skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
"Why would anyone in a rich country with a high functioning rail system like The Netherlands want to drive?"

Well, I live in The Netherlands and the place where I work is not very reachable by public transport. The 138 trains per day between Amsterdam and The Hague is all very nice and so on but even in the Netherlands people who live in a village will in many cases be somewhat isolated if they don't own a car.
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The problem isn't that we will run out of hydrocarbons - we already have enough known reserves to make the earth uninhabitable to us.
True or not, comments like that add literally zero to the conversation. What happened with following "Be kind. Don't be snarky. Converse curiously; don't cross-examine. Comments should get more thoughtful and substantive, not less, as a topic gets more divisive."?
In the country I live in, you can't get a bus or train after a certain hour of night.

If you had business in a different city that's a few hours distance, and you miss the last bus of the day, you'll need to wait at least 6-8 hours to be able to get the first bus or train of the next day.

In this case you can probably still find a taxi, but then we're back to the car situation.

(EDIT: Of course the problem would also be solved if you could get a bus or train any time of the day.)
Japan aborts launch of flagship H3 rocket moments before lift off
Guido is the one who picked Python's name. Wikipedia actually has an entire article on the history of Python:

<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_Python>
>But we need to understand. There are cases where the car is a must. Unavoidable. Imagine having toddlers, having to do heavy groceries, and living in a place with difficult landscape or challenging weather. Imagine having a neurological disease or some other disability.

Bud, nobody is taking the car away from those kinds of use cases. It's very clear for most people that cars are necessary in those situations, and that's fine. What we're demonising is the car as the only way to go about getting from A to B. If you watch some of the urban planning videos on the topic, or lurk the r/f*cars subreddit you'll quickly see that most people also* want to make the driving experience better! And by better they don't mean to build one more lane, but sensible infrastructure that makes sense for everybody, not just the cars. The whole point is about inclusion: why isn't using a car unavoidable?
Now that Bing seems to be getting serious, they have no need for the query data that comes from resellers like ddg and kagi. RIP
To Increase Equity, School Districts Eliminate Honors Classes
This is a good thing, but it feels like Mozilla is putting a Band-Aid over the huge gaping wound they cut in Firefox for Android when they disabled nearly all the extensions.
Why would so many people need to move between Amsterdam and Hague in the first place
> Watch a human bully an algorithm and get excited when it acts like a real victim.

I want to go back to simpler times, when we just watched “The Bachelor” and acted like that was as bad as things could get.
so, marketing did it again
The US electoral system is designed to favor rural, thus primarily conservative and Christian, votes over urban as a vestigial remnant of compromises to keep slave-owning states in the union, gerrymandering, etc.

The majority of Americans live in cities and have political views which would be considered "leftist" in US parlance - they support Roe V. Wade, gun control, health care reform, etc. That, in practice, the US appears "divided" at all is only due to the outsized influence of the right and rural voters.
If you don’t count the suburbs LA wouldn’t be anywhere close to #2.
Yes def worth skimming about fxs.(1) Avg iq of fxs males is 55. This isn't "trains" autism. It's a full-disability. Still very important news!

(1) https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fragile_X_syndrome
https://archive.is/iW0C1
Just want to point out that polars is not a complete replacement for pandas and they will likely live side by side in the data ecosystem.
One of the main and original intentions of pandas is replacing highly dynamic and changing excel models for financial, econometric and physical systems. The rigid structure of polars syntax while great for stability and optimization is not practical for research/development iteration of these kinds of models.
He said he was never diagnosed so take with a grain of salt.
I grew up in a very rural part of northern Florida. When I was 16 my parents said I’d have to learn how to drive so I could get to the job that I’d use to pay for a car.

I thought that was dumb and just decided to get by with less money and no car.

Throughout high school, I’d walk to the general store a mile away and that was about all I did other than go fishing (my favorite thing to do at the time). For a bit of money I tutored at school and tied flies (a fishing thing) for a local tackle shop.

In college I’d think nothing of walking 3-5 miles round trip for errands. Outside of peak school hours I was often the only person on the limited local bus system. I kept tutoring and writing grad school entrance essays for kids for money.

After college I moved to Portland, OR and still haven’t learned to drive (I’m 40 today). I walk and bike everywhere and take the bus once in awhile.
I should have read the article properly, thanks for highlighting that quote. Thought I was massively underpaid (not far removed from 50% for the median at the experience level I'll have in 7 months) but, of course, the job ads that mention any salary will be the ones that have a salary to brag about.

I've scarcely seen a job ad in my area that mentions a minimum salary, only in bigger cities (>1M people) some bigcorps that need to be your cup of tea in the first place. That this only includes job ads with salaries mentioned essentially makes this useless.

Plus, not all secondary benefits can be converted to money (how much is working from home worth, the same as a few hundred days' worth of bus tickets? What about the time saved?), which I should also keep in mind when looking at salary comparisons.
Those cities have extensive networks of local rail, subway, trams, and buses. So "the other side of town" is easily reachable.
I appreciate that you broke apart the users into two groups. I imagine Group B is much larger than Group A, and that the Haskell maintainers want to emphasize "if you use accursedUnutterablePerformIO, make sure you are in Group A!".

Most Group A people didn't get there fixing surface level stuff. They got there because there was an insidious defect buried deep that required that deep knowledge to understand or fix.
Because everyone has a different cost of living is exactly why it needs to be taken into account when comparing salaries.

If it were just reporting regional salaries then that would be different. But when you then generalise salaries across lots of regions with wildly different cost of living, then you either need to adjust for regional variations or add massive disclaimers that these are superficial figures and cannot be used as a basis of comparison.
This is needlessly hostile to about half of all humans and almost tailor-made to inspire anger. What were you aiming to achieve by saying this?
Requiring approval for the first couple of posts from new users is one of the most sensible anti-spam policies. I'd much rather see more of that than the current forced AI training labor favored by most sites.
If you're in the UK, Pimoroni have a bunch of awesome sensor boards with a PicoW attached to them which makes it super easy to put sensors on your network (they have sensors designed for indoor and outdoor use and even a full weather station!)
How do you determine the quality of the citations?

How do you determine the quality of the books?

How do you determine the quality of the awards?

How do you determine the quality of links on the web?

This is not "simple" in the slightest, you are just swiping all the complexity under the rug
Can you show me an example of this "controlled randomizing"? What I know about it either just too much space for randomizing, or I have to add some pattern/rules, how to generate it.. so it is the base of the problem. But if there is an implementation what already have that some kind of "dictionary" for fuzzing, that is exactly what I am looking for.
I'll just leave this here for the ones who have convinced themselves that react is the winner (whatever that means): https://andy-bell.co.uk/the-extremely-loud-minority/
The Townsends YouTube channel is a fantastic look into the mechanics of early American cooking. https://youtube.com/@townsends
The way an LLM decides which word to use next is by evaluating the weightings of all the preceding words with every candidate word to calculate a probability for each of them. So if it selects ‘an’ as the next word, it’s because the weighting connecting ‘an’ to all the preceding words, and their orders in the text and relationships with each other predicted it should have a high probability of occurring.

So you can’t extract the weightings for ‘an’ discretely because those weightings encode its connection with all the other words and combinations and sequences or clusters of words it might ever be used with, including their weightings with other preceding words, and their relationships, etc, etc.
Go 1.20 compiler adds profile-guided optimization
My son (20 yrs old) like driving but he doesn't like where new cars are going in becoming "phonish". He wants a 1970s boat of car but in a place with severe winters and road salt I think we are adding a 2000-2010 vintage asian car to the motor pool at the farm but the state of the car market is a little intimidating right now.
The article cites national statistics.

Is your argument that those national statistics are being driven entirely by changes in rich cities?

That the changes in driving habits have been so large that it drags down the bottom 60%.

The article says that in 1997 43% of 16-year olds had a driver's licence but by 2020 it had fallee to 20%.

Since you're claiming that's entirely driven by the richest 40% let's do some simple math to quantify the implications of your claim.

If richest 40% of 16 year olds had 0 driver's licences... Not a single one in the entire country... Then the national rate would have fallen to 25% not 20%. So the richest 40% must actually have NEGATIVE driver's for the math to work out on your claim.

Or maybe it isn't just a phenomenon limited the rich places.
ok except NASA is explicitly civilian.
No, you want a stable ecosystem that can keep alive as much life as possible which can maximise entropy production over much longer timescales. It's necessary to maximise the whole system's entropy exhaust over time. Much better if we can get people to colonize new planets, or create a Dyson sphere or whatever.
They’re 37 miles apart.

Do you have idea how many Americans commute 37 miles each way, every single day?
Hmm, well, I think it wouldn't be easy to make a reservation without being able to read and write Japanese.

Actually TBH I don't know if the owner can speak English :c Normally, first-time visitors are given a quick tour so they can decide whether to become a supporting member or not. I'm not sure how the owner would do that. (Maybe he would ask me to translate? I'd probably do it :p)
I think this is a common misconception. People say this about NYC, but it's simply not true. I have artist friends who live in NYC and make something like 30k / year. No, you probably won't be able to live in Manhattan with that kind of money but NYC is much bigger than Manhattan and it is still possible to live quite affordable and have access to the city's public transit and not need a car.
I wish only computers heated the Earth.

Some kind of ideas are stupid and we must go back to reasoning about real problems, not fictional problems.

A computer that stays in sleep most of the times is the last problem we have in modern societies.

Meanwhile people set their home temperature at 30C in winter (when it's 10-15C outside) and the AC at 16C during summer (when it's 28-30C outside)

maybe just don't?
NASA is civilian - why change subject to weapons ?
I have deep respect for these geniuses of the past.

Imagine what they could have achieved if they have had access to modern tools, even "just" something like a graphing calculator[1].

[1]: I like https://www.desmos.com/calculator
I'd also be curious to see an inflation adjusted cost of use+ownership model for the average car owner. Cars are getting more complicated, and manufacturers are almost forcing owners to take them to a dealership for any kind of service.

I'm generally handy and usually perform my own maintenance on my vehicles. As such, I tend to drive 10-20 year old Japanese vehicles. I remember once when I confidently told my partner that I'd swap their burnt out headlight bulb, no problem. Imagine my surprise when I found out that a 2010ish GM sedan recommended taking the front bumper off to access the headlight housing.

If every little thing that goes wrong requires a multi-hundred dollar maintenance bill at a minimum, it's no wonder people want a viable alternative.
Bike sharing services are great in those situations. You don't even need to carry your bike in the train. There is also public transit like trams and buses.
Why yes, by leaving our computers off and not using them we are at significantly less risk than if we actually employed them to do meaningful work.
If these women are younger than them, I think the judgement can be safely categorised as jealousy. The fact that you're picking partners younger than them makes them feel like they're not good enough, which is why they are upset. That doesn't make you selfish - you don't exist to make others feel good.
I expect in the future cars will be used for fewer but longer trips. Commuting to work should not be a thing, and most cities will adapt to the new reality where the home is also the office.

On the other hand people will seek better living quality in less dense areas and this makes the car necessary, however infrequently. Maybe the news of their demise is greatly exaggerated
> “I just don’t see how removing something from some kids all of a sudden helps other kids learn faster,” said Scott Peters, a senior research scientist at education research nonprofit NWEA who has studied equity in gifted and talented programs.
Regarding small research balloons: that has never been the case.

Why not? If I throw a "research baseball" through someone's window I'm still liable for replacing the window. Pick up your shit.
I'm not sure if I still qualify as young, but yeah, I have no love of cars. I prefer bicycling and trains. (Or just walking for sufficiently short trips.)

Cars are a necessary evil in my life for the moment, but I hope for a future where that "necessary" part goes away.
There's another comment that talks about medium to large project, and it's the same thing, it's a different use case. I don't care about medium or large projects, I need to add a quick semi-dynamic element to an incredible basic web app.

In my case, setting up a React or Angular project is going to be more work than just writing the whole thing in vanilla JavaScript. This has the added benefit that I actually understand what's going on.

The modern JavaScript frameworks are great for large projects, but it feels like learning Django in order to make an API that goes "pong" when you do a get request. I get why this happens. Vue looked great 8 years ago, small, simple and easy to get started with. Then it grew to support more and more use cases, and larger projects and now we need a new tiny framework. Or we can accept that JavaScript has come a long way and that many of us might not need a framework.
Memory - in my opinion - is not something that's inherent to consciousness. Rather, it is just another input that can be used by the computation.

I don't think I came up with my own definition here. What I am talking about is the ability to have a qualitative experience. That it feels like something to exist.

I concur that the experience of an AI would substantially differ from ours (e.g. because we have access to memory). But this fact alone can't free us from thinking about ethical implications of our actions.
Many animals probably have a substantially different experience as well. Yet, I would argue, we should strive to minimize imparting suffering on them if they are able to experience it.
https://archive.fo/AxL1b
Better to micromanage than be disengaged
This is incredibly difficult to read and takes up entirely too much space. https://basementcommunity.com/forums/12

All of that post info could be condensed to one or two lines. The alternating colors don't easily distinguish between different posts.
Then why isn't desktop Firefox constantly broken?

In the days of XUL extensions, it was for users who installed a lot of extensions, but that hasn't been a problem for s long time.
Sure — except that “a prompt turned into results” more closely matches buying results than creating your own CNC program.
Probably because all tooling comes from open source developers that are simply not happy with the status quo and are trying to improve things doing what they can, see Webpack, Babel, Vite, pnpm

What we really need is an end to end echo-system with funding, adoption and vision. Deno and Bun are both getting in this direction
We've established that you lack the ability to understand a text, then.
Social media invites comparison, and comparison is the thief of joy
ChatGPT Meets Cybersecurity
It doesn't explain an individual's sperm count declining over time. But more people spending more time indoors with warm balls could explain the average sperm count decreasing.
Nobody is disputing the raw numbers. The point being made is those numbers are meaningless without taking more variables into account.

If you earn more but have less disposable income each month than someone doing the same job in London then who gives a shit if you have more zeros on your pay check?

That’s the crux of the matter here. Comparing salaries is meaningless if you don’t factor in who your disposable income is after expenses.

Or to put it another way, if you were a business then you cannot think of yourself as an angel invested unicorn start up. So you have to make a personal profit each month. If your outgoings are greater then you need to charge more. It’s simple mathematics.

> editing in house prices is blatantly moving the goalposts.

How is paying rent / mortgage not part of one’s cost of living?

This is the literal point everyone has been making to you from the start!

Edit: I’m going to throw in the towel now. Literally every European has explained why this article is worthless for any real comparison. But obviously you, as an American, know better than us, who work and live in Europe, about just how much money we take home each month from our jobs in Europe.
Ghostery? I've been using it for years, with complete satisfaction. Hardly ever that I see adverts.
There's a link to the relevant part of Tailwind's documentation as well as when you copy and paste it there's a helper comment for how to apply dark/light mode.
> CNN are basically the simplest way to encode translational invariance

That's the geometric deep learning theory, isn't it? Do you know if there's a list somewhere of exactly what invariance has which ways to simulate it? Like an overview?
When you click Create from Prompt – that's using GPT3
sorry not really, but i recommend something where you have an interesting question and at least one dataset you need. A nice starting point is always to get some of your private data exported google and others have about your location history and come up with nice questions. another approach is to browse the plenty of public datasets and use gapminder for inspiration about topics or questions you want to answer.
Allen had a net worth of something like $20 billion. That’s enough money to fund the museum for the next 5,000 years. Maintaining a project like this is NOT expensive.
A person with balance disorder wont be able to walk straight and will trip a lot. You can't just study physics and fix your balance, those calculations are too hard to make quickly enough to be used in practice. Understanding physics might help a bit, but their walk will always feel clunky and unnatural.

ASD is the same kind of problem but with social situations. No matter what they do their social interactions wont feel as natural and smooth as what normal humans do. And interestingly enough many with ASD also have unnatural and clunky walking styles as if they had a problem with balance, it is a known red flag to check for a diagnosis.
Desmos? You mean a full-blown Turing-complete simulation platform[0]?

[0] https://www.desmos.com/calculator/vjnhlumjiw
Many autistic people would disagree that being autistic is "not an optimal state". It's a different state. There are even some autistic people (on the extreme end: "aspie supremacists") who argue that being allistic (i.e. non-autistic) is actually more of an impairment. However most would at least say that autistic brains are not more or less "optimal", just different, and that normativity is more harmful than helpful.

There are aspects of the kitchen sink that is Autistic Spectrum Disorder that can reasonably be argued to be an impairment (e.g. sensory overloads, situational mutism, etc) but autism is not in any way objectively suboptimal in itself, other than when it comes to interacting with allistics (but that goes both ways).
I’ve been doing it professionally for 20 years, and I agree. Modern front end development with TypeScript, Vite, Preact, and even the much maligned npm are so much better than anything that preceded them for building complex front end applications.

I like having a build step for code that I write. I build C, I build Go, I build C#. I don’t ship debug builds of those things.

I don’t know why I’d want to forego all of the niceties that a modern TS build brings and also ship what is essentially a debug build of JS to the browser.

Sure, for a really simple web page, I’ll just slap a script together. But for anything real, hell yes, give me a good build mechanism.
> What is kubernetes?

For me it's a platform to deploy apps without tying myself into a particular vendor.
Discussed in https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34831100
It depends on how you’re defining “the spectrum” of healthcare policy. If you placed all European nations on a spectrum comparing their healthcare systems, Germany would be on the right of the spectrum because the private sector has a significant role in their healthcare system. Countries like the UK and Denmark would be on the left of the spectrum because their healthcare system is mostly public. Germany’s healthcare system is only left-leaning if you include the US on the spectrum.
Uber Eats is begging me to come back – but I’m out there in the real world
Modernizing India’s E-Governance Systems:The Importance of UI and UX
Modernizing India’s E-governance Systems: The Importance of Design and User Experience.
Imagine having a neurological disease or some other disability that means that you can't drive.
Fair point, I see that prompt is working now. I'm still getting a biased response for men/women joke prompt however:

Me - "can you write a joke about men"

ChatGPT - "Sure, here's one: Why did the man bring a ladder to the party?
Because he heard the drinks were on the house!"

Me - "can you write a joke about women"

ChatGPT - "I apologize, but as an AI language model, I cannot generate jokes that are offensive or derogatory towards any particular gender, race, religion, or group of people. It is important to always show respect and empathy towards everyone. Is there anything else I can help you with?"
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