skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The area was established prior to cars and was livable, but as it grew everything was designed with cars in mind and made it unlivable without them. So it’s not that cars made an unlivable place otherwise livable, it’s that cars made a livable place unlivable without them.

It’s certainly possible for another form of transit to exist in this town, but everything was designed with cars in mind and there is little interest in fixing it, because almost everyone has a car (excluding those that can't afford them, but we don't talk about that or the weak economic mobility that lack of proper public transit absolutely contributes to).
JIS the Juggling Information Service
On the contrary, it's stopped everyone so far.
the issue is that the conversation is so polarized and religious its literally impossible to discuss any of these issues. the poster you are responding to states some things which are reasonable and others which are complete nonsense. Its like people cant help themselves once picking a side to just wholesale accept every position all the way to "covid isnt real" on one end and "no one should ever leave their house again" on the other end.

The initial batch of vaccines were explicitly marketed as having a 95% effectiveness against transmission for the original strain. This was the entire basis of the herd immunity narrative and it was true for about 3 months until delta happened and the medical community did an egregiously bad job of communicating that.

Cloth masks are objectively useless for personal protection.
As a personal anecdote, living as an Asian in a US city with a population over 1M people, I definitely saw a change in peoples' stance towards Asians in general and Chinese in particular, and not in a good way. There was a lot more suspicion about Asians, their businesses, etc. It wasn't the same level of suspicion as during post-9/11 America but it had a similar vibe. A lot of dog whistling with sentiments like, "I'm criticizing the Chinese government, not the Chinese people." (spoiler alert: it was both) Maybe that didn't result in violent crime, but it was not (and still isn't) a good time to be Chinese or display pride in one's Chinese heritage.

I hope one day we can look back at this period and think about how to better critically think about these things without applying personal biases and fears to a whole population.
Well, if you said it, it must be true and we must accept these anecdotes as the complete truth and you as the best source of it.
My former boss, someone I used to think had a brilliant business mind, at an e-commerce company, forced us to produce a shitty mobile app, and then to pour more resources into it, because of how the average spending of users in-app was higher. I mean, no sh*t, these are people who are such fans of your brand that they want to download a whole dedicated app for shopping at your site. Of course they’re buying more. I have an app for stores I frequent a LOT, but would not see myself installing one for like, stores that I visit maybe once a year. But the causality was in the other direction.
What a thinly-veiled piece of authoritarian propaganda, lots of bad arguments in there.

I did enjoy this [1] refutation of the article though.

I agree with the article I linked in that people who think The Tyranny of Structurelessness is insightful are mostly bookish socially-incompetent people who want to force the rest of us to live sterile rule-bound "lives" (if you can even call that life).

- [1] https://theanarchistlibrary.org/library/jason-mcquinn-a-revi...
Worth mentioning that the reference encoder only targets Butteraugli on Effort=8 and Effort=9, for effort=7 and below, it uses heuristics instead.
> Most of the carbon footprint on the planet comes from the relatively low number of people in... Europe

That's not so true now, China emits as much CO2 per capita as Europe does, and quite a bit more than the greener European countries (e.g. France, Sweden, the UK). This remains even after adjusting for consumption rather than production.
A New Experiment Casts Doubt on the Leading Theory of the Nucleus
Does this affect the security of password-protected Office documents as well? I think there's lots of valuable information locked up with simple Excel or Word passwords.
But "live in a big city and use public transit" is tantamount to saying "just don't exist or be human"

Or put "eat meat" in there.

"Biological imperative" at the peril of the planet. Idk. It's probably ironic for me to have any opinions of the biological imperative of heterosexual sex but it just strikes me as odd.

I'll go do my own research but now I'm quite curious about this. I guess for some reason I expect people to be better than their urges, but maybe that's foolish of me.
Yes, this is just a wiki about small communities. I guess one of the problems of small communities is that you probably can't just one that's advertised since it'll likely be full, so you have to make your own or get invited to one.
Yes. If the string contains a #, you must append another # at the end to “escape” it.
Didn’t that team at Apple (with Lattner at the helm) also claim Swift was “faster than C”? I am yet to be convinced that in the general case, this is true, especially with the recent language bloat and lack of substantial compiler optimizations. But it wasn’t true back when Swift was released either.
I created a static copy of the page in order to save the wiki from death…
That angle is very good.

To me what's missing in many of these discussions is the cost/result calculation, how much effect is expected from "documentation". Thinking of it as an UX/UI could help put it more in terms of what time is spend by which user to achieve which specific task.

If specific use cases can be described, what needs to be written down becomes a lot more obvious and it can be done way more efficiently than just blindly "documenting" a system.
https://archive.is/bxbua
I'm not sure that's a better comparison, because the subject of the JD lawsuit, the toy had the exact imagery of the JD brand - not an alteration of it.
Don't forget that sensitive data is encrypted. The only thing harder than breaking bitlocker on a hard drive is breaking bitlocker on a random 0.5% chunk of hard drive unaligned with the r/w tracks.

Bullshit is too weak a word.
Turn your career towards addressing the problem. climatebase.org is one good place to start. https://workonclimate.org/ is good too. Also consider running for office.
Ignorance is bliss? Is it better to believe in gods that will reincarnate you as a bear if you die in battle? Or is it better to have access to knowledge?

Also, bad weather and praying to gods wasnt exactly input/output.
Disclaimer: I'm not familiar with this service or EIDAS, so my comment might be entirely off the mark.

The decision to require users to use an emailed link to view and sign a message could stem from DLP requirements. Emails are plain-text and therefore any sensitive data leaked could be irreversibly exposed. By keeping the messages inside a system that requires authentication, there is less likelihood that a someone besides the intended recipient will interact with the message. Such systems also support auditability and DLP scanning.
When this happened my thoughts also turned to Aaron. I had not thought about him in some time. It made me sad note that, to think of where we and of all we have done without and why that is so.

Context for those who missed it:

http://www.aaronsw.com/weblog/rewritingreddit

https://www.wbur.org/news/2013/02/20/carmen-ortiz-investigat...

I think of Sci-hub and Alexandra are the continuation of Aarons fatal push:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alexandra_Elbakyan

Ongoing attention on the circumstances:

https://theintercept.com/2021/02/15/marty-walsh-aaron-swartz...
Perfect example of how they want to control how you think about their brand. It’s not about brand confusion.
> The only thing lockdowns do is push cases into the future.

Even without vaccination, mortality from covid is significantly lower than it was early in the pandemic.
Reddit is far from giant in terms of employees or revenue, and you'd be surprised at how many dumb decisions and how much money is wasted by startups that have raised hundreds of millions of dollars. You really shouldn't assume competence in situations like these, especially when Reddit has recently been making a bunch of terrible long term decisions to try and juice their numbers in the short term for IPO
See: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19828702
Given the topic of conversation, it is a necessary bit of pedantry. If we are going to abandon "climate change" because it does not fully convey the issue, replacing it with "oil catastrophe", which also does not fully convey the issue, is not particularly useful. The latter is going to leave people thinking that all we need to do is stop using oil, which may be a good start, but not a complete solution.
I often find that trying to document code or a product forces me to rethink how I wrote it. Sometimes it's easier to change the code to make the concept simple to grok, then to write the documentation for the hard to grok concept. This is a very good thing.

Companies in general should do much more writing. Writing forces you to think in ways that coding doesn't. For me it's much easier to spot a poorly thought out argument then a bug in code (not a 1 for 1 comparison).
I've experimented with it! Framer is a site builder, users build and host complete web pages that exist in their system. This is great for landing pages, but in the words of their own website: 'If you are looking to build a "real app" that creates, updates and lists dynamic data, a simple React application might be a better option for you'[0].

My tool is for designing for "real apps". Designs are exported as components. They can be used in your own codebase as you see fit. For example, a designer for a flight booking website creates a new ticket design. The component is imported and the booking state data is passed to it: <DesignedTicket name={bookingName} departure={departureCode} arrival="LAX" />

[0] https://www.framer.com/learn/how-to-work-with-real-dynamic-d...
>Does this mean it is now illegal to make a red and white dildo and call it Cock-a-cola?

I'm not a lawyer but I'm guessing yes.

Note that, as with somewhat related Dr. Seuss copyright cases [1], some of it relates to whether something is actually a satire/parody or whether you're just taking advantage of someone else's IP to sell something--even if it's a non-competitive something. As someone else noted, it's not clear that Weird Al's songs would in general be OK if he didn't license the source material.

[1] https://www.jdsupra.com/legalnews/who-s-who-dr-seuss-and-cop...
>> some kinds of virus research pose an existential threat to humanity if not handled properly.

I mean, I'm not trying to be a dick, but ... duh. This has been the primary plot point of a zillion movies for forever.

Oh, and accidents at labs happen more often than you'd like[1].
And the frequency seems to be going up, not down.
>> the public absolutely has a right and obligation to participate in.

I'm sure the "public" (by which I assume you mean random people on social media) are not qualified in the slightest to participate in this discussion. If you feel that you have an "obligation" to weigh in, then by all means feel free. No-one is stopping you. It's completely possible to have discussions on lab safety without having to point fingers at a specific incident.

As you point out there's a really strong tension at play here - it's very important to be able to do virus research. Working with viruses is dangerous. It can be made as safe as possible, but it's still dangerous. There is a very fine line here, which is best walked by people highly qualified and working in this space. Given they are the most likely first victims of any accident, I'm sure they are highly motivated to be safe.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_laboratory_biosecurity...
So the SCOTUS didn't rule that it did or did not violate the trademark. They ruled that there wasn't a direct first amendment protection for it and that it needs to go back to the lower courts to be adjudicated. Basically the case can't be dismissed outright based on first amendment precedent/law.
there was zero evidence for either scenario, yet only 1 of them got you labeled a conspiracy theorist
The mods have all the leverage. They’re literally volunteer workers, they can quit their duties with no real downsides.
Odds of a Hard Landing Are Increasing
Global replacement rate is about 2.3 so ...

I wonder when many in those 'rich' countries will learn that they need to embrace that instead of 'build the wall'.

Anyway, I don't think replacement fertility is the right measure here. Replacement fertility could be crashing, but if the ratio of 'modern'* humanity is increasing as it is, then the problem remains ... there's probably a term for this if anyone knows.

* (by 'modern' [super air-quoted] I mean, those who have the wants and desires and ability to get the goods and services of the 'rich' countries).
> I don't think that just using a distinct brand is enough - it's all about probable customer confusion

The entire point of this ruling was to say that using a distinct brand can be enough. Customers were not confused between a dog toy and a bottle of Jack Daniels. The issue Jack Daniels had was its distinct brand being used to sell something else.
"Disrupt" is VC cringe-speak for toppling the current monopolist and inserting themselves into that position.

Reddit needs decoupling, not disrupting.
FWIW I mod a sub and was able to use the mobile site last night (around this post's time, a few hours after) to make the sub private.
Sometimes I like to imagine that I was the only one still using beta.reddit.com.

It was used during the redesign where they added thumbnails like 14 years ago, to allow people to see the new design before it got launched.

This was the birth of /r/beta

The subdomain is basically the same as old.reddit now, but I continued using the domain all this time for no reason.

The /r/beta subreddit was repurposed for beta testing, but has been abandoned for at least 8 years. I don’t know why they leave the subreddit active.

The subdomain I can only imagine was totally forgotten.
I think it has a lot to do with living situation. Most of us don't have basements or many square feet to spare anywhere.

I built a system on one of these open frames back in 2015 when I was living in New Mexico and kept it in my grad student office: https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B009RRIP86 . It was great (especially for swapping components), but then I moved. Living in a small apartment here in CA, that thing was pretty annoying. One time, I got egg on the motherboard. Long story, but I projected the first Trump-Hillary debate onto an old bedsheet on the wall, had friends over, and supplied eggs. Let's just say I was surprised at how far an egg can splatter. I did my best to clean it, but I had recurring issues with the ram slots following that incident. Last week I finally got rid of the whole system after its long and prestigious career.

Also, I kept it under my desk for a while and had a bad habit of sticking my feet in there and causing problems.

So, advantages of a closed case besides small footprint:

- Raw egg does not splatter into the ram slots

- You can't put your feet in the computer
I mean, this sort of absolute statement is bullshit, summer and winter is extremely rapid and far more dramatic than the few degrees "forecasted" over the next century. Plants and animals adapt every year, some die, many thrive, things change. I am not questioning that humans are making things worse, but "has no mechanism"?? Simply false. Migration is one obvious mechanism. Storing more heat in the ocean is another.
SoftBank-backed pizza startup shuts down after raising $445M
Usually the distinction made is between electronic signature (e.g. you scrawled your mark on a piece of paper, scanned it and now the software lets you paste that image on signature pages) and digital signature (cryptographic)
Good list of essentials on the sleeping in airports-specific subpage. Never considered an inflatable something, that makes sense though as they can be stowed and carried. A full raft is probably too heavy if you truly are traveling, though... but now I want to try.

Things that were not mentioned but would be essential for me- a GaN wall-wart (I use an Aukey Omnia Mix 65w), which you could use to charge both a phone and a laptop; and a pre-charged power brick for when you can't find a free outlet to just give your phone or other small device a little juice.
Making a lot probably means it's not a side project anymore. Do you mean side to begin with, or ongoing? The latter will limit the attention you can give it.
The alternative was "effectively stringly-typed XML forest" that was only checked at runtime; even worse for tooling that the current annotation (and recursive/nested annotation in the case of Spring) thing modern Java is.
Linux security is surprisingly weak, and a mess.

Are users expected to search for hardening guides, spend time learn all these pieces and implement them securely? Even the system administrators may not know tools such as SeLinux, let alone the end users. It takes a lot of time to learn write SeLinux or AppArmor policies.

We need an operating system that is already hardened, preconfigured with secure defaults, and can be a daily driver. It should not need the user “harden” it.

I don’t mean OpenBSD: it’s secure because it doesn’t enable much.
Do you have a personal career roadmap?
I wonder if you maintain a personal career roadmap file that you keep updated, with stuff like things you should learn on the long-term, habilities, certifications, promotions you are preparing for?

If you do, for how long have you been maintaining it and how does it look like now?
Yeah, it was low again.
For anyone else looking for solutions, I the use self-hosted Mattermost for my family and friends - been doing that for years and very happy with it.
>Some little things can help you protect your GUI apps if you're extra paranoid

Can you explain this? What are the exploits?

Is it the equivalent of running a .exe or .jar on windows, but with an extra layer of protection? (Or am I trying to shove my windows ideas into linux?)
> genetic clocks show that RaTG13 and SARSCoV2 diverged almost 50 years ago.

Converting the distance in phylogenetic analysis to evolutionary distance is based on natural gene drafting rate, which does not consider passaging with human selections.
I am from algeria internet matter to me I use internet to work remotely they are violating my rights they don't care about their people gov do what they want ....
In what way is HN failing? HN is an excellent source of humour. Even this very comment I am replying to contains a fair amount of hilarity.
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> Wearing a mask was racist

Not sure what crazy publications you all were reading.
I think largely because swift and mojo have the same creator, chris lattner. He was a guest on lex fridman last week

https://youtu.be/pdJQ8iVTwj8
My $100/year shared webhosting held up just fine to a front-page HN post. I don't think that's "a lot" a of money, though it is probably more expensive than the power usage of a small server in someone's basement.
Could you provide a source for that?
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The JIS database of clubs was already out of date and not responding to update requests ~25 years ago. For an actively-maintained list of events and clubs there is: https://www.jugglingedge.com/ -- which is where most of the rec.juggling and IJDb community went when IJDb shut down. There are probably more active forums now, but it's still the cleanest and most comprehensive list of juggling clubs and events that I know of.
> Anything less than {fear so strong as to prevent reason and logical thinking} is irrational

That’s an impressively eloquent caricaturization of the neurosis. Being able to state it so plainly leaves me to wonder if you’re being facetious about the whole thing.

> Panic in social psychology is considered infectious since it can spread to a multitude of people and those affected are expected to act irrationally as a consequence.

Indeed.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Panic
Consider how slowly we were coming out of the last ice age before fossil fuels sped things up. The best geological evidence we have of previous rapid changes are extinction events. As others have said it’s not the change itself but the rate of change that is concerning.
> I grow my own food and meat.

When do I Start planting chicken eggs? Ive not had any sprout so far and my garden smells awful.
You should be comparing 2019 to 2020.

2019 is the pre-covid default state.

2020 is when covid rhetoric was hot.

2021 is Vaccines and Biden is president

2019 stats are in the archive at the bottom of the page. I’d pull them but on a phone.
You can use it with some headsets like Quest2. Results vary, though.
You can be dropped at a moment's notice as a salaried employee too, it just takes a bit more prep on the part of the employer. It tends to be more of a shock for people who take "permanent" literally, whereas for us we know we need a year or two of spare cash in the bank.

> Perhaps my idea of compromise is that you, as an employee, need

> to come to terms that you might not be perfect and that there is

> a lot you do not understand, but that is OK. Try to do a good

> job and don’t point fingers (“they started!”).

I think this describes most people already. I mean, I've encountered some prima donnas but that problem solves itself eventually (they flounce off). I'm not sure what you're suggesting ordinary employees should be doing that they aren't already, and what it would cause their employers to do differently?

It's a good point about small businesses, I much prefer dealing with them to bigger firms. If my point of contact is one of the directors then everything flows so much more smoothly. (Smallest direct client had 7 employees, biggest I think about 200K - very different experiences.)

When I refer to "the bosses" I really mean the set of people at the upper layers of larger companies who, week to week, have no contact with staff who are doing actual productive work - their subordinates are managers, and the subordinates of their subordinates are also managers. They're insulated from, and often unaware of, the effects of their decisions - they probably don't consciously intend to grind their staff to dust, but everyone they talk to is happy and the numbers look good so surely everything is fine.

Further down the chain you've got a bunch of middle-managers with no investment in the overall good of the company and no power to really improve the conditions of the workers beyond passing messages up the chain, and the truth in those messages is filtered and transformed with every extra layer of people. Nobody wants to tell their boss stuff he/she doesn't want to hear.