skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Population density is too low because cities were designed with cars in mind. 50% of the population lives in the suburbs where it is just too far to walk anywhere and even if you look at more densely populated places everything is still quite far away. Nobody wants to walk 20 minutes just to get from their house to the bus stop and even if they did, you can't make low intervals for bus routes work - much less outside of peak hours. But to replace cars by public transportation you need it to be reachable, high interval and ideally available around the clock.

Labor cost and cost of living is so high that it prohibits the existence of small neighborhood stores. I live in South America and have lived in many different places here, you can buy everything within walking distance wherever you are. In my neighborhood probably 5% of the houses have a small shop. Twice per week the streets turn into a market in different parts of the city. Even in the big cities you have small convenience stores operated by families in every corner. Public transportation is probably the best in the world, you can go anywhere without a car for very low prices - even for our income levels.

Europe is somewhat in the middle between these two. Public transportation doesn't get you everywhere and its expensive. Most small stores which existed 30 years ago are dead because of supermarkets and online stores. You still won't see extreme examples of a car-centered culture like public high schools with 5000 students and you can usually get to a smaller supermarket within 15 minutes. But having higher labor cost lead to more centralization.

Also keep in mind that the first thing people buy once they have money is a car, even if public transportation works. You see this in places like China. We won't get rid of cars anytime soon. The best outcome we can hope for within the next 50 years is driverless ridesharing.
In visiting NYC, I decided to stop by one of my old coffee haunts, Gorilla in Brooklyn. An AMERICANO was $7.50 before tip. And it was that burnt tasting roast ala Starbucks that I don't believe is good at all. The proprietor/barista also asked me MULTIPLE times to review them on Google Maps. I'm not sure the argument holds as much sway in other places (I live in a coffee mecca normally, and I think it's far less like this) but in NYC it's convincing.
This is wholly independent of policy initiatives. The idea that books that discuss transition are morally equivalent to something like The Turner Diaries is worthy of derision.
Thanks, hadn't spotted the email addition.
The GP was framing the school as particularly toxic because it constrains people who really ought to be considered adults as if they were cattle.

In my view, an adult ought to be able to leap at the chance for agency as soon as they emerge from these constraints. Maybe not immediately, but in a year or two at least. Otherwise, it circularily casts doubt on the premise. The argument is that the definition of an adult has to meet a certain standard.

School can be traumatic, and people are allowed to feel bad even if others have it worse, but unless you are severely bullied I see many of the descriptions in this thread as being overly dramatic compared to the crap that people have to deal with in other parts of the world. Hundreds of millions of kids would kill for the chance to be stressed at an American or European school.

Granted, this is not a generous point of view. The only reason I'm making these comments is because I recognize myself so much in the GP's experiences.
> End-to-end encryption ensures only you and the person you're communicating with can read or listen to what is sent, and nobody in between, not even WhatsApp.

This does not exclude an algorithm running running on the sender/recipient's App from scanning the content and sending suggestions to AD servers.
Guess Elon has been watching Lucids recent videos on their motor technology...
People who use GCC to compile Rust code presumably will not use "cargo build" to build their programs, and presumably may not have "cargo" in their toolchains at all. They may have cmake or bazel instead, with manually-selected libraries. Perhaps you never envisioned that people would want to compile large rust programs without cargo being involved in the build flow?

Cargo, NPM, Pip, and other package managers present significant security weaknesses, and many users of C++ today do not work with this kind of flow because of this weakness. The code that Rust and C++ are aimed at is generally more security-critical than most javascript or python code.

Finally, it's great that those functions will finally be marked stable. They were stable as of 2019.

The problem I have with this isn't the specific functions, it's the process. Having functions that are stable, but waiting for years for someone to write a little bit of documentation about their stability is nuts.

I understand that people hate writing reports, but it seems that many maintainers are happy to churn out code for functions and then decide the project is finished before actually finishing it. Anyone else who wants the function is then in an awkward position: Do you want to step on someone's toes and write the stabilization report? Do you want to guarantee the stability of code that someone else wrote that you may not understand? You can't re-write it now - that would be wasteful and petty. So what do you do? You wait for someone else to take the risk.

In the Linux kernel, tons of documentation and reporting about your function being correct and stable are a prerequisite for submitting code, and this seems to work very well at preventing situations where you have lots of 90% finished projects. That is also true of most companies and most other commercially-relevant open-source projects.
1. This brought me back. When she clicked into the "mall" and the navigation was an imagemap with hotlinks [1] going off to a flower shop, I immediately thought of a website that some guy payed me to build back in the 90's when I was in high school. He bought SellMemphis.com, SellAtlanta.com, etc and wanted to create a directory for local businesses. Also - good on you, Philips Flowers, for keeping 1800florals.com in what must've been intense pressure from 1800flowers.com!

2. We still can't buy items directly in-stream. However, product placement is huge, and not just for consumer goods. Music featured in Stranger Things ends up trending on Spotify. Apple creates a playlist (in its own platform) for "Defiant Jazz," featured in Severance, also on its own platform).

3. Regulation (or lack of regulation) played out in an interesting way. We now have an interesting problem with digital infrastructure in the US anyway, where copper cables (still) only get you so far, wireless is the new expectation, and countries that -had- no comms infrastructure are by default more modern now than large tracts of the US, because they skipped past the "telephone poll" phase straight to cell towers.

[1] https://web.archive.org/web/19990208003609/http://branch.com...
interesting that this is running very slow (like 1 frame per second) on Chrome, but runs very smooth on Firefox. I'm on the latest version of both for Mac.
Flag as false info.
That sounds like Houston. Outside work is done in the early morning and outside play is done in the evening. During the middle of the day everybody stays inside in air conditioned buildings or vehicles.

It's the wealth of Houston that makes this possible. Pakistan and India will adapt it as soon as they're wealthy enough. It'll come at a lower wealth point than Houston because their problem is more severe than Houston's.
>Including white lychings? "scholarly consensus" is that it was racism?

Actually yes, in many cases. 'White' in these stats often includes Jews, Italians and other groups who also suffered from discrimination based on their ethnicity. The category 'white' has not remained constant over the past 200 years. You can certainly find scholarly treatments of this point if you look on Google scholar.
Whatsapp can't read the message on their servers but they can read it at clients, otherwise they cannot display the messages for users. Likewise, Apple/Google can read them too because they have to in order to render the texts.
I thought it would be an interesting article about the how someone, a woman, created an innovative game 40 years ago that I’d never heard of.

But, it came right out of the gate with The Message (Get Woke!) and I lost interest.

I am a black (descendant of American slaves) engineer who’s done well during his career, part of it writing video games. I don’t like leading with that info, but unfortunately it’s important to give context lest this comment be downvoted out of existence bc too many will assume I’m white.

I wish we could just tell the story of someone who did something noteworthy. If some physical attribute is noteworthy, then show a picture or tell the relevant attributes in order to surprise and/or delight the consumer.

But, please, enough finger pointing and nasty accusations in the name of The Message.

The Struggle is Real, but it ain’t all bad all the time, and I’m weary of hearing that it is.
This makes sense. Cloud computing should be part of the Meteorology department!
I think Form Energy batteries and that whole category of cheap long term storage that gets turned back into electricity (including, controversially, pumped hydro) are a dead end.

The random element breaks their already fragile cost justification.

Hydrogen generation makes sense because it's a physical product that you can use for other things if you don't burn it, which acts as insurance. A buffer for your buffer.

Heat batteries can have predictable loads and don't need the return trip to electricity.

Lithium and PV have a daily rhythm of usage which covers the higher price.

And throwing some energy away most of the year if there's no demand can still make financial sense if it's needed for rare peaks.

In general, building more renewables and doing the above is cheaper than trying to store energy and convert it back to electricity (unless you do it once or twice a day to amortise the cost).

This is why the climate change deniers go on and on about storage. They have correctly identified that it doesn't make financial sense to use batteries for that last few percent, but ignored all the other, better cheaper options to focus on that totally unnecessary approach. And also that the other 90% are better, cleaner and cheaper so we have money to burn on solutions if we needed it.

The cheaper renewables get, the less the Form battery sales pitch works. Just build more generation and short term storage.
When you want to provide others with reliable software, but are unable to keep your personal beliefs and politics out of it.
Don't Use 'Nscd' (2018)
The author goes on to explain why super earths are a good place to look for habitable planets. It’s the entire point of the article. Planets meeting this definition also tend to have other characteristics as well.
I don't think you understand Indian reality. AC is, was and will be luxury in places where entire villages are cut from electricity randomly and for a long time. They don't have any network capacity to handle tons of ACs. And hundreds of millions are still so desperately poor they wouldn't be able to afford one and run it anyway.
I put Patreon's official button on a site once and was confused at the seconds it added to the load. It's a little button!

Turns out it was hauling in 10MB of analytics scripts.
This is true -- and I'm sure you mean Hoffmann -- but "better at home" is easier to accomplish if you prefer brewed or filter coffee.

If you want an espresso-based drink, cost or kitchen space can make it much easier to just cultivate a relationship with a good shop (ideally, one that doesn't even OWN blenders).
Given the modern division of labour, people are more often than not an expert at whatever they do for a living.

It makes me think that high school is still too generalized. I think I only got to pick about half my courses and even those had to fit into certain bins. Couldn’t do too many tech courses. Had to have an arts course each year. Stuff like that.

If students have _any_ personal inclination towards any course we should enable them to take it without any bureaucracy. One of the most precious and fleeting resources is when a teen is self-motivated over education.
> End-to-end encryption means that your messages are encrypted to protect against us

So, they say the protection is there once the encryption has been applied. They say nothing about what happens to the content before or after that on the end user's devices. That handling is however covered by other legitimate use clauses in the privacy statement. This covers keyword scanning for targetted ads (so a defence lawyer will say at some point.)
Are You Interested
HEY guys i was taking a shower and thinking about why education is still not revolutionized even if we have computers and the internet, its really making me angry that people still learn the same way people did in B.C from the Aristotle days but just on a large scale and bigger classrooms who wanna join me to use the technology of NFT AND BLOCKCHAINS or an useful one so people can get degree from home and change companies policies of hiring based on ivy league degree so as the people view on education will change and the world too. i am 18 and i dont think that its that hard, people are just lazy to do it don’t know that markets can grow and they decide to start a company in the fintech/social apps…. dm if you are a technical founder like wozniak and lets make this vision happen. ps: im open if you wanna changes some parts of the idea or changing the direction in the future based on the feedback from users.
I'm curious if this is true for every alternative new niche shells like murex, oil, nushell etc?
Becouse Netflix is not from China (I heard that chinese tiktok has exactly this option) - just a fun fact
iCloud+ Custom Email Domains is slightly better now
Most definitely, that’s why most airline websites are blocked in Tor.

Hotels do also, based on nationality. I’ve had to implement something like this when working at a hotel aggregator (like Trivago but not them). You would start the booking process from let’s say Germany, but you have a Romanian passport. You would get German-people prices (which are lower) based on your IP, but you were asked about your travel documents. We had to do a request with your password to the seller which would reply that the room was already booked. You would get a message to start the search again, but now we would do it with your actual data. You would either get the room listed again at a higher price or not at all.
> If one doesn't start with the premise that Christian beliefs are bogus

This isn't so much about religion (or even morality or ethics) "protection" but rather a discussion about privacy.

> How could someone realistically use the modern Internet and still avoid content that starts them down unwelcome paths?

A simple content filter does a similar job, but without privacy invading surveillance. Even better if it has a way to circumvent it. E.g. the filter could just say "are you sure?" and then let me past. Many apps like that work well for self-accountabiluty. If that's not offering enough accountability then I'd argue the answer to the question is "you don't."

> Is an app store provider truly inclusive if they disallow apps that make privacy tradeoffs that appeal to one religion's adherents but not to another's?

While privacy is extremely important and app stores and device manufacturers are central to upholding it, I think a key here is that whoever willingly runs some kind of spyware app is willingly giving up their privacy. All the app store or device manufacturer should do is make sure that anyone who installs an app that spies on them, is aware that it's spying on them.

For example, an app can't use GPS or Microphone on iOS without the user knowing and that's the way it should be.

I cant't see where religion and inclusiveness comes into this eiher to be honest. I doubt there are religions appealed by privacy violations of the kind that would require (as in this example) always-on secret microphone recording in an app.
Yea, but it doesn't address the original poster's statement that there are numerous other superior options. I just wonder which ones they mean.
> One of the hardest parts of young adulthood is sorting out which bits of "received wisdom" actually deserve that label versus being cached now-bullshit

This actually never stops I think.
two things:

(1) depending on how good you are, you'll be better than X% of the coffee shops out there. but the converse applies too: somewhere out there, i'd bet, there is a coffee shop making coffee as good or even better than your own.

(2) a least half the pleasure in going to a coffee shop is going to the coffee shop. it's nice to get out and experience some of the community around you!
Signal have been promising vaguely to move away from using phone numbers for... A really long time now.
> I consider myself an expert on this

sigh

> the part that’s more offensive than the price is that a lot of times it isn’t good

So don't go there and don't buy it.

> wish that I took that much interest in the coffee I make. But I don’t

So you're saying you don't care enough about coffee to make it yourself, but you have a whole ton of options close to home and some you like and many you don't, and you want to complain about that?
The road to Zettalinux
My sister turned me on to these, designed for this use case:
https://goguarded.com/

Lots of folks on the internet seem to think this is the best pepper spray:
https://pompepperspray.com/
In case folks don’t know this: on an iPhone you do not need to give an app access to all your photos in order to use photos in the app.

Under Privacy > Photos, you can set “Selected Photos” instead of “All Photos” on a per-app basis.

Then when you go to add a photo to the app, you first go through an iOS prompt to select the photos the app will have access to. Only then do you go through the app’s photo selection dialogue.

I have all my apps set this way (or “None”).
List of 305,925 names comprising Putin's draft leaked
Note that the liability is shifting back to contractors.

I don’t consider this a win for the contractor. The end client should be the one to determine status and shoulder the responsibility if it turns out to be incorrect.
Couldn't agree more. Last line you wrote is * chef's kiss *
Say, the points made in the first few paragraphs of the relevant Wikipedia article: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lynching_in_the_United_States Nothing controversial, just the normally accepted historical reality.
So lying by ommission?
I made our wedding playlist on YouTube, since I pay for premium, and about 30% is now gone after a couple years. It would be nice if YT at least gave some indication of things they do not plan to delete, i.e. it's an official source not an upload subject to the whims of DMCA.
Tech company I worked for implemented a bastardized version of this purgatory firing model. Basically a manager/director is told to cut budget and is forced to build a list of people whom will be let go. From there he/she is given a date that the layoffs are meant to happen. It is then up to that manager/director to go around shopping for new roles for the people who are meant to be laid off. He/she contacts other managers, asks that the conversation remain confidential, and asks if the other manager has any open headcount.

Where it gets really weird is that other manager might decide to layoff someone from their team, for example a low performer, to make room for a higher performer that original manager is having to let go. The whole process is done very behind the scenes without effected employees being told. Finally when firing day comes the employee is basically told they are fired but have the option to "apply" for this other role.

Unclear why this company does not do it out in the open like Google and Facebook have chosen to do.

Edit: fixed spelling
> You can certainly find scholarly treatments of this point if you look on Google scholar.

Have you done so to sources your own statements?
I am ready, let's do it!
The single user pain point (at least in a company) is that your dev environment may not closely match production in terms of architecture / OS / installed packages. In my case, this is especially true as I am developing on an M1 Mac while most of the other Eng are still on the Intel Macs. Dev documents are littered with `brew install` commands and `npm` global installs which creates headaches in replicating state.

I think VS Code has really started to change the game in this space and paves the way for more cloud focused tool like Warp. The first step in moving to the cloud is convincing developers that their machine isn't "special". VS code jumps this hurdle by allowing development to pretty seamlessly occur inside of a Docker image on your machine while your "special" dev environment extras are maintained through text config and installed VS Code extensions.

Once there is the convincing use case of "my dev environment does not need to be my machine" and that experience is seamless, the next evolution is to the cloud - either running local VS code against remote docker instances or browser-based VS code against the same remote docker instances.

In my personal case, the hurdle to get to VS Code the blocker with not a lot to be immediately gained by completing it. But I believe that once I do complete it, I can leverage that knowledge to make Dev-Ops onboarding of new developers much better. Additionally, Getting eventually to a browser-based IDE with a remote-hosted Docker, I can shift away my dependence on a specific (and very expensive) machine.
> PhantomData

Usually when you want to give type some information it wouldn't normaly have. Like e.g. using it to store generic type signature for some kind of SQL builder. or to keep a lifetime that would otherwise be unbound.

> Pin

Just for self-referential structs. Since async relies on self-referential, it might also require it.

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When to use it? When you either exhaust all other options or know enough to judge it worthwhile.
> That you know about. Your house mates share the internet connection.

This is actually the least likely these days... the no.1 cause would be CGNAT, the vast majority of residential endpoints share an IPv4 address with a huge number of users, mobile networks are even worse... that's before we even get to IP recycling for dynamic IPs which happens at high frequency with mobile networks again, so you will inevitably get affected eventually.

This is why it's a bad idea to block IPs outright, because today one IP address never equates to a single individual or the same set of individuals over time. The other problem with blocking IP addresses based on abuse is considering them equal in user weight, yet one IP might have 2 users, another might have 10000 users - Blocking a TOR exit node is a good extreme example of this... people think of it as an effective defence because of the concentration of abuse on that single IP address, but they fail to consider the concentration of users behind that IP address - TOR exit nodes probably are a slightly higher source of abuse per user, but not any where as high as per IP - if you measure abuse per IP you are more likely looking a rough picture of users per IP for highly NATed IPs.
Looking through my photos, that's not the case. It's either things I don't own but like, places I enjoyed, or photos of things I want to buy / sent to my wife to buy. In my case, the photos would be a prefect targeting opportunity.
Thanks y'all. The "B2B anti net neutrality" (my phrase) position didn't make any sense to me. But what do I know?

I imagine lobbyists buffaloing your average elected representative. It's a compelling story. Even if it's untrue.
Did only a shallow read into the cheating drama, but I guess future matches need support from a proctologist.

I wouldn't know how an AI could determine cheating, you might end up with a probability of a move being supported by an AI. But that is probably not enough.