skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Parisian here, for context I've been cycling to work for about 10 years now (before Paris transformed into a cycle-friendly city).

There are a lot of speculations and hypothesis from people who don't live in Paris and try to apply their experience in a different city to Paris, so allow me to offer the experience (obviously I'm biased) of someone living there.

The first big misconception is that this ban is only due to elderly going to vote. While the 90% percentage is indeed skewed, recent polls from before the vote showed that about 60% of the population approve of this ban. It's not as overwhelming, but still a majority.

People are fed up with rental e-scooters, but why? Not because they are littered everywhere. It's not longer the case. There are dedicated e-scooters parking spots, that are overall used properly (though they are often on the floor due to wind or being knocked down). The article talks about "tightening regulations", I'm pretty sure there are rules enforcing that.

The real reason is that anytime you see someone egregiously disregarding rules in a way that endanger others, it's more often than not a rental e-scooter, with rental e-bikes coming behind. They are perceived as dangerous, plain and simple. And it's not a lack of cycling infrastructure. While it's not up to Netherlands-level of bike-friendliness yet, it's quite good lately overall.

Now a last misconception is that this ban is bad because people will revert to cars. No they won't. In the first place, people riding rental e-scooters do not replace a car trip by a rental e-scooter trip, they don't even own one for the most part (or even have a driving license). What is replaced is a subway, bus, bike, or walking trip. Perhaps on some rare occasions a taxi/Uber. Apart from that last rare occasion, all other alternatives are MORE eco-friendly than the e-scooters.
> The problem with diesel isn't climate.

Yes, it is.

> Diesel has lower carbon emissions than gasoline.

It is not being phased out in trucks in favor of gasoline trucks, so, even if true, that would be irrelevant.

But it’s also not true, diesel releases more CO2 for the same energy than gasoline does. [0]

[0] https://www.eia.gov/environment/emissions/co2_vol_mass.php
Related links:

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

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/De_Broglie%E2%80%93Bohm_theory

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hydrodynamic_quantum_analogs
This is quite important. While e-scooters are very eco-friendly, in hands of large rending companies they usually have extremely limited lifespan and are not fullfulling this place.
> I don't understand how Microsoft can cheapen their main OS that much.

I think the sad reality is a huge portion of the American population actually likes being fed commercial/branded b.s. Just look how common it is for folks to voluntarily affix things like Monster energy drink logos on their vehicles... The culture has no class, monster trucks dude.
I love Peter Saville's art; don't want to post an amazon link but there are some really good coffee table books of his stuff.
Ads appears even on fresh installs, so not sure how that helps?
So they make a referendum for this but they force on them changes on retirement age. Illusion of democracy.
This post has made me find out about this app and it's awesome
Yes, much fewer Spanish women go topless on the beach today compared to just 20 years ago.
But they voted for the politicians that adopted those immigration policies - it doesn't happen by itself.
> Hopefully this isn’t as devastating to vehicle availability as Cash For Clunkers was.

Why would it be? Cash for clunkers was taking old vehicles off the road, this is mandating a different mix for new vehicles.

> Interestingly, green policy of late has been promoting the opposite of the Reduce, Reuse, Recycle ethos.

The Reduce, Reuse, Recycle mantra (1) isn’t about climate policy, and (2) was largely a manufacturer-backed propaganda effort to shift blame and policy response for waste stream volume to consumers rather than manufacturers.
103,000 people voted out of 1.38M registered voters.
The reason to ban LPG cars from underground garages is that propane is heavier than air, and in case of a leak the gas has nowhere to go (other than drainage, which sort of highlights the problem).
You can't take a bike easily into: a car, the subway, your flat, a shop, ...

It could also be the same reasoning as a car regarding the space: a bike for 1 person takes more space than an e-scooter for 1 person.

The real problem is not the device: it's the users. People using bikes also do stupid things, but not that often. Bikes can be very fast too, with electric assist they can go faster than cars in the city, but most "problems" seen today are with the scooters. This is a sad situation, but it's some users' fault, not the operators', not the city's, ...

One way to deal with this would be to have a license to drive a scooter or bike, so that kids (and adults) are taught some basic rules and have to follow them. But I guess this is politically hard to implement, it's easier to ban.
For anyone wondering: these kind of plots are sometimes still called "joyplots", but more and more commonly referred to as "ridgeline plots". Many plotting libraries have support for them nowadays, some more 'native support' than others. For ggplot2 there's ggridges [0], the seaborn docs have an example here [1] or in my own ggplot2 inspired lib for Nim [2] it's built in:

[0]: https://cran.r-project.org/web/packages/ggridges/vignettes/i...

[1]: https://seaborn.pydata.org/examples/kde_ridgeplot

[2]: https://github.com/Vindaar/ggplotnim/blob/master/recipes.org...
There's an additional threat in that overseas students must report regularly to the party otherwise their funding will be cut and they will be sent home. (This applies to Chinese funded students not those funded by overseas grants etc)
Hi, what's an "heightmap image" you're referring on the github page?
I don't understand what kind of input it expects.

Thanks
FreePascal does win64 and pretty much every other platform from the last 30-40 years as well. I think you can still use it for win32 and win16 if you want to. I used it to cross-compile to 16-bit DOS and 32-bit DOS, and also various 32-bit and 64-bit ARM targets as well as 64-bit intel Windows, Linux, and FreeBSD. Seems to work everywhere.
from the letters section:

>It's true that today there are
some jobs that can be done only by mucking with raw HTML, and if you want to do those, you have to code them by hand. But as HTML evolves, so do HTML editors. And one day Real Soon Now, there will be absolutely no need to write HTML code by hand. After all, do you hand-code PostScript to get
it to print well?

any day now...
There was Operator

https://www.engadget.com/2015-04-23-operator-shopping-app.ht...
> English has no gender at all

The Indo-European gender difference still survives in the distinction between he, she, and it.

More interestingly, English is in the process of developing a gender distinction between people and non-people, reflected in the use of the relativizer who for people and which for non-people. (The words do not otherwise differ; this is a purely grammatical distinction!) This incipient gender distinction is absorbing the old one, leading to the feeling that it expresses that the referent is not a person.
Dispatchable solar power using molten salt directly irradiated from above (2021)
In a rural town?
Metropolitan areas have always been well served.
English is very inconsistent, not that this necessarily makes it harder of course, compared to languages such as Finnish which has very regular grammar and no ambiguity with pronounciation.

("I could have read the red book, because I like to read." is just one example of inconsistent pronounciation. Spelling is non-obvious to people learning the language, again as a result of unusual and inconsistent pronounciation.)
>I'm gonna get hated on for this, but I don't think "give back" is an open source concept.

Well I guess you know why you may be hated for this already. For anyone who has surf HN since ~2010 would know or should notice the definition of open source has changed over the past 10-15 years. Giving Back and Communities are the two predominant Open Source ideals now. Along with making lots money on top of OSS code being somewhat a contentious issue to say the least.

But I want to side step the idealistic issue and think this is more of an economic issue. Where this could be attributed as a zero interest rate phenomenon. You now have developers ( especially those from US ) for most if not all of their professional life living under the money / investment were easy, comparatively speaking. And they should give back when money ( or should I say cash flow ) isn’t an issue. When $200K Total Comp were suppose to be the norm for fresh grad joining Google. And management thinking $500K is barely enough they need to work their way to $1M, while seniors developer believes if Junior were worth $200K than they are asking for $1M total comp is perfectly sane, or some other extreme where everyone in the company should earn exactly the same.

If Twitter or social media were any indication you see a lot of these ideals were completely gone from the conversation. Although this somehow started before the layoffs.

It is somewhat interesting to see the sociologic and idealogical changes with respect to economics changes. But then again, economics in itself is perhaps the largest field psychology study.
The other Chinese apps taking the US and UK by storm
The quote I responded to was explicitly about a minority of people who opted into voting. Other parts of the comment included nonvoters, but that's a different discussion.
A computer is always imperfect though, compared to the universe, which is very stable and extremely perfect to the last detail. I don't think we can even compare since the scale and the domain is so vast.
The Outer Hebrides (islands) of Scotland had a similar situation.

The ferry used not to run on Sundays, and there were protests when Sunday service began. However, the airport operated flights on Sunday, so if you could afford it you could still e.g. visit family for the weekend and return to the mainland in time for work on Monday.

There are still no buses on Sunday, although there seem to be very few Monday-Saturday so that might not be entirely due to religious indoctrination.
Sounds similar: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35415305
PiEEG shield for Raspberry Pi enables brain computer interfaces (Crowdfunding)
And now you're stuck in a proprietary ecosystem. Of course you should avoid Apple.
This is actually something I try to make a point of doing frequently. I tend to try games on Linux first before falling back to Windows after.

Big call out is controller support. Sometimes I game on my TV, when I do I use an Xbox whatever-the-current-gen-is controller with the official usb dongle.

To get it working on Linux, I had to compile/install a third party kernel extension from GitHub via the command line - fine for me but I could not ask anyone else to do it.

It also doesn't always launch properly. Sometimes I have to shutdown, unplug the usb, boot with it unplugged, login, plug it in, then turn on my controller. I have gotten into the rhythm of this because I really want Linux to be the place for me but the reality is that it would be nice if Linux had built in support for this hardware.

Also, I run my TV at 1440p@120hz rather than its default 4k@60hz - the login screen in Fedora runs at 4k before switching to 1440p after logging in.

But something interesting with Proton is that it runs some games better than Windows does - particularly older titles that use older APIs. I was playing through GTA4 recently (never got through the whole game, underrated IMO) and it plays _way_ better on Linux than Windows - even when you use DXVK on Windows. Same with COD2!
And the list of people who care.
I've asked for your intervention in another comment.

With respect to both the comments you gave as a reply, I have read the guidelines and will abide by it.

Also, I won't protest you nor engage on this whole thread anymore. Its a whole new sunny day here in India, and I hope yours is too.
I am always amused by those kinds of etymologies where a word "gets back" to the language it came from or its more direct heir (Italian for Latin) after living in a different language.

In Hebrew we have "tachless" that comes from yiddish "tachless", that comes from Hebrew "tachlit" but now tachless and tachlit have different meanings and different grammar roles
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I've only seen one stat and it shows that, in Atlanta, following an E-efooter ban, average commute times increased 10%.

https://www.sciencealert.com/the-city-of-atlanta-banned-e-sc...
> All these talks about Starlink -> Remember it's a bandaid solution to your governments poor planning and infrastructure rollout of a core utility / service.

Partially. The thing is, the US is so unbelievably huge that it is economically infeasible to serve extremely rural areas with high-speed wired (i.e. fiber, DSL) or wireless (microwave, 4G/5G phone) internet, even with massive government subsidies - and that applies for other large-area countries such as Germany or Australia as well.

Starlink completely changes the equations there as (for the user) no investment is required other than getting a terminal, and for anything mobile (sea ships, RVs, emergency services) it blows the competition from geostationary satellites completely away.
Excel is not really required and I already pointed to OpenOffice. But I was asked especially for Excel. The link you provided is a very good starting point for me. I will redirect it immediately. Thank you! :)
Anecdata, but the vast majority of people I see using using escooters in Australian cities are kids and drunk people.

It’s not hard to see either: they’re bright orange or purple, and are usually seen on a Saturday or Sunday morning dumped thoughtlessly in disabled ramps, in a gutter, or some other place that a drunk might find convenient.
If a tree is standing in a forest, but no one is there to watch it. Does the tree get rendered every frame?
I'm more comparing own vs rent. Rental e-bikes are great as well, 90% as good as the scooters. Disadvantages of keeping your own:

1) Need to take it with you on the train/bus/car

2) Need to lock it to something secure when you leave it (especially e-bikes/scooters which are expensive)

3) Need to pick it up from the same place you left it last time.

4) Need to buy it (€1000+) and maintain it, and charge it

5) Need to store it somewhere secure when not in use

6) The parking scales really poorly: if 10 people can use a hire-bike in a day, but 1 person can use a private one, this would mean the private bikes would take 10x the amount of parking per user.
> They would be far too expensive to rely on for commuting or predictable use.

In my city they have a season pass option that makes them economically viable for commuting.
It's a bit of an exaggeration, but I've written the whole Linux application in the same time that I needed to get my build environment working on Windows. I still don't know how people can like developing on Windows, especially if it involves anything regarding C/C++ libs. (Not using a paid version of Visual Studio, fwiw).
You're advising him to do exactly what he says he did in the article. How is that going to turn out any different?
Yes but I guess it won't happen until someone complains. Similar to other content, e.g. YouTube, but in reality nobody requests takedowns of forks/copies.
NYC and Chicago yes, LA would be unfair considering the city footprint.
What is the close association you’re referring to?
Western Digital reports network security incident
When a bicycle mows down a person, they both get a bruise and go on with their life.

When a car mows down a cycle, the cyclist usually dies.
>Local laws are suddenly not so local anymore, and people like Holz have no qualms about aiding their illiberal international spread.

Okay, after decades on an American internet where a nipple is often enough to provoke censorship I do have to laugh a little bit about the sudden insight that large nations, shockingly enough, have influence beyond their own borders.
Hijacked for Safari on MacOS for me.
When GH devised Copilot, they could have (internally, at GH) decided to make a two-tier model, one tier trained only on unrestrictive licenses, the other bringing in more-restrictively license code too. And then offer them to the GH-using public as two different functionalities. An intelligently differentiated product line for intelligent people.

But: NOOOO.

In order to close off this possibility, which would restrict Copilot revenue, they instead would roll out a single undifferentiated product and with lots of "gee whiz!" and associated hooplah, and be sure to offer it for free for a while to suck everyone in and head off criticism.
This question has been central to me for a long time.

Reading Impro by Johnstone and Inner Ring by C.S. Lewis yourself is central to understanding this topic.

First thing to understand is that status follows power law dynamic, instead of being normally distributed. Thus, in social status games, there is typically winner-take-all mentality. The bigger the game, the more the distribution is skewed.

You can easily understand why, if you think about blogs. The first blogs have a huge advantage. Everybody wants to link from the popular ones, so they befriend the people maintaining those blogs. So if you are already popular, people will want to connect to you, so you will get even more popular, as more people join the community.

It is easier to talk about this in the context of social dancing, because the feedback on your status is more immediate and visible. If you have high social status, you are sought after as dance partner by the opposite sex. If you have less than high social status you are either not sought after, or even avoided as dance partner. Interesting thing is that your social status is dynamic, it depends on status of others.

For example, in some dance parties I may be one of the high status males. In other dance parties I can be some of the medium status males. Sometimes I may even be a low status male. If I don't know anybody in a place, then women might be less than willing to take a risk and dance with me. If I cannot easily find a partner, and I am left without a partner, women start thinking there is something wrong with me, and start actively avoiding me. So there is negative status spiral as well.

The thing to understand here is that nothing in my skill has changed. Only the environment has changed. People are highly influenced by the environment. People use the interest of others (i.e. status) as a heuristic to gauge whther they should be interested in somebody (i.e. grant them status).

However, the inner truth here is that ultimately none of this really matters. I am not kinesthetically gifted, my dancing is not visually very attractive, so I cannot get high status by showing off.

My strength is that I appear to be a little bit more emotionally open so that something I call "emotional connection" in the dance happens more often and is deeper. The dancers who are emotionally more open in this sense is actually the circle of "sound craftsmen" which C.S. Lewis talks about. And they recognize each other, regardless of social status. And "emotional connection" is something that really brings happiness in the dance.
Lol. I clicked on the link, thinking "Oh come on, it can't be THAT bad", and was presented with a literal endless gallery of slightly Manga-ish women with unfathomably huge boobs.
Maybe, instead of turning the whole world into paperclips, the AI apocalypse will consist of the filling of every last speck of hard disk storage space with a trillion boringly similar synthetic jpegs of such charming ladies.
I vaguely get what the author is saying, but I think "give back" is the end result, not the issue. The vast majority of people don't give back. It's exposure.

When GPT uses code from stack overflow, you don't see the community, so there isn't any possibility to engage with it; essentially starving the community.
For just the last mile, and for a regular commute, the private options are a folding bicycle, or to leave a second bicycle locked at the station.

Folding bicycles are most common in London, where the high cost is still lower than adding a metro/bus supplement to a rail commuter ticket.

A second bicycle locked at the station is not unusual in Dutch cities, Copenhagen etc, where there are thousands locked around major stations.
I wonder if there have been any social studies done regarding the apparent sense of entitlement that comes with operating any kind of vehicle. E-scooters are an absolute menace nearly everywhere I've seen them being used, with their operators weaving between pedestrians and cars alike, and littering the kerb when unused. But the same is often true for bicycles, especially the fast electric kind, and it's certainly true for many cars. Only, cars have been given a special kind of kerb where they can take up space.

For some reason, we've come to accept the dominant position of cars and the absolute entitlement (and douchebaggery!) that comes with it. But we seem to be unwilling to accept the same from bikes or scooters.

I'm happy to accept the scooter menace if it means fewer cars on the road. And given how much of a nightmare traffic is in Paris, I'm surprised that Parisians don't seem to agree. But then I guess thes ones who voted against this probably feel entitled to their preferred mode of transport over all others ... ?
zoom is on my 10-foot pole list. I won't install it on my machines. The sandbox is a good alternative to the browser version.
Knowing a romance language already helps in picking up another one but I wouldn't say you can communicate easily between Italian and Spanish.

It would be like using your English to converse in Dutch.
I can't speak for laptops, but I strongly doubt any claims about drivers on desktop GNU/Linux. It's a common talking point but I believe it is mostly parroting. Anything I have plugged into my PC for the past few years has worked right out of the box. Installing Nvidia drivers is a common complaint, but it has never been more than an apt/pacman/xbps-install away for me.
'E-scooters have safety risks, let's encourage people back into 2-ton fossil-fuel-burning cars instead!'

If we want a future of EVs, we need to figure out how to include personal light EVs, not just very expensive full-size-car replacements for the wealthy.
Fully agree.

This may seem a bit nitpicky and philosophical, but anyway: these feelings you mention are about things, and these things the feelings come from are what is most important. Feelings are never standalone, if they are they are just moods which are so personal its hard to have a conversation over.

Let's call 'the things' values. I'd say feelings are perceptions of values, and as such they invariably have a conceptual element to them. And exactly that conceptual aspect makes them suitable for conversation and sometimes even debate, insofar as they can be incorrect. We can acknowledge the subjective, emotive aspect of feelings as highly and inalienably personal, respect the individual opinion behind them and contest the implicit truth-claims all at the same time.
It’s interesting to me that in the original proposal for fixing fsync to actually be durable (https://lwn.net/Articles/270891/), there was thought given to the desire for a non-flushing write barrier (ctrl-f SYNC_FILE_RANGE_NO_FLUSH), but it appears that it never got implemented.
The link currently gives me a 404. Archive link: https://archive.is/xVKhx
People are the reason we can't have nice things.
Or maybe is is the free floating idea.
I remember in Brisbane and Helsinki there were fixed stations to borrow and return bikes to/from. But it seems this tiny limitation of convenience (can't drop it wherever) breaks the concept.