skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> My point isn’t that American cities are more walkable, it is that it is silly to say that they all aren’t walkable as a rule as the GP said.

> Is Barcelona a more walkable city than most American ones? Yes. Are there areas in Barcelona that you would be a fool to try and walk in? Also yes.

My experience has been that it's matter of "what is the exception?" In Munich, most areas were (highly) walkable, areas that didn't feel walkable were an infrequent exception.

In Seattle, Capitol Hill is reasonably walkable yes, but areas like that or Belltown are the exception at least in terms of geographic area. Most parts of Seattle aren't really that walkable. They're still better than average for the US for sure, but far from great, or even good.

It's especially damning if you consider urban areas and what's part of the principal city. Munich takes up most of the immediate urbanized area (there are suburbs, of course, but they're mostly separated by farmland from Munich proper), and yet it's still mostly walkable. And even the surburbs do pretty well on walkability.

Seattle, though? Long before you reach the suburbs, you've mostly lost walkability, and the suburbs are mostly really walk-unfriendly except for little strips of downtown.

When I was in Munich I was living on the outskirts, we were less than a five minute bike ride to forests and horse paddocks, and yet I still had a general purpose grocery store in less than ten minutes by foot, and multiple options for that within a ~5 minute bike ride.
I know the difference between an email and a web page, tyvm.
Nice to see more benefits of Vitamin D. Highly recommend the supplement for tech workers who spend a lot of time indoors. I take 125mcg/5000IU a day when I wake up and it's subtle, but I just feel a little better with it. Sports Research is a good brand (not affiliated).

Nothing better than getting some real sun though, especially in the morning.
RSS by its very nature is designed to not be restricted to the "way of presentation and ad earning of the producer".

Producer produces content and RSS syndicates it that can be read by clients IN WHATEVER MANNER OR FORM THEY DESIRE.

That's the whole idea of internet.
Now, you go ahead and lament how this is piracy. Its not. YouTube provides RSS feeds. Same do other platforms so as long as they do, we can do whatever the hell we want with the feed
(2012)

The more recent post from the author a year ago and discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32379245
Always leave a trailing comma in Python lists, dicts, tuples
Markdown doesn't work on HN...
I would disagree with that.

The GIL means you can't use Python multithreading in order to take advantage of more CPU time by parallelism. Obviously getting rid of the GIL makes that a real option, just as it is in other languages.
Fair-ish. Certainly some types of services have an incentive to allow you to import, as a way of making it easier to move to them. Like an email hosting service would want to make it easy for you to move your old emails to them when switching.

I could understand why a Twitter alternative might not want you to be able to import a ton of old posts at once. But this is why we need open standards and open source. Some random large Mastodon instance might not want to allow imports, but you should at the very least have the option to spin up your own instance, import all your old Twitter posts, and still participate in the ecosystem.

As others have pointed out, an @tag can still be useful by linking back to the original service. Or the importer can support a username mapping so it can rewrite names from the old service to names to the new service. Sure, all of this requires extra work, but it can be possible if people care enough.

Regardless, export functionality at the old service is the first necessary step. Even if there's no import on the other side now, someone might build one eventually. And even if that never happens, being able to archive your old data is useful by itself.
That's a fair point and I agree that should be the ideal. I even mentioned it myself twice.

Looking back on the thread the more important point I wanted to make was in reaction to the claim that gifted children are far more valuable to society than let's say a nurse. Since my claim is that we all play an important role then I do agree now that resources should be spent in a way that allows each student to learn the most.
> Sure, yeah, maybe that's all it is, a scam that's totally transparent and obvious to every random internet commenter but totally non-obvious to the simple and gullible marks on Sand Hill Road.

You write this like it's an absurd notion, but we've already been through Juicero, WeWork, Theranos, Nikola, and FTX among others.
Affordability, nimbyism, and chronic homelessness occur in a lot more places than SF. Yes SF is kind of the poster child, but these are issues in a lot of places

My small, east coast college town has a YIMBY oriented movement for more affordable living options.

https://livablecville.org/

(and a homeless problem https://www.cvilletomorrow.org/newsletter/the-number-of-peop...)

Our zoning is stuck in some old NIMBY ideals and is really hard to change. Development of new projects is stalled. Housing is more expensive than ever.

> Shelter workers say there are many reasons more people might be seeking shelter this year. One is that inflation is making it difficult for people who earn low incomes to afford their homes.
My friend told me I had weeds in my flower bed and started pulling them up. He was probably right but I had let them stay because they were nicer than the flowers supposed to be there.
The alternative would’ve resulted in it ending up like Rhodesia (a country that no longer exists)
I think this was made far worse after the Citizens United ruling.
Yep. But also, I've met plenty of people that know SQL but have an aversion to using inline SQL escape hatches out of purity.

One fun case I witnessed involved a junior developer adding the desired/resulting SQL as a comment to every complicated Rails AREL queries, so that people could know what the query was doing.

Then, after seeing that, one of the tech leads determined that EVERY query should have SQL on top of it, for consistency, even things like User.all had the `SELECT * FROM users` on top.

In hindsight it's funny but it was a terrible team and a terrible software.
This is where the tictac came from?
TSA is cracking down on CLEAR at airport security
In terms of communicating science to a general audience - as these lectures do - I think there's Feynman, Carl Sagan, and that's about it.

It really takes a certain personality, a genuine enthusiasm, and their imitators don't really have it.
Claims RPi can handle it, so if true then it's a reasonable claim (depending upon how much you have to disable to get it to work well).

It's not like it's claiming to work on a 8MB 486 or similar.
Currently, yes that's kind of true. But it's really only considered obscure because the GIL makes it so you either have to do some weird non thread pattern or go with a different language, and people often go with a different language.

Kind of a Catch-22 of "Well no one uses it that way, so why should we make it possible to use it that way? Well, no one uses it that way because it's impossible to use it that way"
Same for kotlin, javascript, probably others.

I'm always shocked at people's resistance when I suggest this. To some people, commas are the hill to die on, and seemingly not for any reason except "that's how we've always done it".
Well Python doesn't really do proper multi-threading currently thanks to GIL blocking any additional execution threads. So removing it would enable making Python code that is actually multi-threaded without resorting to extra processes and their overhead.

So if you are writing small single process Python script then removing GIL shouldn't really change much. If you are doing some heavier computing or eg. running server back-end, then there are significant performance gains available with this change.
Since browsers are not sold (ok, let's agree that ~99% of browsers are not sold), there's not a sales market to talk about.

Ask any mobile phone industry analyst, or a product manager (or product marketing manager) at a mobile phone OEM, or a sales manager at a telco, for the definition of mobile phone market share and they will tell you "the share of sales during a period of time."

>> The same goes with Apple and Android, when you talk about market share

This is 100% not true. Ask anyone in the industry and they will agree that it represents sales, not installed base.

As a point of reference, I used to work at Google, in Android specifically. Previous to that, I spent 10 years in the mobile industry, much of it briefing industry analysts & journalists.
> I don't believe in forced labor, but there's regularly labor shortages, depending on where you are.

FTFY
Amazing how low the bar is for FOSS games on Linux.
People who avoid the sun more likely to take vitamin D supplements?
Oh interesting, so you're not using Llama 2, you're using the original. Have you begun to evaluate Llama 2 to determine the differences in performance?

How are you determining what notes (or snippets of notes?) to be injected as context? Especially given the small 2048 context limit with Llama 1.
This is the most dystopian project I’ve ever seen and a total wolf in sheep’s clothing. Hell it might better called a wolf in wolf’s clothing.

I find it difficult that this kind of project is attached to Altman — it’s not a good look for someone playing around with controversial human replacement technologies capable of insane global control and manipulation.

Let’s invent a crypto that tracks every human on the planet using their immutable characteristics.

It’ll be fine. What can go wrong? This information won’t be used inappropriately I’m sure.

Never trust a rich person who wraps themselves in the cloak of human interest or says they are “of the people.” The establishment isn’t in the business of teaching you to disrupt it.
My computer is sitting mostly idle at home, thanks for this.
However all those migrants were basically a free source of human skill - i.e. another country poured their resources into nurturing and educating them, now the country they immigrate to gets to reap all the rewards. So it's hard to see how you couldn't pay an economic price for keeping out migrants.
I also wonder how you'd feel if the economic/political situation in your own country deteriorated so much that you felt you had no choice but to migrate elsewhere - but were no longer able to because anti-migration policies had become the norm everywhere.
Can you give an example of a log message that would not fit typical logging levels? (Info/Debug/Error etc)
> [..] but the timing of the patent approval is an astronomical coincidence.

Is it, though? Patents for complete nonsense are granted all the time; it would not surprise me if room-temperature superconductor patents are actually quite common. If that's the case, one granted at about the same time as there's room temperature superconductor news will naturally get extra attention, no coincidence involved.
Having access to ones records is a big positive
Joke’s on him. It’s really turtles all the way down.
> 68% of Americans wouldn’t pay even $10 per month more to mitigate climate change

The average American has zero savings and is living hand to mouth. If we hadn’t spent the last four decades hollowing out the middle class, maybe people would have the luxury of being able to look past their next paycheck and consider spending extra to avoid ecosystem collapse.
> Imagine if software was written with this quality of thinking.

Windows 95 startup music plays
Unfortunately I cannot get full article access, but from the abstract it sounds like they did not control for actual sun exposure.

It would seem to me that those who self medicate with vitamin D are those who know they do not get sufficient sun exposure, and would necessarily also be those at reduced risk of melanoma.
Depending on the size of the company, you’d probably need a team; but there aren’t too many companies with a tax attorney on the staff so the accounting team would be doing the heavy lifting.
For the same reason, I now prefer this

foo
{
...
}

to this

foo {
...
}
> It's possible to curb one's spending of money they don't have, regardless of your income.

It would cost me +$100 to get a rewards card. At 1% back I'd need to spend $10k per year on a rewards card to break even. So, if you curb your spending, you're subsidizing those wealthier than you that are spending $10k+ per year on their credit card.

Source: I subsidize rich people's rewards cards and don't like it.
And by "new" we mean since 2016 - the current owners own Sourceforge for almost double the time the previous owners that bundled malware did :-P
How does that site compare to https://openaq.org/ ?
You don’t have to use separate processes to get the benefit of multithreading in Python today — you can also call into a library written in native code that drops the GIL (e.g. Numpy or Pytorch).
maybe the presence of the weeds was stilting the fragile flowers?
Used by sqlite, babel, others, and millions of downloads not good enough for you?
The Right to Lie and Google’s “Web Environment Integrity”
It was only sold once after the debacle, the new owners just changed names at some point.
Data is the life blood of AI algorithms. Hence the effort by Big Tech to silo their mega-platforms & impose WEI upon browsers so only their crawlers are able to scrap whatever data remains outside the silos. Its a race to the bottom and individual & smaller players are going to get crushed even before they can start.
This is the most plausible reason.
If you use fast chargers you can not only charge them quickly, but you could prefer charging them when electricity is cheaper than normal (when the wind is blowing out the sun is shining.)

It can actually help with the intermittent nature of renewable electricity.

The port would need to seriously upgrade their electrical connectivity, but there’s an incentive to the grid operator as well.
I didn’t previously know of this guy, but I also hoped there would be more discussion of the artwork cuz I really like it. The uBO shield was such a nice touch as well. Thanks for adding some context to Revoy, I’ll definitely check out more of his stuff
>That's the whole idea of internet.

No, the idea of the internet is to create a global scale network of computers.

>YouTube provides RSS feeds.

Which links you to a webpage that includes ads to monetize the video, the RSS feed, and the rest of the site.
AWS has absolutely superb customer service. Cloudflare is also great, but their policies are shody
> The scientists knew they were building a weapon of mass destruction, but excused themselves because Hitler might build one too.

And British scientists have been doing this before and after, even on innocent kids, in the name of science.
Really encourages me to move to Obsidion :D
Dramatic Landing of Hong Kong Cathay Pacific A350 Caught on Camera at Heathrow
I have no idea what you make.

But if it’s a “pure” AI solution then I feel like the CEO should be the AI engineer or person who came up with the idea or first iteration of the product.

CTO should probably be in charge of making deals with AWS/GCP/whatever and setting a technical direction for the company. CEO should try to be the person who is the image of the company as they make deals with people who will actually buy and use the product.
Hundreds of species here and it probably just scratches the surface!

https://leafforlife.org/gen/reported-edible.html
If AI becomes sophisticated enough to take our jobs, then it should be capable of creating a system that solves UBI at scale.
open source doesn’t really mesh well with artists, so most open source games just have terrible graphical assets
Feynman wasn't one of the top guys on the project, he was low-mid level. There's an entertaining lecture somewhere on Youtube where he talked about his time there; most of the time he was buried in computational work and sometimes inspecting chemical plants. He usually wasn't in the rooms where Big Important Decisions were made, which is what this Nolan film spends a lot of time on.
> Maybe for somewhat obscure multithreading cases.

They're only "somewhat obscure" because currently you can't do it at all, so you don't do it and you do something else: it's of value for any case where you're multithreading for computational parallelism (as opposed to IO concurrency). The PEP also outlines a bunch of other situations where using process-based parallelism is problematic: https://peps.python.org/pep-0703/#motivation

With the proviso that while it will work for all pure-python code out of the box[0] loading any native package which has not opted into "no gil" mode will re-enable the GIL: https://peps.python.org/pep-0703/#py-mod-gil-slot

[0] modulo new race conditions where the code relied on the GIL for correctness, something which isn't strictly correct and can already break when the scheduler logic changes
https://archive.is/ujd3J
I fucking love Pink Floyd and I love that album. I love how the entire album transitions into the next song beautifully. It's a masterpiece.

Also the album cover is great. I have a shirt based on it.
Are we the baddies?

> unfortunately modern HVAC systems work off a computer motherboard. Apparently, through zero fault of ours, that motherboard was fried by an electrical surge.
Outside of any concerns about the dangers of relying upon a monocrop, what is the most efficient available mechanism capable of feeding humanity using ~today's technology? Soylent green and other options on the table. Science fiction would lead me to believe we could all be fed from vats of yeast.

Potatoes feel really efficient (and according to the Martian, nutritionally complete), but would be happy to hear others. As per the article, the answer is probably in weeds, something like kudzu. Some kind of insect recycling system for protein variety from edible waste also seems appropriate.
I was told recently that US Doctors have lost their license over this topic; no idea if that is true.
> Earwigs are a particular favourite - they’re sour and spicy, and dried and ground

with just a pincer of salt!
I was always partial to Demons (a.k.a. The Possessed) and The Idiot.
> You treat the walk as the default

Is it unreasonable to treat “moving around with your body” as the default vs “moving around in a $x,000-x00,000 device”?
This is something a GPT would do way better.
But that's only if the producer wants to provide an RSS feed. While annoying, it's perfectly within their rights not to provide one.

> That's the whole idea of internet.

I think it's very hard to assert that anything is "the whole idea of the internet". If you want to go back to its roots, the "whole idea of the internet" was to have a reliable military/government communications system in the case of nuclear war.

These days the internet means different things for different people, and no one person can credibly assert that any particular purpose is valid or invalid.
Or, you know, taking into account the stupid things Musl does like not having TCP DNS fallback.

I’m only half joking. Features detection in Musl is a generally pain. I don’t blame developers for sometimes taking the path of least resistance and not trying to support it.
Yes, like Flare, sure.

Saying that it's like saying every AAA game it's like an unoptimized Ubisoft crap.
Basically you are in favor of the government manipulating you. Very democratic what you say. All set for a dystopian society
Today is the day you learn about enterprise plans.
I guess it depends on what you consider emo, but the genre is in its fifth wave and going strong!
I hear what you're saying, but it's not like the sample would need hand couriering a great distance. They're in Seoul, home to a large number of universities [1]. If the discovery is real then I'd hope another university there validates it soon.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_universities_and_colle...
Oh you mean like the cockleburrs you get on things? Maybe more about the size of a small grape, outside diameter?

It's weird, I've only ever noticed those on the west coast.
I never understood fascination with his books, especially on the west. I was forced through "Crime and Punishment" by our school system and tried (for the 3rd time) reading The Brothers Karamazov in my mid 30s - its all so boring and pointless and I was only driven by my curiosity to find what other people are finding there (and failing). So, a genuine question for the people that found "Brothers Karamazov" good - what was good about it? The linked article just sings pointless accolades.
> I did warn beforhand. I agree judging an entire political paradigm based on its worst actors is pretty much the worst way to approach said paradigms.

Then don't do that. One person got frustrated and said something about slashing tires (and was immediately corrected by another urbanist). Don't turn that into a mountain.
For a 56MB AppImage binary it looks very good.
Indeed, but VSCode is "sticky" in the way those other editors are not. It now has a critical mass of developer interest such that language and framework developers now put out tooling for it first (if it's not the only editor with official support). Other editors will have to make do with third-party tooling from a dwindling pool of contributors, falling farther and farther behind the state of the art.
Well I'm sensitive!
I'm also very happy with Emacs' continued existence. Frankly, I don't know what I'd do without M-x shell plus related hacks, but I think I'd have to reinvent the concept of having arbitrary numbers of named shells with infinite output/input streams attached to them, with searchable histories, etc. Just like the unix concept that everything is a file was super powerful, so is the Emacs concept that everything is text. And of course lisp helps smooth things out whenever there are rough edges.
I think there’s a name for this - the poverty tax. I’m sorry to hear about your situation. Are you in a better place now?
Even then the GIL can cause issues, concerns of PyTorch are specifically one of the motivations of the PEP, and one of the reasons Meta / FB really really wants this:

> In PyTorch, Python is commonly used to orchestrate ~8 GPUs and ~64 CPU threads, growing to 4k GPUs and 32k CPU threads for big models. While the heavy lifting is done outside of Python, the speed of GPUs makes even just the orchestration in Python not scalable. We often end up with 72 processes in place of one because of the GIL. Logging, debugging, and performance tuning are orders-of-magnitude more difficult in this regime, continuously causing lower developer productivity.
Rising evidence that leprosy has become endemic in Southeastern United States
In this case, I believe that using italics to convey emphasis and a bit of emotion is the optimal method of transferring information (here, expressing surprise and questioning someone apparently favoring a practice that is generally correctly viewed as a pure negative).
I'm not sure I am necessarily paid all that well honestly.

I started at 50K out of college and am still not quite to 100K a year yet.

All I have done is maxed out my 401K every year since 2010, and put the money into low-cost index funds.

~60% of the balance is from principal alone and the ther 40% is from the stock growth.
Complaining about corporations in public posts is all I've ever used Twitter for. It sometimes results in better support channels than the default.