skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I don't have the time to read this report cover-to-cover but, based on the quick skim I just did, it seems to provide very little support of your claim, These are just the percentages of people who don't meet the "2008 federal guidelines for both aerobic and muscle-strengthening activities during leisure-time physical activity." The report seems to say nothing about whether these people could walk or bike to work. It simply confirms the point that I've already acknowledged, which is that Americans are unfit, on average.

If there's a particular passage that you have in mind, feel free to point me to it.

> do you really think putting a bike lane is going is better motivation than death

At the risk of taking this argument too seriously: It doesn't have to be better. It just has to be additive. And making something more convenient can be very powerful. Among other things, unlike marginally decreasing one's risk of death, something that makes your commute easier/cheaper/more enjoyable offers immediate, ascertainable benefits--unlike decreasing the risk of death, which is impossible to perceive in the moment, is highly contingent, and only mitigates a risk that is presumed to exist only far in the future.

More broadly, I honestly can't understand what your position is here. Can it really be that adding bike lane has no effect on peoples's willingness to ride a bike? That just seems...obviously wrong. Of course, how big an effect a given measure might have is a different matter.

And, in any case, Nobody said that just "putting in a bike lane" would get the job done on its own. Though it seems obvious that even that very modest step would help. There are--quite obviously--a lot of other levers out there. I'm no expert but, just off the top of my head we could also make it less convenient to drive and encourage development that allows people to live near where they work.
> In a way, this quote is saying “first do what you should have always been doing; being organized” and “then do what you came here to do in the first place (add a feature, fix a bug).”

Maybe it's just me, but that's not really how I understand it.

Perhaps it's because I generally run into this when I'm thinking about accomplishing something new with a hack. Specifically, I want to do something that was unanticipated in the original design, and "goes against the grain" of what is there now.

One solution, as suggested by the above interpretation, is to refactor your codebase in a way that the addition now fits in smoothly. That's a great thing to do a lot of the time. But beware: there isn't a "best" or "perfect" factoring that you can ever reach, no matter how much refactoring you do. There may be some things that are strictly improvements over what came before. But beyond that, a codebase has to optimize for a subset of the possible uses and dimensions of flexibility: what do you want to be easy to change?

Your new feature or usage may not be the thing to orient the codebase around. Sometimes, it really is just a one-off, or an experiment, or temporary. In that case, refactoring everything to make it easy is just wrong.

The original quote still applies, though. If you inject a hack here, a hack there, you'll quickly end up with a mess. Very often, the better thing to do is to do whatever refactoring is necessary in order to add a general extension mechanism that permits the hack you need, and only then use it to implement the hack. The difference is that the hack will still be messy, it may have hardcoded values, and it may not get along with similar hacks. But its scope is limited and the amount of damage or distortion it can cause to the surrounding design is bounded.

I guess fixes are more likely to require refactoring. Features or extensions should be considered very carefully before adapting a large chunk of the system to suit them, which can come at the cost of making it harder to adapt to the original purposes.
I'm pretty regularly out of shape by those metrics and I have no real issues commuting by walking/cycling/transit, even doing commutes which are longer than average.

Physical fitness isn't the biggest issue or even really a big issue at all, the biggest practical issues I've found is getting large items to your home and the fact that a lot of work really does take a real full sized vehicle to load up with gear and people. Cars and trucks you to simply move literally tons stuff from place to place in a very flexible way, whereas on foot/transit/bicycle it is very awkward to move around even 50lbs of stuff without some sort of cart or wagon which really isn't going to let you haul all that much more very quickly. It's hard to imagine how you're going to move a work crew from site to site using bicycles lol.

I really see physical fitness as really not being very much of a problem at all except on the extremes. Certainly not for 80% of the population. I'm also going to point out the obvious which is that people that don't exercise are absolutely the type people who should be avoiding using a car to get around everywhere.
The grid needs 30% more power generation. If all cars are EV. CA is doing rolling blackouts as it is.

Maybe Californians will be riding horses in the next 10 years ;)
The US has an interesting history of poor safety around nuclear related facilities. Not far from Denver is a great example with some interesting history.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rocky_Flats_Plant#:~:text=Th....
Historically, most of Vietnam were the settlement for Chams people with phonetic writing and language of their own [1]. They were very successful traders and South China Sea was originally called Cham Sea [2]. Then they were displaced by the Nguyen Lords who considered themselves belongs to Han Chinese, and latter enforced Chinese based logographic writing system to the populations.

Unlike phonetic, logographic writing system is neither effective nor it's efficient. In software engineering processing Japanese words is still problematic until now because of their usage of logographic writing system [3]. The are several movies and drama series documenting how the Korean moved from the Chinese logographic to Hangul phonetic writing system by their King Sejong to rapidly and significantly increase their literacy rates.

[1]Đông Yên Châu inscription:

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/%C4%90%C3%B4ng_Y%C3%AAn_Ch%C...

[2]The Cham: Descendants of Ancient Rulers of South China Sea Watch Maritime Dispute From Sidelines:

https://www.nationalgeographic.com/science/article/140616-so...

[3]Sorting in Japanese – An Unsolved Problem:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19628097
I created a Lao Tsu character. I’m honestly so blown away by the quality of this conversation.

https://character.ai/p/8YVNqf5JnfK8W-UZM94GOQ2lBBi34dXyI7bGf...
I think there needs to be a distinction between stadia the monthly service that lets you play new games each month and stadia the platform that allows you to buy and play games from any device. The platform is amazing and I wish Google would find a way to keep it around. The service is a different thing and like you said, doesn't make a lot of sense. Too few games and someone who wants to play games all the time anyway probably has. Setup they like already and lots of games for it to boot.

I bought RDR2 for stadia in 2020 and played it everywhere - my phone, laptop, desktop. I played through the whole game and never once had any technical issues. That ability is what gives cloud gaming a real value beyond PC gaming or console gaming. You tell someone without a high spec gaming PC and no PS5 that they can play a new AAA game without buying anything new, then I think lots of people will love that. The article mentions you can't use your own controller, which is flat wrong. I used a Microsoft Xbox controller for both computer and android when I played. For someone who only plays games for 10-20 hours a month or so, it's great to not have to worry about buying new equipment.

However, after the introductory free month of the service I gave it up. Only a few games, and the ones I liked were so short and simple that I was done with them after a week or so. GeForce now has the right idea here - the cloud gaming IS the service and it connects to your existing games on steam and origin.
As someone whose been learning the last few years, a lot of learning materials suggest you don’t make a proper form element and just make your own button instead of using using a form element and all the built in benefits it brings for reasons I don’t really know. I’ve probably wondered about this sort of thing for few good hours total, but I guess this comment steers me in the right direction.
Google search results have consistently been getting worse over the last several years. Unfortunately, bing and others aren’t really improving either, but if things continue this way, eventually they will likely overtake Google by nature of being the least bad option.
Spoken by someone who clearly does not have ADHD.

I can say that sometimes "things just work" and that's what I'm always searching for. The thing that makes me not feel like "I wish this worked just a little differently".

I used to fiddle with fonts all the time, until I found Monolisa. I haven't fiddled with fonts in a long time.

I've found that for task organizing I have to have 2 levels. My todo lists for various "modes" (work, personal, kids/house), then another completely separate list of things I make at the start of each day. Still don't know of a tool that does that and I've just stopped looking.

Admittedly, I still fiddle with themes, plugins, etc. for code editing. :x Always after that 1 theme that will help me see everything on the screen at a glance without angry text (red text mixed in otherwise subdued tones) and covers all the different file types I use, appropriately. Just typing this out is making me wonder if there's a way to apply a different syntax theme to different file types. Hmm, about to waste another 20 minutes to an hour looking into that, I'm sure.

TL;DR I think the other person that answered this yesterday said it better than me "it's not about numerical gain, it's more about making sure your shoes fit".
I refuse to buy new and my current car cost me $15kAUD. Which is 10KUSD (ignoring supply chain issues for a while). My previous car was an older generation of the same model and lasted over a decade. My current car should too. And upkeep is fairly cheap all things considered.

20K isn’t economy. Half that and make sure the car still runs for over a decade with reasonable maintenance costs.
Kodak and Sears are my favorite example of this sort of thing, Kodak not only invented the digital camera, they also had a robust business in the 90s of developing color film onto both prints and a CD. Instead of seeing the writing on the wall, they resisted digital because it cut into both film, and their existing way of getting those pictures onto computers.

Sears, after dominating mail-order for a century, marketed Prodigy, a successful early dial-up network. But they were by that point heavily invested in malls, and were beat out as the 21st century's Sear's, Roebuck and Co. by a bookseller.
But they aren't. The headline of that very article (ok, the subhed) notes that they aren't capable of writing Korean songs and don't try. This is repeated in the text:

> Carlebecker writes in English, and then Korean songwriters add new lyrics to her melodies
But the technology wasn't ready when the rest of computers were. Photo CDs were good but sensors were 20 some years later
If the behavior of 30-40 year olds are the only difference, and if they had social media back then, it’s highly likely that they might have.
Others have already answered, but just to explain it another way: she wasn’t supposed to know her opponents hand. She went all in, only knowing that she had high card Jack. In other words, she definitely knew her opponents hand.

Edit: to clarify, I doubt she knew her opponents specific cards. But she definitely knew her high card Jack had a good shot of winning, which is an absurd thing to suspect without cheating.
> I'd expect the distribution of individual amounts driven to be such that the median would be lower than the mean

True, but there can't be that much skew--there's only so many hours in the day.
> 95% of bugs are logic errors

> 70% of CVEs are memory errors

No contradiction here.
The HR Mystery
Credit is too easy to get and restricting it is very politically unfavorable.

And when it’s easy to get people who would be better off not getting it will get it.

The only solution may be to make bankruptcy even easier until the banks stop being dumb.
Yep Russians will be dodging AMRAAM not dogfighting Vulcan guns, and Cobra doesn’t help much with that. Although the vector thrusting and braking that provide an aircraft the means to do Cobra might help against air-to-air and SAM/manpads.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/AIM-120_AMRAAM

Otherwise it’s just a pretty display at air shows.
We raced to comment on this. I'm not even sure licensing the project as MIT is even relevant given the non-free dependency. Doesn't make much legal or practical sense.
What's "this" in your question? I don't see the immediate connection between a programmer's workflow and a database row update.

But your understanding of what happens inside the database engine is too simplistic: first of all, the data does not necessarily exist as only one copy because there may be multiple indexes or materialized views covering that data. And each copy needs its own pointer switch as the very last operation.

Secondly, the "atomic" change you mention is only atomic from the application point of view. Multiple clients may each have their own isolation levels and execution state, which means that the in-memory "switch" to the new data may happen at different times for different connections (especially for isolation level repeatable-read).
Fine in theory, but often bad in practice, because in a lot of places prioritization is done by people with little or no technical background and lots of incentive to show progress.

There are a lot of ways to do this, but my general preference is a black budget plus explicit "credit card" usage. E.g., the team has high standards for any new feature work and quietly spends 15% of their time every week on continuous technical improvement. If the product manager wants to break the normal standards and take on technical debt (e.g., rush have feature X ready for trade show), then you break the work into "rush to add feature X" and "clean up feature X mess". The first gets done before the trade show, the second after.

And personally, if a product manager doesn't honor the deal, I say they get their credit card taken away for a while, because they've proven they can't be trusted to do right by the team and the company.
::accidentally falls asleep in the sauna::

::comes out 12 years old::

“Ahh crap!”
Its really hard to find proper learning materials to get started with the backend; its all a bunch of shortcuts glued together because the tutorial really wants to show you how to make a react frontend first and foremost.
Just because your cryptocurrency lost 90% of its value today, doesn't mean it can't lose 90% of its value tomorrow.
As a commentary on the conundrum, not so much your post.

I always think it’s strange when people make the argument that it’s good for harmful tools to be out in the open because people can/will change their behavior because of them.

99.999999% of people will never see this repo, never know things like this exist, and don’t visit sites like HN but can, and probably will be, affected by it in some way.
When billions of dollars are spend on ads yelling “Drink” - sure there’s a personal decision but there are also external forces.

And if the end result isn’t healthy for society then perhaps society has to step in.
Companies can't change their DNA any more than an individual organism can. Kodak was right to avoid digital photography - and in fact they probably should have stuck with film a little while longer even if it is niche. The public perceives DNA switches all the time, but that's an illusion generated by a free market and it's ability to plug in new sources of value (and unplug old ones) relatively seamlessly.
If you're willing to wait years before you get yours, then sure.
My understanding is that we've known for a long time that they range from a sooty snowball to a single chunk of pitted iron alloy. Looks like this one was a softie.
If one isn't looking to pick cherries to suit their "EVs aren't affordable!!!!!" argument: the Bolt EV is $31k MSRP, not including state and federal tax credits.

That's substantially lower than the average price of a car sold in the US ($47k) or average pickup ($60k!)

And by the way: halo cars like the Hummer finance R&D. The Hummer is helping GM pay R&D costs on the Ultium system/platform, which will be re-used for a huge number of vehicles in the coming years.
>Is it your plan or not?

No, your disingenuous characterization does not accurately describe my offered policy.

>No one is suggesting this because it doesn’t need to happen and is very unlikely to escalate to this.

So your policy is to leave the ball in Russia's court whether we end up in a nuclear exchange, based on the belief that Russia will ultimately back down? And you think this is a wise policy?

>NATO is more then capable of pushing Russia out of Ukraine in a short period of time with conventional weapons given the state of the Russian armed forces.

How can you be sure Russia will not respond with nuclear weapons to a direct kinetic response from NATO? Or a continuing and escalating response designed to push Russia out of Ukraine?
I still can't wrap my mind around the fact that his ex wife is Don Jr's fiance.
You're welcome to that opinion, but you're just arguing against Free Software in general; that's exactly the same argument as saying that the user has no right to inspect or control the software running on their own machine.
Off road implies not near the grid.. though if you are going to play you are fine, but some people get far enough out that they pack extra fuel.
> Ultralight is free for non-commercial use, educational use, and also free for commercial use by small indie developers making less than US$100,000 a year.

I feel like the reason we have ended up with Electron is that well-funded developments from large companies (like WPF, SwiftUI) always seek to lock-in developers to their single platform, well-funded from independent ones (like Qt) cost $$, and the rest just stays permanently underdeveloped from lacking dev resources.

The result is that the lowest common denominator wins: free and standardized web tech, repackaged as desktop apps. I haven't seen any older desktop UI developer who'd like Electron, yet I bet every one of us has at least a couple of Electron apps installed as they're reading this.

Let me ask this question: what is the luckiest, ideal scenario for a project with such license, if it takes off and everyone loves it and everything goes well? Probably displacing Qt and taking over their market share? That doesn't sound anywhere close to Electron killer potential to me.
As others have said, Tauri is exactly the same sort of tool, sorry if the mention of Rust threw you off!

Some more:

https://wails.app

https://nwjs.io/
Corporate taxes just come from the customers of the corporations. It may be more palatable but it’s just VAT with extra steps.

The SALT change and the deductible increase affected large swaths of taxpayers favorably-mostly the working poor who made enough to pay taxes but not enough for much deductions.
combobulate (alpha quality as of 10/22): source code outline/cliff notes.
from github README.rst "Emacs package that provides a standardized framework for manipulating and navigating your source code using tree sitter's concrete syntax tree " -> https://github.com/mickeynp/combobulate

https://www.spacemacs.org/ with https://github.com/emacs-tree-sitter/elisp-tree-sitter then write a iterator/loop query for language(s) editing per https://tree-sitter.github.io/tree-sitter/syntax-highlightin...

tad less installation heavy (sorta) but also makes use of tree-sitter syntax queries : https://www.lunarvim.org (neovim with treesitter syntax)

blockman usage examples: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC5539gDeAdWqeXcczWuhnBA

Alternative examples / takes (per user interface):

### embedding a block of source code in a document:

** carrotsearch.gethub.io/apidocs/code-blocks

** https://ckeditor.com/docs/ckeditor5/latest/features/code-blocks.html

### 'colorize blocking' (vs space endenting) :

** example code reference coloring: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b0EF0VTs9Dc&list=PLtvX0WpNqnvMQbLB9j4TKbqHMmoLaoOOr

### gui block programming :

** https://mblock.makeblock.com/en-us/

** https://developers.google.com/blockly
Yes. I was already implicitly blaming Amazon for the low-quality reviews..
But 2nd hand ICE cars don’t have to worry about a degraded and very expensive lithium battery and certain models are proven to last a long time.

These things may work, but I don’t want to spend the money to be the one that finds out.
Now include the AUD1.80/L fuel costs into the life of that car.
i find myself mentally unable to comprehend people who believe that the drawing part of drawing is monotony.
discovering that this mindset not only exists but is widespread has been equally as disturbing as any ai advancement.
This is a ridiculous position.

It was carefully explained how in the country where experiments were held, this technology is accessible to all but the most poor.

This hardly qualifies as rich by any measure.
isn't that the film MI6 based their fake iraq WMDs dossier on
I think there was an enormous amount of innovation and ingenuity required to broaden a market so narrow that it only included preteens to the entire globe across all sex, age, and cultures.

I understand your point but there’s more interesting analysis here than “this is the same it’s been done before.”
> Americans are so lazy and out of shape that making it easier to walk or bike would have no effect on their likelihood to do so? That just seems...obviously wrong. Of course, how big an effect it might have is a different matter.

yes there was small study in Minnesota that said exactly that.
https://www.lrrb.org/pdf/200550.pdf

80% are willing to risk a life of suffering ( per cdc) to avoid physical activity. I don't see how its at all 'obvious' that putting bike lanes is going magically get them moving.
> Who is the more impressive student? Alice who had a stable suburban comfortable upbringing and went to prestigious private high school and got a 34 on her ACT, or Bob who grew up with a single father, went to a public high school in an high needs district, had to work a part time job after school and babysit his little brother every day before his dad got home and got a 29?

The kid with the higher score is a more impressive student. But there might certainly be a justification for giving the kid who had a tougher road to get there a leg up.

But that’s different from what we’re doing, where we apply racist assumptions and treat certain minorities as if they’re all from single parent homes, regardless of whether that’s true for the individual.
Using the same username may allow you to manually poison your own profile to make your data less useful than a shadow profile generated through stylometry
There will be sodium-ion batteries in EVs too. Niu is going to launch a two-wheeler with a sodium-ion battery next year [0].

[0] https://www.electrive.com/2022/08/08/niu-to-debut-two-wheele...
That's the way it's marketed, but nothing says you can't mount the reflective mat vertically.

This would be particularly useful for CAD, engineering, but also just plain old 3d gaming that doesn't cause problems with your equilibrium.
Trade deficits are wonderful. We print worthless dollars and other countries give us real valuable things in exchange. Win!