skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Well, the point is to get rid of a lot of the traffic. And that's a good thing actually, with better air quality due to less pollution, more safety since there are fewer cars going around, which in turn helps with emergency services as it becomes easier for them to reach their destination, you get more incentives to use public transit, a bicycle or even walk places. Hell, for those times when you absolutely do need a car, lessening traffic makes that nicer as well, since you don't need to sit in traffic as much.

So yes, this propaganda is good for the environment and the planet, good for communities and good for individuals.
Devil's advocate: no matter how "high barrier" your interview process is, you are 100% going to hire duds, and that's only going to be apparent after a couple months at least. "Ideally", the interview process would be those first couple months, but that is illegal and/or not socially accepted.
> They are stripped of the independence of move, because they can not drive a car

Self-driving cars will solve that with this decade.
As I've written in another comment here, a great example of a number-y field which is not totally ordered is Games ⊂ Surreal Numbers ⊂ ℝ.
There you have certain "numbers" which can can confused with (read incomparable) whole intervals of numbers. Games are really cool :)
Yep. Theres a huge experiential difference between something happening instantly and it happening in 200ms or so. Especially when typing or playing video games.
I don't know whether the design of American cities is efficient. They might be. and I do believe in roads for all users. That's why a bike lane is called a bike lane and not a bike road. Bike paths and 'bike superhighways' exist in my country but they're unimportant.

But having been in the us only once it was very obvious the us has a problem with safety for drivers. There were cars at the side of the highway (Orlando to Tampa) everywhere, presumably from accidents. Of course traffic wasn't moving. I wasn't driving on holiday and I was glad about it.

It's possibly to do with the fact that Americans all need to drive, ensuring lax standards for driver tests. Maybe if you guys would embrace bike lanes you could also embrace real driver certification. Just dump people who can't drive on second tier transportation like bikes, ebikes, escooters and trains and ensure everyone else gets proper training.
No, they're regular photos, with some lower-quality video added for context.
More likely the motive was to avoid being sued under one of the many accessibility laws that were introduced worldwide.
One of their animations indeed showed a CV joint in between the motor and the device. But you only need one and it can be absolutely straight when the car is not turning so the efficiency should be good.
Heraeus ist hiring a (Co-) Lead (m/f/d) Digital Customer Experience
> What's wrong with sprawl? It allows people to live in spacious houses. The overwhelming majority of people want that

That's true. I would rather live in a house that's more spacious than not. But more than that, I would rather live in a house that allows me to buy an ice cream if I have 5 minutes of free time than in one that makes that ice cream buying an hour long trip filled with smoke and noise.

You can have spacious houses without having to live all alone.

> There are some problems with cars: gasoline use and general unsafety due to human drivers.

You missed another problem with cars: they are space inefficient. I don't have the exact numbers but you can fit way more people in a bus than you can a car. And of course, you can fit even more people on the street if they are walking on their own feet.

> EVs are solving the first one

They may solve the gasoline problem but they aren't solving the space one.

> self-driving will solve the second one

I am not gonna hold my breath.

There is another way that could solve both of those problems, you know. Make cities more compact. With compact cities, you don't need to drive that much. And if all your destinations are close by, there is no need to allow cars to go to 100 KMpH. In fact, limiting intra-city driving to be under 60 (or lower) KMpH would be safer, fuel efficient, and less noisy (I think). You could even make the roads thinner then since everyone is moving at a slow speed, which opens up more space inside the city.
Commute vs driving?
You need to teach it what kind of stuff you like. If you go on Twitter and look at peoples’ bios, they often list their blue sky handles. Start following tech journalists such as
https://bsky.app/profile/gergely.pragmaticengineer.com

Then, peek into their own “following“ lists, and follow everybody you recognize/like.

Then go into their “following” lists, and do the same. Rinse and repeat.

Eventually, the algorithm will take the hint and start recommending you more tech stuff.
Not all of it, obviously. Stuff like Blut Aus Nord's MoRT or Meshuggah's I come to mind when talking about the weirdest bits of metal.
GPT-4 being lazy compared to GPT-3.5
Yeah, that's how I understood it. E.g one might write

(a+b)^2 != a^2 + b^2

To mean that in general the equality doesn't hold. Despite exceptions like a=b=0

Strictly you should write something like

¬[∀ a,b (a+b)^2 != a^2 + b^2]

But shorthand and abuse of notation are hardly rare
Yep, that’s what I meant, sorry!
Is it hallucinating (whether that be through sheer chance, or trained to think it is GPT), or is it pointing at the wrong place? https://imgur.com/a/YOF6szw or https://imgur.com/a/fkgkfRO
That'd make the motor the pivot point. No idea if that's good or bad though. :)
>I want to call my Uncle Steve in Melbourne. What time is it there?

With timezones: google "what time is it in melbourne"

Without timezones: google "when morning starts in melbourne"

Didn't convince me a little
Eh, P-adic numbers basically write the digits backwards, so "-1" has very little relation to a normal -1.
You have to have something worth running first.
This is really annoying. I often rely on Google Translate to read Japanese websites (I can read Japanese but only very slowly), and it breaks every website using React [1] because both React and Google Translate try to update DOM nodes without knowing each other. I even seriously looked at Google Translate to see how they are implemented, so that maybe I can recreate the web widget without this issue in the future.

[1] https://bugs.chromium.org/p/chromium/issues/detail?id=872770
> Eternal September has nothing on the Reddit diaspora.

I don't know who this is supposed to belittle, but I've been on HN quite a bit longer than on Reddit.
Same question.

Or more generally, vectors. They don't have a total order, because as we define "less than"/"greater than" in terms of magnitude (length), this means for any vector V (other than 0), there's an infinitely many vectors that are not equal to V, but whose length is equal to length of V.

Is this is what ≹ is talking about?
then start working on the REAL problem: dense cities

Absolutely not.

I moved from the Midwest - small to medium sized towns (populations of 3k to 60k) - to a larger city in Northern Europe. It wasn't safe to walk in the US, and if I walked at the wrong times, there was always police presence and occasionally harassment. Things weren't close: Even in the small city, I couldn't safely walk to every store.

I never really knew freedom until I lived here without a car. I walk to the grocery store and places that are 30-50 minutes away. I use public transportation. The two of these mean I get a lot more physical activity than I ever would in the US and this is without having to do special exercise.

I'll never be stuck in the house due to poverty again. Other folks aren't as likely to get stuck in the house due to disability either. I like living in the countryside, but it is a trap unless you can travel. In general, this means you have to drive and pay for a reliable vehicle.
Any recommendations? I listen to BBC 6 Music a lot. Tried various others but nothing really 'stuck'. Always fun to have a fly around on https://radio.garden also. KEXP have some great performances on youtube, I should try listening to the radio station probably. Although saying that, neither 6 Music or KEXP (or others I have tried) seem to go quite obscure enough for me. i like pop / rock / indie but also experimental rock, lo-fi, noise, etc
> This is what got us the Ukraine war in the first place, an uncompromising hard line against a weak Russia because the USA was in the position to do so. Russia opposed each NATO expansion but did nothing in the end and it was the same gamble with Ukraine, hoping that Russia will once more do nothing.

Ah, the classic "The West forced Russia to invade Ukraine. Like the government in Ukraine didn't have any legitimate reason to align itself with the West after Russia invaded Ukraine in 2014.

Have you heard the rhetoric coming from Putin and the Kremlin? About how Ukraine doesn't have a legitimate national or ethnic identity of their own, and how the territory of Ukraine should just be a part of Russia. And how the Ukrainians (who are really just Russians, really) don't deserve to self-govern?

Going on right now in occupied Ukraine, the Russians are actively purging all Ukrainian language and culture. Only the Russian language will be taught in schools.

Yes, the West is totally to blame here. Totally.
Sigh. Sprawl is _CHEAPER_ than dense cities for most infrastructure.

To give you a perspective, one mile of NYC subway now costs about as much as 1000 miles of 6-lane freeway. One mile of new light rail in Seattle will be enough to maintain all roads in Washington state for half a year.

The same story for water, sewer, and electricity. Dense cities are _incredibly_ expensive to maintain because projects become extremely complicated, with lots of project management overhead (more people-hours). And people are EXPENSIVE, compared to raw materials.
But computational should be able to atleast reproduce what optical does
Maybe robot dog will reconsider his career path, drop out of weapons school and become an artist !
You know what, you're right. They're relatively much better at critical reduction than expansion. Maybe the fact that LLMs are so good at summarization means we should attempt deploying them to trim the books.
> code that can't be read won't run for long

There's plenty of ossified code people are scared to touch because they don't understand it, but stake their business on it :)
Yes, it works with an Ollama server and the communication is done via HTTP. I know that someone configured my plugin to talk to OpenAI.
Commutes, all modes average.
6 for current half, 7 for other half
> I haven't watched Threads, but I'd highly recommend watching this film

Make sure you are in a good mental headspace.

Threads is VERY harrowing and will leave you reeling for a couple days.
It's best to just think of it as a different art form.

B&W film photography + darkroom printing is an art form, as is digital photography + photoshop. These modern AI assisted digital photography methods are another art form, one with less control left to the photographer, but there's nothing inherently wrong with that. I wouldn't want to say which is better, it's not really an axis that you can use to compare art is it?

At the end of the day, do you generate an image which communicates something that the photographer had in mind at the time? If so, success!
-1 means that when you add 1, you get 0. And the 2-adic number …11111 has this property.
"I'm sad to say I must be on my way
So buy me beer or whiskey, 'cause I'm going far away"

Farewell Shane.

My first concert was the Pogues in late 1986 or early 1987. "Boys from the county hell", "Dirty old town" and "Waltzing Matilda" (the last two, he didn't write, but made his) are some of my favorite songs ever.
The other issue is that potholes my get quite expensive.
As someone living in Amsterdam, Netherlands, I don't understand the resistance. I agree with the article and I think it is advocating for the right thing, so it's the right kind of propaganda.

Maybe there is more common ground between you and Strong Towns than you'd think? They don't just advocate for "bike bros." Here everyone bikes from kids in elementary school to their grandparents. The key is having separate car infrastructure (roads, highways) and biking/pedestrian infrastructure (streets, bike lanes, pedestrian-only areas).

The net effect is that many people here choose non-car transport (public transport, biking, walking), which reduces traffic. This also makes getting around by car more efficient, for destinations where you need to use a car, because there is less traffic.

If you want to live in a single-family home in the suburbs and own a car, you can do that here too. It's fine because there are roads to get around the country. Not stroads though, so no need to worry about pedestrians or cyclists when you're on a road, so they allow moving faster.

If you want to live in an apartment in the city without owning a car, you can do that here too. It's fine because there is public transport, proper bike lanes and streets to get around the city. Not straods though, so no need to worry about cars.

I'd say it's both nicely looking and quite efficient. Not sure by what metric would an American city be more efficient, but generally I wouldn't want to trade places.
There is also goilath 120b
Simon Tatham's Puzzles (free, zero ads) mobile app: https://apps.apple.com/us/app/simon-tathams-puzzles/id622220...

Also on other platforms.

A dangerous time-sink. Take care if you love puzzle games but don't have much free time! Especially when you start to use the custom puzzle sizes for more challenging games!
> Ukraine could probably make good use of them.

For what? It can't be used anywhere near the battlefields since there would be no infrastructure to recharge and it is far easier to haul fuel to those places than to haul replacement batteries. They'd be almost worthless, use it until its batteries die and then just abandon it.
When I worked in Mumbai it took me about two weeks to learn how to cross the street: just walk out into the traffic with your hand up, and everyone goes round you. Everyone ignores the lights, so you just need to take your chances. I got hit by mirrors a couple of times, but since everyone expects to see pedestrians in the road it generally works.

New York though... so often I'm crossing on green and there's some truck edging round the corner into my path, driver making eye contact, daring me to try to make him stop.
I guess the indentation only interacts with the little oxygen that is trapped there, which might not be enough to substantially brown it.
Proprietary software you don't have sources for (say e.g. a third-party library), or just about any black-box system, are counterexamples to your corollary.
That is indeed true, but there is sometimes a mismatch in how a team hires versus how it actually works and performs. So sometimes, there are some missed opportunities to work in interesting places or fields just because their hiring process is uninspired.
> iPhone adoption, the tail-end of Flash, the death of ActiveX, the destruction of libraries, and the growth of Amazon were all more impactful, there.

Not sure what you’re referring to with “the destruction of libraries”, but all of the others happened more than ten years ago.
How can it help with OneNote?
A fantastic read and a solid reminder to listen for quiet voices that may be hinting at better ideas.
Keep silent don’t tell any discomfort until the reorg happen, focus on your job, don’t bring up any talk about it, when asked tell you have no idea.
The whole thing with "stroads" is that they allow to seamlessly transition between these modes. You can't have the left turns on a regular road, so you either need multi-level interchanges (that take too much space), or you need to force drivers to make right turns and circle around.

The latter _can_ be a solution for some roads, but it necessarily lengthens the trip and significantly increases its time because you have to make 3 right turns instead of one left turn.
I think I'm not alone in being convinced that atonality, dissonance and the likes are "effects". Same way that noise can be used to great effect in almost all genres of music but pure noise (e.g. Merzbow) is at best treated relaxing background noise or conversation piece when it's not enshrined in the emperor's new clothes discussion club's room.

Or like pepper or salt: using it with almost all food can improve it, but you're not daft and/or pretentious enough to serve a plate full of salt and call it an excellent dish that's just beyond the pleb's understanding, right?
>> But to require six shuttle launches a year, there would have to be 18 satellites. "Barring some extraordinary breakthrough in technology," says an informed communications industry source, "that's inconceivable."

>This prediction, though, didn't work out so well. (SpaceX alone has more than 5,500 satellites, and is launching thousands yearly.)

Easterbrook was writing specifically about the shuttle. As he explains in the rest of the article, the financials of the shuttle as designed just didn't work without a very high launch cadence. Had each shuttle been capable of landing on its own back at the launch site and be reused 18 times and counting over three years as SpaceX has done with Falcon 9, Easterbrook's conclusions would have been different.

Overall, the article is flabbergastingly predictive of every single thing that happened to the shuttle program over its 30-year operational history. In addition to what you mentioned, Easterbrook also predicted

* The lack of survivability of the crew if an SRB failed (Challenger)

* The fragility of the heat-shield tiles (Columbia, and STS-27)

* The danger to the entire US space program—military, commercial, scientific—if the shuttle, intended to be the sole national launch system, was grounded
Nah, the issue with sprawl appears when everybody finally left the city center: the infrastructure becomes too expensive to maintain without the city center to subsidize suburb roads and water management, and the city either stop fixing it or indebt itself too much.

If you're living in an exurb that's becoming suburbia, and the city propose you to close your septic tank and attach yourself to the suburb water management, only do it if you really, really trust your local politicians. And I mean, really.
See, it can write code! I don't think this is a bad thing, at least not in 2023. It is still the tool and we are it's master.
NTS does the job well for me:

https://www.nts.live/
And even the 1000 lines only work if there never is another developer touching the code. I can easily hold my own invariants in my head at that size, but if anyone else also contributes, there will be unknown invariants that I will miss.

Smart pointers are, besides other advantages, also a great communication tool.

That said, I prefer Haskell or Rust in that regard :)
If a website bug is not easily solved, first order of troubleshooting is to disable all extensions. Devs don't often think an extension could be causing the problem, but extensions can do wild things to a webpage. I've caught a few bugs caused by extensions this way.
Components are the new shovels
I have a Gmail account that was created by my parents several years ago. It had a somewhat unprofessional name so I ended up creating a new account before I went to university, which eventually became my main account.

However, Google won't let me log into the old account without veryfing access to my old phone number, which I no longer have since I moved to different country for uni.

The worst part is that I do know the correct password for my old account (it has been stored in my password manager for years) and I also have access to the recovery email set for that account.

This is an account with years of emails exchanged with my parents that I would love to archive, but I can't and I find that to be highly dissapointing.
I used to listen to bbc 6 music a lot. These days I listen to fip.fr it’s a French national radio, that pans all genres, and is very well curated. There is no ads, and very few people talking.
Meta: what's the historical reason HN titles their obituary articles this way? Just a name, "has died" (a very kurt but passive line, many articles typically say "passed away", or at least "dead at X age"), no clarification of the person like any news article would do.

I don't think this is in any rules I read, so probably faster to ask than deep dive through 15 years+ of history.
Things I Learned in 2023
Hmm, what about +0 and -0?
As I said, I lived in Amsterdam.

> Maybe there is more common ground between you and Strong Towns than you'd think? They don't just advocate for "bike bros."

Yes, they do. They literally do. All their "solutions" just accidentally ALWAYS make traffic worse and push people into dense cities.
60 km/h is an insanely unsafe driving speed when there are pedestrians or cyclists anywhere nearby: that's how we end up with heaps of dead children in the streets. Driving on ordinary streets in populated areas should be more like 30 km/h (20 miles/h), and roads should be designed so that cars naturally go that speed even without significant enforcement by traffic cops.
This isn’t a true cost analysis: NYC subway lines can simultaneously be more expensive in absolute terms and cheaper per commuter-mile-year.

The amortized cost of a commuter journey on the subway is a tiny fraction of the cost of and on roads, for all parties.

(This is true even when the subway is obscenely expensive to construct, as the 2nd Avenue line is. But treating deep-tunnel construction under some of the densest and most expensive real estate in the US as the norm is essentially dishonest.)
> the Shuttle was a technological dead end that cost a lot of money, wasted a lot of time

This seems to be a popularly held view. But I wonder what you think the last ~40 years of crewed spaceflight would have looked like if the shuttle had never been built?

Would the US still be using single-shot vehicles that are little more than incremental upgrades of 70s Apollo technology, as Soyuz basically is?

Or would some other reusable spacecraft have been built? If so, and given that the STS design was very much a product of the cold war era's military influence, would it have been much different? I dont think it would.

Among many things, the shuttle development produced the RS-25, which is the basis for the engines used on the SLS. So I'd argue that, from that alone, it wasn't a dead end.
It's commonly known as "virus wars".
In chinese mythology, long are also control for rain.
The problem with "costs less than developer's time" math is that, usually, it's not you who's paying. Your users are, often in nonobvious ways, such as through higher electricity bills, reduced lifespan[0], lost opportunities, increased frustration, and more frequent hardware upgrades.

(And most of your users don't have developer's salary, or developer's quality of life, so it hurts them that many times more.)

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[0] - Yes, wasting someone's time reduces QALY.