skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
people are still throwing them wherever they die.. I feel awful for the workers that go by at night to find/recharge them when I see them strewn in the most inexplicably-off-sidewalk locations in piedmont park, etc.
What’s gross and better to see on an empty stomach? This museum in Tokyo
To quote Reddit.... "buttery males!!!"

It's snark, but I think it pretty well encapsulates the state of typical discourse; A consistent way to look at the numbers over the long-haul never really enters the public picture.
Refurbished M2 MacBook Air
It was 1996, pretty long ago. Looking at a UC vs a private uni, the most obvious difference is how UCs tend to have majority Asian students.

UC Berkeley chancellor publicly denounced the ban when it was upheld a couple of years ago. Then Cal removed SAT/ACT as an admission requirement. Next admission cycle, she sent out an email to all students and alumni (me) cheering that the school is now more diverse. The percentages of White, Black, Hispanic, etc students in the incoming class all increased. Percentage of Asian students sharply decreased. If you ranked the deltas, it was similar to the ranks of average SAT scores for each group (Asian students have the highest SAT scores, etc). I guess the most diverse class would be achieved using a pure lottery system.
Sure but one is a step in the right direction while the other adds a pile of shit on top of the existing pile of shit

It's like hotfixing a completely broken pile of spaghetti code in prod, it'll save your sunday evening but you're in for 6 months of rewrite anyways
I went to Harvard and your comment about the leaning of the school is incorrect. Certainly, "even their more left people are pretty center-right" is just... wrong.
Switzerland is literally a dot in the map compared to China. The investment and effort required to build a high speed transport system in each country is not even comparable. We should also wonder more about where does Switzerland's prosperity come from, as they aided very undemocratic war criminals in hiding their wealth for a long time. Not very coherent for a democratic country.
Title mangled so doesn’t make sense. Should include “report”
Why is it always framed this way? This is NOT the solution.

The solution is to build better public transportation options. That will necessarily include removing a decent amount of the car infrastructure, but you can't just remove car infrastructure and hope people adapt.

The way you frame it, it sounds like (and it often is the case with people framing it this way) that you think that if we remove car infrastructure, people will be forced to use other means of transportation to get around. And while technically true, all it will actually do is piss people off and make it so much harder to get around.
The Wii U's model doesn't really open up that many interesting asymmetrical multiplayer game designs, compared to multiple individual devices. There's a psychological effect of everyone being in the "same space" when most people are on one screen, but mechanically most of the time you'll want the opposite of what the Wii U can do - one person can see everything but everyone else can only see some limited view (c.f. Pac-Man Vs).

With individual devices, you can make a game where N people see something different, or N-1 people see the same thing and 1 sees something different, or where N people see the same thing (and maybe also something different, c.f. the Four Swords GBAs+GC model).

With the Wii U, you can make a game where everyone sees the same thing, or N-1 people see the same thing and 1 person sees that and something else. Even if you try to make the 1 person see something disjoint, it's too easy to cheat. And if you try to make everyone but one person see their own thing - too bad.

I always wondered why they never built something to render simple (or even complex, it can't be that costly) scenes out to multiple connected (3)DSs - relatively everyone with a Wii U must have had at least one...
Too young to know but my guess: People smoked inside and made funny jokes. And there was way less garbage code.
THE FIRST TIME I remember seeing a mansion, I was headed to the Assiniboine Park Zoo in Winnipeg with a friend assigned to me by a charity that paired adults with poor kids whose parents needed a break. I turned to this nice middle-class woman, who patiently tolerated my endless questions, and asked how many families lived in the giant houses we were passing. Their lawns could practically fit the entire government-run townhouse complex where I lived.

She laughed and said, “Just one.” And we both fell silent for a while as we took in what that meant.
~No they aren't rebuilding Hydrogen in Remix.~
Edit: Spoke too soon on the above, sorry.

Remix raised funding. Ran out of money with no scope to self sustain or raise money. They downsized (see Kent Dodds. Perhaps there are others). Strong engineers that built the platform got acquihired.
> Male is the sex of an organism that produces the gamete (sex cell) known as sperm, which fuses with the larger female gamete, or ovum, in the process of fertilization.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Male

> Female is the sex of an organism that produces the large non-motile ova (egg cells), the type of gamete (sex cell) that fuses with the male gamete during sexual reproduction.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Female
Births should be free. At least the government should pay for it, least for the first few. After all, the kids are would-be tax payers.
Have been, but not anymore. At least here.

Now you have to take a photograph when you end a ride to prove that you did it responsible. There are many areas that are marked as slow-speed and many areas that are marked as no-park. The most central parts are entirely no-park with exceptions for dedicated bicycle-parkings.

Scooters that are misparked can be confiscated and the company needs to pay a fine to get it back.

It took a little while but now it seems to be respected by the vast majority and it has become a decent addition to other public transportation.

And I say this as someone who did despise them in the beginning.

Lots of other areas to discuss though, such as whether they last long enough to make environmental sense etc.
> As another commenter mentioned, I don't even think this would be possible given California WARN Act requirement

Large-scale labor law violations are not impossible, or even unprecedented for Musk-owned firms.
I don't think it's that ridiculous that when you first introduce something so potentially dangerous and disruptive that you require a driving licence demonstrating at least a little about the rules of the road, as well as experience in traffic and also that you only permit scooters that have been built to a known standard and that are actively maintained and easier to ensure that they meet the rules on legal max speeds etc.

What is the alternative? Tonnes of youngsters weaving in and out of traffic on their £5 knock-off import?
Atlanta has inadequate infrastructure that causes "rush hour traffic" on a tuesday drive on the highway at 2:00 pm. The city is not 21st century compatible if "value for time" is important.

I supported two offices in Smyrna and Buckhead for a few years and lived in Gwinnett initially and relocated to buckhead after. I-285 sucked both ways in Gwinnett, but in buckhead, i was going against traffic, which made a friday commute in the rain a 15 minute drive home in buckhead. The logistics are much worse now.

I did happen to be in SoCal when the pandemic started and got to enjoy their highways with little to no traffic. I think I was only in like 3 or 4 traffic jams the whole time, when Atlanta is a traffic jam mon-fri from 7am to 6pm'ish.

When visiting Portland, the commute south mon-fri was always backed up during rush hour times (just like the good ole days), going towards Salem. Inadequate infrastructure from the 20th century makes some cities worse I guess.
Pinecone vector database now handles hybrid keyword-semantic search
It's also not your place to decide what my place is. So it's all a wash really.
Non-electric scooters are a terrible mode of transport. Pretty obvious if you've ever used one (or a skateboard) but as soon as you hit any kind of gentle uphill slope they're more effort than just walking.

A bicycle is fine but you have to put in effort which is not always appealing and you can't take it into buildings (though on the other hand it's more reasonable to leave it locked up outside).

There's definitely a unique space that e-scooters occupy where they're better than every other option.
Are you really summarising all of that post as "The jurisdiction issue? A minor technicality that got him off the hook."?

He had his basic human right to a fair trial robbed of him.

If you think that's "a minor technicality", then we really have no common ground to argue on.
I think it's more likely the unconscious part of the mind has a lot more agency and is much more active than we give it credit for.
I also want to highlight that this dynamic messes up those adjacent programs.
I was a cognitive science student because I thought it was fascinating, and it's unfortunate that the program gets a bit diluted by being branded "the other CS" and some share of students that don't actually care about the other components.
Should be very interesting to see a world where the USD isn’t the only game in town. A new world reserve currency sounds like a dream.
The patterns movement, for more context, arose out of the work of the architect Christopher Alexander, who explored the concept of patterns in buildings like “courtyards” or “bay windows”. The problem with the GoF ones, as they’ve been applied to software, is an overemphasis on applying them for their own sake rather than fitting the problem at hand - imagine if every window in a house was a bay window. There are a lot of software projects that end up like that and turn people off OOP in general.
My favorite part of the article:

> A 2021 Gallup poll found that 62% of Americans were in favour of affirmative action programmes. A separate poll released by the Pew Research Center earlier this year, however, found that 74% of Americans - including a majority of black or Latino respondents - believed that race should not be factored into college admissions processes.

I think my takeaway is that even if you give a horrendously unpopular program a catchy enough name, people will think they like it.
> There's a certain arrogance intrinsic to engineering, in that you have to be capable of believing you can find a better solution to a problem than literally every other person in history.

As a programmer, I have never once believed that. I just believe that the problems I am being presented with are novel enough (usually because of the context and constraints surrounding it) to have not been encountered before and solved.

Just like you never cross the same river twice, I don't think you ever solve the same problem twice.

I think the core skill engineering requires is persistence: the belief that you can find a workable solution even when the problem itself gives you absolutely no positive feedback during the process.
It's independently run, but part of it. Specifically, any money it makes (or loses) goes to the US Treasury:

https://www.wsj.com/articles/higher-interest-rates-fuel-loss...
Be interesting if they gut it completely just to try to make debt payments and how that would work.
These sound like lucrative mining projects for some future generation
of space grunts.
There is PLENTY of adventure to be found in programming.

You can start by building a Twitter clone that doesn't do moderation at all, but rather ranks things in a vector space. Scalar go/no go ratings are passe.

Imagine ranking a tweet you read by any scale of your choosing, True/False, Funny/Not Funny, Interesting/Boring, Incriminating/Proof of Innocence
Most travel modes have a downside. For example, car and suv drivers routinely speed through pedestrian crossings and kill large numbers of pedestrians.

Scooters may be annoying, but at least they aren't deadly.
Japan isn't the US, though. The effects of Japan's stagnation and economic woes are very real on the ground, and in terms of quality of life.

I'm not praising Japan as being somehow superior in that regard, but Japanese culture _does_ have traits that allows the Japanese to bear hardship with a measure of grace and calmness.

I can't imagine the US being in the situation that Japan is in without far more severe political consequences.
You really think Tesla and SpaceX have accomplished as much as they have with no one good at the company? Why is Twitter different?
To me it's like painting. Yes, I can paint my walls. But hiring it out is substantially faster and you get people who do nothing but paint all day every day to knock it out.
> extraordinarily complex, expensive, and time consuming

Remove all zoning laws and it takes care of itself over time. Zoning is always "keep [thing people want] away from [place where people want it]".

All that accomplishes is putting services that people want further away from them.
Reliable and buggy can go together - after all, nobody left their computer running for days on end back then, so you almost always had a "fresh slate" when starting up. And since programs would crash, you were more trained to save things.

The other major aspect was that pre-internet, security was simply not an issue at all; since each machine was local and self-contained there wasn't "elite hax0rs" breaking into your box; the most there was were floppy-copied viruses.
Fortunately for Red Hat, all of the makers of "cross platform UI" platforms are in a race to the bottom and that is why we are stuck with Electron apps that are all (30+x) MB in size and depend entirely on engineering work from Google.
BE4 flight engines are being integrated into Vulcan rocket
Don't forget social security trust fund is only allowed to invest in treasury bonds. That's $3,000,000,000,000 (trillion) of the debt right there.

Then there's the fact that the Treasury is the only place where it's possible to deposit something like a billion dollars. So the Treasury acts as a bank for companies with large cash reserves.

The country can never eliminate its debt. And the country wouldn't want to anyway.
The core difference was that the job required much more vertical reasoning. Crafting things from the ground up was the norm. Starting from a blanc code file and implementing core data structures and algoritms for the domain was oftem the case. Limited resources required much more attention to efficiency and thight constraints. Much weaker tooling required more in depth knowledge rather than trial and error development. There also was no web nor google so finding things out was either books or newsgroups.

These days often the demand is more horizontal. Stringing together shallow understood frameworks, libraries and googled code and get it to work by running and debugging.

The scope of things you can build solo these days is many orders of magnitude larger than it was back then.

Still, the type of brainwork required back in the day most definetly was more satisfying, maybe because you had more control and ownership of all that went into the product.
Michael and Ryan have always been about trying to make money from their React expertise. They literally created a company called React Training: https://reacttraining.com/team and have had a fairly lucrative business doing workshops for years.

No harm in trying to get folks to pay for a framework. It doesn't seem it worked, but I can't fault them for trying!
To add to my reply from a few hours ago: I'm currently fixing a bug like what you describe.

The code is C# and involves heavy reflection; but if the person who wrote it used a simple lambda, it would be fine and easier to maintain.

In such a situation I'd make it clear that reflection is inappropriate in this situation. If the developer continued to use reflection when simple lambda statements were appropriate, I would make moves to fire the developer.

Again, I would set clear expectations first.
https://www.stlouisfed.org/in-plain-english/who-owns-the-fed...
If they bring in a cookie cutter CEO the devices will probably not be more affordable.
When it crosses the line into "constructive dismissal"

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Constructive_dismissal#United_...
> Paris

With 2000 escooter accidents and 20+ deaths idk if we can call it a great example
Bullshit.

A healthy cashflow is obviously vital for any big corporation, but tech is not about cashflow, it is mainly about innovation.
It's a bit of split as to how Red Hat considers the term "documentation". The actual product docs are free to access while the Knowledge Base, which is considered a value-add for customers, does have a lot of its content (usually troubleshooting or specific instructions/guides) behind either a Red Hat login or needing an active subscription. For which, as you mentioned, the Developer Subscription for Individuals qualifies.
There’s very little pedestrian traffic in Atlanta so the sidewalk riding didn’t bother me.

This is also a city where the police have done nothing to stop people riding go carts and stuff on the streets disrupting traffic and hurting people. Or tent clusters on sidewalks and off ramps.

So it was weird they banned scooters and allow things with no benefit to the city.

There’s also an angle that the city is really big on pushing their boondoggle public transport streetcar project and didn’t like cheaper and more environmentally friendly options available for the public.

I think Atlanta banned the scooters because the companies didn’t pay off the right locals. They could have tried to fix the issues and work with the scooter companies.
the first step, repainting lines on roads to add (ideally protected) bike/scooter lanes, is a large but imminently manageable project that can get done quickly. while that's happening, you direct various agencies to favor bike/scooter parking over cars, perhaps introducing necessary legislation to that effect. the harder and longer changes are removing/reducing over-zealous zoning, deceptive environmental lawsuits, and overly-specified building codes. it won't happen in a few months, but a lot can happen in a few years for a motivated electorate.
This is a fair call out. I guess I'm more talking about more advanced things in the future though like robot maids like in The Jetsons.
I don’t think they actually have to walk anything back. Facebook seems like it’s going to still be successful even if the metaverse loses money forever.
Not "from scratch" but there are tons of routers that either don't support IPv6 or have broken support and thus need to be replaced.
It could also be evidence that your preferences are not shared by the rest of the market.

I believe the PinePhone prioritizes repairability but it's obviously not as popular as the iPhone.

> Unregulated free markets are widely accepted to be a bad idea. E-waste is a serious problem that the free market can't solve on its own. Regulation is necessary.

Why is e-waste a serious problem (as opposed to other types of waste)? Couldn't this problem be solved by improving e-waste disposal processes?
You could say the same thing about cars. In fact it's far more common for cars to be parked on pavements blocking access than it is for e-scooters. You just don't notice because you're used to it.
The major ideological groups which don't do this aren't talked about, which may cause you to think they aren't major
memory protection is what changed. there are different ways to set it up and others here will be much more knowledgeable, but the OS works in conjunction with CPU features to generate an error if a program attempts to access memory not allocated to it.

before (I think) the 386, microprocessors didn't support proper memory protection, any OS that attempted to run multiple programs was at risk that one program would crash the system. You might see the 'bomb' dialog on Mac or it might just freeze. Blue screen I think started with Windows 95. Until (I think) Windows NT and Mac OSX the OS didn't implement memory protection. Original Mac had cooperative multitasking, each program was supposed to run in a loop that yielded to the OS so it could e.g. move the mouse pointer, process clicks. Of course at that time DOS didn't have any multitasking. although there was the infamous "TSR" terminate and stay resident feature which was used by e.g. DesqView to allow you to switch programs via a hotkey.

typically software can't fry hardware, even the famous 'halt and catch fire' instruction didn't literally cause a fire https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Halt_and_Catch_Fire_(computing...
Fascinating. Hadn’t thought about the pacing factor.

So given this is the case, how does any advertiser scale up their spending without getting disillusioned and abandoning FB ads?
How on earth does this make sense in peoples' minds?

The government does not have a right to my money. They spend all the money we give them, then demand more so they can spend more money.

The government spends too much money. They should take less of my money. Taking less of my money is not the problem, spending too much of the money they already took from me is.
Japan has been economically stagnant for decades now. Japanese GDP per capita is lower now than it was in the early 90s.

The sky already fell.
My biggest issue with speed cameras is that one in my city also enforces the school zone limit even if it's not currently in effect. It's on a main arterial road that people usually go 40 on but brake check to slow down to 20 for a few blocks which inevitably causes traffic + crashes around the school.
I'm not discussing the way things should be, but the way they are. There are numerous public charities who get a significant amount of funding because of who's on their board.

They're not funneling money to themselves, they're funneling it to other charities that they work with.
Seems like a team effort...

Budget Deficit By Year (billions)

2002 - $158 (R)

2003 - $378 (R)

2004 - $413 (R)

2005 - $318 (R)

2006 - $248 (R)

2007 - $161 (R)

2008 - $459 (R)

2009 - $1,413 (R)

2010 - $1,294 (D)

2011 - $1,300 (D)

2012 - $1,077 (D)

2013 - $680 (D)

2014 - $485 (D)

2015 - $442 (D)

2016 - $585 (D)

2017 - $665 (D)

2018 - $779 (R)

2019 - $984 (R)

2020 - $3,132 (R)

2021 - $2,772 (R)

2022 - $1,375 (D)
The Fed is independently run, but part of the federal government. Specifically, any money it makes or loses goes to the US Treasury:

https://www.wsj.com/articles/higher-interest-rates-fuel-loss...
It all comes down to infrastructure. They’re not a big problem here in DC compared to cars because we have wide sidewalks and a growing number of protected bike lanes. People driving cars are responsible for 100% of the fatalities, almost all of the injuries, and almost all of the blocked sidewalks, crosswalks, etc. and that’s where the focus should be.

What I would like is basically rebranding bike lanes as low-speed mobility lanes. Take the parking and/or right lane full-width, put up bollards, and zone it for vehicles with a max speed of 20mph (bike, scooter, trike, hoverboard, electric wheelchair, who cares - if it doesn’t pollute and takes up about as much space as a person, it’s welcome). If space allows, add protected parking spots for pickup/drop off and handicapped parking and tell everyone else that they need to pay market-rate for parking.
well why dont you just quit? I would quit after two weeks of such drama, all of my friends would do the same.