 40+ minute affair each way, making things like dropping down to buy a pair of pants a half day affair. On the way you’ll probably get to see someone assaulted on the subway, an insane person squeezing feces down their pant legs onto the floor (true story!), or any number of other mildly traumatic experiences folks from outside nyc never fully believe or understand.

But the transit system is also the beating heart of the city. I wish every city had their transit system.
They'll likely blame it on something else.
I'm responding to someone who said "what I wouldn't give".

If someone tells me "I'd do anything to live somewhere like this", then yes, I'll inform them of their possibilities.
It’s hard to monetize walking, so unfortunately pedestrians have undersized representation in the political process.
Long time NJ to Midtown commuter - 1 hr 50 mins each way for almost 18 years.
Now, with hybrid and office barely 20 mins away - my stress level has dropped off so much
> God help us if what bright eyed engineers want, is lots of followers on Twitter.

That was my reaction. But on reflection: he says he's changed, and is now much happier. I wonder if he's painted his earlier self in a hyper-critical light? The person he described seemed to me to be horribly shallow - it was all about wanting to be cool, popular, and to hang around with other cool people. That's a sort of Kardashian mindset.

Anyway, by the time he flipped and relaxed into doing what interested him, he had already achieved his influencer-like goals.

I also felt I had to prove myself; but not in terms of who I got to hang around with, or how many followers I had. I felt that I had to prove to myself that I was a reasonably good software developer. It took me a decade.

There's this claim (not sure where it comes from) that to get really good at anything difficult takes a decade - learning an instrument, skippering a boat, even cooking. I'm inclined to agree.
Parts of the government related to national security are pretty well funded.
The speed limit is a bit of a red herring. The average speed of traffic in central London is about 9 miles/hour & inner London about 12. The average speed in the suburbs (outer London) is about 20 mph, even though the speed limit is 30 mph.

Average traffic speed in London: https://www.london.gov.uk/questions/sites/default/files/0832...

London speed limits: https://content.tfl.gov.uk/london-digital-speed-limit-map.pd...
I've never had a problem walking around trams, they're incredibly predictable. And horses (as vehicles) are the level of intelligence we're hoping to get self-driving vehicles back to - they don't actually want to run you over.
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Yeah, but i can't play super auto pets in my car.
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And how do they do this? They have a team dedicated to hacking modems? More seriously, many cable modems have a setting "allow ISP to update settings". You can disable it and then the ISP cannot access it, full stop.

They can however very easily block it. Especially if they contract prohibits using your own modem.
> fitting tiny spider corpses to input sources

Don’t you have to fit tiny artificial spider legs to input sources too? That’s not a unique step
True to some extent also the OpenSSL and Debian patches show the millions of eyes theory doesn’t fit highly specialized topics like encryption
>As a NYC resident of 20 years I can assure you public transportation much much faster than a car in most cases.

Surely you jest. Even in Manhattan this is rarely true. Outside of Manhattan it is practically never true. In some circumstances in Manhattan the subway can indeed be faster, but it’s really only true for traveling north/south along an express line during peak traffic.

For instance I can get from 96th to Chambers in about 25 minutes on a subway if I’m lucky with my timing. That’s faster than a car during peak traffic, but slower than a car during any other time of day. But if I need to get from 96th to basically anywhere else that isn’t on the 1/2/3 there is no way the subway will ever win, much less by any significant margin.

Even the idea that subway is “much much faster” defies basic logic. If that were universally true few people would ever take a ride share or taxi.

And this ignores the almost comical problems and lack of reliability with the subway system in NYC. I cannot count the number of times I’ve had to give up, exit the subway station, and hail a cab. I imagine for many people it’s happened one too many times and they’ve exclusively switched to rideshare/taxi.

For me personally I’ve switched to electric bike. I gave up on the subway earlier this year after one too many negative encounters with vagrants and criminals. A good question to ask is how visitors feel about the NYC subway system. When friends or family come to visit, what do they think about it? I don’t know about you, but for me it’s a healthy combo of amazement at the scale of the system, and amazement at how atrocious and disgusting it’s become.
Indeed, I was about to say literally this.
Unfortunately, if you read about real spies, they're quite often abandoned or sacrificed by their own side. Everyone in the business lies, just to keep in practice. This applies to both sides.

Sometimes a compromised agent is "exfiltrated" when he's discovered. Those are the lucky ones.
It’s a very cultural thing. If you’re very experienced and still “only” a senior engineer you can almost sense people wondering

“Why are you still here ?”

Rachel Kroll explains it well here
https://rachelbythebay.com/w/2018/12/29/age/

“ This particular example was about older folks in tech.

As I remember it, the story goes like this: you're supposed to get into this business, get your money, and get out, meaning retire. You sell all your stuff and travel the world and write posts on Medium. You know, the whole pyramid thing, right?

Therefore, if you are still here, and are visibly old, something must be going on. They seem to boil it down to two things.

The first possibility is that the person is a badass. They are one of those people who already made their fortune and only hangs around at the job because they feel like it. They don't have to be there.

The other possibility is that the person is the exact opposite of a badass, and has managed to not cash out despite being in the biz for a very long time. They've made no money, may be living paycheck to paycheck, and really need the job. Basically, the fact they're not "at the top" despite their age means they are crap.”
Ok, but you could dilute the waste to make this problem go away (which sort of happens automatically if the waste is not contained).
It's fun.

And deeply satisfying.
> Crop farming is ruining the soil way faster than grazing livestock.

But what is all that crop used for?

Livestock.

> Livestock grazing the land is a lot closer to how the land was before we came along than a rainforest.

Freudian slip?
This is also a natural result of how much more pleasant taking rail is compared to driving. Sort of a induced demand and Jevon's paradox effect going on here.

Since you don't need to actively pay attention to the road you can multi-task, and that means that you can buy a house farther away. If there is no way to commute by rail, the house that you will select will need to be closer to your work, and will therefore likely be more expensive.
Ask HN: How Do I Start Over?
Ten-ish years ago, I co-founded an unexpectedly successful business. But I’m running out of energy to give to it, and really to software engineering in general, and am starting to think about what’s next.

I’m more financially secure than I could’ve hoped, my business is in good hands, and I think the timing will be right whenever I’m ready to leave. It turns out, though, that I just have no idea how to even start thinking about a second career.

Anyone have any tips?
I wish every city had a better transit system, because it's clear we can do much better than NYC transit.
It looks like you are arguing for tolerating intolerance.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paradox_of_tolerance
I’ve found DuckDuckGo’s timer to be useful. I just type “15 minute timer” into my address bar and go about my business.
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Plus you can't speed up if you are running late. I missed a train by 5 minutes in Chicago, than I was told the next one was sold out. If I had been in a car I could have made that time up. The other problem was late because I was waiting in a long line at the airport to buy metro pas, only to complete a transaction for weekly pass for some confused Italian couple. Then seeing some guy get arrested at the Greyhound station for seemingly asking the wrong question, and getting told I was bamboozled for asking if I could still catch the bus home. Seeing other people getting treated horribly there. Then ended that miserable experience sitting 5 hours on the Megabus wheel well on an over night bus to get home. No thanks. I'd rather a root canal.
People advocating for no cars, often ignore how terrible public transportation can be.
A while ago the Oxford English Dictionary wrote a letter to the US Supreme Court asking them not use the OED as an authority.

They said the OED definitions are based on imperfect collections of common use, and aren’t “right” or “wrong”.

They also said the OED often uses SCOTUS decisions as a source, which creates an incestuous link.
> The VDom was never intended as a performance optimization over direct dom manipulation.

Performance was definitely it's primary purpose.

Remember Flux? THAT was the architecture that introduced FRP to the masses (based on the Elm architecture). The VDom was invented because large dom trees were too slow when you got to thousands (maybe tens of thousands, I forget) of nodes. Which is hilarious if you think about it .. somehow the C++ DOM update loop was slower than someone clever doing it in single threaded JS.

> Using jquery/vanilla js to update thr dom in an adhoc fashion in response to user input [...] has always had faster runtime

This is very incorrect.

> it's just more likely to be coded wrong.

While not outright wrong, I find this somewhat debatable. React is pretty complicated these days and it's quite easy to get tangled up if you're not conscious of what you're doing. FRP isn't a silver bullet.
What I got is that if you had a perfectly fine already working nuclear plant, completely paid off, it's about as profitable to abandon it and build a solar plant as it is to run it.
Maybe it's time to give up on Wayland and write something better?

Just like how pipewire did all that pulseaudio was trying to achieve, and some more, while also fixing all the rough issues.

Iteration seems to be the key to perfection
But why does the bus take twice as long? Because it's stuck in traffic, take a different route, too many stops?

I do think the best way of course is to make public transport a viable option by itself. But it's hard to do without actually limiting the use of cars as well. It's a chicken-and-hen problem, as long as too many rely on cars, it's hard to have a very good public transport. For instance because of what I mentioned, people choosing places to live based on cars making it hard to cover with public transport.

Also, disincentivise car usage makes the city much better for those living there. I hate that people outside the city drive to work every day. Those cars are loud, takes so much space (which could've been cozy instead of asphalt), are a danger to kids, pedestrians, cyclists etc, pollutes the local air.
> There is no central repository of all search features

huh so I suppose it’s possible there are ghost features no one maintains but might still work?