skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It'll only cut down on traffic if all the new arrivals in Boston do not use cars and many older Boston residents also give up their cars. Fundamentally, transit is an investment into infrastructure that has better scaling properties than car-centric development. It's there to absorb further growth in the region.
Sure if we just ignore all the billions that the Tawiwanese government poured into TSMC, and all the stock investors' money, and ignore the other clients TSMC had, and the fact that they got to 20-nanometer without any funding from Apple as far as I know, then I guess you are right.
So, can people decide not to pay for their Tesla's or is this kind of behaviour one-way?
I agree, though I wouldn't call it society. I'd call it "economy and policy".

The USA has no safety nets. Getting sick could mean going bankrupt if you don't have a job with healthcare. With rents as high as they are in big cities, not having a job quickly drains your bank account. As you said, you need two incomes now.

If you have a family, you might live in the suburbs which makes things worse. Suburbs can often be loneliness machines. Everyone is so spread-out, there's nothing to do except going to someone else's house, and you have to drive to get anywhere.

I don't want people in my house. I want to meet them at a café, a bar, or a restaurant, casually. "Hey, this thing happened at work, let's chat about it over some drinks" shouldn't involve picking whose house we're meeting at, or driving, or a $XX 20 minute + 10 min wait-time Uber, and another one back.
Depending on the route and the time of day you'll find homeless, nodded out addicts, groups of bored young people looking for a happening, insane people, and sanitary issues.

Depends where and when you're going, and some is just plain luck, or lack of it.
I don’t really understand how that’s at all relevant. The point is that social connections are more difficult with remote work irrespective of how many hours you’re working.
TVs already do a lot of such tracking, and they are open about it. Samsung famously has their ACR feature[1] which works in a manner similar to what you suggest - it basically phones home periodically with screenshots of what you're watching.

[1] - https://www.samsung.com/us/business/samsungads/resources/tv-...
Traffic is worse than it ever was. I basically avoid going in for activities any longer. Which is fine. But it's mostly not worth going in to meet people in the city in the evening at this point.
They tend to think driving is awful under those conditions, but still better than not being able to drive. The thing with a car is that you can go anywhere at anytime where there's a road, which is virtually everywhere. You don't have to share the car with strangers, you can transport things in the car too heaving to carry in all sorts of weather.

The convenience is hard to beat even with good public transportation.
Sorry to hear this. I know it’s rough.
I just tried it and it was the first algorithmic listing. The first listing was for another app fir AI chat with a very familiar looking logo.
This is sort of an interesting one. The combination of home refrigeration and suburbs created the "weekend shop", but it's not a given that this is optimal or even really desirable.
Nice flex, I like the attitude!
https://clip.cafe/tucker-dale-vs-evil-2010/ive-never-stood-c...
> More rare, is finding folks that can honestly admit to having beaten it.

I did that as well, although I was a kid at the time. Not sure if I could now.
Ah. The thing that I'm using is running some kind of headless Chrome that runs the WhatsApp Web: https://github.com/pedroslopez/whatsapp-web.js

From what I understand this might get killed by Facebook at some point as they never approved this method.
Real qubits have flaws, and you could experiment to see under what conditions they work better or worse, like by applying magnetic fields. Simulated qubits are presumably flawless, and so you can't experiment with them.
I've had FTTC for many years, and it's been like eating grilled turd.

Latency was through the roof, if you try to plau CS Go you will loose to bots. Weired cal dropping issues on skype/teams/etc. But you do a speed test, and it shows solid 50+ mbps

That was Virgin media. Oh, and upload is shit.

The I moved to a newbuilt eith FTTH and I never looked back. It's a world of difference.

If i need to move I literally reject any home without fiber. Estate agents are always surpised - i. the age of working from home!
If you accept that as true then you also have to accept that your voice is hopelessly copyable and defense against that is futile. So it’s not really important.
By that link, half the kids that live a mile from school are driven in a private car.

That’s bonkers to me. That’s a completely walkable distance if road/sidewalk design allows it. That it frequently doesn’t is a failure on the part of our governments and urban planners.
Plugins work fine in the app. It’s just a nice webview basically.
Yeah, that's true, so that's one less feature they'd be able to share. Unless you're creating an ORM, there's not much left aside from connecting to the database (different for all of them), sending packets (different for all of them), and maybe parameterizing queries. So basically you can make a query builder. Then of course you can have "drivers" for each database, but I'd consider that philosophically different from using the same library "without switching code" (IMO separate drivers implies "switching code" since each driver needs to be maintained separately and depends on a different upstream dependency).
We created a society where homeless people have so few means, they turn to public transit just to have a roof over their heads and stay warm. Then we lament how public transit has become “undesirable”, never recognizing the active steps we take to make it so.
What came before cars?

What utility do cars provide?

Do zealots even consider these basic questions?
It’s actually astonishing to see how shitty the journalism at Engadget has gotten.
I mean, you probably want 2 for resilience but DRBD and active/passive setup is simple enough and doesn't get into the usual fuckery with having clustered DB
I get that not everyone is like me but I just cannot stand those pre/post meeting socials with food and drinks. I'm just sitting there fidgiting thinking about what a completely nonproductive imposition this is on my time.

If I want social time with food and drinks I want to be with family and friends. If I'm at the office I want to be working. Otherwise I don't want to be there.

And Zoom anything can suck it. Full Stop.
> I am an entrepreneur of friendship

love that for u. where do i invest?
FCKGW?
> It can be done

I live in Amsterdam which is arguably a few decades ahead in this process. It is both true that something can be done but also that we are nowhere close to actually closing this issue.

I don't mean to discourage people from switching where and when they can (or give anybody an excuse not to). There are tangible quality of life benefits that can be obtained each step along the way. So if car usage drops, say, from 90% to 60% thats hugely important.

But structural changes in the layout of urban environments are a wicked problem that will keep people busy (and procrastinating) for a long time.
What packages would you recommend for this kind of usage?
I do love Gentoo and have had it as my home OS for ages. I like to describe it as "the patient person's Linux".. it definitely provides many learning opportunities and sometimes roadblocks however if you get stuck, the IRC channel is very helpful indeed, got me out of many-a-bind! Sorry to see it's popularity declining.
Yeah same, Gentoo made me switch to xmonad :)
RSV vaccine to protect infants gets green light from FDA advisors
That page was not helpful to me.

I still have no idea if Photomator is something I should consider, having already purchased Pixelmator Pro.
Just make black actual black and it's good. No need for dark gray on light gray
> Literally all of my adult friends are former coworkers, with some of them not even becoming friends until after we quit jobs.

Ehh, some of my friends are that way too, but a lot of my work friendships have withered when there wasn't work keeping us in contact on a regular basis.

> You spend majority of your waking hours at work, where else do you make friends? Please don't say the gym.

It doesn't have to be the gym either. I personally have met a lot of my friends out rock climbing, but that's going to vary from person to person because you have to find things you enjoy doing. Going to the gym to meet people if you don't enjoy working out at the gym doesn't make sense.

Are there other things you enjoy doing besides work?

(Incidentally, I don't spend the majority of my waking hours at work).
Firefox rolls out Total Cookie Protection by default to more users worldwide

https://blog.mozilla.org/en/mozilla/firefox-rolls-out-total-...

Finally, just last month.
Reading the title, my initial thought was residential skyscrapers. Reading the article clearly indicates that it's discussing offices.

But back to residential: I understand that many wealthy people buy real estate for the prestige of having a certain address or as a way to "lock up" wealth in an asset. See Billionaires Row [0] [1]

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Billionaires%27_Row_(Manhattan...

[1] https://nypost.com/2021/08/05/nearly-half-of-luxury-units-em...
The buses aren’t generally free though: https://www.mbta.com/fares/bus-fares

They are free on only 3 lines (plus SL1 leaving the airport) https://www.boston.gov/news/mayor-wu-takes-steps-expand-fare...
I thought Zig was self hosting their compiler now. Am I wrong about that?
Thanks!! I was a bit disappointed diamond types isn't in the table of benchmarking results. Mind if I send you a PR adding it?

I also think it'd be nice to have a native rust benchmarking suite for this stuff. All of the CRDT libraries are either in rust or are moving to rust. Some benchmarks with criterion would be nice to see.

> I've also noticed that certain scenarios, like drawing, table editing, and whiteboard editing, aren't well covered. What are your thoughts on this?

Thats been on my todo list for awhile. I love performance optimization but you can't optimize what you can't measure. I'm just not sure where to get editing traces at the moment given not much software works like this. We could reverse engineer figma enough to record editing traces out of it (or use its plugin API?). Or record some traces from tldraw. Ideally we'd have a few traces from different applications - since I wouldn't be surprised if different apps depend on this stuff differently.

Are you intending to add JSON-style editing support to your CRDT?

If anyone reading this is working on a collaborative app, and wants your app to be exceptionally well supported by CRDTs - please get in touch and we can talk about getting some editing traces. We can't properly optimize collaborative editing systems without them!
I still have a windows 98 first edition key memorized. And 26 digits of Pi. But recently I forgot the 4 digit PIN for my debit card and required a reset.
I do everything on my own boxes running Linux. For the last 20 years.
I started using Gentoo in 2002 or 2003, can't remember. The compilation was neat, but really you used it because it was the only mainstream distro that had the latest packages all the time and the documentation needed to keep it all working with highly active forums.

Once Arch showed up with the same kind of philosophy but you didn't have to compile it, the writing was on the wall.
idk about a "war" or we, but features aside, zig feels like a less obnoxious language, and i mean that as politely as possible. to make an analogy, rust is like a friend that constantly nags about _everything_; like you know they mean well, but girl chill i know. about to cross a street, rust reminds you to look both ways. empty street with no cars around and it's safe to cross, rust wont let you cross until the crosswalk sign lights up. cooking something, rust will pester you about proper knife safety. like yes i know, being a nuisance about things i already know about doesn't help me write better software; i already know to look both ways before crossing. every once in a while it catches something you wouldn't have otherwise, but you have to deal with that constant pestering _all_ the time. also, just my personal opinion, but rust has some of the worst language ergonomics i've seen in any modern mainstream language and i don't think it can reasonably be fixed due to its 1.0 promise
Why 2023 is a key year for WebAssembly, a promising cloud technology
High-performance tidy trees visualization (2022)
It's really odd to fathom who someone would not understand why Xi wants to take Taiwan, and 'chips' has nothing to do with it.

People need to take a much, much broader mindset. China views Taiwan as part of China, and that's that.

I personally don't, and the Taiwanese population ought to chose what they want without material interference, and 'we' should respect that by recognizing their sovereignty and statehood if that's what they want, much like at this point we ought to be recognizing Palestine as a state, if that's what they want.

Russia's invasion of Ukraine is pure classical Imperialism, Ukraine is a 'sub Russian vassal' and Russian Imperialism is part of the Russian identity - it was 'secularized' during the time of USSR, now it's just old school.

If you look at geopolitics from the 19th century it's all very clear.

That said, it is odd Apple would do this in Taiwan, and, it's a much bigger jump than people think.

This is a bold move and will reshape what Apple is, and maybe what a true international megacorp of the future looks like.

It could also make them more fragile and if they start to falter, it could really fall apart. You need a lot to work well for this to be pulled off.
Agreed, but I get the impression many people mistakenly believe that they are.
The question was, “What renaissance would occur if copyright didn’t exist?”

Here’s one that happened because the source works weren’t indefinitely protected (ironically, what Disney wanted for their own derived works.)
There are several providers offering something in-between, like spending £5 of pre-pay credit for some data and minutes that lasts 30 days.

I use one when I'm working in/visiting England, as it's usually just a month at a time.

Example: https://www.lycamobile.co.uk/en/sim-only-deals/
The beauty is that there are so many different ways to transport things now than the form factor of car. There are electric utility vehicles the size of golf carts with heat and cooling and a bed for transporting things. There are miniature vans similar to this. They all are quieter, safer, and take up less space than cars. I agree that cars have a place, but by and large their use should not be as catered to as it is now and life should not be centered around them.
A $200 mini-laptop with a Intel 8088 chip and 640KB
I'm not sure if this is what you're thinking of, but there's a story like that behind Dogfish Head's "Midas Touch"

http://www.biomolecular-archaeology.com/?page_id=143

https://www.dogfish.com/brewery/beer/midas-touch

Though more reconstruction of ingredients from residue than linguistic reconstruction I guess.
> Have you ever been grocery shopping?

Please make your substantive points without snark or swipes: https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html

Edit: you've unfortunately been breaking the site guidelines so frequently that I've banned the account. If you don't want to be banned, you're welcome to email hn@ycombinator.com and give us reason to believe that you'll follow the rules in the future.
While exercise is great and should be done regardless, the key to losing weight is almost entirely in the kitchen.
Not only does Google not provide a desktop interface (though there seem to be ways around it with developer options) it seems they disable DisplayPort Alt mode in the Kernel https://twitter.com/MishaalRahman/status/1189998588023234560
> Never before in human history have humans lived in densities that they live in modern cities, especially surrounded by strangers.

The Roman empire, which existed from 27 BC to AD 395, had Rome as its capital, and while numbers are subject to discussion given the age, the floor for the density of the city of Rome back then, which had a large number of insulae, or apartment buildings, is 30,000 people/sq km. A more recent estimate put it at 72,150 people per square kilometer *. For reference, Manhattans' population density as of the 2020 census is 72,918 people per square kilometer.

This was 1,600 years ago! That is to say, there is precedent for humans living in the kinds of densities we have today, without anywhere near the kinds of technology we have. There was no electricity, no cars, no Internet back in '400. They most modern revolutionary thing was running water, and even then they used lead pipes for it and had no electrical pumps to pump it up to the 9th floor. One thing that will be familiar to modern readers is that the government came in and imposed regulations, making some buildings illegal due to height restrictions.

* https://go.gale.com/ps/i.do?id=GALE%7CA20586744&sid=googleSc....
> Take something as far back as New York in the 60s depicted in _Mad Men_: Don Draper commutes by train.

There are literally several plot points in mad men where he drives drunk back from the city.
Majority of game development companies don't build their own tooling. Option to build a binary for ARM Mac is not sufficient to bring high quality experience to whatever proprietary tech Apple will put out there. And it's quite certain it's gonna be incompatible with Meta's offerings, wont integrate with other platforms, etc.

I not saying like Apple have no chances at all here, but building own gaming ecosystem is extremely prohibitive expensive even for large corporations. Both Microsoft and Sony spent a decades on building their console ecosystems as well as tens of billions of dollars.

Google and Meta both tried an failed miserably. Both Microsoft and Epic tried to compete with Valve on PC, spent billions and 5 years later their store is still dont have any real marketshare.

Most importantly Apple just can't really go out and buy some companies simply because Microsoft, Tencent and few other giants already own half of big players out there. So it's gonna be really really hard for them to create mass market product that can compete.

PS: I won't even start on fact that it's gonna be impossible to do it "in secret" for them this time. Competitors will be on them immediately.
Looking beyond the regulatory hurdles (others have covered that, plus it's being worked on), there are some real practicality problems:

1 - Windowless rooms are heavily undesirable in residences but pretty normal in office settings. In many areas they are also illegal (all bedrooms must have natural light) - but regardless of legality they are shunned by most buyers/renters.

Offices however have lots of windowless rooms in the form of supply closets, utility rooms, freight elevators, conference rooms, storage rooms, etc. This combined with the popularity of open floor plan offices means that office buildings are really deep dimensionally. You can easily find modern office buildings where a desk is 50+ feet from the nearest window.

This makes them nearly impossible to divide into residences, because the resulting apartments are dungeon-like, with only the very outer reaches getting any significant natural light.

2 - Cost of conversion is high but the resulting product is worse than purpose-built.

Keeping in mind the natural light factor above, a lot of office-converted apartments are less pleasant to live in than purpose-built residential apartments, but the conversion costs are very high, and the two opposing dynamics cannot be reconciled. The cost of converting an office demands a level of rent that it cannot achieve in competition with actual residential buildings.

3 - Utility usage increases in residential buildings. A lot. Electrical, water, and sewer needs in residential buildings are much more intense than in commercial buildings. This is non-trivial to retrofit - since additional conduit and piping has nowhere natural to go. Conversion projects often have to punch through the concrete floor plates in order to create new top-to-bottom shafts to run all of the additional utilities. This is intensely expensive.

4 - Commercial buildings have over-built elevators relative to residential buildings. Office workers move from floor-to-floor a lot more than residents, and so for the same floor area commercial buildings would have more elevators. They take up valuable floor space that can otherwise be rented, and removing them to recover the floor area for residential use is incredibly costly. Many modern commercial buildings are in fact built around their elevator cores, so removal may not even be feasible.

There are some successful conversions - but as others have brought up, they tilt towards conversion of pre-war office buildings where, because they didn't have powered HVAC, there are more windows and no office is too far from a window, creating good opportunities to convert into actually pleasant spaces. Modern offices with their gigantic floor plates are a whole different story.
I haven’t experience any burn in issues with my OLED or even image retention which I sometimes see on my Plasma.

I think for normal TV usage it is a non issue. The only times I have heard it being a problem is when someone leaves their TV on for a week for their cat or something.
A lot fewer.

Many folks like to read these pieces from an extreme viewpoint, that they want to eliminate all cars everywhere.

A few moments thinking and you realize it would only be practical in downtowns, and alleys would still exist. Visit Wash.DC or London if still unsure. Street maps a cheap substitute.
A two-second video is pretty pointless. But a photo that incidentally moves a little bit is often charming.
I live in a neighborhood that has a couple of "upscale" supermarkets nearby. So we get our perishables there, and any last-minute need, by bike.

Every few weeks, we load up the car with all of the non-perishables, at a huge discount supermarket that's a few miles away.

Seems like an OK compromise.
> takes a very short video clip

... _and_ a still photo. You don't lose the full-resolution still photo, and the still photo isn't simply a frame from the video. In case anyone's curious.
I would highly recommend against this. For example, postgres and sqlite differ in what they accept as meaning 'true' or 'false'. Try this with both databases, 'create table foo (whatever bool not null)', then insert 't', 'true', 1, true, 'f', 'false', 0, false. Postgres will reject 0 and 1. Now query for true and false values, like 'select count(1) from foo where whatever=true'. Sqlite returns 2! Postgres returns 3. Do the same for false, same results. Now ask Sqlite the count of 'select count(1) from foo where whatever != true and whatever != false'. It returns 4.

You are in for a world of hurt if you think your SQL statement parsing means that your application is going to work. Changing database backends, in my mind, amounts to a full rewrite of the data layer. Whatever quirks you have built around are likely to subtly change.

Oh, and one unsolicited tip. If you're using Go, don't bother with database/sql. Just use pgx + pgxpool from the get go. You aren't going to be able to plug some other database implementation in and get a working app. So the abstraction layer is basically unnecessary.