skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I would say I have something of an anti-car agenda but I don't have any thoughts like that. I really don't believe anyone else of my people have that thought either.

My reasons for being anti-car is simple. Where I grew up, residential and commercial areas don't have much separation. My own family runs a small cloth retail business right out of our house. There are grocery shops, barbers, electricians, everything you might need right outside of my house. If I wake up in the morning and realise I am out of tooth paste, I don't even need to open my eyes. I can just walk outside and buy it.

My sister moved to a bigger city. She owns an apartment in a pretty big complex. It has, like, 30 towers, 10 floors each, with 10 apartments on each floor, each one being nearly as big as my own home. But, since its a residential complex, any commercial activities are not allowed inside. Since its so big, it had to be built outside the city limits. Now imagine if she's in my situation. She would have to take a car, drive for at least 20 mins, then another 20 back, all the while dealing with the disgusting feeling of unbrushed teeth.

Or perhaps, she has a kid. He's very young, let's say 10. If the shop was right outside, he would be able to go and buy the toothpaste. Now with the whole driving problem in between, he can't do anything other than complain about the lack of toothpaste.

> Controlling the commons becomes much easier when they are densely packed into singular locations.

Please explain what kind of control you are talking about here. In my opinion, it would easier to control them when they are so spread out. You can easily target one single house when it has its section of the road, its own utility connections, etc. It would be a lot harder to single out a single dissident when it would mean harming many other neutrals and turning them into dissidents as well.
The problem is that you get unfair competition if one type of car is held to different standards than another type. Pickups and SUVs should be held to the same standards of regular cars. And maybe also require a stricter driving license, because from everything I hear, they're a lot more dangerous.
That's fine for some simple shapes, but a complex UI element with text in produces an absolute abomination of an SVG that's useless when pasted into another app.

Copying and pasting a complex UI element between Sketch, Affinity Designer / Publisher / Photo, or even Pixelmator works perfectly. Every other app I have has a functioning pasteboard.
Pretty much every music recommendation service tells me that Turin Brakes are almost identical to Gomez and I, having ears, can tell they are not.

I'd love to know how they have come to this conclusions. Is it because there aren't many Gomez lovers in the dataset and the few that are also happen to like Turin Brakes thus skewing the recommendation?
I wish my local council would use this. Here on my High Street in South London, my nearest pedestian crossing can take up to two minutes to change, even when there are no cars close. It's frustrating for pedestrians (and motorists, when someone has pressed the button, got fed up, dashed through the moving traffic, and then when the lights do go red there's no-one waiting to cross)
Isn't this what happens with infs (in maths and in many programming languages)?

Edit: Not in many programming languages. In IEEE-754 inf == inf. In SymPy too oo == oo, although it's a bit controversial. Feels sketchy.
God of the Old Testament is more a demon than a god
Same goes with other nations, it sounds nice from your perspective but not so much when others do it too, you think you’re enforcing “peace” but reality is completely different, for that reason MIC exists and thrive for these “peaceful” wars, that we all know they are far from being peaceful. Sure, it’s naive to think that everyone will halt offensive/defensive work, but trying to justify it that it’s to protect the “herd” and bring “peace” is far more naive, there are no wolves, it’s another dogs and other herd too, it’s always about dominance and power struggles.
>Yes, there is still a last bastion of focus, productivity and anti-distraction. It's the terminal, which is why I find myself using TUI apps more and more as time goes on.

Welcome to the club. I've been using Emacs for more than a quarter century, 99.9999% of the time text-only (whether Linux console, X terminal console, xterm, or SSH client) on a remote server. My email client is VM, written in Emacs Lisp. I've used it to read mail for almost as long as I've used Emacs. I tried Gnus a couple of times for Usenet but stayed with slrn because of Emacs's lack of multithreading.
I've never tried Gnus for email because VM has always met my needs. VM (and ancillary tools, like Personality Crisis and mairix)

* does a great of job displaying HTML messages. For the very few that it doesn't, one keystroke sends the message to my web browser running locally.

* sends URLs I select (all from the keyboard) to the web browser

* opens images and attachments

* auto-adjusts the From: line of outgoing messages depending on the recipient

* archives messages to various folders using various criteria

* searches my archived mail going back a quarter century at lightning speed

Of course, I can write Emacs Lisp code of my own to extend any or all of the above.

VM isn't perfect. I'm sure that I could do all of the above with Gnus, and quite possibly am missing out on other features that VM lacks. Overall, though, I really feel like I have a superpower for email handling with it.
“We shape our tools and thereafter our tools shape us”
I've been wondering for a long time when we're going to get an open OS for making app-capable ESP32 stuff. We've got the Cardputer and the t-keyboard, the hardware is there.

This stuff even has mesh networking, and yet we still don't have Cybikos!
Show HN: Backup Status - Time Machine Widget for Mac
The question was whether it's a meaningful contribution to climate change. I showed with my back of the envelope calculation that it's not. I did not say that it shouldn't be done.

But that you're saving a minuscule amount of carbon still doesn't change the fact that it's feel good activism that does nothing about the real challenges, which lie in transportation, agriculture and infrastructure. These contribute to huge chunks of our emissions, are indispensable and at the same time cannot be solved simply by switching to green electricity. Every time we feel good about saving 0.03% of our emissions gives us a reason not to feel so bad about the 70% of our emissions that are the real problem for which practically anyone has not even a good idea yet.
> hopefully most of them know where they're going and aren't scrambling

I don’t get the sense from “scramble” that the pedestrians would not know where they are going. Scramble can mean a sudden act of motion, like “they scrambled the jets” or “once we have stopped we all scrambled off the coach”.

There is an alternative meaning where it is used to signify that something is intentionally mixed up or even encrypted, such as “scrambled egg” or “can’t intercept their plans anymore, they scrambled the signal”. Maybe that is the meaning you are thinking about?
> (1) Hue was not a good dimension for encoding magnitude information, i.e. rainbow color maps are bad.

This is very good advice. Generally, hue expresses difference in kind whilst lightness and saturation expresses difference in degree. This is beautifully demonstrated in Nault's study of how children read maps.

Nault, W.H.: Children’s Map Reading Abilities. Geographic Society of Chicago, Newsletter, III (1967)
Whooosh. The point goes completely over your head. As it does for many who want to hate Musk at all costs.

EPA range is standardised. Any OTHER car other than tesla also loses range if you use the AC or drive fast.

This isn't some grand lie by Musk to sell cars, as you want to believe. The range is measured in a standardised way.
Once you are into tailwind for a bit, you sort of get it.

They have kind of reduced the CSS landscape from very complex to a concise subset that does most of the stuff you want for a modern looking site. It gets to the point where the amount of stuff fits into working memory. It is convenient.

Then if you copy-paste components from different places like for example this submission and others, they can play well together. You can go in an edit them and manipulate them in predictable ways. You can componentise them in say React if you wish.

Imagine mixing up Bootstrap and Bulma - it would be quite hard to do. But if they are both based on Tailwind it is a lot easier. The components wont fight each other. The reality is none of the frameworks provide everything you need so you need to mix and match to get stuff done (or invent your own, which is OK too).

Hope this makes sense. It is hard to explain because you have to do it to feel it.
Would you use a dictionary if it gave a plausible but wrong answer 5% of the time?
I learnt to program and to animate sprites with Turbo Pascal!

Later on me and a bunch of friends programmed a Sokoban-clone called “Project S” for MS-DOS: it used the graphics mode “X” for smooth scrolling; we even bought a commercial .mod player library for the sound effects and background music.
Came here to say this exactly. I like Mac Miller and Kendrick Lamar, but as far as hip hop goes these are the only two artists I enjoy listening to.

In electronic music, I listen to Aphex Twin, which is pretty hardcord, but can’t really fathom anything else.

My tastes are really clear cut, but not around artist similarity.
> What's wrong with sprawl? It allows people to live in spacious houses.

That's fine in an ideal world when you have a low population density and consistent or declining population.

The reality is sprawl in the US coincides with population growth or migration quite often. Person 1 moves to a place where they can be far from people, have a nice forest behind their home, and have open roads. While the distance from their home to their destination is long, the roads are empty so it's stress free driving.

Persons 2 through 300000 think that sounds great, so they move there as well. They all want to be far from people and have empty roads, so they abandon their 30 minute train commute for free living in the city.

The forest behind Person 1's home gets chopped down and replaced by a packed suburb. The main road Person 1 took is now packed with traffic from the other people that moved there dreaming of his lifestyle. His 25 minute smooth commute is now 80 minutes. Construction is constantly ongoing to widen the roads to handle more traffic, instead of reduce the source of the traffic, and this makes traffic worse due to lanes being shut down. Roads quickly become full after construction ends, resulting in more traffic.

This is the story of basically any city in America since the 1950s. People want more space and the freedom to drive to work, and end up in a packed neighborhood and whining about traffic when everyone else follows them. Someone who gets their first taste of it thinks "wow, this is great!" But it's becoming a nightmare for people who moved there 10 years prior. And it'll transition into a nightmare 10 years later for those who are loving it now. The nice nature gets knocked down and you're back to living in a space with too many people, but with none of the benefits of a proper city. You can't walk 2 minutes to a dozen different restaurants, relax by the river, or sit down on transport and read a book while going somewhere. You're stuck in traffic while every tree around you is being chopped down.

And because HN is mostly programmers, most people here probably love the sprawl because they work from home and don't need to wake up at 6 AM to sit in traffic and huff car exhaust from 7 AM to 8:25 AM and arrive at the office at 8:30. But millions in the US are trapped in that loop.
I figure that digital photography is by its very nature 'computational', both in the obvious sense, and in the sense that the camera from hardware up imposes a set of signal-forming decisions on what is essentially just structured noise.

The problem is more one of what controls the camera exposes to the user. If you can just take one kind of picture: whatever picture the engineers decided was 'good', then it limits your expressive options.
Why do people consider Code quality == Maintainability?
Sorry, are you asking for the readily available pictures online of the dogs with guns mounted on them?
Why not?

You'd have an added complication of making the shock absorber the pivot point, and attaching the motor to the top point. Or having a separate pivot point where the motor or wheel can slide up and down.

This does raise the question of why not just attach the motor straight to the wheel.

The standard response to that is a hand wavey "unsprung mass". But has it actually been tried and shown to be an issue?
> At least Model X / Model 3 / etc. etc. fans can say they bought the car before Elon went full tilt crazy with Twitter/X.

The model 3 and Y sold incredibly well throughout the entire year long after the Twitter/X stuff.

You’ll find out that most people don’t associate the cars with an endorsement for Elon outside of a small circle of internet outrage junkies.

The ones that do tend to be quite hypocritically buying services and goods from companies that make use of outsourced poor working condition manufacturing (Apple/Samsung/Google). It’s only an “endorsement” when it’s someone else buying from a bad man and when you don’t want to buy.

Presumably you’re also petitioning your representatives to cancel support for any SpaceX government contracts because you don’t want your tax dollars to fund SpaceX through NASA/NRO launch contracts?
It happens simultaneously and continuously and I don't see why that would be either surprising or alarming.
> the city center to subsidize suburb roads and water management

Wow. Toxic propaganda is really successful.

If you read ACTUAL analyses, the dense cities are not really that more efficient: https://www.mdpi.com/2413-8851/5/3/69

In particular, water and sewer costs don't go down a lot. An anecdote: I live in Seattle which is fairly dense, yet my sewer+water costs 5 _times_ more than in sprawling Boise, ID.
We have something similar to self driving cars. Taxis and other public transport! Sprawl means that a taxi just waiting around the corner isn't gonna make money. That leaves uber and similar apps which are expensive. Reducing sprawl makes it possible to find a taxi a short walk away from your home. I was able to commute to school myself using public transport because those roads were busy enough that I had to wait just 5 mins in front of my house for one to come. That wouldn't have been possible if I lived in a suburbia.
As someone who work in drones and robotics, it’s one of the reasons I always request the end goals not just the project objectives, also, nothing is weaponized, I would prefer to sleep well at night knowing I only hurt flies in my life.
Linguistic distance from Belarusian is not that large although the languages have quite a few deceptive "false friend" words/expressions. But at least I could understand the text shown in the presentation video. And it probably helps I read the story before.
This line of reasoning sounds like the Chinese Room argument

- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chinese_room

A corollary might be: Why does it matter if an intern wrote it, if the result is sensible?
Today they wear Prada.

https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/europe/kadyrov-chec...
And when you consider they end with the pitch "If you also enjoy collaborating with relentlessly curious people, we are hiring!"

What is effectively guessing which is what this article entails - without knowing the actual cause - hardly qualifies one as "relentlessly curious".

Personally I deeply dislike the random walk towards insanity that modern dev takes with the constant churn and layers of fixes upon fixes - react state is no good! use redux! use this! use that! And before you know it knowing what is actually going on becomes nearly impossible!
I pray to God its application doesn't get rejected from the art school.
A small phone puts your safety at risk?

But you're right that there's far too little choice in smartphones. They're all fragile thin big touch screens. In the early days, you had smartphones made out of steel with sliding keyboards. What happened to that?
>It would be like making a movie where R Anon marches on the White House to assassinate imposter President John Bidden and not expecting it to cause some crazy person to use it as a blueprint.

Actually, it's worse than that; the SNP is specifically named (as opposed to the "Alba Freedom Party" or somesuch), and the terrorists have (based on the plot on Wikipedia) some fringe but real connection to the party. I presume that the writers had in mind Sinn Fein's role as the legal, public face of the IRA.
> one mile of NYC subway now costs about as much as 1000 miles of 6-lane freeway

Is that freeway going through the middle of the city? I think not. Any construction in a dense city becomes expensive. But you need to divide that by the number of people using it as well. Everyone in the city can use a subway. Only that one house on top of the hill is using this pretty expensive road that goes to the top of the hill in the middle of nowhere.
How to Combine Multiple CSVs into One – Combine CSVs at Command Line
I've listen to Viktor's podcast with this organization, I think 1 month ago but since then I got bad COVID so I still feel dizzy....but my take is, he might be right.

The biggest problem with Web today perhaps is the search index; if we want to fight the problems of SEO spam, fraud and scams on the web, we need open transparent crawling index so we get better understanding of what websites are and what are they doing. On top of that, open web index would bring the opportunity of better discovery of smaller unknown websites too.

I'm not quite optimistic that we can compete with Google and Bing because with their enormous computing resources, they got gigantic scale but we can start with smaller index first and then try to scale up.
My current workflow (for getting a magazine onto a website) is Calibre's HTMLZ export, then through Pandoc to markdown. It produces good enough Markdown to feed in to Hugo, and extracts images.

I've been through a number of options in the past and this is what I've settled on.
I think of NASA vs SpaceX as the equivalent of East vs West Germany: a clear demonstration that private companies work better than state bureaucracies.
If the city is using taxpayers’ money to pay an externist to write laws, shouldn’t that be approved first?
And yet trucks are huge without a material increase in bed space. If the auto makers can skirt around the law to make everything a truck, surely In this hypothetical, they would make smaller trucks and make them "cars"
Ask HN: Is there a side project ideas board?
I have a day job and I want to start a side project, but I'm a bit of an introverted person. I looked at a lot of growth and marketing YouTube videos and almost all of them suggest reaching potential customers. A lot times you don't even have the idea and the gurus just suggest that you reach some random people that you know and ask them if they have some pain points in their business. Things get complicated, because If you do, you often get refused that you just want to sell them some app they don't need. So I started to think that maybe some side project ideas board would be great.
Many people will say yes to this question until you give them a very obviously hazardous example of what can result.
> 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

But that's not true even for most of the very dense Manhattan!

But if you relax your 5 minutes requirement to 15 minutes, then you can do that _anywhere_ in Salt Lake City.

> You missed another problem with cars: they are space inefficient.

Again, so what?

> With compact cities, you don't need to drive that much.

Sorry, but that's a total :facepalm:

You simply can not drive efficiently in dense cities, because of everybody else!
I don't understand, why do I want a random one?
> In Europe

No, it varies. Turning cars in Britain never go over 'walk' crossings, but they do in Denmark. It's something I check whenever I drive to a new country.

I think "right turn on red" should be banned first, as this leads to a car drive looking left to see if the road is clear, rather than looking right where pedestrians might be crossing.
It's like wearing the Uniform of your enemy as a Soldier, sure you can do it but it's a war crime...
> Humans always meticulously review and revise the drafts

The risk of course is that they might get complacent, trust the output too much, and errors will start slipping in. Especially if the error rate is lower than human and the throughput is higher than they can effectively review. But this is not necessarily an LLM issue per-se.
Why Did These LEDs Light Up? ESP32-S3 – Which Pins Are Safe to Use? [video]
Great. Let's get them to settle tort reform.
Quite a few reasons to be concerned. Moxie left Signal and at least one of the new board members has a US government background. The update methods allow issuing a compromised update to targeted users. And while Signal still claims that “in our model, the server knows nothing about users”, for a few years now users’ contacts lists (sweet, sweet metadata nearly as valuable as the messages) have been uploaded to servers, protected only by the notoriously vulnerable Intel SGX technology.
It should be obvious that they're better at reduction than expansion. At heart they remain a statistical model of language so when expanding text it cannot add information that wasn't already in there, when reducing is possible to condense or rephrase the relevant parts of the information.

One of the application I use the most is phind.com which basically summarises a web search, it reliably saves some time you'd otherwise need to find the right article.
I've run into something similar to this a few years ago where chrome randomly introduced a rendering bug that resulted in a similar crash and only affected our application in seemingly random fashion. I don't remember the full context but I think it was something involving layers & transparency.

We finally figured it out when a coworker couldn't replicate and we noticed they were a version of chrome behind. We were able to track down the specific commits in chrome that broke & fixed it in our case which was pretty cool to see at the time.

If you have any more time I recommend reading through the commit log and see if you can find the changes that broke/fixed this for you. I'd bet on another rendering bug.
There's no such thing as being apolitical. Only being wilfully ignorant of the politics that is happening around you and opting to do nothing.
That depends on the alternative, no?

If we could conjure a human legislator that is wrong only 20% of the time I would be pleasantly shocked.
Great stuff!

I have a question regarding the output of Nougat: Where do the "hallucinations" come from (just scroll through the Nougat output of the Think Python example to see what I mean)?

Nevermind, i just read it runs it through an LLM, so hallucinations are par for the course.
> This isn’t a true cost analysis: NYC subway lines can simultaneously be more expensive in absolute terms and cheaper per commuter-mile-year.

It's not.

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

Nope. Roads in sparse cities are cheaper on per-commute and the building cost.

> But treating deep-tunnel construction under some of the densest and most expensive real estate in the US as the norm is essentially dishonest.

Why? Ever-rising costs is the inevitable result of densification.