skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Many neighborhoods assume cars for everything. Even local parks have giant parking lots.

However some cities get it. Things like a parking lot by the park, but surrounded on 3 sides by dead end streets, that allow bikes and pedestrians directly into the park. Combine that with some paths in the park and the pedestrians and bikes have a lower distance than the cars.

Combine that with green belts (again with dead end streets up to the green belt) and you have highly desirable housing that allows bikes use the green belts to make for pleasant bike commutes, dog walks, and makes having a small home/yard MUCH more pleasant. It lowers the average temperature of the city, makes things less convenient for cars and more convenient for bikes, pedestrians, and public transit.

At the end of the bike path (usually a major road) put in a bus stop and a bridge for the pedestrians or bikes that want to keep on going.

It's really not that hard, but cities can be friendly to bikes and pedestrians and still usable by cars. It does work, it can substantially move the needle on the percentage of commutes that happen without cars.

I'd much rather have 0.15 acres with a local park that connects to a greenbelt where I can bike to work than 1 acre that I have to maintain myself and forces me to drive everywhere I go. I've noticed that decent bike/green belt networks (where you can commute on bike without spending most of your time on busy streets with bike lanes) are often the most desirable city in the area.
Sometimes I am wonder why an app is an app, and not a page that can be self hosted.

I know. Sometimes it makes sense. Sometimes it is easier. Sometimes it is for work, and it is a requirement. Often it could be a page, and is not just to have access to your device data.

For myself? Most of the programs I write are pages. Works on any device, Writing guis is not a problem, there are a ton of useful frameworks. There is no need for synchronizing data between devices, not need to install it on client devices etc. Etc.
Yeah that procedural text based alternative is called Python.
Berlin has the disadvantage of historically being an enclave of Western Germany in the communist GDR, very hard/expensive to supply as a result and always at risk of the commies forcibly annexing it. No large (and thus: tax-paying) company wanted to set up its headquarters there for that reason, and additionally as it was an enclave there was no place for industry to set up production facilities.

Nowadays, Berlin has a shit ton of "startups" HQ'd there, but they pay barely any taxes compared to production industry heavyweights.
So you end up with thousands of near idle AWS instances?

There has got to be a better middle ground. Like mult tenant but strong splits ( each customer on db etc )
Interesting to read the various[1,2] discussions on this chess variant

1 - http://www.hexenspiel.de/engl/synchronous-chess/
2 - https://www.chess.com/forum/view/general/synchronous-chess
Show HN: Psql with Copilot Features
Hi HN,

We’re building PXL (https://pxlapp.com/), a psql client with support for copilot like features (inline code complete, query optimisation & sql assistant).

Here's the Github repo if anyone is interested https://github.com/pxlapp/postgres/tree/pxl

PXL helps in the following manner:
1- It has context of your DB schema so it can produce inline completion suggestions
2- The sql assistant can improve developer workflows so you don't need to keep going back to ChatGPT
3- It's can be integrated into other clients (check our Github for beekeeper-studio demo)

We’re still pretty early in development and we really want to improve the sql developer experience.
Any feedback would be greatly appreciated!
A lot of people saying the business model doesn't justify a $1bn valuation (rightfully so), but I'm guessing the valuation wasn't for their current business, but on the possibility that Cameo became the new way for booking talent in the age of the internet.

They could have become a $1bn business if they had "revolutionized talent management" (or something like that). Not saying it was a good investment, or one I would have made, but I'm guessing they pitched a larger vision than simply a buttload of cameos from washed-up/reality TV stars.
One of the many reasons AR will probably never go anywhere. It has some pretty neat applications, but then a ton of horribly dystopic ways to monetize it. And greed all but guarantees that the latter will drown out the former. Kind of like what happened to VR where anti-competitive exclusivity deals, profit motivated pricing (as opposed to a loss leader market to drive adoption) and all this other sort of nonsense went a long way towards killing the ecosystem before it even got off the ground. It was a like bait and switch, but they forgot the bait.
> HN will cheer on a lot of things that are counter-intuitive to their wellbeing; open-weight models doesn't feel like one of them.

Except for the fact that they come from undisclosed sources from a company that does this: https://x.com/Tantacrul/status/1794863603964891567
true lol
I think that especially in CS, since applications of which touch on nearly every possible field of knowledge, computer scientists often run into trouble of assuming they know more than we do.
When I was a kid, I lived on lake which was connected to Lake Ontario.

One summer a job was across the our small lake, a 40 minute drive by car, but maybe 10 minutes by boat as the crow flies. Sure, I got wet during rain and wavy days, but clothes get dry, and it sure was convenient.

I often wondered, if the job was in SF itself, do people take boats to get to work? If so, why not? I presume docking costs? The place I worked had their own dock, so ... "sure, just tie up over there every day".
"K-202 was a 16-bit minicomputer, created by a team led by Polish scientist Jacek Karpiński between 1970–1973 in cooperation with British companies Data-Loop and M.B. Metals."
The Global Temperature Just Went Bump
Interesting. This is exactly my workflow, except I have 3 worktrees instead of 5: r/o remote, work and review.
TC39 standardizing TypeScript as part of JavaScript would be a critical error. TC39's job is to look at all the options and make something better. TypeScript won out in popularity due to its tight integration with VSCode. it's not necessarily the best route for the core language.
And zero dependencies!
There was a bug in the golang standard lib that was basically exactly due to that behavior. It seems that even the golang authors made such a mistake.
that sounds like a pretty big boom for a mouth to handle ngl
I don't get it. Are you arguing that the majority of Poles enjoyed being forced to pay (indirectly) for military equipment, and that that particular pleasure or pride and its consequences hence can be used to browbeat everything and everyone else? "Comrade, stop whistling? Don't you know you cannot be happier than us, who have to work for planes and guns?"
I tried three searches'autism' 'episodic memory' and 'hippocampus' and I was pleased to see my account on each. I guess I have my niche :)
thanks for the list, super handy!
Proposal: Type Unions for C#
I'm in the French Alps, so a spread area, NOT designed to sell cars, and well we have walkable areas without physical ads (shop windows) in nature and the simplest difference between the USA suburbs is just the fact that here homes and commerce are mixed, so you have a supermarket nearby a blacksmith, few other shops and so on, while some works at home in presence, like a barber with the shop in the basement.

Long story short it's EASY to correct USA suburbs defects, just allowing mixing residences and commerce. While it's next to impossible evolving cities without rebuilding them. You'll never see a green new deal done NY, and we haven't enough natural resources to rebuild cities, while we can rebuild spread areas without making heat island of thermal mass, subsidence, health issues, big pollution and so on, the sole looser are the finance capitalists who need large cities to own en mass and rent en mass, selling services that are useless and unfeasible in a spread area.

The Strong Town model is definitively possible in a mixed suburbs like here in the Alps, while it's impossible in a modern city.
Aight let me chime in here.

I'm a game developer. I make web games. We run our games with a simple nginx server that simply serves the wasm. We have some JavaScript libraries we use. They have to be raw dog .js.

I don't even know what your "ejs" or "cjs" acronyms mean.

We use the discord JavaScript SDK. Discord only ships it as a node module or as .ts.

It's a pain in our ass to update because we don't know what those tools your talking about are and we don't want to know. Just give me the damn .js
help says too much, usually you'd like a quick overview slightly formatted and well classified, which is what wat seems to afford here
> In Japanese they write the numbers the same as in English ("4, 6, 8")

Modern Japanese has two numeral systems - Arabic and Chinese. The Arabic numerals were introduced to Japanese relatively recently (only in the modern period). In pre-modern Japanese, only the Chinese numerals existed. In contemporary Japanese, Arabic numerals are more common, but Chinese numerals are still used in some contexts (especially texts written vertically)

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Japanese_numerals
They will be once we legislate that respect. Not a second earlier.
For the last mile you're probably right, but the electricity has to come from somewhere. So you also need to size the production capacity, distribution network, sub-stations and whatnot to match the installed capacity. Things get really bad, really quickly, when demand and availability doens't match.
So you want to prohibit sending pornography by USPS mail until the receiver has identified themselves sufficiently to confirm they are old enough?

Because surely that is the more valid comparison than physical stores.

United States Postal Service v. Hustler Magazine, Inc. said Hustler had the right to send unrequested copies of the magazine to Congress members. If only they had thought to require people to send a copy of their id first before being allowed to receive porn.
one of the killer features of Zulip is that when you mention your local datetime in a message the receiver sees that in their own timezone. So useful when teams are distributed.
If you select some of the keywords (e.g. "brain" and "linguistic") for a user, you get posts they made related to those keywords. I think the results are okay in terms of relevance to the query, but of course "posting about a topic" and "being knowledgeable about a topic" are different things.

Now if this tool could distinguish posts that sound like they were written by a layman from those made by an expert...
Please do surfing next and add it to Surfline
I don’t think anyone believes Poland would be a global superpower. But a half millennium ago it was the largest state in Europe by area. Since then, the country has been attacked and dismembered more than pretty much any other European state, including Germany, Russia, and France.

It’s not a stretch to think that Poland would be on equal terms with Spain or Italy had these things not occurred. But of course then you have to dig into the history of colonialism, of which Poland was a colonized state and not a colonizing one, and places like the UK, France, or Germany don’t like considering the fact that abundant resources from colonies might have played a role in their industrialization.
Berlin’s economy is unique for a major capital. Berlin is one of the weaker states economically in Germany. Mostly an effect of the division when most major industry left towards a place where the Soviet Army is not 5 minutes away and the city might be cut off from supplies at any moment. It’s been getting better but only recently the GDP per capita of Berlin rose above that of Germany overall.

This was radically different before World War 2. In 1938 Berlin made up 10% of GDP (and Germany was bigger back then). Major companies like Lufthansa and Deutsche Bank were headquartered in Berlin. It was the center of the new Electrical industry being home of both Siemens and AEG.
Tell that to the folks that are dying because they can't afford off-patent insulin. I know a young lady who passed away in her dorm room a couple years back because she'd been rationing, I could introduce you to her family, I'm sure they'd be delighted for your take on medical profiteering.
So? You’re stuck with a warrantied product that you know has the same defect, unless they’ve changed things since last I saw it. What’s a two-year warranty on a product that breaks after three? The market is not fixing this particular issue. Sure you can choose another manufacturer next time but you’ve already been screwed by one. There was no need for that in the first place.

Consumer laws are always a benefit!
Virtual gift cards offered by Cybersecurity firm CrowdStrike to those who aided customers through the global IT outage have been blocked and flagged for potential fraud by Uber.

https://www.abc.net.au/news/2024-07-26/crowdstrike-gift-card...

I almost feel sorry for CrowdStrike.
OpenAI to Launch Searchgpt
Well, call the bully guy to a staircase, make sure nobody is there, then recreate the this is sparta moment. You, people, should stick together and don't let anyone to be singled out or partake in psycho games.
> any security advantage they have is simply due lack of bugs, not simply a better design.

feels like maybe there is some corelation
“Scientists have proven octopuses are complex, intelligent creatures who can feel a full range of emotions,"

These animals get a lot of hype for their intelligence lately, but surely cows and horses are more intelligent, yet still farmed and eaten.
I sort of wish the defaults were flipped in F# - everything is inline by default.
Really? Seems like ad funded “free” tech products have been the most successful in gaining wide adoption. I’d argue the opportunity for greed in AR makes it more likely to go lots of places, although we may not like them in the long run.
YC Ruby Meetup: Ruby and Rails Powering YC Startups in 2024
PDF parsers, and really all complex format parsers, are very often exploitable. Maliciously crafted documents trigger a buffer overflow, and now they can take control of the process and execute arbitrary code, code that almost certainly has access to your other documents as well.

Also, how about malicious scripts that I convince you to explicitly give execute permissions to and run? How about Git repos that I convince someone to clone, compile, and run, that have malicious code?

Signature-based heuristics can help protect from all of these things that the OS is powerless to help against with only traditional security measures.
Ferries are a popular way to commute from Marin Country to SF:

https://www.goldengate.org/ferry/schedules-maps/

https://www.blueandgoldfleet.com/sausalito/

I don't know of anyone using or having used a private boat to make the commute.
ElasticMQ: https://github.com/softwaremill/elasticmq
Your infrastructure doesn’t have to be so beefy when you produce and cache it locally. In my climate, 500W vs 15kW wood be enough boost for winters. That’s 30x reduction in pricy infrastructure.
> rank comments instead of users

> I have a bunch of low quality posts here when idiots piss me off

It’s ironic because in the second of the parts I quoted you on here you are basically yourself generalizing the users instead of the comments.

Is it really “idiots” that piss you off (the users)? Or is it the specific things they said in isolated cases (the comments) that piss you off? Wasn’t your point exactly that this kind of distinction is important?
Bcachefs, an Introduction/Exploration
I find discussion about caffeine sensitivity in humans rather fascinating given the very broad range of the amount required to induce an effect.

If those above are to be believed (or not suffering a psychosomatic response) and are still affected by decaffeinated coffee then the dosage between different individuals for given psychotropic effects to occur could be as high as 100:1.

As someone who can drink copious nubmers of cups of coffee in a single sitting and notice very little effect I'm curious to know why this range is so wide (heaven help patients, doctors and pharmaceutical manufacturers if all drugs had such a wide range).

Whenever I raise this the common retort is that I've developed a tolerance to caffeine, and no doubt that's true to some extent. But from experience it's pretty limited, I've been in situations where I've not had caffeinated drinks for months and not noticed any difference when I returned to them. Also, decades ago when I was a student I took up coffee to help stay awake whilst studying and it was pretty inefective. I tried evey strong brew availabe including up to five heaped teaspoons of Moccona instant coffee per cup and it was like water off a duck's back—almost useless/inefective.

The question is why do some people have a supersensitive response to caffeine whilst others do not.
I just recently started up zulip after a long break, to check some particular community discussions. Before it had felt a bit hacky/nerdy. But now, I was pleasantly surprised. The app and the service feels really fast and to the point, and I think it looks OK to.

But also that jumping in to random community, and browsing through it made sense to me, I was able to read discussions that kinda seemed interesting and skip the rest, with pretty good confidence!

Contrasting to say Discord, where I'm always overwhelmed by the number of channels in big communities, with very little way to efficiently check "whats going on lately", without just browsing through. (I'm sure sizes of communities matters here though)

Or Matrix, where everything just seems so slow and janky. Though I think it is trying to solve a harder problem being so distributed. It has real potential bringing related communities closer by having a well curated spaces that organise them neatly.
Sounds like companies that aren't interested in garishly monetizing it will have their market carved out for them.

There are far more clever and profitable ways to monetize MR than to shove ads in your face wherever you look.

I very much doubt a modern company would take an approach this dumb when they could likely make much more money doing something much more subtle.
> it is time for people start deleting their accounts

HN does not let you do that though. At least last time I asked about it, they sent me a response saying that they’d notify me when it became possible to delete an account. And they provided some reasons for why they don’t delete comments and accounts.
> Clearly, talking to some software over the network is 'using' it?

In some sense, yes. But I wouldn't say my mom uses Linux when she uses her Ipad to visit a website hosted on a Linux server.
We did computers and a 10 year old via raspberry pis and Lego. The pis give you a full operating system with WiFi and scratch plus gpio pins, plus a well developed catalogue of peripherals and community. Step one is to blink a LED, step two, drive a hobby servo off a gpio pin. Step three add more servos including continuous rotation ones with wheels. Step four: buy a 3D printer and print specialist Lego bits. All with a sob for a tenner.
The city of Cracow in Poland banned billboards (and other visual advertising quite aggressively) about 2 years ago. Great outcomes. There are still some workarounds that companies do to put this s..t out in the public (e.g. covers of renovation works can contain up to 50% of advertising area, so we have renovations of just finished buildings only to put the covers with ads).
Now, when I visit another city when there's no such ban I cannot stand this visual garbage.
This should be banned everywhere.
Meta-analysis of global food demand/population at risk of hunger for 2010–2050
Nowhere did the GP state that AR would be inescapable, just that ads would be inescapable in AR. I’d imagine high tech contact lenses would be a preferable approach to a seamless interface for most people who aren’t born with this stuff already at mass adoption.
"If climate change is taken into account, the ranges change slightly (+30% to +62% for total food demand and −91% to +30% for population at risk of hunger) but with no statistical differences overall."
Energy storage via batteries is ridiculously expensive if the storage is greater than 24 hours. Hydrogen tanks (or salt caverns) might be the solution, but there is still the capital cost of the electrolyzers and fuel cells.
Thanks for clarifying. I didn't appreciate that it only searches abstracts. That might explain some of the missing references. Anyway, great work, will look forward to using it more.
Hem... I fail to see a single reasons to use a spreadsheet or create slides in PowerPoint alike software actually...

We can compute easily in R, Python, Clojure, also with some wrappers from Jupyter to R-Studio to Clerk for those who want it, personally I present in org-mode (dslide) with easy and no extra overhead. Maybe it's about time to teach administrative people how to use a computer...
I don’t know if this includes subways but that would be welcome. Subway corridors full of billboards are an absolute brain drain.
I want to love it due to the integration in the ecosystem Im invested in. However, for petes sake, I still can’t use it in my country?!

The map shows all roads and some POIs, however it always shows me the warning that I can’t ger directions in this location.

Seems like a pretty trivial feature to make that available across the globe before other updates.
re:AMP seems like a pretty good clone that supports skins and everything. Up to you if you want to trust it or not.

https://re-amp.ru/

It’s the most true WinAmp for Mac I’ve ever found.
xgb.cv(X,y) all-the-things.

Its far from a principled statistical approach to what is supposed to be at least an observational study in every case —- and have all the caveats and preparations thereof —- but it is very easy to explain to devs, and one cannot stop the tide unfortunately.
That seems confusing to me. It would be better if Zulip just added the local timezone to the time instead of modifying what you send to people. Do you mean it shows it in a hover or tooltip?

Seems like there should be deadly sins for certain fields, and one such deadly sin is for an instant messenger to change what you send to people.
> Zuckerberg doesn't get to do what he wants. He's in meetings constantly and rarely has a free moment

This argument of

Conclusion: $RichPerson doesn't get to do what they want.
Premise: They're under constant obligation to $MoneyMachine

is both unsound and invalid.

The premise is wrong: at that levels of wealth, the obligation is not real, it's opt-in and you can opt-out at any time.

The conclusion is wrong too: At that levels of wealth, the person can do everything anyone else can do in their off-time, and they have much more off-time than the person making the argument anyway.

It's a poor argument and should not be made.
One cool thing I noticed about my polarized sunglasses is that they block most screens at public places. No ClearChannel ads for me while waiting for public transport!
I don’t really watch sports, but whenever I catch sight of a football game on TV, I’m amazed at how colorful and vibrant on field ads are, almost as if they were computer graphic generated or something.
Words stopped to have meaning when they redefined literally as figuratively.
Grid solar is the future, not placing an expensive system on your roof (though homeowners will do that for other reasons, like disaster preparedness).
I wonder how this handles import resolution.

type: module requires file extensions and does not support importing folders like most people are used to so it will not be compatible with most existing Typescript code.

Will it transform esm import syntax into require statements?

I'd prefer it break existing code to enforce correctness