skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Wikidata (a Wikimedia Foundation project) is an RDF dataset with a SPARQL querying service available at https://query.wikidata.org/
I would have to see the stroads but I can fit bike infra on perhaps the most famous stroad of all, Avenue des Champs-Élysées, so I'm sure I could figure it out.

One thing people don't realize is many US lanes are twelve feet wide, which is much wider than needed for slower traffic (in fact, one of the best ways to slow traffic down is to narrow the lane). An 18-wheeler is 8.5 feet wide, so even a 10 foot lane offers excess room.

If a stroad is three lanes each way, and they're 12 feet each, that's 12 feet that can be recovered simply by reducing lane width, and that doesn't even involve any sidewalk rearrangements.

But bike infra doesn't have to even follow the car infra, you can put a nice bike lane setup one block over from the stroad (more properly the arterial or collector). Nobody really wants to bike next to a bunch of cars anyway.
Interesting!

Do you have some more details you could share, like screenshots or trailers/videos? Sadly the video link to the trailer on YouTube is not working anymore.
US signals to allies it won’t block their export of F-16 jets to Ukraine
> One could start by not putting as many folks in prisons and jails. You don't have to be a wealthy country to do that.

Norway is able to put fewer people in prison because it puts more emphasis on crime prevention. The US chose a different path a long time ago, probably even as far back as the war on drugs. It's going to be very hard to put the toothpaste back in the tube again, if that's even possible.
Apple AR/VR headset reportedly costs about $1500 to make
One of the authors here.

I deleted the notebook yesterday after realizing it was weird to have a disclaimer saying 'this is our personal opinion' on a github repo under 'Microsoft'. I moved the notebook to a gist here:
- https://gist.github.com/marcotcr/64ca85bd0be724f6d8fb8f1b3d2...

I didn't know we were on hackernews, otherwise I would of course not have made it a broken link :)

This morning, we put the link back, without the takeaways with our personal opinion at the end (it's still on the gist and on the blog post https://medium.com/@marcotcr/exploring-chatgpt-vs-open-sourc... )
G7 summit: Zelensky to travel to Japan to take part in G7 summit, reports say
The Upper Atmosphere Is Cooling, Prompting New Climate Concerns
>A new study reaffirming that global climate change is human-made also found the upper atmosphere is cooling dramatically because of rising CO2 levels. Scientists are worried about the effect this cooling could have on orbiting satellites, the ozone layer, and Earth’s weather.
I’ve been working on an app that will ideally have many user posts, and this agenda scares me.

You have these giant platforms that can afford to have entire departments dedicated to manual moderation, and even then you get rags like The Verge or Vox writing about how awful it is these companies make people look at disturbing content. It’s like, well what’s the answer? If you let people post content to your service some of them are going to post bad stuff, it’s not avoidable.

But as a solo founder who is hoping to bootstrap, what does this mean for me? My first phase of launching will be a very small group of creators that have been vetted personally and I have built a report system so I can be alerted when I do expand out.

But I just don’t think it’s possible to hold these platforms responsible for content users post unless they show extreme negligence. Otherwise you’re adding yet another barrier to anybody being able to compete with big tech. And it’s not fair to the big platforms either. If you’re TikTok or YouTube and you have so much content being uploaded even if you have a team that can do manual review it’s very difficult to catch everything.

So I’m glad for this ruling. As much as it sucks the web is so centralized now, pursuing this path of regulation will just make everything worse.
Arm every teacher. There should be a 100% chance of at least one gun in every classroom.

Training people to be passive victims is stupid, let's stop it.
Wow, didn't expect to see @xfennec pop up on hacker news while drinking my coffee this morning! I don't know if he'll see this, to be honest didn't know he was still doing things - but this person basically got me into programming and game development-I really can't believe it.

xfennec (and some friends?) I think built a game engine called Raydium, and one of their games called Mania Drive-a Track Mania clone-got distributed with OpenSuse installation CDs back in the day. When I was just like 12 years old, my dad installed that on the family computer and it was all we had, Mania Drive was one of the coolest games on there. Me and my siblings played that for literally days and months on end, making crazy levels we couldn't beat without knowing every turn. It was a huge part of our childhood.

Their game engine was in C with PHP scripting, I remember posting some levels to their forums and asking, in retrospect super dumb, questions and they were so polite and friendly. I remember us joking at the time that the French seemed like these god-like game developers, it had such a profound impact on us, I even wrote about it last year and linked a video of Mania Drive first[0]. I went on to learn Python and then lower-level languages as a result. I'm not sure I'd be coding today without them, to be honest.

Sorry it's off-topic, just really blown away to see a username like that pop up in my feed. Really goes to show that kindness + some cool open source software can have profound effect on people.

[0] https://devlog.hexops.com/2021/increasing-my-contribution-to...
This is what I use for my home lab running NixOS:

https://github.com/heywoodlh/nixos-configs/blob/d5b0ffbcc4cb...

This script is so nice because it's so simple: it follows the journalctl output of sshd.service and then sends a push notification to me through Gotify's CLI when journalctl's output matches what I set $grep_regex_pattern to (I just need to remember to setup gotify when I setup my server). The best part is that it's so easy to modify this script for ANY systemd service that is using journalctl.

I alert on all successful and failed attempts, because in my home lab, I should be the only one logging in -- so I don't really get notifications unless I'm working on something. It's helped me a few times when I've accidentally left port 22 exposed to the world on some VPS' -- reminding me to add firewall rules to reduce access.

EDIT: clarified that sshd-montior sends alerts when matching regex pattern
The USD is a world trade and reserve currency. If you don't run deficits, the monetary supply part of that system gets a bit wonky.

The Norwegian krone is used more than other currencies (oil), but isn't nearly the same.
> It also lets you pick a different key frame

Note that this significantly lowers the photo quality.
What's wrong with decimals in font sizes?
https://archive.ph/OHKT1
sea world tycoon!
Apple bans employees from using ChatGPT over fears of leaks
Catching up with some MS-DOS tooling of yore?
Twitter didn't exist. There was no echo chamber of fear mongering.
We're changing the weather with greenhouse gases and whatnot, and we regularly pump it out to go to our homes, or even use it to make electricity with dams.
Yep, I use Working Copy with both Jekyll and 11ty sites on Netlify to do the same thing.

Even made a Shortcuts action to create new posts - it formats the YAML frontmatter, inserts the date, asks for title, then creates a new document in Working Copy with the proper file path. Super useful.
That's exactly it. He put himself through it. It was completely unnecessary and it was his choice to do it this way. That doesn't justify any of what he did, if anything, it points out the absurdity of your response. If someone had no choice but to do this your defense would make more sense, but this dude just planned his life poorly and used capital to make up for his mistakes. Rent is free, that means he has parents who own a home and let him live there after reaching adulthood. He has a good credit card, that means he had parents who helped him with financial literacy and likely paid his bills for the first few years to help him build his credit score. Exploiting the people and resources (especially carbon emissions) around you for such cockamammie plans is dumb and antisocial and this person deserves to be ridiculed.

Remarkable, the sycophancy on this site. In what world is wasting a massive amount of other people's resources to save a couple thousand dollars in your pocket anywhere related to the "hacker spirit"?
The Senate’s hearing on AI regulation was dangerously friendly
Why I use Linux instead of Windows
I don’t think that ads are completely bad, there is something to the argument that they help us get better products and services because they let us know about competitors.

Google started out with “don’t be evil” and made a point to separate text link ads in little boxes apart from the search results to keep those results looking legitimate. For a while they had a complex relationship with SEO spammers (who do best when they fill in the gaps of the search coverage) but since they started blending ads with the search results they’ve dissuaded people from investing in SEO-oriented publishing and pushed people into a pay to play model where the instead of spending on content and link building they just pay Google directly.

As a result the search results not only suck (search for a used car and the monopolist car dealer who owns all the new car dealers in town spams you a link to search for new cars) but look illegitimate.

Youtube is still one of the wonders of the web but it is has its own legitimacy problem. A few months back many milbloggers were being sponsored by ‘Established Titles’ which was fraudulently selling square feet of land in Scotland (… and they wren’s even “True Scottman” but were rather based in Hong Kong.). I don’t know whether to laugh or cry when I hear that A.I. voice in pre roll ads pushing spam supplements that are probably just loaded with heavy metals.
Definitely not the case. In Salford, Cheshire, South Manchester etc you'd really struggle to find anyone who was a city fan. Source: I lived in Ashton-under-lyne from 1990-1995 or so. I personally knew literally hundreds of United fans (and this is before their really dominant era). During that time I knew literally 1 person who was a city fan and everyone would relentlessly take the piss out of him for it.
> Trolls gaslight with hurtful nonsense to incite reactions from people that don't know better.

> Now aren't you and your friend late for some kind of cross burning?

Okaaay, I guess I'll just know better then.
I mean, sure, but the point of frequent checkpoints is that these issues would be rooted out sooner rather than later.

It would have been caught far sooner than “we have to redo everything from scratch”.
I use Twilio for a friends & family only project, and just this week jumped through the hoops to register. I'm willing to suck it up and pay the $2/month because I understand the purpose of this whole thing is to reduce spam. I hate the spam texts I get more than I hate paying $2 so for me it's worth it. However, I understand your reluctance and also considered (and might eventually switch to) something other than SMS, maybe back to good old emails or if I get everyone onto a single messaging platform I'd use an API into that.
> That's not arrogant at all, lol. Particularly when it's based on falsehoods like the ones stated above-thread.

Facts are not arrogance and lies.

> Eastern countries are in the EU for the practical advantages, and those advantages are the result of the solidarity framework established in Rome.

There is no solidarity other than on paper, as the war in Ukraine has proven in its early days. It wasn't until the US, UK and east Europe pressured western europe to get off it's backside and something about it. Particularly since european "solidarity" meant that east european calls for taming russia have been ignored and worse western europe financed russia and forced an unhealthy reliance on their resources.

> Lol, citation needed.

Quatargate springs to mind. Unheard of in the early days of the EC.

> Absolutely. The country made sacrifices to stay in the Union, for practical and ideological reasons, and it's one of the main movers behind actual policy-making. Even just Mario Draghi did more for the Union than most Eastern politicians likely ever will.

Insignificant to efforts made by east EU to rebuild countries, political systems and social structures.

> Whereas I'm sure the third largest market in the Union will have a say.

East Europe is the second largest economy of europe. Larger than nort or south europe. If the trend continues, it may even revert to pre 70s levels - a rather likely outcome - where it was the largest.

Look, i understand you are upset that your country and region is being overtaken, but be fair and play the game. No need for emotions and tantrums, they won't change facts.
Modern combustion cars have virtually no engine noise... most of the noise comes from the tires on both combustion and electric cars.
AI Won't Replace You: But Someone Using AI Will
The McMurtry Goodwood performance is also impressive. Even the straight-line launch is eye-popping: https://youtu.be/xtvT2XYlcOY?t=46

It shattered the previous record that had stood for 23 years.
Agreed. The first 6 months to a year you might do it to get information, after that you keep it up so they can’t tell everyone what you did when they get released.

You also have to think the people employed at these prisons enjoy torturing (why else would they do it for 20 years - how do they find these people in the first place?) so maybe they keep them around just to have people to torture.
Yeah, and backing up the MBR, creating files of a given size like keys, yadda yadda. Anyone getting nitty gritty with storage media, legacy hardware etc, should know their dd.

I first came to love it learning how to fix my bootloader and undo all sorts of horrible things I'd done to my system when I was a teenager exploring Linux well over a decade ago. I also worked in repair for a while and there it was indispensable for data recovery purposes along with its cousin ddrescue.

Now I just use it for my constant tinkering needs.
I really appreciate this disclaimer. :)
Yes, infrastructure where only one provider exists means society should just run it themselves like a utility. We already do this in many or most places. The military, electricity, gas, water, roads, public transit are all “sold” (or operated at cost) by the government.
To be fair, going from "lost his battle with cancer" to something else is at worst breaking even in terms of the western world's euphemism count.
But do they also ban google/bing/whatever? They also get access to proprietary queries. And possibly to internal links that someone might search by accident.

I bet search engines know a ton of company secrets.
If Apple is working on a ChatGPT equivalent, then they wouldn't release it internally to their 150,000 corporate employees first. Also, if they're working on a ChatGPT competitor, I highly doubt it would be near-ready considering how far behind they are in the generative AI space. The only reason Google released a competitor so quickly is because they were already working on it internally and were "forced" to share it publicly.
Yeah. Bigmouth strikes again also fits that category.
A city on its own generally has the power to change zoning and land use laws. There are limitations (some states give cities more or less power here) but generally cities do have the ability to make changes that would reduce noise and improve quality of life for their residents.

On the other hand, cities do not have the ability to redesign cars. A city can’t just choose to invent a quieter car!

I would love it if we can engineer cars and trucks to be quieter; I think though that a more feasible path for any city is to work on zoning and land use changes.
> However, you should know that this [liberal democracy] has precisely nothing to do with the Liberal Democrats in the UK. The Liberal Democrats are so named because they're the result of a merger between the Liberal Party and the Social Democratic Party. The best combination of the names was "Liberal Democrats." -- cpast

https://politics.stackexchange.com/a/7812
If the output is fundamentally different from the input, or reasonably derivative, then I agree that copyright should disappear
My experience in Brazil and Uruguay is that since the 80s, cars have become much much quieter and also people don't honk as much.

In Uruguay, especially, the bus fleet was awful in the 80s and 90s. They were very old, made a lot of noise, and polluted like hell. There are many electric buses nowadays and the old Leylands are gone.

You don't see electric buses in Brazil and most of the noise comes from diesel buses and the small ones are the worst (I think this is regulatory failure, not a technical issue).
I niavely hoped this nonsense would disappear when Theresa May fell. I think it has more support than I realised in the Tory right.
Yeah, that seemed a little hand-wavy in its description. Thanks for reviewing, it’s been very interesting.
I still haven't accepted the "new" WhatsApp privacy policy. It's been over a year, and every time I open the app I just click the "X" to close the prompt asking me to accept it. I'm wondering how long this can continue...
Yes, if you want to better tolerate glitches you have to separate internal and external reactivity, and only run the external ones after the full reaction is complete. I think this would prevent the scenario you describe, assuming your operators are well-defined.

The other option is to use FrTime's approach and only update nodes in dependency order.
CarPlay Karaoke: Playing music videos and lyrics through cover art
"It's a big club and you ain't in it"
It depends upon what you're trying to achieve.

To run software, emulation is great. To develop software, emulation is great. Anything that deals directly with hardware, well, emulation isn't going to cut it.

Then there are the other reasons, ones that have nothing to do with the hardware itself. Personally, I use vintage computers as an escape from modern computers and as a reminder of what the technology could have been. I'm not talking about it being slow, unreliable, or downright difficult to manage. I'm thinking more along the lines of being simple enough to understand and a lot more personal. A lot of what we call progress is a mixed bag. Yes, the performance of modern computers is amazing and it comes at the cost of complexity. On the other hand, we have a lot of complexity that is not necessary for day to day use. Yes, having access to a literal world of information at our fingertips is amazing. On the other hand, our computers are also at the whim of the outside world. In other words, there are a lot of tradeoffs.

For some things, emulation is the perfect solution. For other things, it simply won't work.
I use it to search esoteric stuff about tools I don't use that much, and have horrible ux. What day is sunday to chron? How do I specify the first text field to 'cut'? How the heck do I do x thing in awk? gpt gives me an answer I can try and iterate on. I'm using it as a glorified search engine with an extremely clean and pleasant interface. I'm not asking it to write production code whole cloth.

TLDR: There's an old saying 'trust, but verify' and that applies to everything gpt gives you.
Because one of the principal designers of Windows 8 liked print design and thought computer UIs could learn from its literally centuries-long history[1]. I can’t even say he didn’t have a point (in particular, the “wasted space everywhere” cries don’t really provoke that much sympathy from me—waste, yes, everywhere, no). But it does indeed not seem to be working out for conventional KVM interfaces and not even that well for touch.

As a side note, Google’s Material Design (mentioned in neighbouring comments) actually had a fairly detailed physics (metaphysics? metaphorical physics?) worked out[2] in the first version, but the second regressed to a list of widgets and metrics, and then the everything-is-flat current one arrived.

[1] https://web.archive.org/web/20120314071640/http://kruzeniski...

[2] https://m1.material.io/material-design/material-properties.h...
I have to say there’s a strange fixation on making ICE quieter. EV’s are so quiet you have to add things to them to make a little noise so they don’t run people over. I’d much rather see cities move towards EV and build out EV infra than try to figure out how to make Rube Goldberg machines more complex to reduce their noise by 10%, while not addressing the rest of the ills.

There are non trivial problems to solve with EV in the city. Solve those instead of propping up age of fire dinosaur juice machines.
In any world where you use a car to get to work.
Yes. The main problem with the talk is that it's just too general. It gives good advice, but it's only really good advice if you understand what it's trying to say, at which point you don't need the advice. Kinda impossible to cover "what every programmer needs to know" in 5 minutes.

So, "use smart points, if you have to", should have been: "if you need to allocate memory dynamically, use smart pointers".
I think the issue is:
1. The sheer amount of people it affects
2. The fact that the power resides with the CCP.
Not like I trust any countries’ government but the CCP clearly has goals counter to the West’s
... then they start talking about km^2 of lost surface area. Which if you read the paper they cite, it says "Between 1984 and 2015 permanent surface water has disappeared from an area of almost 90,000 square kilometres, roughly equivalent to that of Lake Superior, though new permanent bodies of surface water covering 184,000 square kilometres have formed elsewhere." On top of that, shallow lakes fluctuate wildly in surface area. The great Salt Lake for example. VS Lake Tahoe which can drop 10 ft and the surface area loss is tiny.
> article itself is an emotion driven ad hominem attack on Musk

No it isn't. I'm no great fan of Nick Cohen, but this article is at least well-argued enough to require as serious response, not a lazy dismissal. Cohen proposes a framework within which to interpret Musk's behavior and then provides any number of examples that support his interpretation, alongside historical parallels.

Personally, I'm more in the "Musk is a prick" camp than the "Musk is a proto-fascist" camp.

(Plus, please review what ad hominem means. It doesn't mean "saying nasty things about people I like" )
There is a simple way to counter this effect - focus on road, not on the destination. If you enjoy what you are doing, you won't get disappointed even if it doesn't work out in a long run for different reasons.
You’re absolutely right. I’ve lived here for 20 years but have no fucking idea what I’m talking about. What was I thinking. Carry on.
Synthea: Open-source synthetic patient generation
When water gets in short enough supply, we will burn coal, garbage, tires, anything to power desalination plants.
When I worked at Apple they would have never rolled something out internally that they have yet to release. Sometimes they invite you to test something in a very controlled environment but they would not just give access outside of the controlled setting. Probably in person testing. Surrender your phone etc…
I applaud your will to separateness, and agree, but IMO it is difficult to escape the "we". When do we chose to be part of "we"? Only when "we" are good? or when we're just talking about you and I, plus maybe our own small band of signatories? or never?

I really should have refrained from commenting, because I don't have an answer. All I know is that, when people talk about say "when we migrated out of Africa", or "when we, the vikings populated Iceland", or "when we arrived on the Mayflower", then something doesn't quite connect. A sentiment something like your own maybe.