skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Housing density, and radius of "walkable" to the average human.

I live in a neighborhood full of small apartments, single level duplexes, and single family homes. What stores are walkable? The liquor store, and gas station, and if i really feel like it, dominos and 7-11, both of which are at least 1/4 mile one way. Most others in this area, dont get those even. Past that its about a mile one way to the actual grocery store. And then after all the shopping, i have to walk back, now with 50+lbs of groceries.

Honestly, all this we need more walkable cities stuff, i get it, yes, you should be able to get places by walking, but really, its just not even feasible most times if youre going to be buying something. Im not gonna walk home from best buy 4+ miles away heaving a huge TV on my back, no one will. We invented transportation that didnt involve humans using their legs because we are slow, and easily over encumbered when carrying things. Theres a reason we saw an explosion of carriages way back. Its easier to haul more, and much faster, than if a person, or even many people at once, were to do it.

Housing density is a huge factor in a lot of this, but having swaths of tall purely apartment buildings is also not the answer. People want single family homes and other styles for many reasons. They wont be going away anytime soon. And even if they did, the only answer is very mixed use zoning.

One of my favorite examples, in downtown Denver, there is a tall apartment building, stacked on top of a large chain grocery store, it includes parking for the store, and spots for the building, under the building too. This is what i would consider peak use, and what people complain about walkable cities really need to focus on. Having a city you can walk anywhere is great, but you need to be able to get to the societal needs without having to walk far. Of course the grocery store also serves for a large part of that neighborhood, and distance to the store is a variable, but this mainly serves multiple buildings in a small area. The big problem is all the space we waste dedicating to parking. It might be more expensive, but you can gain a lot more use if you force parking lots to have shops above/below them, and that reclaimed flat land can then be used for the mixed use building. Parking is also not going away, like i said, we invented carriages for a reason. Howwwweeeeevvvveeerrr all of this comes with a number of caveats, like the ridiculous price to lease a storefront, build the building, etc, and of course its just a feedback loop that gets worse as we waste more space, space becomes premium.

All of this is to sum up my point, walkability is variable by person, and changes greatly depending on if youre going to have to be carrying things, and theres never going to be good "walkable" cities, short of nuking a city and starting over, you wont make it vastly better, especially with the politicians and government we have now.
For v3 we're supporting InfluxQL natively in addition to SQL. The InfluxQL implementation is actually just a front end on top of DataFusion, the SQL engine we use.

We really wanted to bring Flux along too, but found that it was too difficult in the near term to have it work well with v3. We spent a bunch of time building a gRPC API that Flux uses to talk to v3 (the same thing we have in our Cloud v2 product), but that API was designed with the previous storage engine in mind. It ended up being brittle and performed very poorly.

So at this point the long term supported languages for InfluxQL and SQL, but we're continuing to support Flux for our customers.
They must've forgot a comma sign there.
Also, why didn't you ask me if I call all medicines "a poison" - or only one for cancer patients?
The article is pretty bad, I agree. Everything you said, I agree.

I think this sentiment, “engineers aren’t what they used to be… they don’t understand the why as much”, is a very common sentiment today. I think there’s some truth. I know plenty of “cloud engineers” that can tell you the best practices of architecting on AWS but not the why those are best practices, not why distributed systems are hard, etc.

The reality though is that this is often fine. Most problems aren’t novel. Most people shouldn’t need to re-derive knowledge from first principles as part of the job. You learn that in school, and then you go to work and solve the problem asked of you. Not every problem is Google scale we know this, but also not every problem requires a phd and ends in patents. Sometimes it’s just a low traffic crud app with a react front end.

The CTO probably wants to be a thought leader or something. I don’t know peoples motivations. It seems like they read an article on pack/map and applied it to why their employees suck?
I think that kind of was the beginning of firing the smart people who literally built Firefox and hiring random mba-bots because they thought it didn’t matter.

Now their tech sucks and market share is sinking.

I don’t think it’s the only reason, but firing Eich didn’t help. Also, Brave has been a pretty nice browser with lots of small quality of life innovations. It’s a shock to me that Firefox didn’t capitalize on its unique position to be privacy focused.
There are many people who would be willing to buy these tires if your claims of being more cost-effective and better for the environment are actually true. You have a PhD in this, so why aren’t you doing it?
Serious question:
Why do they have that requirement?

Wouldn’t that increase in workforce lower wages which is what companies want anyway ?

How does the company benefit from this ?
I'm with you there. I just look at the transcript when I'm interested in the content and can't find a proper written alternative.

On the other hand, if there's no written alternative, chances are that the content was irrelevant anyway, so maybe it's fine to ignore in the first place.
Couple million is enough to retire. I don't know why people on the internet always think you need so much money to retire.
I wouldn't suggest putting the UK in that list, absolutely crumbling and showing no signs of stopping.
Doesn't really matter in any case.

The bulk of the problem is 5000lb+ vehicles. F150, SUVs like Suburbans, etc. etc. I'm not even sure if people are using these big vehicles to carry their families around, its probably just single-person drivers in most cases.

I'm not even sure how to approach the weight problem. We have plenty of cars in the 3000lb or 4000lb range but more-and-more people are pushing 5000lb+.
I think this is a duplicate of a rightly dead post:

[flagged] [dead] Food Delivery Robots Are Feeding Camera Footage to the LAPD (404media.co) 21 points by lxm 2 days ago | 6 comments | https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37698428
A major economy is facing a minor recession in the aftermath of a once-in-a-generation energy shock and a once-in-a-generation inflation spike. If history tells us anything, it's that major economic powers are phenomenally robust.
A one-person housecleaning startup has a CEO if they incorporate. But it says something about a company if their chief is just out of school, and it usually says the company is new and small. It might be the next Facebook, or it could more likely be just another new company with young founders.

I've seen CFO-as-a-service but haven't seen that yet for CTO.
CNN reporting is the absolute worst, crap reporting out there.

"It’s still early to determine the cause of this extreme event but according to our experts, it is certainly connected to the drought period and high temperatures in Lake Tefé, in which some points are exceeding 39 degrees Celsius (102 degrees Fahrenheit),” the institute said in comments carried by CNN affiliate CNN Brasil."

It's the drought and that is causing the temperature of the water to increase, too, not just the "global warming" bearing down on a roaring Amazon, slaying dolphins left and right.

Yellow journalism at its finest.
It managed to make Tux look right: https://www.bing.com/images/create/tux-the-penguin-lounging-...
I would hope so but I don't think that is the case, there is a portion of bugs, including security vulnerabilities that are actually hardware related but has a workaround in software.

That and no matter how hard you try there will always be logic errors in programming that will need to be fixed.
> Fleet operators don’t see any significant difference in tire wear.

Larger vehicles have larger tires. The size of a tire on a Tesla is a lot bigger than on my small sedan. They may both go 150,000km but one surely pollutes more.
You can use it without edge what a miracle
Genshin Impact is extremely popular in the west.
At no point did I say the laws of physics are beyond question or doubt, and neither did I say dark matter is correct.

I just said it makes more sense to give DM priority because what is the point of having a model if you don't start from it.

Also why are you being so hostile towards me exactly? I didn't express any love for dark matter or the standard model, and I am not a fan of perpetuating a status quo or any form of academic dogma.

All I said, quite unsuccessfully it would seem, is why people think its likely for dark matter to be there — because if you add in "invisible" mass with existing laws of physics, you get something that looks like what we see through our telescopes. I think many would prefer to suppose that there is non-EM-interacting mass (a lot of it apparently), than there being as yet unknown behaviours of gravity/spacetime geometry, which we like to think we understand pretty well.

Though I agree that we don't understand the universe as well as we like to think; and that the universe is not intuitive at all most of the time; and a preference based on how intuitively likely something seems is irrelevant to what the truth will turn out to be.

Edit: just FYI, I am not downvoting your responses by the way. I am not bothered if you dislike me or disagree with things I have said, though these two things should be distinct from each other.

I'm nobody and I didn't seek to "mansplain" anything whatever this term is supposed to mean. I was just talking, always happy to debate, something I thought people came here to do. I won't make the mistake again.
Very hard to read on mobile though. I either have to scroll left to right for every line, or zoom out and have very small text. Seems like the content div has a min-width or something that prevents the text from wrapping on a narrow screen.
Where is it going from bad to worse?
As i mentioned in my other post. Thats not far for most people. More than 1/4 mile and people will not hesitate to get the car
> It’s so bizarre that people worship this guy.

It's bizarre now that he's completely gone off the rails and no one to keep him in check, but it's no surprise given that he was the backstory behind kicking the collective arse of the established automotive industry including the battery pioneer Toyota and the established space travel industry.

The "david vs goliath" / "underdog" theme is pretty convincing on its own.
For everyone on earth, it's the hottest October of their lives ...
Google home page, the most visited site in the world, had an ad spot for chrome inviting you to install it. Not the search result page, no. The home page, the empty white one with only one field.

This spot has never been available for any non google product, BTW.
It's not even a consistently American thing.

I (from Texas) use "couple" to mean two-ish-or-more whereas my wife (from New Mexico) uses couple to mean exactly two.

I use "couple" to (roughly) mean "just enough in small amounts" like:

- just a couple more minutes (obviously doesn't mean 2 minutes and 0 seconds)

- grab a couple of glasses (probably two unless there are three people)

- buy a couple of things (I'm making a short trip for a small number of things)

For those decrying using imprecise language, it's because these are scenarios where enumerating would give an incorrect level of precision.
Wow 404 Media already jumped the shark?
Dunno where he is from, but it's the same here in Poland. In 90s when I was a kid September was usually around 10-15 C, you wear autumn clothing and it rains a lot. October was often when the first snow happened. This year it's been around 25 C for the whole month, it barely rained, it's like summer never ended.

And for like 10 years we had very little or no snow in October-December. For the last few years first snow happens for 1-2 weeks in March/April or even May (!) and it's also the last snow. In 90s snow usually lasted for a few months between December-February.

It's not only that the weather gets hotter but the seasons are also delayed by around 1-2 months relative to where they should be...
For equivalent sized vehicles, EVs are heavier, simply because current generation batteries still do not match the energy density of fossil fuels.

There is even discussions to start using concrete for roads to handle the increased weight of EVs.
Not much? Do you drive? Do you see the number of consumer vehicles on the road versus the number of trucks/delivery vehicles? If we could work towards a huge reduction in consumer vehicles on the road, even if we just replaced them all with busses, that'd be a huge improvement in gas consumption, traffic, (sub)urban sprawl, and more.
Ironically it's more often governments that interfere with this. Go to the library and read some books and you can learn how to be a plumber or an electrician, buy a toolbox and you're on your way. Presumably there is some kind of licensing exam?

No, first you've got to find an existing tradesperson and apprentice under them, even if you could already pass the exam on your own. For a few weeks is it? Years, typically. To become a journeyman. Still can't work for yourself, now you have to work under them for a few more years.

Figure out how to file papers for an LLC. Maybe you need a lawyer. Tax accounting will be fun too. Do any of the cities you operate in have a different sales tax rate? Which of your business expenses can be deducted in the current year and which have to be depreciated? Is that the same for things you resell?

Guess what happens if you want to move to another state.
"May I recommend you try Debian and its package `unattended-upgrades`"

I will try that.

"As a figure of speech: Nobody is expected to service a car on his own. You'll get professional help every so often."

And also windows computers can have serious problems, but usually they are easier to solve for beginners, compared to when I try fix someones linux computer, that has not been updated in a while ..
There is no need for humanity to die off, we just need to self-restrict to fit within the envelope the Earth can sustain.

It is quite clear by now that we are not interested in sufficiently reducing the per-human footprint, so the only option remaining is to reduce the number of humans. Either we do this voluntarily, or our children die fighting in the Climate Wars.
Yeah, the ones on the food delivery robots in this "article".
What is causing the drought?
homeless have iphones?
Very true. But trust was even lower in the military in 1941. Isolationism was the political orthodoxy, and had been for decades. That changed overnight. And the sacrifices the US made during WW2 was astounding. For the duration of the war, the US literally stopped making civilian cars. The military grew ten fold in a matter in months. I question the resolve of the American people to put up with those kinds of hardships, sure, but given recent history I think we discount it at our peril.
Don't confuse tourists spending all-in, with the locals' purchasing power.
Years ago, a luxury car company (I believe it was Mercedes) did a study measuring demand with the same car across a relatively wide range of prices. Contrary to economic models that assume rational actors, there was a point where lowering price further made demand go down. People apparently assumed the higher price tag on a car made it more attractive as a consumer.
Great! I want to be clear: Good for anyone who is free to practice their chosen religion, whatever it is.

However, that's not really a correlation, which is important: For example, I'd guess that people who are Muslim (an incredibly large, diverse set of people) on average buy fewer winter coats than people who are Shinto. That tells us nothing about the religion of Islam, other than some geography.
Is there an easy way to fix broken text? I thought dalle 3 was supposed to be better with that
Yeah software engineering has even less rigor than the social sciences. The field is filled with cargo culted best practices which are supported by zero hard evidence. Software "engineering" is really closer to primitive superstition than science.

But what I take even more issue with is the conflation of "engineer" to be not just a software developer, but a web developer. E.g., this says you should understand how CSS and DOM work under the hood. But there are lots software domains where this knowledge is completely useless.
I'm not getting it: why would websites block browsers?
Rather than 2, isn't it better to let a single application own the database and manage the schema?
Yeah I found it tough to keep reading after that golang line. What an absolutely unhinged thing to imply.

While I maybe self-servingly agree that mozilla could stand to focus more on the power-user market segment, this article feels more like a low-effort ramble than any kind of real investigation into what the modern org's actual focus is vs what it should/could be.
One person I know went to the United States. Ten to Switzerland. Zero anywhere else on the planet. Not sure the US guy counts though, quite possible that it's only a temporary assignment from his home employer.

If you wonder what the Swiss do, when all those Germans take their jobs: my observation, utterly anecdotal of course, is that they commute to Liechtenstein.
You're right about all of that. But people use different media to convey different things, and to reach different people, and engage different states of mind. Every advantage you list is also a disadvantage from another perspective. Video is not just text poured into a different container - even if it's just a video of a talking head!

For example, it's well-known that video engages empathy in ways that text does not. When you're documenting a kind of widespread tragedy, that could be essential.

So, are you sure the video didn't work on you? If someone had just posted a giant article would you have read it, or wanted to read more with the same interest? And even if that would have worked for you, a popular video like this can create a proven demand for journalists to write more stories and authors to write more books.
You have been downvoted, but this is a valid philosophical, moral, and ethical question. It is one that I myself have not come to grips with. One does worry about their own wellbeing, much less someone else's for which they are responsible for introducing to this world.

I believe that one answer to this is that life is meant to persist and that by introducing and teaching children that are able to enact change may be the world's best hope. One isn't going to stop humans at large from existing, so we might as well contribute to members that can help change the tide, teaching them modifications to human behavior that is more in line with nature.
The expansion of the surveillance state is bad - but honestly this is sort of a weak story. They uploaded footage showing the attempted theft of their own robot to the LAPD. That seems…normal? If they streamed all video to a police server live for later digging that’s totally different. Which is basically what a ring cam does, given that Amazon will happily hand over all footage with a simple request.
A lot of former major global economies have fallen off their peaks and never recovered. Britain used to rule the world and now ...
> The specific incident in question was a grand larceny case where two men tried (and failed) to steal a robot owned and operated by Serve Robotics

I think there should be legal limitations in place to strictly limit police use of camera footage, but even in my ideal world, this would be fine. A possible crime was identified, the crime was targeted at the device that was recording the video, and the footage was provided voluntarily by the intended victim of the crime.

The headline is completely misleading, unless they decided to hide their best evidence deep in the article somewhere. This seems exactly like a driver providing dashcam footage of somebody running into them. I expect the police are very happy for this case to be held up as an example, since it would tend to calm concerns rather than raise them.
I have semi-retired without needing anything like that! It helps not to have expensive hobbies nor own a flash car...
That’s not my dream. I simply hold the opinion that Meta is the worst possible candidate for this.
I don't think I'm being aggressive. I think you should be less presumptuous.

It's hard to imagine that his data is so important, that he's so wanted, that people care about his so much, that GDPR will make any difference whatsoever on his life. On the contrary, the world is burning, clock is ticking, and you're complaining about me being aggressive on HN?
Of course they won’t. They have no fingers, nor easy access to guns.
> Its not even summer in Brazil yet! They're just coming out of winter, right?

> Are there any Brazilians on HN?

Of course!

As the sibling comment indicated, the region in question is near the equator, where the "winter" versus "summer" distinction is less relevant (though AFAIK it does have "wet" versus "dry" seasons).

I live much further south (this country is huge), where seasons are more relevant, and around here we're leaving an abnormal winter; last week we had summer-like temperatures, to the point that we broke the previous record in both country-wide and region-wide electricity consumption (due to all the cooling loads, hot days always consume more electricity compared to cold days).
This is wrong and not how the numbers are computed. It's not pairwise. Pairwise error rates are more like 1 in 10 billion.

NIST did a review in 2019 (published 2020) with datasets containing 12 million people. For searching a given photo against the database, solutions might, say, fail to pull anyone 3% of the time and pull the wrong person 0.5% of the time.

Thus, you get about 1 false positive for every ~190 true matches. It was also under pessimistic conditions: a big fraction of the searches were for individual not enrolled in the dataset.

https://github.com/usnistgov/frvt/blob/nist-pages/reports/1N...

edit: I see there are newer versions of the data since I bookmarked this, but I have not reviewed them. A glance shows they format the data differently.

Still, things have likely improved somewhat since then.
Very much so. I've gotten better at simply dealing with the fact that I don't undertand wtf I'm doing, and to just accept that at the outset. Now, this is in no way unique and I'm no snowflake. But there's a definite cost.
I refuse to watch this 2.5-hour video because I don't trust his words.

I watched the entirety of one of his previous videos on a friend's recommendation - "Line Goes Up – The Problem With NFTs" https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YQ_xWvX1n9g . While I agree with the main premise that NFTs and cryptocurrencies are very problematic from many angles (financial, hype, scams, etc.), he made so many factual errors that I found it very hard to take it seriously. I have worked with Bitcoin software and can point out things he said that are an outright misrepresentation of the technology and mechanisms.

(See also: https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/Gell-Mann_Amnesia_effect )
Perturbations in regional weather cycles, made statistically more common by climate change.
While you can follow people on Mastodon, that's not the best way to discover new things. The best way is to follow hashtags. I only follow a few people on Mastodon because there are few people who I want to see everything they post. I'd rather follow hashtags so I can see posts on topics I am interested in and not posts I'm not interested in.