skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
They stopped allowing arsenic (Chromated Copper Arsenate) in pressure treated lumber in 2003 in the US. The replacement is not nearly as resistant to rot and pests, and the quality of the lumber used has also decreased in the decades since. There are lots of bandaids in the construction industry like putting tape along the tops of the joists to reduce the amount of water that gets in, but it looks like the industry is probably going to move to metal framing and plastic-based products for construction designed to last 10 years or more. Plastic based decking (eg Trex) has already taken over everything except the low end.
It's not surprising this is flagged. If you read the recommendations, discussions of downvoting (and flagging certainly counts) are not welcome because they're circular, uninteresting, and don't contribute positively to the site content.

Why are only ranked users able to flag? My guess is that after someone invests enough time in HN to accumulate 500 karma, that person has some idea of the spirit of what's wanted here. Ads and job postings are certainly not, nor political flames, etc. So a "karma'd" user might spot that pretty quickly. I don't get out my flag flyswatter very often but when I do, it's because I'm trying to help keep the garden clean, so to speak.
I read the headline repeatedly and can't make out the subject versus object, if there's a direct object or not. Can we bring back adjectives?
I think people in healthier countries in fact do consumer fewer healthcare services than those in the US.
> Is this typical for CS undergraduate degrees because you get to pick your own classes?

probably. although these were all topics that i taught myself through books and practice anyhow.

there are great resources for learning these topics these days, many of which are even free.

maybe try asking them how they focused their studies and try to suss out if they're willing to fill any gaps they may have.
For what it's worth, my Mastodon experience.

Broadly, I think the best use of Mastodon IS to be a Twitter competitor; a noisy town square.

What I have seen is -- the disagreeable people on Twitter want to publically fight. They want to push their bad ideas and have everyone listen to them, and thus are willing to get into it.

The disagreeable people on Mastodon want to silence others. They're more block happy and don't want to be questioned at all.

That's why, presently, I prefer the disagreeable people over at Twitter; they're actually using the platform better (and you can possibly change their minds)

I do hope this changes.
Whilst I'm overall in favour of promoting cycling as a way of getting around, in preference to motor vehicles, I'm not sure I entirely agree with "safer".

I live in Cambridge and have lost count of the number of times I've had to contend with cyclists blowing through pedestrian crossings on a red light (or zebra crossings at any time) when I'm trying to walk over them, or cycling the wrong way down a one-way street - or on the wrong side of the road - or had to dodge people cycling on the pavement.

When driving I've nearly hit several cyclists. Examples include: one leapt off of the pavement out of nowhere in front of me, one blew through a red light at traffic lights with a restricted view, and one was cycling the wrong way around a roundabout. The first two of these aren't one-off scenarios. Fortunately on all occasions I was paying attention so managed to take evasive action. Similar incidents have occurred when I've been on my motorcyle, most of which have been near misses, but on one especially ridiculous occasion a cyclist ran into the back of me at a set of traffic lights.

What you say would only really be true if there weren't a portion of the population - even only a minority - who are, for want of a better word, massive dickheads (or simply very inattentive and situationally unaware). It needs to become socially unacceptable to cycle without due care and attention to the safety of others (the same way drink-driving has become, not just legislated against, but enforced against and socially unacceptable). However, unfortunately, it's not at the moment so I'm not sure that safety - particularly for pedestrians or, indeed, cyclists - is a given.

Overall it constantly shocks me how little responsibility cyclists take for their own safety.
Had to chime in here RE: music. When I encounter people that wish they could play guitar/piano/etc and say "they have no time", but then I find out they play games for hours per day. Well... priorities right?
(I hardly play games anymore)
I've had it struggle to give me citations at all sometimes. Once I even had it give me a citation to a C# webpage for an Elixir question
What are the per-mile statistics? What percentage of total miles traveled occur via bike? If every trip counts equally, pedestrians should outnumber everyone. (Most every cyclist or driver becomes a pedestrian at some point during the day.)
none of the three of them knew about database systems, relational algebra, sql, or concurrent programming; zuck might have known things about network programming but he wrote fecebutt in php, he wasn't writing a tcp/ip stack or even invoking socket(), bind(), and listen()
If people would just behave well, we wouldn't need laws and courts.

When there's a profit motive, someone will always cut corners.
All three would have been better companies today, and along the way, if the founders would have been more mature.

They just wouldn't have gotten as early of a start.

Edit: Not my downvote. Corrective upvote in fact.
Yeah, that makes a lot more sense than the ridiculousness of the proposition if meant across the rest of London, as it's clearly not the case, sadly.
Hard to say. I, like many others here, am a software developer. My girlfriend of many years (have a daughter together) is a graphic designer. I never thought creative work like the one she does was going to be the first hit by AI, I actually thought it’d be the last, yet here we are. Her boss is nonchalantly talking about StableDiffusion, Modjourney and whatnot.

Meanwhile my cousing who wasn’t good at studying became a (good) hairdresser and his prospects look better than ours now.
photopea.com does about $1M/year mostly from ads (and is a 1-person business)

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26769141

I hope people don't use adblocker on that site since it provides so much value.
Cars kill way more people than bicycles do though. Regardless of your perceptions here, this mode shift is overall safer.
I have a M1 iPad Pro, running Windows 11 on that Version of UTM. It runs surprisingly well. I was able to use the desktop Version of Photoshop without any Problems (even more demanding filters). I even was able to run rekordbox and connect my DJ Mixer to it so USB also seems to be working great.
Whenever I meet a new spider in my home I have 2 rules: 1. Don’t be dangerous to my family 2. Do not enter my bedroom. If these rules are violated I’ll kindly escort them out.
What SVB did was not best practice, as shown by the fact that they are now bankrupt and the FDIC had to step in to make depositors whole. Why are you painting it as if it was?
The parent is correct.

Anyway you look at it, many historic societies existed for hundreds of years with levels of inequality vastly greater than experienced currently by any farmer in the U.S.
It’s a convenient way to store and sort lots of curl requests for later use, its best cases are when you’ve got libraries of APIs you interact with semi-regularly (but not in such a consistent way that you’d be better off just writing a script). The paid version exists primarily so that you can have such a collection synced between an entire team automatically…but I’ve never worked somewhere that would be worth the cost.

For one off requests, yeah there’s no point to something like that.
It is not any more expensive than anywhere else in central London. Electric cars can drive in the city for free at any time. For other cars, between 7am and 6pm you have to pay a £15 congestion charge to drive in the centre. You might have to pay another £12.50 ULEZ charge if you drive an older car.
RIP, you'll be missed.

However I'm not puzzled by this. The speed was always fast, and they didn't employ any strategies like a lot of the other OCH which made downloading a huge PITA.
If anyone non-UK types are interested in this weird entity — technically dates back to Roman days, and predates the United Kingdom by hundreds of years — this podcast episode is quite funny and informative.

Just an example of what a weird anomalous zone it is: the King (or Queen) of England is not legally allowed to enter without explicit permission from the mayor — not the mayor of London, the Lord Mayor of this square mile. It's like if Wall Street could tell the President of the US to take a hike.

https://trashfuturepodcast.podbean.com/e/unlocked-britainolo...
Evaluating What Works (2023)
I haven't read the entirety of this yet, but as someone who wants to be able to be able to walk-the-walk of skepticism, I figured others here would appreciate the primer too.
Runway Launches Gen-2 Synthetic Video Model
I have absolutely seen toxic behavior, because it was levelled at me.

Specifically, for the "sin" of defending people who choose to also remain at Twitter because we still have some people we care about over there (in my case, lots of Black folks who haven't made the switch.)

And for that, I've been called, e.g. a Nazi.
> you will not kill someone if you ride after a night drinking

(other than yourself)
2nd this, this is where I learned how computers boot up.
> Poverty causes significant stress on couples which almost certainly explains the differences between the marriage rates of different classes in our society.

Except this gap is new. In 1979, marriage rates in the top four income quintiles were quite similar: https://www.brookings.edu/research/middle-class-marriage-is-...
Windowmaker is my go-to on systems where there is no hardware acceleration so they get bogged down with anything trying to do compositing.
All freespeech platforms, from 4chan to twitter, are pre-dominantly right wing.

All censorship-based platforms, such as reddit or mastodon that has _mods_, are left wing.

Secondly, the woke left is the same in the US as it is in Europe. The west is one global entity these days. JK Rowling is hated by swedish leftists and california leftists.

Third, "it's simply not true" is not a convincing argument in the face of millions of examples. Why do you think all the biggest comedians in the US avoid colleges?
Ah, that clarifies things. I've seen many photos of the traffic in the streets of London, and was wondering how such a bicycle-hostile environment would manage to get so many cyclists.

I thought that maybe the metric they were using ("the single largest vehicular mode counted during peak times on City streets”) meant they were measuring how many vehicles of a certain type were passing by. And since in gridlock bicycles travel faster than cars, you'd have more bicycles passing by than cars.
Coming out of my CS program I didn't know much about concurrent programming because it was 2002 and people still thought of Beowulf Clusters for concurrency back then. I'd expect today to be different.

We were taught SQL heavily.

Network programming like packet switching, etc was something we didn't get into until grad school though.
Oh, no worries. I did! :) Stylus makes the internet so much better.
And there’s no better source than the perpetrators themselves, right?
> SVG is firewalled off from js and css regardless of how you use it.

That's a weird claim, since most of my SVG customizations are done using CSS.

> SVG is so bad people have been using fonts instead (which are binary).

No they're not, SVG is far more popular than icon fonts, which has been in steady decline for years.

> And 99.9% of people who use SVG are doing it with illustrator or inkscape anyway

False again. SVG is a popular export format for myraid of desktop, mobile & online design & publishing tools and presentation software which I've used over the years, none of which were Illustrator or Inkscape. I've also hand edited lots of SVGs to customize it to look how I want, which isn't feasible for Icon fonts.
> What you say would only really be true if there weren't a portion of the population - even only a minority - who are, for want of a better word, massive dickheads (or simply very inattentive and situationally unaware).

Isn‘t the same statement true for car drivers? But the major difference is that a car turns a dickhead into a mortal danger for other drivers, pedestrians and cyclists alike, while a bike doesn‘t.
Its user interface is kinda meh but it's pretty good for documenting and demoing an API across a developer team. However, Postman owns the data and upsells you a cloud solution.

A set of curl scripts or a .http file (httpie) held in your project's git repository is IMO preferable, most editors allow you to run these directly from the editor.
Eclipse: Web Based Multi-Emulator
But are their works even included in any of the datasets?

Also - if I want to get, say, cover art for my book - why should I hire a human if Stable Diffusion works just as good? I'm also not interested in ripping off a particular artist's style. Do those artists really think that I'm going to hire them after they opt out of being included into ML datasets? Nope - I'll just experiment with SD a bit more to get the style that I want.
The statistics suggest that you're much, much more likely to get KSI'd as a pedestrian by a motorist than a cyclist.

We've been indoctrinated into motonormative thinking because most of us have lived our entire lives surrounded by cars.
Browsing the internet without ad-blocking is like raw-dogging a prostitute. Why would you?
Biking and drinking (in excess) — probably not the world’s best combo in general, but on the bright side it is just your own life at risk, and there’s a built-in coordination challenge, so I guess it isn’t possible to get going while truly hammered!
>With that said, I can guess most are using single speed. Hopefully not fixed :)

I'm more curious as to the makeup of electric-assisted vs human-powered.

Ebikes have also shaken up the drivetrain landscape a bit. Motors can be in the middle of the bike, and those bikes are often being paired with internally geared hubs in the rear. Mid-drive bikes can incorporate a gearbox in the motor, and are built with nothing but a belt drive and a single cog on the rear wheel.

I love pedaling, but I'd have to be blind to not see how ebikes have widened cycling's userbase in my area, and I'm very curious if that's the case everywhere.
I've a 24 km commute in Dublin in Ireland. It's most consistent by ebike.
Driving can take anywhere from 35 minutes to over an hour depending on traffic.
Public transport takes 90 minutes and there is only a direct bus a couple of times a day, otherwise it will take closer to two hours.

On my bike it consistently takes an hour.
I can take various green ways through parks and try to minimise my exposure to aggressive drivers and get some good exercise even on an ebike. The only issue is picking up a puncture which has been an issue with my new tyres lately. It's important to invest in good equipment if you can.
Indeed. Still better though.
It doesn't have to be anything new; you could contribute to the SDKs of some of the current-day new programming languages like Rust and Go, that will have reimplementations of what curl does as well.

Nothing I can think of that will make you important though.
If you are dealing with people who don't understand bond investing, and can disable their sense of caution with "US Govt. Guaranteed!" - then it is very easy to lose a boatload of their money. (As I learned the hard way, 4+ decades ago.)

A very basic example - take a peek at the 1-year return on investing in US Treasury 20- to 30-year STRIP bonds:

https://www.spglobal.com/spdji/en/indices/fixed-income/sp-us...

(Summary - the 1-year return is negative 23%.)

Honest, competent bond investment managers will be very cautious about investing in longer-term bonds, and will hedge interest rate risk, and etc. etc. etc. Bond investment managers who lack those virtues can - most of the time - offer better yields and returns. Their blow-ups more than ruin that, long-term...but how many American financial sector executives care about the long term, these days? Certainly not - as other news stories have made clear in considerable detail - SVB's leaders.
Your health is critical. Many of you are literally programming the future. Pick a place to live where you are safe to think and your mind is in that creative mode. Remember, your Health Care System takes care of your physical body, with you deciding how and what stimulates your mind balance to create that code.
Understand, specifically “show dead” — but that’s not a list of ONLY flagged comments or ONLY flagged submissions — nor is it from those lists easy to get context of why they’re flagged or easy to vouch to unflagged them; to unflagged item, click its related timestamp, then click “vouch” on the items sub-navigation.
That makes me sad to hear. We loved Philly. My wife did her PhD at Penn and we lived in Center City. When we moved there, South of South and West of the Schuylkill were the badlands. There was not a single place one could eat outside. We purchased our home at auction for 100k and put 150K into renovating it. It was an absurdly large 4 story with multiple decks including a rooftop deck. When we left, there were dozens of outdoor eating spots and Philly felt like NYC but with a heart. Almost every evening walking about you would see people you knew. When we moved, we sold our home for a crazy profit.
(please ignore the german texts, I only googled some accurate images for illustration)

- nature looks like: https://www.alltrails.com/de/route/germany/wander-tour-harbu...
- "rural" village https://www.hamburg.de/neugraben-fischbek/ (image gallery) that _actually_ is part of hamburg area, located at this nature, and
- 35-42 minutes by train from that village centre (u can walk to the train station in like 10 minutes) to the middle of hamburg
They use SVN, and some of us have had various git forks going for some time.

I have two for example, one to patch the old Harari UI with proper font and color, and two more which package Previous for Raspberry Pi; one via Debian and one with Buildroot.
In think the reason you can’t use metal is because building code is significantly more lenient for wood structures. As soon as you bring metal into the mix you get stuck with more complicated engineering and permits
Ha, I realized the way to make it "not" too much work is to only do them as I "need" them.

E.g. Find song, do I have all those chords? No? Time to make a new one.
I find it interesting that some people feel that moving away from cities and towards a more natural lifestyle means moving to a farm or ranch.

As Steven Pinker notes in his brilliant “Enlightenment Now”, there is nothing natural about a farm. It is basically a factory that subjugates the local ecology to produce monoculture crops so delicate that you have to domesticate humans to take care of them. If you want to live in nature and get away from command and control culture, you may want to skip the farm or livestock ranch and experience nature more directly as forests, meadows etc.
I disagree.

The lack of professionalism, in this example, is the menacing email.

Of course there are rules to follow when working for a company, and some degree of loyalty is naturally expected.

But this kind of email is completely unwarranted, there is no need for this tone.
I would celebrate if this happened naturally, but this seems more a case of if you punish driving enough you get less drivers.

When I was in London over a decade ago they already had restrictions on car traffic into certain parts of the city and additional fees to go there. Tax on a new car is 20% and lots of regulations on their characteristics. Large taxes on petrol which is already much more expensive than in the US.
Peak driving time in the City is also probably more like after 8/9pm when the big banks start offering car service for their employees to get home anyway.
>> It's not surprising this is flagged. If you read the recommendations, discussions of downvoting (and flagging certainly counts) are not welcome because they're circular, uninteresting, and don't contribute positively to the site content.

This applies to doing so as a response to within comment where the topic itself is NOT the abuse of flagging.

>> Why are only ranked users able to flag? My guess is that after someone invests enough time in HN to accumulate 500 karma

Only 31 rep is required to flag; this is mentioned numerous times already in the comments to this submission.
There is the audiogame forum1 and some of the more popular rpg games have some soundscape meant for accessibility, but I haven't explored that much. Chess and some of the other tabletop games are made accessible relatively easily, but most card games with multiple cards are hard. Some image recognition or qr codes might help, but I haven't seen such implementations in the wild. If online, should be relatively easy to present the current state. RTS are out of discussion, but the term-based strategies might be made accessible with proper exposure of relevant info and enough time to explore it.

1 https://forum.audiogames.net
No -- looking at the code [here](https://github.com/keijiro/AICommand/blob/main/Assets/Editor...), it's sending the input with a wrapper to ChatGPT and running whatever the API sends back. I guess that "action, thing, amount" tasks are probably the least likely for ChatGPT to hallucinate on.
LLaMA 7B (Alpaca) running on Google Pixel 7 Pro
Bill Gates was in the 0.01% in terms of access to computing resources at the time: a Teletype 33 and time on a GE mainframe via his private school. There are 19 year olds and 19 year olds when it comes to bring set up for Big Things.
Just because you can, doesn't mean you should. Some of the ugliest bullshit I have ever seen!
If they paid the horse instead of the stable, the horse might make rent.
unless you have also trained in tracking?
1 car/household is still entirely feasible with children (and the norm for many lower-class in Europe).

We live with 1 child and no car and it's been working fine thus far. You have to be careful about where you live and work though, but I'd say the added quality of life of living car-free (in a car-free city) is all worth it.