skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
You don't think those elderly people who are having trouble driving would love the opportunity to hold on a light rail line so they can take a stroll downtown in with their grandkids?

There is no good transit system in north America. If you want to see good transit you have to go to Europe, Asia or Latin America, where even small towns can have robust transit with high ridership.

North America is comically car dependent because we build everything only focusing on how cars are going to get in and out, and require ludicrous amounts of parking onsite basically everywhere.

Our transit systems are almost always an after thought in the land use planning process. We surround places in seas of parking and put transit stops on the edge of them or put transit stops on highway access road with no sidewalks. The transit systems are often viewed and built as a charity service provided for the poor that no respectable person would use daily. The schedules rarely have sufficient frequency to make the service actually usable.

Our zoning codes make building walkable places that could support and be supported by transit illegal or restrict them to only small specific TOD projects.

Here's a great video essay on what north America gets wrong when building transit
https://youtu.be/MnyeRlMsTgI
I figured there must be some professional software for this, but if so, I don't know what it is.

There's a whole category of such software, it's called CAD. The professional products are notoriously expensive.
Look up proposal L2/20-190. They provide a number of good reasons for pregnant man. To summarize:

- It avoids gender stereotyping of men in Parenthood.

- couples say "we are pregnant". The term pregnant is culturally used for men too as their search shows.

- the emoji is not just for pregnancy, it is also for feeling bloated, full, and hungry.

I sometimes used this emoji for saying that I'm expecting something. My partner didn't like it.
Worse in some ways, but epistemology has always been difficult, and true skill at it rare to encounter - Mencken, if I recall, was often trenchant on that topic, and even his were recent entries in a theme evergreen through all our history.

What I think is at least as likely, especially if this week just past turns out more prefiguration than outlier, is for the Internet, and thus these days of course the world, to get a lot weirder. That's not necessarily a bad thing, or at least not necessarily only, but it's all the more trepidatory a prospect for the deep and pervasive uncertainty with which it's yet attended.

We don't have any way to know, or even really guess, what the world gets like after it becomes not just possible but common for humans to have intercourse [1] with entities which are recognizably intelligent in a similar fashion to ourselves, and are also ineluctably unhuman. But after the week we've just had, I think there exists a reasonable chance that before very long we will all be embarked upon the project of finding out.

[1] The word also means "conversation", and that's the sense I have in mind. If you think that's where it'll end, you may not be all that familiar with today's Internet, after all.
I tried so hard to make Atomic Habits work for me. It was helpful, but I found also it really helpful to realize places where it doesn't work for me and I can get a lot of benefit from leaning into a lack of consistency.

Basically the experience this YouTuber explains: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A2sS00egAzg&t=22s
> You don't build relationships and trust through jira tickets and emails, you build them through unstructured messy human interactions. They pay off later.

Assuming you're neurotypical.
Your theory supposes a few things that I think are fallacies:

That consciousness is ranked in some neat way. Are squids more conscious than elephants? An AI's consciousness might be parallel in some way. Different, but not "far superior".

That if an AI were to achieve consciousness, it would develop a far deeper understanding of the universe or reality than humans are capable of grasping.

That if it were to achieve a degree of understanding beyond our capabilities, that it would develop a sense of superiority and ego to go along with it.
why would taiwan be excited by the US duplicating the industry that makes it unique and desirable? If taiwan didn't manufacture chips, they would be just another island, and I doubt they would receive nearly as much international attention.

Also

"Other Taiwanese executives present voiced hesitation, [...] questioning whether American environmental and labor laws were consistent with the goal of nurturing a sophisticated industry"

A particularly ugly thing to say given how such protections are patchy and quite flawed already.
The water vapor will precipitate around airborne particles causing them to drop out of the sky.
I love the spirit of this. Caveman-level simplicity is awesome! I think I am personally too Grug of an audience for Grug Notes, though; my current note taking scheme is vim on text files in a notes folder.
The legacy OpenCL implementation doesn't support modern AMD (at least since RDNA) cards. RustICL seems to be the path forward but it's still a work-in-progress for AMD.
I mean some women do have slight facial hair but most want to de-emphasize it.

Their governance seems to lack leadership and just goes with whatever pressure they feel.
I was disappointed by not finding a tutorial on how to create an app that no user could ever install successfully.
For what it's worth I would _kill_ for a 2.37% click through rate on my blogposts when they are linked on social media. Turns out most people on siloes like Twitter want to stay in the silo instead of actually reading things on people's own websites.
Now we just need a KeePass Park. Or better yet, a keepass.info park.
Ehh, not really a pyramid schemes if there’s a reason to use the app beyond just signing up more people.

Feels like a shallow growth-hack.
I believe dark energy is the name for something that would be necessary to reconcile the model of an expanding universe with the amount of mass-energy that we can observe (even accounting for missing sources of gravitation, aka “dark matter”).
Well, if it's a really modern application it will leave everything in only one folder in ~/Library/Containers as part of the sandbox. Besides the obvious security advantages of the sandbox this makes cleanup a lot easier too.
There’s no pure philosophical answer. It’s a political question.

There may, at some point, be something that enough people are willing to fight to see elevated to a rights status that society is historically very reluctant and slow to share.

That’s it. Either those people will have their reasons and justifications, and to be sufficiently convincing in peaceful, those reasons will need to be exhaustive or those people will use some kind of authority or coercion to insist upon their view.

It’ll never be some single test or thing that convinces everyone. Some such thing may light the fuse of a movement, but it’ll be a very long, very slow burning wick.
There are numerous countries in the world that are literally democracies, not republics, where the majority does in fact rule.

Quite a few of them are not shitshows.

So I consider your first sentence to be proven false.
Which is exactly how the current system works. You can already interchange regional flags because it allows pretty much every ISO 3166-2 identifier. It's just that most of them won't be "recommended for general interchange" (RGI) and fonts won't be universally available.
What happens if you're not around while team members are having this random conversation? What if you're not next to the water cooler?

When random convos happen in slack I don't miss them if I step away for a 15min walk. I can even search them.
What does the derailment have to do with politics?
(serious question, I don't follow news or politics)
Interesting. This has a lot of features that appeal to me, automatically pulling certain data types with lists of backlinks seems great.

The not local, not end-to-end encrypted parts are enough of a turn off that my wandering in the notes wilderness will continue. Good luck with your project though, I will be watching for further developments.
I guestimate, if they were using Twilio with the volume discount, it might be $10.5K/day ish. Which both is a lot but also isn't a lot when you consider their currently daily losses.

I imagine the main motivation isn't actually the raw cost, but rather attracting more people to Twitter Blue ($8/month) to keep the minority investors happy. Just looking for any feature they can move under that umbrella.
Yeah all the crap Adobe and Microsoft apps leave in /Library/Application Support/ for example. That's really a trash heap on a Mac.
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Some risk, yes, which is why I mentioned the first responders, as they were closest to the burn itself.

Phosgene breaks down in the environment on timescales measured from hours to days. The five-day evac window was more than enough to remove all appreciable amounts of phosgene from the environment. And given how reactive it is, you can trust the lack of anyone showing up in a hospital in east Ohio looking like they climbed out of an eastern-front trench as indicative that the phosgene has not caused harm.

It's real easy to over-estimate the damage this spill will do. In practice, people have been using (and spilling) vinyl chloride for over 180 years; we have a pretty good sense of the damage it can do. Not a good situation, but far on the low end of environmental impact risks (somewhere north of "a car full of diapers" and far, far south of "a car full of perchloroethylene").
Creating a pull request requires committing code too.
Surely, definitely, and at the end no evidence.

It is also valuable to be at home in a quiet environment.
I already open my 1password with fingerprint on my Mac and with Face ID on my iPhone. But if something goes wrong, I still have my strong master password. I don’t see the problem this is trying to solve.
a bunch on examples on the first page - https://janetdocs.com/
Fair enough. I recently moved out of CT but talked to some people ik there after posting that and agree it is pretty unusual
Who is going to decide which emoji sets get assigned to which "open access" part? And that sets don't conflict?

If it's not the Unicode Consortium who decides, well somebody has to.

And what is my phone supposed to display when it gets an emoji from one of these sets? Is it supposed to have a URL that it downloads them from or something?

The whole point of Unicode is to be a standard of communication. So it's hard to see how a free-for-all of characters or emoji is still a standard at all.
(Too late to edit, but: "indistinguishable from a human," I would rather I'd said before, and not "...from a person.")
I don't think that tech people get that 2FA is still perceived as a pointless hassle and an excuse to invade people's lives outside of the tech literate. You're supposed to do this on their behalf, they're not going to be grateful for it.
Thank you. Feels good to know this is s real thing!
~/Library contains stuff for lots of apps and they don't necessarily have to be in a folder with the name of the same bundle ID. Only sandboxed apps are much more strict about this.
For users it's probably a security improvement.

For Twitters owner it's probably a matter of saving a few bucks on SMS fees (but that can't be much).

Twitter Blue still makes very little sense for most people unless Twitter becomes fully paywalled.
They contribute to but don't even come close to covering the total cost (at least in the United States but I suspect it's similar In Europe)
It is inferior to multi-factor authentication. It sounds fancy but you are removing a layer of security for no reason other than it's trendy and hyped up! Good security is application of layers of defenses in a disciplined and consistent way. I should not be able to steal a yubikey or find one flaw in your passwordless credential reset method or abuse the next and greatest phishing method like in-browser vnc with webusb and that's all I need to take over an account. Let me clarify: the problem is removal of "what you know" as a layer of defense and a factor of authentication. I don't care if it is a password, passphrase, pin, puzzle, picture or whatever, without it having only one factor of authentication is remarkably inferior to MFA. And this is detrimental to 10-15+ years of security culture improvements all because vendors and clueless c-suite execs prefer to follow trends instead of listening to actual security professionals.
> In reality, virtually every billionaire who has a vocal opinion on abortion is pro-choice, and several have donated hundreds of millions towards the cause.

The first part of this is just false, you're being tremendously selective about which billionaires you're including. There are plenty of stinking rich anti-abortion people who have poured huge amounts into their cause.

Now, as to which group is larger, or richer, I leave that for someone with the time to look at the data, but it is not as open and shut as you're suggesting.
In particular, this was a very weird sentence:

« However, this common black hole model is in tension with the overall expansion of the universe »

...why would those have anything to do with each other, a priori?
Okay man, you know best.
The filesystem doesn’t have rich enough metadata about temporary files. At least Windows has a file attribute for temporary files (FILE_ATTRIBUTE_TEMPORARY), although I’m uncertain how many apps actually set it on their temporary files; Linux/Unix/etc appears to have no real equivalent. I think ideally temporary files would have rich metadata - the ID of the process, session, and application/package which created them, and some kind of retention policy and expiry date. Of course, one could always use xattrs for that, but unless they are standardised few would use them. C library functions such as mkstemp/mkdtemp/etc could be enhanced to set metadata on temporary files. The OS package manager (apt/rpm/etc) could put an xattr on an executable with the UUID of the package, and then mkstemp could copy that to an xattr of all temporary files. Now if the FS also indexed xattrs, we could upon uninstall find all temp files owned by a given package and remove them.

Many mainframe/minicomputer file systems support file expiry dates, which is an interesting feature which Unix missed.
no matter how you slice it, the Jain Svastika is just not a good emoji idea.
> As far as the price I agree it is premium but with such a niche audience and focused value proposition I thought it was worth it.

I hope my comment didn't sound like a back-handed compliment. I genuinely think you're making the right move charging a premium. I read a lot of posts from Patrick McKenzie (patio11 on HN), and he's always urging folks to charge more. It feels like very few people take his advice, so props to you for doing so!

> I’m a bit allergic to marketing that tries to cover up weaknesses

100% agree. I'm actually planning on releasing my full book in blog form on my site, a bit like Michael Hartl's "Ruby on Rails Tutorial" [1], so people can judge for themselves whether it's worthwhile to pay for premium features like a PDF copy or video screencasts.

> What’s the topic of your book?

The plan is to do a soup-to-nuts walk through of popular, lynchpin open-source codebases. I'll take newbie developers from "this codebase is too intimidating, only 10x engineers would grok it" to "oh, that's all there was to it?". I'm a software engineer from a non-traditional / bootcamp background, and I want to help people who are suffering from impostor syndrome to feel like they too can become 10x engineers. I'm starting with a Ruby version manager called RBENV and progressing toward open-source codebases from unicorns like Gitlab, and eventually even the Ruby codebase itself.

I've already walked through the entire RBENV codebase on my own, and written 500+ rough pages in a Google doc (over 100k words that I wrote during COVID lockdown). I'm slowly but surely editing it into something that I can show people, but my immediate issue is that a) I don't know anything about the skillset of launching a product, and b) I feel like I only have one shot at a launch, and if my thoughts and words are disjointed, people will write off not only my idea but also me as an engineer and teacher / mentor, and I won't get a 2nd shot at launching. My head says that's BS, but my heart isn't so sure.

The first launch is always the hardest.

1. https://www.railstutorial.org/
I get two big things out of it.

One is practice in managing thoughts and feelings. If you just sit and breathe, you'll begin to notice how much the mind wanders, how much thoughts randomly arise and pinball around your head. Meditation gives you a lot of practice in not getting caught up in that.

The other is what I think of as self-instrumentation. As with any sort of performance tuning or debugging, the foundation is paying attention to what's actually going on. Meditation has greatly increased my ability to introspect, which helps me solve a lot of things that in the past were mysteries to me.
this is really cool. I love how small it is. with the Windows package for example, you actually only need "janet.exe", which is only 791 KB.
I protect my Twitter with Universal Second Factor (using a Yubikey). Does this mean Twitter will stop that feature and devolve to insecure SMS for paying members? If that's the case, it should be called out at every instance.

Account takeover attacks are no laughing matter. They can defame people and cause a lot of damage. Yubikeys/U2F should be the de facto standard for 2FA, and that feature should be for free at all times. 'Everyone deserves good security'.
Most all of us have been there, but there’s a lot of overhead cost to holding that attitude.

Even if you ultimately want to see your life optimized for “quality” (whatever that means!), the road to getting there sometimes involves being less self-reflective.

For many ambitious and high-key people, letting go and accepting themselves as they are is the untested hypothesis that’s actually been holding them back.
So some guy doesn't feel secure enough to report to his team mates and manager that he is struggling.

Rando feels entitled to interrupt 2 Co workers whenever instead of working around their schedule.

Sounds like a few things need fixing here.
That is how the current flags are implemented, and how the state flags were proposed. This proposal wouldn't have used any additional codepoints.
I absolutely love these! I already take pictures of things to remember the memories that are evoked by those objects. A 3D scan would be wonderful imo. Maybe even giving people the ability to recreate the item should they truly want it back for some reason.

You could also provide some sort of bulk deal too, for people who have whole boxes of stuffed animals. Though I dont know how that would fit into the whole theming without it feeling like some sort of mass murder box lmao
I don't know yet. There is a... weird... base of interested customers who are very paranoid and don't have good options otherwise.

Also, you don't have to trust us the way you trust a cloud, we don't have access to your running servers.
Is anyone using Twitter from a non smart mobile device? And if you’re using a desktop/laptop, you can use TOTP (via password managers or similar apps) or secure authenticators (hardware or passkey), no?

What are the odds you’re using Twitter without a smartphone or a desktop/laptop? Twitter deprecated tweet via sms long ago.

Anyway! I stand by the assertion. Less users using SMS for 2FA is a good thing, even if a much, much smaller paid cohort still can (~300k Blue subscribers vs ~237M daily active users).

I include CISA and NIST factsheet links on the topic in another comment in the thread, so I won’t duplicate them here.

https://www.theverge.com/2019/9/4/20849865/twitter-disables-...

https://www.theverge.com/2020/4/27/21238131/twitter-sms-noti...
TIL Roustem Karimov is Canadian
I hear the LastPark has no fences in it.
Don’t you see?

In The People vs The Elite, there are people and there are elite people.

People are people and elite people are people, therefor the people are the elite! Qed
iPad / tablet PC in the film '2001 A SPACE ODYSSEY' (1968)
With all due respect, you’re Steve Klabnik.

That makes “Rust at a startup” a different equation.
And what do you want to do?
Or are acute injury resulting from exposure that happened at the time of the derailment.
Yeah the way they're doing this is a bit of a pain in the ass to be honest. Set up a new Mac and you have to do though tons of these popups. It causes popup fatigue and users start just clicking yes without even reading it. I've seen it many times. It defeats the purpose this way.

It reminds me very much of how they made fun of Windows Vista in the past: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MyGUrPxG1iM

I don't know what a better solution would be but I don't think this is it. And the documents and downloads folders are pretty arbitrary on Mac. Any user created folders don't get this protection.

I do love the way that sandboxed apps only store stuff in one folder in the ~/Library/Containers folder though. Even non-MAS apps that are sandboxed have to do that.

In fact the trick in this article doesn't even mention this, if you use it with a non-sandboxed app you're not guaranteed to uninstall everything for sure using this method.
It’s quite upsetting to know we had to opportunity to get a Frowning Pile of Poo emoji and it was rejected! The current poo emoji is too happy!
Yes, it’s a cost cutting measure — but a particularly sad one as Twitter once hoped to lead in this space and seemingly conceded it all to Twilio.

It’s a sad development for “Twitter Digits.”

In 2014, having harnessed text messaging around the world, Twitter leveraged its global SMS support to create sign-in capabilities that anyone could use. (Twilio, Stripe, Shop now excel at this). https://blog.twitter.com/developer/en_us/a/2014/a-better-way...
I grew up about 20min from St Thomas. Neat to see successful software come out of that area. Good job, 1Password team!
Yes, you're naturally going to see a mix of mass psychogenic illness and actually-chemically-induced symptoms, and it's going to be terribly difficult to tell them apart, especially from just news reports. :-/
Fair disclosure: I administered and developed for IIS fairly heavily in the first decade of my career - not so much by choice, but when you're the star engineer of a three-man contracting firm, you take the jobs that come and learn how to do them on the fly, or else you end up looking for work because your boss went out of business. He didn't, not while I was there, so I guess I must've been good enough at it.

I'm perfectly willing to confide IIS is a fair bit faster, more reliable, and better to work with these days than it was in those - but that's a hell of a long way from imagining it's anything like good.

(Also, a pedant's unrelated note, because I've seen a lot of this in particular lately and I'm going to say something about it somewhere: "hove" is an archaic past tense of "heave", as in the related nautical phrase "heave to," as might be found in a commerce raider's injunction to "heave to and prepare to receive boarders". So something properly is said to heave over the horizon; only after it has done so may it rightly be said to have hove.)
I don't know what surprises me more, people saying that the bots are dumb or people saying that they're alive. I'm no expert, but from a rudimentary understanding of how they work, they're neither and far from both extremes.

If you want a heuristic that suggests we're not near: the fact that we do understand what computers do much better.

Brains are still mostly black boxes.
Won’t these economic elite just catch wind of and block said reforms?
This makes me think of the https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Seattle_windshield_pitting_epi...
I'm curious, what about the early days of software or computing appeal to you? And what do you think today's software or tech culture lacks that those days had?