skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Look at the previous to last chart at https://www.sfchronicle.com/bayarea/article/westfield-charts...

That's a drop of foot traffic of more than half in the area.
A claim that is categorically false. The Mirai was the first commercially available FCEV, and that happened around 2014. Meanwhile, BEVs are older than internal combustion cars.

The whole argument could easily be a repeat of the argument in favor of diesel cars. There was a time when millions of them sold per year, and BEVs were just a round error at the time. But the facts don't change: diesel cars are unsustainable and had major fundamental limitations. The answer became the BEV, despite being sold in nearly no quantities at the time.

This time around, it is become clear that BEVs are also unsustainable, and have their own limitations. And it doesn't matter how many millions it sell. There need for something even better than the BEV still exists, and that will be the catalyst for FCEV sales.

One of the biggest upside is that they are in reality much simpler and lighter than BEVs. A FCEV will cost no more than internal combustion cars to build. And because it refuels so fast, it can easily be a car for everyone, and not just people with garages. As a result, it is a matter of when and not if it replaces BEVs.
I also use Magnet - it's great and I would hate to be without it. But at this point it's bizarre that I still have to install a third party app to get such a basic UI feature.
I know this is poor educate on HN, but surely you can’t be serious? Sure, there’s a lot of paper value, but there are a ton of good things.

I’ll throw out a softball - learning and self education. The tech field loves to be open and talk about details of what they build. There’s an insane amount of information that’s readily available to nearly anyone.

Let’s throw out a more controversial one - smart thermostats. They’re far over hyped, but I save so much energy with a smart thermostat. Being able to set an away function remotely is massive for me (I tend to forget until we hit the road).

Tech is insanely important to the efficiency and safety of your vehicle. Modern automotive engineering uses insane amounts of simulation and digital analysis. Not too long ago, a lot of this work had to be done on real, physical objects. Dozens/hundreds of cars scrapped. You do still need to do really world physical testing, but involves less waste. That doesn’t even get into the digital controls that allow tiny engines to output insane amounts of power all while getting much better fuel economy.

Telecommunications. 20 years ago, my dad would have to physically leave the office and drive 30+ miles to meetings. The amount of fuel that uses is insane. Now you punch a button on your laptop and use a dozen or so watts of energy.
But, it could also happen tomorrow! I do hope it happens tomorrow, because that would be so cool.
Did you miss the part where he said "in other countries"?
Certainly later on that was the case, but earlier Roman times it was the well off who served… a very different dynamic.

I’m always a bit surprised by that but i suppose arming the poor is expensive and risky.
Heh, reminds me of the early 90s, when I was making my first attempts at complete videogames. I fell in love with the Lucasfilm games, specifically Monkey Island, so I started to build my own graphic adventure engine.

I wanted to have the same look, and I naively thought the same fonts would be important (and conveniently ignored the question of how to make high quality art, since I suck as an artist). So I got some graph paper and copied the two fonts by hand, pixel by pixel, off the screen -- the bold font with an outline used for dialogue, and the skinnier font used for the UI.

I never finished that graphic adventure (mainly due to not really having a plot, not due to technical difficulties), but the fonts looked pretty convincing! I think I still have that graph paper with the fonts in some box in the basement.

PS: OMG, I found an actual screenshot! https://gabrielgambetta.com/files/ne2.png Please enjoy my terrible 3D Studio skills and even wrose pixel art skills XD
For folks coming here later, you can figure out the order that you should view them in by reading into the `.fsproj` file, which will lay out compile units in order.
IKEA tenderloin? That is a horror movie and I need to see it.
Daniel Ellsberg: The Pentagon Papers
I backed the British Rail Corporate Identity Manual project on Kickstarter. It's a wonderful book. My copies were slightly damaged in transit and they were replaced. I still have the 3 slightly damaged ones (dings on the cover, mostly) and if anyone wants them you can have them for the price of postage from the US. Ping me at the email in my bio.
You need to carry a passport if you're a tourist in Japan. Although I did forget once and nobody cared, it isn't guaranteed.
I always turn off most snapping. Why? Because I have my preferred layout already, and have good dexterity to move things.

When I drag a title bar to the top center, as I have for decades, it tries to maximize the window. I never want that, and have double-click titlebar (that’s more efficient) if I do.

There’s also a weird state machine between snap to size and normal mode I never completely understood. Believe the thinking is that it should work the same as max/restore but I don’t want three modes to keep track of.
If I do snap the size/position that’s what I want, and would never want it to go back to the old place, aka restore.

I think KDE has some useful subset that can be configured. The edge snapping is not bad, and the ones that require a modifier key.

These are implementation concerns however. The basic idea is good but I haven’t seen it done right by default yet.
I went Pascal, C, Perl, Python, Go

And I like Typescript to some point.

I do not think they languages are mutually exclusive (on the like scale). But I am just an amateur hobbyist dev.
> Give people a meaning and they will do much better work. It’s not rocket science.

This sounds good, but it's honestly just not realistic in a lot of jobs. How are you going to make working at an Amazon warehouse meaningful? Stocking shelves at Walmart? Making fries at McDonalds?

You can give the usual platitudes of how you're helping to make sure that people in your community can get the goods/food/whatever they need, but I think most people know that they're not really contributing to the betterment of society in a lot of jobs.

And to be clear, that's not just menial labor - I've been a PM on some products that could disappear off the face of the earth without making anybody especially worse off (except the guy managing the part of the operation that used our software, but ultimately he'd go to a competitor and all would be fine).

I think that it's often better to forget the idea that work needs to be deeply meaningful and treat people with the respect of recognizing that they're there for a paycheck and nothing else, and then try to do what you can to make the day-to-day work easier and more pleasant.

Meanwhile I'll be hoping against hope that when these meaningless jobs get replaced by robots and AI that we get UBI and people can actually work to find meaning.
Pointer vs value receivers and named returns have so many gotchas that it is not even funny. Lack of magic my ass.
The Wikipedia article for the Battle of Cannae states that recruiting was opened up to convicts and other lower strata of society to try to quickly replace two of the lost legions. obviously I shouldn't take everything I read on Wikipedia as unassailable fact, but that does seem somewhat at odds with the historical stereotype of an army composed of self-funding middle-class legionnaires.
Interestingly, the most visible to me in that community are the exact opposite. They’re financially stable and can afford taking a hit to their primary job come.
"Please don't post shallow dismissals, especially of other people's work. A good critical comment teaches us something."

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html

Don't be gratuitously negative.

https://news.ycombinator.com/showhn.html
BUFFs in Guam: B-52s Deploy for Another Bomber Task Force
Proper CoW means that every change to a block has to cause copies, not just the first write after a snapshot. That makes a big difference.

And "move the snapshotted data out of the way upon writing" is going to give you better performance in a lot of cases.
Ransomware gang lists first victims of MOVEit hacks including banks and colleges
RT-11 on the PDP-11 (all in PDP-11 assembler). Back in the early 80's you could rebuild it in several different ways, depending on whether you wanted it "single job" (as it was back then) or not.

As an example, here's the PDP-11 assembler to convert a binary number to decimal ASCII (no idea who wrote it, but they certainly made every word count):-

CNV10: MOV R0,-(SP) ;Subroutine to convert Binary # in R0
1$: CLR R0 ;to Decimal ASCII by repetitive
INC R0 ;subtraction. The remainder for each
2$: SUB #10.,@SP ;radix is made into ASCII and pushed
BGE 1$ ;on the stack, then the routine calls
ADD #72,@SP ;itself. The code at 2$ pops the ASCII
DEC R0 ;digits off the stack and into the out-
BEQ 2$ ;put buffer, eventually returning to
CALL CNV10 ;the calling program. This is a VERY
MOVB (SP)+,(R1)+ ;useful routine, is short and is
RETURN ;memory efficient.

Courtesy bitsavers.org (http://www.bitsavers.org/pdf/dec/pdp11/rt11/v5.6_Aug91/AA-PD...)
What is the real one? Too many "happening now" :/
Ironically this would make the Space-X idea an analogy of Tesla's.
> Without that kind of thing, the on-boot notice is the "load-bearing" UI attribution, and must be retained.

Yep.
Ah true. 100 gigabits.. can't edit my comment now. But oh well, it was pretty rough anyway, so "on the close order" ;)
You can see a description of the problem, and its obscure (in the sense of being hidden) solution, in this stackoverflow thread.

https://apple.stackexchange.com/questions/112350/cmdtab-does...

All applications are open in this case. MacOS just doesn't display anything in certain quite common cases, such as one of its windows being hidden or minimized. There is a mechanism to display these windows (the obscure, well-kept secret does work) but Apple chose not to apply it.
This is how we lose control. We won't have to wait until the AIs "wake up" and take over the nukes.

Humans are very susceptible to bulls** which might be the most powerful force in the world. AI bulls** generation is already superhuman and continues to accelerate. The only way to counter it will be with your own AI bulls** generator going head to head with the competition.

In the coming years, it will go faster and faster until it is dozens and then hundreds of times faster at generating high-level bulls** than humans. Due to their superior powers of persuasion, these AIs gather more and more power. Civilization ends in a hyperspeed barrage of superbulls** fighting superbulls**.

It's already started. https://m.twitch.tv/trumporbiden2024
I hate the Window's half-window snapping, because I don't want tiled windows, but in order to have the window at the edge or top of the screen (which doesn't seem like a huge ask) I have to get it just close enough so it doesn't resize on me, and about half the time I go to far and have to start over. I don't have or want a really wide monitor, so Visual Studio being half the width of my monitor is not a useful size, because it is too narrow.
Not "every application". A single database engine.
you mean like:

> Add valid transitions between states:

> `fsm.AddRule(CustomStateEnumA, CustomStateEnumB)`

> `fsm.AddRule(CustomStateEnumB, CustomStateEnumC)`
That reminds me of how Big Bird (the child proxy in Sesame Street before Elmo came along) thought the alphabet was one long word, pronouncing it "Ab-kuh-def-ghee-jeckle-manop-kwer-stoov-wixizz", and sang a song pondering what it might mean: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qTvhKZHAP8U

Those Sesame Street people really understood how a kid's mind works.
But does GPT-4 outperform a skilled human BSer.

We sometimes see BSers of various degrees in business. Four thoughts:

1. A lot of things are seem easier for someone who knows what would be an advantageous thing to say in the moment, to that audience, and just says it, unconstrained by truth.

2. Some people are so good at BSing and complementary skills that they're incredibly slick at presentations. You might want to have them as a frontperson, until you consider...

3. Chickens tend to come home to roost. BSing is a scam tactic, and people tend to get burned by that.

4. Often the BSer themself seems immune to adverse repercussions.

GPT-4 is Robo-BSer.
Is it bullshit, though? It's definitely tedious and clearly she's replaceable, but until she's replaced, presumably there is a reason that the rows need to get copied into that other piece of software. Maybe not - maybe there was once a reason and now the whole thing's vestigial and nobody's really thought about it enough to realize she can be fired, but I would wager that more likely that not, there is an actual reason that task needs to be done.

I think that too often folks conflate the fact that a job is boring/tedious/simple/whatever other negative characteristics with the idea that it's "bullshit," when really it does serve a useful purpose and is worth more to the company than they're paying in salary to the person doing it.
I might assume as much just from the prejudice of watching American cops in the fictional media.

The ones who are portrayed as protagonists/good guys are often obsessed assholes who will do whatever it takes to solve the case, ranging from manipulating witnesses to doing borderline illegal things. Then their bozo superior gets in the way because they don’t see how, actually, in this case it would be totally worth it to do something without proper procedure, and actually being a maverick cop who just follows his gut is perfectly good and okay.

They only remain “the good guys” because they happen to catch the bad guys.
Fuel cell cars already are in the range of normal cars in terms of cost. They cost around the same as regular luxury cars despite being made in tiny numbers.

The simple fact is that a FCEV is very simple car to make. Once it hits mass production, it will be no more expensive than ICE-powered cars. Making it a far better economic choice.

Like I said elsewhere, the BEV is older than internal combustion. It is not a new idea and everything about them is a repeat of the early 1900s. Its fundamental weaknesses have not been solved.

FCEVs offer the true revolutionary idea: A vehicle with the upside of an EV, but without needing a giant battery. That fact doesn't change no matter how loudly you boast about the BEV. So it is only a matter of when that FCEVs replaces BEVs.
> Veterans had received little pay during the war and faced added difficulty collecting payments owed to them from the State or the Congress of the Confederation.[14] Some soldiers began to organize protests against these oppressive economic conditions. In 1780, Daniel Shays resigned from the army unpaid and went home to find himself in court for non-payment of debts. He soon realized that he was not alone in his inability to pay his debts and began organizing for debt relief.

Man, veterans got a bad deal from the start. Well, I guess at least US Armed Forces payroll - and any other creditor - gets paid these days.
> For the same reason I've seen lots of instances of people complaining about leadership decisions, thinking the work could be done differently or more efficiently, questioning priorities, etc. They don't have the executive view that is looking across the organization.

Because of course, the executive are always driving things in the optimal way, but only them can see it…

In fact, in most orgs the higher in the management position you climb, the more acutely you see the organisational warts of the company, which more often than not, is governed not according to some clever plan from the executives, but instead is the results of political struggles between entities whose leader often hate each other.
hard to imagine any mall doing particularly well these days
agreed, looks like its down to "just have your passport on you at all times as a primary form of ID"
go lang

done a few services and CLIs and never had updating deps break anything unless you count newer linters complain about new things.
Spectacle is no longer maintained, per their website, and has been replaced by Rectangle: https://github.com/rxhanson/Rectangle
It’s all very simple, the people who make the biggest decisions have the biggest percentage of their income derived from stock grants. Ergo they do whatever will make the stock price go up.

Functionality, ethics/legality, and user needs are only important if they are part of the stock price calculus in the short term.
I use it daily and it works great. It doesn't do all that much, but what it does do saves me a bunch of time. I reach for the git CLI when something goes wrong, but that's not often.
your mind has been corrupted by US propaganda
Users don't browse all of Reddit, and they don't browse from wildly varying IP addresses, from multiple ips simultaneously, or from datacenters.
The teacher may start off a class with a question like "what is the most efficient way to satisfy this problem given these constraints?" Some people would know the answer immediately but couldn't do a proof for it hardly at all. Others could find a proof in class almost every time, but necer really saw the answer to the problem until they'd sat on it for a while and chewed over it.

Can't really give an example question, it's been well over a decade (closer to two) since I took it.
I was replying to this part:

> btrfs don't allow nodatacow with snapshots.

You can absolutely mix chattr +C with snapshots. It's CoW-when-needed in the face of snapshots, just like everything has to be in order to support snapshots.
Giving it 18 months before it gets shut down, but if it doesn't, I'd be curious to see how they pull it off.
I've lived in Palo Alto and Menlo Park since 1987 and I go to San Francisco a couple times a month. I had my bike stolen at a Caltrain station. Someone yelled at me once South of Market. I've seen drug usage in UN Plaza. I've walked through the Tenderloin sometimes which has been unpleasant but uneventful. BART can be scruffy. Maybe I've been lucky.

I could list fifty highly positive experiences but the current narrative seems to focus on being negative.

I like the quote from Paul Kantner (of Jefferson Airplane): "San Francisco is 49 square miles surrounded by reality."
It is because the Y was a character called 'thorn' and it symbol was Y drawn as a stick, pronounced the like the 'th' in the and thorn. Also s got reversed and became the z we know today. This article was written by someone who knows noYing.
Post-pandemic, it is now even worse:

There are tons of bullshit jobs... in the "essential and key sectors".
We already have a solution to that, a unified search engine for most federated communities https://lemmyverse.net/communities

There is a duplicate communities and fragmentation problem, but…..did you see Reddit’s fragmentation? It’s about the same
I wouldn’t hire someone for that now. The cost of lightly customized documents is taking a hard turn towards zero.
I'd nominate Java itself.

In the decades Java sources have been available, any of the kazillion junior programmers could debug-step into java.* and see exactly what's happening -- progressive disclosure at its finest for building expertise.

Most other languages have a hard boundary, so the roots of language are a matter of conceptual documentation and experience. Java also offers that fly-over knowledge, but when problems arise, programmers love knowing exactly and seeing directly.

Personally, in a pinch I prefer the actual to the elegant.
> Windows 11 maximized the annoying desire to do things for me by bringing up this stupid rectangle at the top of my screen any time I move a window, trying to get me to snap it to a side of the screen...

This can be turned off. Go to Settings (Win+I).. click through System then Multitasking.

Expand the "Snap windows" dropdown (arrow at right side). The option you want to turn off is "Show snap layouts when I drag a window to the top of my screen". I'm about to turn it off as well. I rarely use it, now that I think of it- and it's too touchy.

While you're there, you can turn off the title bar shake (I have that turned off as well).
Only a matter of time now before Premium goes from no-ads to 'reduced-ads' ... bet on it
> Is it indeed routine to ask prospective jurors if they are aware of the term?

It probably varies, but it isn't routine where I live. I've been called for voire dire and subsequent selection a few times, and haven't ever been asked about nullification.

(I think the majority of people get excluded based on whether the trial's schedule would be an unreasonable hardship/imposition, voluntarily disclosed conflicts of interest, etc.)
This would just cause more people to apply.
There is also an open source Diablo 2 engine, however the project hasn't had any updates in 7 months

https://github.com/AbyssEngine/OpenDiablo2
maybe you're measuring by counting atoms with a scanning electron microscope? 'course at that point why not just encode the information in the atom layer directly :)
I’m so hopelessly addicted to YouTube that premium only made sense. I should probably work on that, though.
Really enjoyed reading through kbin as a Symfony fan.
https://codeberg.org/Kbin/kbin-core
I want to meet the person who reported a bug with this running on the original Xbox. Warms my heart someone out there still uses it and has already tried this.
Is MMS compression an issue? I typically never text photos from my android and instead rely on WhatsApp so they don't get compressed
Mods are being "encouraged" to not be "inactive" because inactivity is a violation of the Mod Code of Conduct[1]. The last two paragraphs are the most relevant.

From https://old.reddit.com/r/ModSupport/comments/14a5lz5/mod_cod...

> Thanks for bringing this up; it's an important conversation.

> Mods have a right to take a break from moderating, or decide that you don’t want to be a mod anymore. But active communities are relied upon by thousands or even millions of users, and we have a duty to keep these spaces active.

> Subreddits belong to the community of users who come to them for support and conversation. Moderators are stewards of these spaces and in a position of trust. Redditors rely on these spaces for information, support, entertainment, and connection.

> We regularly enforce our subreddit and moderator-level rules. As you point out, this means that we have policies and processes in place that address inactive moderation (Rule 4), mods vandalizing communities (Rule 2), and subreddit squatters (also Rule 4). When rules like these are broken, we remove the mods in violation of the Moderator Code of Conduct, and add new, active mods to the subreddits. We also step in to rearrange mod teams, so active mods are empowered to make decisions for their community. The Moderator Code of Conduct was launched in September 2022, and you’ll notice via post and comment history that this account has been used extensively to source new mod teams.

> Leaving a community you deeply care for and have nurtured for years is a hard choice, but it is a choice some may need to make if they are no longer interested in moderating that community. If a moderator team unanimously decides to stop moderating, we will invite new, active moderators to keep these spaces open and accessible to users. If there is no consensus, but at least one mod who wants to keep the community going, we will respect their decisions and remove those who no longer want to moderate from the mod team.

---

[1] Who could have possibly predicted that CoCs would be weaponized?
> folks want simple reality, black and white ...

> In Russia people being spoonfed outright lies but they feel good because they make russians look better and evidently thats all that counts.

You seem to prove your own point. Is Russia really the only source of lies and propaganda in the world?