skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I don’t think it’s a class issue because money won’t buy the inexistant parking lots around schools. Also money can actually buy you really nice bikes.

It’s just that driving a car in Paris is hard and awful.

I lived in a city of <1M inhabitants for the first 5 years of my son’s life without a car (in fact I had one but never used it for day to day life). Public transports and bikes can get you far faster than any car in rush hours. I’ve never had more than 30-40min between my door and my office, including depositing my son. The few times I did it with the car it took me the same time thanks to traffic and it was far more stressful.

And it was in France, where public transports are ok-tier but far from top notch in Europe.

Also the 7 hour day is pretty false. That’s the minimum time of a full-time job but most people are working 39-40 hours. It’s just that the extra hours are paid or are compensated with off time.

In practice you’ll only work 7h/day if you are at the minimum wage.
Indeed, one should test any regex one puts any trust in, but the problem is that if you take as a fact something that is actually a false assumption (as the author did here), your test may well fail to find errors which may cause faults when the regex is put to use.

This, in a nutshell, is the sort of problem which renders fallacious the notion that you can unit-test your way to correct software.
I was not working at the time I got sick (for unrelated, voluntary reasons), and ended up having a 2 year gap, at which point when returning and interviewing I essentially told people during interviews that I was “taking care of a sick family member” during my gap period, implying that this was the primary purpose of my gap. I left out that the sick family member happened to be myself. All the responses I got were understanding and no one ever pressed further.
X (twitter) is useless for threads unless you're logged in. How can I read this thread?
So you could still use it, you just had to lie about where you where?
Maybe you need to get somewhere fast at night; public transport doesn't usually run all night. Also, you might find your commute to work requires multiple hops. Public transport might be crowded to save costs, and that might be terrible if you are pregnant or need to take someone elderly somewhere. Taxis are expensive and some drivers are dishonest. I've had people tell me they were abused by taxi drivers.
This does nothing for real people, it's just big companies fighting to get money while doing as little as possible. It would be much better to see a crackdown on all the harmful stuff big tech does to individuals rather than use public resources to shift around who benefits from rent seeking.
I'm great at excel and terrible at programming. Can you break down what's meant here?
I am swallowing berberine now.

Many studies show that berberine can significantly lower blood sugar levels in people with type 2 diabetes ( 8 ). It seems to work via multiple mechanisms and may help ( 9 , 10 ): decrease insulin resistance, making the blood sugar-lowering hormone insulin more effective.
Do you have any children? I can't imagine car free city is good when you have two or more young children. For one, groceries are a problem as you likely need to stock more food to cook. Sure you can go to the store every other day but that takes a lot of time and is more expensive. Plus you are on a lot tighter schedule. Most people with kids race home to pick up children and don't want to stop by the store and schlep back groceries.

Then you have just the stress of taking kids on public transport. You have to carry around a lot of things (snacks, drinks, diapers or change of clothes, toys and books, etc). You normally put that in a stroller but that's a huge pain to manage on a bus or subway.
Well great.
Sold the car for fuel money
They are having huge issues with e-bike fires in China. Here you have an article with two Chinese researchers weighing in on the issue.[0] According to them low quality batteries are the reason for the number of deadly fires.

So yes, Chinese ebike batteries are on a whole of low quality.

[0] https://www.sixthtone.com/news/1013638
Yes, that is a file with zero lines that ends with an "incomplete line". Processing of such files by standard line-oriented utilities is undefined in the opengroup spec. So, for instance, the effect of "grep"ping such a file is not defined. Heck, even "cat"ting such a file gives non-ideal results, such as colliding with the regular shell prompt. For this reason, a lot of software projects I work on check and correct this condition whenever creating a commit.

https://pubs.opengroup.org/onlinepubs/9699919799/basedefs/V1... ("text file")
I went to school in Boston/Cambridge, without a car, and was absolutely flabbergasted how much more convenient the city was with one when I graduated. It was like I hadn't known what I was missing. Places I thought of as "far apart" were really only a 15-minute drive from each other.

Getting to the airport really stood out. I thought of it as a two-hour trip, because I had to walk to a bus, then transfer to a train, then another train, then another bus. It took less than half an hour in a car. As a student, the difference in fare between mass transit and a taxi was enough that I couldn't swing it (dating myself--this was before Uber/Lyft), but I had essentially been trading my time for an extremely low amount of money when I look back at it.
So much money to be wasted on half baked ideas that rehash other half baked ideas.

Did we not learn from the last decade of wasteful investment?
Well, bugs with this release affect probably every Minecraft Java Edition user on Apple Silicon, which happens to be the most popular game of all time.

It’s affecting me intermittently, enough to be very annoying. My game crashes as I try to enter the world most of the time. Once it works it tends to remain stable for the play session.
I think the math usage was first. i.e. absolute value: |x|
I wonder if they tried prepared statements - parsing 100k identical insert statements surely is avoidable.
It’s 2024. By this point we all know how this ride goes. So if a founder states that they’re targeting sustainable long-term growth, and that intent isn’t reflected in how they’ve taken on investments, they’re flat-out lying. There’s simply no excuse to be that utterly naive. The Obsidian mob seem very switched on, and their public headcount isn’t remotely indicative of VC-funded hyper-growth. It looks like they’re doing everything right.
Well, I'm an N of 1 too :-)

I'm lucky to live in a place that gives me plenty of options. And I have a tech workers idea of tenure, in that I change jobs every few years. So I've done them all.

Cycling to work is the best. When the sun shines and birds are singing. It's a miserable experience when it's pouring rain and the headwind is strong.

Public transport is kind of nice for reading, or catching up on a bit of sleep. But it takes forever, and you're dependent on its schedule. And the walk on both ends is only fun in spring and summer. Umbrella's make it less bad than cycling when it rains, but it isn't great.

Driving is annoying when the traffic is bad, but it is by far the fastest for everything over a few kilometers. The roof and the AC protect against the worst of the weather. You have full flexibility on when to go. And while a podcast or audiobook isn't as good as a newspaper or ebook, it's not bad either.

Also, you can fart in peace.

Honestly, the whole "shops are nearby" are such an uninteresting part of the car-free discussion to me. I have to get to work more often than I have to get groceries. And nowadays, I just get them delivered, just like everything else.
We lived car free life in our 20s before kids.

Groceries were a total PITA, maybe if you order a lot of delivery it’s fine, but we cook every meal and needed at least a granny cart at least once a week. And small grocers nearby had terrible vegetables; there is a lot of variance in supermarket quality. Maybe in NYC they have it figured out, but the trade off is everything cost crazy money.

I commuted by bus for this time to work, an hour each way and my hours were beholden to an infrequent bus schedule — it knee capped my career because I had to leave at hard cutoff and never could meet up for lunch or happy hour, and lost 10-15 hrs a week on a bus.

Even subway is so-so, unless they run every 5 minutes and you live and work on top of statio can add up fast, and transferring lines adds a ton of time.

Huge regret trying to live car free in an American city (not NYC).
Aren't you missing a "/s"? I hope you are.
Thanks. I've corrected the error.
I imagine the earth isn't particularly static on the mm level.
Are you a troll?

Nothing better than a city without car, it's exactly the reverse: we have pure freedom (and health)
it's not really clear what sets it apart from vanilla CSS at the moment

is NueCSS an actual concrete "thing" (e.g. will there be docs? a library?) or it's just a back-to-basics method that fits in with the other parts of Nue framework and the future proposed Design System?
The algorithms are tuned for engagement - a blind result of massive A/B testing. People engage with content that causes fear, addiction, get-rich quick schemes, and ideology.

I quit FB years ago when I started feeling like something was off. It was once fun to see what my friends and family were up to. But, it turned into an irrational battleground of ideology of people who had never ever cared about ideology beforehand. Oldtime friends fighting and hating each other.

Recently, I created a new FB account to see what I was missing. Immediately, I was bombarded with videos of scantily clothed teenagers, crypto hawkers, videos that hinted at Human's darker side. The friends that were still active were exclusively peddling memes of extremism. That experiment didn't last long.

I'm currently avoiding every platform that algorithmically decides what content to show me (except YouTube which generally shows me content that's interesting and useful to me). It's a relief to my mental health. And, I realize how much of my day was wasted with content that had no use to me.
Did you make an account just for this post?
> they built huge 8/10 story buildings. The buildings were surrounded by parks, benches, places for kids to play.

This is exactly what they did for "the projects" in big American cities and these were almost universally viewed as failures.
Japan seemed to have invented the mamachari [1] for that sort of thing.

[1] https://www.nippon.com/en/features/jg00091/
My biggest point on car free cities is that it is supported fervently by the people who would gain massive amounts of power over others if nobody had a car. If you're dependent on public transport, it can be taken away from you as leverage.
> But this is a huge reorganization of people's lives and existing property development that there's going to be a lot of pushback against and it's not all going to be nimbyism

If anything, I feel like Taiwan's model should prove that you can do it anywhere precisely because it was already so dense and built up on top of being in an area with very high seismic activity. It's not like they could find a lot of room to build massive stations on the surface. You barely notice the underground MRT stations at all aside from stair arches that pop out of the ground[0]. If they can make it work in a city as dense and populated as Taipei, it feels like it ought to be possible anywhere.

And on the contrary, being close to an MRT line tends to drive up the price of housing in the area given it seems a strong selling point for the folks that live and work in the city. I think the real root cause is that US society is not egalitarian enough to make this work.

[0] Examples: https://maps.app.goo.gl/JS8WEKhKmiVMGWCF6, https://maps.app.goo.gl/mXFjKiAQ8Vf47SAG8
A strange thing about South Korea is that even the most expensive condos in Gangnam derive a significant part of their value from being close to a subway station (yeoksekwon). The millionaires who live there are riding the subway right beside the pleebs! No wonder they want to keep the trains nice and clean.
It bugs me that you seemingly can't disable the KDE Store in Discover, because it's not one of the "repositories"/"software sources" listed in its settings. I wonder if this "ghns" kiosk flag is enough to completely turn it off.
> Personal experience, I don't (yet) get spam emails offering me dev services from Eastern Europe (or Thailand/Philippines for that matter) but I've had my fair share of "agencies" promising me the moon at cheap prices, with all signs pointing that the origin of those is India.

Personal experience does not give you the right to be prejudiced.

And ime EPAM and ELITEX have been equally as horrid as WITCH, yet I don't presume all East European programmers suck.

> why there is zero innovation coming out of the telco space

Plenty of innovation happens. They were some of the earliest adopters of Cloud and K8s, and a number of features and products that CSPs like AWS, Azure, GCP, Alibaba, etc now sell were initially developed by telcos and then resold to the CSPs.

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I get it, you're a freelancer/contractor and you must be jaded due to competition, yet in all honesty you aren't any different than a drone at EPAM or TCS.

If you are going to be publicly prejudiced, at least have the decency to be anonymous and not directly link your professional information.

It's a small industry
Because they built houses in place they shouldn't have
I appreciate your comment as well! I feel like I'm off on Preference Island sometimes, so it's good to know I'm not.

I particularly appreciate the point you make about prioritization. When I left school and started working, I lived in an apartment downtown, walked to work, hung out afterward at bars and stuff, and loved it. At that point in my life, I didn't need a car, and was fine. I'm older now. I've lived in an apartment, a townhouse with shared walls, and now a single family home. I've loved every place I've lived because, at the time, it was the right place for me. I want a yard for my dog to run in and my kid to play in, and like you, I wish to prioritize my living structure above all else. Unlike you, I do like my car. The beauty is we're both adults who know how to prioritize our lives and make choices that let us do what we want, and similarly let others live their lives.
> making people dependent on the government from birth.

Roads are also mostly build by the Government.

A lot of people around the world are born in government build/run hospitals.
There’s a lot of crappy “I want to be a content creator!”-tier content out there. You’ve gotta do a bit of digging to find examples that aren’t someone organising their YouTube channel, crappy Medium blog, or other content creation side hustle.
Well they all do, but in terms of ease of use, tar and zip are much simpler to implement in a cli pipeline than to write bespoke code. At least that has been my experience.
Front matter is still a simple text based format that can easily be parsed by other programs, and there is already quite a bit of tooling to process it. Even without tooling, it’s human readable. The degree of usefulness just increases the more sophisticated the tool is that you’re using to read it.
Compare this with the painful migration away from Evernote, which left me with a folder full of giant .enex files that I can technically use elsewhere, but at this point are realistically just an archive I’ll never touch unless I really need something.
How Stack Overflow Makes Money (2016)
Weird take. Do all, busses and train systems have to be government owned? And who builds and pays for those roads the cars travel on?
Sadly they are not enforcing it for european websites (maybe by design?), a lot of accept cookies or pay nowadays.
The headquarters location doesn't really matter in the context of outsourcing. Was the work in question done in Chicago, India, or somewhere else?

Assuming racism isn't particularly useful without more context. Racism is an intent, simply saying the work was outsourced to India could be as benign as having incorrect information and absolutely doesn't say anything about the people of India themselves.
Mainly for guides, and also generated by the app.
Example can be seen when creating a new one, and choose the "animation template".
> However, it is not accompanied by a decrease in the number of pimps

> Pimping is also closely related to coercive exploitation of prostitution and human trafficking

This paper seems to hint at the conclusion "legal prostitution results in fewer rapes" but is "coercive exploitation of prostitution" meaningfully different?

My understanding is that prostitution was most recently banned in Sweden because of the human trafficking problem in the first place, not moral grandstanding.
Another daily chemical that has estrogenic effects.

Guys (and maybe girls), get a full blood panel done that shows you the exact numbers of lipid, testosterone , and estrogen in your body.

I got panels done and was blown away by how low my T levels were (talking less than 250 ng/dl, full blown hypogonadism). My lipid panels show I had high ldl cholesterol and my blood pressure was high.

Worse yet, I work out 5 times a week, run, and eat a very healthy diet. I have a very healthy weight.

I've started taking 100ml shots split out twice a week. Over the past 6 weeks my pre and post blood works are startling.

LDL dropped considerably. My blood pressure dropped and is nowich safer.

It's death by a thousand cuts with all of these chemicals out there that turn friggin frogs gay poisoning us.

(Alex Jones ref btw)
Ah yes, the ideal solution fallacy.
Having a car free city center sounds like a good idea. It's not a car free city though (that sounds horrible, not to mention impossible). A city needs less dense areas and at some point outside the city center density will be low enough to a) not have public transit at the required frequency and b) be home for the type of places you need a car for (Lumberyard, car wash, ...).
A new government comes in and limits your ability to use it. What now? Car-free cities seem nice until they're used as leverage. No cars means massive power for a tiny number of people.

Not everyone is a troll when they disagree with you.
>Taken together, the empirical evidence hints at the notion that the rise in rapes is not connected to the supply of prostitution but rather to changes in the demand for prostitution due to the ban.

Wild that some end up raping instead of illegally visiting a prostitute.
Could that risk evolutionary pressure on whatever is left behind so that mutations emerge that are more aggressive?
It seems like you're angrily describing an ideal that you would be ecstatic to achieve, but have no confidence you could ever reach. Just the fact that you _know_ what is hypocrisy (e.g. imported avocados) is a move in the right direction. Without a sense of the ideal, how could you be pragmatic? I think there will always be a vanguard of humanity that is willing to push towards the ideal -- that drags the rest of us pragmatists kicking and screaming into the future.
TIL what “fnord” is. I think that is a perfect way to describe much of this article.
Err you're still dependent on government in the case of vehicles, if you use roads and freeways and.. everything related to traffic.
Why Tech Companies Are Not Your Friends
For anyone looking for a simple markdown editor (nothing more), I would recommend Typora. It's closed source, and the plugin system is lacking, but it gets the essentials basically perfect.
Also a great reminder to always benchmark with different data set sizes.
Lessons Learned from Using LLMs to Evaluate LLMs
I realize one needs a catchy title and some storytelling to get people to read a blog article, but for a summary of the main points:

* This is not about a build step that makes the app perform better

* The app isn't 10x faster (or faster at all; it's the same binary)

* The author ran a benchmark two ways, one of which inadvertently included the time taken to generate sample input data, because it was coming from a pipe

* Generating the data before starting the program under test fixes the measurement
Yeah somebody should mirror it. In general I dont understand why people post things like this on X. Its a horrible platform.
Came here to recommend doing good deeds for others. I find when I'm doing things for the benefit others I feel a lot better (as long as I'm resourced enough to do it). A therapist used to tell me that gratitude and doing good things for others were the most effective evidence-based behavioral interventions for depression.

That said, depression, fear, and lack of confidence are multi-faceted things with many different mitigating and exacerbating causes. Even diet and digestive ability can play a role! I find light exercise to mitigate the effects, too. But a sense of warm-heartedness toward yourself and others will be helpful no matter what.
> There is more to eating meat than supporting industrial "murder".

99% of the meat grown in America comes from factory foods. Despite this, every time the horrible treatment of animals is brought up online all of a sudden everyone is getting their meat from farms where the cows get a message twice a day. Statistically, there isn't much more. I still eat meat, very little these days, but lets be honest about it. Your final 'whataboutisms' don't help either. None of that matters. The truth about meat in America, at least, is undeniable.
Technic bricks (or really pins, axles, wheels) are a nightmare for any house with small kids either way, I think food grade plastic is irrelevant on that side.

On the environmental impact it's a good point, especially EU regulations. I'm not sure yet how much Lego's stance is marketing and how much it actually makes a difference, especially as they also have a factory in China and the bricks I'd get would come from there, but one can hope.
The funny thing that's been happening in the UK about Low Traffic Neighbourhoods (LTNs) is that there's been lots of press about them being unpopular, driven to a large extent by the current Conservative government who seem to be trying to play to their base. And the threats against people who support them mentioned in the article are real. But rather embarassingly for the government, when they did some proper research it turned out that a large majority of people want them, and they don't have nearly as many negative side effects as claimed once they've bedded in: https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2024/mar/08/low-traffic-...
Yes, because we're (hospitals, 911) not (schools) dependent (roads) on (water) each (trash service) other (fire and police services) other (airports) to (finance) start (research) with.

We live in a complex modern world with a lot of dependencies and moving parts.
But that is exactly what it means, the end of the line is before the terminating newline or at the end of the string if there is no terminating newline. Both ^ and $ always match at start or end of lines, \A and \Z match at the start or end of the string. The difference between multi-line and not is whether or not internal newlines end and start lines, it does not change the semantics from end of line to end of string. And if you are not in multi-line mode but have internal newlines, then you might also want single-line/dot-all mode.

One could certainly have a debate whether this behavior is too strongly tied to the origins of regular expressions and now does more harm than good, but I am not convinced that this would be an easy and obvious choice to have breaking change.
Status symbol, larger shopping (cargo bikes weren't ever a thing due to lack of bike paths), vacation, business.
From what I can see this doesn't contain any kind of permission model, or authentication. At least what I could see in the documentation. I would say that RLS is one of the big killer features for postgrest which makes it so great for rapid prototyping something that's actually useful when exposed to the open internet.