skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Even if the water companies were state owned, dealing with the pollution would still cost money and there are a bazillion other demands on the state's finances which are more pressing than keeping rivers clean, such as providing healthcare. This isn't a hypothetical. Scotland has a state-owned water company, and it'd be impossible to write an article like this about theirs not because they're doing better - all indications seem to be that that they're not - but because it relies on information from monitoring equipment that just doesn't exist there. It was pretty recently added in England too, over the last few years, so it's clear that the Environment Agency does actually care about this... not that you'd even know that had happened from the UK news coverage, especially the Guardian's.

Other places in Europe seem to be even worse. For example, I've seen people from Ireland shocked that thsi would happen and preaching the benefits of their state-owned water and their fight against privatisation and water billing. There are places there which literally have no sewage treatment plants still. As in, their sewage goes straight from their houses into the rivers and the sea untreated, not because of a fault or undersized treatment plants or heavy rain ( all of which they have problems with too) but because the sewage system is literally designed to do that 24/7. The government was meant to have fixed this decades ago according to EU rules but has kept dragging its feet on building sewage plants. And they're probably not unique - they were literally the first country I checked, and the second, Spain, had the same issue as well.
> three words: modernize, optimize, and extend. We intend to make sure these are not just business buzzwords

Why does everything have to be modernized? Nginx is awesome not because it tried to keep up with the ilks of ill-thought servers that came and went faster than a flash in the pan. No let’s not put it on GitHub and have every literal person contribute. Elegant architectures and code like this don’t just happen because someone “modernized”.
The average Facebook user goes to Facebook because they have nothing else to occupy themselves with for 15 seconds, and Reels are the perfect functionality for this
There's a permanent fix for bugs like these:

1. log out of Facebook.

2. Delete the app from your phone.

3. That's it.
Maybe it's not true anymore but forEach used to be much slower, which matters when you make a game engine and need to iterate lists at least 60 times a second.
There's no competition for water here. And even if there were, what are they competing on? They don't produce water, they don't manufacture anything, there's no innovation to be had. The water is the same whatever the case. There's no advantage to a market.

So how do you seek profit as a water company? You can't seek more customers, since that is constrained by population. All that's left is reducing overheads and increasing margins. By reducing quality of service. By not improving infrastructure, or letting it fall into disrepair. Or, as discussed here, dumping sewage and ignoring costly environmental responsibilities. A tragedy of the commons.

As for the regulator. They are duty bound to ensure water companies are making profits. The incentives are all wrong.
In fact, in the Netherlands, they just gave up on motorists and created a complete parallel infrastructure for cyclists (in addition to that for pedestrians).

That's seemingly the only way to keep people safe from injury.
According to the Gorilla study:

> failure to attend to it while engaged in the difficult task of counting passes of the ball

I'm not sure how this applies to commuting, except when the driver is attentively looking at other cars.
> the point of passing a bike on the road is to avoid the danger you as a driver pose for the bike in the case of an unexpected event.

> like if the biker falls.

In this scenario the driver is not leaving sufficient space ahead of them, given road conditions. There should always be enough space for the driver to react & bring their vehicle to a stop safely--if not then the driver is not driving safely.

There is nothing wrong with overtaking at a sensible speed and at a sensible distance. "car squeezes past you at high speed" means that the driver is failing on both accounts.
A rather more modern physics engine for JS games can be found at https://rapier.rs/. It's written in Rust, compiled to WASM, works for 2D and 3D, and it's fast (well, fast for JS anyway).
I do not think it is less dangerous to pedestrians. I remember when I used to live in the Netherlands, it was uncomfortable being a pedestrian because there were so many cyclists.

Actual statistics about encounters clearly do show it is less dangerous, and expecting a concussion to be a false interpretion of actual risks. I do get your problem though: you're not used to it. You need eyes everywhere which essentially takes training.
Stop being silly; these are totally orthogonal concerns.
The right tool for the job is my motto. I have a car and bikes. Whichever is the most appropriate is what I'll use. Short distances on regular bikes, much longer ones on the e-bike, longer still or (really) bad weather: car.
> I'd pay extra not to have Fox News, for instance, even more for nobody within a 10 mile radius not to have it)

With old-school analog TV, injecting noise at the right frequency in the cable will blank the channel of your choice for all the people connected to the same cable, up to some distance... of course it's definitely illegal and the cable company can probably find you. Unfortunately with digital TV it's much more complicated as several channels will be modulated on the same stream/carrier frequency...
An electric bicycle will make a huge difference in getting you out of the valley. But unfortunately you can't do anything about the atrocious non-design of London streets and the endless traffic gumming them up.
For some reason, driving a car causes a strong desire to move forward quickly in most people. Even for me, a person who hasn't owned a car in over a decade and always bikes or walks everywhere, whenever I get behind the wheel of a car, I get incredibly anxious when I'm stopped waiting for something, and I have to consciously tell myself it's OK if I wait for 30 seconds.

I have no idea what causes this, but I've noticed it in many others. Maybe because if you do wait a bit, some drivers behind you will get irritated and honk, flash their lights, tailgate, and pass you via some dangerous maneuver? That might be enough to associate waiting with anxiety for people who'd normally be ok with waiting.
I haven't driven in Rome, but I've tried the North of Italy, in Aoste. I'm from Paris and drive / ride my motorbike here quite often [0].

The only time in my life when I felt people were out to get me was in Italy. They drove like absolute maniacs. And I was on a big motorbike, not a bicycle going at 10 kmph. The road was wide, too (outside a city), with very light traffic, but for some reason they really couldn't be bothered to move over to the other lane when overtaking. Weren't going particularly faster, either.

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[0] I'm not saying Paris is great, mind. I'd even say that in the last few years it has deteriorated a lot: whenever a light turns red, at least one person is guaranteed to run it.
That's true for the entire EU too. The minimum is 20, or slightly above that.
> A quiet but incredibly innovative corner of the NGINX universe is NGINX JavaScript (njs), which enables developers to integrate JavaScript code into the event‑processing model of the NGINX HTTP and TCP/UDP (Stream) modules and extend NGINX configuration syntax to implement sophisticated capabilities.

That sounds pretty similar (in spirit, at least) to mod_perl etc. in Apache.

Does anybody happen to know a writeup that compares the two?
> It’s the simple case of erasing the buffer before blitting other buffers onto it.

... but those buffers are going to be paint with the same calls to drawRect. If I look at my software's draw calls, the huge majority are calls to such drawLine / drawRect / drawRects with the occasional small text or pixmap
It seems so weird that we all happily pay $5 or $10 a month for a bunch of random services, but a central platform like Facebook or Twitter can't even charge a buck?
Hopefully one day the kids will be able to get the care they need without having to bypass the medical system or hide things from their family. Until then, they get to be biopunk.
Thank you for reminding me that I need to delete my account with you. Now if you could only keep your service up and running long enough for me to change my password so I can log in and remove my account.
I keep blocking up to 10 pages of movies theme every day that Facebook keeps suggesting to me. For months already.

I view it as extremely offensive and abusive behavior, since I don't follow any of such pages, even on others sites that can in theory track my behavior and share with Facebook.

I guess we are joining the era of corporate techno-fascism, where mega corps don't care about actual wishes of people and just push ideas, narratives, sympathies, and other emotions which are suitable to them. F*ck those narcissistic billionaires that build "virtual realities" essentially to exploit the others.

BTW, hyper-capitalism and democracy are obviously incompatible with each other. No wonder there so many different crises in the world right now.
You won't need it, it'll be laparoscopic surgery that barely needs anaesthesia and leaves a hole like a flea bite that you stick a plaster on for a day or two.
You have to be careful about where you park you bike around drunk people. I locked my bike up in Leidseplein once, and when I came back, somebody had barfed on my bike seat!

achenet: The officer will direct you to the separate bike lanes for Ketamine and LSD.
> Worth clarifying that Bun isn't a from-scratch JS runtime, it's a wrapper around JavaScriptCore (WebKit's JS engine)

Does this mean you could potentially run some Node code on iOS?
I live next to a street which I cross daily (I am legally allowed to cross here in Germany, as the next pedestrian crossing is far enough away).

When I cross I make sure nobody has to worry about hitting the brake (provided they go with roughly the same speed they did before).

Yet it happenstwice a week that some lunatic thinks "hey the street is for cars" and starts speeding towards me (definitely also over the speed limit) just to get to a stop at the red light down the road.
Sure, but so could a compact hatchback from the 80s.

The issue is this: Car seat and booster seat laws in the US have changed (I don't know what they are where I live, as I don't have kids. Sister in the US does, though). If you spaced your children 3 years apart, you could easily have 3 car or booster seats in the car, which means your back seat needs to be even larger. The VW golf from the 70s probably couldn't fit 3 booster/car seats, and might struggle with the two youngest using them while the oldest just gets smashed in the middle. Hopefully they aren't large for their age.
iOS or Android is a false dichotomy.

I run a b2b tech company from Silicon Valley and do not have a phone at all. I carry cash, plastic ID, a paper vaccine card, etc.

Restaurants push QR codes in my face and I explain I do not own a phone, and they never fail to produce a paper menu somehow. Restaurants that default to paper menus are generally classier and get more of my business anyway.

I arrange to meet people at places and show up on time. I navigate by writing down directions and paying attention to my surroundings.

A couple times I have had trouble with concerts not wanting to let me in without some nonsense ticket app. I go to the will call booth, explain I do not have a phone. They find a way to print me passes every time.

I function in society just fine.

Do not let people discriminate against you for what software you wish to use, or not use. Nothing in our constitution mandates you accept the terms of service of Apple or Google.
The break things experiment was a roaring success. But they ditched "break things" a long time ago, and arguably it's the new phase of stability they're struggling with.
I don't understand why people / Meta believes all social networking needs to compete or does compete?

You’re right - there are still people using MySpace. But I bet people at MySpace wish they would’ve reacted to the rise of Facebook differently.

Similarly, in the five months I was on TikTok it seemed like women especially were proud they made it to TikTok and made fun of women “still on Facebook”.

I think Zuckerberg is rightly afraid of becoming the next MySpace. I don’t know if there’s a way to prevent it though.
They aren't cyclists -- they are motorists using illegal uninsured vehicles.

[In the UK, electrically assisted pedal cycles must cut out after 15.5 mph; the max motor output is 250 W; and the motor must solely be activated by the action of turning the pedals; vehicles that don't comply with these rules are illegal]
SRV for HTTP maybe. But SRV for email autoconfig, IM applications, game servers etc. is already here
Ouch, this sounds very similar to the breach that happened to Plex in 2015. [1]

1: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9817160
Canva also has support for creating mockups (https://www.canva.com/smartmockups, requires login). Though, this site seems to have more features at a glance.
> more often than not, I find a very similar image

Can you give an example? I was also doing reverse image searches, and I havent seen a single case of an image being closely related to another unless it was used as the base for inpainting.
Pretty common in Germany are 30 days.
I think it's likely you're right, although I haven't looked for any hard numbers.

But anecdotally, I only speak English and I listen to lots of Finnish, Swedish, German, and Norwegian music.

I don't know if Spotify just started recommending this stuff based on the few metal bands I knew from those places, but it started recommending other genres too and I really like lots of it. Not sure how I'd find this music otherwise, actually.
> fix our culture so that men and women don't find CGI preferable to each other.

What's next suggestion? Going to actual war instead of playing computer games?
Wildly wrong.
Those things happen at scales too.
Going back to? We’re already there.

Every media company decided they wanted to take their own slice instead of having a small number of services cover different types of entertainment.

At this point I’d rather pirate because a) it’s cheap as free b) I’m not at the mercy of my ISP deciding how fast my stream can go, and c) I never have to worry about a show I’m watching getting pulled and locked into another paywalled garden that probably has a shitty app that my HTPC doesn’t support in the middle of me watching it.
Kestrel: The Microsoft web server you should be using
if you mention bikes in Milan becoming "a problem" because they are parked like that maybe we should also talk about the absolute chaos of cars parked everywhere (on bike lanes, in the middle of the road, on sidewalks), otherwise one might think that in Milan bikes are the worst offenders regarding parking.

> As a pedestrian bikes are much more disruptive than cars for me

yes, for you. for the collectivity, the cost of cars killing people all the time outweighs the discomfort of seeing mopeds parked, you'll understand
The best idea to reduce theft is make selling stolen items more difficults. Most bike thieves don't keep the bikes for themselves.

Which means global mamdatory ownership registration.

Having said that it is very easy to steal only a handful of parts with mostly basic tools but I guess we could also have a tool to associate parts with ownership using serial numbers.

The rest is just bandaid.
What? That's about things that _aren't pornography_.

US convicted for written obscenity just in 2013: https://www.techdirt.com/2013/05/20/court-finds-fantasy-stor...
> if you think your display cable is the issue, you can now get it for $5 through Apple's self service repair

Are you referring to flexgate, ie MBP 2016-2017? Those are fused with the display assembly. Even if I had one, I'd basically need a lab to extend it, even independent shops usually don't do that repair.
F# Svelte Clone
How to pay your rent with your open source project (2020)
> And they do not respect the traffic laws in the same way that cars do

This seems to be a persistent myth. All the studies I've come across say the exact opposite; for example:

https://www.forbes.com/sites/carltonreid/2019/05/10/cyclists...
All true, but I do regularly feel like I'm inconveniencing people when I park our cargo bike, since it sticks out beyond the other bikes. With some consideration it's fine, but when there's dozens, I kinda get the point.

Still better than cars though, maybe I should just take a car spot...
Yeah, but Rust does it properly by following UTS-39, and not blindly checking for just confusable matches.
Sometimes I suspect if it's just the car lobby

Well, don't know about the situation in France, but Belgium is likely worse when it comes to this, imo the main reason being the completely insane amount of subsidies for company cars. Also leading to more SUV type of cars (company pays anyway, also for fuel, so why nog get that). There's no way there's no lobbying going on there, Belgium is probably a small goldmine for car manufacturers. Maybe I'm biased, but looking at this from a distance all I can see is state-subsidized traffic jams, pollution and accidents.
Im french. Cars are replaceable, and actually a burden, in big cities but its insane to think that people in the smaller cities can switch.

My parents love biking but theres no f**ing way they can do their life on the littoral without a car. When all your friends and the closer market is 10/15km away from each other.

Also the advice to go live close to a train station is literally nuts. You want everyone in a departement. to live <2km to a train station ? Welcome to hong kong.
A lot of the genetic evolutions for individual survival do not perform well in a group setting.

It’s kind of like how our love for sugar once, it’s abundantly available, turns us into a diabetes machine.
Maybe it's because I grew up outside the city but I've never had a locked bike stolen or anything. At some point I forgot to lock my bike in the train station bike park and that got taken over the weekend but I've been so careless before so it's hardly a given.

I'm not sure what you mean by locks at bike parking spaces, the lock comes with the bicycle, doesn't it? All you need is something to attach it to. I've parked my bike in the more criminal neighbourhoods by locking the in-frame lock to make sure the back wheel doesn't go and by snaking my chain lock through the frame and my front wheel so they can't take the rest.

There are places (notably train stations) here where you can pay a small fee or a subscription to store your bike in a locker. Seems like a decent idea to me it you live in an area where simple bike locks aren't an option.
SkewTube: New video-sharing sites thrives on misinformation and hate
Mine increased, actually. Cyclists have the least respect for traffic rules out of all participants. Like literally everyone else on the road has to bend to their will.
The density or complexity of traffic really has nothing to do with whether a car has been designed in such a way that it significantly impedes vision where it is most critical. In this case, a quiet roundabout with one other car almost directly in front.
There are two answers to this:

1. The person you're responding to is clearly aware of the responsibility required when driving a large car (their comment says this explicitly);

2. An outbacking trip through Africa is not meaningfully comparable to daily automotive commuting. It's probably safe to assume that the GP practiced outsized caution, given the logistical and legal complexity of such a trip.
Google mandatory validation process on all PyPI packages – phishing attempt
Funny that you say that.

I'm re-reading the Lord of the Rings and I have a grudge with the ring(s), because all I'm thinking is that Sauron is a misunderstood magic engineer that managed to fit a miracle of power into the tiny space of the ring. As the story progresses, I muse about the "magic subsystems" and "magic dev-ops", not to mention the amazing "find-my-ring" mental manipulation subsystem which figures so prominently in the story.

Tokien sees all of it as "bad, reproachable perversion that must be destroyed," and the Lothlorien elves give up their really pretty land in a heroic sacrifice to destroy the "evil of the ring tech."

To put it as a mobile tech example, I suspect that cell-phones cause autism in kids. At the same time, my phone is free of games and social-media apps, and it is incredibly useful to find places, check my bank saldo and buy train tickets, among many other things. But if I were Tolkien, we would be throwing the One Phone into a volcano, and after it all cell-phones would stop working and we would be back to using horses to send envelopes with letters. That way, we wouldn't need to find a way for our kids to play with each other in person instead of obsessing with our "rectangular obsidian mirrors".
Tokenising Open Source Development
I have seen some people speaking of tokenizing opensource code so that the right incentives are available for the people to continue developing a project over a long term.

Is this the better of doing SAAS in future? What is your opinion?
> Why this never seems to be a concern for anyone involved is the proverbial gorilla in the room.

Young, motivated, smart, driven, creative, innovative, persistent…hmm, all the right ingredients to successfully challenge the existing status quo in many nations.

If you were part of the elite in those nations, what’s not to love about the current setup where the US not only absorbs the best and brightest who have a shot at upending your sinecure but even if those best of the best return to your nation, they are usually turned towards industrial rather than sociopolitical leadership pursuits that would bring “disruptive innovation” to your sphere?
The flexibility is a nice option in contrast, at least. Like you can easily subscribe to Apple TV+, watch Severance in a month, cancel, and then use HBO to watch The Rehearsal the next month.
Data cleansing/alignment
I see a car passing red light maybe twice in a year. I see a cyclist doing the same twice a week.
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deep learning vs crypto is a clear divide of rotators vs wordcels. the former offends theorycel aesthetic sensibilities but empirically works to produce absurd miracles. the latter is an insane series of nerd traps and sky high abstraction ladders yet mostly scams

Since when is cryptography full of scams?