skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> You can't rent bikes if you are not Dutch

Why not? Where are you trying to rent? There's bike rentals specifically aimed at tourists, and most people speak English reasonably well.

> A train is great for Rotterdam-Hague-Amsterdam, not so good for visiting the Bosch museum in 's-Hertogenbosch.

I just checked, and from Amsterdam, the train to that museum is actually slightly faster than a car. Though you do have a 15 minute walk at the end. Perhaps Den Bosch should run a bus line there.
So, converted in USD, and comparing gross salaries when there's massive variations in cost of living and taxes.
I worked in the UK and the EU, made significantly more in the UK, but didn't have a comparatively higher quality of life.
This could be useful for a multinational looking into allocating its workforce, but I'd advise candidates to do a little bit more reasearch before packing up and moving...
I always plug USDS and civic tech when I see questions like this one, but most USDSers make the maximum salary allowed under the civil service's general schedule, which is $183,500 in DC at present. There are a couple agencies that have their own pay schedules that can go a bit higher (CFPB is one), but anything in aerospace will be <$200K (unless you go to a contractor)
Type constraints in 65 lines of SQL
Everyone wants higher quality public servants.
Nobody wants to pay taxes.
Angband is great, and was great to find after having played Moria on and off for a few years. The game that really caught me was one of its variants — Zangband. Not because of the Zelazny connections, but because of the sheer size of the gameworld and everything that could be found in it. It hasn't, however, apparently been updated since the mid-aughts.
Joining this thread to say that I, too, have written a very similar function and also use jsxFactory to have JSX support in personal projects. I find that using it along with an extremely simple implementation of a kind of state listener[0] produces something really nice for small projects.

It's a bit like a jquery for the '20s.

[0] https://github.com/curlywurlycraig/vdom-util/blob/master/src...
The person I was responding to wrote "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." which implies that modern front end is an improvement over what previously existed.

That person then wrote "But for anything real, hell yes, give me a good build mechanism." which implies that he creates real, high quality applications.

But my experience is that all front end web applications are all sub-par, so it doesn't really matter if a SPA uses a bundler or not, it doesn't affect quality when it is all shit anyway. So more power to the guy who decides to not use the bundler.

In the end, I agree with Alan Kay, the web was created by a bunch of amateurs
There is no such thing as a popular presidential vote though. Using a baseball analogy, scoring more runs in a series doesn't matter, winning more games does. So you build your strategy with the idea in mind that if you're going to lose California anyway, lose it big and use those resources elsewhere.

Also of note (and just as relevant), Republicans won the Popular vote for Congress by over 3 million.[1]

[1] https://www.cookpolitical.com/charts/house-charts/national-h...
Singapore was literally rebuilt for cars very much like America. It's not because cars are better, and even so drivers are miserable here they rank low on waze's rankings of happy drivers, with Netherlands much further up the pack. All new developments (HDB as well) are even more car centric. If you can drive, you are afforded privilege in some respects, and so that's why people do it.

Also, "live away from the city center and have kids" ignores that still 89% of people in singapore don't own cars, and no, 89% of people in sg do not "live near the city center" or "don't have kids."
This is a classical circular problem of transportation planning: when deciding whether to get a car, and if yes which car, people often use their vacation as a use case. And then, when they got that VW bus to go to the seeside once a year, using it in the city is the logical choice, because it is just lying around. Basically, getting a car is expensive, but once you have it, using it is cheaper (and often faster and more comfortable) than the other options.

So a lot of the discution about getting people "out of cars" is not about getting people to never drive, but to get them to not own a car, such that they have to make the concious decision of renting a car for the holidays, if this is the best choice, for instance. What you describe sound like this.

Obviously, this opens the question of how to improve the car rental market to make those options real options. This is where car-sharing systems and the like come in.
I've experienced this with IO performance for huge files too. A while back I setup a caching service on a spare older Mac Mini first with Docker for macOS and when it couldn't keep up I installed Windows and it was slightly better but still crap. I threw Ubuntu on it and I was saturating the gigabit connection without breaking a sweat.

I'm also a Rails dev and I do all my dev work on an M1 mac and don't even have Docker installed, though I've heard it has improved a lot recently.
https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/collections/1620123...

(It's linked to from Iceravens readme: https://github.com/fork-maintainers/iceraven-browser )
While you may like having a build step, it is not necessary and some people don't like it. I've been building commercial data warehouse apps for >30 years and am very happy that our apps don't have a build step. Current app is a multi-million dollar Fortune 500 client app. No build step.
At the other end of the spectrum, I've suffered through some overly-simplified/modernized translations of fiction (e.g. Dostoevsky's the Gambler) that was complete butchery, but I guess this is less likely to occur with non-fiction.
There's a significant percentage of EV owners that regret their purchase. They either sell it and buy and ICE vehicle, or their next purchase is not an EV. (I have talked to such people. They are not hard to find.) Admittedly some are happy with it, but your statement ignores the fickle nature of consumer demand.
> Cars did not get more expensive in the last 30-40 years vs CPI and much more accessible vs median let alone average income.

This is objectively false, cars absolutely did get more expensive in the last 30 years, they cost about double what they did in 1990, even after accounting for inflation. (see https://thesoundingline.com/since-1990-the-price-of-a-cheap-... as just one example of the math on that).

They may "last longer", sure, but that can itself also carry negative impacts (particularly on fuel economy, safety, and air pollution)
Don't worry, you can find plenty of examples where society or medicine ignored the needs or voices of women.

Combative narratives are suboptimal. They are alienating to those you complain about, when obtaining their support would further your cause. It's possible, and more effective, to advance men's rights without complaining about women, or any other rights movement.

Not everything has to be Us vs Them. I'd much rather live in a world where it isn't.
This is very obvious when dealing with young people today. When I was growing up, we came home from school, dropped off our bags, and then I didn't see the inside of my house until dinner time. Everything was outside, all the time. Even with the advent of the Nintendo, we still spent the vast majority of play time outside.

But then the Internet become a thing. For some of us sooner rather than later (I started earlier, as a tween, doing FidoNet and running a BBS). That shift online came with a tremendous increase in seat time in front of the computer.

So now I'd have to throw the kids out of the house and lock the door behind them, or they'll happily park in front of their computer playing games, watching YouTube, texting with friends that are literally across the street.

No wonder young people no longer see the car as freedom, they've lost the interest in even leaving their house, much less driving into the wilderness to take a hike or see the stars, etc. Sure, not all of them, but there is a very obvious pattern. And older generations aren't immune, of course, the allure of sitting on your butt in front of a computer screen appeals to all ages. But the older generations started with more habitual roaming habits.
All this time, and BeOS still schools modern operating systems
When you make it incredibly expensive to own a car, few people own cars. Who would have guessed?

I wonder what car ownership would look like if there was no fee and taxes were much lower?
Oh, I didn't know that they stopped. There used to be a pretty expensive API for search queries which I kinda wanted to use to make an improved interface (dark theme, keyboard shortcuts) in like 2012.
They could trivially bury full add-on market access under 5 scary models and a password or something, but instead they use an absurdly cumbersome mechanism.
Definitely agree. Christopher Alexander's "A City Is Not A Tree" [0] speaks to this separation too in the context of our physical spaces (based on your comment I sense you may be familiar with this idea). It feels that western society promotes separation by default.

[0] http://en.bp.ntu.edu.tw/wp-content/uploads/2011/12/06-Alexan...
And you again need to figure out and get whatever local card or ticket or app they decided to use to pay for all that, because there is zero standardization, which adds even more financial overhead assuming you're only visiting once, plus figuring out the timetable and route plan so you don't end up on the completely opposite end. Lots of "Oh wait, you were supposed to take the #15 bus, but this is a #15B which doesn't go to your station because fuck you" moments.

Remember, this mess is trying to directly compete with just looking at a satnav and driving where it says with no extra charge, lost time, or mental effort.
Yep.. something about setting out in to the unknown, a battered paper map as your guide, and the combination of surprise and lack of accountability (doesn't perfectly describe what I mean, but I can't find a better word) you'd get in return.

It was possible to do that before cars, but mass car ownership & a modern road network made it something the average consumer could do semi-routinely, instead of something that required more spare time & energy than people had day to day.

When you know not only what businesses, facilities etc. you'll find in the town 50km away, but have a fair idea of what they're like (google reviews..), the world is so much a smaller place than it was even up until the mid 1990s. And with social media, you're no more or less a stranger in your own town than anywhere else.
The accessibility of OV-kaarten is indeed not great for tourists, which is ridiculous. There's been a lot of criticism of the OV-kaart system. But most things can be paid with a simple bank card transaction. I doubt buying or renting a car would be that much easier.
How do you install Firefox via F-droid? (I searched, but don't see it listed in my F-droid store directly.)

Do you use the FFupdater app?
The Messi comment wasn't trying to be snarky. Was trying to foster an actual conversation about what it means to be great and how does context matter. Sorry if it came across as insulting or uninteresting- that was not my intention.
> On iOS, users have to click “share” and “add to Home Screen”

Thanks very much for your detailed explanation. Man, more and more I don't know how people can continue to praise Apple for better usability. So much shit on an iPhone these days is in completely hidden, non-obvious gestures or swipes - e.g. why TF would anyone think "add to home screen" would be in the share menu?
I've heard "low support needs" vs. "high support needs" suggested, which is similar to the language used in the DSM severity levels.
Big Tech lobbyist language made it verbatim into NY’s hedged repair bill
One does not simply 'pip install'
> they're all so depressed

And fat, out of shape, with health problems that are normally associated with older people. I'm astounded at how many 20-somethings I've met who complain about knee and back problems.
I like this. Thank you for posting.
macOS is already a walled garden in many ways
I just checked the Detran and IBGE's numbers. There aren't more cars than people in São Paulo. It's a traffic hell, for sure, but still less cars than people.
> I have friends living in Lisbon and Porto for 10+ years, others that were born and raised there. All of them mention how entire neighbourhoods are slowly being emptied out from locals and getting rented on AirBnB. It's more profitable to rent an apartment short-term for a season than having permanent tenants. There are neighbourhoods hollowed out from people living in them and are just boxes to be rented during peak tourism season and left empty during winter.

I'm currently living in Nashville, Tennessee, and one can see the same effect here.

The town is completely unequipped to handle the level of tourism and unregulated hotels it has. The price of housing has shot up to insane levels (by local pay standards), and neighborhoods are inundated with drunken revelers.

I would never wish this fate on a city, but many seem to foster/welcome it with open arms. I know Nashville has, because the tourist money spends. But be careful what you with for, turning a city into a theme park / tourist destination has some horrible effects on the people who actually live there, and it seems like it should not be sustainable.
> > We have 11 million cars on a population of 17 million.

> Yeah, but we have 23 million bikes.

> (...)

> The number of bike trips and car trips aren't that far apart (25% and 32%).

Wow, that's a good point. But, is the number of bike trips compared to car trips growing, shrinking, or staying the same?
Don't they have a dedicated binance.us version? Its "Licenses" page[1] lists licences from multiple US states and Guam. It is registered as "BAM Trading Services Inc."

[1] https://support.binance.us/hc/en-us/articles/360050532193
IMHO, the biggest annoyance and difficulty with K8s, is figuring out the helm chart ecosystem with the crazy templated YAML. Some of those documents can get quite convoluted. One family of charts (say, from Bitami) will have one set of conventions for values.yaml, and other families will have a slightly different way of organizing this.
Something this old and unchanged should be considered done and perhaps even bug-free. Unfortunately the state of software seems to be pursuing constant change instead of stability.
> You can't just study physics and fix your balance ...

Heh Heh Heh. Can totally imagine an engineering type person would figure out a way.

Back sized gyroscope, hidden in a backpack maybe? :)
Figma and Discord come to mind as being exceptionally well implemented front end applications. They're even more HN-friendly because they both use Rust for performance-critical code.
I think you are overly focused on the terminology. We are simply using words such as "decide" and "choose" in the same way that you might say a chess engine "decides" or "chooses" a move. If your point is that it would be more accurate to use different terminology, fine. But it is unwarranted to say that these things can never happen because they require agency and an LLM does not have agency. Then you are simply mistaken about the amount and type of agency required for such a scenario to play out (or alternatively about the notion that an LLM doesn't have agency, depending on your definition of "agency", it's a vague word anyway).

You can try yourself to put an LLM in a context where it gives wrong answers on purpose, just by prefacing a question with "give a wrong answer to this question". "(Assume context where Bing has decided I am a bad user)" is just a more elaborate version of that.
> marking certain domains up-ranked or down-ranked (or removed entirely)

Finally no more Pinterest! I'm still debating Kagi, but chances are high I will subscribe.
They should define on time like the old pizza delivery trope: arrives in 30 minutes or it's free.
Actually, this case is an excellent example of why that is probably a conspiracy theory that does not align with reality.
Totally not a tax dodge, right?
I think this is explainable at the margins by the lack of positive peer pressure to live a rich life, of which the car is just a symptom.

Case in point, a kid who (a) wants to have a job (b) wants to hook up and (c) wants to go to parties / events still wants a car. What changes is that whereas in the 80s/90s, a kid who sat in his basement pulling his pud would would be considered a loser and have pressure to not be like that. Today it's totally acceptable. So there are simply more kids who aren't even trying to have an out-of-basement life, so they don't need cars.

I think it's not that relevant. The kids who are going to grow up with more power (financial and social) are the ones that want cars today.
It doesn't help that professional diagnosis services are both hard to access and that they often seem to have a poor understanding of the conditions they are trying to diagnose.

I'm not convinced that self-diagnosis is any less accurate than professional diagnosis for conditions like autism or ADHD.
So you're positing that around 6% of people are gay and 1% trans (the Gen Z rates), but that this had such a small effect on reproduction rates that it didn't get selected against strongly enough to offset the new ones introduced by mutation? It just seems implausible to me that a gay man would be as motivated to court a woman as a straight one. The gene fitness reduction would have to be incredibly small (less than a thousandth of a percent) to offset the fact you're only getting a few dozen new mutations per generation in a giant genome where very few of those mutations will make you gay...
To Neovim, or Not to Neovim. Tldr: Hell No
My village has about 300 people in it, so call it 300 return trips per day.

Those trips might be east to the small city. Or west to the mid-sized down. There's a bus in those directions, about once every 2 hours, last one at 6pm so useless for evening activities, or commuting further on the train. It's just gone past my front door now, it's rare to see more than 2 or 3 passengers on board other than at college time.

My options for going further - to London or Manchester
1) bus to the station, train to london, tube across london, then return on tube, train, and get a taxi back from the station
2) drive to the station in the morning, park, drive back in the evening (last train arrives about midnight)
3) drive the entire journey, under 3 hours so about the same amount of time

Same if I go to Manchester and Birmingham, but the drive is about half the time of public transport.

They might be south towards the big village. Or north to another big town. There's no bus services there.

Now you might say "just put on more public transport". My wife drives to work at a hospital 25 miles away. I suspect you could meet the entire daily demand from my village in that direction with a single minibus. The route doesn't pass any other major settlements, it's south-west down the lanes. How frequently would a bus need to run to be useful? Every hour? How early would it start? How late would it run? How many people would it take on each journey, and how much would it cost to run? How much pollution would it cause? What benefits would there be?

Public transport doesn't work below a certain density. If you want to depopulate the country and put everyone in tower blocks in the city - leaving the country for the rich - then just be honest about it.
Disclaimer: I work for AWS but had nothing to do with this blog post (I'm seeing it for the first time with everyone else here).

I think this is an unfair summary of the post. Of course, using Kubernetes to orchestrate other AWS services is going to be a go-to example on the _AWS_ blog, but there is plenty of vendor-agnostic software doing similar things: DNS Records[1], Databases[2], even using Kubernetes CRDs to deploy Kubernetes[3].

The idea of using Kubernetes as an API to orchestrate external resources doesn't inherently lock you into any single vendor.

1: https://github.com/kubernetes-sigs/external-dns
2: https://github.com/kubedb/operator
3: https://cluster-api.sigs.k8s.io/
Can you spare us with this insufferable type of comment. The web is not explicitly organized to manipulate behavior.
I think the problem is that American anti-car rhetoric doesn't speak with one voice. There are people who know what they're talking about, who are mostly saying "If we follow some of the Dutch practices, we can get a city where people can get to a local destination by bike safely. But we should also take note that even in the Netherlands, the need to engineer roads for bike safety is something they continually forget". But there's others who say "The US is a hell-hole, Americans are evil and dumb, cars are evil, they will destroy the earth, we must all copy the enlightened Europeans who are good and wise people".

It is like that for so many reform proposals. Heterodox economists (MMT or gold standard or anything really) will say "we ought to consider this evidence in making our economic decisions", and their acolytes on forums like this will say "If we adopt this reform, we will be able to solve all our problems, but it's just corruption and self-interested politicians who stop us". Voting system reform people say "The US is screwed by FPTP, if we adopted proportional representation we will depolarise and have a nice consensual politics", but people who study the politics of countries that use proportional representation don't really indicate that (I think in this case there are some political scientists who get close, but only by circularly defining perfection in politics as exhibiting the consequences of proportional representation).
You need fine-grained statistics. It certainly isn't true that 65% of the people living or working in big dense Dutch cities like Amsterdam drive to work. That statistic more reflects how much the population of the Netherlands is spread out as a whole, not concentrated in its biggest cities as is more common in many other European countries.
Four Creative Principles for Writers to Live By
They definitely are the most important fresh fruit. Bananas are the most consumed fresh fruit - the average person eats 32 pounds of bananas a year. They're the most popular fruit in many developed countries and a staple food in many developing countries. Now, not all of these are Cavendish, of course. Other countries, especially in banana-producing regions, have much wider varieties of bananas in their diets.

The only fruit more popular is tomatoes - the average person eats 50 pounds of those a year. But they are typically not consumed fresh.

https://www.worldatlas.com/articles/the-most-popular-fruit-i...
The EU’s Digital Services Act Confronts Silicon Valley
In college (90s) I dated a 19 year old who didn’t have a drivers license (this was in ft. Worth tx). It blew me away, she just shrugged and said “I never really needed it”. She was ridiculously bright and had that glow that truly remarkable people do. I guess she was just ahead of the curve.

/well dating me does cause me to question her decision making ability now that I think about it heh
Compare that to when the president of the European Commission gets away with deleting her texts.

https://www.euronews.com/2022/01/28/von-der-leyen-text-messa...

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2022/jun/29/european-commi...
If commands and manpages make you angry enough to threaten people online, it's time to take a little break from the Internet.