skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Is it just my memory playing tricks, or did we not use to talk about crossing the 1C threshold? I guess now that that’s not a possibility anymore, we’re moving to the next, hoping to get some sort of action out of politicians.

I strongly suspect we’re going to cross the 2C threshold in our lifetimes.

The willpower to change things isn’t there, and the effects are too far removed from our decisions. Even the floods and droughts are easy to ignore, telling yourself “it’s not happening here, just some random far away place”.

But I also think that we’ll slowly start reducing our emissions anyway, as electric cars and green energy keep spreading. So we will eventually reach an equilibrium. I just don’t think that that’ll be before the 2C threshold.
Pet Theory: It's because of Zuck's security detail/planning.

I remember hearing that his house has 2 foot thick RPG-proof windows, that it's a fortress. He literally has a large degree of optical distortion looking through his windows every morning. Let alone all the crazy stuff, real or imagined, that his security team is telling him.

So, he longs for even simple things like a boring meeting. Like when Michael Jackson closed down a supermarket just so he could go shopping like a normal person would. Same pathos here.
biking is great except for ball cancer due to sitting postion
Mainstream media doubling down on propaganda

Of course US citizens do not worry or get scared after a environmental disaster they never seen before, unless Russia tells them to

A lot of people were already sceptical on the amount of unaccounted billions sent to Ukraine, when the government hesitates to send help, and refuse to visit while visiting Ukraine, they bury the cause themselves

Mainstream media hesitant to report. The movie with a similar plot line filmed nearby

All that created many theories and dissatisfaction to spread by social media

Russia could not do better if they tried
> - weather might make the ride unpleasant;

As the Dutch like to say: there is no such thing as bad cycling weather, only bad cycling clothes.

I would strongly recommond a pair of water/wind proof trousers to go over your regular trousers, if you don't already have some. This has lead to a much more pleasant riding experience, especially in winter. They aren't very practical on a regular bike as they make you uncomfortably hot, but on an e-bike, it's much less of a worry.
> They have banned my account without warning or explanation and they've been ignoring my support tickets for about 2 months!

Which is especially ridiculous if this was due to a false positive spam detection as real spammers will not bother with chasing support when new accounts can be created easily.
Predictability is an important factor, and yes, bikes are better at that. By the way, try a vinyl liner between the tube and the tire for puncture protection. Since I started doing this, my puncture rate has fallen easily by 90%.
Nothing about traffic allocation is „naturally“. Building roads is a decision. Allocating space for cars, bicycles, pedestrians is a decision. Making driving a car cheap is a decision. Discouraging driving by increasing costs is a decision. Reducing car traffic by restricting use is a decision.

It’s decisions all the way down. The question is „What is the outcome we want and what‘s the road to get there.“
Then it's not wonder people would rather cycle. What a deceptive headline.
Curious how much of this was the £15 daily "congestion charge" you have to pay to get a vehicle into the area.
Cars are a mortal danger to non-car users (pedestrians, (motor?)cyclists), but at city speeds, they wouldn't be a mortal danger for other car users.
ASML export ban will hurt Netherlands relationship with China, ambassador warns
> Perhaps it's not easy or fast, but it's unavoidable.

It is pretty easy to imagine a future where it simply never happens.
Worth noting that most car drivers have insurance. If you carelessly run over a child, you'll feel bad, but the insurance will pay for all the court cases.

If you run over a child on a bicycle, most cyclists don't have insurance, and there is a reasonable chance you'll have to sell your house to pay compensation to a child who is now in a wheelchair for life.
I mean solvent as having a positive book value based on the market value of their assets.

The government requires banks to maintain various ratios. A certain percentage in liquid assets to cover withdrawls, etc.

The big problem was in 1 day 25% of their deposits were withdrawn. Literally no bank can sustain that, from JP Morgan down to your local community bank.

The Feds seized SVB because it fell out of compliance with its required ratios but it still had a positive book value for the assets it had.
Why? Why isn't it okay the person who is taking on the risk and effort and cost of running the instance is setting the tone? At least on Mastodon you can move to a competing server and maintain your connection with the fediverse.

If I dislike how Twitter or Facebook is being run, my choices are to suck it up or to leave the entire network.

If I dislike how a Mastodon instance is run, I can move to another instance and keep my relationships from my old account.

I mean if this is a dealbreaker for you why are you on HN? HN has opinionated moderation. That's part of the deal of being here.
Conveniently Mega only limits you by IP address, not account. You can just swap VPN locations and keep downloading. 1fichier is also pretty incredible.
> Three posts ago you were pointing out obstructionism, now you're saying we have fundamental incompatibilities that can only be resolved by putting money into a pot and having it spent the way you want it to be.

There's different things being discussed. I started answering the "If you want to set yourself an interesting challenge, try to figure out why it is you think being on the right wing of politics is incompatible with those opinions" bit.

My answer to that is that there are genuine underlying incompatibilities, and so even if there's a superficial agreement on something once in a while (eg, we both agree some policy goes a tad too far), it still makes no sense for me to switch camps.

The obstructionism is a tangential side point: that the right seems to have no policy other than being anti-left, and so far you've done nothing to convince me otherwise.
Same with Amazon. The entire business was predicated on the idea of doing a thing online instead of requiring bricks and mortar.
Here's one of my favorite minimal sites. It lets you consume a content, buy stuff, and join a mailing list, which are the only 3 things websites do anyways.

https://www.vulfpeck.com/
Plenty, usually in the form of individual websites selling ad space on their website, just like newspapers sell ads in their paper issues. No user tracking necessary, and if you sell based on time you don't even have to track impressions or clicks.

But that doesn't fit the "apply to our whitelist" model of many "ethical" ad-blockers.
> Let's start with the heavy motor vehicles

So SUVs, Trucks and Electric Vehicles?
How often does it snow in the Netherlands?
If you live within London transport zone 1, it's quite likely to be a zero-car household, simply because of the difficulty in keeping the car somewhere.
I’m really confused by this rhetoric, because the logical conclusion is that Bob should at minimum be exposed to things he doesn’t want to be exposed to regardless of what the thing is because of the potential Bob might be missing out on a good point. But it also means if Alice’s view is sending Bob death threats and threatening to murder his family, Bob should be exposed to that as equally as if Alice’s view was that pineapples are a superior topping on pizza?
Everyone likes to say this, but no one seems to provide evidence. I don't believe it.
Don't use the old ISO 14977:1996 specification for BNF. For a rationale, see: https://dwheeler.com/essays/dont-use-iso-14977-ebnf.html

Quick summary:

1. It is unable to indicate International/Unicode characters, code points, or byte values. ISO/IEC 14977:1996 only supports ISO/IEC 646:1991 characters.

2. It is unable to indicate character ranges.

3. It requires a sea of commas, so using it produces hard-to-read grammars.

4. It does not build on widely-used regex notation

5. It has a bizarre, difficult-to-understand, and easily-misunderstood “one or more” notation.

6. It is challenging to understand and many key terms are undefined.

I suggest considering the EBNF notation from the W3C Extensible Markup Language (XML) 1.0 (Fifth Edition). That's much closer to the regex notation used by many software developers today, and since the point of a BNF is to communicate, using a language similar to a language most developers already know is a big advantage.
I don’t understand how the so-called “ample reserves regime” works but I would argue, given current circumstances, that it does not provide for ample reserves.

Could you explain how this new regime works and why it is safer for depositors?

From my read it appears that under the current regime banks can use 100% of depositor funds for leveraged speculation.

How is that safer than reserving at least a portion of depositor funds to support demand withdrawals?

I don’t understand the dog-whistle comment - seems dismissive without evidence. You claim that the move to zero reserves isn’t worth paying attention to but failed to explain how the new regime works or how it is safer for depositors. Clearly it isn’t.
I'm a huge fan of world's fairs and started going to them in utero. I've made several pilgrimages to famous world fair sites that are important to me. And I have lots of memorabilia and read lots of books on the subject, which is how I found this post.

Here's the problem. Modern world's fairs aren't workable or practical economically. The part of Disney's Epcot that became the theme park was intended as a permanent world's fair. (Walt's father was a construction worker on the Chicago World's Fair.) Even with Disney's money and Walt's vision, the company could barely sustain Epcot after his death and toyed with the idea of getting rid of it for years. Even today, it is the worst performing property in the entire Disney system worldwide.

Two things killed the world's fair: the cheap, mass distribution of goods and the internet. When fairs were hot, you could invent something like ice cream or the Belgian waffle and people would discover it at the fair. Now, everything appears everywhere at once because of cheap global travel and product distribution. The hottest snack in Korea will be available in LA in just weeks because the normal flow of people between there will move that product and the cultural knowledge to the new market.

Mostly, though, what killed the fair is the internet. Epcot even had a pre-internet park-wide digital network with color touchscreens, virtual assistants, and live Zoom meetings. And this was in the 1980's. They had to get rid of it when AOL came around because everyone had something like that at home.

All of the wild new tech that would be shown at a fair is now just a doom scroll away on your phone. You could hardly go around in modern society without finding out about every new invention and discovery. It would be harder to stay uninformed. This was not the case in the heyday of the fair when communications, travel, and even literacy were less common.

Even though travel is easier than ever, it's also a huge pain in the ass and expensive in its own right. People worry about catching a virus. And big logistics things like fake buildings and fancy displays cost a lot to put up. At the beginning, Disney had corporate sponsors for individual rides and attractions (an idea he invented to get funding for It's a Small World at the New York World's Fair). That idea wasn't sustainable and within a few years Disney was paying part or all the costs of some of these expensive attractions on its own. That's not very profitable, and it's a problem that a permanent world's fair will have, too.
Yes, there’s limitations to hedging.

The problem here is making a huge directional bet that interest rates won’t go up, not adjusting that bet as it becomes clear they will go up, not adjusting as they start going up, etc.

It’s like you bought a stock with half your portfolio that’s clearly going to suffer and you hold on hoping you’ll be able to get your money back in 10 years. Oh and using 10x leverage too, so even a 20% drop is enough to wipe out your portfolio completely. It’s just so stupid. And predictably stupid.
> Many places in the world riding a bike drunk is as illegal as driving a car drunk.

Even if you assume the the risks outlined in your comment as relatively high likelihood (which I don't), it still makes 0 sense to think it's anywhere near as serious as driving drunk.
The Spaceport at the Edge of the World
Problem these days is that someone can release ML upscaled and/or "less grainier" version of your photo.

Case in point Samsung "moon" pictures that were making the rounds here a few weeks ago.

https://www.reddit.com/r/Android/comments/11nzrb0/samsung_sp...
I have, at times, appreciated the intricacies of intra-thread concurrent algorithms relevant to my work at the time, but I happily page that knowledge out when it's no longer being used, and will (painstakingly) page it back in when necessary. I think this is the only sane way to go about things. There are way too many "fundamentals" to maintain expertise in all of them all of the time.
There's nothing natural about cars, nor the many negative externalities that are associated with them.
It really isn't this simple, no. I remember a number of years ago someone tried to do this. Pardon the language, but the "product" was called "Fuck adblock" I believe. It was a piece of JS that you could include on your site that, if I remember correctly, tried to see if certain JS objects existed. If they did exist, you could disable aspects (or the whole thing) of your site. Very soon after, someone released "Fuck fuck adblock" that essentially disabled this piece of JS.

It was a cat and mouse game for a while, but ultimately, if you want to detect if someone is using adblock, you need to do it in JS. And then the ad blockers will just add that piece of JS to their block lists.
It‘s definitely possible and happens regularly. But statistically speaking, it‘s a freak accident compared to car vs. pedestrian. It‘s orders of magnitude less likely.
According to the article, the number of cyclists have not increased that much. (They mentioned it is at 102% of pre-pandemic levels.) What they are seeing is a decline in motor vehicles. The cyclists are simply an interesting way to benchmark that decline!

It is still good news. People need to find better modes of transportation for both the environment and for society. It is just that the title doesn't mean what it suggests.
> When there's a profit motive, someone will always cut corners.

This only works as a specialisation of "people". Where there's no profit motive, people will also cut corners.
I love Zippyshare. It didn't use those shenanigans that other file sharing website used :(. I will miss it
>> As the Dutch like to say: there is no such thing as bad cycling weather, only bad cycling clothes.

Easy to say in a country famously flat, small, and with a relatively narrow weather window. I welcome any Dutch person to attempt a 15+km commute during a rocky mountain winter. I know of driveways in US/Canada with more vertical than any Dutch commute.
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Making Performance Reviews Fairer in a Hybrid Workplace
You can absolutely kill a pedestrian or another cyclist when on an e-bike, do not drink and ride
Neither of those are a pure Computer Science course, they are “and engineering” or “and informatics”. There are similar courses in the US that teach computer science alongside more practical skills.

It’s ultimately a matter of the focus of the major and department.
I’ve had 5 bikes stolen and no cars stolen, so have to disagree about worrying about theft.
> every person has some form of adblock

Is there any data to support this? Doesn't seem real, even 10% of all users having some kind of adblock would be suprising to me.

Edit: wow, I'm way off, 42% according to https://backlinko.com/ad-blockers-users.
This guy wrote 2 paragraphs about how the average CS person has less than a 100 IQ in a condescending way… while at the same time demonstrating he doesn’t even have a high school level understanding of statistics. You should look deep into yourself and wonder why you’d say or think things like this. It’s one thing to be condescending, but another to also pair it with some statements that reveal how you’re actually the dumbass.
Show HN: BackupDiary – When you die, your family gets the note
I built this to scratch my itch. If something happened to me, I wondered what would happen to my bank account, online subscriptions, passwords (in case my family needed them), etc.

Most of us also have a legal will to help our family, but I think most everyday things are left out. So this is an informal digital will.

The idea is simple:

1. Create a note, and keep it updated

2. Add up to 5 recipients

3. Check in once every 30, 60, or 90 days. You can pick your check-in period.

If you don't check-in, the note is sent as a PDF file to every recipient.
Hard to do if thats a deck. You can apply paint, sealant, and other things to prolong it but you have to reapply it every once in a while...forget for too long and then you have a discolored deck and will eventually start rotting.
Yes the City of London is also referred to as "the square mile" - a self explanatory title.

Also worth noting they broke up all other forms of transport i.e cars, buses, vans, etc. So it's more like cyclists make up 25% of road traffic against powered vehicles in a very small area of London, at particular times of day.

I do 40+ miles a day on road across London and would be really surprised if these figures hold up in general.
Isn't it full of very, very expensive people?
I was not bullish on AI generated code until last week.

Last week I asked GPT to write a C version of dirbuster using the POSIX api. It returned a nearly correct solution (paths weren’t prefixed with /).

Then I asked it to rewrite the program using threads. And again, it kicked out a nearly correct solution (same path bug).

For each it gave me instructions for compiling and told me how to run the binary.

Then I asked it for a word list, and it gave me a GitHub repo to clone and told me how to use it with the binary I just compiled.

Then I described the behavior of the service I was scanning (always returns 200 with status=ok when another service would have returned 404) and asked it for a git diff of the threaded version of the program that worked with this service.

Then I described the missing / prefix and it gave me a gif diff for that too.

In both cases the git diff was valid.

And, after applying the git diff and running the binary against the word list, the program scanned the service finding the /ping endpoint.
That would require coordination from the ad delivery networks.
> If we were to find that non-ionizing radiation causes problems at low doses (below where we perceive it as heat), it would have to be specific wavelengths, not just non-ionizing radiation in general.

You're right. I was specifically focusing on radiation below visible and infrared wavelengths, which is what radar uses as far as I know, and that is being studied in the literature I referenced. Much of the focus in that research is on the possibility of electromagnetic fields activating voltage-gated calcium channels.

Baseline in that case would be whatever we normally get from whatever natural sources might exist on Earth.
> it wouldn't be so incredibly difficult to determine.

Never said it was easy. :P

> - The corpus of written language is full of ambiguity and contradictory statements.

Right, but the truth is the one set of information that logically cannot be contradictory. That gives it an advantage in terms of compression.

The rest is correct, but just means that the learning algorithm has a harder time discovering truth, not that it's impossible.
Look up the CS courses followed, see if those skills are on there. And even then, take it with a grain of salt because in my personal experience, the list of "this is what we'll teach you" is often wrong.

A lot of skills are acquired by experience and when needed; don't hire fresh graduates for foundational and theretical knowledge, hire for learning ability. Give them a take-home assignment where they have to show they know or can learn something new.
+1, this is also where I learned most of my knowledge
> If I was managing 30-50 people,...

I directly managed 22 people at one point. 1:1s were an every other week affair.
While it was possible, it was not sustainable. Keeping track of everyone and their goals & growth, flogging the PM team, running interference with the Sales team, keeping the exec team from interfering, etc. made it far more than a full time job. I was first in the office and last to leave, just so I could get stuff done.
That should be MOD (the UK ministry of defence) of course, HN title correction does not always do the right thing ... (OP, if you edit that quickly enough, the edits stick).
I’m sorry does it need to be? Does being a Luddite invalidate the argument I’m making or perhaps you can see that all technology has trade offs and perhaps this moves the needle too far in one direction. By all means continue using Luddite as a slam dunk argument not to consider the impact of this technology on society vs previous forms of automation.

Edit:
Then one day when the species goes extinct because we’ve got our robo-waifus we can exclaim in our final breathes that the luddites were wrong. All technology is great, no issues whatsoever.

Edit2:
I’m kidding of course. We’ll either automate baby making and/or have the means to live forever so there’s no incentive to reproduce. Silly luddites and their antiquated notions of human relationships and death. What will they complain about next, human cloning or brainwashing? They’ll probably bring out some trope like “stop playing god” or “stop bending people to your will”. The technology exists so it must be used. If I don’t brainwash people someone else will right? The ones who fail to adapt to the changing world will just have to do whatever I say.
Programmer has N problems: too many syntax specification conventions. Programmer says: I know, I’ll design a formal syntax for specifying syntaxes. Now programmer has N+1 problems.
The gallery or the showcased websites?
This article is about the City of London, not London the well-known capital city.
Well, my bike is insured, and I bought a recently released angle grinder-resistant lock [1].

My workspace is also fairly well located so that also helps.

[1] https://eu.litelok.com/products/litelok-x1
Hardly, every other video is filled with "This video is sponsored by Shit Company X". This is what Sponsorblock solves.
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35225494

My comment there, the short version is just over two years ago, various advertisers on there went mad with hard core porn ads.

Additionally here I'll add that I dug back into comments around two years ago, I was told some links were also pointing unsuspecting users into malware sites ... so I guess anyone (the average user) who had to use a zippyshare link basically if they were smart, had to use protection.

Hard core porn on sites used at work, or something kids would use is ... the epitome of what not to do.
> "portrayed racists in positive light"

The specific critique I recall being levelled at it in this context was more "racist has apparent redemption arc by helping white people, despite never addressing/showing remorse for past acts of racism", which doesn't seem as simplistic.

Personally I didn't come away feeling the character was redeemed anyway, so if that was intended as a redemption arc I missed it. But mostly I just didn't treat it as serious political commentary & just enjoyed the witty writing & delivery.
why close and not sell? with 45m visitors surely someone knows how to monetize it.