skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I switched to cycling for transportation. Benefits:
1. way more access to the city
2. eliminated need to go to gym; transport time doubles as cardio time
3. freed up time to see people; 15 minutes door to door is hard to beat

I really hope US cities head in this direction. It is a no brainer for cities:
1. higher density -> lower taxes per person, higher tax rev per sqm
2. lower cost of living -> lower inflation
3. quieter; cars on streets are noisy
4. people see each other more; better social cohesion
5. kids are free from the house to do things
I wonder why I was able to log in? I've done it periodically throughout the years -- maybe it's kept my account from getting purged?

Mine started with 333, so it was also pretty easy to remember.
I would recommend trying to research what you can about the interview process for specific companies you're interested in. I interview for scientists and engineers for an ML research team but I know that my team (and company's) interviewing process is different to other similar companies. Also, don't neglect software engineering skills in preparation, industry ML is mostly software engineering.
Maybe you would deign to elaborate? It's not a fun and informative discussion unless you are willing to offer something more specific than "you are wrong".

Gift us with specifics.
I also used an HP3000

I endorse the "blink of an eye" thing. My guess is it probably depends on how your life went. For me, I always wanted a family. I was always told "don't rush it, don't worry. You'll meet someone". And in the blink of an eye I'm now ~60 and never did. Why? Because I followed their advice and didn't make enough effort. I kept thinking "there's always tomorrow" until there wasn't.

The point I tell my nephews is if you want to do something, do it now (or ASAP), because if you keep telling yourself "tomorrow" eventually tomorrow passes you by.
That wasn’t in my copy of Rudyard Kipling’s “Just So Stories.”

A little more seriously, that sounds like a behavior that would be beneficial for many creatures, and yet only a few do anything like that. If it were effective, it’d be common.
Sounds like your US legal team is covering their asses on topics they are not familiar with instead of acquiring the neccessary competences.
Is Claude Sentient?
ISP DPI doesn’t affect me, every packet that leaves my house is wireguard.
If you've never worked on-site (even in an office) somewhere that has a production facility (e.g. factory) that you can take a tour of, I highly recommend it.

I had early jobs for a chemical company and it gives you insight into all the work that happens upstream in an supply chain before something shows up on a retail shelf (of any kind).

Really gives you perspective that so many people in our sphere just don't have
While its true that compared to 10 years ago cycling is much better served by the infrastructure, there are still large challenges ahead, and I would mention only two of them:

- many intersection are very poorly signaled if you are riding a bike (not sure for cars is much better) and old bike lanes setups put you in weird situations (ex: bike lane changing from "outside" of the road to "inside" of the road, without clear way to change from one to another)

- there is quite few temporary parking space for personal bikes. Velib works great until there is a rush hour and you either can't find bikes or a parking spot.
I suppose it can be quantizised
I also thought this was bad until I gave it some thought recently. I'm not saying that I'm out of that camp completely because I think that the approach in some cases leads to overspending and may increase the overall cost in real, not just nominal, terms.

However, bonding out projects does spread the expenditure in time, more directly charging the future users for infrastructure they use. Sure you could recoup the costs through user fees, but then you're effectively borrowing money from the current tax base, so "bonds" by another name.
This one got a lot of attention a while back: https://github.com/smallhadroncollider/taskell
Thanks! Always interested in digging into details :)

There’s been a tremendous amount of interest in Rust for automotive over the past few years, but it’s a hard world to learn about unless you’re in it.
My wife and I visited Paris last summer and biked everywhere. It felt very safe, not as safe as Copenhagen but still safe. I hope that with more time, as more drivers get used to bikes on the road it will get safer and more people will bike, creating a positive feedback loop.
Mine is 6 digits, starting with 3. I'm pretty sure that it was 1996 when I signed up.
Both of these links to replicate 404 for me
What isn't spying on me is nearly everything I use which contains the type of hardware that could be used to spy on me. The reason for that is that I keep things like that locked onto their own networks without the capability to reach back to their makers. I self-host more or less all my digital needs so assuming I'm not in the crosshairs of any TLA it is unlikely that there be spies in the server-under-the-stairs. My mobile devices run free software where possible, they are Google/Microsoft/Apple/etc.- free. Of course there does remain that one pain point of the radio firmware which is a closed-source blob and as such open to anyone with the money or governmental power to spy on me. There are also the banks which track financial transactions and the public transport companies which track where I go. When I'm on my bike, motorbike or tractor they're sadly out of luck since these are all old tech without any electronics. We heat the house using a wood-burning stove, I also use one to cook on, we generate more or less all our own electricity - yes, the inverter is also blocked from the 'net so it can not tell Fronius what we're doing here in the woods - but the power meter does spy on us though its radio transponder. I have access to what is supposed to be the same data through the P1 interface, it is theoretically possible to use this data to track whether we're home and what type of equipment (resistive/conductive) we're using. This is made harder when the inverter is running but it is not impossible. So, what is spying on me?

- mobile transponders

- financial institutions

- public transport companies

- power company

Who is trying to spy on me but with a bit of luck mostly thwarted from doing so

- Google/Microsoft/Metafaecesbook/Apple/etc (blocked and/or blended with other user's data)

- internet access provider (swamped with proxied data)

Who is not spying on me?

- vehicles (too old)

- internet-of-things devices (blocked)
Makes a lot of sense doesn't it ?
Or Uber and Lyft could simply make less profit so they could abide by local labor laws. The labor law didn't remove the employment opportunity. Greed and shitty companies that don't want to abide by the law removed the employment opportunity. Don't shift blame for the scofflaws.
More like the developers are the drivers, the dev environment is the horse, and the analysts and business folks are the passengers. And how they love to backseat drive…
> the Eastern Naval Command has near complete control over the Eastern half of the Indian Ocean

India's Eastern Fleet is not equipped to defeat a near-peer blockade.

> Guided Munitions have been manufactured in India since the 2000s

Yes. A critical input are semiconductors. That said, none of this is novel--which is why onshoring production has been a long-term priority.
Aristotle believed that all objects desire to be in their natural state. Throw a rock and it aims to return to the earth. Burn some twigs and the fire eventually stops. And the natural state of any object is at rest.

Every piece of evidence for hundreds of years proved this point. Every scientist knew it to be true. And yet I ask you today, does an object in motion desire to rest OR does it stay in motion until acted upon by an outside force?

It wasn’t until later that people had the tools to say, hey, wait a minute, this isn’t right. There is more here than we understand.

Which of these scenarios seems more likely: 85% of the matter and 95% of the universe is made up of stuff that we can’t detect, doesn’t interact with anything and doesn’t follow the rules of everything else OR there is something going on that we don’t yet understand?
oh. Jesus.

it my Yahoo mail acc.

only had proper access to internet in 2011 - when I entered Uni and then created my Yahoo mail. what a trip.

being from a developing economy and all, Id like to clarify that we did have internet but it was hella expensive and my family personally could not afford it.
Vlogger: Multimodal Diffusion for Embodied Avatar Synthesis [pdf]
Not severely.

The issue is bad maintenance of rural agricultural water infra due to political promises 10 years ago for 100% free water for farmers in Punjab, and negotiating with neighboring Himachal Pradesh and Jammu Kashmir over water rights.
Deploy a Stack to a Docker Swarm
Or because of FUD from people interested in undermining privacy protections.
The worst future is where there still are plenty of jobs, but all of them consist of talking to an AI and hoping you use the right words that gets them to do what you need it to.
My first online post was in the 1980's, long before web browsers, on a mailing list called RISKS. I ended up meeting congressional staffers, Richard Stallman, and a host of other amazing characters as a result of posting on that list. I even had engineers at Fortune 500 companies track down my student office landline phone number and call me with questions about things I had posted. The net was a very different place back then.

RISKS was where anybody active in the emerging fields of computer security and the impact of computers on society met and exchanged ideas (the name RISKS came from risks of computers to society, and was moderated by a researcher at the Stanford Research Institute named Peter Neumann).

I'm sad for future historians of the Internet because it looks like the early days of the RISKS-FORUM Digest have been lost to network topology changes at Newcastle University and SRI. The earliest archives I could find just now went back to around 2000, but the heyday of the RISKS mailing list was actually back in the 1980's.
Has anyone looked into giving these to mice and deer?

That would kill off deer ticks really quickly.
Ask HN: How do you tackle skills development in your team/company?
Hi there, I'm seeking references and benchmarks regarding how software companies approach skills development, and the most effective strategies for implementing it within my own team.

Are you following a skills development track right now? Is it a team/company defined skills track, or something you pursued independently?

Does your team/company offer any formal training or educational programs? What does it look like?

Thanks in advance!
The first US asphalt roads were built by cycling clubs (1).

1) https://www.vox.com/2015/3/19/8253035/roads-cyclists-cars-hi...
The older I get the more I credit luck (both good and bad) for most of what happens to people
Dogs eat other dogs' excrement in part to keep a healthy and diverse gut culture. I prefer kissing.
The use of secret tracking also subverts the pricing signals needed for the free market. Users aren't informed that the website is subsidized by the sale of the users' information, much less the details of the arrangements and monetary amounts.

If the total price of the website without the secret costs of tracking were presented upfront, it would be less of an issue.
Here is a copy of what looks to be the original report: <https://wellcomecollection.org/works/seuuc6a5>

Here is a link to the version published with the ACM: <https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/362375.362379>
Dogs sniffing butts?
> societies tend to put some limits and controls in place.

It’s not just a tendency, societies always have limits and controls in place. The anarcho-capitalist wing of Austrian Economics would propose limits and controls too, but not centrally controlled involuntary limits and controls. There’s no real world government, nations relate to each other in a more or less anarchic manner where the limits and controls are voluntary but the consequences short of war are being sanctioned ie not being traded with. Anarcho-capitalists would probably propose a system like that for individuals. Would that require a different kind of person? Maybe, my own views certainly differ with them.
Because you only see the ones who are doing fine.
My Gmail account will be 20 years old in a few months. I may still have access to my Hotmail account created circa 1998/1999 but I'm scared to look in there.

Everything else, AIM and MSN, my Geocities and Angelfire and Tripod pages, all the various forums, all lost to time. Good riddance to most of that, honestly.
I still miss working in Macromedia Director.
Ha. I can see how macOS can be an awful platform for those kinds of requirements. Thanks for your answer.
It's almost always easier to understand theorems than proofs. People could be writing down properties of their programs and the AI could generate a proof or produce a counterexample. It is not necessary to understand the proof in order to know that it is correct.

At least in principle. Practically, any system as least as powerful as first-order logic is undecidable, so there can never be any computer program that would be able to do this perfectly. It might be that some day, an AI could be just as good as a trained mathematician, but so far, it doesn't look like it.
Yes, I have engineers who refuse to use anything else.
Most of Silicon Valley has a huge problem with user consent. Imagine if “Silicon Valley” was a guy in a night club. His line on women would be “Wanna dance? [Yes] [Ask me again in 5 minutes].”
kill.
Just to clarify, they are from the early days, but they are also from the now days. They are still publishing. A link to their official site is in the above Wikipedia article.
The language changes, but more importantly students backgrounds and facility with the English language changes. Not that dumbing down the text or replacing old timey words should cost much, but cost disease and all that.
The OG cloud email service, AOL, still revive it for testing now and then, from 1993.

Yahoo! account established July 17, 1996. I know the exact date because I remember a hyperlink blue headline across the top of the gray Yahoo! home page, "TWA Plane Explodes Off Long Island"
After sleeping and working, most people have several hours a day left over.

Time into which they have to fit eating, cooking, cleaning, showering, laundry, shopping, commuting, exercising, childrearing, family, professional development, dating, socialising, home maintenance, personal paperwork, pursuing hobbies, and relaxing.

You can have a lot of time for one of those - if you're willing to prioritise it over all the others.
It's a really good question

context: I have a near-100% naive perspective. Mobile dev whose built out something approximating Perplexity on Supabase. I have to use edge functions for ex. CORS, but by and large, logic is all in the app.

Probably because the client is in Flutter, and thus multiplatform & web in one, I see manipulating the input on both the client and server as code duplication and error prone.

I think if I was writing separate native apps, I'd push everything through edge functions, approximating your point: better to have that sensitive logic of what exactly is committed to the DB in one place.
Nametree
It's quite sad to think that Terraform might go the way of Hudson...
Ah, the user changed their username.

https://replicate.com/philz1337x/clarity-upscaler
https://replicate.com/philz1337x/multidiffusion-upscaler
I'm sure some people do but I know on HN specifically in most threads around american urban cycling you will see some extremely clear-eyed car advocates. They (rightly) recognize that better prioritizing cycling requires, to some extent, fewer resources allocated to car use and oppose it on those grounds.

Some of it is ignorance but a lot of it is not, and a continuing car-centric world is just their well understood and sincerely held value.
There's even a whole Wikipedia page on waterborne diseases: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Waterborne_disease
Because the companies are getting what they want (data on users), but the regulation is not getting what it wants (no tracking or informed tracking).

I don't know if this mini-competition between regulators and companies is truly zero-sum, there could be some way to get everyone something they want. But with the current regulation, it is zero-sum, and the companies are winning and the EU is losing. And the EU "works for you", so of course you can complain to them.
RTO sucks.

On the other hand, if a company never built a culture and processes around remote work, I can see how it would be a bad experience for both the employer and employees. And while many thrive remotely, there is a subset of people that are poor candidates for remote work or just can't stay disciplined enough.
AMD and NVIDIA are fabless semiconductor companies. In manufacturing, TSMC and SMIC would be more relevant competition.
> But both agree that M and V are irrelevant for P. They switch off the furnace, and stop wasting their money on oil

If they have the power to switch off the furnace, an econometric construction is underpowered. The problem in economics is you often cannot switch off the furnace. You're forced to just watch it wondering.
Maybe REITs?
I'm old enough to not only remember the first web servers, but remember when gopher pages sped up dramatically when switched to http servers.

And I was working then!!
> To me the taxis were like an entrenched monopoly. Then competition tried to disrupt the system, but after lawsuits and regulation pushing up costs/prices on ride sharing, taxis will come back to fill the void. Full circle it seems. I can't help but feel this is exactly what the taxi industry wants.

I think it's proof that taxis weren't "an entrenched monopoly," or at least weren't as bad as the Uber's propaganda made them out to be.

If Uber's big innovation was just "pay workers less," and their competitive advantage evaporates once regulation catches up to them, it's just proof of how misleading SV smoke-and-mirrors can be.

I can tell you that I'm about as excited about the next "innovative" consumer-oriented startup as I am the next Google chat app.
I'm usually skeptical of this type of content, but this seems useful.

I accidentally did something similar, which has been very instructive. I play guitar as a hobby, and aspire to able to play improvisationally. I've struggled with this and at one point had all but given up. I realized the silliness of giving up because I can't do it now, and wondered is it possible for me to do this in 10 years? And if so, what can I practice today to be a better player next month?

This has worked. I'm less than a year into this and I'm already a better player. I'm more disciplined in my practice, I'm enjoying it more-and therefore more motivated to stick with it. When I sit in with a band I feel more prepared and am slowly getting comfortable experimenting.

I still have a lot of work to do, and I'm more eager than ever to do it. I've been wondering what other areas of my life would benefit from this attention.
Gmail is theirs innit ?
Until PII compromise puts a company out of business, it's just a cost (to you) of doing business (for them).
> I used legitimate taxicab companies

There really are no “legitimate taxicab companies” in Toronto.

You have dispatching companies and companies that rent out cars with branding to drivers, but they’re all independent contractors.

In theory a dispatching/car providing company could boot a contractor off of its system, but it’s a fine line for them where they’ve taken fewer risks on this than Uber, because they absolutely do not want to be considered employers.

Even if you haven’t encountered the “card not working, cash only”, I’m surprised you never encountered the “right too short”/“don’t want to go there” refusal.
Having just moved from Houston to Manhattan , I have been really impressed by the number of bikes I see. One factor, which this article doesn’t seem to discuss, is the e-bike. In Paris, is it mostly classical bikes, or are the electronics becoming widespread there too?
I created my Hotmail account on Aug 2, 1999 -- the day I reached the city of Bombay (India). I came from a small hill-town in India and there was no Internet, so the first thing I did was go to an Internet café (of course, the second thing was visit the beach and touch the Ocean's water). I lost the account temporarily in 2000 but I "hacked" it back and own it, kept it. Now, we use this for our family account for all things Microsoft (Minecraft, Windows).
All of this is from the mid 90's I think, so 30 years ago.

Before that, computers were generally not networked at all, or if they were it was netware (A world of suits), to share printers and storage, or possibly some telecom standard connection to run SNA to a mainframe (blue suits), or of course a modem to BBS for home users, or connecting to small business servers etc, which I remember well.
If you can't introspect the release version of your software, you have no way of determining what the issue is. You're doing psuedo-science and guesswork to try and replicate the issue on a development version of the software. And if you put in a few new logging statements into the release version, there's a pretty good chance that simply restarting the software will cause the symptom to go away.
Any treatments you’ve found to help? It’s a disaster trying to find info online.
New York too. They tax based on the number of days spent in New York divided by the number of days between grant and vest dates.
I think I missed where writing to the database precludes backend logic. Databases have triggers and integrity rules, but beyond that, why can't logic execute after data is written to a database?
I'm so old that the web was called "Gopher", and Google was called "archie", which indexed the filenames on anonymous FTP sites. Since most of the file were named with 8.3 conventions, it was pretty unclear what something was until you went there and downloaded it. I remember ftp.funet.fi having a lot of stuff, and it was pretty cool that you could download some stuff from the US government (I think I downloaded the budget one time for a student congress debate).
I know there's collusion between some police departments and far right protestors in the US, this is obvious. I say some because there are exceptions.

But your point was "there's no problem [protesting for the right]" and there is, there obviously is. They range from death at the hands of far left killers, persecution at work/academia, unemployment.

It's absurd to pretend the right has no stake when protesting as you implied.

>individual incidents of violence

So it's a coincidence the killers were ideologically opposed to the victims? I don't get how "individual" these deaths are when there's a clear political motivation.

Death of ideological enemies by "civilians" is how fascism in Italy began. Civilian political violence is not irrelevant.
Generally I agree, but only the dealers and manufacturer have all the technical data, software, and access to parts for these cars. They would not take telling a customer the job is infeasible lightly, especially if they have a warranty. They would probably send the customer to a different repair shop in their network if that was possible and necessary.
https://archive.is/WWhat
Yeah, it sounds to me your teammates are going to pick up the tab at the end, when subtle errors will be 10x harder to repair, or you are working on toy projects where correctness doesn't really matter.