skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Bicycles compete with other modes of transport in varying degrees.

Critically, bicycles have very close to the same random route ability as cars. They’re excluded from most limited-access highways but otherwise can go directly to a place 2 miles away by traveling approximately 2 miles and without significant waiting times for the user. Contrast that with public transit that might need to go 5+ miles and involve a transfer, multiple waits, and walking on both ends to cover that same 2 mile journey.

It was practically possible for me to cycle to my old office. It was comically impractical (though technically possible) to use a combination of multiple buses and multiple subway lines to get there. For that commute (and I think many other journeys), bikes are competing with cars not public transit.
Yeah, we just have to make all the other cities completely safe like Copenhagen.

I mean, it's a nice concept, but Denmark appears to be one of the few places in the world where you don't have to worry too much about bike theft.
http://dx.doi.org/10.1038/s43247-022-00497-4 . It's linked at the bottom of the article.
The photo in the article is of a completely different site in France. yorwba linked to the archaeologists' article with photos of the actual site, which looks quite different: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32537917
Industry 4.0 is basically slapping remote features onto expensive industry machines.

Took me a while to realizxe that this is actually not normal and for them its a revolution...
This is cool! How/where does it get the new releases data from? Would be nice to have a service like this for books
Idk, I've used to travel via train in southern Poland basically everyday for 2-3 years and delays longer than 10 mins I think I could count on the fingers of one hand

Which region are you talking about?
Interestingly they have two clips for the name each station (e.g. [1]), I guess for use in announcements where the destination appears in the middle of a list ("this train will call at Linlithgow, Polmont, Falkirk High, ...") and for where it appears at the end ("the next stop is Linlithgow").

Having used ScotRail for years though, it's always slightly bugged me how the intonations of subsequent stations are unmatched. The announcement for the stations the Glasgow-Edinburgh express trains will stop at is particularly odd.

[1] https://scotrail.datasette.io/scotrail/announcements?_search...
If you can crash dns this way, please report it, its worthwhile fixing.
And with most common type of attack discussed the 51% double spend... You get to keep the fees... On all that happen during attack period transactions... Depending on situation on network you might not even lose anything if there isn't enough well paying transactions around.
It is a wonderful piece of writing.
Another Dane here.

> Cars are MUCH more expensive to buy and own (sales tax used to be 180%, but I’m expat).

The 180% tax rate is the highest bracket. So you don’t pay that rate on the first $x of the car’s price.

So really expensive cars are almost three times as expensive, but cheap cars are about as expensive as in all other countries. Which is why you see a lot of cheap/small cars in Denmark.
Add "caused by Network Rail".
This is an unlabeled advertisement for substack. Please stop the endless substack spamming. They just lie about the earnings they all have relationships with substack, stop fucking commuting fraud by allowing all these fake “I’m just a random influencer and I love substack” posts, it’s illegal to not disclose that they are paid to say this.
What you describe is just one particular (although by far the most common) Proof-of-Work algorithm called HashCash. There are several others, such as Cuckoo Cycle, in which one must find a fixed length cycle in a huge random graph, an obvious mathematical (graph theory) problem [1].

[1] https://cryptorials.io/beyond-hashcash-proof-work-theres-min...
The racist asshole is the author of the article who drove out the maintainer. (Just look at his rant about "Japanese verbosity".)
This reminds me of the StarCraft Arcade which was supposed to be the successor of the Warcraft 3 modding scene. Well it turns out they didn't add a way to browse all maps, you can only pick among the top 50 of maps. How do you get your map to be in the top 50? The creator must upload his map and only he can host it and then play it with other players until it is popular enough to displace one of the top 50 maps. What this means is that the original maps were entrenched because it was impossible and incredibly inconvenient to play any other maps.

If you wanted to play a map you would just upload it yourself, which then counts as a separate map in the popularity statistics meaning all new maps had pretty much zero popularity in the ranking.

Compare this to warcraft3 where playing a map downloads it onto your computer and people thereby build up a collection of maps they can host organically through playing the game. People host maps they like so you got an automatic ranking system where good maps spread on everyone's computers and bad maps don't get shared further.
At the same time, the whole idea of a shared secret instead of asymmetric crypto is source to so many leaks that I wish we would pressure services to not use password-based authentication as their default.
Why do we do email verification at all?

The only legit and practical reason on most web sites is to be able to restore access if you forgot the password.

So just near the password field we can have a "Restore options" section, with email, phone number, etc fields; each having a Test button.

If user have entered email address he can use the Test button and receive a confirmation email, with a link. When user clicks the link, we mark the email as confirmed in DB.

Also, as long as the user does not have a [tested] restore option, we can show him some indicator, like a small red circle on his profile symbol with a tooltip "no restore option configured".

Doing the test email in reverse for me personally would be annoying, because I do not have and do not want to have a configured email client.
Does it make sense to buy bigger cars in Germany, then?
Say it's maybe $200 for carbon fibre vs $50 for Al (the difference isn't that great but being generous).

Either way the raw material price is going to be dwarfed by the labour cost building the enclosure, which are also immaterial in your $50-100k budget.
Seems the "software defined" in these things are mostly about reconfiguring antennas and radio beams. It's perhaps a bit more than a traditional SDR, after all there's not much modern radio communication not using SDRs, even the Mars rovers and satellites have them.
Their cars per capita is about 2/3 of the US [1]. I bet if you correct for the effect of GDP per capita, they will rank near the bottom among European countries too.

[1]: 0.540 for Denmark vs 0.868 for the US (https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_by_vehicle...)
I use Huawei Music instead to identify songs. Shazam broke my heart when they announced they would sell their souls to Apple, and I was like f the american empire.
From the link:

> The parties have agreed that an extra tier will be introduced, whereby a lower 25% tax rate will be applied to the car’s value up to DKK 65,000 in 2021. The 85% tax rate will then be applied up to the slightly higher value of DKK 202,200 in 2021, with the 150% rate above that level.

So you can buy a 80k DKK car and pay only 25% tax.

(Which is the sales tax rate in Denmark for all consumer goods)
It's shady because you're cherry picking the dates. Why not say 99.98% uptime since launch from the start?
i played diablo shareware with my friends in 1997 on our school pcs. I still remember us beating the butcher in shareware.
I'd be curious to see how this compares to cutting or reducing emissions from other sources, like private jets or burning coal. At a glance, without knowing much about greenhouse emissions, this seems like an extremely high effort low impact measure. Surely there must be lower hanging fruits?
King Street Station is a fifteen minute walk from “downtown”. It’s basically in downtown already and by light rail is one stop to the first “downtown” stop at University Street. It’s more like 4 minutes by train. They come every 10 minutes so that’s 15 minutes worst case.

The same light rail will take you anywhere from the airport in the south to the northern edge of the city. Within a decade it will go as far south as Tacoma. In a couple years a new connecting line will reach Bellevue. Eventually as far as Redmond (Microsoft). My own neighborhood of West Seattle will connect in 2035.

The future is bright for the west coast. If HSR connects us all this will be the most desirable place on Earth.
Timelapse can be recorded online, just like a security camera with upload to cloud does, so it will be impossible to edit later. Cheating will be visible because of sudden changes in text of the program.
Nice, clean, humane kill, no collateral damage. Ukrainians fighting Rashist terrorists do it better than CIA, even without drones.
Google Book has atrocious scan quality in general, though (compared to, say, the Microsoft-sponsored archive.org ones). Some pages are completely unreadable and sometimes images are completely deleted as the compressor mistakes them for background.
Game theory wise wouldn't it make sense for the 33% to try to get to 34% as that will lower the other players stakes thus increase their profits? So either lose your stake or incur possible legal action?
Chances are that less than half would come by bike, but even if they would, ik could still make a lot of sense:

- Cycling employees are healthier. Belgian stats say they average more than one sick day less per year.

- Cycling employees are less stressed. You can squeeze more productivity out of them before they burn out.

- Cycling employees take up less parking space with their vehicles.

- Compensating cycling employees for their mobility needs- a fiscally friendly form of compensation in many countries - is often more tax advantageous than doing the same with their car driving colleagues.

- ...and a ton more reasons.
I think these articles are doing alternatives to car use - be it CE or electric - a disservice. Why? Because they seem to confound cause and effect.

This isn't about "geography" or "wealth". It's about infrastructure, urban planning and lifestyle. In the western world, the architecture of cities and regions has been redesigned during the 20th century to accommodate car use as the primary mode of transport. And it happen as a complex interplay between business interests, market demand and public governance, creating intricate feedback loops.

At the start of the 20th century, when the automobile was still in it's infancy, car use was looked down upon and there was even an anti-car sentiment.

e.g. https://www.vox.com/2015/1/15/7551873/jaywalking-history

It's worth paying attention to history and wonder how cars became so dominant a transportation mode in the first place.

In that regard, this statement:

> So, the biggest barrier is likely to remain the social will to rethink transportation.

Should have been the premise of the article. Not its conclusion.
If you are bored, then it is you that is not stimulating yourself, not your job.

Any job can be fun and stimulating: ask anyone intelligent working in a monotonous job e.g. talk to smart minimum wage friends. The exception would be if your workmates are hell; that is not fun.

Make up some human challenges for yourself, while perhaps avoiding purely technical challenges (my assumption is that you are an engineer type). Try to make colleague X laugh every day, draw a cartoon for colleague Y, whatever, et cetera.

Richard Feynman played the bongos and picked locks.

Jim Keller is off-the-charts smart, yet he talks about the his joy of digging ditches, in and interview of Jim by Lex Fridman: jog to 1h16m40s in https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Nb2tebYAaOA

Joel Spolsky (old skool!) writes about "My first real job was in a big, industrial bakery" - about 5 paragraphs from top in https://www.joelonsoftware.com/2000/04/10/controlling-your-e...

If you are thinking you want to do a startup, the best place to find a founder(s) is in a large company. Search for other colleagues you like working with and that have integrity, and especially pay attention to others with skills you are weak at (e.g. marketing if you are a tech guy). Eventually an opportunity will open itself with a colleague.

Ask others you trust what your weaknesses are, and challenge yourself to improve on those areas.

Finally, be careful of the siren call of money. You don't want to burn through your savings (resetting to zero at 30 was rather unpleasant for me). But also don't waste your precious time only on chasing money (I have also tried that, and while it has given me a certain amount of financial freedom, the journey was mostly unsatisfying).

Disclaimer: I am middle aged, and I myself have done some of the above, and I regret not doing other of the above!
Because using one mail adress per service with catch-all would not work.
There has been previous discussion about this issue with JBIG2:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6156238

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29223815
My experience is that low temperatures are not a problem for cycling. Precipitations are, be it rain or snow.

If it's -15C and sunny it's good, but if it's +15C and raining it's a pain.
If you can't reconstruct the original bit-for-bit, for whatever reason, it must be lossy.
…because spoofing the “From:” of an email is an order of magnitude easier than intercepting who it was sent “To:”.
This is a wild guess, but foliage penetrating radar is getting pretty cheap and deployed for even smaller digs.

Larger scans (whole towns, or large fields) are exposing lots of unknown stuff, like forgotten wall structures and abandoned villages.
How is this related to blogging / text editing?
You’re really missing the point. These places are remote and neglected. Meth is a symptom. Connect them to jobs and opportunity and we can develop thriving communities along the rail corridor. That’s where midwest and west coast cities originated in the first place.
Oh, I see. Thank you.
So, someone wrote an integration of the lovely IronScheme (open source) in office and wants $99/yr?

Wowza.

Edit:

Check out iron scheme here: https://github.com/IronScheme/IronScheme
Firefox is great in that regard: when you fill in a signup form it will automatically suggest you a long, generated password, and will then store it for you.
One Year After I Quit My Job for Activism
This is grossfully incorrect. Using sequential consistency on x86 does require extra expensive fence instructions.

What's free on x86 is acquire/release.
Given that some people strongly prefer (or at least appear to strong prefer) aspects of those lower density residential areas, it seems as though faster travel enabling those people to live a life they enjoy has benefits to them, even if it doesn’t save them time as compared to living in a denser place they’d not like as much.
It's to the determent of almost everyone, honestly. Below average speed learners struggle to keep up and speedy learners are bored to tears. Neither are able to reach their full potential.

In a hundred years teaching will probably be done by personalized AI tutors or something and they'll look back at the era of some person talking beside a blackboard explaining things as some kind of barbaric idiocy.
Have to agree with your larger sentiment and disagree regarding "smart people".

I don't believe people with intelligence, that are informed about the current capabilities of computing, assign these characteristics to AI.

In most every case we see the same emulation of personality. There is now an almost endless supply of data available to generate personality. Scraping Reddit would provide enough training material to create a wholly convincing persona-

- to someone that doesn't have the emotional intelligence to discern the difference.

Right now, at large, we can discern the difference because there is a lack of uniformity and consistency in the personas. With time, as ML is programmed to more efficiently mimic personality, discernment will become impossible.

With the clear effectiveness of the current persuasion methods employed by advertisers and political agents, the future outcome seems almost assured.

These current persuasive tools will be used to define and structure laws such that AI are granted legal personhood.

Immediately following will be a mass accumulation of wealth and power and possibly much worse as well
If you want to quickly review fundamental stats, you can read: ThinkStats book.

After that, I'd recommend: Statistical models: Theory & Pratice by Freedman.
> Combine that with how cheap `std::mutex` is on most platforms

This is suspiciously hand-wavy. How "cheap" do you think std::mutex is, and on what platforms?

The thrust of your argument makes sense, but one reason it's so tempting is that many C++ programmers are (or at least want to believe they are) writing performance sensitive code and yet the C++ language and standard library prioritize compatibility over any other consideration.

So there's a good chance even though the obvious way to design a mutex on your platform today is a small integer plus OS support, writing std::mutex gets you some huge unwieldy mess because that's compatible with programs written when the "First Black President" was still a white guy named Bill...
Going by that description (I'm otherwise a n00b), my guess is that only a fraction of validator slots would be active, which means the network could be easily hijacked by a well-funded party who just wants to see the network burn (e.g. central bank of a superpower).

Another possible weakness could occur if staking is mostly outsourced (i.e. staking as a service) and one provider overwhelmingly dominates the market. That provider would be in a position to hijack the network without having much of a stake in it. Proof of stake doesn't really live up to its name if the validation nodes aren't run by validation slot owners.
No amount of fancy, serious, technical, professional talk will convince me that crypto is anything but a giant ponzi scheme.
We send temporary passwords by email. So we reach two goals:
1. User can Login immediately
2. User email is automatically verified because if the email is invalid, he never receives the temporary password
What? Medium is horrible to write. We basically migrated from it because it’s like word. Who likes to write using word besides non-techies?

And even then, I’d chose wordpress over medium any day because of how restrictive and gated medium is. Their rss feeds are also so hidden it’s annoying.
I you are cycling to work everyday your fitness will very quickly get to a level where you don't break sweat on that ride.
174 Megapixel Moon Shot (not mine)
They can either pursue EUV or try to invent something else altogether, and I wouldn’t be surprised they end up with the latter, leapfrogging over EUV.
> you can learn a couple of dozen knowledge sets in six months each

You mean shallowly enough just to pass a few tests that can be easily hacked by accessing the previous year's? You can definitely fake it until you get the paper, I've seen that so many times.
Governments use non-local currencies for trade investment, not as an investment. They’re not paying for anything in BTC, just holding.

Non-resident citizens don’t need the gov to hold BTC to be able to exchange it amongst themselves - case in point, all the other govs that don’t hold BTC/etc.
You’re saying gumroad doesn’t have the “discoverability” or “reachability”? I’m interested because I wanted to publish my next book through that platform.
Update: I got this working for all 14,410 characters of the first chapter of that fanfic. See reply in same link above.
> so he is required by the standard the implement \X.

Which standard is that?

If you're talking about Unicode, the "standard" for regular expressions[1] is an "Unicode Technical Standard", which according to itself isn't required for Unicode conformance:

> A Unicode Technical Standard (UTS) is an independent specification. Conformance to the Unicode Standard does not imply conformance to any UTS.

So awk can claim Unicode support without supporting "\X" (like many regex engines).

If you're talking about POSIX, its regex chapter[2] doesn't mention "\X". In any case I don't think awk claims to conform to POSIX.

[1] https://unicode.org/reports/tr18/

[2] https://pubs.opengroup.org/onlinepubs/9699919799/basedefs/V1...
The article makes it sound like the market animal hypothesis is basically proven, which is just nonsense. The article links to a paper that is lavishly funded by the NIH i.e. Fauci who is obviously going to be desperate to muddy this issue given that there's documentary evidence of his agency illegally funding GOF research on bat coronaviruses at the WIV. Those papers couldn't be more conflicted if the Chinese government itself had written them.

The basic problem for all attempts to finger the market as the original source is that the chances of that coincidentally happening right next to one of the only labs doing research on that exact type of virus, t purely by chance, is astronomically low. A HN reader did the calculations in a comment on a previous article about this issue and you needed scientific notation to represent the probability. None of the attempts to show it came from the market take into account these probabilities and especially not the fact that we can actually read the grant proposal in which the EcoHealth Alliance request money to fund the WIV to study novel bat coronaviruses ... in 2019. Bayesian reasoning alone shows that the weight of evidence needed to overpower this prior probability of a leak is extraordinary and has never been reached. Especially given the obvious confounder that if it did escape from a lab you'd expect most of the people who get it first to have visited a large local gathering place!
> So: If you here on HN can think of a way to dramatically increase travel speed for people, goods, or information, I think you will become rich, famous, and very impactful.

I think it's nearly trivial to have a system with much higher (2x? 3x?) traveling speeds: Rent a private jet. Doing this in a climate-friendly manner is merely (;)) an engineering challenge, cue synfuel. The real challenge is in scaling this up to the masses in a economical way.

The frustrating part is that air travel is obviously the best way to get people quickly from A to B. Humans have just the right size and weight. There's so much space available in the skies that congestion only is a problem at the nodes. Safety is great because everyone intuitively understands the risk. Speed is maximal and, most importantly, the amount of required infrastructure doesnt scale linearly with the number of connections. Yet, air travel is seen as obscene in modern society because it currently relies on fossile fuels. I fear it will never lose this stain.

What we're currently lacking is a strong movement to CO2 neutral, large airplanes. I believe if we'd focus on air travel the resulting solutions would be tremendously helpful to free other sectors from carbon emissions.
I’ve heard le compte de montecristeau was published like that.

Mangas are still published like this (in jump) I believe?