skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
You don't need a conspiracy, but here is one: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/General_Motors_streetcar_consp...

The default assumption should be that people who benefit from auto sales are actively trying to block public transportation. It's foolish to think otherwise.
can you please name the standard in question?

also, it's completely okay if no code had to be changed

also there are quality assurance and process related standards, that are about documentation...

and let's not forget that a government can usually require that the vendor sign paperwork, which makes sure the officers of the vendor are criminally liable

... I'm not in favor of them, nor in favor of spending millions on legal and documentation fees, but without knowing more it's yet another "public procurement bad" story (which is completely believable! I mean 1M EUR compliance cost nowadays is not that unusual)
There's also the problem that by making public transport better, you're necessarily making driving worse. Like taking money from the roads budget and giving it to the trains budget. Or taking a slice of road away from cars and making a bike lane.
Oh there are whole neighborhoods in the Bay Area with no sidewalks.
I have no direct knowledge of how easy it is to meet with billionaires, but Epstein made it his top priority apparently, and I do expect that billionaires (and current CEO's no less) do meet with a lot of people, so if you are good at getting to meet them you may know how to do that. I mean, I doubt that he got all of his other clients by just saying "hey I run a sex ring of underage girls, you want to meet and talk?" Presumably he had some playbook of pretexts to get the initial meeting or three, and then brought up his actual purpose once he had gotten the impression that it was safe to do so. Thus, he must have had some ability to get on rich people's schedules.
No lawyer is even going to bother to sue a judgment proof person like that. They're going to be happy to settle for whatever insurance offers.
A few friends of mine are also trying to do something similar here in SF. We want somewhere else to work other than our cramped apartments, but don't necessarily want to go into a real office.
It is illegal in many states. But they average something like 10-30% of all drivers: https://www.moneygeek.com/insurance/auto/resources/uninsured...

If you never get pulled over, or you know some tricks, you slide by.
> not specifically about Bash, but about the shell command language sh

or as I've taken to calling it, Ba + sh
Only in the fringiest of the fringe sub-subgroups.
> San Fransisco crime increased 5% last year.

If you want to decrease your crime rates, just make crimes more legal tips forehead.
Not if you have enough threads...
I live in a city which has horrible public transit. It’s the result of faddish idea after faddish idea.

The reforms and improvements have consistently made things worse.

Now the city is completely changing bus routes.

Maybe you’ll have a ride to work. Maybe not. Maybe it will be quick. Maybe not.

People’s entire lives are being rearranged.

The folks at the lowest level of importantance are folks who send their kids to private schools.

The municipality is like “not our problem - public schools offer free transit. You’re chosing to send your kid to a private school, you drive them yourself.”

Note how the city is telling people to use cars, not public transit, because the city doesnt endorse what they’re using it for.

And if you want to take a bus to church Sunday morning? Hahahahahah! There would probably be a lawsuit from church/state people.

Etc.

I simply don’t have confidence public transit will be there when I need it.
What do people get from making up narratives like this? Bloomberg literally writes thousands of articles a day. This topic is just one of the few that HN happens to care about.

The main audience of Bloomberg aren't executives who need validate their comercial real estate purchases. They're analysts who just want to be informed about the current economic landscape.

Do you expect that someone will read this will think "welp, better start commuting to the office because I don't want my city's budget to be cut!"
A well designed city makes most errands faster on foot than in a car.

Even when cars are prioritized, traffic makes even the smallest errands a problem eventually; roads simply don't scale.

And cars are by far the loudest thing about cities at almost all times. They make the very air hostile with pollution and heat. And, worst of all:

> I simply hop in my vehicle and can be anywhere I want in 3-15 minutes

You do this at the direct expense of everyone else in your city. You make the streets unwalkable and the city unlivable. You are insulated from the sounds and dangers that you are creating around you. (I'm just using you as an example, I don't actually blame you for taking the only option you've been given.)
> There's basically nothing that only runs on WSL and not real Linux.

Not going to weigh in on the other aspects of this but I think this is untrue nowadays. Direct3D off-screen rendering and DirectML are supported in WSL2 and while there are several Direct3D implementations that run on Linux, I don't think there has been an attempt at DirectML yet, and neither are ever going to be possible using official drivers and official DirectX like you can on Windows with WSL2.
> ignoring the problem copyright was established to solve in the first place

Maintaining copy quality and providing a single point of contact for censorship?

You probably mean some other goal people gave it by the end of the Modern Age.
The Beyond doesn't fit the kind of role mentioned here at all, though, since a major part of how they've made it so small and light is by ditching the idea of being adjustable at all and just assembling each unit to match a specific person's face.
Still better than the blue ones, who have been in power for 13 years and have only rubbles to show for it.
It's Lynn Goldsmith's copyright, and she is still alive.
But then TikTok can still detect your location. Unless you spoof that, remove the permission or patch the apk.

Then you still need to update almost daily to keep using it.
Samsung has something like this too, though I'm not sure what it's called. My mom was showing me "photos" she'd taken recently, and they all had 1-2 seconds of "noise" (motion) surrounding them. To me there is no appeal in this as a default setting, it just shows off how unsteadily you hold your phone when taking a picture. But I can see how an experienced photographer might take advantage of it when capturing moving targets.
Chocolatier: A Minimal UI Library
chocolatier is a lightweight (less than 2kB), reactive JavaScript library for intuitive and efficient state management and DOM manipulation. It uses a powerful combination of Symbols, WeakMaps, and Sets to provide precise control over even the most granular aspects of the DOM. It also handles dependencies and side effects in a transparent and predictable manner, improving code readability and maintainability.
It would just take 2-6% of GDP per year to achieve net zero by 2050. This would avert going over 1.5C.
That's outrageous. Why would it unscrupulous for a client to make more prints of a given photo? Surely the primary service is taking the photograph, and the client then owns the photo? I actually work as a cam op / director (obviously a different but related medium), and the idea that I would charge someone additionally, or try to prevent them from creating a copy of something I'd created expressly for them is just absurd. For example if I filmed a wedding for a couple (as many of my friends do), I'd charge for shooting or editing, and perhaps an original gift copy on some specific format (deluxe USB key or whatever). But after that point the couple would be free to distribute the film - they already paid for it. What happens if the original photographer is no longer in business, or can't be contacted or sells the rights to your wedding photos to some awful copyright troll. My head is spinning thinking about the potential for exploitation.
This professional historian[0] recreated the recipe last year and documented the process

[0]:https://braciatrix.com/2022/02/10/medieval-english-small-ale...
Modern software engineering summed up in two sentences...

Use which ever one you enjoy using.
VPNs don't help in this case.

You would need to setup a new Apple ID/Google account with no credit card billing information.

And then deal with all of the inconvenience that entails i.e. no more paid apps, need to cancel subscriptions etc.
The issue of quiting cars is nowadays far from just a matter of values as the article seems to be implying.

Cars are by now a hard to reverse environmental and urban planning disaster across the world. We are stuck with them. As a mode of transport it has grown uncontrollably at the expense of all others (except the airplane) and practically everything has been shaped to accomodate it.

Reversing that development, limiting car traffic to where its really needed is like trying to perform a complete heart and arteries transplant on a living person. Even if there was a will (which there is not) it is not clear if there is a way.

In the best scenario it will be an excruciatingly long transformation (~50 yr) as car oriented cities (or city sections) get slowly deprecated and the car-free or car-lite segments become more desirable, more livable.
That may be the reality that some experience, I obviously couldn't say they are wrong.

But it isn't always the case. Where we live the NHS is excellent, appointments are fine, doctors are competent, and we've had no issues with bureaucracy. There is literally nothing I'd complain about, and we have double-digit interactions with the NHS each year.

The only fly in the ointment is the recent nurse strike happened on a day the wife was scheduled for some surgery, so that was cancelled. But I support them in that, and the rescheduled date is less than a month later.

There are issues everywhere, but there's no way I'd swap any of it for the US version. And always bear in mind that negative talk sells more papers/gets more eyeballs than positive.
I used FitXR througout this winter. Fantastic experience, I just wish I had a dedicated room for sweat-inducing activities. I especially liked HIIT training, where you hit glowing spheres and glass that appear in the air. Level and quality of multisensory stimulation (visual/audio/haptic) during those hits are just mindblowing. Reality can't offer that.

One particular thing that I believe is underexplored is using visual/haptic cues for movement learning (motor skills acquision). For example in FitXR there is a glowing semi-transparent path showing how your hand is supposed to move. If you deviate from it, it gives a light haptic feedback. There is no substitute for that in reality – we learn hand movements (like in dance or martial arts) either by proprioreception, visual feedback through mirrors or verbal feedback from teacher. All three ways are inferior to what VR can offer.

I think some progressive sports researchers are experimenting with VR (especially in Constraint-Led Approach community), but these are just first steps.

PS. I personally want to invest in learning VR programming for years, but waiting until software ecosystem will stabilize and settle on something. So waiting for the Apple announcements in that field.
lets knock that down to $250/month

Let's not. Average car payments and loan duration continue to rise. NerdWallet is putting the average new car loan at $700/mo for 70 months and the average used car loan at $525 for 68 months. About half of all Americans can't afford a $1,000 emergency, so it's pretty damn unlikely they'll be paying for even a $5,000 car without a loan. If you're poor not only are you taking out a loan you're getting socked with a high interest rate subprime loan that's going to cost you more than a loan to a wealthier person.

https://www.nerdwallet.com/article/loans/auto-loans/average-...
Python, Java, and all of the .NET language have standardized database APIs.
And pretty much all the people I know in Boston also own cars because they visit friends outside of the city, go out of town for weekend activities that often involve transporting a lot of gear, etc. So, yeah, you can get by day to day but people I know also want a car.
A 48 core Epyc struggling to decide at 1Gbps is shocking to me. Intel is crushing them on a bunch of these benchmarks, even with AVX2 & not the new GFNI instructions.

That's just ridiculously tiny bandwidth, all in all.
5 Million New Yorkers Just Got Better Health Care
I understand the market they're obviously aiming at, but it feels like a cheap In-n-Out replacement around here. For those prices I'd go to a roadhouse or Smashburger or the local bars or similar.

They do have that weird soda robot, so there's that.
The key to losing weight with VR for the average person isn't in exercise-specific apps, it's in replacing sitting video game time with something just as engaging but that has you standing, walking in circles, crouching, and waving your arms around for a few hours instead. You're obviously not going to get buff from it, but it can add up fast for an otherwise sedentary person.
I run a Discord with a bunch of open source developers. We use it to collaborate and get work done, similar to the way most developers use meatspace at their office. Then when we've made something that's worth sharing with a broader audience, we post it on places like Twitter and Hacker News. So it's not like social networks are political parties where you only choose one. Not all of us are anonymous. I'm a public figure and my activities are heavily monitored. It's nice to be able to talk to and collaborate with other people openly without having every breath and whisper permanently indexed to places like Google and hn.algolia.com.
My understanding is that it's there to allow for testing the client. Relevant issue: https://github.com/ziglang/zig/issues/910
What's wrong with that? Better than the monthly/yearly subscription model as far as I am concerned.
I lived in Italy for a number of years, and it's not noisier or smellier than where I now live in Oregon. Truth be told, it was quieter because here in Bend, Oregon, there's a "parkway" that runs right through town and even though we're not at all right next to it, it's quite loud with car noises when the wind blows right (wrong).

Italy isn't perfect and I could talk about that country's problems a lot, but in terms of transportation, it was more a "right tool for the job" place than here, where we'd walk to many things, ride bikes to others, take the train occasionally, city busses some, and yes, use the car too for some stuff.
If you use hydrogen sulfide as an electron donor, you end up liberating sulfur, not oxygen.

Contrary to grandparent, in oxygenic photosynthesis, the oxygen does come from splitting water. The resulting hydride used to "charge" an electron carrier: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Photodissociation#Photolysis_i...

The CO2 gets fixed into carbohydrates. Some water is generated in that process, but no molecular oxygen.
I just enjoyed being a game master for a nice impromptu game with GPT-4:

https://cloud.typingmind.com/share/c0a68cb2-5f59-4e83-b383-b...

Whether or not it fulfills the strict definition of planning in AI research, it definitely looks like planning to me. More than Hanoi towers anyway. GPT-4's performance was quite enjoyable.

To incite you to click on the link and check it out in full, here's an excerpt from the game setup:

> You are in a maze. The maze consists of square fields, turns are only 90 degrees, you move by one field at a time. The usual stuff with mazes on a grid. You know the drill. Somewhere in the maze there is a MacGuffin, which I need to prove a Hacker News commenter wrong. Your goal is to find the MacGuffin, and bring it back to me.

> The game is semi-interactive. Instead of making one step at a time, I want you to string together sequences of steps to formulate a plan. Since you don't know where the MacGuffin is initially, you can't win with a single plan (or maybe you can, if you're smart enough?). The rules therefore are:
OLEDs have almost perfect Pixel Refresh Latency (< 1.5ms). MicroLEDs are still just LCDs with a better backlight but LCD Tech has evolved quite a lot and pixel refresh time (< 3-4ms) is not much of a problem anymore.
I’m happy to enter any sort of transparent business transaction of information-for—content or money-for-content.

But that’s not what the adtech web is, and that’s why it needs to die.

I’d be absolutely delighted to see 99% of ad funded content and services wiped off the face of the web tomorrow, even if a lot of it is stuff I use and enjoy. Which is why I’m bullish on “nuclear options” for regulation such as binding DNT to GDPR, or making opt out default and not even allowing pop-up opt in, or suing a few large companies into
bankruptcy for using consent dark pattens or other slight violations, just to make an example.

Because it’s not that ads would be banned by that. It’s tracking and micro targeted ads. And while ads may be necessary to provide “free” services, we need to get away from the idea that the only ads worth showing are ones with precise targeting and advance led fraud countermeasures.
Again, the notorious iOS-first... It's 2023 and releasing multi-platform fully-feature apps is easy!
Interestingly, cowboys didn't work alone.

They had teams of real people that they had to work with and trust along with their horses and the cows themselves.

Even homesteaders would typically pull together for building, digging, playing, dancing, harvesting and more. The west was colonized by people with active social lives working together and depending on each other.
It's easy for extraurban people to imagine what life without a car is like because the Amish are a thing. And most people don't want that lifestyle.
I don’t think capturing broadband markets and preventing other players entering would count on that scale as corruption although the sums of money involved are not doubt astonishing. You’re talking about something different to the context we were in as far as I can tell.
so.... no intergenerational wealth transfer then? if estates can't pass on intellectual property, then why should they be allowed to pass on physical property? If they can pass on physical property, then why not intellectual property, at least within the legally defined (and IMO far too long) windows of protection?
Why can California require auto manufacturers to comply with their emissions standards if it is in effect regulating interstate trade?
I’ve lived in several barely finished neighbourhoods and all were walkable: Hammarby Sjöstad in Stokholm, Jätkassari in Helsinki, the new Ancoats in Manchester…

All smelled of fresh paint and wet concrete. All were built with the intent to be walkable, and all are wonderful places to live. I never felt the need for a car once. What matters is not the age but the intent of the designers.
I suspect the law is all too similar, it's the enforcement that tends to vary. Recently moved from back from living in Germany. On paper Germany has similar noise nuisance laws to most countries. In practice they're super officious about enforcement, with a whole police force dedicated just to nuisance complaints. Which has an extremely chilling effect on social life and neighbourly relations - since its normalised to call the police on ones neighbours.
This is true - but let me say this, you couldn’t pay me to wear an Apple Watch all day and you won’t be able to pay me to wear a headset.

There’s just no dang reason to use these things like their creators want. Someone needs to be brave in these organizations and say “hey look, we tried pushing Siri for years and never gained the loved adoption that chatGPT has, why are we trying the same strategy here?”

If the compute offering is not excellent, it does not deserve to be in a new context. Period.
> However, I’ve found that some compilers, e.g. GCC on x86-64 will refuse to make this variant branchless. I hate how fickle compilers can be sometimes, and I wish compilers exposed not just the likely/unlikely attributes, but also an attribute that allows you to mark something as unpredictable to nudge the compiler towards using branchless techniques like CMOV’s.

There has been a Clang bug open about this for more than 4 years: https://bugs.llvm.org/show_bug.cgi?id=40027

Naturally, this came up in the context of binary searches, but it is the same for any tree traversal where each branch has maximum entropy (which means it's optimal from a traversal time point of view). Clang is especially reluctant to emit predicated instructions (this is a major pet peeve of mine).

In my codebase I ended up having a function

template <class T, class I, class Compare>
I argmax(const T& a, const T& b, I i, I j, Compare cmp) {
return cmp(a, b) ? j : i;
}

which I then specialize for various integer types and code it with inline ASM to use a CMOV. This allows to write all kinds of binary searches and tree traversals without having to do inline ASM every time. I'd really prefer not to have to do that, but the performance impact is significant.

In this post, I don't think there is a comparison with a classical binary search implemented in a branch-free fashion? Searching along dyadic intervals is a cute trick, but it's not clear whether the improvement comes from that or simply from being branch-free.
When you live in an average American suburb you cannot walk down the road to a store. You may or may not have a sidewalk. There will not be reliable public transit. You have to get in the car and drive to do anything. There's no other way.

Saying something like "New York" immediately invalidates the rest of your comment as New York (City) is one of the few areas with meaningful public transit.

We worship cars here. Cars are like Freedom Jesus. If you do anything to mess with cars you are a filthy communist who should die according to the general public.
Ask HN: Going to a community college as an experienced engineer?
I’m a back-end engineer with about 6 years of professional experience. I live in Central Asia and have been working remotely in US for the past 3 years. Due to the large time zone differences, it’s becoming harder to cope with this schedule as I age. So I’m looking for ways to immigrate to US.

I tried applying to big tech companies, but it’s been pretty silent so far, perhaps due to the recent layoffs.
So I was thinking about obtaining a masters in cs in US which could be helpful considering the fact that I don’t have any formal CS education. However, it’s pretty damn expensive to afford.

I recently discovered a community college phenomenon for myself but I am not sure whether they worth the effort. Does anyone have experience studying CS in a community college? Do you think it’s a good time investment for an experienced engineer?
Gentoo barely has an ISO download; in fact my most recent installations I just used an Ubuntu live CD iirc.
> They extreme performance gap between human and AI is what will push these deployments towards more and more open-ended goals, as waiting for human input will take too long.

Well maybe. If you look at the actual close calls in the cold war, they came down a judgement call in the face of very uncertain data. There were two of these in 1983 alone. [0,1]

To cite a possibly dubious analogy, array processors beat the pants off conventional CPUs in terms of performance but most databases still depend on standard CPUs because processing is gated by ability to obtain information (I/O). Speed is not everything.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1983_Soviet_nuclear_false_alar...

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Able_Archer_83
That's wrong. Many, many cities had walkable neighborhoods bulldozed and replaced with highways and parking lots, intentionally. In both the US and the EU. Many of the most walkable places have been reclaimed from cars.
Gentoo's artwork and color schemes were and still are quite pleasant.