skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> subsidies for cars

> Toll-free highways and roads.

> Free on-street parking.

Since when is this a subsidy? The only reason we pay taxes is so the government can provide us with useful infrastructure like this.

I'm not american by the way. Much of what you said simply doesn't apply to me. For example, I'm not sure we have mandated parking minimums. I wish we did.

> When you have lived your whole life in cities that are designed automobile first and automobile only, and public transit is either non-existent or still underfunded compared with cars

My city has plenty of collective transport options. There are so many nice air conditioned buses that they're a nuisance in traffic. We have a train station, an airport.

I still prefer cars. Not because of environmental efficiency but because they're convenient and they allow me to be independent. I don't have to depend on some other transport service's schedule. I don't have to sit around waiting for the bus to arrive. I don't have to be around other people. I don't have to wait until the vehicle makes countless stops in places that have nothing to do with me. I just get in my car and go wherever I need to go.

> An individual can only choose between choices they know exist, based on the information they have access to.

I have the information and I'm perfectly capable of choosing. Even if we had amazing japanese style trains crossing every city in my country I'd still prefer a car for local transportation.
you can actually use ublock origin through the Orion browser! it’s still relatively new, but it’s a nice browser. it’s also available on macos and supports syncing. you can use chrome and firefox extensions with it
And after watching that, I would recommend the Documentary Now! episode Juan Likes Rice and Chicken.
There is no pdf. Following the chain, you get to a git you can download. But this guy has a tar of it as a single html page.

https://forums.linuxmint.com/viewtopic.php?t=381284
This is why I dislike custom "we'll-do-it-ourselves" solutions. Updating your operating system's tz-database is easy; it's normally a single package with no dependencies that you can install without patching the rest of your outdated operating system full of security holes if you're in an "enterprise" environment where normal updates are seemingly impossible.

If you need to rebuild your application or even your Docker container (just bind-mount it in place and update the host, all applications fixed in one go!) then IMO you're bringing this kind of crap on yourself.

At most you should be reloading/restarting your application to apply the new timezone database, which shouldn't cause a problem if you've set up the right fallback and scaling systems to deliver whatever SLA you've promised to customers.

My shitty PHP frontends I built when I finished high school can update and reload the timezone database in less than a second through `systemctl restart php8.1-fpm`. If you need a month to update the timezone database, maybe you should've written whatever you made in shitty PHP just like me, because apparently shitty PHP is more foolproof in handling common occurrences like timezone changes than Enterprise Grade (TM) Cloud (R) Applications (C).
> The order of the function definitions in the source code makes no difference to the program’s meaning.

Not exactly true. Consider:

#include <stdio.h>
int foo(double d) { return (int)d; }
int main() { printf("%d\n", foo(3)); return 0; }
/*int foo(double d) { return (int)d; }*/

This prints different results depending on whether `foo` is defined before `main` or after `main`. This is caused by implicit function declaration.

gcc will warn about this if the -std=c11 switch is thrown, but by default it will compile without error or warning.
The Pruitt-Igoe Myth - about a large scale 1950s public housing project in Saint Louis (Missouri, US). Built in the mid-50s, riddled with problems pretty much from the start, torn down in 1972. Interesting insight into the failure of post-war public housing policy in the US.
This is why organizing is so powerful (and obviously the rich are also organizing)
There are a number of query languages to address this type of reuse and composability for analytical query workloads.

- MDX: created by Microsoft to provide a dimensional query language. The language is incredibly powerful, but depends on your understanding of dimensional modeling (go read Kimball is the best starting point for learning MDX). There are several tools, both commercial and open source, which implement an MDX interface to data.

- DAX: Microsoft's attempt to make MDX more approachable. A relational, functional language built on top of an in-memory columnstore relational storage engine, and used in several Microsoft products (Power BI, Analysis Services Tabular mode).

- Qlik has its own expression language whose name I am not sure of.

- Looker has LookML

There are a lot of BI tools out there. Not all have an expression language to support reusable measures/calculations, but many do. You may want to look into one.
This, absent anything more than the artist rendition, appears to be a modern take on "ground effects vehicles" [1] which include the work of Alexander Lippisch [2]

[1]https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ground-effect_vehicle

[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/RFB_X-113 and https://sites.google.com/site/hoverwingwigcraft/about-me
I wrote about pigeonholing adults into the role of child caregiver, constraining their opportunities to do something else with their life. What they quoted applied to adults, not children.
There shouldn't be a buffet of build systems. How much time is wasted bikeshedding on different build systems, not to mention writing in their proprietary language/api and having to maintain a separate program?

There doesn't need to be a variety of build systems because all they do is put out an executable. Its a simple thing that doesnt benefit from having competing products
Practices of Great Junior Developers
> The lamentable work that many people avoid are great places to look for high impact, low hanging fruit.

Agree with this. When it comes to succeeding at work, especially at a big corp, I've always said something similar: after responsibility is abdicated, opportunity remains. Being annoyed at the present is often a position of power in the software world. Suddenly you have motivation to drive change and a bit of knowledge to get started. Of course you need the time and the freedom to use that.

One way I try to spend time doing the dirty work is by over-estimating. It's taken many years to really learn this, but I now over estimate tasks by quite a lot. This helps me not feel rushed, feel good when I deliver early, and gives me time to look around and improve something. Reflecting on previous tasks and what was annoying or oft repeated has helped me improve my process.
> “Students fell four months behind in school, and reading and math scores sank by the sharpest margin in three decades.”

The past three years of Covid was kinda like an equity experiment in education: many families lost access to tutoring schools, schools lowered their requirement on the taught content, tests are more lenient. And then results? Families with resources didn't get affected at all. As a result, the gap in education enlarged. If the US adopted the equity policies like SFUSD, I'm afraid that the families who struggled with social economics will lose out more, instead of gaining.
Using any parachute in stormy/rainy conditions sounds terrifying.
What I genuinely don’t understand is why do we focus so much on the low-level/system front? It is (or very much should be) a small niche, and most business applications are better served by managed languages that won’t get a huge list of vulnerabilities from memory corruption alone.
What's the theoretical advantage of the German stellarator over a tokemak? Seems like a complex design but I assume there must be a reason for the complexity.
So, fly into the continuation of the photo which AI imagines for you.

Pretty nice, and can be entertaining.

Also, this further dissolves the border between a "photo document" that directly represent reality, and "computer-generated graphics" which is entirely fictional.

How soon will courts stop admitting digital photos and footage as evidence?
You can dismantle a solar covered land when needed, in weeks, and get back the soil almost as good as new. A mine place gets wrecked for at least a century. I present you Las Medulas, a gold mine exploited by the romans in the first century: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Las_M%C3%A9dulas. Even today, 2,000 years later, all you can see is the huge scar left behind the mine.
Hum, which event are your referring to? I think there were fires and bombings on the WTC before 9/11 but no event where a jetliner dropped tons of jetfuel for a fire to be intense enough to melt the steel structure.
Try google cache. It may be builtin in some apps for HN e.g., HACK https://apps.apple.com/en/app/hack-for-hacker-news-reader/id...
Somehow water would be one of the few things I would be happy to spend extra money and take it from somewhere else. Or even take a loan and increase the water price by how much it will be.
That's a nice rant, and I don't entirely disagree with you, but it has little to do with my comment.
Covid-19 vaccine safety: Primary in children and booster in children and adults
I'm finding the "this is a horrible idea" responses amusing. I don't know if there's something fundamentally different about the way this project works versus Dirac/XT32 or if the naysayers aren't familiar with it. Or maybe there's an anti-room correction sect of audiophiles that have remained hidden to me.
Not the worst example I've heard. In 2016 the Haitian president canceled daylight savings by decree two days before the changeover. I was flying out of the country the morning after the change, and had a really hard time explaining to airline customer service (who hadn't gotten the memo) what exactly the problem was.

"When does my flight leave?"

"At the scheduled time."

"According to what clock?"

"Huh?"

I just showed up an hour early.
If we ignore the proposal, this gives at least an awesome overview of the state-of-the-art of logging in go. That was the best part. Thanks for the heads up!
Just finished watching it, it was great. Thanks for the suggestion!
They are not the same. They are made of cheaper plastic with looser tolerances, leading to builds that bend or fall apart. And they don't have the tiny LEGO imprint they advertises the quality of the mold and tolerance.

None of that should affect the performance of the app, though.
I don’t think that’s the way insurance companies look at it - as I recall, I think they actually waive the deductible in the event of a chute deployment to encourage use of the system. Paying for an airframe is a lot cheaper than the inevitable wrongful death lawsuits.
Android uses toybox, because the license is more permissive.

https://landley.net/toybox/about.html

Here is the output from my phone (notice the applets for egrep and fgrep):

127|:/ $ toybox

[ acpi base64 basename blkdiscard blkid blockdev
cal cat chattr chcon chgrp chmod chown chroot chrt
cksum clear cmp comm cp cpio cut date dd devmem df
diff dirname dmesg dos2unix du echo egrep env expand
expr fallocate false fgrep file find flock fmt free
freeramdisk fsfreeze fsync getconf getenforce getfattr
getopt grep groups gunzip gzip head help hostname
hwclock i2cdetect i2cdump i2cget i2cset iconv id
ifconfig inotifyd insmod install ionice iorenice
iotop kill killall ln load_policy log logname losetup
ls lsattr lsmod lsof lspci lsusb makedevs md5sum
microcom mkdir mkfifo mknod mkswap mktemp modinfo
modprobe more mount mountpoint mv nbd-client nc netcat
netstat nice nl nohup nproc nsenter od partprobe
paste patch pgrep pidof ping ping6 pivot_root pkill
pmap printenv printf prlimit ps pwd pwdx readelf
readlink realpath renice restorecon rev rfkill rm
rmdir rmmod rtcwake runcon sed sendevent seq setenforce
setfattr setsid sha1sum sha224sum sha256sum sha384sum
sha512sum sleep sort split stat strings stty swapoff
swapon sync sysctl tac tail tar taskset tee test
time timeout top touch tr traceroute traceroute6
true truncate tty tunctl ulimit umount uname uniq
unix2dos unlink unshare uptime usleep uudecode uuencode
uuidgen vconfig vi vmstat watch wc which whoami xargs
xxd yes zcat
I am complete layman here. Still from what I read the whole point of stellarator is to be same as tokamak except you use CAD to make it twist in the same way plasma naturally would twist, to make it easier to keep the plasma in the path you want.
Funny to see this on a site called "Twitter".
Amusingly, the ImportC compiler I wrote will produce the same result regardless of the order, because it allows forward references.
Asking because I'm not smart enough: Is this kinda similar to what the Sonos Trueplay feature does? (Where you move your phone, and/or a mic-enabled speaker itself, around the room so that it plays and measures various frequencies to calibrate)

https://support.sonos.com/s/article/3251?language=en_US

https://patents.google.com/patent/EP3531714A2/
Workers historically have gained access to those productivity gains through organizing against owners however the US is highly atomized already
Tim’s Vermeer : https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tim's_Vermeer

Produced and directed by Penn and Teller who I thought were just magicians. It mixes art and technology with a little bit of historical puzzle solving. As someone who knows little about art history, I found it fascinating.
On the chance you have not, I'd highly recommend reading Plato's "Republic". If you're short of time, this [1] is "book" (more like chapter) 8. The section from "And democracy has her own good, of which the insatiable desire brings her to dissolution?" and onward is unbelievable. Aside from the language and handful of references to values that have changed quite substantially, one could easily dismiss it all as an edgelord writing an uninspired metaphor with hindsight of recent events, down to the exact roles and actions. But the words take on a different meaning altogether having been written 2,400 years ago!

It was this book that made me realize the old saying of history repeating itself was not in the sort of vague allegory that I once believed, but in very specific repeated actions in very specific orders - that keep repeating, separated by millennia. In an odd way it offers peace of mind. The world is not headed towards some unprecedented era of chaos. Instead the era we all grew up in (at least within the developed world), one of peace and relative stability, is what was unprecedented.

[1] - http://classics.mit.edu/Plato/republic.9.viii.html
My favorites on Netflix this year were:

Trainwreck: Woodstock '99
https://www.netflix.com/title/81280924

Challenger Final Flight
https://www.netflix.com/title/81012137

FYRE (Festival)
https://www.netflix.com/title/81035279

From a long time ago, and I don't even know if you can still watch it anywhere, but that FogBugz Aardvark'd documentary was really fun to watch too.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aardvark%27d:_12_Weeks_with_Ge...
Discussion from a few days ago: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32755009
Clickable link for mobile: https://geo-fs.com/
> Land use by all types of energy production is miniscule compared to agriculture, urbanisation and roads

Because until now we've been using power sources with high density.

The largest wind farm to date is Gansu Wind Farwm with planned capacity of 20 GW. I can't find it's total area, but it will have 7000 turbines. Wind turbines need to be about 5 rotor diameters apart, so... That's definitely more than the total area of all nuclear power plants powering France (at 60 GW).

Alta Wind Farm, is the largest in the US and produces 1GW of electricity. It covers an area of 130 square kilometers. Chooz, in France, produces 3GW of electricity, and covers... 2 square kilometers.

Same goes for solar.

If you want to convert all of the world to renewables, the are they will cover will be anything but minuscule.

EDIT: and that's before we go into the problems of:

- base load for solar and wind is 0, and the amount of batteries you need to sustain the load is mind-boggling, to say the least

- neither solar nor wind can be load-following

etc.
The username was part of what led me to ask. Probably not many UK/AU folks would choose that handle!

But you're right — I've heard some native Spanish speakers say "different to", and it's likely because they say "diferente a" not "diferente de" (where "de" typically translates as "from").

This situation raises an interesting philosophical question: is it ungrammatical for a native Spanish speaker living in CA to say this? I have always considered it to be an ungrammatical/incorrect usage. But coming from a British person I wouldn't consider it incorrect. I would consider them to be speaking a different dialect of English.

If a student said this in an English literature class in CA, my guess is that the teacher would correct the native Spanish speaker but not correct the British student. Or at least this would be my intuition as a native English speaker who studied linguistics a decade or two ago!
I found a pretty good .com a few years ago and this is basically the conclusion I came to when I was trying to decide which matching TLDs to register and which ones are safe to use.

I’m from Canada, so I used the ccTLD for all of my non-public stuff. CIRA seems to be well run.

I was really frustrated by the trendy TLDs, especially the ccTLDs. I felt like I had to register those because anyone willing to use (ex:) .io probably has a high enough risk tolerance they’ll use the name without even considering existing trademarks, etc.. The .io and .co domains are the most frustrating because they’re more expensive than the others.

So I would say relying on .com, .net, and your ccTLD is great advice in terms of TLDs to use, but don’t hesitate to register some of the trendier ones for brand protection because it’s the cheapest thing you can do to discourage others from using the same name.
One way. The purpose is so that other pilots are aware that there's a problem. In a lot of US airspace there is no air traffic control, and most strips do not have anything resembling a control tower.
I don’t think there is any confusion around the lay definition. It’s roughly: “if it doesn’t build and behave the same on a stable point release, file a bug, it’s broken”.

It’s ok to break point releases, particularly when there is a clear policy on the upper bound of such breakage. I’m not critical of the policy per se, it’s a eminently plausible experiment in PLT versioning. It’s pros and cons are somewhat understood now, and in 10 or 20 years when there are billions upon countless billions of lines of Rust code in production (which there will be) it will be totally obvious how it panned out.

Just say “we break stable point releases in a subset of cases”. It’s ok. The thing that’s not ok, that I am critical of, is the seemingly boundless appetite of the Rust community to communicate in such a way that Rust is never wrong, or slower, or broken, or anything short of optimal. The optics are just wildly counter-productive here.

You can go to practically other language community and hear “yeah, that was a mistake in retrospect”, or “yeah, sorry about that, we’re working on it”, or “yeah, language Y is probably a better fit for your needs”.

All too often with Rust you get GP (who writes some of my favorite software and in general I deeply admire and respect) and some version of “no, Rust doesn’t break point releases, it’s you that doesn’t understand what ‘break’ means”.

This is not an isolated thing. It’s not the only example of that vibe. This weekend! It’s the default. And it’s not a good look.

Edit to reply to (unannotated) edit: You’ve got the wrong commenter with part of the new paragraph, I didn’t say it happens routinely or anything like that. You do have the guy who fixes his own Rust issues rather than going to the community for what I imagine are by now obvious reasons.
+25% total comp I imagine. Also a lot of them are in the sf/sv housing market and think they'll never be able to buy a house even making 250k/yr
It’s Time for Congress to Order the Nuclear Option
Florida Has a Secret Surveillance System at Toll Roads Tracking You and Your Car
I watched this, and enjoyed it, but was later surprised to learn that Herzog had started with a completed documentary but made major changes to the narrative---for the worse! There are few scenes that he edited to tell a different story than they did in the original, seemingly with minimal concern for truth. It really hurt my image of Herzog.

So I'd second the recommendation, but add that if you get a chance, you should try to view Vasyukov's original as well. Herzog's version might be a bit snappier, but I don't think it's actually better. The original is available in four parts on Youtube. Here's part one: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fbhPIK-oBvA
Not me, but my mom went to med school at 60. She didn't get into any US med schools her first time around so she went to a school in the Caribbean. She then transfered to a US med school and from there followed the normal path through med school and residency. She's practicing now.

She said that she did see ageism, mostly in the form of people just assuming that she'd be incompetent (she's not she was in the top 5% or something when she took her board exams). She said she struggled with the memorization aspect: some things are just easier when you're young but if you work hard you can do it. This may or may not apply to you but late nights doing work (in her case being OnCall at a hospital) became very hard for her. Her young classmates had a much easier time. The truth is that school does kind of assume you're young. It's possible to overcome it but it isn't easy.

Fwiw my mom is the happiest she's ever been and said she would do it all again.
...or we've already failed, and this is all that is left?
Taxi drivers enlarge their hippocampus by navigating around and learning routes. I definitely feel like Google Maps has affected my ability in certain somehow tangentially related areas to my detriment.

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/677048.stm

This kind of thing is cool, but seems like it robs us of an opportunity to practice something important.

Maybe we will replace it with some other skill?

I would be very curious to know how many AI/ML researchers played with Legos and whether this free play was vital in their development. I would assume it is.
Steam Deck: Large Presence at the Tokyo Games Show 2022
Byju's and the other side of an edtech giant's dizzying rise (2021)
Freakishly small buttons are uncomfortable on desktop too.