skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Part of this is the companies themselves to blame:

Scooter and bike share companies routinely parked (and still park) bikes and scooters directly in the path of pedestrians because they know that the more visible their devices are, the more likely someone will use them.

Additionally, as you point out the pricing these companies charge started out very low but have escalated quickly. But this isn't always true - micromobility can replace ownership if done right: Companies with presumably less VC funding, such as Donkey Republic or Forest have different pricing models that are still affordable. In Donkey Republic's case, you can sometimes sign up for a $10/month subscription with minimum three months (equivalent in local currency) where you can then reserve a bike and take it home with you or park it near your house but blocked from others renting it. You pay a discounted fee to ride it, and an even smaller fee to reserve it.

Cities are also to blame:

Better than no-parking-zones are cities like Paris where they created parking spaces specifically for bikes and scooters. You rarely see problems in these cities. Some places require designated parking areas without making the space in the roads for them - those are much more problematic because the parking spaces fill and spill over onto where people would prefer to walk or drive.

But users are indeed part of the problem:

The number of times I've seen unsafe drivers of any vehicle, or two people on one scooter, or scooters or bikes going the wrong way down a bike lane... the problems are actually endless.

But the problems aren't always with scooters or e-bikes themselves. Sometimes it's an ecosystem problem, and sometimes the rental companies are too short-sighted.

And regulation isn't always bad:

As a scooter rider myself, I look forward to the day when the 2027 E.U. law requiring removable batteries might take effect in the private scooter market. It's silly that so many high end scooter brands aren't making batteries removable simply because they don't want to have to deal with shipping batteries and user-replaceable parts and the inherent design costs of a removable battery.
A lot of regular bikes are coming with disc brakes these days, but they're usually cable-operated except on e-bikes.
I know that unfree software is bad, but really a lot of good is being done in the process here. VS Code is making programming significantly better and more accessible to a large audience, including relatively advanced features like remote and containerized development. It also gave us the Language Server Protocol, which would be nowhere near as successful as it is today without Microsoft building it into VS Code and open sourcing the language servers.
I don't know. I don't have raw packet. just the log in firewall that does not specify which bit.
You neglect to consider the fact that all food products have nutrition labels, which are written according to certain standards and legal conventions.

Could be that this company added some olive oil to their "plant spread" and wanted to visually distinguish this type from their alternative olive-free version. In any case, all nutrition facts are on the label -- the label clearly shows that the product is made of an oil blend -- and, as such, the picture of an olive on the packaging can hardly be "intentionally misleading" for more than about five seconds.
Yeah, they were going after the Vim and Emacs using, Linux/Mac web dev crowd. Instead of fighting Linux they're co-opting it into yet another Microsoft development platform.
I’m quite sad by the number of not-quite indie films that apparently go direct to digital and never get any physical release at all.

At some point we’re going to lose things.
Do you think the level of phosphoric acid is safe? Or is a company relying on the inability of medical experts to state the amount in a can is healthy or not.

Do you think IP should come before human health?
That's just electricity generation, which is only a portion of total energy usage. Both countries use about 15% renewables overall. The exact number is hard to measure, complicated by importation and exportation of energy and other factors.
I thought this article was going to be about selling enterprises. /s
This is silly. Look at the loss and benchmark curves for the Pythia suite of models - the smaller models certainly did saturate and in fact began worsening.

2T not saturating on a 7B is very different from 3T on a 1B.
I 100% agree, but the difference you are pointing out relates to how a landlord acts and works with the community, not how they became a landlord in the first place. There are plenty of "small time landlords" who simply inherited a house when their parents passed away and chose to keep it to rent out. The author of the article is implying we should demonize these small time landlords because they didn't "scrimp and save their earned income over decades" (even though their parents did).
Google/microsoft authentication is a platform risk and is basically saying those third parties own all your users. It can and does backfire all the time.
I wasted many hours in my pre-teen years converting documents from Works to Word and back again. Made me the town wizard, they did.
Don’t words transmit 3D images?
I think there is some assumption that insurers are acting in good faith.

> Major insurers say they will cut out damage caused by hurricanes, wind and hail from policies underwriting property along coastlines and in wildfire country, [..]

Hurricanes and wild fires have not significantly increased due to climate change. This just allows insurers to arbitrarily refuse to deal with insurance payouts, especially those of large scale. This is essentially another "act of god" get-out clause.

Given that banks need insurance to protect their investment, this will likely just kill the possibility of owning a home for the least wealthy. Some big player such as banks will come in and buy lots of cheap property, then suddenly insurance will cover these 'high risk' areas again and rent them back to the people who lost their homes.
Three months? Can you share any data or case studies around such a number? Part of me finds it unbelievable (and part of me really wants to believe).

From a look at the two books mentioned here, though, neither seem to clear that bar.

Zero to Sold is about FeedbackPanda, which took 2 years. (Still impressive.) And Company of One, from a skim, appears to focus on services businesses — totally reasonable to get to six-figure revenue and therefore seven-figure valuation, but not terribly interesting as product companies and fairly difficult to exit via a sale.

I'd love to see some case studies of the 3-month number. The more I think about it, the more possible it seems (with a fair bit of luck).
Consumers want mugging to not happen, and shopkeepers also want robbery to not happen. Violent theft has trended down along side the rise of debit and credit cards. Cards that act in cash negate that benefit, since you can once again steal something untraceable that can't be remotely revoked.

https://www.statista.com/statistics/191235/reported-robbery-...

Wikipedia has a similar table somewhere, but the Statista link is easier to find on mobile.
Sigh. This tired argument is trot out again and again, and everyone draws an arbitrary line in the sand and calls it objective.

Do you hand roll your own assembly? Do you import any libraries or write everything from scratch? Do you drive a manual or automatic?

The only truth in this world is that we all have a finite amount of time in it, and as an individual only you can decide on the allocation.

Also it's not the tool, it's what you do with it.
gorilla/mux supports parameters in the path as well. For example: "/posts/{id:[0-9]+}"

Passing the parameters from the handler to the template could be left to the user of the library.
Books3 is the easy/fast/cheap method but if the quality of the model really brings in some sort of revenue is there anything stopping a company from buying/checking out of the library all these books, scanning and ORC'ing them and adding to the model the hard way?
Man, Myth and Magic
News Media Are a Useful Tool to Educate the Public on Piracy Risks and Threats
I shall be telling this with a sigh

Somewhere ages and ages hence:

Two branches diverged in a program, and I—

I totally eliminated the one less traveled by,

And that has made all the size difference.
Really?

Works suites were a big earner for decades. MS Works started out on DOS and moved to Windows. Its database was arguably superior for simple stuff to anything out of MS for Windows.

Novell had a Works suite too, and Apple.

And there were several independent ones, such as PFS Works, Beagle Works and others. Also more primitive suits where one app has multiple functions, such as Pipedream and the original Lotus Symphony.

Most were single monolithic apps under the UI. LibreOffice still is. Data interchange was significantly easier than in standalone apps.
Game Programming Gurus was a good book, but I had some gripes about it after later learning 3D graphics. The book prominently touted teaching you how to made a Doom-like clone, but instead taught you how to make a Wolfenstein 3D type ray casting engine on a regular grid. Its ray casting engine was also flawed in casting rays with at equally spaced angle steps rather than distance on the projection plane. It was good enough visually with spherical distortion / fisheye correction, but it's not the same as a proper projection.
It's likely the same kind of person that conflates knowledge with intelligence as well.
I have fond memories of the early DOS version (1.something). Its tutorial was a masterclass (included full screen ascii graphics illustrating the scenarios) and as a kid playing on my father's laptop I went through it several times. I particularly enjoyed the database tutorial where you worked on WHODUNIT.WDB to solve the mystery of a murder at a ski slope by narrowing down the customers against clues...
What part of visual representation is the most graphics intensive? The least?
This is the equivalent of arguing that we instead invented sanitation to adapt to reality instead of sitting in our own shit and dying of cholera and opining about sanitation refugees.
> Florida and Texas are the same: insurers don't price in hurricane or hail proofing, anti-flooding measures, etc. Hail resistant and wind resistant roofs exist but they'd rather just stop writing policies.

This is not true. You get significant policy discounts by upgrading older homes such as strengthening the roof connection to walls, impact rated doors/glass, roof age (and type).

These discounts can reduce annual premiums by a non trivial amount - first hand knowledge of 30%.

Since Andrew the Miami-Dade building codes have set a new standard for construction and this is reflected in policy pricing.
Yeah kubespray was awful. Random results, no idempotency, slow, fragile, hard to upgrade k8s.

We had much better luck just scripting kubeadm over ssh orchestration tooling.
> With Apple, you're locked in into paying whatever they demand

How is this different from Intel or AMD? There might be a retailer middleman between you and Intel/AMD, but just like any other business, you are paying whatever they are willing to sell at.
Yes, the energy driving the entire system comes from the Sun. But the fact that it takes the form of wind rather than rising/falling columns of air has to do with the rotation of the Earth.

Ditto for hurricanes. Hurricanes turn rising/falling air into cycling air into hurricane force winds because the Earth rotates. But the energy for it came from the Sun. Often removed by another factor, Sun warms ocean, ocean drives the storm.
The part you quoted and called bullshit is factually correct though. CAN has told Meta and Google that if they show links to news sites (which do drive business to those sites) then they have to pay those news sites. It’s not a characterization, it’s what has actually happened. How can you deny that?
Only if you think that white cotton tshirts are the only kind. Apparently that's what hipsters go for these days. I prefer triblend fabrics and interesting colors.
People ignore the energy and scarcity of the materials involved in creating the hardware. It's like recharging a car battery with power from a coal plant.
The availability modern high tech items does help on the demand side. With LED lights a house, office, or school can be lit for a few tens of watts. Modern climate control can heat and cool buildings more efficiently than 40 years ago. Jumping to 3-5G cellular gets telecom for a fraction of the energy or resource investment of wired telecom while still providing high performance. Modern medicine reduces infant and maternal mortality and leads to lower birth rates.
The problem with this, or any other hypothetical "decoupled growth" argument is that, well, it's purely hypothetical.

There's no evidence whatsoever that economic growth can be decoupled from resource, and most especially energy, usage. There are instances of increased efficiencies, which thanks to the Jevons Paradox increase overall resource utilisation (economically, efficiency is equivalent to a reduced price, and hence induces greater demand). And there are instances of outsourced resource utilisation (both in terms of inputs and of waste sinks), most notably that of China which has committed tremendous domestic resources and incurred immense environmental insult in providing "cheap goods" (that is: goods lacking fully-costed externality impacts) to developed countries.

But there's nary a trace of actual empirical evidence of substantive decoupling in the real world. Much handwaving and could-be's, however.
Tourists go to tourist places because they’re usually the most interesting for some generic value of interesting.

If you want things off the beaten path, start off the path. I find local restaurants at off-peak times a good place to begin - anyplace with a counter or bar should work. Ask, and ask again for what they find interesting.
Google maps with their low-contrast washed-out colors are an absolute PITA to use. Not all the people using those maps have young eyes. Elderly people would prefer higher-contrast or more definitive colors that make maps more useful.
Instead of jumping straight to mathematical abstractions, perhaps SETI could warm up by learning how to communicate with non-human sentience on Earth.
> People should breed X lower in trophic chain.

And nintendo should make only boring and educative games in ascii that nobody wants like Donkey Kant or Super Marx kart.

I suspect that a sector that has been running before Christ dumped his pacifier, had thoroughly explored yet the idea of breeding strictly vegetarian fishes (get-rich-simpler-faster)... and discarded it. Some decades ago.

There is a problem with vegetarian fishes. They taste awful. Algae dislike being eaten and love to design new chemical deterrents. Salmon on the other hand is delicious.

Marine farms are simply giving people more of the product what they want to buy at a premium price. Strict market logic.

The sad truth is that most of the absolute solutions that are preached in this thread are either untested, unproved or proven as non-viable in the real life since 90's. Those are "cargo-cult solutions" that people still keep parroting again and again; replacing critical thinking with faith. Fueled by a lack of real knowledge on the area.
This genuinely seems useful. I’ll give it a shot. Nice!
The name, not the app.
“Microsoft Works” is an oxymoron, the joke went. Keyword: joke.
Wikipedia, it usually has an good list of the most interesting places in a city. Otherwise i use openstreetmap to find specific types of stores i want to visit(cinemas, theaters, ...) and random strolling.
The "uni degree value" discussion on here is very biased towards the US, where expensive courses exist, some excellent but others perhaps not providing sufficient value for money.

Note that in several countries in Europe, studying is free of charge or only costs a symbolic fee (scholarships aside).

The university system is thousands of years old, and it would be disastrous if it were abolished. I'm a self-taught developer, who also obtained two Masters and a Ph.D. later, and I can attest to it that the speed of learning at uni cannot be compared with the speed of learning via self study, especially self-study in isolation.

Having said this, learning only in groups/herds is also not the best approach IMHO, there is something to sitting alone and figuring something out without external help, at least occasionally, as it trains your analytical skills, your ability to concentrate and it gives you grit/perseverance.
> My certifications as a flagger and forklift driver have proved incapable of outshining the glaring label of convicted felon that accompanies them on applications.

Perhaps the market is behaving irrationally by not valuing convicted felons appropriately. The places that seem to be successful look like they usually make hiring criminals part of their brand like Dave's Killer Bread.
Sorta, Win 95 was more on the cusp, predating the first internet boom by a few years, and it was certainty designed for a pre internet world. The marketing push was about how easy it was to get online with MSN.
Microsoft leadership famously bet against widespread adoption and growth of the internet and put their bets heavily into MSN with the web as a hedge. The first release of Windows 95 didn’t even come with a browser.

Even so, as a consumer if you had better than 14.4k dialup you were quite lucky.
Almost nobody selling computers in those days was tying up a phone line to keep the internet connected for sales demos.
> Harold McGee's On Food and Cooking is a must-have.

I love McGee, but we only tend to pull it out when we have a history or science question, not so much when we're cooking.

A book we lean on heavily is 'The Flavor Profile Bible', Dornenberg and Page. The bulk of the book is an index of ingredients, listing ingredients/herbs/spices that pair well with each ingredient. We've profited from the videos mentioned here and we have our favorite cookbooks, but when we go to spice up the routine, this is the place we turn most often.
How many human languages do you know?
"incentive compatible" is doing a lot of heavy lifting in that sentence.

Meta-analysis and systematic reviews were done before Cochrane, and will be done after it. And most pharma companies are banking on RCT results - Cochrane can't do systematic reviews before there's multiple studies, so it's significantly further downstream than what makes pharma money.
But this is a bit of a risk, isn't it? It means that there is a huge margin in anyone who could disintermediate Apple, and an incentive for other parties to encourage that. And clear evidence of some kind of monopoly rent -- how are they sustaining a ~30% margin when PayPal's is a fraction of a percent, unless they have a monopoly that should be subject to antitrust action?
Maybe it’s a tautochrone curve?
Noam Sobel is the final co-author on this paper. He has worked on scent and many aspects of the human nose for years.

He gives a long and insightful interview to Huberman here:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cS7cNaBrkxo
I agree with this. Emotional investment is entangled with a generational home. You don’t want an inherited home with positive memories to turn into a drug den, so you’re incentivized to screen out unfavorable tenants.

If you’re a large-scale real estate corp, the houses are just income earners and as long as the income is greater than the n expenses, you don’t give a rats ass who lives there.
RE: copy on write overlay. There is the Unified Write Filter, but I’m not sure how it interacts with net booting:

https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/iot/iot-enterprise...
One of the most "fun" things to do on HN is translate startup funding amounts into things like multiples of Cochrane's budget, or NIH R01s.
Distribution of iOS apps.
Yes, This is exactly the source of the problem. Otherwise editing would rarely be a problem or even needed. And for this it is extremely ill suited. I remember having printed a document, typed by hand and scan it back in a pressing situation. It felt bizantinely complicated and equally frustrating.
Crazy to think when they started, their product was a chipboard. You had to put the video monitor on yourself.

What has gotten them huge, and sustained them throughout the years, was a series of products that really look nothing like their first. Or their second. Just a continual evolution against a vision, which I think has been pretty consistent.

Worth putting modern, small startups today in that context...you never know what they'll evolve to become beyond their first, second, even third products
Switch to using HDBSCAN. It's good.
if you didn’t hate it enough, styrofoam is part of a hydrogen bomb…it absorbs gamma rays from the uranium nuke, heats up, and becomes a hot plasma. Then it causes fusion in the lithium deuteride, which is the fusion fuel.
Did you hate or love Microsoft Works? If so, why?
Plenty of jobs require use of Apple products or services, if nothing else to test on them.
The Apple/Google marketplace rules are common-sense, and address legitimate concerns. I moderate /r/androiddev, and we get at least 10 posts per week that are basically "I make a living from Android apps and Google has banned my developer account and denied my appeals". There needs to be some kind of public check on this behavior when livelihoods are at stake, and I don't trust either company for a second when they say this will ruin their app stores.
There are a lot of systematic reviews. They're a very popular "Grad student's first paper" in public health fields, because if you're writing Chapter 1 of your dissertation, you're already halfway there.
Anyone interested in riding a scooter “well” just bought their own.

Sure, maybe they rented for a bit to see what it was like, but once you agree it’s a good option it is not insanely expensive (or heavy) to buy your own.
X11 is obviously insanely flexible, no one will argue that. It is also riddled with complexity, security problems, and performance problems. Programs like xlock are notorious for numerous security problems over the years, for precisely this reason. Yeah programs like xlock work now, but it took 20 years to get them to be not completely broken. If you think X11 is basically secure and just works, you're either delusional or brand new to Linux/Unix.

Wayland is way simpler, has a more secure design, and handles modern GPUs much more efficiently. It's missing a lot of features X11 had, but the fact that you can use one program to run a screensaver, another program to lock the screen, and another program to do window management (oh, and also another program which is the actual X11 server) is something that 1% of users care about. The other 99% of users are OK with using Gnome or KDE or XFCE or whatever other desktop environment just does all this stuff.

The client/server argument held weight 5 or 10 years ago, but waypipe exists now and works great (I would know, I use it regularly myself). Actually it works much better than X11 forwarding ever did thanks to the modern compression codecs it has built in. And the fact that the waypipe code is just a regular unprivileged application rather than something built into the compositor means that I don't need to worry about what security holes.

Your comment just reads as a bunch of half thought out anecdotes (not all of which are factually accurate). There's a reason why basically EVERYONE who is actually knowledgeable about how X11 works decided that it was completely broken and welcomed Wayland when it came along.