skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> If everyone cycles you need a cycle lane at least the size of a car lane

No you don't - bikes and scooters take up far less room than the same person being sat alone in their car. The increased throughput of people would drastically improve the efficiency of the road. Also, if the people choose active travel instead of driving, then you also remove a large number of cars from the road and also reduce congestion for the people who have to drive.

New housing estates will need joining up to the existing road network, but they also need to have good public transport links to avoid the roads being just filled with people stuck in cars in traffic. Also, they should have good walking/cycling options too which is often completely neglected by developers. Obviously new developments will need some road building, but it's a mistake to think that adding roads will reduce congestion.

Ultimately, personal cars don't scale beyond a certain population density. If you aim to add more roads, the shops and facilities end up becoming more separated which then leads to more people choosing to drive to get there. The extra people driving then leads to more congestion which leads to more roads which leads to facilities becoming spaced further apart and requiring even more space for parking facilities. It's an exercise in futility.
possibly a more affordable standard tier with the m2
Install fsn on Linux, navigate to /usr/src/linux .. have fun!
25kg is the average weight of a 7 year old girl, so I think it’s fair to say the youngest lightest average child in school.

Id be interested what Grade 1 girls are carrying around that’s totalling 5kg - that’s three hardcover undergrad physics textbooks lol. And even if they do combine to 5kg, there’s no evidence it causes any harm to children!
“Alien corpses” shown to Mexican Congress
I’m not sure what kind of thing you expect to find at the end of this chain.
Saying fine-tuned LLaMA can outperform GPT-3.5-turbo on some tasks would be reasonably generous.

Saying it can outperform GPT-3.5-turbo on "many tasks" would be venturing into unreasonable territory.

Saying it can outperform GPT-3.5-turbo or even GPT-4 on many tasks is just setting people up for disappointment: There's a reason ARC (common sense reasoning) never gets mentioned when touting OS LLMs vs commercial, and the gap in ARC performance is amplified terribly when you try to apply chain-of-thought
Eagerly waiting for a Yet Another Human Readable and Writable Graph (Which Is Mostly a Tree But Not Always) Serialization Language With Built In Schemas and Pure Functions, Maybe made with <3 for humans.

Actually, that, but without sarcasm. YAML is crap. TOML is crap. JSON is crap. INIs are actually fine for flat lists but major crap otherwise. Anything Turing-complete is completely inadequate crap for the purpose.
Are you serious on 12 GB/s? Does the memory even have that much bandwidth?
LIRR (Long Island Rail Road) now stops at both terminals.
> The EU isn't a super-state

True whatever that means :)

> and EU law isn't applied by some overarching entity.

It is. EU law as a whole is ultimately applied by an entity, the Court of Justice of the European Union. It is overarching, over national courts, over national governments, and over EU bodies.

Then within EU law, you have several branches and distribution of who has authority etc. Primary EU law is the foundational basis (some would say a "constitution" effectively even though the word has been a political minefield) and does provide some "overarching entity" in some areas.

Then within Secondaru EU law, you have regulations, orders, directives, etc. Many regulations and orders have an EU overarching entity, and in many cases the European Commission has a central role.

> On a technical level, each country ratifies and applies their own laws in their own ways.

That is a gross mischaracterisation and overgeneralization of EU Directives.

EU Directives as a general rule* don't have "direct effect" in a Member State. They set a goal agreed at the EU level, and the Member State are bound to implement the means in their national laws to reach the goal. That usually (but not always) means at a national level the adoption of a legal act by national Parliament.

*as a general rule because as always there are exceptions.
Try edn: https://learnxinyminutes.com/docs/edn/
not really. fascism isn't just "doles out severe punishments." It's a slightly tired trope to trot out Umberto Eco's definitions of fascism but suffice to say it's a name for a political tendancy that appeals heavily to imagined glorious history and family while stoking fear of a destabilising influence within society, taken to extremes. It usually also emphasises emergency needing reliance on strong leaders and distain for comittee and taking time to make right decisions that work for everyone.

Sometimes people get all upset when they hear some of these characterisations, because they personally think family ought to be more important, or that people are ignoring a proud shared history. Maybe they feel that beuracracy and comittee meetings have led to overcomplexity. It turns out as with anything else these things are perfectly fine and not bad until this way of thinking becomes the sole goal of the leading class, they become highly authoritarian, and it lashes out more and more at any percieved imperfection in society regardless of severity.

Does this fit with singapore, to a greater or lesser extent? I really don't know. But I understand why people would feel annoyed by simplifying it down to "strong laws against drugs"
Interesting, thank you for introducing me to Netlify CMS, didn't know about it.
Unity will start charging developers each time their game is installed
Do you honestly expect that they would admit it and face millions of lawsuits ?
> It tends to be the case that most of Elon Musk’s audience are men impressed by his brazen attitude and experiencing his “wins” as their own

I think the onion nailed the spirit of this yesterday: https://www.theonion.com/edgelords-explain-why-they-love-elo...
> How did we get to this point?

Don't reflect on society based on what some article leads you to believe.

We haven't conflated a damn thing. This article is an ad meant to influence on several topics ranging from politics (civil engineering, gentrification, etc.) to the literal brands mentioned. So much content on the internet is like this these days: a mess of paid junk trying to emulate real opinions hoping something catches.
Because of the total saved bandwidth. Codec binaries are few hundred kb at most, while high quality images are dozens of megabytes.
I got my bad debt scrubbed this way. This was in the Netherlands. It is not always possible, some sources here (in Dutch):
https://www.vldwadvocaten.nl/blog/bkr-en-avg-bezwaar-en-verz...
You're on the right track. The only thing you're missing is that adding (averaging) two bell curve distributions that are offset by a little does not necessarily give a bimodal distribution. It will only be bimodal if the two unimodal that you are adding are placed far enough away from each other.

See this https://stats.stackexchange.com/questions/416204/why-is-a-mi...
I'm fairly sure Android apps running as root (like this driver installer probably was) will also have access over all files without asking. That's the danger of root.
Linux scheduling latency debug and analysis
> For those that want to follow, what are good online shopping alternatives?

In Blighty, Argos.

No counterfeit stuff (which frankly, should be a given), same day delivery and a good network of bricks'n'mortar shops (with pick-up and drop-off) if you need it.

http://www.argos.co.uk/
The state has no legitimacy to me because it uses suffering for retribution. It's inherently oppressive.
That is not part of the software itself so it is still correctly installed/uninstalled.

Now I believe all software should have a manpage, dialog and a cli argument that describes where all the files[1] generated by default go but that is another subject.

[1] cache, config and even default save
It's not about the claim, but about the supposed promise [1]. You can't claim that you aim to be world's best employer and at the same time be union-busting.

Granted Jeff and Andy are ... different.

[1] https://www.cbsnews.com/news/jeff-bezos-amazon-employee-care...
I agree with the sentiment of anti-DRM but Anker (who are highly reputable) have been doing licensed cables for <$10 for years.
Great article. I like to learn how businesses really work and the unexpected ways they make money.

One nit. The author wrote "... the impression among many informed people that most defaulted debt is medically-related is the result of successful advocacy work rather than being substantially based in reality." Followed by links to illustrate the magnitude of credit card debt and some facts about medical debt in the US.

I worked for several years for a company that provides mandatory bankruptcy counseling. Debtors considering personal bankruptcy must, by law (thanks to lobbying by the credit card industry) complete a counseling/personal finance course. I could write about that fake and fraudulent process and the industry that sprung up around it (unfunded mandate, anyone?) but I'll stick to the point.

The main reason people give for considering or starting a bankruptcy filing is medical debt. Their other debts, mostly credit cards, mortgages, utilities, etc. may total to much more than the medical debt, but medical debt has more urgency. Hospitals and their corporate owners can get very aggressive collecting debts, and the same consumers that patio11 describes often fear they will lose access to their physicians, hospital, clinic, and prescriptions if they default on medical debt. So they let the credit cards and cell phone bills slide and scrape to pay the medical bills. Medical debt triggers a bigger financial meltdown, maybe leading to bankruptcy, in other words, even though it doesn't amount to nearly as much as mortgage or credit card debt.

A lot of medical expenses get charged to credit cards, as anyone who has visited a hospital, clinic, urgent care center, or pharmacy knows. The first thing you get asked at a clinic, lab, or hospital in the US is how you will pay, and if you don't have good insurance you can expect to pay up front for non-emergency or diagnostic procedures. When my grandmother died I helped clear up her finances, including paying off and closing her credit card accounts. After a long illness she had racked up thousands on credit cards, all to pharmacies and labs. That all shows up as consumer credit card debt, not medical debt.

Personal bankruptcy counseling has some of the same depressing call center aspects patio11 describes: Tales of woe, often heartbreaking to hear. Confused consumers not sure how much they owe, or to whom. Threats and intimidation from debt collectors. Debt collectors calling days after a spouse dies asserting the survivor has to pay immediately. The people who end up in bankruptcy counseling, very often poor, uneducated, and/or elderly, frequently fall prey to the bottom-feeding law firms that specialize in the field, charging hundreds or thousands of dollars for their "services," that amount to filling out boilerplate forms and filing them with the court, pulling credit reports, and getting kickbacks for sending their clients to a bankruptcy counseling provider. The government encourages bankruptcy counseling firms to push debtors into debt repayment plans or Chapter 13 bankruptcy, which are almost always going to benefit the creditors without offering much relief to the debtor.
I agree cache file should not go into their home directory, however I don't agree they aren't user data and that they would be part of the software installation.
The challenge is closed, but it's really just a series of emails with tasks for you to do. You can find a list of the tasks online, only there won't be someone to verify your solutions since the challenge is closed.
Ahhh, another instance of Poe's law.
It is a very provocative title. I guessed Raymond Chen as well. Of course he delivers an interesting deep dive behind the title.
It's a regular job. I follow a youtuber who was, before his youtube career, a voice actor among other things, and it's a job like any other. Large companies have large advertising budgets, and they usually pay better than, say, film and animation. Voice actors are often signed to agencies, they have profiles and portfolio. Voice is a product and a service, and agencies can be requested to provide samples for a request like a warm, friendly voice for a 15-minute training video. They have contracts that specify where and how the voice will be used, and if the payment is fixed, dynamic based on a business metric or success of the use, or a mix of these, and how much of that does the agency get.

What's interesting is that voices can also be exclusively licensed. You for example Mercedes can request a characteristic voice, and they pay extra so that the actor signs that they will not take another transportation related job, or even any other job for a period. This is how McDonalds has a specific, associated voiceover for every commercial over a period, for example. It becomes part of branding, like a color, a font, or a logo design.
…and this time they are for real !!!!11!!1!!!1!eleven
And here I was, thinking this was about circular dichroism!

Cool article nonetheless..!
Wait, what happens to returned packages? Now I'm curious about that too.
What Is the Pinot? [pdf]
Literally every config file format is terrible in some way or another. The best configs are executable and loaded into a dynamic runtime. Emacs and Airflow are good examples of this.

But I definitely strongly prefer YAML to TOML. It's just makes a lot more sense to me and it's a huge shame that PyPA went with TOML which is so un-Pythonic. I preferred setup.py. StrictYAML is a really good development that I wasn't aware of, though.
I would favor a /var/user/something directory.

The fact that nobody does that is pretty much a consequence of the difficulty of coordinating multiple projects that do not have a common authority, not because it is a bad idea.
Related, but why phone disks don’t age and fail? Simply because of low r/w?
What makes you say things like this that are easily verifiably false? I am reaching over and touching my WiFi router’s antennas right now and I’m not being “painfully burned from the inside out.”

I’m hoping the answer is a desire to make a joke and not something that indicates a disconnection with reality.
A whole new generation of developers is learning what the previous generation termed "briefcase applications". When client-server applications were the thing late 90s and early 2Ks, internet speeds were a serious limitation. This forced many architectures to work with "local-first", disconnected dataset, eventually-synchronised desktop applications. Microsoft ADO famously touted the "disconnected dataset" for this after Borland's "client dataset" pioneered this concept for the Windows desktop. Eventually even Java got disconnected datasets. All these techs more than two decades ago had real practical problems they solved: one of them I worked on involved collecting water flow data from several thousands of rivers in Southern Africa. Hundreds of users had mobile laptops that fired up desktop apps with authentication and business rules. Users then came back to head office to synchronise or used a branch with network to upload.

They worked and they were necessary.

Things changed when internet connectivity eventually became cheap and ubiquitous and the complexity of developing such applications then didn't merit the effort.

Now, the swing back to "local-first" is mainly for user-experience reasons. The same theoretical complexities of "eventually synchronised" that existed for the "briefcase app" are still present.

Is the complexity worth it though?
If it was disassembled in the Sydney airport carpark and on fire, yes there would be. The circumstances are unusual enough regardless of power source here.
Nickel[1] maybe? Though I'm not sure about "for humans" part :)

[1]: https://github.com/tweag/nickel
In US financial jargon, a card that expects payment in full every month is a "charge card".

https://www.bankrate.com/finance/credit-cards/is-a-charge-ca...
Well, he did warn you it would be indistinguishable from malware…
May be used with Fennel if you prefer a more lisp-alike programming language.

https://fennel-lang.org/

https://wiki.fennel-lang.org/Codebases
> What kind of feature do you to be excited to see in a product that is 16 years old?

How about an OS that's not walled-garden shite? One that any competent programmer could write an app for -- in any language they chose -- and offer for download to all comers without getting Apple's permission and without paying Apple a dime?

How about a development system built in to the phone so you could add a keyboard and a mouse and write an app, compile it, and install it without ever leaving the phone?

How about a 1/8" jack so I can listen privately on $15 wired buds from one of 1000 different suppliers without paying $300 for buds that are going to become e-waste as soon as their batteries refuse to charge?

How about being able to replace the main battery myself, in my home, without trashing the entire fu*king phone?

How about selling the phone with a decent protective case that still allows the Qi charger to work?

How about using formal methods to ensure some Israeli spyware group cannot constantly find zero-days in my phone and put my life in danger without constant after-the-fact patch-and-pray security upgrades?

I've been building chips, computers, and operating systems for decades. I know the subject like I know my own name. There is no technical reason Apple couldn't do all these things. They choose not to because not doing them makes Apple more money.

Apple is not refusing to do any of these things for cybersecurity or privacy reasons either. I eat, sleep, and breathe cybersecurity and I get paid for it. Apple could do everything on this list with zero security risk. They know this but they choose to lie and say otherwise.

Fuck apple and their horse. They are everything that is wrong with engineering under the control of rapacious capitalist greed.
That's absolute dirt cheap. It's like 1/10th the price fine-tuned GPT-3 was launched at, and funnily enough cheaper than many of the original embeddings endpoints.
The fucked up part is they didn't update the Magic Trackpad and Magic Mouse to use USB-C, those are still stuck on Lightning.
Yep. Look at the failure of terror bombing campaigns. Rather than demoralizing civilian populations, it hardens their resolve to fight from London to Kyiv.
> As I said in the original comment: it's not all gardens and roses.

Which is why I bit ;) You're raising valid but also quite broad concerns. Share some war stories, if you can <3
I'm okay with TOML for something like Cargo configuration, I don't enjoy it for much else though.

I always comment the same thing on these sorts of discussions - JSON5 has been really nice to work with if you can fully control all consumer applications of it (since there aren't great libraries for json5 in every language). Certainly nicer than the hellscape that is YAML.
Not right, but influential on EU regulators. Hopefully EU citizens find such results as a mark of shame rather than pride and move towards fact-based policy. Emotion-based policy is dangerous.
at the yc website. their twitter page also posts the latest ones
> who were able to draw DNA evidence using radiocarbon dating.
WHAT
Too late for that. Too few people were born in the 21st century and now are entering the workforce in record low numbers.

And this time you can't just throw people at the problem, because it's a worldwide phenomenon - at least in countries where most of the population gets the 9+ years of education required to participate in an advanced economy.
Nice to see this posted on HN! A while back ago I used them for the design of a site a built https://cmdchallenge.com/ which gives it a nice feel of achievement badges without using standard emoji characters that may look different depending on the client.
Anti-linux I don't know, but it was not uncommon in unices to have home directories in /usr/home.

And there is no written or unwritten rule about that. In fact, /home is a subdirectory of / which is owned by root.
Why do you think there's a regulatory limit in the first place?
Ask HN: Programmer's Day today, what is your weird funny bug story?
Love2D has been there forever. It's not a replacement for Unity.

The only open source project that remotely resembles Unity is Godot.
Agree with author. Use yamllint with YAML to avoid commonly complained about problems.
Why Are So Many Millennials Going to Mongolia?
Everyone is pointing at Windows but there are still installer software on MacOS. Normally crusty old corpoware like Citrix that needs to extend its tentacles to the whole system.

On Unix/Linux land the prevalence of pipe curl to bash type installers is not much different.

I normally keep both types away from my computers.
Before I read the article I was imagining something very different, by analogy with https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rubber-hose_cryptanalysis
I’d charge a base on-call fee, then switch to a 3x hourly rate for the hours when you actually have to work.
Using Alby to Send Bitcoin on YouTube
> I'm okay with TOML for something like Cargo configuration, I don't enjoy it for much else though.

Which seems fine given TOML was designed as a stricter and more reliable INI, not a half-assed programming language. Can’t say I’m unhappy to know that when I see a toml file, it’s probably going to be pretty simple (exactly the opposite of the dread I feel when I see a yaml extension).
Also do not forget the VR/3D version, LÖVR: https://lovr.org/
It is a very good "mini" base that's easy to get started in but gets progressively harder to make anything finished looking, at least presently.

Also do not expect Desktop 3D to have first priority although mouse and keyboard is supported.

I feel somehow unclean or dirty using Godot and Unreal and the like since they force you to work on their editors.
The editors are basically immediately off limits for anyone who wants to mod the base game rapidly for their own enjoyment. A concept like http://sauerbraten.org/ is interesting, but seems to not have taken off for various reasons. Lesson learned I guess is that being able to customize is not everything.
Public chargers usually have very low power (e.g. 11kW), are as of now not common enough and typically limit the parking time to a few hours (that are not even sufficient to fully charge), requiring one to go back again and find another parking space after that (which, later in the evening/night, is even harder).
China matches Germany in per-capita CO2 also, with a rising trend as opposed to Germany's trend which has been falling for decades.

https://ourworldindata.org/co2/country/china?country=CHN~DEU
While I agree with you that such complexity is expensive to manage, I think it primarily depends on the expertise of your team. If you can foresee the need for Rust, say, and your team knows how to manage its risks, and it is financially viable to maintain so many stacks, I think it’s fine. But if the team just wants to put a badge on their chest for using Rust, that’s a different story. I’ve been always striving to reduce the complexity and pick only one framework. Sometimes it’s hard and such decisions must be made. On a larger project I integrated and developed Go, Rust, and Java services, tightly knit to their context bounds. It was alright and seemed to make sense but the strain was immense.

People tend to underappreciate how much time it costs to do the context switch in your head when you change across different stacks, and how much lost opportunity it incurs for not spending that time to dice deeper in only one tech stack.