skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Please try more actively not to be a bad driver and don't encourage others to be bad drivers too. You should always be aware of what's going on behind you. It could be the police or it could be an ambulance that you haven't heard because of the radio, it could be a tailgating driver ready to smash you into pieces unless you drive extremely defensively until they leave the road, it could be someone in an emergency, a truck with malfunctioning brakes hurling down the street and many more.

The road is a place when generally incompetent people are forced to operate heavy machinery and no one is really safe there, even inside a car.
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Position based dynamics :) With normal `next_pos = current_pos + velocity * dt` schemes you can get instabilities and it can be non obvious how to implement certain physics phenomena. With PBD you basically define a 'constraint' that particles have to satisfy (e.g. rigid lengths become a 'distances between points must be X') and then you solve for a valid configuration in between renders (basically with gradients descent, though you solve for roots so it becomes newtons method).
That is the best comment i've ever seen
You mean like humans steal media of everything they observe in life, automatically assimilating and adapting their processing (thinking)?

Training models is not the problem. Mimicing or reproducing through algorithms of human creative work and then passing that off as human created work (which implies time cost, as most humans take significant time to develop skills which allow them to create things) is the real problem.

Already we have "content" on Youtube which is entirely or almost entirely AI generated. Like processed foods, it tends to be hollow and non-nourising to the consumer, but it competes for shelf space with potentially better content. As we capitalistically race to the bottom, the cheap AI-created stuff will be so pervasive that real offerings which cost real money (time) to make will have no space to compete. Consumers will be left with the cheapest garbage which resembles something real. This is what you find in many stores for physical products, and the TV series-ication of video content. Formulas which maximize profit squeezing out real things.

This is how the AI models will increasingly be used, and there's basically no stopping it. I would say that using "indie" services where things are hand/human-made would be an alternative, but Etsy has proven that that approach eventually devolves to the profit-garbage approach.
The first item, about bicycles ruining marriages (and to a lesser extend some other items), sheds some light onto Flann O'Brien's The Third Policeman. I didn't anticipate people would talk about bicycles ruining families seriously, thought it had been written just as a bizarre thing for a bizarre world, 100% invented, and now, it turns out, it's not 100% invented.
Through the magic of WASM compilers every language is JS now.

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Do you use a VPN? I had mine perma banned as well immediately after using a new VPN provider. The reason for ban said “ban evasion”. You should have gotten told a reason too.
Apparently AAA studios haven't got the memo.
Poor parents buy food that meets financial, emotional, social needs (study)
I think a lot of people assume that they won't like a custom language (I did too) but the reality is when you start using GDScript it just isn't such an issue.

One of the huge advantages of GDScript is how deeply in integrates with the engine and handles high level concepts, coupled with the node system you don't need to write that much code. Plus its a simple language (there's no need for 'javascript - the good parts' for gdscript).

The godot approach with GDScript and C++ is very much like Python and C++ - write in the high level scripting language and build C++ components when you need more complexity and performance. The scripting language becomes the user interface of the low level parts.
Do you mean static screens of your app? Try SceneShot for Mac, https://apps.apple.com/in/app/sceneshot/id1451459822
As a former bicyclist, I try to be extra mindful of bicyclists when driving. One of the right turns on a common route I take is on a downhill slope, and I've noticed cyclists passing me on the right even when I already had my turn signal on for several seconds.

I hate to use the common refrain, but it really seems to me that a higher percentage of bicyclists drive like maniacs. What purpose, exactly, does driving without a light at night serve? Especially when combined with barreling through a red light into a multi-lane traffic circle? And, of course, sidewalks are meant to be driven on — wouldn't want to lose your bicyclist card for ever pushing your bike. Leading to the ever popular driving across a crosswalk (I'm not so sure who's at fault if I were to hit a bicyclist on a crosswalk, and I'd rather not find out).

Granted, due to the lower weight of bicycles, accidents are considerably less deadly, but there is still a considerable injury risk to me as a pedestrian, and as an automobilist, I'd rather not have an accident on my conscience, whether I'd be legally at fault or not.
Not me. The only steady one has been Netflix (and Amazon Prime I guess, but that's more for package delivery, I've only watched a small handful of shows on there), and I might even take a break from that once I get through Better Call Saul. I sometimes get a month of HBO Max or Hulu/Disney+, but not that often.

Still a lot cheaper than cable.
I feel like I got into the habit of watching way too much TV during the pandemic, and haven't managed to shake it yet, but still only have like 2-3 shows in the queue at any given time. How are people watching 5-10 channels?
The revenue growth (https://twitter.com/MarkoSaric/status/1532284305086586880) makes me smile - as a developer, 0 to $400 MRR in 12 months from only "building in public" seems about right, it's something I experienced with my https://onlineornot.com project.

Spending months just building and occasionally posting a Show HN or a producthunt launch is not nearly enough marketing. People need to know you understand them, and the problem, and you need to convince them you've got something that'll make the problem go away.

It's not until you're really shouting from the rooftops (and putting out spicy articles about Google analytics being illegal in Europe) that people start to notice you.
On the contrary, it is the foundation of programming, how digital circuit design applications work.

If anything they make quite clear when people write spaghetti code, instead of proper modules.
Two reasons I think.

The first is, they were working on this before the Internet was widely used. Back in dialup days, pre-2000, the draft presented in 1998, working on it in 1995 and before surely.

Compared to today's scope and size, this was nascent/early style change, in something which was constantly changing.

They didn't see any contention likely at the time. Why not have all the universities, government departments, and research bodies switch? This was an entirely different landscape compared to today.

So in their eyes, why not make change? It wasn't a big deal, hell back in the early 90s, people were using token ring adapters/networking still in many offices!!

The second thing is, NAT wasn't a thing back then. The computational power was a limiter for large scale usage.

An RFC for NAT came out in 98 I think, and Linux had ipmasq, but that was brand new in the early 90s.

Basically, ipv6 was crafted before anyone had any idea we'd be where we are today.

In fact, the worry about address space exhaustion in the early 90s was due to a lack of NAT, or even the idea that it could be deployed everywhere at scale.

Where would all the compute power for NAT at scale come from?!

So basically, it was crafted with a different viewpoint.
Huge Godot fan! Built a prototype of a VR app, myself, ran it wirelessly -- and the whole process was very, very smooth. Love it!

Isn't this a bit of a problem for people with dyslexia? I'm sure a compatibility layer could be built -- or since you can script Godot with C++ or Python, that some workaround could be found. I feel like asking here would jilt my response, but I know someone who has dyslexia, and it greatly hampers, at the very least, their motivation to deal with any type of software.

Furthermore, it looks like their motivation for removing it is simply usage-rate... wouldn't that suggest maybe that the problem isn't Visual Script, but possibly that the market demanding it couldn't figure it out? To that, there is an explanation of how to use NativeScript at https://docs.godotengine.org but there's a barrier that you have to take the 3-hour tutorial geared towards GDScript (not VisualScript) in order to get an introduction to the Godot Engine state machine hierarchy, so there's no real pathway to using it for the target market without the barrier of regular coding.
Of course, as with all human cultural endeavours. The images published are also selected by human aesthetics and interest, so valuable novel information is still being propagated.
> Graphics and Sound! Nothing is more motivating for children than something that moves, blinks and makes noise. That's how I got into programming in the 80s

Same for me, but in the 90s. Back then, games push PC hardware forward and made a lot of people code.

Today it's probably the 'metaverse' that converts consumers into programmers. Sadly, many think that programming is cool all the time(thanks Hollywood), don't realize the complexity and give up soon.
I neglected mass here, because I don't think it really makes much of a difference in the deadliness of the collision (car is always much heavier than cyclist).

One thing it would definitely affect tho is the time within which the car could brake, provided they react in time.
Yep. The minimum is 20 days (for a five day work week) but most people get 25 to 30 days. That's on top of 10-13 public holidays, and sick days.

Moreover, taking sick days is normalised and you will not be punished for it unless you abuse it. If you take below 30 sick days a year, you're likely safe.

My job is to help people settle in Germany. I struggle to communicate how chill German work culture is.
Also no power required. I loved the hydraulic tooling I got to use, but almost every time we would turn to the manual option for simplicity.
Yes - and not only that, but AI-generated art will start affecting how humans make art, and possibly even how they take photos. I wouldn't like to predict how, though.

Especially with text there's an arms race to make undetectable AI text for blogspam and similar purposes. It's going to end up like carbon dating: once nuclear weapons were used in the atmosphere, everything ended up contaminated and had to be accounted for. https://www.radiocarbon.com/carbon-dating-bomb-carbon.htm

The future will include humans claiming AI art as their own, possibly touched up a bit, and AIs claiming human art as their own.
the article says in the nineties living standards improved in post-USSR Russia, but that is false.
I just pay for 2-3 streaming services BUT I haven't stopped paying for TV. They don't compete at all to me. Streaming is pretty bad for news and other live non-sports TV.
Low-level languages enable speed, they don't guarantee it, high-level languages enable safety, but don't guarantee it either. Rust enables both, and I would also argue that it makes safety and speed more likely. Not guaranteed, but no other language really guarantees that either.
I'd like to pay creators directly for the things I watch and cut out the middle man entirely.
Having a dumpy old bike helps. I have accidentally locked my cheap u-lock to the bike itself instead of the bike rack a few times at a train station and nobody took it. The worst thing that has ever happened is that someone stole my quick release skewer, so I have a screw on one now.
I have no knowledge of any dox'ing accusations from the first mid 1970's incarnation through until ~2008 (the last time I had substantial inside access to the mineral intelligence database).

Mineral rights leases were all public record, board positions for traded companies are required disclosures to stock exchnages, chaining subsidiaries and linking them to shell ownership of capital | leases etc related to projects is all fair game, it's just peeling back the obfuscation.

We could list all mineral and energy projects, companies, board members, leases, etc related to (say) the Koch brothers by degrees of interest (ownership) and produce a chrnology of aquisition .. but at no point did we ever pursue or pass on their home address, social calender, personal photographs, etc beyond what was already released to a stock exchange or in a prospectus.

WRT City and Suburban councils we still do a similar thing here in the state where I live, peeling back connections to real estate companies, shopping | parking moguls, pipe laying companies etc.

If people are going to have their rates go toward some project put forward in council (road kerbing, for example), it's good to know that the person pushing this is related to a contractor that will directly benefit (and might be paying a kickback for votes).
I'm sorry this is nuts. There are large portions of conservative Americans (and also so called radical feminists... this isn't just a left or right issue) who would find a lot of the things left leaning people on Twitter say to be as offensive as some of the right wing people who have been banned for such trivialities as questioning gender.

The answer seems to me to be "Don't say things silicon valley employees may find horrible."
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Facebook, the Meta-owned social media giant has glitched today, allowing users to post on celebrity pages.
> (Also it doesn't eliminate type errors, sockets have a type after all.)

If you used any significant Node based programming system, then you know you can't randomly plug sockets from different types unless that socket explicitly supports type conversion.
Well if energy output is your reasoning: then it's orders of magnitude more energy for a car to come to a full stop and re-accelerate than it is for a pedestrian to let it pass.

Should cars then have priority over people in a crosswalk?
Yes but... as I mention in sibling post, all roads seem to end up profit seeking.

It will be much more profitable to train AI on what music is popular and sells well, then produce new music which is not close enough to be infringing while still fitting the success formula. This can be done so cheaply (and at some point will be fully automated... requiring virtually no oversight or review) that it can be sold at a fraction of the price of something which took human time to make.

Eventually the only way you'll ever be able to hear human music is to see a human play live or listen/buy directly from the artist. This seems doable, but finding the artists becomes the challenge. Of course we have the internet, so the obvious answer is to make a website to help listeners find artists (exists already, of course). But then, go back to the top of this comment and see how some "artists" (not real musicians, but people who see $ opportunity) will start producing non-human-generated music on that platform. They will sell it a bit cheaper. Algorithms will rank it higher in search or suggestion systems.

And eventually, there's no human music except live (which can be faked pretty believably depending on the audience).
I forgot to mention one more model which is kind of specific to games: open the engine/code, sell the assets (levels, etc.) which remain proprietary. This is an interesting compromise which seems to only be really available for games. Probably the most famous example of this approach is John Carmack's engines.

(Of course, some games also get to enjoy this approach "against their will", namely when people like the game so much that someone reimplements the engine from scratch (see ScummVM)).

Keeping assets proprietary doesn't really feel like a problem, since how do you open source art in the first place? Much art isn't really meaningfully modifiable after it's done, unlike source code. A .psd might have layers when a .png doesn't, but the difference isn't enormous. Art doesn't really have "bugs".
In the mid 1970s, in my welding class, the school was located down the street from a small manufacturer that formed various metal alloys.

They would provide the school with bins of scrap from their manufacturing free of charge. Those were our practice coupons in class. We had to be careful to return the welded scraps back to the proper bin so the manufacturer could recycle them.

Our class was just a very small part of their recycling flow. It was a great relationship, we needed practice materials, and they hired welders.
The only "feature" I would introduce to streaming services like Netflix/Disney+/etc. is make possible to "constantly stream content". When I had cable, I liked to just turn on the TV, and bang! I got content on the screen. Switch channel, and bang! we are now in the middle of a classic movie! Next channel, and bang! in the middle of a great song from the 90s!

Now, of course, I could just use "normal TV" for that. The difference is that "normal TV" doesn't offer a great catalogue like Netflix/Disney+ (to some extent).

More often than not, when I want to sit down and watch something on Netflix/etc. (e.g., some weekends), I do this:

- sit on the sofa

- turn on TV, switch to Netflix (HDMI channel)

- spend 30 to 40 minutes browsing the catalogue to find something decent to watch

- I cannot find anything decent, so I give up and turn off the TV

I like to have "background noise" from time to time, and I would prefer to have background noise coming from the Netflix/Disney+/etc. catalog than the one coming from the "normal TV" (mainly because I live in a country where I'm not fluent in the local language).
People can and do pay money for FOSS code, even though not everyone does.
People buy bigger cars to protect them and their family from the big cars.
> Before Oven can offer hosting, Bun needs a stable release. The goal: a stable release of Bun in under six months from today (August 23rd).

Wow! That is an ambitious timeline. Also ambitious is this:

> The plan is to run our own servers on the edge in datacenters around the world. Oven will leverage end-to-end integration of the entire JavaScript stack (down to the hardware) to make new things possible.

That’s a lot of work in a crowded space. Maybe they’re aiming for an acquisition or something?

Anyway, I wish them luck. Bun probably tops the list of projects I’m excited about at the moment.
Do it in the two hours you have before work.
Somehow the bycicles in Germany seem to lack such mechanism, given the state of some examples I have witnessed.
> Just need a way to deal with bike theft.

Vehicle registration works, but takes a bit of effort:

* https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=el1Xznv5ge4

Vancouver had a 42% drop in theft after joining this program:

* https://project529.com/garage

Created by X-box co-founder:

* https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/J_Allard
If you have the possibility, see if you can work less hours (even it’s just 4 hours)

Those hours can be used to work on your passion without damaging your life/work balance. Ofcourse if this works for you depends on a lot of factors.
Isn't that what you call a type error?
I misread “email clients” as “clients” and silently agreed.
Can someone please explain the acronym BIS that the author uses?
You know that there is a difference between the stops right? If there is pavement on the side of the bikelane going out to the road, its on the bus passengers to stop and let the cyclist pass. So many pedestrians don't know this and think they can just throw themselves out on the bike lane.
I advocate taking the lane in many situations but it's worth noting that you can be passed in your lane with less than 1 ft of space even if you're taking the lane.
Ask HN: Are you using .NET to write cross-platform desktop or mobile apps?
Microsoft's .NET is an open-source platform for building desktop apps and mobile apps (and more) using C#, F# and Visual Basic. Does this sound too good to be true?

For example, Electron is often discussed on HN (liked and disliked), but .NET is far less discussed as a cross-platform option.

Similarly, Xamarin is a platform built on top of .NET for building Android and iOS apps (using one codebase). This sounds like the holy grail of mobile development. But what is the reality?

I did a search on HN and found no stories about Xamarin from the last year. The top search results are HN stories from 5-10 years ago. This makes me wonder how popular .NET is for cross-platform desktop or mobile apps.

What has been your experience using .NET writing cross-platform desktop and mobile apps?
"The second reason is that here, everyone is a cyclist. Going for groceries? Five minute bike ride, much easier and quicker than going by car. Kids cycle to school alone from a young age. Going out for drinks? Bike. Because everyone is a cyclist and there are cyclists everywhere, cyclists are equal participants in traffic and are treated with care and respect."

that's how I felt in Munich. Bikes were everywhere and drivers were used to them. In the US in most places bikes are rare so drivers (including me) stop looking for them.
Electric cycles reaching 45km/h are regulated in most of EU, no? On the most powerful ones it takes not too much effort to push to 50 (from experience). That being said, where I commute I practically never encounter anyone doing that (they just do the maximum they can do with assistence, like 42-45 depending on brand and model, or less to save battery/effort) except downhill, where you can reach 50 with a normal cycle as well.
> But it feels like there's a balance to ramping up the publicity too slowly or too quickly.

Because you can get three times as many users as you send to the Play Store in the first month, you should do the majority of your promotion during that time.

Here is an interesting video about paid user acquisition: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fV-L1WtZiM4
It also really sucks to have to constantly stop in a car for all of those annoying traffic lights, stop signs, and of course crosswalks. It would be much much much easier and faster to just continue driving without stopping to my destination. It would also probably be bad for the environment with all of that extra idle time waiting and acceleration.

The argument sounds ridiculous when framed from a drivers point of view. And it's the same from the cyclists. Either you want traffic laws to be obeyed or you don't. Offering up that "really sucks" isn't a valid reason to ignore the laws.
The day the front camera has a better resolution than the back I am going on a retreat somewhere in the middle of nowhere for a while.
There's a rule that says that if you have (and have a right to at all) ride or drive anything on wheels in an area designated primarily for pedestrian use, you have to move at pedestrian speed. It doesn't matter if you are on a bicycle or an electric scooter, or on a garbage truck, 5 km/h it is.

And yet people seem to promptly forget about it as soon as they get onto their killing machines. Must be something in the wheels or saddles causing them a selective amnesia.

Electric scooters on crosswalks are surely a plague. Teens on them tend to ride out of the bushes at their maximum speed and cross roads without ever slowing down, making it quite hard for drivers to anticipate. Yes, you have right of way, dolt, but so has a car that just turned right, after making sure it's clear to go. There is no way to tell that a crazy kid is going to jump out in the next 300ms.
Ask HN: What would your ideal professional social network look like?
Now that LinkedIn is slowly turning into Facebook complete with pictures of crying CEOs and humblebrag stories about children, I feel that there is room for a new platform with limited posting abilities and a greater focus on one’s skills and accomplishments.

What would you like to see on a professional social network platform? And maybe more importantly, what do you not want to see?