skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I believe it varies significantly by demographic (older renters move less frequently)
I never liked helmets and refused to wear them even as a young adult, but now that I have a small child I got myself the dorkiest, safest high-vis bike helmet I could find.

The stories I hear how helmets save lives typically don't involve other vehicles - my personal is actually from skiing, as I borrowed a helmet from a friend who had to end his vacation early and I think that saved me from a severe concussion, because a few hours later I fell face-first on compacted snow and couldn't get myself together for a few minutes afterwards.

> that makes using OV-fiets, etc. more of a hassle.

Perhaps, but are we about road safety or are we about popularizing cycling, traffic deaths be damned?

My manager uses a rental bike to commute and he always has his helmet on when phoning in during a break in his commute because he has three kids and no intention of orphaning them.

I see it as a question of priorities. I'm against car-oriented infrastructure because I believe some people(20% at least) really shouldn't drive and I care about safety. Bicycles don't seem to deliver on that front either - at least until we figure out what's causing this increase and why the heck aren't all these seniors using public transport?
Previously:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1822253 – Oct 23, 2010, 307 comments

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25700135 – Jan 9, 2021, 821 comments
I agree with the sentiment although I'm not sure there is the time for all of it. At least when I took them, probability theory and distribution theory were separate semester long courses, and the former was a prerequisite for the latter.
...and transcribed and then summarized
How is that harder than signing up to Github?
In a battery, isn’t voltage the thing that scales easily (just add more series cells) while mAh is a measure of quality of each cell?
Not surprising since the Republican party has fallen into a pit of extremism with no clear policies.
> It's not inconceivable for a new coalition to form around a new ideology and have that replace the GOP.

Hasn’t that already happened? Since 2016 there has been frequent reportage that the GOP has increasingly been taken over by populists, that the platform that the party proclaimed before (small government and a libertarian touch, some military hawkishness) has little appeal or momentum today when it comes to deciding elections. When the candidate for president who wanted to run under that party had enough charisma to be elected (or at least defeat all other primary challengers), ideology went out the window. And all without creating a third party.
Kimchi throughout millennia: early and modern history of kimchi
Long time ago I used https://en.99designs.de/logo-design (I think I paid $99). These days I'd probably try https://www.fiverr.com/ first. Lately I saw AI-generated logo services https://applogocreator.com/ or https://logorax.com/
This has bugged me for so long and I hope the industry finally stops someday.

To summarize for anyone not versed in electrical power:

* mAh measures how much current your battery holds, irrespective of voltage.

* However, actual POWER is measured in Watts (or watt-hours cumulatively).

* Watts = current * voltage.

* A 2000mAh hour battery at 2 volts has half the power of a 2000mAh battery at 4 volts.

* As voltages can vary based on battery arrangement (parallel vs series cells), this makes a huge difference. You can half or double your mAh by arranging your cells differently, without changing actual power stored.

Using Wh or mWh instead of mAh would make this whole problem go away. But then that means low voltage batteries (like often used in phones) can't inflate their reported mAh compared to high voltage cells (e.g. in power tools). They also tend to conveniently leave out the battery voltage, so you can't tell when it's an apples to apples capacity comparison.

It's so silly. /rant
If you can get enough support behind third parties, though, third parties would generally support a better voting system.

If we had Condorcet voting, we would have elected much more reasonable candidates a long time ago.
If a Ross Perot-style challenger appears on one side of the political spectrum, the other side's prospective fourth party has very good reason to sit down and shut up that election.
It makes it easier to have lunatics win power without winning the popular vote.
This uses emscripten. Still cool but I was kind of hoping it would have been written in pure TypeScript.
https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/freedom_units
Sure, but until you figure out a way to ban fear, we'll have to account for this dynamic in any setup.
So EDMO, among others, made an early warning but no one listened, not even media outlets:

https://edmo.eu/2023/10/10/edmo-early-warning-what-to-expect...
Or they cast a mostly meaningless protest vote because they don't like either of the major candidates and the result in their state is a foregone conclusion.

Third parties have been a thing in the US in times past but you probably need some distinct coalition of states to make one meaningful.
I often borrow books to "try" them
and then buy if I like them. Also a surprising number of Library ebooks I can't find otherwise.
Smart switches are great but you can beat color changing smart bulbs especially given how cheap they are now.
Nope, I would definitely trust the man page.
.. and what upsets me the most about this and similar systems is that such status quo is not reformable without a huge crisis or a catastrophe. This may be naive, but I feel like humanity could experiment more with some artificial way of breaking and reforming "working" systems with minimum harm.
Your personal opinion on what "material" means might differ from the court's (and also differs from mine, at least how you phrased it), but I can assure you, a $30bil tax bill is DEFINITELY material.

It's a "legal concept" in the same way that every word used in a lawbook is a legal concept; the US is based on case law, and there is a large amount of precedent for this definition in particular. Again, refer to the Wikipedia for some examples.

I see this mistake a lot among programmers (also myself at some point). They (we) naturally think law is like a rulebook where you go through a decision tree and then arrive at a perfect conclusion, but the truth is that it's up to the courts to decide on the specifics. And they might disagree on those things with you, and with each other, but in the egregious cases disagreements are rare.
Wall Street's Bankers Stayed Out of Jail (2015)
Reddit is that way, sir
IIRC, there's some political science theory that says that certain electoral systems -- I don't know if the US counts -- tend towards a two-party steady state.
>> A little insight on Vancouver: PRC investment firms decided that the steady growth of the North American real estate market looked to provide great returns on investment. So, these firms started buying up large numbers of single-family homes in Vancouver.

Reference required. Empirical evidence does not support your claim.

The PDF in the parent’s comment shows there were 1010 vacant homes in 2017 and 502 vancant homes in 2022.

Jens Avon Bergmann of MountainMath.ca did analysis after the 2021 numbers were released. His takeaway:

>> “The results demonstrate very little “toxic demand” leading to vacancies in BC, and provide valuable checks on estimates of “foreign” ownership.”

https://doodles.mountainmath.ca/blog/2021/11/21/three-years-...

Please stop spreading this disinformation unless you have actual references with actual empirical evidence. It is actively harmful to supply-side solutions.

I am open to have my mind changed if you have evidence that toxic demand is actually causing significant harm. With significant harm defined as being one magnitude greater than the 500 vacant homes in the above PDF from the City of Vancouver.
the "sane vs lunatic" was always a media construction. In US politics, for half a century, it was always "warhungry imperialist vs warhungry imperialist", only with a different color (and sometimes one of the warmongers had a nobel peace price). I mean, the Simpsons famously spoofed that in, what, 1996?
The BBC labels those acts as atrocities. To me, that's a more forceful and loaded word than "terroristic acts"
I did, but I don't want to have a dependency on Microsoft code.

Plus, there are some changes I will make to make my snmalloc/mimalloc clone more friendly to structured concurrency. Nothing major, stuff to mostly deal with realloc().
Can they acquire Asana and merge it with Jira so that I can dislike one project management tool instead of two?
Maybe, but the old GOP is fighting tooth and nail to oust the Trump base from the party. And while Trump may have had the presidency, it looks like most of the GOP was simply paying lipservice to his base until they got rid of him. Imo- the verdict is still out on whether it's easier done internally or externally. The DNC is not making the same mistake with RFK jr- they've just done a complete media blackout of him and pushed him to run independent instead.
Right, religious zealots have been ever revising the story of human history, which has been mostly secular peoples that practiced empiricism and appreciated astronomical phenomena as interesting but did not take them as divine.
I suspect this will become a more-and-more common occurance as deep fake videos become more ubiquitous. There will have to be some mechanism to validate the origin of the video is truly from the content creator. If the video was created offline and uploaded after the fact, who knows if it's generated audio super-imposed over a deep fake?
> Trying to find the relevant issue in a bunch of unrelated info, within a long writeup, which a user necessarily edits, at least a little, by the nature of writing something out? Pretty easy.

This sentiment is one of the reasons why so much documentation is not good.

Writing good, usable, technical documentation is HARD.
Not tinitus per se, but I’ll write my experience here because it helped a friend who ran in the same thing, and it might be more common than people think.

I took a plane while sick, sinus were kinda jammed, ended up hurting like hell when the plane started landing. Next thing I know, I had a new condition: my hear would sometimes start a beat which I believed to be my heartbeat. It was extremely loud and would drive me insane. It would start at random times and stop at random times. It made me feel helpless and desperate a number of times.

One day I decided: fuck it. Just accept it. Just embrace it. And from that point on it bothered me much much less. Fast forward a year and a half I think, and I realized that I hadn’t heard that drumming for a while. I guess time cured it.

I also realized that my ears can easily get jammed so I ask for an ear cleaning from times to times (kaiser give it to you if you ask that during checkup).

Once in Thailand I woke up with swimmer ear, and freaked the fuck out because I had a flight a few hours in the future. I resolved to not get on that plane if I couldn’t resolve the issue, so I ran to the nearest island clinic and got my ears unstuck. Everything was fine after!

Never fly if your sinuses or ears are jammed!
If Star Wars Was Real
I doubt people will record 15 minute videos to report an issue. From my experience people are much better at recording a relevant video vs. describing the issue in our text.
975M for what the company does seems awfully high imo. But nice exit all things considered for the Loom folks and their investors.
at this point, older of two evils is a factor as well
If people were serious about starting a third party, they would start with a hyper local strategy.

There are _lots_ of places in the US where one of the two major parties is a complete shambles and there are people running unopposed for races where a third party could actually come in and win elections.

Demonstrate success at the county level, work up to getting elected to the state house, demonstrate that you can govern effectively and so on.

It's a 20 or 30 year project, and it's not glamorous like running for president is, though.
Canada's version of the Onion puts out a similar opinion quite well:

https://www.thebeaverton.com/2023/10/spineless-fence-sitter-...
I have not heard of equivalence between „Soviet“ and „People’s democracy“ before. In fact those terms are mutually exclusive. Either your country has multi-party system, at least formally, or it is a Soviet republic.
I was referring to GP's suggestion that a conflict already exists.
in php all variables are prefixed so you don't have to worry about keyword collisions at all
Interesting. Some of our TP-Link/Kasa bulbs are going on seven years of operation. Shits have been bulletproof for us.
Well, that wouldn't be a true multi-party system. That would be two parties (left and right) each putting forward multiple candidates until false presences. A proper party wouldn't back down like that because they would not be so influenced by the others.
> Is there any other topic that has a similar effect?

Race.

China.

Trump.
No it's more of a problem. Because the winning party now has an even smaller share of the vote, and may represent no one's preferences.

First past the post voting allows only two parties: because the winner is whichever party has less competitors for it's ideological niche. It explicitly destroys any concept of a market place of ideas being possible in politics.
Loads of people absolutely hate having to use a weird custom IDE just to try a language.
That's why all the smalltalk like things are doomed for failure unless they are enforced by a platform.
Our project inherited a patchbomb-based workflow from Linux. Many of the individual members have also contributed to gitlab/hub based projects, and appreciated a lot of the automation available, as well as recognizing the lower barrier-to-entry of not having to figure out how to get an SMTP connection. So a few years ago we experimented with allowing "small" patches to be sent via PR on gitlab, and doing the review there.

Basically, everyone agreed that actually doing the review on gitlab was a lot worse compared to email. There's just so much more flexibility.

It's not off the table that we may give it a try again, because the advantages of having concrete pull requests (and issues and...) rather than patch series is pretty significant. But if you're familiar with doing email-based review, I think it's still a far superior; and you're definitely giving something up when you move away from it.
Jirana or Asira? I'm drinking my morning Bawls with Guarana, reading Jirana!
> Third party starts to look a lot more appetizing then it's not a clear cut sane-vs-lunatic scenario.

There are always lunatics; there'll be folks in NY who hold their nose and vote for a Democrat because the House is tight and they've heard of Lauren Boebert and Marjorie Taylor Greene. (Or for a Republican in Kansas, because they don't want AOC being in the majority. As someone pointed out elsewhere in the thread, one person's lunatic is another's hero.)

> It gives me a LITTLE hope that this third party support is so high.

It shouldn't. Look past the headline (to the first chart); polls have showed fairly consistent majority support for a third party for decades.
For a second, I thought they acquired the diet app and were planning to diversify into the diet business
We desperately need to double the number of Representatives in the House. Or quadruple.

And we need a National Popular Vote for President. No more ignoring solidly blue or solidly red states.

We should also force anyone who wants a nomination from one of the major parties (however many there are) for office in the Federal government to pledge to live only and entirely on their pension. They must completely divest of anything but Index Funds. No more paid lobbying retirement for politicians. It's killing this country.
> This means major parties must accommodate a broad range of ideologies.

That depends on how the party primaries are arranged.

Current conditions seem to favor general elections with two extremists rather than a moderate who can win a plurality.
Tried out Loom, installed the desktop tool, took up >50% of CPU at random times when not being used.

Nope, nope, nope.
You would likely need to increase the number of seats (or allow "fractional" representatives for smaller states) so that even the smallest state gets 3-4 representatives

And then yes, in traditional proportional systems you vote for a list of candidates rather than a single candidate, the lists are the ones getting the seats based on vote totals. The seats can be distributed based on a fixed or flexible lists model

If you have a state that now has 10 reps each party would make a list of 10 people, then if party A gets 40%, party B 35%, C 15% and D 10% you'd get 4 people from the list proposed by A, 3 (or 4) from the list for B, 2 (or 1) from C and 1 from D
The UK has it as well, and it has at least 6 viable political parties that regularly win votes in districts. But yes, it makes it harder to "grow" as 5, 10% doesn't get you a foot in the door of power the way proportional representation does.
I've always assumed that the server side stores as much information about the client as it can, so not just "username/password" but source IP, client headers, etc and somehow uses that as a "session token".
in MySQL backticks are used as quotes for tables/columns
Probably a phishing link designed to look like www.google.com. I think it was a test, to look how does it display in browsers (unsurprisingly, Firefox highlights the phreedom.org part, so it's obvious something fishy is going on; I think Chromium does that as well).
You're presenting a false dichotomy here: "Either the rich people from elsewhere own the houses and don't live in them actively, or the rich people from elsewhere own the houses and do live in them actively."

There's a third option you're ignoring: The rich people from elsewhere don't own those houses. They're priced more affordably and owned by locals who genuinely care about the area.
I do all of these things with loom today and love it.
VS has been going in the wrong direction for years, and I’ve been a happy rider customer for years. Give it a try before tossing the baby with the bath water.
Yep, if I recall my US history correctly, it was the GOP that was the progressive one wanting to get rid of slavery and Democrats were the opposing ones.
To maximise revenue. If you're a font maker, I suspect most are self-employed, you need money. If your font is being used for Time Magazine it is somewhat fair the fee is higher than a guy using it for an ezine for 100 people. One is a company with lots of money and can afford to pay alot of money and the other can't.
Git 2.42 release: Here are four of our contributions in detail
Yeah, 63% want some third party... until you create one and it doesn't fit their ideals because they all want different things.
Coffee, Garlic, Onions, soda, fruit juice, most alcohol and chocolate.

yeah, I dont get much joy from life these days.
Likewise, I was a bit reluctant to watch it, because I know nothing about basketball. After watching it, I kinda want to just play basketball :)
I want to vote for local representatives and a real person. I don't want to vote for Republican LLC and Democratic INC.

Parties have no standing at all within the United States Constitution. The fact that we are talking this way is reflective of the simple fact that the representative democracy (aka Republic) that the United States is has been corrupted by parties that work to their own interest, not the interest of the people.

IF you need any evidence of that, you can see it this week when Democrats voted party line with a few Republicans to remove a speaker for no other reason than it humiliated the republican party and the speaker.
There's also a difference between "I want a third party so I can vote for them" and "I want a third party, some of my political opponents would vote for them because surely they can't all be insane enough to like Current Incumbent X"
I've found a way to "preview" emails without too much preparatory hassle, at least on Gmail that allows adding suffixes to your address after a + sign. After you finish writing the email, rewrite all the addresses in the To: and Cc: lines so instead of pointing to foo@example.com, they point to myaddress+foo+example.com@gmail.com. Then, once you send it, you can check the version in your inbox to make sure everything is correct, and undo the rewrite to send the email for real.
I wish the alternate-woop-and-ksssh had replaced the simple siren in more than just construction sites:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cykmhi6bF4k

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fa28lIGuxq8
> You think merging/rebasing/resolving conflicts is a pain now? Doing the same thing via email was _so_ much worse.

Wait, are people doing this via the GitHub web UI these days? That sounds like a nightmare.
> Also the first person to invent Ctrl+F for video will be a billionaire.

At least YouTube (desktop web) lets you open the (often auto-generated) captions as a transcript on the side.
Nationally yea, rent control is one reason. NYC has people living in the same apartments for 30+ years.

Subsidized housing is another, the waiting list can be years long and people then generally stay until they are kicked out.

It’s also age related, retired people have fewer reasons to move and families are harder to relocate. Further looking at individuals you don’t yet know how long they are going to be in that location.

PS: 5.5% of renters have lived in their home for more than 20 years. Average is 3 years nationally at 7.22% that’s ~2.6 months between occupancy which seems long IMO.
Very common in California where rent is outrageous and rent control strongly disincentivizes moving.
I got tinnitus after a fateful night at Ministry of Sound in London. There's a sign that says "CAUTION: excessive sound levels" and they're not joking :(

I haven't found a permanent cure. Thankfully I'm not even aware of it most of the time, and it's never been an actual issue.

I have found a partial, temporary cure - this was discussed on HN a few months ago, and someone linked to a YT video or audio file with some sort of noise patterns (not white noise, more like periodic beeping at different pitches and volumes), and if I listen to that for 10-15 minutes, I can't hear the ringing for a while.

Maybe I should try doing this more consistently, and see if it goes away permanently. Has anyone had any luck with that?
I don’t know really how things are in the new members of EU, but Russia is indeed a twin of USA in everything, including the ignorance and isolation of political discourse. It doesn’t mean that because Russia has it, it is a good thing.
Winning a Senate seat has the same problems as trying to win the presidency. They should be running for state representative. Take over a state house after a few election cycles, then work on getting a governor elected, then go from there to federal elections and other states.
I don't live in the USA so no. The US Supreme court took both sides e.g. "yelling fire in a crowded theater" is a limit on free speech by the supreme court. Copyright is upheld by the supreme court, etc.
The largest open-source software projects in the world don't use it though, so that tells me there is something lacking.