skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Visit Copenhagen sometime, you'll see most people on bikes just do it in normal clothes. They just ride at a comfortable speed. They're not racing.
This is sadly true. I have suffered under this as a student myself, so I try to not forgot how it felt and constantly check my material for unexplained aspects, that I just assume blindly.
Danes still own as many cars as everyone else, it's not really an outlier and the number of cars per capita is growing.

https://ec.europa.eu/eurostat/databrowser/view/road_eqs_carh...
And I'd like to clarify: Safe bike lanes mean you are comfortable riding a bike while transporting your 3-year-old in a trailer behind it. This is the sort of safety that is required.
It is easy to put people in situations that make them contemplate suicide, deprive them of enough sleep they will become depressed and eventually get in horrible mental states that they want to end and that is the problem, people don't want to die, they want to avoid bad mental states, they want to be healthy. By just euthanizing everyone willy nilly you are depriving them of their option to be healthy and eventually we will continue justifying toxic environments by saying that you can always "leave" if you don't like it.
If you hold eth, you are long eth.
This is why CS and coding are barely related.

Software engineering experience can be gained at a code school, or by working on open source projects, if you already know some coding from one of the many free online resources.
people bike in finland and spain
It might, but ebikes are expensive where I live. Most of them cost as much more than my current car (which is 20 years old and bought used, but still). I can ride the bus for months off of that money.
> What makes humans special though?

We’re the most intelligent thing we’ve discovered in the universe. Also, I am human, so I have a vested interest in bad stuff not happening to humans.

> AI will be born on Earth so we will share that common trait with it

Covid-19 was also born on earth. That wasn’t too flash for humanity.

> perhaps one should have humility to accept that future doesn’t belong to a weak species like humans.

Not sure how you class humans as a “weak species”? Unless you’re comparing organically life forms to hypothetical digital life?

Anyway, I suspect if any kind of life form could expand to the stars, it’d be digital.
Slowing Down to Speed Up – Circuit Breakers for Slack's CI/CD
Can We Throw Satellites to Space? [video]
We've had many discussions on HN about SpinLaunch, but Brian real goes through and answers several of the questions that were left unanswered, love it.
Best Practices for Kubernetes Readiness and Liveness Probes
What's wrong with git checkout?
Let me be a voice of reason from within the dark forest.

I work at a 9 (soon to be 10!) person startup. The amount of challenge is unlimited. The sense of purpose virtually unbounded. I feel like I could grab on hard to anything and take it to the moon right now.

That said, this takes energy out of you like you would not believe. I don’t have enough left over for things like games, netflix, shopping, and social events. Keeping the startup alive is 90% of my life right now. The other 10% is keeping myself alive. HN accounts for most of my free time these days.

It does feel exhilarating some days, but there are also some where you desperately crave the sort of quiet and stability you’d get at a place like Microsoft.

I’ll probably wind up marginally better off than if I had gone into FANG, but I don’t think this is a gamble worth taking if your life depends on it.
> relatively straightforward to scale out

Is this true for any technology, let alone database technology? I've yet to find one.
Virt: Small Linux VM, ready to run containers, for macOS on ARM
Is it really worth wrecking the climate in order to smell fresh?

Also, office buildings in industrialized nations usually have the necessary plumbing for a shower.
Disable all notifications.
Hard to know what's worth doing sometimes! I burned out myself a while back, took time off, and I can feel myself ramping back up. I'm hoping that I learned something from the last go around, but only time will tell.

Meditations is inspiring. Maybe it's preachy or overwrought, but I see it as someone who used his incredible vantage point to cultivate wisdom and goodness. There's a lot of compassionate, even-handed observation in it.
I like to use Spotify Release List [1] which is also a good replacement for the Spotify Release Radar. It just watches for artists you follow and doesn't include those that buy their way into the Release Radar (I'm looking at you, Ed).

[1] https://spotifyreleaselist.netlify.app
Wreck of SMS Kaiser Franz Joseph
SMS Kaiser Joseph was Austro-Hungarian armored cruiser. She survived the First World War only to be sunk by a storm and negligence.
Honestly, kind of yeah.

Something I've come to realise is that I'm much better at fixing other people's code than coding from scratch.

I could definitely work with that kind of tool.
1) One of GPT-3 usage guideline was not to make the app available for public without an account. I am required to send the userID for every GPT request by their guidelines, so I had to force-signin for now. I am considering to make a guest_mode in the near future tho.

2) Seeing the trend here, I'll make a email signup asap
Now we just have to make all the other countries entirely flat. Here in Norway, going to work by bike is like a triathlon in terms of effort.
It’s actually quite easy to set this up, if you missed doing so when it asks:

https://support.google.com/a/users/answer/9308783?hl=en
DALL·E I can see obvious use for, GPT tends to be similarly impressive, but I don't understand if it's 'just' interesting research, seeing what we can do sort of thing, or whether people actually see real-world use cases for it?

The closest to it was perhaps that code-generating demo here a day or two ago - but who wants to be a 'GPT programmer' writing code as 'write a Python program that computes fizzbuzz replacing the arguments $fizz$ and $buzz$, ...' instead of just the 'actual' code? It just seems like a more clever AppleScript to me, pseudocode, and I don't think anybody's ever seriously pursued a flexible keyword pseudocode like language as a goal, it's just appeared as a demo of more general models?

Generating template/outline text I suppose? (Like that essay-writing helper here a few days ago.)
Most sites I sign up using an email that I could, but don’t send email from. I assign per-site emails which all forward to another mailbox that I regularly send mail from.

I could change my client temporarily to send from one of those custom addresses, but I’d have to be quite a bit more interested than usual in your service to bother.

Even users who just have multiple emails in their client would end up sending mail from the default account, which may not match. I have a work account, my personal gmail, my personal domain mail, a family email account, and a side project email account on my phone.

Even if users just have work and personal, how many users are you willing to lose because they sent a mail from the wrong account?

I also think most of the value to the site owner is being able to hit the user with a site->user communication (often an ad or offer of some sort) and me proving I can send you mail from that address is, at a minimum, putting the emphasis on the wrong syllable, and in a lot of cases is telling you nothing about my ability to receive email at that address.
In the case of celebrities yep. It can generate original photorealistic (or whatever style) faces, but they won’t let you generate the faces of real public figures AFAIK.
If failing in bizarre ways precludes consciousness then my kids are most definitely not conscious.
Well, Denmark has a draconian tax on cars [1]. I assume for many Danes, it's not like they have access to a car and are biking to work by choices.

[1]: https://autovista24.autovistagroup.com/news/denmark-agrees-g...
In practise your university will not provide you with the time/resources to do extras like these.

On top of that as an educator you have a real responsibility not to send someone on a hail mary without fundamentals, which might ultimately drive them out of university because it will not get easier after that. This is a real risk.

Another aspect: What so you think how many students will try to skip classes if word gets around it is actually possible to do so? How many of those will cheat to do so? And bow many of those who made it through will be able to face the next exam without cheating?
I am pretty sure that in 20 years every mathematician will happily use an ITP system. That is because formal reasoning is not unnecessary, but just too burdensome to be done on paper. Ideally a future ITP system will give you the formalisation almost for free, and lets you concentrate on your creative insights. It will be empowering you, instead of restricting you. It will be a tool that will let you explore your ideas more freely and creatively than it was possible before due to your limitations as a human. That is also why it is so important to get the basic foundations of such an ITP system right, as the limitations of the ITP system will become your limitations.
I'm in the UK and this studied in a system where you can't just skip ahead, but I also got so much out of sucking in the riches as you say and helping other students. Because I already knew the basics I could spend time really mastering every last part of the courses and it was wonderful (and also gave me space and time for lots of non-academic activities!)
I believe the tendency of all software to move in that direction is also relevant
> To match a grapheme cluster, you have to use "\X", which is not universally supported.

You have the words "supported" and "implemented" mixed up. Kernighan claims Unicode support, so he is required by the standard the implement \X.

If a software does not implement \X, then it is not compliant, and it would be very wrong to say it supports Unicode. Does anyone have a deeplink showing the evidence for awk?
Yeah, we just have to make all the other cities completely flat like Copenhagen.
Agree. Also I see some video on SerenityOS and I find a very good teaching environment/gym to see a such vertical integration.

Last but not least HaikuOS deserves some forward look
dont bother - people cant wrap their head around it, you will only get down voted.

All truth passes through three stages. First, it is ridiculed. Second, it is violently opposed. Third, it is accepted as being self-evident
Not against RoR at all but that does make sense
What a terrible, terrible title. Makes it seem not worth it...
> It is easier to move a PoS validator, and harder to locate the validator in the first place.

I'd say it's much easier to single out PoS validators. Especially when they are congregating under unified capital and they are US based. Also, argument could be made that they are responsible for the transactions that they are making. The same can be hard to argue for Bitcoin, since anyone with a bit of a hashrate could generate a block and it's permission-less to contribute to the hashrate (and also anonymous)
And would your company provide showers for everyone, if at least half the people would decide to bike? When I was around 10Km from work, I mostly used public transport, as even a mild summer day in central Europe was quite intense, and I'm not one to race through the city.
Can we keep Scotland though?
I agree, I cannot really take the more malicious interpretation seriously if the premise of the lock is to render theft useless and ensure data security/privacy even in any situation.

I would be more sympathetic to the argument if it did not propose a sinister motive. My interpretation of the concern is mostly that the current system makes reselling Apple devices difficult, which is understandably frustrating for refurbishers/resellers of older devices.

Regrettably there is an intersection of reselling such devices and reselling stolen devices, and I think the intersection cannot be removed.

The return of the lock-status site would be good however, as it would at least allow legitimate resale participants to both be able to act with full information; I can imagine a social engineering attack here, but at the end of the day I don't think Apple should be help responsible to that degree, and I think sufficiently concise warnings about the process and multiple confirmations with additional information on what the result of the process will be should be enough.

I actually don't have a lot of sympathy towards the situation of IT Departments that have users moving in/out with such devices, as this is a fairly documented aspect of Apple devices for some time, and I believe Apple's Managed Apple IDs addresses this, but I have not personally used it so I can't speak in full confidence here. Apple's document would lead me to believe that this is the intended solution that these organizations are not using [0], as such devices don't give users access to the Find my Device feature, I understand this to be controlled by the IT administrator.

I do understand the video's point, but I don't think they make a compelling argument here except for the fact that it requires more work for them and previous sources for refurbished devices are unreliable now.

0 - https://support.apple.com/hr-hr/guide/apple-business-manager...
The "1-2 hours of commuting every day" he gave is a pretty good (inverse) metric for quality of life.

Edit: Not as in, 1 hour of commuting is good, but as in, commuting time is a good way to measure quality of life.
“We make ourselves busy because other cool people around us are busy which they are because the cool people around them are busy and so on.”

Wait wtf? I’m busy because I have shit to do.
Seems to be this non-Microsoft product: https://apexdatasolutions.com/home2/acce%CE%BBerate/
> Short-sighted escapists, who think that to not have their current set of problems means not having problems

This is such a universal thing it should have a name, is escapism that in general?
Funny! That indirectly relates to the "What’s the strangest thing you ever found in a book?" thread[0] which was posted a couple of weeks ago.

[0] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32334552
Hydrogen is the easy one. If you want battery storage I agree we need to get it cheaper (the effective cost of battery storage was close to nuclear last I checked, which isn't cheap enough, though my numbers may be out of date), but hydrogen is something I first made when I was single-digit years old.
Yes, it matter. Would we remove the brake pedal of a car while driving? This is the same idea.

We are talking about removing the main wire of entire ecosystems without a clue of the real outcome. Could have some benefits? yes, it could, but the nice extra space for the feet wouldn't worth the danger. An unfixable waterfall of problems and many local economical collapses would be guaranteed.
The article says they're only 1-3 metres tall.
If there had been 30k deaths, or 170k injuries, there would be other sources corroborating those numbers. Believing a single source of data that is easily skewed - like for example the data you’ve cited - is as you say: delusional

> that for some reason huge numbers of people have been filling out bogus, untrue injury reports. It's a delusional belief. Go find evidence of that and then we'll talk.

Evidence like the 9k people in the US seeking financial compensation for vaccine injury? You’re comfortable with the idea that less than 5% of people impacted bothered to try to get money for their suffering? 170k injuries and 30k deaths would make for some biiig class action lawsuits but those don’t seem to be showing up anywhere
sure, but it's also pretty easy to implement / low hanging fruit.

In the beginning, bike paths can be just painted on the ground / plastic barriers in riskier places. It can be improved upon later as the roads are going through more thorough maintenance / renovations.

Once some reasonably safe infrastructure is in place, the bike traffic often picks up pretty quickly on its own.
- Disable all notifications

- Audible

- Some podcast app

- No social media apps. I mean literally none

- Zero apps on Home Screen

Works like a charm for me
Ebikes.
There is no one on Gumroad that wants to read books. Substack is more than a e-commerce stripe checkout flow. Author can keep 100% of their earnings (except CC processing fees) if they use a static webpage and a Paypal button; this is missing the point entirely.
Most Intel and AMD CPUs produced in the last ~10 years have hardware support for converting 16-bit floats to and from 32-bit. That's not full hardware support of course, but you don't need it to be able to make good use of them. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/F16C
"I consider average travel speed to be a critical metric by which to judge society", is an interesting take on this.

I'm curious as to what aspects of a society it's measuring, what those metrics tell you about a society (e.g. it's values) and what sort of society you'd get by optimising for them or (just being contrary) trying to minimise them.

I mention this as the first thing that came to mind when I saw the title was the 15-minute city concept [1]:

"A 15-minute city is a residential urban concept in which most daily necessities can be accomplished by either walking or cycling from residents' homes."

"15-minute cities are built from a series of 5-minute neighborhoods, also known as complete communities or walkable neighborhoods".

"the 15-minute city concept as a way to ensure that urban residents can fulfill six essential functions within a 15-minute walk or bike from their dwellings: living, working, commerce, healthcare, education and entertainment."

I say this as someone who used to regularly commute over 1hour in each direction to work (London) and know of people who used to do closer to 2hours. This would have been massively sub-optimal (by a number of metrics) if I hadn't of spent a lot of evenings in london socialising, seeing gigs or doing courses/events etc.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/15-minute_city
wow your non sweaty privilege is showing
I have always felt analysis like these are missing some details useful for the context? For example, how does it scale to a population size of UK and is it comparing the entire UK pollution (including industrial)?
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I think the question should be: is it really worth getting to work daily?

The pandemic showed that in many cases it's possible to work remotely - at least some of the time.

~30% of positions are desk jobs. Imagine 30% less people commuting daily.
Exactly - tt has no memory except the narrow window. When these models develop a hippocampus analog and can push things into long term memory, it might become interesting.
Applications and text-processing libraries are free use an internal text encoding or data structure, if you will, which does not suffer from the drawbacks. Conversions to encodings suitable for data exchange (e.g. UTF-8) are performed at the I/O boundaries.
Workshop on Autonomous Driving
> I can "literally" see how people think about software when reading source code and pull requests (I say literally because these things are... objects I can manipulate in my mind? it's hard to describe, and it took me a while to realize not everybody sees it this way).

I think you're right.

The impression I get when I talk to an autistic person, or when I cooperate with him on a problem, is that he sees my thoughts and my ideas as "entities" within his own mind. This rhymes with what you say, that you perceive it as if other people's thought patterns are "objects that you can manipulate in your mind".

My subjective experience is that the autistic person will "dive into himself" to find the answer to who I am, in a given situation, while the non-autistic person will look outwards. It's as if the non-autistic person processes me in real time, using a massive parallel social GPU in his head, while the autistic person, instead, consults massive internal lookup tables to try and derive the same information.

I think the difference is fundamental. It has to do with the very "shelf system" in our brains; the way that we have stored information about the world, and made sense of it, since we were small kids. It's not something that we can change as adults, I think.
What do you mean “mild temperatures climate”? I was planing a visit there last winter and thought it’s not advisable. How low does the temperature get on par with the rest of Europe and is there wind gust something I found make it really hard in Europe to bike in the winter?
An experiment at the bottom of a gold-mine
Too simplistic views don't work in ecology. I'm pleased to inform you that yes, there are many species of wasps, big and small, and for sure, wasps (and flies, and mosquitoes) are good pollinators. Sometimes even the only pollinators.

... but their role as predators of caterpillars is more interesting for us
Many people are busy for the sake of being busy. Because not being busy in some environments is frowned upon.

"It's not the same being busy and being productive" Some people are trying to show productivity by being busy and that sometimes shows.
They're putting a brave face on it but pre-lockdowns it was anticipated to ramp up fairly quickly to 16-17 million passengers per month, so only managing 10 is indicative of how much mandatory work from home and the culture change that followed has crushed transport demand in London.
It is, but only from "Paris Nord", for which you have to zoom in and pick right next to "Paris Est". There are 4 or 5 train stations to pick from in Paris depending on your destination, and I'm guessing the added interchange time affects results (despite Paris Est and Paris Nord being basically 10 minutes walking distance for instance).
Is there anything out there that does what you’re suggesting?
> so miners can filter out transactions they legally aren't allow to process and all that happens is those transactions get validated in a future block by other miners.

You could fairly easily argue that building on a chain that includes sanctioned transactions is also "processing" them. Therefore miners would need to fork the chain to remain in the clear legally or just stop mining altogether.
have you tried Quip (https://quip.com)
and lug toxic batteries around for no reason? why not everyone just work from home and conduct all interaction in some kind of Meta Verse ?
I cancelled my Prime for exactly the same reasons.

I don’t think Amazon would be viable today if they dropped their dark patterns and held vendors accountable.

I am at a point where I’d rather go shop at a physical Walmart or Target than buy something from Amazon.com. Driving to a physical store causes me less frustration in 2022.
> According to campaign monitor [1] 67% of users are using graphical email clients.

That same site also says: "Create a plain text version of your email."
It matters to me for my personal use cases and basically for its scaffolding capabilities, because, while I was finding it useful and interesting, I don't think it's worthy of a monthly sub.

What the comment above me meant is that probably this is a shared feeling by many other people because the initial hype (like all the blog posts etc) died quite fast once it went paid.

I can't imagine how much it cost to train the thing but oh well, I guess it's irrelevant for me for now since I won't be using it...