skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I was pleasantly surprised at San Antonio's bus system. They were everywhere downtown, frequent, and even had lines that go about an hour out of the city.

I was only there as a tourist though, I don't know how well they'd be for day-to-day life and cross-town trips.

In other cities where I have used buses regularly, I've found them to suffer a bit from limited routes, transfers, it taking 2 hours to get anywhere, and then buses stop running too early at night.
Moving the poor to the suburbs was one of the intended consequences of cleaning up the cities where now only affluent white people own bikes.

I'm not joking. Cities tore down their tenement housing "projects" because of the rampant amounts of crime, and the residents went to the suburbs to live in Section 8 private housing. It's one of the reasons (there were many) that violent crime decreased so sharply beginning in the 1990s: the criminals were more spread out, diffusing much of the network effect.
OSRS is old school runescape for anyone unfamiliar.

https://oldschool.runescape.com/

Does anyone know if old accounts would still work? From around 2000 ish.
The homeless, I imagine
Thanks, I'll update the post and link to your comment for attribution.
I would assume the homeless, certain income ranges, etc. That's the real reason to close the lobby but keep the drive through right, so people aren't hanging around in it and resting at night?
Indifference at an individual level is not necessarily a problem. Nor is exercising individual judgment.

However, as a matter of public policy, our current treatment of veterans, to put it bluntly, sucks. The VA is underfunded and overworked, and many vets do not get the kind of support they need and deserve after risking their lives. The only reason the government can get away with that is that there is no political pressure to fix it.
But why? They would have to allow these same “Certain People” in their lobby from 7am until 9pm when their most affluent patrons are probably coming in for lunch, after soccer practice, etc. At the drive through there is barely any interaction between staff and customer much less between customers.
Quite obviously, given the patent on the material, the inventors want to commercialize it.
https://feste.readthedocs.io/en/latest/design.html, this seems to be what Feste already does, and it offers automatic batching as well.
This runs the risk of being reductionist to the point of useless. Is akin to the idea of "do one thing," or "single responsibility."

The danger is these all fail to grow. Or, rather, for them to work, you have to force the growth on either side.

Consider, you are using a writer to write data. How much can you write before it has to slow down? How do you signal broken data connections? How do you resume a previously stopped writer? How do you stop a writer?

Most of these do not have universal answers. But it gets worse. The main abstraction there was the symbolic byte. How do you convert your code's data to bytes? Is that stable? As in not changing.

So, you can have choke points of small interfaces to connect things. But to make that work, you have a lot to do on both sides.
> Americans are often taught that the bombings resulted in less loss of life than a conventional land invasion of the home islands.

Or, at least, less loss of American life. If The United Kingdom had not consented to the bombs and they were shelved, what are the chances the U.S. would've lost e.g. 50,000 and Japan 150,000 before surrender?
Similarly the length of a string or what is considered 1 grapheme is font dependent which can also be hard to handle server side.
e.g

You're playing video game / sharing your IDE / whatever

with discord/ventrilo/whatever being in the background

you push e.g MOUSE3 (scroll) button - talk, and stop holding it.

And you were unmuted just for the moment of holding scroll button.
Perhaps the whole notion of getting our (e.g. user review) information from the same source that sells the product, is flawed.
Reading about this venture to make anf popularize GABA tickling drug without the self limiting ill effects is worrying in the long term.

Such things exist, and sure, one is fine.. but one a day for a week and then you are heading for an undescribably hellish withdrawal.

I had a brief dalliance with Phenibut for anxiety self medication. It targets GABA receptors, and boy does it work. But read about it in the forums and then you'll find the horror stories of people trying to quit, or running out and having months of nightmares and shakes and paranoia. I noped out of that in time, thankfully.
"I’ll tell you why I like the cigarette business. It costs a penny to make. Sell it for a dollar. It’s addictive. And there’s fantastic brand loyalty."

- Warren Buffett
Nah, about 3 months ago, I made ChatGPT write detailed hierarchical plan on how AI can conquer the world. The plan was severely flawed, of course. You need way more than brains to conquer the world.
Third party apps died for this?
I think there's lots of regulatory and liability reasons why it's not feasible. Like they're grandfathered in to selling what they do, and nobody wants to entertain ideas of a safer thing, only prohibition.

Look at what happened with Juul. Maybe it's changed now, but they had a safer alternative and got shut down.

Also as a bit of trivia, iirc from the book "Barbarians at the gate", RJ Reynolds in the 80s was working on a safer cigarette under Ross Johnson that heated the tobacco instead of burning it. Once they got LBO'd and saddled up with debt, that got canned.
Competitors, mental health, power tripping, extortion, sore loser and kids playing pay DDOS attacker provider.
Is critical theory a rhetorical dead-end if you want to seriously debate something? Sure, but framing a debate and constricting it to a dichotomy is no less radicalising than a critical theory argument. I think people dislike critical theory so much because they know that it shifts focus to the structures everyone knows control society but nobody wants to acknowledge. Sure, it’s lazy to blindly advocate for revolution for the sake of revolution, but it’s also lazy to reject a line of philosophical inquiry just because you don’t like how it was presented. What should high school debate even be for? Should we restrict it to rhetorical sandboxes, or should we allow it to be a forum where ideas can be put forth and debated?
Signal Corps Archive
Provocative language, new-venture status, and social media audience engagement
I _think_ the idea is thinking of an "interface" as "something that you use as a way to interact with something from outside an abstraction". I'd summarize their argument as reasoning that if the goal of an abstraction is to avoid having to care about the internal details of something, an interface is a way to expose a subset of ways to interact with it, and the more you expand it, the more it exposes the internals of the thing being abstracted. I don't think they necessarily mean this only in terms of programming, but you could apply this argument to a programming language interface; if you use an interface for interacting with something instead of its direct functionality, each additional method you add to the interface exposes more details of the inner value, which makes it less of an abstraction.

Assuming my interpretation is correct, I'm not sure I totally buy this argument because there doesn't seem to be an obvious way to define the "size" of an interface where it holds true. The naive way to define the size would be number of methods, but I'd argue that methods can vary so much in terms of the amount of cognitive overhead they "expose" to the user that it's not very meaningful. Consider the Movfuscator compiler[0], which compiles code into binaries only using MOV x86 instructions because it happens to be Turing complete; as complex as it might be to learn x86 assembly as a whole and start writing programs directly in it, I'm dubious that trying to do so only with MOV would somehow be easier. Put another way, an x86 instruction set that only contains the MOV instruction is not a "stronger" abstraction than the actual one because it _introduces_ complexity that doesn't exist in the original. Does adding an ADD instruction alongside MOV increase the strength of the abstraction, or weaken it? I don't think there's an answer that we'd immediately all agree on for this sort of thing.

Ultimately, I think trying to measure interfaces through the number of methods they expose is similar to trying to measure code by the number of lines in it; while there are some extreme cases where we'd likely all agree (e.g. for a fizzbuzz implementation, having 10 lines of code is probably better than thousands of lines of code[1]), we can't really come up with a good objective metric because the "target" number is based on the complexity of what you're trying to define, and we don't have a way of quantifying that complexity. I think the ideas here are still super interesting though, not because they have definitive right or wrong answers, but because thinking about stuff like this overall improves one's ability to write good software for usage by other programmers.

[0]: https://github.com/xoreaxeaxeax/movfuscator
[1]: https://github.com/EnterpriseQualityCoding/FizzBuzzEnterpris...
That should be required reading for everyone everywhere.
I think using the bombs with the information the US had at the time was justified. From the information the US had, Japan had a quite credible claim that they would "never" surrender unconditionally, though lots of Japanese people and military units would surrender even if Japan itself officially did not, making it not literally "never". With nuclear bombs the US could have kept hitting them with increasing levels of force, probably not possible with conventional bombs. If the war had continued until 1950 most of inhabited Japan would have been destroyed, and the US would have won even without a single surrender.
At least in San Francsico this is very rarely enforced. What I've seen professionally and personally is that cities will ticket the easy stuff. Street cleaning is at the top of that list followed by time-based red zones.
> I generally do not connect to web sites from my own machine, aside from a few sites I have some special relationship with. I usually fetch web pages from other sites by sending mail to a program ... that fetches them, much like wget, and then mails them back to me.

Why stop there, when you can route them directly to a print queue, and have the message sent to you in a bottle.
Direct to the hardware would be initializing the frame buffer and writing there. Which means that you need to have all the glyphs and then look them up and write them into the frame buffer.

This is what we used to do with 8 bit computers that didn’t have a hardware text mode. You might be able to look up the bitmaps in the ROM, otherwise it’s time to define them all yourself.

Using a direct system call would be like calling a ROM routine or an OS routine to print characters. You’d either call the routine or invoke a software interrupt.
ARMv6M Reference Manual (2018)
> humans are vulnerable, by genetic design. And it requires actual help to reprogram the brain

Sure, I'm not disputing this at all. I'm just pointing out that this has nothing whatever to do with the military being a cult. It has to do with the nature of the military as an occupation. The military is certainly not the only occupation that has traumatic experiences as an expected part of service, and that needs to have a plan in place to deal with that.

> For your (a) and (b) you are definitely entitled to your opinion on how you want to be viewed and treated in the world.

It's not a matter of my or anyone's wanting to be viewed a certain way. It's a matter of understanding as a country why we have a military at all and what it is for, and holding our political leaders accountable for making appropriate use of the military and giving it the support it needs.
You don’t have to spend over $1000 for an iPhone.
Op is saying Kirkland brands disappear too. I’ve experienced this as well with their wines.
Yes, but the American views about specifically Hiroshima and Nagasaki seem different from most other countries, or at least from Japan. Outside the US it is quite common to view the bombings as war crimes, while this is uncommon in the US. This probably influenced how "Oppenheimer" handled the matter.

(A comparison would perhaps be the difference between a Russian and a Polish film about the Sowjet invasion of Poland. The history here is viewed very differently in the Russian/Polish public.)
This data suggests traffic stops are more often pretext stops rather than in response to dangerous driving
Damn. This is a sensitive issue. Imagine if you were in charge of public health. Would it be a good idea to spend money on making cigarettes “safer” or better to encourage smoking cessation?
I never realized Cheesecake Factory really went this deep. Suddenly, I have a craving for fried mac n' cheese balls...
> Crimes all around. War is bad, actually?

I'm not sure why this is in response to my comment, which speaks nothing of war crimes nor has anything resembling an accusatory tone, nor does it excuse Japan as innocent.

The excerpt in my comment was transcribed and posted because it speaks to the Soviet Union's entering the war in-context, relative to the atomic bombings, from a Japanese perspective.
It is a module. It is available. It does not offer itself up as a library.
>Prices would be kept low due to healthy small business competition

This doesn’t work. Small businesses have a price floor set by their tiny scale and lack of leverage with suppliers.
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC10123402/

> In recent years, tobacco companies have been investing in or acquiring pharmaceutical companies, which produce medications for a myriad of diseases, including tobacco-induced conditions and diseases, and emergency medicine.
Your way off. Haven't seen ice cream and fast food be responsible for anywhere near as much suicide and detrimental mental health as social media. Folks generally use ice cream to bring you out of that mood not drive it home.
Works if you consider the reader is what you use to do the reading. You have a source you want to read, so you get a reader that can do that.

Literally, you get a reader when you want to read something. You get a writer when you want to write something.

Though, beware thinking you can solve this with word choice.
https://web.archive.org/web/20210122091206if_/https://docume...

https://documentation-service.arm.com/static/5f8ff05ef86e165...
> It's ironic that in a threat discussing leadership as a discipline, someone would make an appeal to "lived experience".

It's not ironic at all. Leadership itself is something that can't be studied purely from the outside.

> we have these wonderful social sciences

I don't share your rosy view of these so-called sciences. But that's not something we're going to resolve here.
> It's a little surprising to me that no company has come out with a 'healthier cigarette'

Isn't that a vape?
Atlas of Economic Complexity: Harvard Growth Lab’s Data Visualization Tool
So you are saying tobacco is the vegetal world equivalent of the mice !
DNA encodes with 4 bases. Not sure that makes it better or not, just noting something that works on a massive scale that is not directly binary
Are you 1268? Are you creating identities on platforms by bruteforcing the lowest available cardinal? Because that is a great idea
It used to be the same in Colorado until recently. State law mandated only 3.2% alcohol by weight (~4.0% ABV) could be sold in grocery stores or consumed in state parks. It changed with a state-wide referendum.

There is a theory that this law is why craft beer boomed in Colorado. It is easier for small breweries to sell beer through a mom & pop liquor store than a national chain grocery store. Folks were more used to buying beer at liquor stores than other states.
It can be both that in America we value sprawl and car-centered culture at great cost to ourselves, and that maybe it'd be nice if we pulled back on being world police a bit and invested more financially back at home. Maybe we could use all that money being spent on destroyers and forward bases to tear down all the stroads in the country and replace them with walkable mixed-use developments connected by rail.

In real life though, it's never that simple. Those destroyers and bases are being used for something even if it's stupid, and if they are no longer there, then things may change in unexpected ways.
This lesson is applicable to lots of languages, not just Go. For example, looking at Swift (where the equivalent of an interface is a protocol), we find many protocols in the standard library that either have one function requirement, or add one function requirement to a parent protocol:

- Equatable requires ==

- Comparable extends Equatable, requires <

- Hashable extends Equatable, requires hash(into:)

- Identifiable requires id

- Encodable requires encode(to:)

- Decodable requires init(from:)

- CustomStringConvertible requires description

- LosslessStringConvertible extends CustomStringConvertible, requires init?(_:)

- CustomDebugStringConvertible requires debugDescription

- CaseIterable requires allCases

- Sequence requires makeIterator()

- IteratorProtocol requires next()

- TextOutputStream requires write(_:)

- TextOutputStreamable requires write(to:)

- CustomReflectable requires customMirror

- CustomPlaygroundDisplayConvertible requires playgroundDescription

- AsyncSequence requires makeAsyncIterator()

- AsyncIteratorProtocol requires next()

And Apple’s Swift-only frameworks also have major single-function protocols:

- SwiftUI.View requires body

- SwiftUI.Animatable requires animatableData

- SwiftUI.TimelineSchedule requires entries(from:mode:)

- SwiftUI.EnvironmentKey requires defaultValue

- Combine.Publisher requires receive(subscriber:)

- Combine.Cancellable requires cancel()

- Combine.Subscription requires request(_:)
I don't know if it's the answer, but proving basic knowledge of a text could help e.g. a short multiple choice quiz. Anyone determined enough could defeat those measures of course, but it'd probably cut down on the volume of insincere reviews and lend credibility to those that pass.
As explained in this video, 0 and 1 are an inelegant hack, and IEEE NaN is far superior: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5TFDG-y-EHs&t=1s
The deification of Buffet is strange to see. A lot of the businesses he invests in are just not net positives for society - cigarettes, Dairy Queen, Coca-Cola, etc.
Maybe dignity is part of it, but the main issue (in the U.S.) is that everything is very spread out and very few places have the requisite density to support walking. I don't care if it's the most dignified experience ever. I'm not walking 30 blocks to go to a coffee shop.
Old accounts will still work on the more modern Runescape, aka Runescape 3. But not on OSRS

To explain in more detail - OSRS was a 2013 re-release of a 2007 backup of the game, after community backlash against a series of unpopular changes. It has then evolved alongside the original game, with its own dev team.
We evidently don't have enough common ground to have a useful discussion. You are making huge, sweeping statements based on nothing. I see no point in further engagement with you.
I think social media is worse for society than tobacco. Tobacco shortens peoples lives, social media is destroying society. We'd ultimately be better living harmoniously but only until seventy than in civil war and mass upheaval.
If you drive through Iowa, it seems like you will see nothing but windmills. Just an enormous amount of installed capacity.
Indeed. I believe it's even stricter than that; you actually have to request a quota increase that has to be approved in order to spend more than 120$, the default spend hard limit.
Author here, I designed most diagrams in Google Slides
Subclinical Heart Damage More Prevalent Than Thought After Covid-19
In my university days I advocated for a tactical sandwich. Something easy to eat, probably salty like a blt and with a glass of water - had at the time you feel you transition from drunk to hungover (that's what makes it tactical). I'd make it before going out, and set an alarm for 3-5 in the morning. The alarm wakes you up, you inhale the food and drink and fall asleep immediately. Made (in my detailed scientific studies) a big difference.

Drinking less would have been the much more sensible option.
I was surprised by SUVs being able to have more window tint, and I looked it up, and you’re right [1]. For windshield and drive side windows it’s the same as a sedan, but for rear windows it can be darker for passenger comfort.

Apparently in Alabama at least, the manufacturer determines the designation [2]. So you might be able to call Subaru about the Impreza and have them call it “an SUV” to get that sweet rear window tint.

[1] https://www.suvradar.com/can-suvs-have-tinted-windows/

[2] https://www.alea.gov/dps/highway-patrol/alabama-tinting-regu...
I think it depends; biking because you need to and biking for fun look very different. IME of Phoenix you could have the cyclist doing training routes in their kit and the crackhead strapped with bags of their stuff pass by on the same street.
Someone's gotta push the extremes so most of us can exist in the middle and still make progress.
> effectively just a highway patrol, at least in Southern Ontario

There's that one pair of overpasses on the 401 that the Woodstock police setup as a giant speed trap machine like every other weekend in the summer.

Part of me is impressed by the efficiency of the whole thing.
Crazy and awesome that this is on top of HN right now.[0] I did a double take.

This is a sensitive issue. If you were in charge of public health, would you focus on making cigarettes “safer” or on smoking cessation?

I would argue both, but I can see the conflict from a health standpoint.

[0] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36895991
I can understand orgs already on Reddit or Twitter staying on there for now out of inertia, but the idea of making new investments in presence or advertising on those platforms in 2023 is kind of laughable.
I only posted that quote because I thought it was true, and cute.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shooting_of_Jean_Charles_de_Me...
The classic is "How to Read a Book":

https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/21956990-how-to-read-a-b...
> insoluble alpha particles bind with resins in the cigarette smoke and get stuck and accumulate at the bronchial bifurcations of the lungs

Maybe, when pigs fly, journalists will be able to understand the difference between radiation and radioactivity.
> I've been using Linux for 25 years, spent 6 or so years doing administration type work on large Unix systems, and spent 10 years in a back-end developer role. I've somewhere in the high five figure range of hours spent contributing to FOSS software. More recently, I've gotten formal interface design education and worked in design roles. I am not a 'new school' FOSS nerd by any measure.

If you have trouble with tools like dig, you have wasted a lot of fucking time.
> I said nothing judgemental toward you in my reply and only mentioned that you don't always have to respond.

That was judgmental. If you don't realize it, well, then I'm informing you of that fact now.

You don't need to mention what I can/should/have to do. It's completely off topic for HN. Unsolicited life "advice" from internet strangers, which is often veiled criticism — especially an empty tautology like "You always have a choice", as if were discussing philosophical free will — is usually unwelcome, and it's baffling to me how some internet commenters haven't learned this yet, unless they simply don't want to learn it.

I'm well aware of my own choices and ability to choose or not to choose. I don't need to be told by strangers about this, as if it were some revelation. It's not a revelation, and nobody here (or anywhere) needs such replies.
Thank you. Really happy to hear that!
Good point. I thought you were emphasizing the labor camp aspect of it.
Possibly even Epic Lisp, Legendary Lisp, or Exotic Lisp.