skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
If you remove car infrastructure in SF, for example, there are massive amounts of the city that will die because they lack adequate public transit options.

You remove mobility, and you remove any hope for underserved communities to survive, let alone improve.

Instead, you could advocate for MORE mobility via better public transportation. But you don't for some reason that I may never understand.
Given the conclusion of building something new- I actually did. I built an app for posting based on location to boost local communities:
https://radiusreport.news/
I don't follow discord or their github's repo, just reading release notices so could you please elaborate?
The only thing anybody knows about accessibility is that you’re doing it wrong. Just like REST!
HAProxy (Load Balancer) Architecture Guide (2008)
I was on travel to San Francisco last week, 20 mph down the Presidio through GGSP and I would have loved a helmet but I didn’t pack one in my carry on! You are really putting your life on the line without one - both from the flimsiness and speed of the device, and city roads and traffic. The people I saw with helmets clearly owned their scooters.
The schema isn't part of the message. This is what people are complaining about when comparing it to json. Debugging is harder because it is impossible to know what is in the message without having the proto information available.

My suggestion/strawman is to add request/response debug headers that include this in a standardized way. Then tooling can start to pick this up (eventually). The developer experience can then start to approach json.
In general, I agree. The problem is that serialization (at least with proto3) is “lossy”. As I mentioned elsewhere in the discussion, proto3 messages discard certain information in the name of efficiency. The end result (message semantically invalid) does not change, of course, but the “why” could.
The super annoying thing about reels is how they don’t just play fully in the feed the way Tik Tok does. You see a weird 2 second loop and on that have to choose whether to engage. And FB has a horrible history with video, filling the feed with videos 10x too long that had no point and not letting users track forward.

I cannot hate FB more than I do. If it wasn’t for Marketplace, my account would have been deactivated years ago. And even Marketplace is obnoxious in a myriad of ways.
I'd be grossed out wearing a helmet someone else wore that wasn't cleaned.

I might do it anyway to save my life, but it would definitely be a deterrent.

Also heads come in sizes, so a single helmet would not really work - you'd need "helmet stands" where you could get one that fits, and that give them a disinfectant spray between customers (likes shoes in a bowling alley).

Maybe Amazon style lockers?
1. Not downhill.
Rental scooters here (Tel Aviv) often come with helmets. They click into the front.
As you say it is technically the solution.

It is also not like car infrastructure would turn into non-existance. It most cases all that happens is reuse. Playing fields. Pedestrian areas. Bike lanes. Bus lanes. Bike areas.

The only common thing is they all cist car infrastructure space. This is the common ground. The reallocation of that infrastructure and space is a different story.

I have yet to see a case where it didn't pass people off no matter what the future use was. So even if technically the other framing should be different I have not seen a case where it makes a difference. All while seeing that even pure car infrastructure blockage makes a difference.
There are ways to fix that, too, if we really wanted to.

For example, make it fully legal to do whatsoever you want to an unmanned non-emergency vehicle parked blocking a bike lane. Very soon an industry of car-destroyers would pop up producing amusing videos for everyone to watch.
Yeah, exactly what the AI Effect is about :)

> We don't use AI anywhere today

> But here in X places we do use AI

> Yeah, but not for Y

once Y is using AI

> We don't use AI anywhere today

> But here we're using AI for Y

> Yeah, but not for Z

And so on :)

From Wikipedia:

> Author Pamela McCorduck writes: "It's part of the history of the field of artificial intelligence that every time somebody figured out how to make a computer do something—play good checkers, solve simple but relatively informal problems—there was a chorus of critics to say, 'that's not thinking'." Researcher Rodney Brooks complains: "Every time we figure out a piece of it, it stops being magical; we say, 'Oh, that's just a computation.'"

> "The AI effect" tries to redefine AI to mean: AI is anything that has not been done yet.

> Some people think that as soon as AI successfully solves a problem, the problem is no longer a part of AI.
I've never understood why alien bacteria are a perceived threat. Viruses and bacteria share the same genetic material as we do, and literally evolved to infect organisms of that ilk. I have always supposed that alien viruses would just be inert, and alien bacteria would rapidly die off in the inhospitable environment of an earth-organism's body.
Thanks for sharing. I remember seeing this awhile ago and maybe even used it, but it didn't stick. Now I'm on it (again?) and I really enjoy this. I agree with another commenter that the red may need to be changed slightly but otherwise I also like the earthy vibe and contrast.

Note: I'm not a picky user, I usually stick with the tried and true Monokai or VS Dark.
Yep slow and steady rather than trying to make it happen now would be the real long term play.

Apple tried to make the Newton happen a decade too early. It worked in the end but they did the right thing in not trying to repeatedly double down on making it work before all the pieces of the puzzle came into play (mobile networks, better touchscreens, efficient CPUs, enough storage to hold music, etc.).
We use this with vite-plugin-mkcert to provide https localdev with just the installation of mkcert from homebrew. Wayyyy simpler than any other method of providing localdev https.
I mean the W3C has an annual revenue of $5.7M so it's not like they don't have the resources to start setting some vision and goals towards this.
The is the most bad faith arguing I've seen here in a while. Wikipedia is an encyclopedia. The people that want to support those valuable causes should find their own supporters instead of hijacking the supporters of an encyclopedia without telling them. It's as simple as that and has nothing to do with being bigoted, it's about feeling cheated when you were asked for money for one thing and then they used it for another. You're intentionally being difficult because you believe you're right and that trumps everything else, but it doesn't.
Agree 100%. In a city that's laid out in something close to a grid (DC comes to mind), close every other road to cars. Make them pedestrian and bike/e-bike/mobility only (with distinct lane for walking and lane for bikes/etc). Use any leftover space for trees, plants, park, benches, etc.
Here you go: https://shop.motorolasolutions.com/ca/t600-rechargeable-two-...

Rugged 2-way radios, not just waterproof, but designed to float and to turn on the lights when dropped into water. Perfectly replaceable battery pack, interchangeable with the regular NiMH batteries. All it takes is literally rubber inserts that you need to pop off to access the screws.
<<No other country can match it.
<<The USD isn't the "only game in town."

The two statements are at odds with one another. I am not disagreeing with your assessment of US capabilities, but those clearly only create the situation, where US is, in fact, the only game in town.
ExtensionKit
Well, yes go ahead I won't argue against that

edit:

I checked the numbers, ~6000 accidents, ~40 deaths

Knowing that it includes escooters as they're motorised vehicles, and given the number of cars vs escooters I'd say you're muuuuch more likely to get wrecked on a escooter than anything else you could use on the road. Bicycles have the same deaths stats as escooters but in Paris we have

450k+ cars
500k+ bikes
15k escooters
I'm the average person in China. I make 100 dollars of goods. I buy 25 dollars of goods. Where does the 75 dollars go?

Most people invest it, loaning it to others. But how do you invest money? By someone else taking debt.

Most nations around the world are locked into trying to make more than they consume. So if you want to buy German debt you'll find you can't - every dollar you buy from them they'll immidiately go looking to buy someone else's debt in a game of musical chairs.

If there were no net debtor, eventually the production of 100 dollars and purchase of 25 would have to stop. You'll make more than you need and your economy will be halted by deflation, layoffs, and so on.

Enter America and the global economy. Now you can buy USD with those 75 dollars and keep on producing. Because your state is locking you into a trade surplus, the more free economy of the USA is by necessity locked into a deficit. Our companies who try to export immidiately fail to the foreign companies with cheaper labor and state subsidy. The companies trying to export go out of business. The ones using import benefit greatly, and the economy changes.

If we locked out this cycle with tariffs and import restrictions it forces China to face the music. Either their 100 productivity must result in 100 spend, or they will face economic and social issues bad enough to turn that 100 dollars of productive work into 25.
There's already a class action suit underway regarding Tesla's mass constructive dismissal, so it'll be really interesting to see all this go down. In the US, there are two things to consider: legality, and lawsuits. Regardless of legality, you can still drown in lawsuits.
It’s very simple. Person registers a name then receives notification that others have registered the same name, then conflates that with evidence of guilt in the same exact manner the articles does.
> The speed can be governed

You sure? Applying brakes to someone rolling downhill can make them fall because their body is still in motion, and now the scooter isn't moving at the same speed, and they were not prepared for it.
Can you specify what you mean by "quality of life." Japan has quite a high quality of life, in fact they beat the US in life expectancy, for example. The poster is right, while they are not the US, the sky hasn't fallen.
They don't seem to be an issue in Chicago at least from my perspective. It wasn't a free for all though, they had two pilot programs and they are banned from the downtown/Loop area which is the highest density area of the city. Scooters must be attached to a fixed object like a light pole/street sign/etc. Also it helps that Divvy (Lyft) retrofitted their bicycle docks to allow scooter docking as well.

https://blockclubchicago.org/2022/05/10/electric-scooters-ar...
That’s a long-term debt though, not a yearly deficit. The aggregate debt position of the individual improves over time while the government’s gets worse (and non-linearly at that).

But, that’s also math that applies to net-indebted people. The US has tons of asset wealth and you’d have to treat its financial position accordingly. You can run a 1.85 debt to gdp rate forever if your net assets accumulate at GDP in value yearly, for instance (not saying asset growth = 1 GDP is a true figure, but the factor is huge and unaccounted for).
So what if we sent a bunch of them, and chain them together? (i.e. like a relay network: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Relay_network)
That's true for "singular" fields, but not "optional".

https://developers.google.com/protocol-buffers/docs/proto3#s...

If you don't like that, don't use "singular".
That's really neat to hear. Can you comment on how replit has managed to foster a culture of fast delivery? Are there any interesting trade offs?
> how much is self-inflicted.

Most is self-inflicted. For example EU 15 years ago produced more natural gas then it imported from Russia in 2021. With just a little bit of forward thinking the energy crisis in Europe could have been avoided. Same goes for spending money like drunken sailors by politicians convinced that intrest rates will stay negative forever.
> [Scooters] are substantially less safe than even bicycles (Emphasis mine)

Bicycles aren't unsafe in themselves, see lots of cities where cycling is a very common and safe mode of transportation. Scooters on the other hand are indeed a lot less safe due to their small wheels, short wheelbase and awkward stance of the rider. That said, it's the urban planning that makes cycling unsafe in many places, not the device itself.
Every single change to a city of any reasonable size is exactly that hot fix, even if it takes months or years to implement (see: Big Dig). Desiring grand unified "fix everything" projects rarely works wonders, whereas small-scope projects over time can improve things. In many suburbs just building sidewalks and bike paths would improve things tremendously.
I think this is good advice, because it's realistic - the alternative is you recreate everything in a new account anyway, a prime time for considering such a move.
Predefined. Looking forwards to all the lies in this thread...

Theoretically, a protobuf schema allows addition and removals. In practice. schema-nazist will destroy your life and change whatever cause the only little thing that separates them from the peasants is that royal like power of making breaking schema changes in prod and pinning that incident on you. Your code did not even use that data probably.
Nope.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Liberalism
Twitter, FB, Discord, etc. meet weekly with DHS to police disinformation
40 plus years ago my first programming gigs were for financial institutions creating projections for mortgages and savings plans for IRAs on an Apple II. They paid me an eye watering $50/hr which was an incredible rush for a high school student.

After grad school my first job involved building the equivalent of the WOPR (WarGames ref). The AI was written in lisp, the interface was written in C++ using Interviews/X-Windows, all the simulations were written in Fortran and ADA was used to glue all the pieces together. Except for the simulation code it was all written by a team of 3 of us.

Greenfield projects were truly greenfield. You had to invent almost everything you needed. If you wanted a dictionary data structure you built it yourself. Over the network communication meant having to develop your own TCP/UDP protocols. Imagine doing leetcode problems in C++ without any libraries or templates.

Memory bugs were the bane of your existence. There were almost no tooling for debugging other than gdb. Testing was very manual and regressions were common. Source control was originally at the file level with SCCS/RCS and when CVS came out it was the greatest thing since sliced bread.

Death marches were sometimes a thing. I remember one 6 week period of 90 hours a week. While it wasn't healthy, it was easy because we were exploring new frontiers and every day was a dopamine rush. You had to fight with yourself to maintain a decent WLB.

Like now, there were always battles around what new technology would be the winner. For example in networking we had Ethernet, token ring, fddi, appletalk, netware and a few others all vying to become the standard.

Working from home meant dialup into a command line environment. So every developer knew how to use vi or emacs or both.

The biggest difference today is you stand on top of all this technology and processes which have matured over the years. This means a developer today is MUCH more powerful. But if they didn't live through it, much of that mature technology and processes are just a given without deep understanding, which most of the time is fine, but once in while can be a problem.
> The long-term solution to ATT, though, is to build probabilistic models that not only figure out who should be targeted (which, to be fair, Meta was already using machine learning for), but also understanding which ads converted and which didn’t.

If Apple sees Meta as a threat now that Meta are getting into devices, all they have to do is add a rule that probalistic models of conversions beyond a certain scale of computation aren't allowed, and that anyone operating over $X amount of revenue on their platform is subject to invasive audit to make sure they aren't doing it. They can figure out a way to say it is for privacy but that they themselves can do it, or they can make it so users can opt in to probalistic models with different defaults and wording on the dialog for third parties vs for Apple like they do now for tracking (Apple calls others' tracking in the prompt 'tracking your activity', for their own they call it 'ad personalization').
No it’s not the same, have you ever used a wheelchair or known a user? Many many adaptions have to be made to basically every building for that wheelchair to be functional. Curb cuts on sidewalks, buttons on doors, elevators everywhere. Simply “getting into a wheelchair” isn’t enough to make accessibility work, you need to fundamentally change the infrastructure.

Don’t put the disabled in the position where the website itself takes extra steps just to be usable for them, old 90 year old grandma Betty with failing vision is never going to figure such things out and saying “lol just figure it out” isn’t good enough. Those extensions that repaint websites with a new color palette are ugly as crap and buggy, and anybody with the attitude their website doesn’t need to follow WCAG by default definitely hasn’t actually checked such extensions actually work. The burden of trying to make sure every such extension is compatible is dramatically harder than just making the site accessible to begin with, the entire approach is bad design, it’s harder for everybody. What you’re doing is less building a wheelchair ramp and more leaving a pile of lumber next to some stairs, building the wheelchair ramp would mean having an accessible theme be the default and maybe the OPs theme be an alternate.

The analogy I would make is actually round doorknobs vs door levers/handles. If you pay attention you will notice you don’t see doorknobs on new public buildings and that’s because of issues like arthritis. Yes somebody might aesthetically prefer doorknobs but that doesn’t justify their installation in something used by the general public. It’s fine for a PRIVATE website to be as inaccessible as you want, but not a public one.
People really, really, really do not like helmets. Seattle has a bike helmet law which is considered to be one of the failures of the old public docked bikeshare system (there were free helmets offered at each station IIRC).

To be honest, I think helmets are good, but a mandate has its own issues. I think usually the culprit is extremely bad infrastructure for not-cars; few places have bike lanes which are safe and comfortable to use and in good condition. Or bike racks which might be a logical place to otherwise put scooters. Sidewalks are usually not a good substitute, and even where they exist often they may not be ADA compliant in terms of ramps or width, they are bumpy due to tree roots etc. displacing the sidewalk panels from their original position and creating unsafe bumps, etc.
Personally I would rather walk than share a helmet with N other scooter riders, especially in a climate like Miami's
We need self driving scooters. You can summon them and they return to doc on their own when done.
Often the car infrastructure itself is what makes getting around without a car infeasible even for short trips - and short trips are a very large portion of trips taken. There are many, many destinations near me that are within easy biking distance, but doing so involves crossing highway ramps and mixing with fast-moving cars.

We do not need to allow cars to take every possible route. Alternative modes of transport are more useful if they're prioritized on the most direct routes. Cars are fast, a diversion won't impact them as much as it does someone on a bike or scooter.
Yes, the project is still alive and well! It also powers our very alive commercial service, Write.as, which has most of my attention. The open source project is just moving at a one-maintainer pace because it only has one maintainer :)

There will definitely be future releases, especially once we get through a roadblock with the tool we use to cross-compile WriteFreely [0]. Otherwise, anyone who wants to see the project move faster is more than welcome to contribute, especially with tasks like code review, to help clear out those PRs [1].

[0] https://github.com/techknowlogick/xgo/issues/155

[1] https://github.com/writefreely/writefreely/discussions/550
> Doesn't even have a basic JIT does it? Still using a 90s-era basic interpreter and GC architecture.

So?

> And there's only one implementation. Doesn't seem very healthy.

LOL, okay, this is just hunting for complaints. I could list a half dozen languages that don't have multiple implementations (Rust, Java, Scala, C#, PHP, Go) and yet I've never seen anyone raise that as a concern.
Meta's market capitalization falls below $250B
Nah, they are mostly very minor public figures and that is stretching definition of public figure for most. Majority is nowhere near to anyone big or important.
> Because people wouldn't donate. They want to donate to Wikipedia.

Then convince people to donate. Re-appropriating their donations seems like a good way to throw out the baby with the bath water.
One could hypothesize that if bikes/scooters were given more time and focus, ie, riding to things like school and local errands, then more people would develop skills around riding them.
Virginia was similar... when hybrids first arrived, they were allowed special tags to use HOV lanes without the occupants. As they became common-place, that exemption was removed.
I think many cities will be caught off guard by how much cheap lithium-ion batteries are going to revolutionize transport in the next decade
Different strategies to bring the same core tech to market. Absolutely comparable.
elixir/phoenix gives you a lot of the same productivity as rails with vastly higher performance. the big benefit to rails these days is the massive ecosystem of drop in gems.
> Ever since the systemd thing, I can’t get it to work.

There are lots of instructions available for de-SystemD'ing debian. You could try one of those.
Is Shopify shifting away from Rails?
> The very fact that you think this is hyperbolic is what I'm talking about. 40,000 dead in the US each year and the response is a collective shrug.

Nobody is saying we should not try to improve the statistic. About 1 in 100 deaths are because of a car accident. But it becomes hyperbole when people suggest we should implement draconian measures on what is probably the single most useful appliance in the history of mankind. You perceive as a shrug the fact that most people understand perspective.
Care to expand on the taxonomization of tech industry baloney?

Would really like to read that.
> This is sort of a defining part of his personality.

No it isn’t. Your perception of him is warped because you read the Hotz Haters Digest on HN and elsewhere. Go read his blog posts and you might learn a thing or two about what he’s really like. Go watch his interviews on YouTube. He may not be the most impressionable individual (nerds rarely are, even Carmack is criticized for being robotic sometimes). He’s opinionated and he likes to say provocative things for the interviewers to throw them off guard and not be so monotone, but that doesn’t make him a person worthy of being scorned in every thread on HN. He’s far more capable and far more nuanced than people give him credit for. It’s just shitty watching this community eat people who brought it up to what it is today (referring to hackers and crackers alike).
If this tool was trained on open source code, what license does the generated code have? At least with Codepilot people were able to generate verbatim GPL code with typos and everything. More importantly, I wonder if companies behind these type of tools offer legal or financial protections in case GPL code sneaks in and leads to expensive law suits.