skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I'll take that as a "yes." No, I own a home in a major metro. Believe it or not, I can bike to get groceries, but that's uncommon. Most people generally choose not to. They still have a choice here.

In a 10-minute walk you have 3 grocery stores. In a 10-minute drive, I have 30 to choose from with specialty stores I haven't even gotten around to exploring yet. There's no comparison whatsoever.

You generally don't own a home in a "car-free" city.
A nice pair of hiking shoes. I’ve got la sportiva Bushidos but any decent hiking/trail running shoes will do. It’s nice to not be slipping and sliding on loose gravel and leaves anymore, as I did often when wearing more casual sneakers.
I've loved cars for as long as I can remember. I've owned and built some classics.

Last year, when the price of cars (and used cars) skyrocketed, I sold my ride. (A nice Lexus IS F. 416 of the sweetest sounding horses you'll ever hear.) My plan was to wait for prices to become sane again, then make my next selection in my long line of interesting vehicles.

You know what? I've done just fine without a car. I can use my wife's/son's/daughters vehicle whenever I need to go someplace. When I was growing up we had one car for the whole family, but those were different days. Since I started my own family, it's been one vehicle for each adult that needs to get out of the house. I've learned we can get by on a lot less vehicular capacity. Still thinking about the right moves as car prices continue to decrease.
The name "polans" derives from the word "pole", which simply means "field". There were actually several different groups of Slavs who were known as "polans", all named because of where they settled. One of them did indeed found Poland. But there were also (different) polans in what is now Ukraine - indeed, they were the dominant group, as Kyiv was their city.

In any case, "pol" in the placename can simply refer to a field directly. Or even to something else; in case of Shpola, the local legend is that it was named after the guy who first settled there.
It's what many of us thought was going on based on what we could see. It's nice to have it out in the open and verify/confirm what some of us were told was plain old paranoia.
Related:

https://github.com/86Box/WinBox-for-86Box

(86Box Manager written in Delphi 11)
> users had to explicitly ask the assistant for answers

Renders the study useless IMO.
Are you saying that there were, ant the time of creation, easements to the tens of thousands of square plots of land across the western USA? If so, what happened to them?

If this vast area of land was laid out as a grid of land and there are millions of acres of public plots inaccessible, wouldn’t it follow that there is a similar issue with private plots?

I’m sure a lot of this has been solved overtime with easements for roads, but when it was originally laid out I’d think that the vast majority of plots were not legally accessible as you’d have to cross over someone else’s plot to get there.
There's no debate happening on Twitter. It's just for people to make a scene and try to get clout. Why are these random people not participating in actual research?or writers for real publications? Instead they're posting hot take one liners with no repercussion if they are incorrect. It's misleading to make it appear like there are two equal sides like this thing is trying to make it look like.
According to ProtonDB[0] it seems to work reasonably well.
Apparently there's also experimental Linux support now[1].

[0]https://www.protondb.com/app/284160

[1]https://www.beamng.com/game/news/announce/experimental-linux...
> You don't need excuses like "personal issues".

For what it's worth, that was not an excuse I would give to anybody on the team, but just an honest look at one of the underpinning factors that I can more easily bring up in an anonymous forum. I can do better than I did, but I was barely keeping it together mentally for large portions of this year.

> Almost zero percent chance you will find a "fresh" codebase in any new job

I mainly meant fresh as in "fresh / new to me", rather than "fresh / pristine" codebase (which doesn't really exist).

> Good luck with it. Happy New Year.

Thank you!
If you operate an LLC in the US, you need to have a mailing address listed. Perhaps a phone number too. I believe this information is typically made public.

No one said your business mailing address has to be your place of residence
> It's hard to call it a 'colony' if its citizens were as much citizens of the mother country as any other citizen.

It's hard to call it 'institutional racism' if its citizens were as much citizens of the mother country as any other citizen.
There's a legitimate market for faulty electronics, which I personally participate as both a buyer and a seller.

People buying something without realising it's faulty is an expensive problem for me, as it inevitably means a return which is both time consuming and leaves me on the hook for postage both ways (return postage usually being a more expensive method).

If they're trying to scam with it, I doubt they'd get very far as it's extremely expensive and ruins your metrics.
My windows machines can take anywhere from 5 seconds to 5+ minutes to boot, depending on if it's Wednesday or not.
On the other hand, you did just describe the early days of both consumer GPS navigation and things like mapquest. There were countless stories and gleeful news articles about people turning the wrong way down a one way street, driving into ponds, getting stuck on logging roads and all sort of other chaos caused by inattentive drivers and blind faith in flawed systems. But the key takeaway I think is that in the end, consumer GPS succeeded. Bugs were fixed and now everyone does have a little robot in their pocket that can tell them how to get somewhere.
I have tried focusing on fiber in the past and while it does fill me up, without protein that feeling of being full doesn’t last very long. Have added 2-3 cups of tea every day and it helps me relax before a meditation session if nothing else.
Alcohol ads are definitely still a thing. Perhaps you’re thinking of tobacco?
A tangent: this domain seems to have an abnormal number of flagged articles. It made me wonder if there's something like shadowbans for domains here and if so, what are the criteria?
This is a valid perspective for some people/Orgs at some points of their career/growth but what ever happened to "still water runs deep"
> "Yet it was deemed “false information” by Twitter moderators merely because it differed from CDC guidelines."

Obviously, Twitter should not have followed CDC guidelines. They should have created their own healthcare group in charge of evaluating which CDC guidelines coming out of the Trump and Biden administrations were correct and which were not, based on blue-check user surveys.
Taxis, Web3, and a $26,000 Fraud
I wrote about a bad thing that happened to me recently and what the web3 people can learn from it.
Hydrogene is a bit early but it is the future when compared to Li-ion batteries.
This is true, but the renewable energy that was used to mine could have supplied the grid to reduce reliance on non-renewables.

If the renewable generation capacity was built entirely for the purpose of crypto mining and in other words, wouldn't have ever been built without it, you could argue that it's zero emissions (or more accurately, some miners are running effectively with zero emissions while others aren't).

However, since the supplies of renewable energy equipment are not unlimited, demand is already high (so you can't argue that you're driving innovation in the sector), and the production of said equipment is very much carbon positive (from mining to processing to transport), it's just not a very strong argument. If anything, mining with renewables reduces further investment in renewables for the grid as it drives equipment prices up, while still indirectly polluting the environment.

No matter how your slice it, terawatt hours of electricity are being used each year to run the networks, when the biggest problem we face as humans is a shortage of energy.

And I say all of this as someone who supports decentralized digital currency. We have a problem in our society where we obscure and mangle the narrative when something we dislike is true.

We should stop lying about what makes us uncomfortable and start focusing on the solutions to the problems. And there are plenty of reasonable options here:

1. Use the excess heat generated from mining to generate more electricity (with considerable efficiency loss) to supply the grid or to put back into the operation, or run any useful chemical process that requires heat.

2. Use the excess heat generated from mining to heat homes, buildings, etc.

3. Move to a more power efficient method of mining such as a PoS instead PoW. Or an entirely new method that hasn't been thought of yet.(Which, IMO, is the only way to prevent centralization once Quantum Computing or Fusion become commercially available).
Being ridiculed doesn't push me into action and just makes me feel worse, which tends to make me overeat more to cope. Different solutions work for différent people. Some dogs only react to positive reinforcement, others only to negative reinforcement. If ridicule is fuel for you that's great, and I hope you can find a source to use it and end up with a weight that you feel better about. But be careful when using that with others, please.
Neato! Very simple approach, just cosine similarity of the incidentally linking sites.
> Today, Kali's network is still operational but development has largely ceased.

It’s still going!?
Vietnam very much has overtime issues. Americans work more hours than Japanese. Many Viets work 6 days a week at typical office jobs which is more than both countries. Vietnam is currently rapidly trending to under replacement-level births.

I chose those examples because I’ve worked in each, but hours worked and birth rates really aren’t too relevant here. Vietnam was a nice country, but be honest: you wouldn’t want to live there making an average wage if you had a choice of living in a typical US or Japanese town with decent infrastructure and average wages.
I think there are two reasons. S-expressions are not really a language that is readable, whereas nix with all it warts is purpose build, and Guix is way to ideologically driven to be general purpose.
Spent many hours back in the day messing about in this. Glad to hear it's still going, superb timesink.
Once I was walking atop a mountain that is heavily populated with ravens at certain times of year. I looked over and noticed one was doing some aerial acrobatics. To my astonishment, it was holding a fairly large rock that it was using as a counterweight that it could spin against. When it landed, it dropped the rock and I tried to find it. I'm not 100% sure I found the right rock, but I estimate that the rock was somewhere between a quarter and half a pound. As much as I appreciated the bird's dexterity, it was a bit scary to think of the damage it could do if motivated.
> Why are these random people not participating in actual research?or writers for real publications?

The author of the article wrote for the New York Times, the New Yorker, the Atlantic, and Wired. Are those not real publications?
Hacker ethos is to solve problems not rant, rave and cry about them and hope grandma shows up with a solution.
Check out trendweight. With a smart scale it's been awesome. It tries to show you a moving average as your true weight and not emphasize the actual day to day weight.

http://trendweight.com
I think you could probably just clone the HDD to an SSD using a Linux live CD and "pv" or whatever and have no issues. I've done that for Windows installs in the past with very little trouble. Only issue I had was expanding the partition on the new drive with the recovery partition in the way.
Agreed, but a few ruin simplicity for the many
vim and more specifically iVim for mobile
I'm not a conspiracy theorist but I think the longest lasting legacy of covid will be the distrust it created for big government, big pharma, and big tech.
What is the realistic legal recourse for those who were censored from pressure by the US government? Sue the relevant agencies or executive branch? Will anyone even go to prison or lose their job?
I do use 3rd reddit client on phone.(the fake badge is literally the reason I installed it) But I still use the new reddit page on browser because reddit I visit commonly are mostly media-rich. Which is the old reddit not useful for.
When is a Scotsman a true Scotsman? It's not the etymology that counts, but rather what someone is trying to accomplish.
All these are all math terms and standards which are defined outside of code.

I think there's something to that - if it's a common enough convention they use it. But if not, don't make it up.
Add to that: if you do it in the morning try to have consistent sleep cycle, and make a "once and for all" decision for stuff like should you pee before, should you drink/take a shower before. Lots of things can influence your weight. My scale will also give a few different results for reasons I ignore, try to weigh yourself a few time to see if that's the case and choose what to take (always the highest/lowest? Average? Median?)
Wonder if that's who the CFO from The Office is named after...
Weighing yourself over the course of weeks and months will reveal trends, but over the course of a single day, body weight fluctuates wildly, sometimes by several pounds. This depends on food intake, water intake, bowel movements, sweating, choice of clothing, etc.

So it's hard to imagine how weighing yourself multiple times per day can provide any insight whatsoever. It sounds more likely to hurt, and not help, body image issues.
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OC literally said a manager who can't code is evil.
I don't really care about a private company making reasonable decisions and learning about their internal debate process. Up until Musk, I was impressed to see Twitter grow a backbone and not fall to the cowardly cries of "free speech."

What I don't follow is the jump some people make from reasonable moderation like this, to fascism. They see internet platform moderation as a gateway drug to a physically oppressive government. I don't see how this jump is possible. Am I missing something?
> Assuming you had a source of heat, could you grade where you would normally have to shovel snow for it to melt into cisterns, then run the heat through pipes under those paths/areas?

Too much surface area. The house was about 350 meters away from the nearest road.

As for workshop: we ended up being the 'go-to' place to fix plenty of stuff while we lived there. Welders, lathes, mill, plasmacutter, not a whole lot you can't fabricate out of metal with gear like that on hand.
Lower 48
I’m not sure where you might be, but there are parts of the world where storms can be thick enough to get nearly no solar power for more than three days - and some systems won’t produce anything useful unless they can get above a certain point.
Relevant context - this was written by a member of the team who released the Twitter files, alongside Matt Tabibi.
I can't even tell if this is sarcasm anymore.
I am a conspiracy theorist[1], and this was all well known since before we even did '2 weeks to slow the spread'. I'm just glad some of the mainstream folks are figuring it out now.

[1]: The term "conspiracy theory" is itself the subject of a conspiracy theory, which claims the term was popularized by the CIA in order to discredit conspiratorial believers, particularly critics of the Warren Commission, by making them a target of ridicule. (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Conspiracy_theory#Etymology_an...)
What was your growth rate when you sold?

A company growing 100% YoY vs a company shrinking 10% a year make the 5x buyout very different sounding to me.,,
You only have to look at that Texas cold snap a few years back to see how many people were forced to overnight in idling cars.
Yeah. Seems to me that Twitter did a pretty good job overall!
Abysmal framework with horrible documentation. On one hand React boasts that it's just JS but on another puts so many constraints on how you program which are nonsensical. (don't use useEffect in for loops)

I have yet to see an in-depth treatise on how it works under the hood. All I get are surface level posts of guidelines and crappy posts on FreeCodeCamp written by HS students who learned how to program yesterday. State management is another nightmare as well.
The KCL Programming Language for DevOps
Kusion Configuration Language (KCL) is an open source constraint-based record and functional language. KCL improves the writing of a large number of complex configurations such as cloud native scenarios through mature programming language technology and practice, and is committed to building better modularity, scalability and stability around configuration, simpler logic writing, fast automation and good ecological extensionality.
Indeed, I’m lead to believe Trump forced us to lock down. It’s good that now under the current president we no longer have lockdowns or restrictions.
> Depending on if the name belongs to a Belgian or a Dutchman the capitalisation rules also differ (the Flemish capitalising the "Van", the Dutch using lowercase letters).

Actually, a little-known grammar rule (in the Netherlands) is that lowercase is only used for a tussenvoegsel following a first name. In other cases, the first tussenvoegsel is capitalized.

Example: Piet van der Sluis -> meneer Van der Sluis

https://onzetaal.nl/taalloket/hoofdletters-in-aanhef-brief-o...
Found the comment.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29901055

> In a past career I was a civil engineer

> I learned about how traffic light green times (how many seconds a signal stays green for one direction vs. the cross street) usually have a "right answer" from an engineering standpoint

> has to do with maximizing traffic throughput and/or minimizing delays to each individual vehicle

> And then the mayor of the town shows up out of the blue and says no, this direction is going to have a longer wait

> I'm going to delay people intentionally

> so that when they're stuck in traffic, sitting there, they'll have more of a chance to see signs/placards of, and contemplate patronizing, nearby businesses, whose owners are my political backers
All of this is worth basically 0. If you got a good .com name maybe someone will want in 10 years.
Yes, I see that as one possible avenue. The possible issue with that approach is that the SSD is able to interrupt the OS at a much higher rate than an SSD, which may well increase the throughput of the system as a whole but cause latency issues substantial enough to cause drop outs.

These cards run with very small output buffers to reduce their latency and any kind of delay will deplete the buffer resulting in a buffer underrun condition and that manifests as a drop-out in the audio stream.

Another alternative is to get rid of the whole kaboodle and do it all in software, that's definitely a possibility with present day gear but I'm kind of partial to this old rig, it sounds great and is very comfortable to work with, much nicer than any pure software solution that I've seen so far.
Yeah, that's what I'm saying. There's no reason they had to be the same thing.
Yeah it’s actually kind of “fun” in a way. What will fail first? Ok let’s mitigate that. What now fails first? Can we mitigate that without ruining the first fix? It’s like a survival Gantt chart!
That's a really interesting observation, I sort of noticed C++ being slow to compile doesn't necessarily improve a whole lot even on newer hardware, so I wonder if there's a different OS that runs on 90s and 2010's hardware that could run better on more modern hardware.
It's almost like font size should have been solely a per-user setting in the browser, and not a per-page setting.
None because there was no censorship or pressure.
Should we lock parents up for "abusing" children because they lie about the existence of Santa Claus too? Or do you think it's possible that those children might grow up one day and become capable of forming their own conclusion in whether Santa exists or not?

If you're answer to that question is, "no, because those children were abused by others lying about Santa, they will never be capable of overcoming that lie and will continue to propagate that lie" then it begs the question: what right does anyone have to tell anyone anything since all of us have experienced some sort of indoctrination at some point? Are we not all "broken" in that sense?
I prefer the UI of darksky.net for both mobile and desktop despite it being the same data
Yes, I managed to find the source in my comments history.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29901055

> In a past career I was a civil engineer

> I learned about how traffic light green times (how many seconds a signal stays green for one direction vs. the cross street) usually have a "right answer" from an engineering standpoint

> has to do with maximizing traffic throughput and/or minimizing delays to each individual vehicle

> And then the mayor of the town shows up out of the blue and says no, this direction is going to have a longer wait

> I'm going to delay people intentionally

> so that when they're stuck in traffic, sitting there, they'll have more of a chance to see signs/placards of, and contemplate patronizing, nearby businesses, whose owners are my political backers
Follow the advice of the hedge fund people in other comments.

Richer, Wiser, Happier by William Green was a good book.

It talks about investing longterm. Having a very long time horizon as you do is a considerable advantage.

The other main message I got was that (successful) stock pickers expend a stupendous amount of effort to understand and select stocks. And I will never be able to come close to this effort. So either I just don’t, or if I really want to have a few discretionary stock picks, copy what they do (eg https://whalewisdom.com).
This is likely true.
I dont really know but Im curious how the generational waves of tech usage/adoption go.

I had kept expressing a hope that youthful observation & youthful rebellion again parents would someday mean kids seeing their parents vacuous screen addictions & pick to do something else for themselves.

My hope wained for a while, but Im starting to think other factors are helping. The sense of emergence as tech developed has all worn off- tech is all the same prepackaged shit, lacking in the niches and exploration it used to have. And it's apparent none of it has our interests at heart (or wont, after the next buy out).

To be clear, I think there are lots of really interesting & open frontiers of tech, but here we are in almost 2023 and we're only kust making oue way out of Walled Gardens/Neomainframes, and it s unclear that we will have a revival of a more personal computing or not, given the complexity & difficulty of connected/online tech. We need paths forwards (and I dont think retropunk nor simple static will have much real enticement, will have sufficient allure).
Downvoted because it completely misses the point, which is that a private company should not be told by the government to restrict speech, even if (especially if) that speech is in conflict with the "official policy" the government has decreed.

> Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof; or abridging the freedom of speech, or of the press; or the right of the people peaceably to assemble, and to petition the government for a redress of grievances.
I mean the people on Twitter the article is writing about

> KelleyKga, a self-proclaimed public health fact checker

> Andrew Bostom, a Rhode Island physician,

This article is just trying to get people outraged by making it an us vs them trying to make this look like it wasn't a fringe view at the time.

> American left, the political affiliation of nearly the entire staff at Twitter.

Political outrage porn pretending random people are a persecuted