skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
AMA, I lived in a car-free city for 10 years.

It's not free of cars (there's plenty of them there), but public transit is good and you can live your life without owning a car. The main requirements: a) you need to be comfortable with living in a small apartment, b) you shouldn't have any interests outside of the city c) stick "one day - one errand" rule. YMMV, but I felt essentially locked inside a big city and hated it.
They're saying it's done as an electoral bribe so that the people who benefit from this policy will vote for the party who did it
This is what a cargo bike is for.
My understanding is that excise taxation is generally agreed upon as the preferred method for governments to manipulate the market, both because it incurs fewer deadweight losses and because it tends to actually work better.

So, what if we get rid of all these complicated rent control and rent freezes and affordable housing schemes, and instead just implement a rent tax, to be paid by the landlord, and make it progressive? I don't know exactly how it should scale; you wouldn't want it to be just by rent because that would have a regressive impact on families who have kids, because they need more space and more space naturally costs more. Maybe price per square foot?

At least in my city this would probably also reduce real estate prices in general, because a huge source of demand for houses is actually real estate speculators who buy up houses and then put them on the market as rental units. I gather, based on one conversation with an acquaintance who had been a realtor but was looking to pivot into this line of business, is that a lot of what's fueling that is, in effect, not-exactly-loopholes in US and local housing, lending and tax laws - many of which are ostensibly aimed at making housing more affordable - that allow people with sufficient resources to financially engineer together a speculative source of income while externalizing all the risk onto everyone but themselves.
When I was in university, I worked on a study that collected people’s preferences for different types of developments. When you asked them what they wanted, they basically said easy driving and parking. When you showed pictures of different types of development (sprawl, transit oriented development, etc), they overwhelmingly picked the car-free option. People don’t know what they want.
They're getting $5.5bn in tax breaks, and loans for $11bn on generous terms too. Their total support package from the CHIPS money is $25bn. Intel are putting in $75bn, taking the total project to $100bn.
Man, thanks for building PocketBase. It's very pleasant to use!
As a Parisian, who is generally angry at the city’s housing policy (build taller!), I find the public housing of the past few years to be a great achievement. In general, public housing sits on the outer edges of Paris, but the city has been agressive in reconverting buildings in posher neighborhoods. It doesn’t really lead to reduced rent (because no additional supply), but it decreases social segregation. That alone is critical to keep a city alive.
Something something dense cities and good public transport. You can get from one side of Berlin to the other - not including suburbs - in half an hour and without needing to park.
I'm surprised, to me it always looks & feels very different than most other Western cities, in part due to low-rise buildings and almost exclusively independently operated restaurants and shops.

Most other large European cities allowed for high rises and chain coffee shops & restaurants, to the point where they've started to become indistinguishable from one another.
Hopefully Prospera wins and the socialist president loses. Honduras would benefit from more foreign investment. She's not doing her people any favors.
Crypto is [mostly] for crime, laundering, etc. When will the tech industry get past this?
I mean if your team are the drug lords of the previous government, then whelp. Maybe you picked the wrong team.
Ive never done it and the whole thing grosses me out so much id probably pass out. but reading about this lately im honestly considering it. at the same time it makes me wonder i never was interested in donating blood for greater good but now im motivated to get rid of any pfas... so someone else can take them up?
Together with the newly-peripheral PPU (formerly known as CPU)
Who cares? You can buy performant arm64 laptops and servers. HPC is GPUs.
I will quote the comment you are trying to justify:

> With ipv6 they can now be fully scaled easily but they are absolutely awesome, much easier to scale because you can give your client a simple list of sse services and its essentially stateless if done right.

If you don't understand it either please stop saying random stuff about IPv6 that we already know and has nothing to do with this thread.
Note that while the article says "soldering" the pictures show "welding", which is the typical way you create battery packs. The reasons are that the welding provides a higher temperature connection but for a shorter period of time, over all dumping less heat into the battery and potentially causing damage to the cell or triggering ignition. Also makes a higher temp connection, solder can melt when the joints get hot during use.

I got a battery welder a few years ago to repair an ebike pack and also to repair a EGO power tool battery pack, but thus far haven't used it. The ebike pack was a bunch of "packets" rather than 18650 cells, and the EGO was slightly smaller than 18650, so I need to wait for another pack to fail so I can scavenge cells from one to repair the other.

Be careful if it smells like birthday cake when you're working with lion cells, that can preclude them bursting into flames. Have a metal container nearby to drop them into for transport outdoors.
A closeup on the flight and longevity of tropical bats
I don't think the Army Corp of Engineers should be wasting taxpayer dollars on this either. Zero federal taxpayer dollars of any kind should be going to building in the way of the ocean just so people can have a beach view.

If people are actually living in the at-risk properties as their primary residence, I'd support spending taxpayer dollars to help them move.
I had a prof explain it using basic analogy. Forces are things that can move other things. An electrical field can move a metal ball. So too can a metal bat. put a g-meter on the ball and it will register acceleration as force is applied to the ball. Gravity is different. Put a g-meter on a falling metal ball and it will detect zero acceleration. No force is acting upon a ball. Put that metal ball in an eccentric orbit around the earth and it will speed up and slow down during each orbit, but the g-meter will register zero acceleration. The ball falls but is no not accelerated. So gravity is not a force because it doesn't move things. Gravity is something different.
I have no background in physics beyond my highschool class, but how I understand gravity is this: matter has inertia, the universe is expanding "up" (into the future, away from the Big Bang) and out (stretching the surface), the inertia of the matter causes a depression in the spacetime, and the normal force of that curved spacetime causes objects to "attract" each other. This also seems to explain the relationship between gravity and the rate at which time passes (time dilation).

Is this understanding wrong by generally accepted science?
You die and then you don't have to pay back the loan and any capital gains taxes. The assets are marked to market for tax purposes, then the estate can liquidate them to satisfy the debt and the heirs get the remaining assets and can sell with no tax due.
Not everyone can or has access to a car so people still have to and do manage that in the car-centric world you're advocating for as well. Except now it's more like walk a mile, wait for the bus, walk another mile.
Two problems with arguments like these.

First, "better" is so subjective that it almost becomes a moot point.

Second, a single counter example disproves it.

You don't think Ronaldo has entertained millions of kids around the world and made them very happy to watch him play? I would say that is a good thing.
nVidia claims that they went into video games because it provided a way to fund their goal of compute accelerators
You're so focused on driving I feel you're missing the point of designing the space so driving isn't necessary. Your axiom is 'work is far away'.

But the point is it only happens if it's convenient to be far away. Design your city in a way it's convenient to be nearby and it'll be nearby. The problem is this design is completely at odds with private car ownership.
A biology professor at Stanford claims it’s in the 10% range in modern times
Its a smart investment strategy. If you can offer someone a walkable little neighborhood where they can live, walk to a a gym, grocery store, and a couple bars or restaurants, AND also walk to a train that can take them to work and a few more areas. That is an attractive offer. Even if the person still has a car, people seem to enjoy not driving everywhere.
Given that their parts have been, up until the past 5 years, clearly better than AMDs (and any other chip manufacturer), and in the last 5 merely competitive, that’s quite the statement. Nevermind that with Gaudi, they also have the only viable AI accelerator besides Nvidia and AMD.
I prefer WASM to the JVM
Iran may attack US water supplies, warns Biden administration
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Lots of discussion a few days ago: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39746468
I have a feeling many of the common multithreading optimizations carry the same flaw as incremental compilation: they give you good speed-ups in the short term, but potentially mask deeply flawed architectural decisions. Essentially improving perf by digging yourself into a deeper grave.
This is something ChatGPT would say.
I don't think we're disagreeing. I do need a car to go anyplace. But even if I only used it on weekends, I'd almost certainly own one because of, as you say, the friction associated with renting something.
Wow I never look at usernames but maybe I should start.
I believe I read his `Gauge Fields, Knots, and Gravity` back in college (or tried to, anyways. it was a touch above my level at the time)
I live in the US and I did the same when I was a kid - cycle, walk, or bus. Not everywhere, but many places. I even took the bus to the mall with my friends when none of us had any money because it was something to do.

I couldn't imagine being a kid and living in a location where the only way I'd be able to go anywhere was to have a parent drive me. No thanks, ugh.
But it hasn't stayed Paris, it's overrun with North African "migrants". Why put a bald faced lie on it?
I thought fabs require massive amounts of water to function, isn't AZ a pretty dry state?
With the AUR and PPAs, random members of the community that weren't involved with developing the original software can submit software. This means you can't go off of the software's reputation alone, as someone may have uploaded a malicious version of existing software (i.e. what happened around a month ago on the Ubuntu Snap store with a malicious Bitcoin wallet: https://popey.com/blog/2024/02/exodus-bitcoin-wallet-490k-sw...).

I do agree that themes don't sound like they could execute code, and KDE should be doing more to restrict what they can do to a user's computer.
Yes, that's pretty much how it works. The city has the right to become the buyer for the specified price for any property sale.
Whereas email more or less lasts forever (mailbox contents), and has to be backwards compatible with older versions back to (at least) RFC 821/822, or those before. It also allows almost any character (when escaped at 821 level) in the host or domain part (domain names allow any byte value).

So a Internet email address match pattern has to be: "..*@..*", anything else can reject otherwise valid addresses.

That however does not account for earlier source routed addresses, not the old style UUCP bang paths. However those can probably be ignored for newly generated email.

I regularly use an email address with a "+" in the host part. When I used qmail, I often used addresses like: "foo-a/b-bar-tat@DOMAIN". Mainly for auto filtering received messages from mailing lists.
That's rather inflammatory, but taking your comment at face value, I highly recommend "The Evolution of Cooperation" for a very detailed and nuanced exploration of this idea.
it's mostly continuing the policies from the previous mayor... (who was male, but I don't see the relation).
Auxiliary Power Unit.

Both aviation and computers use them, though the latter more often call them UPS (Uninterruptible Power Supply).
This is exactly the thing that feels obvious once you realize it, but that can be puzzling until you don't.
Right it clearly was the best choice for the time the shuttle was developed but just shows how removed from the 1960s and 70s we are today.

My earlier point about payload weight was probably the wrong focus. Mission success and maximizing what the crew can accomplish in orbit are greatly facilitated by one way text from ground control, and doubtlessly paid for the 60 pounds

Astronauts were already used to Telex weather reports as pilots so existing UX. And the crew specialists all had PhDs and thus were experts at reading typed paper. So no training on yet another shuttle subsystem.

The teletype could be effectively shared between crew - just tear off the paper. A portable computer could only be used by one or two people, AND would need to be radiation hardened and aerospace qualified.
Yeah, sorry, I meant to reply to 'smeej's post, not yours. :)
From the ignorance of a European scholar: what is anti-intellectualism? What role does it play in an academic institution?
> What are the mechanics of how this works? If I agree to buy a property for a million dollars, does the city get a chance to match that price?

there's a French wiki page on this: https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Droit_de_pr%C3%A9emption_urbai...

But basically, yes, the city has 2 months to match the price. The city can also offer a lower price, which can be refused (so no sale at all) or can be argued in front of a special judge, who'd rule if the price offered by the city is acceptable, depending on the local housing market.

It's not a rule that's specific to Paris, but which is applicable in most French cities.
Oh, that's what I missed! I managed to find out about it while trying to do an equivalent of `curl ... | tar xzf -` in Powershell. I was stumped. I guess the thing is that a Unix shell would do a subshell automatically.
If the USA didn't endlessly fund war then maybe they could invest in their cities & infrastructure more. Probably not going to happen anytime soon by the looks of things.
For some; for technically dumb people like me, it's the only platform that's easy to use.
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Discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39746468
"Discovered" a way. That's funny.
I know that's Australia and I don't know much about that island.
Here in North America there used to be many millions of beavers helping keep water on the land, and with it so much life- carbon sinks.
How can we adjust our lifestyle and relationship with the land to allow beavers to get back to work again?
It's impossible to say for sure whether and how much the efforts helped, because we don't know the alternative. If we hadn't done those things, maybe the indicators would be 20% worse. Maybe 40%. Maybe 1%. We literally don't know.

I do know that if you are in a car headed for a brick wall at 50 mph, taking your foot off of the gas is a good idea.
Dress Up Your Cubicle
I'm not abreast of all the latest buzz in NeoVim, but I've been hearing and seeing good things about Treesitter in general.

Is the plan to at some point deprecate the existing vim-style syntax highlighting (syn match/region etc.) in favor of treesitter-based syntax highlighting? Where can I find this discussion if it is happening?
The thing that immediately jumped into my head is coded military use. Especially since they mention the printer being based on a military design.

It's still rather obscure, if not still secret, just to what extent we were actually using the shuttles in their intended military capacity.

But when designed, the military use was expected to be much much higher than what panned out.

This printer would be high on the list of the weight budget, to the point that I wonder if it wasn't critical protocol to some still secret military use, similar to the teletype nuke codes / orders on a sub.

Running over the audio system also makes me curious if it was strictly unencrypted comms, or if it could plug in to a decrypted steam. Were they clear broadcasting coded messages, or encrypted-broadcast clear messages (or both or neither).

IIRC, NASA used to have at least some 'private' comms with astronauts that were in the clear, but they basically just didn't rebroadcast to the public or publicize those currently used frequencies, and just sort of trusted those in the know not to listen in.
The only US involvement in ousting Zelaya was the State Department asking neighboring countries not to intervene. The Supreme Court of Honduras issued the arrest warrant for him on their own. It was an entirely internal affair until after they tossed him onto a plane. And on top of that, the guy was trying to illegally change the constitution.
That Steve Jobs advice of saying no to a lot of things seems such a natural thing to do as you age.

As years that remain shrink, you have to pick and choose the battles you want to fight.
I'm still baffled by this attitude. That "under 1%" overhead is why computers are measurably slower than 30 years ago to use. All those "under 1%" overhead add up
So the solution is to give it to someone else?
I lived without a car for a decade (London / other towns in the UK) and then I moved to a place in EU where I need a car but things are pretty close by. I can get a bus but they're not frequent enough to replace cars.

Overall the better quality of life (food, weather, access to seaside, real estate affordability, lower cost of living in general) weighs WAY more than having to drive a car or not.

It's a nice to have but not "life-changing".
The important bit is to have the stores you need nearby so you don't have to drive 30m to get a coffee and 1h to go shopping. That's what wrong with the USA.
Most of Europe has towns like this: you still need cars, but everything is close by.

Pros:

- I can go wherever I want
- I can carry a lot more groceries / stuff
- I don't stress about timetables anymore
- No need to rent a car to do trivial work

Cons:

- Need to pay for car, insurance, parking
- Higher risk of accidents
- Risk of fines (speed limits are ridiculous, same for alchol tolerance)
Cells die before they turn to cancer. Same with the individual. We have limited useful lifespan. Above that we’re a burden on society.
It's one of those things that you don't usually need to think about, so you don't.

Not too long ago I hit this same realization with pipes because my "grep ... file | sed > file" (or something of that nature) was racey.

I took the time to think about it and realized "oh I guess that's how pipes would _have_ to be implemented".
I'm not sure water needs to be diverted, per se. The problem isn't baseline water level but waves, and especially large waves, and sand washing away. It seems like the solutions would involve some combination of:

* Breakwaters, to equalize the water levels and reduce the waves

* A few meters inland, some kind of wall (firmer than sand) which doesn't wash away, so a bigger wave doesn't impact homes

* Perhaps some kind of reinforcement underneath the sand

It might reduce littoral drift a little bit, but as I understand, this would be done the length of a rather long coastline, so that's not really an issue.

I have very mixed feelings about just dumping tons of sand into the ocean each year. That's going to have its own impacts.
I wouldn't describe Paris as a super nice place by any means, more "gritty but cool," but the area near the Eiffel Tower is a tourist zone and always has been. Average Parisians rarely go there. I wouldn't call Times Square a nice place either.

Your comment would be more convincing if you said Le Marais, Belleville, or the 13th were getting bad.
If you like the theory of computing and thinking like a computer scientist, aka computational systems and algorithms, then a degree in computer science makes sense. It has two sides, a logic/math background and an
experimental side (systems building). It also blurs with math, physics, statistics at the edges where you see cross collaboration. Computer scientists like to take things from different fields and push them to extreme scale. Deep learning is one example. Graphical models are another (taken from Bayesian stats) and applied to graphs.

But in some sense a liberal arts degree is more useful.
Gonna be testosterone, and 100mg
Inkjets need a gas cartridge.

https://www.spacepen.com/our-story
Not exactly a primary source but according to this thread: https://forum.nasaspaceflight.com/index.php?topic=10617.0

"Toner is held to the paper in a laser printer by electrostatic attraction (opposite charges attract), not gravity. Along those same lines, in an inkjet printer ink droplets are fired at the paper, not just dropped, so once again I doubt gravity is an issue."
I look at the numbers and think they demonstrate how much more efficient Austria is compared to any US state. I would prefer living in Austria to Mississippi.
I'm sure that this just because I'm not the target audience, so intend only the very gentlest criticism. But I literally LOLed at how completely incomprehensible this README was for me. It has really been a while since I've read a paragraph and had literally no idea what it was talking about. But here's the winner:

> A network agnostic DHT crawler and monitor. The crawler connects to DHT bootstrappers and then recursively follows all entries in their k-buckets until all peers have been visited.

Following the Wikipedia link for "DHT" yielded some clues. (Ah. Distributed hash table.) But I've still been looking at this for several minutes now and am basically just puzzled. But the graphs are pretty! Reading the word "amino" a little further down threw me off the scent for a bit. But I gather that is actually a proper noun, and we aren't really talking about proteins here.

Maybe an initial sentence that makes fewer assumptions about the reader's familiarity with the jargon would be helpful.
> risks of handling random bureaucrats who want to become famous because they managed to fine some rich company

Do list the names of famous bureaucrats that got famous because they fined rich companies. There's Margrethe Vestager who is the commissioner for competition, and is neither famous nor famous for finning rich companies.

Also, do you have any actual criticism of specific legislation or is this a generic "laws bad because they make it harder for business which is bad" rant without any substance?
Electric bike? Electric moped if you wanna stretch
Meh. I had he same blood work results as a 35 year old 4 years ago. I was "healthy" and exercising every day and eating "healthy".

Turns out running 8 miles every day and not eating over 100g of protein and not having enough fat KILLS your hormones because you're always in a catabolic state.

Now I only lift heavy, fixed my macros, get better sleep, focus on muscle mass, and DON'T need TRT. My natural T levels tripled in only 2 years.

Some biased ideas of "healthy" are not optimal.
> 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.

can you name a few? i have currently installed and enabled 65 plugins. Granted, that is mostly because the obsidian team does not know how to build a good product, leading me to use plugins. but even then, the functionality is not that bad (templater, book search, dataview, loom, custom file explorer/command palette etc)
In this case, each cell is also a standalone battery (an 1850 I presume). Assemblage of these is either called a module or a pack.