skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I think the point is that others are using this data as well, but not a target given there's no gigantic piggy bank to extract $ from.
There can even be inconsistencies after glibc upgrades.
Italy strikes the right balance by having car-free zones for pedestrian areas. Other cities could really use this approach. In Times Square in New York, you have a major road running right through the main pedestrian area, leading to a bit of conflict. And it's usually Ubers and other vehicles who could've easily gone a different way.
true - you feel very free when everything is accessible on foot. Healthier, more centered, less like a bag of potatoes. It's having options, agency. You can live in a car-free city, and still have a car for the stuff you see in the car commercials, just not required for the day2day.

It's counter-intuitive, and I miss it.
I think I agree with all your points, but I also think we should be doing all we can to encourage all those people who can and want to cycle to do so, and to make it as safe and convenient as possible. That's regardless of whether you "allow" cars to still be used. Improving cycling infrastructure is an action that causes benefits and very little in the way of disadvantages.

Any journey that someone makes on a bicycle means one less car clogging up the road. That's an argument that people make who are militantly against cars, but I think it's completely valid even if you think cars are things that are here to stay and you're OK with that. Car drivers should be looking at the people cycling and silently thanking them for making their drive more pleasant because the roads are less busy. But for that to happen, the bicycles need to be able to go on dedicated cycle ways so that cars don't have to slow down to drive around them.

My commute to work is about 45 minutes on the bus. Or 50 minutes walking - that's how much the buses suck, and they're actually fairly good buses as far as buses go. Or it's a 25 minute cycle. It'd be a 10-15 minute drive if there was no traffic and there was actually somewhere to park, which there isn't.

I did spend about 15 years without a car, cycling everywhere I went. It was great. One time I bought a bulky item, and called a taxi for it. I dumped the item in the taxi, told the driver where to meet me, and cycled home. I made it there before the taxi did - the driver looked well annoyed. But I recognise the cars are useful - I have a car now, and it's great for heading out into the countryside in sparsely populated areas to do some hiking. It'd be unreasonable to expect any public transport out there, and the car will always have a place serving those areas.

So, my argument is that we should be making things better for all, not pitting two views against each other.
Its because the EU has something called "neighbouring rights" which are an additional right to the usual form of copyrights.

> To tackle this, the EU created a form of copyright called “neighbouring rights” that allows print media to demand compensation for using their content.
https://archive.is/wx7yj
Is Paris considered a great place to live? I've been there a couple times in the last few years, and it just seemed like every other big western city. (except for the police walking around with assault weapons.)
Yes. For me it’s also about product managers justifying their existence by coming up with useless new features.
The problem with charging below market prices for anything is that it necessarily leads to a mismatch of supply and demand. So the question is how do you allocate that supply?

One way is to have hidden costs. This could range from straight up bribes, to paid consultants to fill out a lot of forms or talk to the right people, to just knowing someone

Another way is a lottery which benefits a tiny percentage of people. Sure it's "fair" but the incentive to rig it is huge

But even with a lottery it's still inefficient. If you give someone an apartment with a market rent of 4k for only 1k you're effectively giving them a 3k apartment subsidy. But if you handed them 3k, maybe they would spend 1k dollars on extra apartment and 2k for something else.

There are other distortions. Overall these are the worst kinds of policies because it's all hidden costs. If we realized that with a system like this we're giving 1 out of 1k eligible people the equivalent of a 30k a year transfer, we'd likely realize it's a ridiculous policy. But instead we just say how nice it is so and so is paying only 600 Euros to live in the center of Paris
I'm pretty sure I've shortened my life for having lived in zone 1 for so many years due to air pollution.

Cycling around London is also the fastest way for an astounding radius of travel. I can beat uber and the underground for most journeys using a Lime bike.
I’ve lived and worked in London all my life. Of all the ways I could get to work, driving has to be at the bottom of the list.
I live in a nice little city in the Netherlands, Leiden. I am from the U.K.

I cannot believe people would want to live any other way than with accessible bike paths and walkable streets. It is mad.
Maybe yes maybe no. A lot of the jobs in a big city metro are out in the burbs. Until fairly recently, my company's only office in the area was a 45 minute drive from downtown. There are more tech jobs in the city proper than there were 15-20 years ago when there were approximately zero. But a lot of the jobs in the area are still spread around the suburbs and exurbs.
"A city, if it’s only made up of poor people, is a disaster," said Mr. Apparu, who now works for a property developer. "And if it’s only made up of rich people, it’s not much better."

From a human+social position, I strongly agree with this. The value of social benevolence isn't limited to the direct beneficiaries and has positive impacts beyond the economics.
Why not simply ask?

"Hi $COLLEAGUE. I'm having a problem with $TASK: I'm trying to accomplish $GOAL but I keep seeing $ERROR. I've tried $WORKAROUNDS, but none of them have fixed the problem. I think it will be fastest if I can demo this for you; do you have 10 minutes so I can walk you through it interactively?"
Who exactly do you think maintains the roads that cars need to run on? Or are you bombing around your carmaxxing city in a lifted 4Runner all day just in case you gotta Go Off-Road Because The Government Closed The Roads?

The whole concept is silly on its face.
Probably not "the greatest day", but definitely a very very good day.

I think it's too easy to imagine Orwellian scenarios, but I think the real worries are much more subtle than people usually think, and they usually have more to do with how the world already works than with how it could change.
Exactly. If you're skeptical of gun ownership, go to England and start voicing controversial opinions, or to Australia during a viral pandemic, and see how quickly you realize that "any old fool could be armed" is unbelievably important to ensure everyone keeps their basic ordinary human rights.

If you think "no cars" is a good idea, live under a government that takes away your right to public transport. It may not happen right now where you live, but if they need leverage against you, they could use that, and there would be nothing you could do.
You are already dependent on the government from birth. It is the government that has a monopoly on violence and they are the enforcers of private property.
I used Evernote for well over a decade and I don’t regret that I did, despite the changes that eventually forced me to get rid of it and change my habits.

There is already a growing ecosystem of tools that are Obsidian-like, and if Obsidian ever went down an unpalatable path, those tools are ready and waiting.

If a no frills editor works for you, great. But at the same time, I don’t think a future problem with Obsidian is a good reason to avoid it. In a worst case, that no frills editor will open your vault just fine. But I’d personally switch to something like Logseq, which is also coming along really nicely.

In the meantime, the value that Obsidian brings to my daily life is immense. And that’s worth the risk of eventually needing to find something new, especially when I know that the underlying data is completely portable.
What pages should we look at next?
I don't remember the exact number but there was a bug in some java code that was leaving orphaned FD's. It was in the millions. This was on machines that had between 512GB and 3TB of ram and did not seem to affect them, just made debugging things harder. I logged the issue in Jira and nobody cared. They restarted the code and servers enough that it did not seem to affect anything.
The opposite is happening. There was a decline as it was #3 in last years survey. The army is a unifying force that contributes to happiness after it's over. Not during and not during war. Lots of people died and pretty much everyone knows people who died. I expect the decline to last a few years.

80% are pretty much interested in Bibi taking a hike by now. The only people who still want him have a deep agenda and never liked him to begin with. He's outlived his usefulness even for them.
Baffling. The earth isn’t a perfectly smooth solid sphere that never deforms. It is a dynamic object being shaped by all sorts of forces. How do they guarantee 0.1mm error over a year. It must be limited to a small number of high value targets given the techniques used on the article, but still unclear. Just seems wildly complicated to get right.
The work is done IN CHICAGOLAND!

I have managed and sold products or funded companies that have sold to the very same guys who do this stuff at McDs and insert_F1000_here

The fact you automatically assume "India" is sheer racism, as if all good programmers are only in the US and all bad ones in India.

Newsflash - all humans are kinda good and kinda bad.
When you do have a speciality in mind, find professors whose research excites you. I know there is not much time, but maybe figure out a general direction at least.
It's tricky too, because a lot of "low density suburban wastelands" was already significantly phased out over a decade ago, in a lot of the US anyway.

People hear "suburbs" and imagine a single-family home on 1 to 2+ acre lots -- something that looks like this -> https://st2.depositphotos.com/1658611/5485/i/950/depositphot... . And while that definitely still happens, it's really limited to the exurbs in the US these days, it's not representative of newer suburbs anymore.

The primary style of suburban development built since say 2010 in the US, has really been more like 5 single-family homes on 1 acre, or 10 townhouses on 1 acre, or equivalent. Something that looks like this -> https://thumbs.dreamstime.com/z/modern-suburbs-17207940.jpg or this -> https://images.seattletimes.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/02/0... -- which is anywhere from 5x to 20x higher density per acre.
The first graph [1] does not show correlation in trends ... But If someone have the full PDF, sure would like to read it

[1] https://www.researchgate.net/publication/378962808_Banning_t...
This is true, but in hindsight only a partial success. A good chunk of the communists weren't. :-/
I don't think I follow, can you elaborate?

* Car users are quite dependent on the government for transportation, e.g. the many billions (in the US) of public dollars spent on roads each year. Hard to get around without them!

* Even if we hand-wave that away and assume car users aren't dependent on the government for transportation, surely _everyone_ is dependent for other reasons like enjoying public goods (national defense, clean air and water, rule of law), access to the social safety net, etc.?
A “US-backed coup” is a bit misleading: Zelaya refused to follow the law, but the US didn’t back him - they tried to keep it from turning into a war before an election he was excluded from so the Honduran people could settle it democratically. I don’t like the realpolitik in avoiding recognizing his coup attempt as such but that’s not the same as backing him.
I see what you're saying, but long road trips are not that way for me. I am easily lost in my own boredom and thoughts on the road. All my good ideas seem to emerge then.

(Perhaps, unfortunately, to a lesser degree I "multitask" when city driving as well.)
yeah you misread that completely, but my comment was based on understanding how scammers already operate

the scammers use mispellings in their own job postings and communications, to attract people that would ignore the mispellings, because those people would ignore many other things too
Some of it makes sense.

The question why & when humans gut could start to shrink. It seems more the other way around in my view, brain development helped develop cooking & other preparation methods and in turn to the need for less complicated guts.
I believe “world models” are the future of the field so I really need better performance in areas like IVP, FFT, special functions (e.g., harmonics), and dynamic programming. The H100 advances (e.g., DPX instructions) are terrific but they feel like a starting point. Hell, improved geometric operations (e.g., triangulation and intersection) would be killer too and surely that expertise exists at NVIDIA! The H100, especially for the price, feels terrible when you’re training a neural network bottlenecked on an operation that flies on a consumer CPU when you know there’s GPU optimizations that have been left on the floor.
Another great reason to become a regular blood donor. I recall reading that the only way to remove these forever substances from your blood was through donations. My wife and I go every 3 months.
These May Be the Oldest Olive Trees in the World
I wasn’t arguing that (though I agree); I was just adding a further data point to support the claim that mockery of Apple products is nothing new.

Sure — products evolve and potentially assume a less controversial (mockable) form, but I think most of the change is in perception. Almost all of the products we use daily would probably look completely weird if we could somehow see them for the first time out of context. I’m currently typing on a tiny little touchscreen QWERTY keyboard on a device that is ostensibly a mobile telephone; none of this makes sense when first presented but we’ve all come to accept it as being as normal as breathing air.
I know Talagrand because some of his work comes up in topological dynamics (work around Rosenthal's l¹-dichotomy culminating in the Bourgain-Fremlin-Talagrand dicothomy for compact sets of Baire class 1 functions), but I had no idea he has such accomplishments in other fields! Impressive
I'm on macOS, and I use either TextEdit or Vim. The problem isn't Obsidian itself, but the ecosystem in which it exists.
I live in a city with two young kids. We do very little driving. We live an easy walk to the grocery store and school. A bus stop is on the corner, with buses every few minutes. A car really isn't necessary, and the kids like taking the bus, though we don't do it often. For longer trips, a backpack gets stuffed with snacks and stuff, and we're good to go. The only thing we use a car for regularly is to get to swimming lessons, which is a bit off the beaten path. None of the things you bring up are a problem for us at all.
https://archive.ph/o7vu3
True - buildings and exposed rock probably stay still, leaf litter and trees definitely don’t. You’d need to find enough of a stable reference to run your correlation - probably more useful in an urban area.
You either think mandatory car-free cities are a terrifyingly dystopian idea, or you've never experienced human culture outside of dense urban areas.
I realize this is not addressing your point, but it seems that law enforcement and politicians using the term “human trafficking” for everything from prostitution to coyotes helping illegal immigration has done a disservice.
Does the study account for the increase in rape through liberalised immigration policy over this time?

> A total of 3 039 offenders were included in the analysis. A majority of them were immigrants (n = 1 800; 59.2%) of which a majority (n = 1 451; 47.7%) were born outside of Sweden.

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8330751/
I have never been able to make use of the longer transit time on a bus when commuting, because they are always standing room only or shoulder to shoulder with barely enough room to hold a phone
By poisoned I mean food poisoning. Not sure what happened in the batch I made but drinking the brew gave me cold sweats and fever for two days and I emptied my bowels multiple times. So I stopped there. I still love the flavor, and I love most fermented food.
I intended for “risk” to be short for “safety risk” in the below portion of my original comment:

> Taking advantage of the gaps actually increases the road’s throughput, and is a sufficient tradeoff to risk and energy efficiency for almost all drivers worldwide.

> the road can handle you must not put more cars into the empty space without all the cars slowing down (which in turn means the road can handle less cars per time)

I agree that there is a range where cars weaving in and out causing people to brake unnecessarily causes more congestion, but there is also a point where there is so much congestion that “filling in the gaps” becomes the optimal move, because the road’s capacity has been reached and maintaining large gaps would simply push congestion further back onto other roads.
The Mayor of Paris has bigger balls any other Mayor except maybe Barcelona

...and they're both women! The confidence to make radical, meaningful changes for the better of the people and tell the opposition to get stuffed... I wish all politicians had that.
NY is a mess of policy failure and rampant corruption in the implementation of these policies, policies which have for decades been championed by the NY Times, frequently by naive portrayals of policies in Western European countries like this one. Once imported at 5 times the cost and half the quality these become irrevocable subsidies for well connected landlords and administrators. The city needs to get basic things like sewage, security, and transit working before plowing any more money into subsidized housing.
No; it's really just about proving that there's no-one who's qualified.
I recently sat in on a demo of a complete accounting and invoicing system implemented entirely in excel.

Such things should not exist and be nuked from orbit.

Excel should not be used to create anything but spreadsheets and charts.
The Insanity of Linux's Regular Expressions [video]
It sounds like you're saying it works for tourists. How would I get a massive CostCo shop home in Taipei (or similar large amount of shopping)?
Thanks! Yeah, that was one of the intentions. :)
Absolutely, it's a trade-off. In many parts of the country, people cannot make this trade-off though. it's cars or nothing, even in the more "urban" zones with condos, apartments, etc...
I used to use Typora but something put me off — I can't totally remember what. It might have been that it creates copies of files rather than saving in-place, which then screws up hard links. But it might have been something less 'niche' too!
I think a main reason for this is that you can have a "good enough" working mental model of a process, that holds up to your typical use cases and even moderate scrutiny. It's often only once you run into a case where your mental model fails that you even think to challenge the assumptions it was built on - at least, this has been my experience.
> One quarter of residents in the French capital now live in government-owned housing, part of an aggressive effort to keep lower-income Parisians — and their businesses — in the city.

I think they meant "...and their votes"
This is true, but that model of suburban development still tends to push necessities out of walking or even biking distance. I visited my folks in the Des Moines suburbs while they were out there and it was an hour's walk to almost anything bigger than a corner store. Of which I found, I think, one that was closer than that.
Author here.

Thanks for reading!

>I am surprised, that people using a low-level language on Linux wouldn't know ... that reading one byte per syscall is quite inefficient.

In my defense, it wasn't that I didn't realize one byte per syscall was inefficient; it was that I didn't realize that I was doing one syscall per byte read.

I'm coming back to low-level programming after 8ish years of Go/Python/JS, so I wasn't really registering that I'd forgotten to layer in a buffered reader on top of stdin's reader.

Alex Kladov (matklad) made an interesting point on the Ziggit thread[0] that the Zig standard library could adjust the API to make this kind of mistake less likely:

>I’d say readByte is a flawed API to have on a Reader. While you technically can read a byte-at-time from something like TCP socket, it just doesn’t make sense. The reader should only allow reading into a slice.

>Byte-oriented API belongs to a buffered reader.

[0] https://ziggit.dev/t/zig-build-run-is-10x-faster-than-compil...
Unlucky naming collision with Slack’s networking tool Nebula: https://github.com/slackhq/nebula
It was warped into leetcode. Which is way overdoing it. I can see how my point was not clear.
I can't speak to the history of Taipei specifically, I did visit for a month (loved it) and I currently live in the center of a different Asian megalopolis.

I can say a lot of these places became what they are by bulldozing a lot of medium-density shophouses and destroying a lot of local businesses and tightly knit communities that most people including myself would consider really charming places to live.

They replaced them with places where far fewer people can afford a space large enough to raise kids comfortably and where everyone around you is a stranger.

Now I enjoy the big dense city lifestyle, I like the awesome public transit, I like the massive selection of businesses and services and basically everything, but it's not for everyone and I couldn't see myself raising a family in the middle of it, which eventually if you want your country's population to not collapse, you need people to do somewhere.

I think also considering some of the massive redevelopments that have happened in Asia over the years, you would see massive pushback in the US from essentially an individual rights point of view if you were to try to do that.
"healthy" in that "you won't die" -- not necessarily "healthy" as in "ideal for maintaining peak health". That's probably a bad comparison... But I'm not sure that you can count out the importance of the intestinal microbiome. It's not just vitamins or metals--one can be deficient in beneficial bacteria as well. These bacteria are why we can "throw anything" at our intestines. That's true until the good bacteria have nothing left to sustain them and die off.
"Default forward": How I write to my clients to avoid getting stuck
> cost it’s just a single dimension

It's a very complicated dimension, especially with databases from vendors that make you go through complicated licensing schemes and audits.
I remember about 20 years ago I was taking my bicycle on the train, and this involved a transfer through London. You can't take full-size bicycles on the London Underground, so I cycled across London from Kings Cross to Waterloo, and I definitely remember being reasonably terrified the whole way. If that has greatly improved since then, then that's wonderful.
First beta of Nintendo Switch emulator Suyu goes live
Team-based politics cause bad feels when you see your team being criticized
> I've started taking 100ml shots split out twice a week

mind sharing what kind of shots?
That's okay. Not every city needs to be equally car-free. Let people naturally gravitate toward the type of city they want, and we'll actually end up with more diversity than we currently have.