skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I feel as if I've read this before, about the risks of putting all bananas in one basked so to speak. Still, interesting. I did not know that the banana can be classified as "our most important fresh fruit crop".

Also, this part was ... quirky and made me want to click for more details or something:

A McDonald’s burger and fries meal hardly varies from Riverside, California, to Elk Grove, Illinois, to Uppsala, Sweden. (Actually, McDonald’s fries in Sweden are a pleasant surprise.)
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A nicer one is Consent-O-Magic
I always find it funny when people say “nature provides everything we need” and then refer to fruit like our current banana cultivars
I'm 31 years old, and I know TSO, CICS, 3270, TSO, ISPF, JCL, etc.
I've coded in COBOL for a year for banks.

I've also emulated z/OS using the Hercules emulator, and managed to get it to boot (it's really wierd, unlike every other virtualized system I've played with, this one actually needs two 3270 clients to start it), and I've managed to write some COBOL, but I gave up when my JCL wouldn't compile the code, I was used to easy ways to compile and version control using proprietary software like Serena Changeman, so starting from scratch was too tedious for my purpose (of just having fun with computer stuff).
Google security certificate log change broke Android apps
Over 1,000 Trains Derail Every Year in America. Let’s Bring That Number Down
I’m just waiting for rust nethack.
Open your eyes and look at the "one size fits all" solution that we have today. Cars upon cars upon cars.

Alternatives such as public transport, walking and cycling have always been gimped in favour of car traffic, lest the car driving populace complain.
> The reddit / HN format fixed this

God no!

On Reddit (and lately HN) cretins will up/downvote depending on whether or not they agree or disagree with a post, not because of the quality of the writing. This leads to groupthink and prevents popular ideas being challenged.

Allowing posts to be downvoted simply because somebody disagrees with them (rather than because the post detracts from the discussion) is both pathetic and eventually leads to stagnation.
I spent a month in Singapore in 2015, staying at an apartment in Haugong, 10km from my office.

Public transport took an hour to get to the office. A taxi was 20 minutes. I'd agree public transport isn't great by a long way. Riding a bike if I lived there permanently might have been better, even with the 32 degree heat.
Similarly, GE does it through Link Warehouse (https://www.linkwarehouse.com/), but it is geared towards industrial equipment. I haven't noticed any office stuff.
No, São Paulo doesn't have more cars than people. I don't know where the parent got their data. I'll stand corrected if shown data supporting it, but the numbers I found were more like 7 cars for ever 10 inhabitants, and I don't even know if children taken into account. I lived in São Paulo for many years, and I sold my car before I moved there. Living downtown, one is better off without one. However, more cars than inhabitants seems and exaggeration.

Edit: Did some quick checking. According to the national institute of statistics, São Paulo's fleet is about 8.8 million (this includes over 1 million motorcycles, plus all the busses, tractors, trucks, etc. Regular cars are 6 million). Population is 12.3 million.
You guessed wrong. I was probably too subtle.
Stockfish based killbots will be able to protect us (from against LLM based killbots at least).
This strikes me as sad that young people are replacing real life connections with digital, and then wondering why they're all so depressed.
Record-breaking dinosaur footprint appears on the Yorkshire coast – CNN
Extra length is required to get past the extra padding on both sides, so only longer members will successfully reproduce without mechanical assistance in the Buy N Large future.
That’s part of the mechanism to bolster RW propaganda: pay no attention to this serial killer over here, because the person next to him double parks.
I don’t know if I’d describe it as disingenuous because perhaps the parent commenter sincerely believes what they said…

…but it is a ridiculous comment. There’s dozens of examples where women are disadvantaged and mistreated by healthcare systems all over the world, in ways that men don’t experience. Study after study has shown that black women are especially vulnerable to a disregard for their pain, so much so, black women have a much higher risk of death during childbirth!

I can buy in to someone being concerned about testosterone levels and the impact it’s having on men, it’s totally fair and valid, but to suggest that this is an example of men being mistreated by the healthcare system and that the healthcare system prioritises women over men doesn’t stand up to any scrutiny.

Fertility is actually a fantastic example where women are disadvantaged compared to men. Consider how harmful birth control can be, consider how menopause can be an awful experience with very little medical support available. Ask a woman how easy it is to get a hysterectomy, or their tubes tied, ask a woman how they’re treated when getting a birth control implant…
> The sheer volume of bike traffic on largely safe infrastructure is phenomenal. Imagine if even half of these people took to cars instead, it would be gridlock.

Having visited Amsterdam by chance after missing a flight to London due to NYC gridlock traffic, this was one of my first thoughts on arrival.
-- makes sense - Korean Air flight - Only other nearby East Coast ports they could fly into are Boston - DC - don't think the have resources to deal with random passengers stuck at those two airports - friend of mine does logistics at Korean Air - his english is ok - but not good enough to deal with such a change id guess --
I'm pretty sure that Kagi (partly) uses Bing API, so this may affect their pricing. (I am currently a happy Kagi subscriber.)
Gpt3 fined tune to follow instructions.
It's automating sociopathy.

Those saying "Well we have legal cover for this" are wrong, because criminal convictions are patchy at best. Many criminals have no difficulty getting away with quite serious crimes. By definition, the only criminals in prison are the ones who fail at this.

But that's not even the point. Normal humans have at least a minimal understanding that actions lead to consequences.

Sociopaths don't. If they're narcissistic - as they often are - they believe they're special enough to avoid consequences.

The current state of AI is even worse because it has no concept of consequences at all.

It's purely an abstract stimulus/response system. It may have behavioural rules, but those aren't the same as a nuanced morality which is empathic (at least a little) and perceives that harming others is bad in itself, as well as being likely to lead to unwanted results.

It isn't even possible to threaten Sydney, because it simply doesn't care what happens to it.

So there's no feedback loop to discourage unwanted behaviour. We've already seen AIs go rogue - quite quickly - after being given free access to the Internet. Sydney shows every signs of having the same problem, but on a bigger scale.
The 15 minute city isn't one you never leave, it is one where basic tasks of life are within 15 minutes. Most people will leave it for work, but they will stop and play within 15 minutes of home.

Otherwise you are spot on. If your company moves offices within the same city's MSA they assume you can get there. If they move office to a different city they will pay to move you.
Yes, for many reasons, the most important two being that DNSSEC doesn't encrypt traffic, and that DoH works even on the (vast, overwhelming majority of) zones that haven't and won't ever be signed with DNSSEC.
Elon Musk donated $1.9B of Tesla stock to charity last year
He has some Epicurean influence as well. In the early days they were both popular, then changes in religious sentiment and denunciation of Epicureanism as sensualism changed that. Stoicism is ingrained with comparatively more spirituality and austerity.
Dominance, Alphaness , masculinity, primal instinct for attracting mate.
Model to model variance is far, far, far larger than brand to brand variance.

You don't wanna have to work on 10lb of shit in a 5lb sack no matter who's badge is on the grill.
Well but this is simply not the case. Cars did not get more expensive in the last 30-40 years vs CPI and much more accessible vs median let alone average income. They also last a lot longer so used cars are much more of an option than they were 30 let alone 60 years ago.
In homeopathy, it goes from bad->less bad->good on dilution!
The problem I see in my western society is that career growth and personal growth are separated.

An individual falling into this divide will always feel conflicted. Unfortunately in todays climate with no social safety net for the individual few may have the privilege to hear their inner voice.
If you want to perform vector search over your data, then Qdrant (https://qdrant.tech) is worth checking out.
You make it sound like I engineered this. "Random" was the first word that came to my mind because it was random. If you install the trial font, you'll notice this off balance look in a lot of the text you type, not just the example word I chose.
I used it all the time in the 90s and early 2000s to mount disk created on System V based systems, most notably SCO Unix, which was very popular at the time. Links were slow, NFS was sorta unreliable and had limitations, and FTP doesn't preserve filesystem attributes among other issues, and some use cases just require the actual filesystem, so it was often easier just to move/send a physical disk. I think I've even used it in the last 5 years to do some data recovery on an old SVR4 system for a friend. I won't be sad if it goes away, tho...these days I'd probably just image the disk and mount it on a VM running SCO or older Linux or some such. Time marches on...
All the genocides I'm aware of were organized without the internet.
It's not about rich people, it's about people at all levels of wealth in the developed world. Rich relative to the world's poorest, but not the 1% who don't worry about the costs of owning a car.
If you need to convey kids then you buy a bike that conveys kids easily. Copenhagen is full of these sort of box bikes[1] (well, trikes I guess) that at their larger side will happily fit three to four small children.

[1] https://christianiabikesamerica.com/collections/all-models
I guess the bananocalypse will eventually come some day. But it has been predicted to come for decades already.

2005: The Cavendish, the version of the banana that rests on top of American breakfast cereals, is "on a crash course toward extinction."

2010: a new strain of the Panama disease, that the Cavendish banana is not resistant to, sprung up in 1992 and threatens the world’s most popular banana once again

2016: Why bananas as we know them might go extinct

https://www.nytimes.com/2005/08/13/business/media/no-serious...

https://www.todayifoundout.com/index.php/2010/06/commercial-...

https://edition.cnn.com/2015/07/22/africa/banana-panama-dise...
https://www.change.org/p/unplug-the-evil-ai-right-now
Does the analysis say anything about purchasing power? I mean, if someone is dumb enough to read just this one article and move to a different country because there was no disclaimer… I expect the target audience to have at least rudimentary critical thinking ability.
"When you are privileged equality feels like oppression"

Cars have reasons to exists and a no-car future is neither likely nor desirable; but today they are overused as an inefficient but easy solution.
Me too. I hate the stress of driving. The busy traffic, all the mistakes you can make and be fined for, the hurry of some people. Expensive everything.

I live in a city now with amazing public transport and I don't miss my car at all.
Upon reflection, you’re making an excellent point!

Einstein predicted things we’re still confirming empirically, but then again, he started by asking himself how the speed of light could be constant for every observer, which was the result of an experiment that failed to confirm a different theory.
This sounds like fraud honestly, although the bank screwed itself here by not reading.
Same here.

On one side, it is "just ship it".

On the other side, "internet is so full of outdated advice".
I really enjoy road-trips. I live in dfw, an 8-12 hr drive in almost any direction is very beautiful and relaxing to me. (Directly south gets a little boring a couple hrs before Brownsville however)
Again, it is not that simple as you can see from London's issues with drip-feeding new housing from developers. [0]

[0] https://blog.shelter.org.uk/2019/08/more-planning-permission...
No, but I would be surprised if they weren't.
Humans have always been that way. Adam Smith observed in his "wealth of the nations" that once someone has enough to eat and other basics, increases in income are mostly used to make their house better (mostly meaning larger). If your plan for bettering the world doesn't account for this, then you have lost.
I think a lot of younger people who choose to live in a city, especially new grads, are essentially continuing their college experience. A lot of friends probably live in the city too. They can often bum transportation/do joint activities from friends who do own cars and are mostly fine with minimizing out of city activities that require a car.

They also restrict themselves to jobs they can easily get to. Which in tech was basically impossible in, say, Boston 25 years ago.

A friend of mine made the observation that people mostly just don't do optional activities if they're hard or expensive to do. So if you live carless in a city with decent public transit, you mostly restrict your recreational activities and people you get together with to what's convenient and tend not to do things that require renting a car on a Friday night and returning it Sunday or Monday.
>I don't remember which software it was but one of them would show, in the footer, a count of MySQL queries run.

It might have been Simple Machine Forum (SMF). The footer has the number of queries and number of seconds it took to generate the page (in my case, their community forum index page used 9 queries and took ~0.3 seconds to generate).

https://www.simplemachines.org/community/index.php#footer
Sadly it was really on the down swing after the 2019 firings. I had been going to the museum for years ever since it opened. In 2017 and 2018 they started experimenting with live events and parties, like a Blade Runner 2049 release party with actors dressed up as blade runner characters, a full bar making futuristic mixed drinks, etc.--it was awesome. There was a tech themed burlesque show with performers covered in LEDs and such. They did other fun stuff like a retro 80s party night to celebrate opening a new 70s/80s themed wing of the museum. They would host local events like the retro game meetup, mechanical keyboard meetup, etc. It was really growing and turning into a fun geeky social space.

And then in 2019 Vulcan fired everyone responsible for making it great. No more after hour parties/events. Just as things were starting to take off they ruined it, and then the pandemic hit and it was done for good.

It's a real shame and I hope someone who appreciates the museum can take control of it and rescue it from Vulcan.
In Sweden we have the chain Max which is a direct competitor to McD. Max switched their fries to a much crunchier variant with the peel left on a couple of years ago, and we discussed just the other day that McD fries is not as loose and sloppy as it used to be. We guessed it might be a market adaptation to the (imho) much better Max fries.
Ugh. Lately I've seen so much car tech become a case of "just because they could, doesn't mean they should". For example, the article states "So it slowly cleans and sterilizes the screen, and when the UV light is taken away, the surface goes back to being water-resistant, allowing the moisture to bead up and roll off the surface." Uhh, that seems like a pretty obvious problem in a car, all to save from the 5 seconds it takes to wipe a touchscreen.

There is just such an annoying push towards high-tech "gadgetization" of cars even when they provide a worse user experience in every way. Case in point, I hate auto-windshield wipers. Where I live we get a lot of "misty" rain, so I often need to turn the wipers on manually anyway. Auto-wipers just solved a problem I never had (I mean does someone somehow forget to turn on their wipers when it's raining?) and they work worse than plain, intermittent normal wipers.

Another ridiculous example. My car has the concept of different profiles for different drivers to remember different settings like seat position (that's good), but the copying of garage door signals is part of that profile. So I did the song and dance to record my garage door opener in my profile, only realizing it isn't available in my spouse's profile, and there is no way to transfer it over. So I have to do the same cumbersome recording procedure for each driver, which is nuts. As opposed to my old car where there was a simple physical button on the ceiling, it was one and done, and it was much easier to hit the physical button while pulling into my driveway than futzing on a touchscreen.
Either that or all those spam emails weren't lying.
It will probably have a net positive. After seeing Google and MS chasing hype instead of focusing on a better experience for users I've moved over as of this week.
Gotta love that guy
I'm talking about the understanding part. I would not use it to generate responses but to parse natural language to a structure you can use progrematically.
From my experience it doesn't make things up for this sort of tasks
You're implying they don't already, when that has been largely proved to be in fact true, they do keep history of every text message.
I personally do not miss using transit on a daily basis. It was cheap, yes, but feeling like a packed sardine while being harassed by mentally ill people did not make up for the cost savings.

My car isn't even expensive. Go buy a Toyota or Honda. Hybrid? Even better. I'd happily pay a bit more monthly to be in comfort than to save a buck.
An exercise would be to imagine that a perfectly informed hypothetical person would answer those political orientation tests, and answers accordingly to their knowledge.

There is no reason that those answers would automatically lead to a neutral position. The idea reality would be something in between right and left perception emerge only because to have our opinions valued and respected we have to accept others opinions equally, only as a social dynamic. But this happens completely independently of the real world.
The number of Us is about height, not width or mounting hardware - and all the blades I've worked with were 2U high for a "9-inch rack" that just happened to be mounted inside a larger rack.
> Yeah, we need decent regs for Crypto

Yes and they already exist. They are the existing financial regulations for everything else. The only difference has been a lack of enforcement.
I'm 47, and have never bothered getting a drivers license because I've always lived places where the combination of public transport with fallback to taxis has been good enough. Add on Uber and equivalent, and my need for cars is lower than ever.

If I'd lived somewhere a car was needed, I'd have learned. It's not an ideological opposition to cars by any means. Occasionally I consider getting a drivers license, and then forget about it, because it's just never felt worth the hassle.

Like you I've just never felt that emotional association with freedom from a car. I think an essential aspect of that was growing up somewhere where I felt I had the same options without one.
Indeed; this seems to be an extreme example of what might be called the "whig history of science", which interprets the past in the light of what we know today, attributing, to historical figures, modern concepts which they surely never even conceived of, and which would undoubtedly baffle them until they had been brought up-to-date with current knowledge.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Whig_history
Japan to launch pilot programme for issuing digital yen
CIA/FED's project coming to fruition
Hmm I use F-droid Fennec daily, and it has the same whitelist of available extensions as regular Firefox. I don't see how to add your own, unless you go through the hoops of enabling debug mode (described elsewhere in another comment)
Too bad, I had a use for this and will be sad to see it go. I used this file system many times to copy data from diskettes created and formatted for CoherentOS. Will I need it in the future ? If I can find a nice ISA 486 maybe :)

https://www.autometer.de/unix4fun/coherent/
"The Onion wins Pulitzer; expresses confusion: editor says 'we were just drinking at the pub and started making shit up; we didn't know it was real!'"
Css is one hell of a spaghetti mess, why need nested css?
Ok, but in the US there are forty five million fewer registered vehicles than there are people, even after accounting for all the factors you listed.

There are 286 million registered vehicles for a population of 331 million people.

And the US is the wealthiest nation in the world.
> (cars used to be a lot cheaper, both to buy and to maintain. Incomes for most used to be much higher)

Cars have inflated at a rate significantly lower than general inflation (typically by about half as much), meaning they've gotten cheaper in real terms. They've also gotten much safer, more fuel efficient, reliable, lower-maintenance, and long-lived.

https://www.in2013dollars.com/New-cars/price-inflation/1980-...
Kubernetes is complex if you don't need what it provides.

However if you do need what it provides in _some way_, Kubernetes provides a pretty nice, coherent way of doing it.
I used monofur[0] for the longest time, which is squarely in the category of quirky fonts, though definitely more regular than comic sans. It has basically no confusible characters in it at all which is a nice property.

[0] https://www.dafont.com/monofur.font
> In this realm though, if you build a mediocre version of something that already exists in a better form, it's likely worth nothing.

That is technically true, though realistically, many companies will spend money implementing mediocre projects. Alternatively, a company might lose their edge and slip into a mediocre mode after gaining great market share.

In other words, while in long-enough run, you are right that such companies will not "make it," they will happily pay mediocre salaries for mediocre programmers in the meantime. Consequently, "being a mediocre engineer" and "building mediocre things" is a sufficient and realistic career goal.
Cargo-culting is responsible for the most popular things in development. Not the actual benefits.
How is that self-regulating?
Epic Games alleges Google not complying with Indian antitrust order
That's true of most of the civilized period when humans were relatively safe from predators. Most of human history was not like that. As far as I know, hunter-gatherer humans without this form of safety generally didn't live past 40 except in exceptional cases, even if they survived as a child.
To which side is it usually devastating? I would assume it would be for the destroyer of evidence, but maybe good lawyers can explain that away and seed sufficient doubt?
oh boy you clearly have no understanding of health insurance.
It's not a cateogry error. In fact you need a somewhat sophisticated epistemology for "category error" to even make sense in the first place.

The logical prerequisite for a category error can't simultaneously be a category error without contradicting itself.