skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I wonder if OpenStreetMap has historical information easily available and easily queryable. It'd be interesting to see the evolution of the number of benches in cities and parks. My feeling is that they have been disappearing in my area, and it feels harder to find good spots to sit and read a book.
Being a furry is and always has been a sex thing for the majority of the fandom. Some furries will vehemently deny this but we have receipts going all the way back to the 1970’s: https://en.wikifur.com/wiki/Vootie

Anime is not inherently sexual as a medium but has a well-deserved reputation for being associated with creeps and perverts.

Don’t talk about either in professional settings.
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If you mean the particular subtype of AI that is the currently fashionable shiny object people are chasing, then no, it is not.

If you mean it's AGI, then no, definitely not, but then, nothing is. (Whoever was about to stand up and say "how do you know that ChatGPT isn't AGI", don't. You'll thank me in three years that those words are not attached to your name in public.)

If you mean, does it fall into what people would have described as AI before marketers, executives, and other similarly ignorant people started using "AI" to refer specifically to generative models, then yes, it absolutely is.
But the word "culture" is what was used. Not the word "values".

There can be a discussion about whether or not "values" would be a better term. I think that's fair. But switching to a discussion based on values moves the goal posts a bit and we should acknowledge that fact.
Use an SMTP library then.
It's a reflection of a general myopia in the American psyche, which intensifies as you reach the country's center where the rest of the world is relegated to being regarded as a strange abstract construct, and either ignored, disdained, or bombed.
I noticed this too with my local Starbucks stores.

It seems boils down to revenue. If too many people sit down and use the area as a third place, then their revenue is capped if people stay too long.

Ideally it's should be a balance between customers and business. Go to the coffee shop, work for an hour then leave, to free up space.

I've also noticed they reduce seating to battle homeless folks from nesting in. It makes sense, I avoid stores if feel threatened from confrontational/aggressive people.
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Tim's used to be the original third place up north. In smaller communities or local (blue collar) enclaves, it still is. It's the blue collar connotation that's lead to their declining use in urban centers.
Denmark values cultural homogeneity enough to mandate that children over the age of one in high-immigrant areas formally designated as ghettoes attend 25 hours per week of public daycare including instruction in "democracy, equality and major Danish holidays such as Christmas" under the threat of losing government benefits [1]. By western standards, this strikes me as a strong commitment to cultural homogeneity.

[1] https://www.reuters.com/article/idUSKCN1IT1EN/
Both Palestinians and Israelis will use bots on Twitter and elsewhere. If you want to be informed, decide which publications you trust and follow them.
I bet this person felt really smart posting about this problem that surely nobody has ever thought of before
One thing that jumped out at me is that the word engine, in its historic understanding, would apply quite well to the Rube Goldberg drawings of overly complex contraptions to do various tasks... which means it would also apply to most enterprise architectures which are similarly overly complex.
Billions of people cook over open fires. Are gas stoves the solution?
basically I don't need to use tmux anymore to manage my tabs and windows
The article does not touch on an important aspect of third places, at least in the US, which is liability.

See this event that may have caused Starbucks to recalculate its liability costs for providing a third place.

https://www.npr.org/2023/06/15/1182359923/ex-starbucks-manag...

The tort environment in the US is gumming up the gears big time, and I believe it to be one of the undercurrents of change. Every business decision begins with the question “how do we limit our liability exposure?”.

One way is to separate the land asset from the business, so it is not at risk in lawsuits. This diminishes the incentive to create businesses, since the rent seeking portion of the business is even more profitable, and the productive portion of the business is less profitable.

Another is to have cameras everywhere. And another is to require higher prices and/or credit cards, to service as credit checks to filter customers.

And obviously, the last but not least, is to simply eliminate third places and eliminate potential interaction between employees and the broader public.
Taken out of context, sure. An ASN identifies an autonomous system and is used for routing in the core of the Internet. But if you have the ASN of an AWS data center, knowing it tells you nothing about the client of AWS that the traffic you're routing belongs to (though AWS recently added BYOASN). Ditto, by and large, CIDR blocks of publicly allocated address space. Individual IPs are more informative, and domain names even more informative than that.

I also don't disagree about the usefulness of this kind of information, my argument is that ISPs can't always get by on coarsely aggregated data alone.
Write-up about the project is here: https://wuffs.org/blog/building-a-psion-emulator
Go stand on a quarter, and it's about like that.
Blank Street is eating their lunch
>Appearing lower in the results than non-monetised content is very different from not appearing in the results at all.

I'd say it's only technically different unless there are only a handful of results. It probably might as well not appear in results if it's past the twentieth position. On Google, click through rate is already down to ~1% by the tenth result.
Cafés and coffee shops near to where I live [1] are frequently rammed with people on laptops. I'm sure they're mostly diligent in buying drinks every hour or so, but I feel bad for the proprietors - its hard to see how they make much money.

I've seen people with multiple spare laptop batteries along with their bags etc., clearly intent on long-term occupation of their chosen table. Wasn't like this before covid.

The article mentions public libraries, and the branch library near me looks good as a place for maybe getting some work done - albeit with more background noise than I'd like.

[1] Relatively prosperous, professional, urban, northern England
And you're going to stop them with your guns? Good luck.
Why don't we just cut out the human and computer middlemen then and have the horse design these?
> I spent 2h debugging a script only to find out there was an extra space character that made the whole thing break silently.

When I was learning C++, I lost 2 days because of an extra ";" in an if statement. However this does not mean C++ is an insane language. It means it has quirks.

> I would be willing to learn a sane language, but bash isn't one

I kindly, but strongly disagree.

> If you need to know of a million tiny gotchas to implement even the simplest task safely and portably

Then you'd absolutely hate Perl, to the level of pulling your or The Camel's hairs out.

This is how programming languages work. They have straights and curvy parts, and there are some chicanes (quirks). So yeah, if you need to use bash, you need to learn it.
That's long gone. Long long gone actually. Now browser is such a huge and capable platform that there's nothing comparable available anywhere.

Even XBox controller's drivers come baked into browser. Just check the number of APIs on MDN.

As for performance, that's already not anywhere into discussion. Check Google Docs. Everything single thing you are on screen is drawn using Canvas and it works just.... everywhere.
Definitely not. Current estimates put viral DNA at about 8% of the human genome.
AI being used in China to have fake Russian women promote products and wives
US says Russia likely launched anti-satellite weapon
I saw someone once set up an entire desktop that they hauled in in a giant duffel bag.
When you were growing up, did you ever see people from previous generations just not "get it" when new technology comes out and make comments like "its worthless, just a novelty"? Did you ever expect to become one of those people?
They do actually. Red > orange > green > blue. Let it settle.
Autumn hasn't been replaced outside of America though. I do appreciate the interesting fact about hærfest, so thanks.
I used gen 1 and gen 2, and still primarily use Windows to this day on a 15” touch screen.

Control panel with touch is much improved but the 3rd party app ecosystem support for HiDPI and touch sized controls is even worse today since most companies gave up on Windows Store and UWP style apps. In my opinion Windows 10 was a step back in terms of touch UX because the Windows 8 Home Screen / full screen start menu tried harder to be good.

Maybe it’s not Surface but I still have to manually invoke the touch keyboard from the accessibility menu like 20% of the time to type my password to log in after booting up.
I'm sorry that you are growing tired of your fellow humans merely expressing their discontent. Maybe you can help with a solution, since you've heard about people's concerns? I know I try in my small corner of the world to make things better for those around me.
From experience: several layers of self-amalgamating tape and liquid electrical tape will produce a wire splice that is waterproof to 6000 meters.
The bargain used to be, I overpay for coffee because I’m renting the seat.

Without a seat, why am I paying?
They're using accident data from 2013-2017, but the linked to demographic car ownership data [0] is from 2023. Even if electric car owners tend to younger in 2023 (and I'm very sceptical), that is completely irrelevant, since what we need to know is the age of electric car owners in 2013-2017.

[0] and by data I/they actually mean a survey by a market research firm.
Restaurants have a long history of asking people to leave if they occupy a table for too long. Cafes could do the same if they deem it worth it.
That was their original plan

https://www.fastcompany.com/887990/starbucks-third-place-and...

But the rise of remote work and just an enormous class of workers looking for a free “office” has exploded. I’m sure they have been overrun with squatters buying 1 coffee and sitting for 7 hours — I bet their electricity and bathroom use alone makes them unprofitable. And they displace other transient customers who may have stayed and ordered more like when meeting a friend.

The model is broken at this tragedy of the commons scale.

They do not want to be in business of policing tables usage, and always run the risk of having to displace someone and having it escalate to some kind of video captured confrontation or shaming.
Can't the cafe just charge by the hour, like a co-working space ?
It's possible to write systematically safe code in assembly, no need to use any language. People really just don't want to do it.
Dedication. I would love to know his CS:GO rank.
Very cool idea, but maybe it should be called /was :D
I wonder how many of these /now pages will be updated?
They could just say “average US person”.
> The only time this complaint is valid

I've dealt with bash scripts running in high load production systems and I'm very happy I don't have to any more.

There is a reason my comment was a response and not a standalone statement. The OP was explicitly speaking about using it a professional setting.
I was envious of a friend of mine with a ZX Spectrum +3A, with the builtin drive.

The rest of us had tapes.

And yes the high school computers were running MS-DOS 3.3, with two 5 1/4" drives and no hard disk.
Nutritional Assessment of Food Aid Delivered to Gaza via Israel During the War [pdf]
I don't want to diminish how interesting the path is, but in my experience, it's still too far out of the way and too purpose-driven to have the organic spontaneity of a good third space.
I'm a happy capitalist, by that I mean I like my job and enjoy going to work etc etc. I'd love an office tel in my city. They're super common in Korea, and the modern ones include the office for the office workers, an office for you (your "WFH" office) and your house and coffee shops and stuff. I'm not sure I'd live in the exact same building my office was HQ'd in, but if I could live in the one next to it, that would be cool. (I'm sure I',m in the minority of those who likes this idea tho, ha)

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Officetel
Charging by the month, like Costco, is likely to be a much better strategy. Network effects and all that.
Pedestrians 'twice as likely' to be hit by an electric or hybrid-electric car
> Not really

And again, "con artist" was not talking about start-up.

> This is absolutely the implication of what you said.

That is incorrect. I can see why you can interpret it like that, and indeed I should have been more clear, but it's just incorrect to pretend that there is a logical implication.

It's more like saying "I don't know how I feel about Ted Cruz, but then again, once, I voted for a rapist". In this case, it does not mean that I imply that Ted Cruz is a rapist, it just mean that my bar is as low as voting for a rapist. It does not mean I'm saying Ted Cruz is a rapist, it can totally mean that Ted Cruz is probably therefore above the bar. This is way more what I've said in the previous comment: "US people are less uncomfortable with start-up that will have unrealistically ambitious claims, but then again, US people are less unforgiving with con artists, so it's not surprising".

> but "con artists" is a lot more specific and critical than that, and that's what I was responding to.

And again, even if we go to the "start-up / scam" discussion, none of that is saying that all start-up are scam or that none of the non-start-up are not scam, but again, some start-ups are scam, this is just a fact. You seem to react like if saying that some start-ups are scam is going to far.
I'm sorry, I thought I was clear. My priority is the safety.

I don't like the Chicago police data because it fails to address the safety.
Why not develop on and push directly to your main branch?
> So I guess that's one thing that might characterize society: Lots of frustrated would-be grandparents.

Perhaps also many alienated grandparents, confused, hurt, and angry that their children don't want them involved in their grandchildren's lives.

https://www.webmd.com/parenting/news/20230620/dealing-with-a...

https://www.alienatedgrandparentsanonymous.com/
> 55% personal income tax rate?

That's not really correct. It is more like 36%. And also it is more complicated than that, as the more you earn the higher it gets, but it's roughly around 36%. The 55% is for example for secondary incomes, etc. what we call a B-kord
In London, it is normal to pay more for the coffee when you are staying in.
It’s the same with theft, normal assault, fraud, normal criminal behaviour, etc.

Universities often want to keep it “in house” and deal with it through internal disciplinary actions - as opposed to bringing in the law enforcement and public scrutiny.

This exists outside the US too - and doesn’t require a campus police force.

In the university a friend went to, such matters (theft from accommodations, etc) were dealt with through the deans office, and calling the cops was heavily discouraged by the university.

This system has pros and cons, but when it’s to do with more serious matters (actual assault, sexual assault, etc) the real authorities should be brought in instead of some bizarre victim silencing and due process lacking internal system.
Not sure if it's a geographic/cultural thing but I definitely saw this in multiple east coast US cities pre-COVID, especially in neighborhoods close to universities. I remember this being an issue in some of the nicer areas of where I lived more than a decade ago - if you weren't there by 8am or 90% of the "good tables" (chairs not booths, near a window but not blinding sunlight, near an outlet, not near the door) were taken up by a single person on a laptop.
AI was never well defined. AB tree pruning chess engines were called AI at one point. Game programmers call A* and behaviour trees - AI.
At this point it means nothing.

Call it machine learning or automated optimization. Arguably you could do the same thing with a greedy algorithm iterating over all solutions. Would that be AI too?
Just use Python it uses 'self'
I found that way of writing terribly arrogant and annoying, like a smart 15-year-old.
Nah, thats not Denmark, thats a particular racist government
Proportional representation and coalition systems lead to deadlock. Belgium and Israel have gone years between stable governments because of the failure to form a coalition. Meanwhile in Germany, it’s impossible for a voter to predict ahead of time what kind of government to expect from voting for any given party because almost any party could become coalition partners with just about any other party.

The two party system is still, in effect, a coalition system; the difference is that voters know ahead of time which coalition they’re going to get.
A new way of doing mobile App Store Optimization (ASO)
Looking at the GitHub repo[0], I don't see why you wouldn't be able to host it yourself (extra configuration may be required). In the package.json, there is a script for running the web app `npm run webapp:build`, so I'd assume you could do that and then host the built web app in ./webapp/dist however you'd like.

[0]: https://github.com/heyman/heynote
Probably ended because now there is risk of being video tapes and sued.
That's not a very useful definition of "in-band signaling". For me, the main difference is an out-of-band protocol that says:

"The first two bytes represent the string length, in big-endian, followed by that many bytes presenting the string text."

and an in-band signalling protocol:

"The string is ended by a period and a newline."

In the second one, you're indicating the end of the string from within the string. It looks simpler, but that's where accidents happen. Now you have to guarantee that the text never contains that control sequence, and you need an escaping method to represent the control sequence as part of the text.
Scott Alexander's review of The Body Keeps the Score by Bessel van der Kolk : https://slatestarcodex.com/2019/11/12/book-review-the-body-k...
If the café thought it was ruining their Livelihood, they are more than welcome to implement a policy preventing such thing.
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I have to agree. To me this seems more like machine learning.

Try, test, fail, change parameters, repeat.

The 'AI', to me at least would suggest some kind of intelligence to 'make informed assumptions' at least.. But not sure. Its confusing.
They can, but then that sucks for cafe customers that just want a latte, and don't want to "co-work." It's a problem where a few people are ruining something for the majority. I guess you could do some kind of "first 60 minutes included with purchase of drink" or something, but it all just seems so complicated.
Fair.

Last time I checked ubsan was a few years ago for a small program, and I've read stuff about it not being suitable for anything outside development (more like a valgrind complement than a release option) because of how it messed with environment variables and linked libraries or something, so I might not have the full picture.
2017 EV's didn't have the low speed pedestrian warning sound, modern EV's do. If the study didn't take that into account, it's not valid.
Voted in by the Danish people.
Right. But this is the choice, isn't it?

I don't know if you can really get away without learning general things about CAD systems if you want to make complex things, because those general things are so influential on the existence and design of real world objects.

It's like saying "but I don't really want to learn about different programming languages or software design, because I only want to write apps for iPhone."

If you want to make very simple objects and not learn deeper concepts, use TinkerCAD. It's fine. Weirdly competent in places; people pull off crazy stuff. It uses a simple physical world model.

Beyond that, you need more abstract tools. Ultimately you have to decide whether you want to exist within the (shifting) free plan limitations of a commercial cloud package, spend money on something like Alibre Atom3D, pay the cloud firms, or use something open source.

I'm not sure if it should be surprising that the open source systems are more of a commitment.

FreeCAD (main branch) has one fundamental limitation which is being mitigated -- the topological naming issues -- and some smaller issues to do with fillets/chamfers, but apart from that is a disorganised-but-competent, open source workbench-based system.

And the tradeoffs are not straightforward. This is less like Photoshop vs GIMP and more like ArcGIS vs QGIS. Is ArcGIS initially more coherent? Yes, allegedly. Is it universally more powerful? No.

FreeCAD is really a lot like QGIS, IMO.

You can learn QGIS, and when you learn it, you might decide that the freedoms and flexibility it offers are worth the pain. Or you might front up the cash for ArcGIS.
For what it’s worth, some markup-first template systems have tried to respect the target format’s structure—Genshi[1] and TAL[2] come to mind, and of course XSLT (see also SLAX[3]). I said “markup-first” so that the whole question isn’t trivialized by JSX.

[1] https://genshi.edgewall.org/wiki/Documentation/xml-templates...

[2] https://zope.readthedocs.io/en/latest/zopebook/AppendixC.htm...

[3] https://juniper.github.io/libslax/slax-manual.html
Was this response generated by an LLM?
Isn't Starbucks business very heavily biased towards takeout orders? They have higher through-put on coffee sales if all the seats are full - how many people leave without ordering if the seats are in use?
> I suppose you live in a bubble where "script" is almost all code ever written.

Most tasks humans perform are in following a "script" so stands to reason that software would carry that forward. Why wouldn't most code be of the script variety? It would be quite surprising if that wasn't the case.

> which makes me think you're not even a software engineer at all, are you?

Appeal to authority and ad hominem at the same time. Intriguing.

> I guess that you're talking about embedded development???

I am talking about scripts and systems. You had this figured out earlier when you linked to Wikipedia. It was right there in front of you. Why the confusion again all of a sudden?

It is probably true that embedded device work is generally system in nature. It is likely that their typical workload isn't amenable to scripts, although there are some obvious exceptions, so perhaps that is what you had in mind there? But systems certainly aren't limited to embedded work.

> Where Exceptions are not used because they're a bit too costly

While I respect your ability define words as you see fit, if you really want to be the word pedant, we're talking about errors, not exceptions. Specifically carrying errors via exception handlers. It is not unusual for embedded systems to store exceptions, even in C, but that is well beyond the topic at hand.

It is always funny when the pedants aren't even technically correct. Well, at least you tried. You will always have that.
Some coffee shops ban laptop use -- although I haven't seen that around where I live for years, I used to see it in another city some years ago. But perhaps they lose too much business if they do, damned either way. And of course there's still phones now.