skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I live in a high-rise condo next to a six-lane stroad that was even showcased on this YouTube channel and the 24/7 traffic noise is annoying, particularly when you want to go for a walk and can't even hold a conversation.

This didn't happen in the places where I lived back in Europe because zoning laws were different. Instead of the sprawl of freehold single family homes separate from a dense urban core, these much quieter towns had a preponderance of moderate-density areas with mixed use buildings. This means people can live within walking distance to where they work and where they shop, so they do just that: walk through quiet streets, often surrounded with trees. This moderate density also translates into frequent and fast public transit.

Overall it is a much more pleasant day-to-day living experience. And it is not unique to Europe, you can get the same experience in Japan, for example. I hope we can learn from them.
I live near an intersection, and the most annoying noise is honking. Why do driver have to honk so much is beyond me.

Also quite annoying is ambulance/police. They are really loud.
I would like to make the modest proposal that a more effective way of reducing usage would be to make it punishable by summary execution.
Many of the large American companies involved in payments (Visa, MasterCard, Stripe, Square, PayPal) also operate in Europe, and implement the modern security practices required here. 2FA for credit/debit payments made online, for example, and chip payments since... 2004 or something.
This law brought to you by your friendly neighbourhood VPN provider. Obviously this will be overturned on the basis of the first amendment but depending on how long that takes there might be a time where Apple and Google need to block the apps. Okay they can do this by IP address but a VPN gets around that. What next? Would Montana expect the App Store to force GPS location for everyone just to enforce this law in Montana. Seems unlikely.
But don't their taxes and other associated costs (road, vehicle registration, fuel, etc.) pay that?

Do you know what else is expensive? Travelling long distances and crossing bodies of water with more cargo than can reasonably be carried, without a vehicle and somewhere to drive it.
> must be the same group of people with their anecdotes about seatbelts and airbags making cars more dangerous.

I don't think it has to be, it is definitely a safety feature that they make a noise, but these people try to justify burning petrol to do this passively "positive" thing
> The great replacement is a supposed conspiracy yet everyone in here complains how raising children is too expensive, how immigrants are imported to fill in for the missing people and how they accept wages lower than what natives would accept.

> But somehow putting three simple facts together makes you a white nationalist.

This is pretty easy to understand - the important part of the conspiracy theory, and the one your three simple facts are missing, is: there is no conspiracy to do these things. Yes, people in developed countries have below-replacement birth rates, but is that because there is a cabal of evil people trying to genocide them? Or is it due to numerous individual decisions by individual actors creating economic and social circumstances which lead to lower birth rates?

Same goes for your other points. There are simple, logical and realistic explanations that don't need some grand conspiracy to make sense. If you still choose to look for the evil cabal who want to destroy white people, what are you, if not a conspiracy theorist?
Funny right, it’s almost like there are people who can afford to live in a place where you can walk everywhere you need to go…
BananaPi, OrangePi, Odroid, NanoPi, Radxa would be some of the more well-known names. If you just need "something that runs Linux" pretty much everything qualifies, if you have more specific needs it comes down to comparing in detail... On the other hand, you can also find things serving needs that Pis don't cover so well (e.g. multiple Ethernet interfaces, SATA, ...)
I’ve not seen that SwiftUI code block tool before, I’m in absolute love. Mind linking some of your configurations or some of the tool names?

EDIT- my mistake, the first link points it out as https://github.com/xenodium/ob-swiftui. Thanks for sharing!
Sure, longevity and maximum brightness are essentially the same for OLED as they are a trade-off.
Discussing a topic rationally and openly isn't a bias, and I've seen no evidence that HN has an anti-car bias particularly.

We dedicate a huge amount of the public space to personal vehicles, and it is the sort of solution that basically creates its own problem, with the uptake of cars necessitating urban planning that make it necessary for an uptake in cars. Rinse and repeat.

It should be possible to discuss this rationally. I see cars as having tremendous faults, yet I own two of them.
You honestly can't see the issue of a silent vehicle progressing towards a pedestrian?
I wonder if there is some wisdom in Rich Hickey's Transducers

There is also differential dataflow.

I feel all the ideas are related and could be combined.

What I want is a rich runtime and API that lets me fork/join, cancel, queue, schedule mutual exclusion (like a lock without a mutex), create dependency trees or graphs.

I am also reminded of dataflow programming and Esterel which a kind HN user pointed me towards for synchronous programming of signals.
I was very excited about EVs reducing the noise level in my city. Until I realized that most of the noise of a modern car actually comes from the tires. There sin't much difference between a modern non-EV car and an EV, sadly.
They are right, though. After years of (probably subconscious) conditioning I have a "quiet => safe" condition imprinted very deeply. Especially on smaller streets in quieter neighborhoods.
At least give us places to seek refuge from motordom! You shouldn't need to move to Utrecht or a tiny area near Phoenix to live in a place where you can let go of your child's hand without abject terror.

(see www.culdesac.com, www.bloommerwede.nl)
> This includes introverts and extroverts, rich and poor, and younger and older Americans. Sometimes loneliness is set off by the loss of a loved one or a job, a move to a new city, or health or financial difficulties — or a once-in-a-century pandemic.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20116699

This trend predates the pandemic and it's interesting what contributing factors he decides to omit.

> First, we must strengthen social infrastructure — the programs, policies, and structures that aid the development of healthy relationships. That means supporting school-based programs that teach children about building healthy relationships, workplace design that fosters social connection, and community programs that bring people together.

These are already ubiquitous.
Yeah usually the space right outside of train stations is loud because the train station is made to be reachable via all the means the city provides: car, bicycle, bus, tram, taxi, etc. Train stations are usually the mobility hub of a city and this brings noise with it.
I have been doing this for months now with the nreal air, my phone and a portable keyboard with trackpad (I use keyboard shortcuts for anything anyway). It works really well and I haven't taken my laptop anywhere for 2 months or so. It is not perfect, but it's much better than lugging my laptop everywhere (no matter what it weighs; it's the dimensions). And the battery life is outstanding (it's that of my phone and charges as quickly which is much faster than my laptop). I either use github workspaces or vnc to work. VNC is outstanding as it burns minimum battery on the phone and you have a powerful server desktop.

Also; it's much more private; no-one can see your screen (unless you share) and when you put the sun light protector on, no-one starts talking with you. It's a very clear sign of ; I am busy.

The resolution of the monitor (I run DEX as the AR on this thing is not good enough (yet)) could be higher, but that's just a matter of time, and, as it seems to progress now, not a lot of time at that.
The advertisement tech always improves :)
I'm someone who entered the workforce fully, 100% remote (ignoring jobs I had as a teenager anyway) at 19 and I couldn't disagree more.

I actually have (and especially back then, had) a life outside of work believe it or not, and the thought of all of my social interactions (especially back then) being tied to the office sounds absolutely disgusting and completely dystopian.

I don't particularly care for anyone in my company or any of my past ones bar 1 or 2 people, and I much prefer keeping it that way, where my work life is a completely separate universe to anything even resembling my personal life.
I can't currently see myself dictating code or code intentions into an editor, but to a chat system, where I can say, "with the code I just copied over to you, ..." or "with the code which is selected in the editor, ..." and then discuss the problem verbally. Because it gets somewhat tiresome to write out all those sentences.
Inverse ramdisk?
Living on a major bird migratory path sometimes makes me miss the quiet of the city. Tourists from the big cities actually complain about how loud it gets, they love it the first night but after a few days of getting woken up at 4AM by the dawn's chorus they start getting irritable. The blue jays showed up this week and they get the crows and seagulls going which really makes a racket. Noise is relative and what you are used too but I would not miss car noise.
Supposedly you can use VS Code inside Blink already: https://docs.blink.sh/advanced/code
> Cars aren't worse or better, they're just different.

Cars are plain worse. https://ourworldindata.org/grapher/co2-transport-mode

> anti car bias on HN

I more worry worried about the anti smashing your fingers with a hammer bias on HN

> It's an empathy gap

It is an infrastructure spending gap.
Before making snarky comments try to understand a problem from someone else's point of view

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2J-oNEZfnZ8
That's because it has never been that way in the US, or at least not during my lifetime (I'm over 40). Having the fees be added on wouldn't be much different from an increase in sales tax or having your phone bill be more because the quoted prices don't include tax. Cash already has surprise totals.

Convenience isn't even a factor.

Compared to other places, where the price is what you pay (in most cases). You would be adding inconvenience and a little uncertainty to one form of payment. Americans would switch too, if this were the case.
Unfortunately, culture is downstream of economics and technology, so starting from the political end is going to be... an uphill battle.
I hear that a lot about California but I don't know that it's generally true elsewhere in the country.
I see that you have never been to India
I did something similar with some configuration to apache, mod_vhost_alias and dropbox. I was able to quickly update some tiny websites I keep. I just edit the files locally and a few secs later they are updated.

In my dropbox folder I created a Sites folder, where I keep some websites to serve. This folder is shared with another dropbox account syncing on the server, from where the contents are served.

To add a new website, I just create a new folder under Sites and point the DNS records to the VPS IP address.
> I love walkable cities and towns and I think we should build more urban real estate like this. I also think we should in fact build more transit where density makes it make sense.

That's largely how it looks e.g. in Hamburg and around Hamburg. Inside of Hamburg, some people own cars for transportation or family reasons, but many people inside of Hamburg don't own cars and rent transportation as necessary, since they don't even need it often.

Once you get out of Hamburg into the more rural and village-y germany, cars and bicycles are becoming much more necessary, because the next store could easily be a 20 minute car drive away. This tends to be worse in the US.

However, if people need to get into Hamburg, many people tend to drive to a subway station nearby of the collector subways, park there and use transit to get into Hamburg, because the traffic can be a nightmare. It's by no means perfect, since getting up from south of the Elbe is still a bit of a hassle with the public transit, but it works.

In my book, that's the most useful approach to take.
Are you asking why the article isn't offering specifics of this secretive trade deal that's currently being negotiated behind closed doors?
> OP links the Banana Pi M5, VIM1s, Odroid C4, Rock 3A, and the Orange Pi 5 4GB as potential alternatives, but the hardware is not the problem, it's the software support and the community. I'm curious if you've found any SBCs out there that might be viable alternatives to the Raspberry Pi ecosystem.

From the linked Ask HN.

Hardware is irrelevant if the software isn't comparable. I'd like to be proven wrong but if nothing has changed in the last years there are no real alternatives to the Pi.
I used to do a lot of my reading on the train. Over an hour each way.

Now that's I'm 100% WFH, I do that reading on the sofa at home. While I don't know everyone's circumstances, if people can only get the time to do things that they want to do (like reading) as a side-effect of what would be otherwise useless travel time, I feel that there's a better time-management solution than an office commute.
It really just boils down people wanting a quiet place to work, or not, and employers wilfully ignoring that.

It's documented ad-nauseum that developers (or any other job that requires concentration and reasoning) are far more productive in quiet surroundings.

I've worked in my own office, with a door, for a couple of years out of a 30 year career, and those two years were by far the most productive. Apart from the last 3 where WFH has been even better.

Open plan offices are awful for most, and commuting 90 minutes each way, standing for the full 90 minutes on a rush hour train into London is also a waste of time.

I'm sure it's the same in the US, but substitute car and traffic jams for trains.

The tl;dr here is, if there's so much office space available and going cheaply now, isn't about time employers add proper offices for those that want them, and entice a large number of developers back to the office?

This industry is rich, pays $$$, pays $$$ bonuses, employs smart people, will supply you with $3k, $4k, $5k laptops, desktops, $1-2k monitors, peripherals, free lunch, standing desks, send you on 1-2k conferences and travel, and so on and so on.

But not personal offices. WTF.
Are they, though? Surely some people have unusually expensive loans but the full cost of a car comes from loan interest, depreciation, tolls, insurance, parking, gas, maintenance, taxes and any emergency repairs you have to make when something breaks. That can add up to a lot.

The delinquencies are the ones you hear about. What doesn't get reported, statistically, is when people are balancing absolutely everything in their life on a knife's edge to fit the car in with all their other expenses when they are living on a meager salary (or unemployed).

And that is only on the private individual's side. Costing out car-dependent development in terms of building and maintaining roads, bridges, power lines, water pipes, trash collection, wastewater treatment, fire, police is all monstrously expensive, and it is one reason why when the roads get damaged from use and need repair, they get chronically backlogged and problems keep mounting for years and years.

One thing people notice about Japan and the Netherlands is how immaculately maintained the roads are. They are significantly more pleasant places to drive, specifically because they did not overbuild road infrastructure.
There you go: https://www.theverge.com/2023/5/16/23726310/elon-musk-defend...

Musk defending an actual Nazi.

As an advice, if you're "out of the loop," maybe not try to defend a person everyone says has become a fascist sociopath.

Unless you are very well in the loop, but the loop of casting doubt on all these accusations as the "far-left" going crazy, which I guarantee is certainly not happening.
The truth is, all companies want to be above the law.

In reality once a company reaches a certain size and can afford a large team of good overpaid lawyers and lobbyists, they become above the law (at least in the US).

All these companies want to do is discard their lobbyists and lawyers.
Really depends on the speeds. At slower speeds in residential areas the difference is noticeable, especially when cars stop and accelerate again. On larger faster roads not so much.
Our LNG buses are so ridiculously loud, especially when they motor break which seems to be basically every time. Stockholm, Sweden.
Food delivery and taxi apps in India have the ‘drop a pin system’ to solve exactly this issue - lack of properly named streets and numbered buildings.
May Keats and Yeats be on his side…
There are lots of free ones too.
Now, I use a Docker container to backup and version my Gmail. My assumption these days is that at some point, it'll either go bust, be deprecated (ala Reader et al), get hacked, they'll have irrecoverable data loss, or my email client will get a bad update.

I'd host my own mail server, but the deliverability is generally a nightmare, and completely sporadic. Feel like a lot of our digital life is hostage to major corps.

Open standards, interoperability et al should be mandatory for major public services.
You can express the same idea in english and german and french and ...

But if you try to invent your own language (like Tolkien did), you are not "expressing an idea" (aka: speaking), you are creating a framework to express ideas.

When you write a program, you follow a grammar to express an idea (the solution to the problem you are tackling). When you design a programming language, you are creating that grammar (using another language to implement it afterwards).

Also, here "programming language designers" designates "people who are working on their own programming language". Those are the people I'm talking to when writing this Rust crate and blog article. The webdev doing CRUD microservices could not care less about astmaker.
Looks awesome. Is anyone using it in their everyday workflow (I guess
those who WFH)? This seems a bit better than the OP post, with some structure and shortcurs of navigating between code. I think writing comments and later structuring them could be useful in cases where you need to think quite a bit before writing code. Or jumping between search results, opening tabs (tiling on windows through voice doesn't sound bad).

Pity there's no Jetbrains support.
Oh no. The US isn't some kind of totalitarian country to do summary executions for petty crimes.

Why waste the free labor?
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Talon is such an exceptional piece of software. I’ve donated to the project for a few years now. I’m so grateful software like this exists, that it’s cross platform, and that it’s extremely customizable.
An observation like that needs to account for the fact that Millennials with over 70 million people in the US are now the largest American demographic, period. More interesting would be if there's an attitude shift compared to former generations at the same point in life, otherwise you're just noticing that Millennials are now the largest group of people with income
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Yup, the bigger tyres makes a noise difference at speed, it's more energy efficient because of this. You'll notice a sound difference between good and bad tyres too.
> When someone says “I want a programming language in which I need only say what I wish done,” give him a lollipop.

(Alan Perlis)

;-)
yeah, every time a topic exposing right-wing loonies in Silicon Valley is posted here, it gets insta-nuked... from a site owned by Graham, a known loonie himself
In Germany some organizations advocating for visually impaired people (rightfully) complained about this. Apparently the problem is that the „sounds“ EVs play to mimic other vehicles at low speed are too different from other vehicles, and that they stop playing them to early when reaching a certain velocity.
The original author thinks it's infringement, not some IP holding company or her descendants.
I just switch off my camera when I don't need it and turn it on for those few business interactions that are more effective by looking each other faces. That's it. 3D moving avatars feel totally inappropriate to me in a business environment. I would wonder if I am working with kids.
Correct, fuck cars.
You can sleep in the train. Can you while driving a car ?
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This is the one that gets me. It would be trivial to regulate, and the inspections already happen. But no, straight pipe hot rod bikes are somehow a human necessity.
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My 1 remaining server has Gentoo running.

I dread every portage sync and upgrade of packages.

When it works, it works. But now you have to deal with Python depreciation every few months.

Every upgrade something might break which potentially has you spending your precious time on pointless maintenance, which could be better spent being productive.

My Gentoo forums account is from 2001. Back then, Gentoo truly was the learning distro. Starting from Stage 1 you learned a lot about Linux. Nowadays that's not the case anymore.

The young, idealistic me believed in Linux as means to freedom and betterment of society.
But what I met on those forums back in 2003 was ignorance and arrogance. Not exclusively of course, but more than in other forums I used to frequent.

The community also became toxic (has recovered) and the management intransparent. CoreOS used Gentoo as their base for their OS.
Double standards, maintainers could be toxic while bug reporters would get banned. I got banned when I told the PHP maintainer to do his job or step down. How dare I.

I wrote that Gentoo needed to be more transparent, Google had sent some money their way but nothing about that was mentioned. Entry for new, young people wasn't easy and still isn't.
They don't care. What they care about is donations and to have something to show for on their resume. But those donations remain intransparent.
Some elder staff are really cool, like Ned.

Well if there wasn't so much stuff on that server that migrating to a new one would be a long and cost endeavor, I'd have dumped Gentoo years ago.

I wouldn't know what to replace it with. CentOS is apparently shunned, Alma or Rocky? Ubuntu with their snaps is out of the question. Arch is not for the server, and it tends to break on a regular basis. Gentoo is just a pain in the ass to maintain. But on the pro side, you can have your own packages easily, well if you care to read the bits and pieces of the ebuild docs cluttered around everywhere.
> Okay, yeah, they just permanently lost me. The idea that they had to make this decision to save the jobs of all those people is ridiculous.

A potential mitigation that the Raspberry Pi Foundation could have done: commercial users can get prioritized RPi boards, but they have to pay an insane mark-up for this priotization (say 200 € instead of 50 € for a board).

This way, corporations for which otherwise the production chains would stand still (i.e. much larger financial losses) can get a solution, but a solution that is not cheap.

This solution should appease many hobbyists, since this way they don't feel that commercial users "buy away the RPis, which were originally developed for hobbyists and schools", but rather that such commercial users rather subsidize the RPis for the hobbysist and schools via the "priotization mark-ups".

EDIT: Under https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35999824
cinntaile posted a related consideration.