skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This news literally makes me so happy. I can't wait to see it propagating around the world ! Riding a bike it better for your health, for the environment, makes cities much safer places, better for your mood as well & even better for your wallet. For people who have the chance to work reasonably close to their work, it's THE perfect solution.

I bike to work every day since 4/5 years, in Switzerland. Since roughly 18 months, I have seen a huge change in the behavior of car drivers: they are much much nicer to interact with. Before COVID, I had dangerous interaction with drivers several time a week, and had to be in constant vigilance for them not considering me as part of the traffic. Now, it has been reduced to maybe once a month. Sometimes I don't even believe how well people respect us now, considering how it was just 3 years ago. And most of the time when I confront people that did something dangerous, they are sorry and feel bad about it (it really wasn't like this a few years ago...)
I understand the point you're trying to make with your anecdote but basically you raised a snit and the staff worked to exit you quickly. That doctor was probably seeing somebody else and had to interrupt them to deal with you. Not sure that's really a good outcome, TBH.

As for bossy staff, like anything in life, there's a more effective way to do than insist to see the manager immediately.
I'm such a luddite. I will never have a smart thermostat, fridge, voice assitant in my home (until it's compulsory).

I feel like progressive enhancement is my choice to make. What do I purchase, what can it do, etc.

Whereas graceful degredation more is the product designers's choice. What does it do when it doesn't get Internet or electricity.
I just can't believe figures like $100bn. How? On what? Spending $100bn is _hard_.

For comparison, the Mars Science Laboratory project had a $2.5bn budget and sent a spacecraft that landed a rover on another planet. Yes, the MSC built on existing NASA infra and previous rover R&D ... but so did Meta's VR division.
You are missing the important point: The blame for all negative outcomes in LATAM is alway, always, always outward-facing.

If you observe what they are saying you’d think these are perfect societies where everyone would have pink unicorns and bubble gum, were it not for external evil actors. And, of course, the US and the IMF are at the top of the blame list.
How did dairy ever become a health food is beyond me. (lobby + tradition probably)

The whole "calcium" argument is also totally debunked.
Because it's not a search engine, and it is lossy intentionally. Things that happen statistically more often occur in higher weights in the neural net, things occur less often can get lower weights.
Well. Their main audience was pirates. A group of people that dislike being bothered by intrusive ads, dislike the threats to their privacy that ads pose, and prefers to not pay for access to files because information should be free, or at least prefers to pay as little as possible for access.

It’s kind of a wonder that Zippyshare lasted for so long actually.

At least they outlived both the original MegaUpload and the original RapidShare.

> RapidShare was an online file hosting service that opened in 2002. In 2009, it was among the Internet's 20 most visited websites and claimed to have 10 petabytes of files uploaded by users with the ability to handle up to three million users simultaneously. Following the takedown of similar service Megaupload in 2012, RapidShare changed its business model to deter the use of its services for distribution of files to large numbers of anonymous users and to focus on personal subscription-only cloud-based file storage. Its popularity fell sharply as a result and, by the end of March 2015, RapidShare ceased to operate and it is defunct. As of 2017, Rapidshare AG was acquired by Kingsley Global.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/RapidShare
Or you'll gain a tiny bit of empathy and understanding of where they came from and what it was like walking in their shoes. Doesn't mean you have to agree with everything they say.
Computer Science is no more about computers than astronomy is about telescopes. - Edsger W. Dijkstra
This one looks pretty good, for all the terms you list. It's refreshingly free of opinionating and just covers the technicalities and the history in a straightforward manner, and has links to good wiki overviews of EFI etc, compares the BIOS vs UEFI boot processes, and so on:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/GNU_GRUB

Incidentally I discovered you can learn a fair amount about the boot process by making bad edits to your /etc/fstab file on a Linux system :) e.g.

https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/107828/how-is-etc-f...

Also this central page for different bootloaders for a variety of systems, is kind of interesting, there's many different approaches.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Comparison_of_bootloaders
> but I'd be able to do more things I like if I had house and spacious garage. But that's $$, $$$ if I also want to live in place with reasonable commute

My house is 2000 square feet. I have a recording studio and a wood shop and too many 3D printers. I am getting a garage permitted for another ~800 square feet. The place cost $480,000 four years ago and is around $620,000 now on Zillow. I am a fifteen minute walk from a train and can be in downtown Boston within the hour.

There are ways to get what you want other than "be an extremely unlikely curve-breaker of a success". It frequently means "not being in San Francisco or New York", granted, but...you've got options.
Unless you are new to software engineering, this shouldn't take you more than a few hours with or without ChatGPT's help.
Probably Amsterdam, where 80.000 bikes are stolen per year [1] - at 821k inhabitants, one in ten will statistically have a bike stolen each year.

The country is on its best way to become Europe's head narco state.

[1] https://journals.plos.org/plosone/article?id=10.1371/journal...
Up to a point, but you'd still need a story for dealing with the surplus.

Also, if you want to actually turn heat into electricity with a turbine, then you need the ability to heat and cool your medium repeatedly [1]— locating power plants on shorelines is very convenient for this, since you have a heat source from your combustion, nuclear reaction, whatever, and then a functionally bottomless cooling source in the water.

[1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rankine_cycle
> They could have reinvested the earnings in the past to run a more cost effective solution to prevent this happening today.

Do you know this for a fact? Assuming there's some simple obvious solution to a declining long-lived business, is questionable.
This isn't about London. This is about the City of London, which is about 2 square km in the heart of London (and a separate city). The City of London is incredibly driver-hostile and pedestrian-friendly, so I was personally surprised that this hadn't happened already.
Not in Sweden and we have less accidents than Germany.
Insurance won’t get you to work.

And if you don’t need it to get to work you don’t need a car in the first place, so I wouldnt see a point in comparing.
I've had the same experience. When I turn off ad-blocking tech on the sites I like, I don't like them anymore.
50% is still close to a majority. Perhaps mostly is the wrong word exactly, but it isn’t far off. And I didn’t claim Chinese language was common in either way, just that Chinese ancestry was common, which has huge ramifications to culture. Like Toledo and poles.
> And if someone sincerely was informing me I was doing this to the point where they could no longer tolerate my presence

But thtat's the thing. On fediverse nobody informs you (unless you have an argument with someone). Your instances just gets banned, possibly by multiple instances\relays and that's it.

Not to mention that they are putting everything into one basket: transphobe, racist, fascist even capitalists are bad. Everyone is bad are you are also bad if you have any connection to those.

>(It’s not like I’m losing my job, getting divorced, etc. from this!)

Yes, you just lose connection to a people you were previously following. Even if they are okay with whatever your stance is.

> Like I know I’m neither of those things, and if people think I am, holy shit!! I need to fix that asap!

No, you should not. Otherwise you will spend your whole life fixing problems that do not exist.

Some idiots who can't even take their time and learn what does the word "fascism" is are telling you you are a fascist while you are not? Fuck them. They need some help, not you. (Unless of course you are staring to hear the same thing from different people including those who actually know you. In that case you probably should question some things)
I find it a bit funny you mention "lower-class" here. Of the seven first software engineers with kids I thought of, six have one car and one has none.
You should try out https://filepost.io (Disclaimer - I own it) I do feel for zippy though. Even for my site, Ad revenue has completely dried up and infrastructure costs now outweigh my revenue.
What would you do if all of your favorite sites switched to subscription models? Would that be a win in your book? Always honestly intrigued by such world views.
Focus on needs not feature requests
Why you should look beyond what users are asking for in feature requests.
forcing everyone to use LLMs. until LLM companies start injecting subtle ad content into the answers.

See it already knows how to do it. By the way it recommends against it.

Contextual Advertising: Chatbots can use contextual advertising by analyzing the conversations to understand what users are discussing, and then provide ads that relate to the topic. For example, if a user is discussing travel, a chatbot could provide them with ads for travel packages.

Personalized Recommendations: Chatbots can use machine learning algorithms to understand user preferences and recommend products that the user is likely to be interested in. For example, if a user frequently talks about health and wellness, a chatbot could provide them with ads for vitamins or supplements.

**Product Placement: Chatbots can subtly promote products or services within the conversation itself. For example, if a user is discussing a particular product or service, the chatbot could mention a related product or service as a suggestion.

The last one being the most insidious.
I have been cultivating this mindset for 10 years.
I'm into month 6 of semen retention now and finally have zero urges or frustration at this stage. I eat one meal of meat, eggs, butter a day. Have finally been able to isolate and clearly see the effect listening to music has on my dopamine and happiness (its very bad for it). All of my belongings fit into one suitcase and a backpack. I live in an apartment by the beach. My hobbies are simply short walks in the morning, emotional movies in the evening, programming and reading in quietness during the day alone. Eliminated playing videogames for the most part, Hobbies are reverse engineering and decompiliation modding of childhood N64 games, coding my rts game engine from scratch, coding my programmable bot platform im creating. Reading. Finally i reached that peace you know about. Would love to hear a few things about your routine and how you spend your time or be e-friends e___cr___@gmail.com replace the first ___ with nda and the second ___ with aig :)
It's for your safety: google will warn you about erroneous thoughts.
This phenomenon is real, and the best way to combat it is to Go Elsewhere. I'm still in a pretty expensive spot. But I'm very comfortable having somehow managed to never work for a big-tech-payin' big tech shop.

There's a lot of great places out there. Believing that we have to all cluster around a few cities is pretty bad for us.
This is just complaining about "the youth these days", with some snark about how they consume media "wrong". It even calls them entitled, just like those articles about millennials!

In an economy in recession with awful wages and banks falling over, only just recovering from a pandemic, is it surprising that people want to spend less money?

On another note: content creators aren't individuals, they're small businesses with employees and contractors like any other and if that business is unsustainable, no matter the reason, then that business failing is the free market working as intended. Every business needs to adapt to the realities they face.
Minneapolis is one of the top US cities for cycling mode share. You can bike in snow+ice with proper studded tires. With a fat bike, you'll do better than any car or truck in deep snow.
It wasn’t $100bn spent on VR. There is a ton of research happening inside of RealityLabs, which accounts for the vast majority of the investment, but yes the only product so far is the VR headset. Here’s a roadmap (supposedly based on leaked presentations) of what’s on the horizon—no pun intended

https://www.theverge.com/2023/2/28/23619730/meta-vr-oculus-a...
>As a tip for dealing with cyclists: continue your movement as a pedestrian: they'll go around you. Most pedestrians have headphones in/little awareness of their surroundings, and as a cyclist I always assume I'm invisible to them and to cars...

This! I used to do a 10 mile commute to work through several areas that were designated as shared cycle lane / footpath. Every trip was a slalom of avoiding pedestrians dawdling along on the cycle lane side of the divide. Always either with headphones on, or their phone clamped to the side of their head. Completely oblivious to the world arund them. So I'd have to swerve round them. And then hear the involuntary gasp of surprise behind me, as I zipped past.

But much worse were the ones who'd wake up enough to spot you at the last minute and then suddenly jump to the side --usually the side I was just about to swerve round them on.

Just keep on walking in your own oblivious bubble. I saw you about 1/2km ago and have already planned to my route round you!
Lost me on "9 year olds"
> Sometimes I feel guilty about using an ad blocker on sites I like. A few times, I've felt guilty enough to turn it off for a site I use a lot and trust, only to find the page completely clogged with ads that block the UI and generally make an awful experience. At this point, I've learned my lesson.

I don't get it. The sites that you like will go bankrupt, and you won't be able to read them anymore. Or do you have an agenda, and you are okay to sacrifice the sites that you like?

If I like a site, and I want it to exist* I disable my ad blocker, and bear with the ads. But probably we visit different sites, or I have a higher tolerance against ads.

* my morals have gotten so low I would happily steal from the people that provide me value, but I won't do that because I am afraid they will close their businesses
Speaking for myself only here (but I suspect I'm not alone), I don't use an ad blocker to primarily block visual ads (although it's a nice side effect).

I use an ad blocker to block tracking networks and protect my privacy, and one of the end results of that is that visual ads get blocked.

So I can't imagine a scenario where I'd need to fake-render the visual ad, since the ad code never has the chance to get that far.
I mean, between a weekend and 10 man-years there is kind of an inbetween.
A semester long class is about 45 hours of learning. You learn in your first two weeks on the job than any one class will teach you.
I believe there is a shortage of nurses in general, likely because of the crazy hours and not-that-great pay. I asked a nurse recently if she liked her job. She said she did, but she made more money when she worked as a barkeep.
That would be what I’d care about the most. Smaller file size, but not an order of magnitude difference? Meh.

Easier for the browser to process? Well that’s going to have a tonne of useful ramifications.

Honestly that’s what annoys me about web services in general. (Rant mode enabled). The human readability aspect is moot because conversion is cheap, yet everything these days is built on XML, JSON and YAML.

The increasing use of middleman services whose entire job is to parse these formats into native types, then process the data, then serialise back into the same inefficient format, makes the issue a whole lot worse.

I mean, sure, this stuff is used so heavily that some amazing work has gone into parsing with SIMD at ridiculously high rates, but this is still orders of magnitude more time and effort for a CPU to perform the same thing with a native format. Even for things like strings, an actually-sensible representation like [length][body] would save all kinds of hassle by avoiding processing delimiters, searching for quotes, etc, and would make loading a value as simple as allocating the ALREADY KNOWN size and reading it.

Anyway, that’s my rant. The more parse-friendly formats out there the better.
So sketchy. Who is the team behind this? A data leak would be catastrophic and what's preventing the admins from accessing your info. I think I'll just stick with Gmail which gives access to my account after 3 months of no activity.
Nonetheless now they all work for the Fed, so these particular ex-professors lacked the supposed conflict of interest you imagined at the time of publication. Not that I think it matters at all. There are papers on the causality of education from career academics claiming anywhere from little to none, and I haven’t seen any papers claiming it’s very very high, so the broad outcome is exactly the opposite of what would happen in your imagined scenario if it were true and researchers were being defensive and biased about the value of education.

Your comment above is FUD, not based on knowledge of the research or the researchers, but pure speculation, which is why it’s not fair to say.
Ya but it isn’t peak season. Things are much affordable in Thailand in February than they are in December. Heck, a week after new years it’s already sane again.

Places like koh chang (my personal favorite) become really deserted, not devoid of people, but you might be the only person at some lazy restaurant or bar that was full and bustling just a few weeks ago.
Another interesting fact is that at least some of the cycle lane markings are projected rather than painted because otherwise they would be covered by the snow.
The epic quest to build a permanent Moon base
To share with everyone else, chart 2 shows 12x more fatalities per mile traveled for bikes compared to cars.
A lot of them are not minimal.

If they don't show up right under DilloNG, they can't be minimal.
well at least climate disaster is actually happening and when in doubt could need _more_ attention. the depressing/frustrating part is people acting like "won't happen to me so why bother".

I don't know many people actually get this, but swathes of "nature you love" might be completely different (for the worse) in like 20-30 years. This never happened before and is unthinkable/unbelievable for many people, since this "has been for ages".

Like, I don't hate people. I'd love to have my children have some nature to experience as I had. But some %share of the population is actively destroying this possiblity and has been for decades, how can one NOT be angry about this?

We should collectively resolve the glaring problems of our societies/systems, not trying to escape the bad vibes stemming from that!
The parent can be correct and still miss the forest for the trees. Too much of of HN seems focused on being pedantically correct while missing the larger context. They can be right about the mechanism that led to the end of feudalism while still missing the "why".

You are using the current situation of a farmer (who has access to the internet and other regulated monopolies) as evidence for the case against those very services. If you remove that level of access, I don't think you have the point you think you do.

It's like pointing to someone who gets government assistance and saying "See? There isn't enough quality of life differential to warrant them getting assistance." The very fact that they receive assistance is exactly why that level of discrepancy is lower.

If you're saying that its possible that greater inequality can be tolerated, it's missing the point. I'm not stating a claim about an absolute level; I'm saying society should be aware that a tipping point exists. The same is said for taxation; people can point to past eras where people paid a higher effective tax rate and claim that as evidence that the current level should be raised. We can probably debate what the appropriate level is (but I doubt anyone actually knows), but that wasn't the point. Arguing the "right level" of inequality doesn't negate the point that there is some level that will make society relatively unstable.

Besides, the historical comparison may not be as apt as you think. There are many reasons why the same comparison is disrupted; technology for one allows for easier and more effective coordination. I don't think many feudal peasants could organize quickly via carrier pigeon while today we have social media; Peasants couldn’t vote to overturn their govt etc, etc.
I saw a post here yesterday praising Meta for drastically raising salaries for devs. Perhaps that has something to do with it?
Should we just tell Pakistan to suck it and not develop? Should we just shut down all economic activity that isn't related to sequestering co2?

It seems obvious that there's a tension between economic activity (aka living in a somewhat developed country) and resource usage.
Video games are a uniquely interactive medium. They must be playable to be relevant.
It's incredible gymnastics we've seen business leaders achieve in the last 3 years. I can't tell you how many times I've heard the numerous renditions of "we're struggling because of SARS/Russia/Energy/Supply-Chains/China/Trump/etc". Not once have I heard "we're struggling because we focused on big bonuses and dividends instead of growth and business security, and we are seeing the repercussions of that". Poor preparation leads to piss poor performance. Basic business acumen.
I find it fascinating that emergent behaviour of these models is being used to wrangle them into doing what we want, but I find it worrying that this is considered the right approach for issues of safety. It seems obvious to me that an out-of-band approach to safety and security is necessary and that this method is never going to work in a generalised way.
For a ten year old, all of those things can be done in a city FAR, FAR easier in a city than in a rural area. Even exploring the woods, in many cities, can be done by a ten year old with a commuter rail train pass and a bike.

Parents in cities have been arrested for letting their 10 year old kids play in the public manicured park unsupervised. Google "Free Range Parenting" as a city thing.

There is no way to compare the independence and freedom to play and roam of a country kid with a city kid.

We moved to the country precisely because we felt is would have been ludicrously dangerous to let our 8 year old wander the streets of Philadelphia unsupervised. There was no chance in hell we would allow her to hop on an Amtrek to go hunting for frogs in some creek.
Overstating impact is detrimental to the cause.

> decimated

1.5C will be bad, but it won’t directly kill 800+ million people in a short timeframe. People simply don’t respond to harm spread across 100 years the way they react to harm concentrated into a few large events.