skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
They are strictly private enterprises and aren't subsidized. There was a national transport company that was subsidized, but it was slowly losing customers after communism fell in 1989 because it was inflexible and used big 40-person buses instead of small 20-person vans on every route. Now the national one was privatized and only runs very few long-distance routes in some parts of the country, most routes are handled by small companies that have a few vans each.

The city buses going inside the big cities are centralized and often subsidized tho.

> School Busses, not public transport,

School buses are a form of public transport, we have them too, but kids go to various schools - some to the nearest one, some to a bigger city further away (I commuted to a primary school 5 km away and then high school 40 minutes away - and mostly used regular buses) - it wouldn't make sense to restrict these buses to kids only and then have separate buses for other people. Why drive 10 people when you have 20 seats and enough potential customers to fill them?

> Nope, never. I prefer not to spat on, robbed, or other ways harassed.

Why is this accepted? If people spit at others in a mall or a cinema would you just accept that it's a thing, or would the society do sth to stop it? It's not rocket science - the driver just has to call police and drive to meet them at nearest stop. In 90s we had huge problems with crime (20% unemployment at one point so you can imagine) yet public transport wasn't any less safe than a mall or cinema - what was unsafe was walking in the wrong hood after dark ;)
What ad are you talking about?
Android development is torturous for this. I've been getting emails from Google recently advising me that I need to update my minSdkVersion or my app will no longer be on the Play Store.

So I opened up Android Studio yesterday to upgrade things and hopefully release a quick beta to shake things down. It's now the next day and I'm still weeding through compile-time and runtime errors caused through the upgrade.

I feel like every time I update Android libraries my code bloats out with extra conditionals and permissions checks, and generally makes my code more brittle.

Maybe this is just the nature of building a secure platform which has such a broad reach. I can't claim to know, but it sure sours the developer experience.

As a simple, non-commercial public transport app that I wrote mostly for fun and learning, it's hard to be movitated to fix it.
Am i the only one who feels fish is not worth it despite of hype? Don't get me wrong. I think that fish is really good shell.

BUT...

After adding the following plugins to zsh(before you chime in, it's just adding these lines,not anything configuring much. also it auto bootstraps on new install), I found out that fish is no where as good as configured zsh.

1) https://github.com/zdharma-continuum/zinit (plugin manager)

2) https://github.com/zdharma-continuum/fast-syntax-highlightin...

3) https://github.com/zdharma-continuum/history-search-multi-wo...

4) https://github.com/zsh-users/zsh-autosuggestions

5) https://github.com/zsh-users/zsh-completions

6) https://github.com/Aloxaf/fzf-tab

7) any good shell prompt generator like https://github.com/romkatv/powerlevel10k

For example, I use fzf integration for tab completion. Fish's fzf integration is nowhere as good as that of zsh's. Also, posix compat and almost bash compat of zsh is plus.

I acknowledge that zsh isn't perfect shell either and I have tried and failed few times in past to switch to fish. If you provide me compelling reason/s to switch to fish, I am all ears.
Thr guardian and its benefactors want it to fail, desperately. No one likes power and influence slipping away
This description always bothered me. You have some space (like the actual space you’re in), and you have three vectors (which could be very real, e.g. the velocities of three balls, labeled A, B, and C, and you calculate this particular function of the vectors (velocities), and you get a number, say 5.

And then your professor tells you that 5 is a pseudoscalar, and if you change coordinates, it’s actually -5. And you boggle, because there weren’t any coordinates to begin with — there were just actual balls, and either the answer is 5 or -5 or ±5 (like sqrt(25), for example), but it’s weird for the answer to be “5 or -5 depending on coordinates”. And then people struggle on the tests, because they didn’t get it, because the material was taught poorly.

What’s actually happening here is that you need an orientation to calculate the scalar triple product. If you have three moving balls and a right hand or a right shoe or something similar, you get 5. If you look in a mirror and calculate the triple product of the mirrored balls’ velocities, you get -5 and you see a left hand and a left shoe. But if you watch yourself in the mirror calculating the triple product from the balls, the mirror copy of yourself gets 5 correctly, because mirrored right shoes fit on mirrored right feet, and mirror-you is looking at mirror-balls, and everything is consistent.

So a pseudoscalar is a quantity that gets negated in a mirror if the person calculating it isn’t also in a mirror. No coordinate systems needed.

As a simple example, hold your hand in your favorite right hand rule gesture. Your thumb, index finger, and middle finger point along vectors, and their triple product will be positive for one hand and negative for the other hand. Now look in a mirror!
Can you point me to any unions where it's common for workers to get paid according to merit? Yes, I'm sure it's possible for workers to negotiate a separate deal with employers, but does that actually happen regularly in practice?
> Anyone who knows these facts and buys a giant "car" anyway is so selfish and reckless they have no business driving.

That really doesn't take into consideration the negative sum nature of car safety that your sibling comment goes into. The issue is that safety requirements for vehicles are largely about occupants. They don't include sightlines, maximum heights, maximum weights, etc. (things that would make other people safer) thus the incentive is to build tanks.

Parents certainly don't need a huge SUV to fit their kids in but, because there are other SUVs on the road, they do want it for safety. Put the right incentives into your safety regulation and cars will shrink.
Actual footage of me (zuck) building Threads for web
Quote:

> The reason behind shutting the project down is that a developer with write access to the code published a problematic video to the documentation of the project. This happened while I was taking a break from the project in July-Aug 2023. It went unnoticed for 2 weeks until someone reached out to me to talk about this project. It was a complete breach of trust for me and I decided that I do not have the interest or time to oversee the development of a software with such ethical issues.

Anyone have any idea what this problematic video is, or what caused this to happen?
Ah of course, the large number of platforms where the Oberon OS has been pushed to by the many Oberon cult members ;)
Bad for the patients though because "efficiency gains" usually translates to "give patients expensive treatment they don't actually need"
Gives me captcha loop : (
I personally use buy now pay later whenever I can get 0% financing for a time. I get the item now, interest on my own money/investments, and they can eat the inflation. The main risk being if I get ahead of myself buying things I should just not buy. Even if I lose my income in the future my plan is simply to sell the items used, and to sell off the assets I gained in the process.

a CPI calculator says we've had about 25% inflation in the past 4 years, and my own basket of goods suggests it's closer to 50%. (For example gas in Texas has trough to peaked 300%, more like 200% on average). So I think the strategy might be a good one, albeit hard to get a ton of money behind (ie, I have yet to find a way to play it with $25k)
I suppose the writer will have to wait a few more years before apple 'reinvents' the touch screen and convinces everyone they invented the touchscreen laptop. Notice how just about every other manufacture has a touch screen offering. The same was true for DVD writers back when apple called it the super drive. Many devices on the market came with DVD writers.

The ipad pro as great as it is, will not replace a Macbook. Sure it can do similar things, but for professionals who only need one app and email for work or for grandmas that don't need much it certainly can be the only device. But it cannot do everything that a laptop can do and that's why most people need both a (tablet and a computer)

The surface pro devices are on their 9th generation. This is what you want if you want to travel with a tablet only experience that you are able to do laptop stuff with. Sure the tablet experience is miserable but tolerable. The only things mac users are missing is IOS/MacOS. Which I admit is a big miss. Let's be honest, the Mac OS is great it's always been the hardware that has been lacking in other areas. But the surface device is a full blown computer that runs a full desktop OS and can virtualize others. If your workflow allows for a windows device,and if you like learning and trying new stuff, you will most likely enjoy your experience. Otherwise you will be as miserable as a die hard windows user who is angry that CTRL+V is CMD+V. If devtools are the only thing keeping you with macOS then you owe it to yourself to checkout WSL[1] and the new windows terminal app[2].

[1] https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/wsl/install

[2] https://github.com/microsoft/terminal
I like your exposition but also want to defend formal notation :) Formal notation is great because it lets you compare different constructions side-by-side, manipulate them (incl. building upon earlier constructions - "same as above except A_i = ..."), etc whereas prose is less suited for that. Once your eye gets used to it, it is much much more efficient at conveying various details. (Akin to (a + b)^2 = a^2 + b^2 + 2ab vs "If a straight line be cut at random, the square on the whole is equal to the squares on the segments and twice the rectangle contained by the segments." (Euclid, Elements, II.4, 300 B.C.))
Hiring junior engineers is challenging. I’ve seen so many junior engineers get hired but then be supported poorly. This is a writeup of the best program I’ve seen for hiring and onboarding junior / new engineers.
According to Dutch news there is no such option for this deal, this is a permanent transfer (source in Dutch: https://nos.nl/l/2487917

Heineken's Russian division was difficult and never very profitable, so they are likely glad to be rid of it. Even if they have to write off a 300 million euro loss on it.
Locale is easy to install and difficult to add to the server.
Speaking from experience, there were plenty of normal families who chose homeschooling decades ago. The problem is that the weird people make a lot of noise, and then homeschooling gets a reputation, which causes the self-aware normal folks to shy away from talking about homeschooling too publicly because they don't want to be associated with the negative stereotypes.

The trouble is, this can become a feedback loop, because the only way to dispel the stereotypes is if more normal folks speak up.

I've seen this same phenomenon affect other subcultures too, and I suspect there's probably a name for it, but I don't know what it is.
Is it really a scam if it helps kids fit in and learn? I have a pretty strong baseline bias against homeschool, but a lot of the testimonials in the article are pretty positive. For every fear people have of homeschools being dangerous or inadequate, it’s hard to look at public education as anything but that.
I'm not sure I agree with that; I paid €120 for my PocketBook e-reader, which wasn't the cheapest one, and I bought it in-store (could have gotten a better price online probably, but comparing devices in-store was useful).

Now, while €120 isn't nothing, it's also not a whole lot, and it's cheap enough that with a few books a year you're saving money.

Amazon's 6" Kindle sells for €110 by the way, but is missing some features my Pocketbook has, and the 6.8" Kindle Paperwhite with comparable features sells for €170. Doesn't seem that much cheaper to me.
Maybe they mixed up "guilt by association".
RE. initial flows and diagnostics, I totally feel your pain. Part of the trouble with these systems is that they're too different from our average SDLC we have every day:

- Write regular code

- Test locally

- Then deploy

This is one of the key aspects we're fixing at https://www.inngest.com — you can write regular TS (or Go, or Elixir) code as a function, create simple workflows, test locally, and have your functions automatically triggered by events.

I still think there's room to go with improving automations here, and it's going to be an interesting few years as things develop.
It's a mixed bag.

https://www.nrc.gov/docs/ML1029/ML102990104.pdf

Who is 10000, but this varies with EU having a 100 bq/l limit, US a 740 limit, Canada 7000/l

So going by WHO recommendation it's fine, but 2x what the limit in Europe is.

Looks like normal levels are 5-15 /l depending where it's measured.

So: this is probably 10x what you'd encounter naturally but allegedly way under the limit depending on who is making the recommendations (with EU somewhat of an outlier)
I disagree, I think most people here understand the problems are political they just not understand that the problem was CREATED by the politics, and instead believe the solution to the problem is political.

They refuse to believe that government thus politics is the problem, not the solution
Update your browser. I recently got stuck in that with a slightly old version of Firefox. After updating, everything worked again.

I suspect it wasn't cached state or plugins, because I tried to clear those to no avail. My bank then informed me it didn't like my Firefox version (despite being relatively recent).
Thanks for mentioning. I think it would help a bit if you copy-paste a short terminal session to show what VF looks like in operation. I know there are extensive docs, but a quick tldr/screenshot helps quite a bit in a README I find
Println is also much more complicated and expensive
at runtime in "any other language"
Looks good. I made one using a waveshare screen and a raspberry pi zero. It cost almost the same as your retail price, but it didnt look this good.
I went through the initial config wizard of zsh exactly once, almost a decade ago[1]. It took me maybe 5-10 minutes, and even though I don't fully understand what each command means, I haven't modified it in all this time, and it works well. I really don't think this was any significant waste of time or tedious task - I was just as free to simply ignore it.

Most of the remainder of my zsh config are prompt utilities and other things I've added over the years. I don't use or really need any plugins, though if I needed, last time I tried zplug it was really easy to set up and use.

[1]: https://github.com/mid-kid/config/blob/master/shell/.zshrc#L...
It may be a legal requirement.
I would assume it has to do with mandatory payments on affirm vs absurdly low minimum payments on CCs.
Is this reason specific to game development?
I thought there was one already
this matters because saguaro is a demic keystone

https://www.fs.usda.gov/wildflowers/plant-of-the-week/carneg...
the only thing a gambling man needs
is a suitcase and a trunk

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_House_of_the_Rising_Sun
Not saying it's right, but this is pretty standard practice -- it's likely mentioned in their privacy policy somewhere.
Selling beer in Russia is not sanctioned by EU. The reason most companies are leaving is the public outcry - if the war continues for 6+ years that may cool down.
None of the things mentioned in the quote collapsed during Covid, though they did experience overload and disruption.
Vultr seems to be the fastest, they have a great team
Sincerely: What hype? heheh –I see fish as a mostly obscure shell with some design principles.

It works for me. It’s a great tool.

I tried zsh; zsh was a lot slower as I set it up. Maybe I did it wrong.

I think the case is that with either of fish or zsh you can’t lose. Both are great.
Car ownership in the US today is really high (recently was over 90% [1])

Why would 90% of people forego paying approximately $1~$5 to travel a dozen miles in their already payed for car vs paying a taxi-cab like fare for an AV? I'm not sure how much it costs to go 10 miles in an AV taxi, but I'm guessing it's $20-$30.

The effect of AVs with respect to strip malls and commercial spaces seems like it'll be a pretty low traffic flow.

Asked another way, how many people take conventional taxis (being Uber/Lyft, or a legit taxi) today to go such places? It seems like the prices are similar, why then would the lack of a human driver make an AV taxi that much more attractive (like, to the point where the 90% of car owners decided to stop driving their own car, which is far cheaper - and then this pattern plays out for long enough that the parking lot situation changes!

[1] https://www.forbes.com/advisor/car-insurance/car-ownership-s...
OT but... Did you mean addition or can you actually say acquisition in English?
> put an option in the contract allowing them to buy it back in say 5 years for a fixed sum

A contract struck under Russian law and subject to Russian courts.
There was never a plan for Brexit to boost low-wage sectors.

It was a lie by David Cameron to appease the idiot group of conservative voters that thought Europe was the cause of all ills. A lie that blew up on his face, because he didn't (nor Johnson & co.) expect it to win. And a lie that blew in the British voters' face when it turned out that exiting Europe was a very stupid idea that would not have solved the problem of being a country still in toxic and unresolved love with its imperialistic, classist past.

The day Britain stops believing their are at the top of the most powerful empire in the world, but simply a rich island off the coast of a very powerful trading bloc, they might make something of their position.

The economic way out for Britain requires a lot of humility and taking a serious look at the sort of people that are running this country. Thinking that EU scum are coming here to steal your jobs is certainly not the way to go about it.

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Bonus: Here's Boris Johnson, champion of Vote Leave, after the referendum: https://youtu.be/nbdOsMeVrLw?si=UyVv2_j1M6QcavtC — quite the somber demeanor for someone who has just won a massive gamble.
"Among the Thugs" by Bill Buford, which looks at football violence and crowd deaths in the 1990s is a great read if you're interested in crowds (and even if you're not interested in soccer/football at all). It's real gonzo stuff, embedded into the fan groups, going to the games, and even getting beaten by police.
Interesting! But also really speaks to the need for a browser setting for very coarse location without requiring user entry.

Eg, I always block location API access, and sites often have poor fallback UI for entry.

If it'd let me, I'd be setting my browser to always report "Toronto, Ontario" and auto-deny location requests.
If you have an ad-blocker enabled, the first paragraph of the page asks you to turn it off or donate. I have no problem with creators being compensated for their work, or asking for that compensation, but I found it confusing.
Oh yeah, at the national level politics has weaponized tax policy to be a transfer payment to real estate interests.

For small time shitty owners, they run off the books and write down “losses” while letting property crumble. In the legit economy, it’s like a variant of the Great Eskimo Tax Scam.

It’s going to get crazier too - hundreds billions of dollars of real estate is underwater in NYC alone, and banks hold 60-70% of the paper.
Do you sell anything bigger? I only saw the 7.5, I’d be way more interested in something like 24.
Add Visionect to hacker unfriendly devices. They forced a change to subscription service. Ask me how I know :-(.
Is public school really that cruel these days? I have a 10 year old, and everyone in her class seems so wholesome and... exceedingly tolerant for lack of a better phrase. Compared to when I was a 10 year old where public school was a Lord Of The Flies thunderdome with bullying, and shoving people into lockers, and fights, and in-groups and out-groups and nerds vs. jocks, all the cruel 80s stereotypes. Sure, there's the occasional story of extreme bullying that happens to make the news, but it seems like these are far outliers these days.

I see absolutely zero need to pull her out. The academics are ok--not what an expensive private school might offer, but they track well with what I was learning at that age. The social/institutional environment is much better than when I was a kid.

The few parents I know who homeschool (admittedly, mostly from my wife's church group) do so for religious separatism reasons, not for educational outcome. They object to public school on ideological grounds and perceived "indoctrination," not on the academics.
There is a small regional transit system that covers the grocery store, Walmart, train station, and I'm not sure what else. My sense from seeing it at the grocery store is that it's mostly for seniors and others who can't drive. It covers the nearby ~40K population pair of cities.

The surrounding towns--one of which I live in--are pretty rural, or at least exurban, with a very limited commercial tax base and generally don't even have sidewalks outside of the town centers. We'd have neither the density/demand or the budget to have a public transit system.
That argument held sway with me for a long time, but not anymore.

Our kids get a decent amount of socialization through all the activities they're involved in, and when other kids find out they're homeschooled, their response is more often genuine surprise rather than "Oh, that figures."

The idea that kids learn social skills best by being thrown into a rigid, institutional environment surrounded by hundreds of other kids whose social skills are also far from developed is kinda silly, though. It's like saying criminals will reform themselves best by surrounding themselves with lots of other criminals.
The author uses NixOS.
This seems like a very obvious solution.

If I drive a school bus as my daily driver I don’t get to park it where the rest of the cars park.

People have an extreme aversion to making car drivers cover the cost of externalities, and the results of their decisions.
Hmmm, do you think your theme could potentially work as an app on the e-paper smart display that I am selling?

The screen I am using doesn’t have touch input though, so it would only make sense if your app has non-interactive use cases.

For now, the only out-of-the-box app that my display comes with is a calendar with google calendar sync. I am looking for ways to extend that.

Maybe email me? (Email is in my profile.)

And here is the eink smart screen I am talking about:
https://invisible-computers.com/
On the topic of safety, the US has enforced the provision of back-up cameras, because people kept running over their own children backing out of their driveways.

A very direct safety cost of large vehicles. Here is the story of the child that had the American law named after them, told by his father (warning: this is truly heartbreaking stuff):

https://www.kidsandcars.org/child-stories/cameron-gulbransen...