skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I suspect both tourist and sensible origins are quite common.

Oxford was probably named after a ford where oxen crossed the river (although in Old Norse, so Öxnafurða originally).

Cambridge, despite the seemingly obvious name, seems to have been a bit weirder, as both the place and the river have been renamed after each other at different times: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cambridge#Medieval

The small villages of Washington[0][1] probably didn't mean "laundromat" in Anglo-Saxon, but the best guesses are equally mundane.

There's a few places called Battle, one of which is named after the Battle of Hastings because that was nearby. It's my favourite, because the name led to this: https://www.google.com/maps/place/Battle+Station+Car+Park

Hell (Norway) was probably just named for an overhang or cliff cave: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hell,_Norway

On the other hand, Llanfair­pwllgwyngyll­gogery­chwyrn­drobwll­llan­tysilio­gogo­goch very explicitly got this name for tourist purposes: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Llanfairpwllgwyngyll

Likewise "Westward Ho!" (the exclamation point is part of the name), taking it's name from a 1855 novel written by Charles Kingsley: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Westward_Ho!

The place "Truth or Consequences" (New Mexico) manages to be both, because while it famously took the current name from a radio game show… the old name was "Hot Springs", which came from the nearby hot springs: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Truth_or_Consequences,_New_Mex...

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Washington,_Tyne_and_Wear

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Washington,_West_Sussex
> 1. Internet connectivity. If the car is connected, it's tracking me.

Just because you can't connect to the Internet from your car doesn't mean that the car is not being tracked. Pretty much all cars built since 2016 or so have built-in infrastructure to collect various telemetry and send it to the manufacturer; prior to that there were dongles that were installed by various parties (automotive clubs, insurance companies, fleet owners...).

Most manufacturers also offer (or are working on offering) that data to third parties, although in most jurisdictions it requires the vehicle driver/owner to explicitly agree to it. In any case this whole area is still in its infancy, and we can expect to see more standardisation and wide use of that data in the coming years.

Source: worked in that industry until recently.
C++ has added more new design warts on top of C than C ever had though (which means that C++ is now caught in an infinite cycle of trying to fix warts it had introduced itself a couple of years ago).

At least in C there's a possibility to learn from C++'s mistakes, and only integrate the 'good parts' (and the C++ template system certainly isn't one of those good parts).
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This seems to be a chaumian mint.

How will the onramp look like? I guess they'll have to do KYC when taking in money?

What software can be used to use it?
Majority of apps are small, yet they load tens of megabytes of javascript and it's becoming the unwanted norm. You can't browse many blogs without enabled javascript for no other reason than personal data harvesting needs.
Tried a few, but it's still waaaaaaaaaaaaaay too slower to go via VPN than having uBlock Origin.
Well it's good that I'm not doing that, then.
In a comparable situation, you can walk or get a ride to the next station, get a gas can and fill it with a bit of gas, walk back to your car and you're good to go.

Barring a fleet of mobile generators, this is in fact something that ICE cars handle better than BEV.
This shrinking might be localised. Where I am from, every other celebrity or famous person from any other similar medium (TikTok, YouTube, Instagram etc) have started their own podcast channels on YouTube. And many of them are able to get many well known people on their 'podcast' YouTube channels.

If that is what podcast is about, then it's booming in my region(Pakistan).
IMO this is a good solution.
I would start off with the basics.

Now I enjoy making games - but I do not use 'off the shelf' products. However, if one of my kids at this age suddenly became interested in making a game, I would not bother showing them any programming by default. What worked for me might not be the same for him.

I have never used Unity or the like myself so it is a good opportunity to do so. In your case, use this excitment with your son and allow him the power and opinions on which direction to go.

I would start off by suggesting that -
"there are 3 game engines I am aware of. Unity, Godot, and Unreal. Shall we spend this afternoon looking at them, installing them, and figure out what is best to use?"

This on it's own is not just an afternoon. It is (atleast) a weeks worth of content. Not only are you deciding which one to use, you are also looking at various tutorial websites.. likely how to "move things around" or setting 1st person or 3rd person perspctives, keyboard inputs, etc. Your son is learning a lot of things under the interest of his own game idea. In my opinion should keep him thrilled to continue.

Dont jump to the deep-end too early. He will likely loose interest.

In my world, I am interested in the logic of the game. Its the reason I became a programmer. However, and I think for most, when they are interested in making games -- it is about 'designing' a game. Coding is just one aspect, so find the areas that interest him the most when learning.

For all you know - this could be the starting point of him becoming a photoshop guy, or a blender guy, not just becoming a level editor guy.. or a programming guy.

Give him control and help guide him into the direction he wants to go. Maybe express interest doing the bit he isn't into doing just yet.

Just my 2 cents.

-- Edit: added some more content --

I became interested in "how does this work" when watching Street Fighter 2 for the first time.. along with many other games. It was not until I was 13 and seeing DooM for the first time I was like "I have to figure out how they do this!"

My era with these games, especially Quake with QuakeC, or Level Editors like Worldcraft, was my days of learning and figuring out games.

What I have learned is to not interject how I did things in the 90s when I was young compared to how the young can do it today.
At a simple level, they have Scratch. They have Minecraft. They have GMod. They also have Godot, Unreal and Unity.

Point I am making (and believe is the same you and your experience) -- avoid interfering too much. That would be my priority.
>5 to 6 hours of standing meetings

Jeeeesus... Yeah, I bet your engineers thrive.
Dunno, volts and amperes are working quite well in day-to-day life. And if you're into electronics, ohms and farads of various sizes.
This is so that the new keywords don't collide with existing code (the combination of underscore followed by a capital letter is reserved). For instance until C23, 'bool' was actually called '_Bool' internally.

Just as with stdbool.h before, there could be a stdlib header which wraps those internal names into something more human-friendly.
I became an obsessive FB marketplace user buying up tons of other peoples old junk until one day I initially offered to purchase a table but discovered that IKEA was selling the same table for 5$ less in new condition. I explained my reasoning to the seller and sent her the link and within minutes I was banned from Marketplace with no recourse. I don't know if she reported me or something.

I was really bummed for weeks because FB support does not exist. But after a while I figured out that if you sign up for FB verified you gain access to human based support. I did so and eventually they managed to restore my account with no reason as to why I was banned. Maybe that will help?
There is no "one" thing that makes JavaScript or Python run fast. And even if there was, how do you know the Python of 10, 20, 30 years from now still does that? What happens if someone buys your processor but they aren't running JavaScript on it? We have accelerator blocks for specialized tasks (media decoding, matrix multiplication, …) already. Doing this for other things is hard. The post itself talks about a failed attempt called Jazelle that was only really useful under a very specific set of constraints.
+ Politically regulated out.

The political environment the site operates in turns hostile to website content or method of publishing. The operators face costs of compliance, loss of scope, or personal risk in continuing.

See: The UK Online Safety Bill [1] [2] and especially [3] "Ofcom's >1,500 page consultation on the Online Safety Act 2023, and why small companies don't have a chance"

[1] https://www.theverge.com/2023/10/26/23922397/uk-online-safet...

[2] https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2023/09/uk-government-knows-ho...

[3] https://decoded.legal/blog/2023/11/ofcoms-%3E1500-page-consu...
I imagined as much, but the website does still not mention encryption.

Which works against it. E2EE is a requirement today.
It does seem like you expect Google to affect the change for you though.
This does mean if you're in the market for a used EV you can get a staggeringly good deal at the moment. Take this as an example:

https://www.autotrader.co.uk/car-details/202311013531800

The car is almost brand new, has a realistic 180-200 mile range and a wealth of features. Total cost 12k. It is in warranty for another 60k miles.

This has got to be the cheapest way to get hold of a 50kWh battery right now. It would almost be worth working out how to buy one of these just to pull the battery out of it.
Biome [0], a fast Prettier-compatible formatter, is currently working on adding class sorting [1]. We expect to ship the feature with the next release (on February). We are discussing which options to provide for the feature (mainly on the Discord of Biome).

[0] https://biomejs.dev/
[1] https://github.com/biomejs/biome/pull/1362
I have personally never seen a easier way to style things than the modern css engine. Whether its Android, iOS, GTK or anything else. CSS is fast and extremely easy. Used to flexboxes in css. Goodluck enjoying others :)
Yeah, I know of one example where idea was actually created and pitched to media outlets.

They did not like the idea. They very much more like the idea of owning the customer and keeping the customer paying subscriptions.

I also know of a media outlet which incentivizes customer to go from credit card payment to automated bank transfers, since credit cards expire every x years but the bank transfer goes on forever.
To disrupt supply routes and perform whatever they have in their mind. Russia switched to war-time mode, so they think that they can win the war with NATO. Massive disruption in trade routes may shift balance of powers in democratic countries, which Russians may want to exploit. Russians are strong at informational front, they are strong liars and shadow players.
I highly recommend watching The Wire as it provides a stunningly accurate depiction of how this strategy failed in Baltimore. As a sibling comment points out, the "war on drugs" was an abject failure, because the people getting imprisoned for their role in the drug economy were usually street-level dealers and foot soldiers. The people who run criminal enterprises tend to insulate themselves from its everyday operations, which is why they could only get Al Capone off the streets by charging him with tax evasion.

I wholeheartedly agree with your notions on drug usage and decriminalization of certain substances though! You might be interested in Dr. Timothy Leary, who wrote extensively on "control over your own nervous system" as long as it did not affect others [1] (on page 49).

1. https://repository.arizona.edu/bitstream/handle/10150/565255...
Googling about I found http://www.delorie.com/djgpp//mail-archives/browse.cgi?p=djg...

I'd imagined there might be a port of one of the PalmOS-targeted JVM-alikes (eg SuperWaba) but it doesn't look like any of them made it back to DOS. I could also imagine someone getting an OS/2 or Windows JVM running under a DOS extender.
I can’t read the whole article because of the paywall, so I don’t know if it’s mentioned, but I guess a large factor is also subsidies. If you buy an electric car in Canada (where I am) you get a 7k$ subsidy, but only on new cars, which makes used electric cars less interesting. I actually bought a used electric car last week for what I think is a very reasonable price. But the biggest advantage I see in buying a used one is that I can skip the multi-year waiting list.
Most Intel processors are still made on 10nm, which Intel deceptively calls “Intel 7”.

Even the best 10nm processor can’t physically compete with a 3nm one on efficiency.
my geocities account was destroyed, putting an end to my career as webmaster. I grew a resentment towards that website
The Corsa-e/e208 is also a shockingly good deal - you can pick a 2 year old one up with <20k miles for 10-12k.
Well, on both of those points: (1) Net Zero is to be expected, not applauded. You mess up the planet as a side effect of becoming obscenely rich, then you put it right, sorry no star. If anything, we should be pushing for them to go well beyond Net Zero. (2) I think that's a fair question and a fair point. It might make for an interesting Hackathon though! What could Google do to alleviate the effects of war, or encourage peace? Who knows. But spending your time working out how to help people buy cool sunglasses isn't going to make much headway there.
That might explain why the low end of the market still seems to overvalue used EVs. I've seen many Nissan Leafs with batteries in terrible shape, maxing out at 30-40 mile range, hold their value. Without much in the way of price reductions for newer models at the low end, the used market doesn't need to compete the same way the high end market does.

Edit: this is in the US. Other comments seem to indicate the opposite in the UK.
I used the program Gamemaker with its GML language when I was his age. Fond memories of days and months creating my silly games in this :)
> Installing Linux (using the UMSDOS pseudo-filesystem which allowed it to install on the DOS partition, plus the loadlin bootloader so it could be loaded from DOS

This was a great strategy back in the day, no need to fiddle with the partition table or the boot sector, or resize existing filesystems on the device. (Current Linux versions have no UMSDOS support, but some distributions allow for a similar approach using loopback filesystem images. It can work especially well if used with LVM, to seamlessly extend storage as needed.)
My understanding is that a Taler is a "use-once" note - you create it from a payment provider balance, then you can transfer it to someone else, but then that person then has to redeem the coupon, they can't transfer it again (at least not using the cryptographically secure protocol - they could give someone else the private key, but clearly that wouldn't be safe). So transactions in Taler look something like this: 1 convert payment provider balance to Taler note 2 send Taler note to someone else 3 recipient converts receipt back to payment provider balance 4 create a new Taler note (go to 1). The anonymity should derive from the fact that the receipt note can't be traced back to the original spendable note, and the time delay between the creation of the spendable note and the redemption of the receipt note (so arguably the system requires some level of minimum activity to achieve a practical privacy guarantee).

So in that sense it is quite different from the account or UTXO logic that most cryptocurrencies use, where balances can be transferred between accounts indefinitely. I think it's interesting to think about what problems it solves - it semi-solves anonymity in a way that might be acceptable for lawmakers and that doesn't require a backdoor (the more typical approach for 'compliant privacy'). The question is whether that is enough utility gain for regular users to justify the overhead - it seems like a simple transaction requires quite a lot of steps, key management is a non-trivial burden (for users who might not even be used to password managers eg),...
In the UK and I thought in most of the EU you can just use your Bank's app to send money into someone else's bank account.

So not replacing MasterCard/Visa especially as that requires a lot to be able to accept payments.
I’m saying both are incredibly incredibly hard. It’s hard as hell to make 1k a month from a product. And projecting revenue is a very inexact science. So if you’re going to build something, choose the one that has the bigger total addressable market
> There's no point making bad analogies.

The point is that "you have a choice" doesn't mean anything when the choice is between something you don't want and some impractical alternative which is even less of a solution than the thing you don't want.

> If you target one company's customers, you can't complain about a lack of competition.

But you're not -- you're doing the opposite. You want to sell your app to everyone no matter what platform they use. Which doesn't allow you to choose between Apple and Google or use them as leverage to get a better deal from the other, because you need both.

> If I only service BMWs, I need to do whatever certifications BMW say I need to do, and get a diagnostic tool that talks to BMWs.

If you want to make and sell brake pads for BMWs, you can just do it. You don't need BMW's permission, and shouldn't, and if they try to stop you, you have the right to complain about it.

> If I service cars in general, I don't.

How are you supposed to do that? If BMW is allowed to get away with it then so will Volkswagen and no matter what kind of car you want to work on, you're still getting held up by whoever made it.

This is why Right to Repair is a thing, and it's weird that your analogy to something you think should happen is a thing widely regarded as deserving of scorn and opposition.
A large chunk of the blame goes to the legal system as well, especially the assumption that computer records are correct, unless proven otherwise - which is a nearly impossible uphill battle for the defendants in such cases. I can recommend this article on the topic https://emptycity.substack.com/p/how-the-legal-system-made-i...
And that's a fair point. Shame though, when you think about the sheer stack of resources and great minds that Google has, and as far as we can tell they're being squandered on things like creating then abandoning Fuscia.
This is exactly how the physical representation of money works as well.

The central bank controls how many bills are in circulation, and the central bank regularly expires old bills and coins.
That's until you see the price of replacing a battery
Not 'for me', but 'alongside me' would be great.
I called to cancel my Internet service with Cox after signing up for Verizon 5G internet. Of course they attempted to retain me by offering a discount. A couple months later and the Verizon 5G wasn’t reliable enough for my work from home needs, so I reached back out to Cox. They offered me a sizable discount from what I’d been paying before, such that I could keep Verizon as a backup and have Cox, and be paying less than before. Seemed like a reasonable plan, as it allowed me to remain grandfathered in on Verizon’s crazy low priced 5G, monitoring them for reliability improvements. Two months pass, and I check my bill. Cox didn’t honor their discount. I called, and they said they would need to research and I’d have to call back. Three more months have passed and my bill hasn’t gone down, so it’s time again to call Cox. Just ranting. Another reason I’d like better regulation. For all intents and purposes they have a monopoly on my household internet, and yet the government regulates them like they’re selling chocolate bars. I blame the previous administration’s Reeces Peanut butter coffee cup guy. Thankful the cable companies are getting regulated again
Young women have someone to date. Men do not. Young women are not single. Men are.

Therefore, the women have a far easier time. The women are the ones rejecting men and are still not single. That means they have options.
You can already do this by just inlining all the assets into a single HTML file.

This browser addon does that for example:
https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/single-file/

The only downside I can see to what you propose is the file size overhead of base64 encoding the assets.
Other than not having a software engineer parent, it reminds me of myself.

I didn't have any interest in computers until my dad bought a PC that came with Age of Empires 2.

Soon I tried to teach myself to code and failed miserably the first few times. While visiting a friend of my fathers (whom I am immensely grateful to), on a whim they gifted me a book that had introductions to ~10 different programming languages (setup, hello worlds + some). Over the next months I went through them one by one and nothing clicked.

When I was around 11, while sitting at a boring camping spot while my parents were off diving, I came to revisit the chapter on Windows batch programming and finally managed to make something work. The low complexity and easy setup helped a lot. By the time we came back from vacation, I had made a crappy note-taking app in batch on that 5kg "portable" 300MHz computer monster which my parents used to log their dives. You have no idea how proud I was about having made something.

I graduated to VBScript from there, then to Java (which came after in that book). For about 5 years I exclusively programmed in Java, in which I also made my first games (worms-like thing with stick figures, pong-like game where you have to hit blocks etc.), even though I had much bigger projects I attempted: for instance A multiplayer RPG in space, where you design your own physically simulated 2D spaceship and fly it around (I never got collisions in my handrolled physics engine working properly, but learned a lot teaching myself to read mathematical notation).

The point I'm trying to make is that they'll probably bounce off the first few times, and that's fine. Don't be overly focused on results. Even all my failures taught me a lot in retrospect. If they give up this time, then maybe a few months from now they'll want to try again, and it'll click.

Another important thing is treating them like an adult: They've set out wanting to do an "adult thing" - dumbing it down and turning it into a colorful kids activity is probably going to dampen their enthusiasm. If they are proud of something they accomplish, you're allowed to be too as a parent, if they fail, don't act like you expected them to and simply move on until they want to try again.

Don't be afraid to start something complex like Unity or Unreal. Even if they are huge complex monsters, getting something basic up and running in them is thankfully easy. Failure is okay.
Ah, DigiCash! I was really optimistic on this concept in my student days - one local bank even had a PoC with digital cash.
Dual stack is better than backwards compatible, in some cases.
This is a demonstration of how you can avoid detection from the "coding side". Of course, a big part of crawling is a proxy list that you use and how aggressive your crawler is.

If you don't know how to code this script will not help you.
> Showing up at WG21 is much more appealing to most folks.

...and let's just hope it stays that way ;)
Incidentally my angel fire site is still up for some insane reason