skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It's pretty easy to do, other than the politics, in the highest growth cities. They tend to have so many areas that are severely underdeveloped that it would be economical to upzone them with transit in mind. Many a European city is far less car-centric than they were 30 years ago, just via rebuilding streets that were already dense enough to make sense. A good 50% of my home town is already just for pedestrians and delivery vehicles, and I read streets are changing.

The real problem is both cities that are not growing at all, and cities that are still digging into the car hole.

You might be able to rezone 50 year old suburbs, if just because the houses themselves keep losing value (as the real price increases are just land). But when the house was just built 10 years ago, it's a very tough sell. And if you expect a couple of million people, who are living in very low density suburb, to come downtown for any reason, you either make their transit story hell, or you are stuck wasting a lot of space just to manage their cars: Bad either way.

The cities that aren't growing just are going to have a lot of trouble becoming denser, and the political problem will be even bigger, as every effort to make the area near the city center denser in a city that doesn't grow is just making the outer suburbs less valuable. I am really worried about those cities. As having the infrastructure to support four times the number of people that you have is just a road to fiscal ruin.
It looks like it has a decent keyboard with some travel, edged sides of keys, though despite having six rows lacks PgUp, PgDn, Home and End.
Shading Languages & the Emergence of Programmable Graphics Systems-Pat Hanrahan
I had thought about a translation system that sought to translate into a different, more coherent language, pass that into an AI model, get a response in that language, and then translate the results back into English. Early OpenAI responses did not seem very impressive to me; however, that was before ChatGPT came along and blew me away. And GPT-4 gives even better responses! I am not sure if the intermediate language solution is necessary or viable at this point because you would need a powerful LLM to perform the translation. But, there might be value in symbolic logic being part of the machine learning vernacular as part of the early tokenization and training process.
Annoyingly, !g is right next to !h on most keyboards, and I often find myself searching through Haskell documentation instead of searching Google.
The default should be walking, the default should never be having to buy a product and drag a product around with you and needing two arms, two eyes, a sense of balance and constant concentration while using it so that you don't injure others with your product, it's as wrong-headed as designing everywhere to need stilts or designing everything to be hot so you need to wear oven gloves all the time. Places and things should serve humans as far as possible, not humans serving capitalism's need to sell things. (And 50 people in a bus fit in ~four car spaces and aren't getting wet in winter).
It's funny, but many Baptists don't consider themselves Protestant.

In context of The Famous Article, if Judaism = ALGOL, C = Catholism and C++ = Protestantism, then (at least some) Baptists have a Pascal attitude, never having bought off on Rome enough to protest against it.
By the 80's all of those people had machines on their desks

What kind of machines? Computers? My father was an office worker his whole life. He didn't get a PC on his desk until the 90s. Before, he had a type writer.
Avoiding "C/C++" is good advice. C/C++ people hate it when you do that.
And the key part of Amsterdam is that in the 60s it was packed with cars and not the bike and walk haven it is today. Many people make he mistake thinking Amsterdam has great public transit and bike infrastructure since it’s an old European city and was never car dependant, but they made the same mistakes 50 years ago and reversed course. It’s possible to reverse the damage of car dependency.
>my only 'wish' for zig is to replace its {} with indentations kind of like nim/python for readability.

Please no
>The alternative to LNT is to conservatively assume radiation has the maximum effect not ruled out by evidence

No, the alternative is to use real data, rather than fabricate fraudulent data to fit the LNT model.

Namely, you need to look at the actual shape of the dose-response curve in the real world, instead of externally imposing a certain predetermined shape by fiat and fudging data to fit.

Here's one of the relevant timestamps from the talk, which runs on into Part 3.[0] However if I'm being honest, this talk is impossible to capture in a short clip suitable for modern attention spans. My apologies.

To keep from getting lost, one really should watch the whole thing before formulating the next counterpoint. Otherwise this will devolve into a very long and boring comment thread, where I laboriously digest the points from the video and feed them to you through an HN comment-sized straw. ;)

[0] https://youtu.be/37pCurE0nxo?t=1671
Sure. The difference is definitely not the presence or lack of hops.
Wait until you see my asset allocation.
> medieval ale
Yeah being married definitely opened my eyes.
Google Translate in Lens mode is pretty much the killer app for this type of device. Having the in-place translation working feels like damn magic, and if you could do that while in a foreign country then it would be amazing.
One thing which I don't get why people don't seem to get is long term (and perhaps with this release from Apple) headsets should be replacing tv's for at least a substantial amount of viewing. For example I have a fairly high end 4k projector setup but in an apartment with limits on light control. Even with a dedicated room and $3k allocated to a projector and a screen and high enough resolution (which i'm expecting this headset will be) headset should be able to blow away in terms of perfect light control and thus black levels (assuming OLED) and resolution. And then the ability to not just render a normal home scale theater but trivially an IMAX style if you so choose. Further in a home environment I can see still having a small theater room literally just for the audio equipment which will beat out headphones obviously for a theatre experience but replacing the projector and screen and not requiring as large of a room.

Really I think social home sports viewing is the only situation for an argument of physical tv viewing and the comfort level (which i'm expecting apple to have improved on here similar to what Bigscreen is doing).

People talk about killer apps for VR and i'm like this is clearly it, we have just been hardware limited so far. People very comfortably spend $1-3k+ on decent TV's and that is just a tiny aspect of what VR can do.
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The primary reason where I'm from has so many problem is because of my own people hoarding money and doing corrupt things like diverting funds for projects to their own bank accounts. I don't think it has anything to do with race, it is a mentality.

Isn't there research that shows that wealth concentration across generations just leads to that wealth dissipating within 2-3 generations? What's the point of that? I want my children to know the value of money.. that is that money comes by providing value to others. Pleasing one's parents/guardians/family is not that hard, IMO that's just a baseline.

Actually getting people to pay for something one made or can do is a lot harder, and takes deep efforts to accomplish. If my kids want to ask me for some money to start a business or attend some course, sure I'm more than happy to oblige. When I pass away, I hope my kids would have been able to build something of their own because they took inspiration from the world and people in it to be valuable human beings while I was still alive. I would honestly be proud if I don't have to leave anything to my children, because they have become capable individuals. It would be trivial for me to leave everything to my family, took like 20 minutes to write a will.

It is far more challenging and rewarding to raise good men and women, and I think I can do that by encouraging them to provide value to others. My parents could barely afford to feed themselves but after we moved to US put me into things like Kumon, a basketball camp, took me to the hospital to volunteer, encouraged me to do after school activities like robotics and math club, go to the library, etc.. I think it made me a far better person. When my grandfather passed away he had no money or assets to his name. You know what he said on his death bed? He was proud of his children and grandchildren, that they had taken life by the reins and done their best to steer that horse. "Have a good life" is what he said to me. I want my kids to have a good life too. While I'm alive I'll set them up for it. We all have our viewpoints, so that's mine.
I believe this is the correct answer. And the time frame needs to be shorter than the life of an average person. Personally I think 25 is correct.
The distinction isn’t about where the yeast is harvested, but where its most observable peak activity occurs. S. cerevisiae activates and ferments rapidly at the top of the brew and settles, becomes dormant more quickly and in lower temperatures.
I feel your pain. I have the same problem with people who like tool chains and design patterns that create cargo cult programmers with tonnes of baggage
You can't exactly replicate the density of congested cars as people on buses...

Although here is an attempt from a Saturn commercial: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e_oWmY_mkCA
If the photograph is such a non-effort, why didn't Warhol just take a photo himself and paint that?
With starlink putting up satellites at ~300 miles (later ~200 miles), why would the FCC even consider mobile services to geosynchronous orbit at ~25,000 miles?

for geosynchronous orbit, satellite transmitters and receivers would have to be significantly more powerful which would interfere with less powerful short-distance transmission, and affect a larger footprint.

doesn't make as much sense for the future.
You’re probably right that the west meddles in Ukrainian politics, attempting to sway them towards being pro-west instead of pro-Russia.

I’m missing the explanation for how this justifies an extremely destructive invasion and war.
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The fact that it appears to use an actual 8088 (and 8087) is somewhat surprising, considering that the whole PC/XT that this model claims to be compatible with could probably be implemented on a single COB like what happened to the NES.

Also amusing is that the keyboard has a Windows key.
Drives me crazy
One of the few people who publicly predicted the amazing abilities of the GPT-2 successors was Scott Alexander:

https://slatestarcodex.com/2019/02/19/gpt-2-as-step-toward-g...

There may have been others who expected similar miracles, but there certainly weren't many. We can conclude that at least GPT-3 took most by surprise. (I don't know how many people even knew about GPT before GPT-2 came out, it's probably hard to get a sample.)

Heck, even the vast majority of people here on HN wasn't much interested in GPT-3 before ChatGPT, their new cheaper API prices, and GPT-4 came out.

And when we talk about "normal people", they didn't know GPT-3 at all, they only noticed Dall-E 2, somewhat, and finally were caught by surprise when word about ChatGPT spread in a matter of weeks.
People fail to realize the car less dream begins to fall apart as soon as you have something niche you enjoy.

If your goal is to simply eat, great, public transit enables this easily with many choices.

If your goal is to eat at a very specific restaurant, 4 miles away, this would take you less than 10 minutes by car, but could easily be 30 to 40 no car, with at least one transfer.

And I don't know, I'm not old by any means, but I've definitely noticed the value of time now. Saving an hour round trip is very valuable (and one of the reasons remote work is so popular).
Not everyone lives in a city. And certainly not everyone lives in an LA/NYC city.

The city I live in is modest in size, 250k-300k depending on who you ask. It will never be a walkable city. Throughout much of the year, that's asking to die of heatstroke or something. It will never have a subway. Hell, there's only one or two buildings that are more than 5 stories tall. It is hundreds of miles away from any city of comparable size. My in-laws live in a township of about 6000 an hour away.

Are we supposed to give up cars? I have a 6 minute ride to work in the morning if I hit the stop lights wrong. Why would I ride the piss-stinking bus, when it'd add 20 minutes of irritation to my day?

It's not a car-industrial complex that is an obstacle to your imagined utopia. It's that there are people like myself who don't want to make our lives more difficult so that yours gets better. I'd be shocked if there's a non-coastal city or town anywhere in North America that supports your vision.
How to make sure enough fonts are installed to display all Unicode characters?
There seem to be almost 150000 characters encoded in the latest version.

No font that I know of covers even 10% of that range. Obviously a huge amount of partial overlap between fonts exist, but likely some of the rarest characters have only a few, or perhaps one, font set that includes it.

How does anyone make sure they have enough font sets installed on their computer to cover all ~150000?

Surely it's not through manual checking of all the code points?

(I couldn't find a clear answer via searching so I hope someone has done this before!)
So close. But as others mentioned why not something like vga or at least ega and 286? You could still run 80s still but you could then also do a space quest v and some of later Lucas arts games... Which embarrassingly would make it a must have for me even though I own 27 copies of them on GoG and steam and bundle and cd and wherever :)
You could check out a sample of her comics here: https://wizardzines.com/comics/ (there's a search box too).

Her articles often hit HN front page: https://news.ycombinator.com/from?site=jvns.ca
There were many different strengths of beer which (often)corresponded to different runnings/washing’s of the malt. The initial wort has higher amounts of sugars/fermentables while the later washes have significantly less. It could get down to 2-3% which. As to being a diuretic I think people are confused about how that works. It’s not like adding minus water if you drink coffee or alcohol, eg you wouldn’t die of dehydration if all you had to drink was coffee or beer.
Any modern Intel laptop should be able to run the same software, without emulation.

Unfortunately not, UEFI-only BIOSes and locked-down bootloaders are a thing today.
You know, all this nonsense could be avoided if we went back to the "if you want to ban our service build yourself a great firewall or get fucked, we don't have to enforce your laws for you" status quo. Unfortunately precedent has been set for foreign persons and corporations to be liable for violating laws of countries they're not centered in just because theyre available to communicate with freely across borders. The big ones like google went along with it for money, now I live in a world where I could potentially be extradited to a foreign country I've never set foot in for saying things on the internet to one of their citizens. So the way I see it I'm happy to watch this whole system of control go ablaze from stupid laws like this one. If authoritarians want to block certain content from their citizens they can do the censoring themselves, but if they want people to have to censor themselves or face penalties they're going to have to deal with stupid shit like this. You can't have it both ways.
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I have a strong desire to bike but I won't do it on those lanes. They're not as bad as the painted bike symbols that say "theoretically you can ride a bike on this road" but they're still not going to make me comfortable enough to do it. I'm barely comfortable enough with these other drivers to get into an actual vehicle on the roads due to the maniacs I see out there so bikes are a slim chance.
Nobody was even talking about America. We are talking about Russia invading Ukraine. That can still be bad even if America’s actions are also bad.
Twitter accuses Microsoft of using its data in unauthorized ways
I have a bunch of machines that only support DX9/GL2.1/GLES2.0/WebGL1 that I'd like to target. I'm currently using Unity for that.
This is so true. I have used a quest pro to watch YouTube and Netflix, and it's a great experience. My house weirdly has no good place for a TV, but with VR it's a much more immersive experience. Just need to get comfort and battery life improved.

Watching cyberpunk on Netflix was an experience.
This would be true if it was a country that banned TikTok. But the US is very interconnected, people in Montana have friends etc in other states who post regularly on TikTok, so they would be motivated to download APK's (or use a web version). They'll need a VPN too of course, but that's not particularly difficult. They've already heard NordVPN's ads on YouTube.
It is at the very least a big upgrade over WebGL.
That's an interesting consideration. So if this were a company headquartered in Montana they could ban it, but if it's headquartered outside of Montana they can't ban it internally? Its a strange conundrum.
The biggest issue is that community doesn’t always find you wherever you are. You can be outgoing, well liked, and so forth but sometimes wherever you live just isn’t going to work. We have a finite lifespan - so we can’t try every sized city and multiples of each.

My experience of living in small towns (100-20,000) was miserable. Extremely racist, homophobic, xenophobic, conservative, and so forth. Could I find a small town where that’s not an issue? Maybe but they tend to be this way. If you’re already someone who doesn’t fit into most crowds - you’re not always gonna find a welcoming scene in a small town.

My experience of big cities has also not been perfect either and I’ve lived in a few. (500k-8m) But the drawbacks of small towns are mostly gone. They’re replaced with other issues like insane competition on every front. (You’re always competing for someone’s attention and time - regardless of who they are) Cities segregate heavily even if they act like melting pots. The truth is - very little intermixing happens relative to how it should theoretically be. The upside of cities though is that there are likely more pockets of people to find a community to belong to. The downside is that it brings a lot of tribalism and exclusionary behavior. (Thus the segregation)

Overall, the USA sucks. It lacks community because we’ve decided to embrace late stage capitalism and the American identity is centered around getting fucked by the feds and capitalists. It’s no surprise that rich slave owners were writing the original rules the country would be founded on - when viewing how things are now.
There might be good arguments for avoiding "C/C++" but this article makes none of them. If the author is going to be playing the "modern C++ isn't anything like when it started out" card then they damn sure shouldn't be talking about K&R declaration style either. Using FFI in Rust/Go whatever is not at all the same thing as a compiler directly accepting much of the same code without distinction. Arguments about constructors/destructors and overloading and lambdas and move semantics would be at least slightly more compelling, but all are absent. It's not clear the author even knows C++ very well. Net result is that some people will keep using "C/C++" solely to poke fun at the ultra-pedantic and needlessly aggrieved.
So the difference between medieval ale and (present day)ale ? Or the difference between medieval ale and (present day) beer ? Is that what you think they mean?
I'm similarly irked when people say "C/C++" and I would prefer that people not confuse the two. I used to say "C/C++" before I gained sufficient knowledge to understand the differences between the two languages, so if you say "C/C++" I know you're not an expert in either.

Admittedly, the author did a phenomenally poor job at highlighting the differences that people should care about. Nobody cares about casting malloc or K&R syntax. People do care about compilation time, binary size, strong type systems, name mangling, debugging, complexity, error messages, embedding etc.

Technical discussion aside, I'm saddened by the dismissive nature of the comments. Even if you're not at a point where you can internalize why someone else is asking to stop saying "C/C++", the unempathetic nature of the comments is discouraging.
you can host political rants, you can't really force other people to read them though. Just another reason why it's awesome.

one of my most active repos right now is just ranting about alignment mostly lol

if anything searching github for politics hits a bit different, there is some heavy stuff in there like a db that tracks every swedish politician XD
The main use case of a shell is interactive use. There is no reason to invoke a teanspiler when you type a command to be immediately executed. Often its syntax is a bit awkward because in needs to be compact and quick to type.

If you want a better language for complex scripts, use Python, or even Perl, they are now ubiquitous, or bring someting self-contained like Lua or Janet with you.

It would be great to have a different ubiquitous shell language on Unix machines, but it's unrealistic now.
> Unfortunately there’s no information on the battery capacity or battery life, but the little computer works with a 12V/1.5A power supply.

Let's be real for a moment; you wouldn't be getting a true vintage mobile computing experience if you weren't tethered to an electrical socket!
Give it a try - deploy your iOS app with a totally unique name and let me know if you can find it.

It won't show in search results, no matter how many pages you scroll through.
Before gentoo I would sometimes wipe the os and start over but no more. Now I can fix anything
Then why do we put them in school where in most cases they barely get to interact in that way?
They already did when they geoblocked content in European and Asian countries to appease their authoritarian leaders in order to profit from their large markets.
https://archive.is/A91hE
It looks like it was, I wasn't aware of that :)

It also looks like it's been deprecated since C89 and the use of the style has also been discouraged since then according to this article[0].

> At the time, they felt they could not remove the K&R “old-style” definitions. It had not been deprecated long enough, and the new syntax had not been around for long enough (it hadn’t been around at all, in fact). So, they rolled it into C89 deprecated, and explicitly discouraged its use for some 33+ years.

[0]: https://thephd.dev/ever-closer-c23-improvements#at-the-time-...
I worked at a place like that, brought in RAM and SSD from home
I feel like all they would have to do is make it have Switch-level performance on handheld, then go to 4k only when docked.
Supposedly the Office for Mac team had to run their builds on the original 60MHz Power Mac
> Onboarding in particular is demonstrably more difficult to do remotely.

Is it? I don't believe it is. At this point, people just plug right in - once you're used to remote work, it's a matter of learning which chat platform they use, getting access to email, and away you go. It's literally the exact same thing as in office these days, precisely due to needing to accommodate remote onboarding.