skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
A walkable city and a coop are not the same thing, but anyway here are some more justifications.

Even if you discount CO2, cars still produce a lot of plastic waste in the form of tyre wear, estimated as about 9% of that currently produced (https://www.systemiq.earth/wp-content/uploads/2020/07/Breaki...). EVs actually produce _more_ of this because of their weight.

Cars are also the primary source of noise pollution (again, even EVs) and are responsible for a considerably number of deaths (number 1 cause of deaths outside of disease). Road maintainance is also one of the highest financial burdens on towns, to the extent that towns actually are unable to pay for their own road maintainance at all and taxes from people living in cities needs to make up the shortfall. A massive reduction in driving would constitute an enormous cost reduction for the federal government, allowing taxes to be allocated to other sectors.

Maybe none of these seem particularly compelling by itself, but taken together it adds up to a lot of reasons to reduce car reliance to whatever extent we can.
I wanted to try composing some music in this way and this style, but I found it hard to get started, being paralysed by choice. It’s big, it’s multi-system… but I just want to start with something decent. I’m not targeting any particular device, just making music. Sometimes simple, sometimes with more harmonisation, effects like wobble and pitch bend and such, but I’m not interested in things like sampling; mostly I just want something a bit more powerful than BeepBox. I know I’m being vague, but does anyone happen to have any suggestions and recommendations for which systems might work well?

For a different project, I’d also like this sort of thing but with a Web Audio API-based player, potentially real-time scriptable rather than static. So ideally the perfect system would also be easy to use on the web.
This is a delight. I loved the intro, had a blast from the past with the keygen exes back when.

Looks very sofisticated, gonna give it a go!
I don't think it ever was different. It feels like all this stuff we tell ourselves about how it all _ought_ to operate is used mostly to justify what actually happens as "due process".
YouTube makes 31 billion dollars a year in advertising revenue.

I am sure they could afford paying a couple hundred people with fluency in popular languages to do actual content moderation instead of abusing the general public to notice stuff going bad and press/courts as support system.
The player didn't risk lots of millions on developing something and payrolling 100s of people. So it's none of the player's business. Like people don't have 123 useless accounts here and there over the web, why this one hurts?

99.9% of gamers do not even have a firewall, and they don't care that their usage stats are shoveled out of their PC by the truckloads.
The evidence presented on the Governor’s site in OC’s link goes beyond hearsay and suspicions coincidences
Give it a try and you would know the difference between AI integrated with Supabase and Sequel. We are more focusing on the BI space, and dashboarding. Which quite far away from what Supabase or Table Plus is and is targeted towards analysts.

At some point, sequel can replace TablePlus witha few new features coming soon, along with a desktop app.
Nobody stands any chance of successfully editing that page.
I agree it does...

fork() creates a new process by duplicating the calling process.

Thats similar to what happens on git providers, you create a new repo by duplicating it, and the repo is linked aka child.

Many forks do go their own way. You can choose to pull from upstream or completely ignore it.
You are regurgitating the ever present, trumped up nonsensical bullshit in the gaming industry landscape.
Fedi Is for Losers
OpenSUSE Tumbleweed is a rolling-release distro, so it has up-to-date packages unlike Debian where the packages are years out-of-date. This should make stuff like flatpaks and snaps much less necessary, since these are basically work-arounds for ancient packages.

Also, KDE seems to be very well supported on OpenSUSE, whereas it's more of an afterthought in most other distros, including Ubuntu and Debian.
No Docs, No Software
You can’t control the growth rate of your tables, you can only estimate it.
When we design for reliability we want to remove single cause failures and make a best effort to reduce dual cause failures. We definitely don’t want two failures from a single cause.

What reason might the lack of indexes suddenly become a critical issue? And what other things might you be scrambling to deal with at the same time? Tables might fill quickly when a favorable review comes in, or some world even results in churn in your system.

Just make the damned index. You Are Going to Need It. And what’s the harm in making it?
I am not sure if you are talking about fonts included with the OS or about rendering.
But on high DPI screen all OS render fonts well (and pretty much the same). Its how the OS renders the small type on low DPI screens where lots of guessing from rendering engine has to happen.

About the font choices for sure Mac has better selection than open source typefaces… but you know you can take your San Francisco and install it on Linux if you want.
I have literally never encountered this. If people (plural) are calling you a creep for what you do in the gym you might want to do some reflection on whether you're actually the one in the wrong
Conflating „broken promises (by individuals)“ and „broken agreements“ is not ok. It takes huge efforts and many people to get an agreement signed and it must mean something. If you decide to call that „hair splitting“ it makes it impossible for me to take your reasoning seriously.
I'm shocked that Sony even sold more than half the number of PSPs as the number of DSes.
i dislike shared media and overly complicated mac as well as the next guy.

25gbps being "short sighted" is a bit of a stretch imho (running with 100mbps dsl and not feeling disadvantaged yet)
or maybe they'll just delete their account and you'll lose everything (from that user.)
I wish I could set my Visual Studio coding font to 10.5pt. Now I have to use 10pt and 105% zoom!

But then again, VS doesn't allow font size in px ...
Thanks for that. Wow, that's some shoddy journalism: does the Guardian writer not know the difference between DNA and fingerprints?
Am I the last person on the Earth to turn off font smoothing completely and use fonts perfectly hinted to the pixel grid? Can't get any sharper than that, and really helps with eye strain.
Comparison of various image captioning models
If you’re still using a diff tool that can’t do sub-line diffs it’s time to join the 20’s. I haven’t been forced to use one of those in over ten years.
Having worked on home robotics (in university, for RoboCup@Home so nothing commercial), home robots now finally feel really feasible.
The breakthroughs from LLMs and other ML technologies could finally bring this dream to reality.

I'd gladly pay 10k for a robot to do all the chores at home.
Sounds like you might have something to do with Wayland?
> I'm holding out hope that Mozilla and others can succeed in developing a truly privacy protecting solution

You're holding out for the feature built by former Facebook ad executives, who started the company Mozilla bought [1] to help advertisers get around Apple's ATT [2], to develop a privacy-respecting standard?

What you describe can be done. But it would need to happen at a public-interest group, e.g. Wikimedia or noyb. Not an ad seller.

[1] https://blog.mozilla.org/en/mozilla/mozilla-anonym-raising-t...

[2] https://www.wsj.com/articles/former-facebook-execs-launch-st...
UX Engineer, a Terminal Career
There seems to be an extreme obsession with blocking, banning, censoring, demonetizing, deplatforming, firing, unbanking, un-personing. And this is from people whose opininions already completely dominate mainstream media and all of public life. This is not healthy.
Who? Name and shame them.
I used Firefox long ago, before I switched to Mac.

Because of crippling defects in Safari (pages just not loading, hyperlinks not being recognized as such, clicks doing nothing), I decided to go back to Firefox. This was made feasible by the availability of a bookmark-syncing facility across devices.

But... wow it's painful. On mobile, the bookmarks are buried under layers of inexplicable and unneeded menus. It's infuriating to use.

On the desktop, the storage of log-in credentials is only half done. It'll remember what user ID you might have used for a site, but it then fails to select the password associated with that ID. It just presents a giant list of every password for every ID you might have used on the site. You have to scroll through them all, and sometimes there are duplicates. Why?

Then there's the inability to specify that new tabs should open on your home page. Instead, new tabs have to open on the Mozilla home page, which presents a search bar that's useless. When you start typing in it, a giant search panel erupts from the top of the screen and the cursor jumps into it. WTF? Who thought that was good design?

I will probably just go back to Safari, because I refuse to support Google's shit. But what's going on with Firefox? They're putting dev time into the garbage reported in this article, and ignoring glaring defects that are driving Firefox's already tiny market share away.
> whereas AON users are stuck at 1Gbps - seemingly because the telcos aren’t upgrading

poor souls, though can we care about the low-end first?
> because of the 95% of users who do not use these tools and thus subsidize your browsing

We had open source browsers before.
Settings -> Privacy

Uncheck the box labeled "Allow websites to perform privacy-preserving ad measurement".

Easy peasy.
It’s because the CIO or whomever is running the show is a relic from the 1990s. I can tell a lot about a company by their password policies. There also seems to a direct correlation to silly password and “security” policies and the usage of Microsoft products such as Teams and Outlook.
Funny, I just got my own GPON-capable SFP (a Zyxel pmg3000-d20b) last week.

Finally got a fiber connection from Deutsche Telekom 2 months ago, after almost 5 years of waiting and a huge amount of fear and loathing. At one point, they threatened to cancel my order, claiming a certain subcontractor was unable to reach me. Of course that subcontractor had already done it's job months ago at that point. And this is just one of the many, many shenanigans that went on during those years.

At the moment, I'm using a Fritz!Box 5530 Fiber directly hooked up to the fiber with the AVM-supplied GPON interface. But I'm planning for the Zyxel SFP to go directly into my homelab server and route from there :)
Hey this is well done. I had a very nice experience. I wasn't sure what the best kind of clips to make are, but if you are open to suggestions, I could really use a template that takes a long 10 minute product review or screencast, and cuts it down to 6 or 7 10 second cuts that just show the best parts.

Here's my user test: https://news.pub/?try=https://www.youtube.com/embed/kx5WoMB1...
I wonder what will happen if I post a provocative „Why is our IT department violating NIST password recommendations?“ in public slack.
I’ve traveled to many places where stores seem to be doing just fine. They have too many employees, even, by American standards.

I think it comes down to the cost of real estate. Both for the store, but also for employees’ housing. Higher rents mean people need to be paid more which means fewer employees and a worse experience.

I don’t know who came up with the “30% of your salary” rule for housing, but it was probably the same person who came up with the “3 months salary for a ring” rule. It seems made up. 30% is way too high. I’d love to see a survey of these factors globally. I think we put up with things in America because we don’t know any better.
> Morning live stream of trying products would be awesome

Love this idea!

> And cool idea, going to watch some over coffee tomorrow

Thanks! Happened to just start doing it by accident and people seem to really love it (but HN mods hate it for some reason, so had to start our own site for it).

Would love to have more people recording and posting their tries!
If it's small like 15", probably not. If it's 32" or more, probably yes.
Navier N30 – Electric luxury boat of the future
Fair enough.

Like all of his work, I thought it was an incredible book, if you just randomly sample 10% of it. I never understood why he doesn't cut more, as he has genius ideas that get really watered down with lots of less relevant details.

I would love if he started doing 1 page tldr's for all of his works.
maybe try fs.com
> Any site with a CDN in front of it can do that.

You are vastly overestimating HN front page traffic. Any reasonable system on any reasonable machine with any reasonable link can do this. And I really do mean reasonable: I've served front-page traffic from a dedicated server in a DC, and from a small NUC in a closet at home, and both handled it completely fine.
The most annoying aspect is that Mozilla is now an ad network with a pressure for users to view adds. uBlocks days on Mozilla are counted.
CloudKitchens Sued for Gender Discrimination
Do any other versions provide cached versions of the pages they crawl? Far too many sites preform shinanigins based on geoip/ua.

Yandex, DuckDuckGo, and BraveSearch, please provide cache the pages you crawl and make them available to your users.
Construct 3 is awesome.
I didn't get a pop up during an upgrade.
> That is not the case for the UK, the country being discussed, with peak electrical demand in winter.

Wind also peaks in winter, while nuclear fails to rise to the occasion so maybe we should force nuclear to invest in seasonal storage so that we get a really fair comparison?
You can try https://make.gamefroot.com/ it’s specifically designed for kids aged 6 to 14.

It’s used by a bunch of primary schools to teach kids programming via games.

It’s drag and drop interface where I believe you can drop into JavaScript as well.

Haven’t used it myself but met the founders at a game conference.
Multiple witnesses say he confessed to the murder, including his girlfriend and fellow inmates with the later supposedly having non-public information of details of the crime
Reminds me of "Anyone who was not a liberal at 20 years of age had no heart, while anyone who was still a liberal at 40 had no head." and variations of that.

Social media of all places is a tough place to try and find consensus. Some would argue that a global social media platform simply doesn't scale.

Still, he's successful by many measures because it has scaled.
Did she pay for it?
> abortion, race relations, voting initiatives - are related even indirectly to Mark Zuckerberg and how much wealth he has

Cambridge analytica ? (as one example of thousands operating on Meta's platform) /s
They don't sell anything without hiDPI for quite some time now (a decade?). Making their software look good on obsolete screens is understandably not a priority for them. And if you are happy to plug in something that old, you are kind of signaling that you don't really care about what things look like anyway. So, why bother to make that look good?
A doctor saying "you need to fix your lifestyle" is not threatening someone. The millions of Pakistanis that are flooding into the west seems to suggests that most Pakistanis prefer the fruits of western governance to the fruits of Pakistani governance. What is missing is the assertion that the state of Europe is mostly a consequence of good governance in the western tradition.
The funniest password requirement I've seen was "must include a special character" but the special character selection was limited to #!$& and of course attackers know this requirement too. Combined with most people putting it at the end, that gives a little over 2 bits of entropy...
Thanks so much for taking the time to write such detailed feedback. This is really useful and exactly the perspective I was hoping someone would look at it from :)
It's also just a hassle that neither employers nor the prospective employees want to deal with. Tons of rules and regulations for the boss, very limited working hours, and the risk of an immature kid suddenly quitting without notice or throwing a tantrum. The kids have to get a work permit from their school, have to find someone willing to hire them (for probably less than the adult minimum wage), and then do the type of menial and unrewarding drudgery that drives working adults to despair. The days boomers talk about - when a kid could start work at 14 and make money worth spending and get useful experience - are long gone.
> 9 Verifiers SHALL verify the entire submitted password...

Is this "don't microwave your hamster"-requirement a result of the bcrypt trouble [1] or how comes?

[1] https://security.stackexchange.com/questions/39849/does-bcry...
Apparently "staff with the prosecutors’ office had mishandled the weapon after the killing – touching it without gloves before the trial," which "made it impossible to determine if Williams’s fingerprints could have been on the knife earlier." Looks like wires getting crossed and nobody editing.

(Of course, that comes from the same Guardian article.)
I have both side by side and i think this is more of a myth. They simply render the same on hidipi except very small sizes where the engines differ.

On Linux font selection is terrible, people have problems with Wayland/x11 rendering and other settings (often opinionated defaults from distros).
But when you are lucky :)) you can get pretty much same hidpi font rendering.
Open Source Alternative to o1
With a Real Remote Control (that nobody owns except for the coffee table that nobody owns): Anyone involved in a group viewing can just push the pause button when that is useful for one or more members of that group.

Nobody's locked-down personal pocket computer needs to be involved at all for this most mundane task.

Simplicity.
After moving to the Bay Area, I tried to do the old, "negotiate my bill with Comcast down by threatening to leave" trick, and instead it instantly cancelled my service. I was clicking around on the website trying to figure out how I could talk to the customer retention department when it happened.

I think some companies have already complied with this law ahead of time.
> create tools that let investors and laypeople completely bypass the pre-existing real estate economy

> Make software that designs spec homes,

But isn’t that effectively what the original projects in top level post and in my top level comment are aiming to do? Make it possible to rapidly and easily generate architecturally and structurally meaningful designs within a fully automated end-to-end pipeline (even if the whole pipeline isn’t in place yet)?

> make robots that build spec homes

Yep there are people that I know working on this or adjacent to this (ie rapidly constructable pre-fab homes/tiny homes, 3D printable homes using on-site dirt and mud, drones that assemble structures, etc etc).

> bypass the pre-existing real estate economy

At the same time, you have to be somewhat pragmatic and recognize that this is so entrenched that the likelihood of successfully disrupting and sidestepping is low and there is value still in tactically intervening within existing frameworks…

Out of curiosity what is your involvement (if any) in AEC? Just curious as it helps to understand each other’s perspectives. For context I am in academia (duh lol) but also at a decarbonization/retrofit planning startup which works with large portfolio owners (ie thousands of buildings at a time).
Who splits column per line in the SELECT block and still leave 150 character wide lines? This is a fucked up definition of legibility. I can’t even get started on the commas.

NOBODY CHECKS LONG LINES IN CODE REVIEWS. That was the biggest problem with AngularJS. People mishandling merges and breaking everything because the eyes start to glaze over at column 90. I’ve been on more than half a dozen teams with CRs and it’s always the same. I’m exquisitely aware of this and try not to do it, and I still fuck it up half as often as the next person.

Split your shit up. Especially when trying to set an example for others.
I wouldn’t agree that it’s overly complicated. Compare it to the Docker/OCI container format with multiple layers of tarballs and complicated manifest.json files. The deb format appears much simpler.
If he is serious, well, he's discovered a good idea already implemented in other languages. If he can pull it off better in some way, then he might invent a language that will be used.

But, I do hope he has tried a wide variety of languages, especially the terse ones. I hope he sees that a terse language with thousands of 1-line "things"--be they functions or "microprograms"--isn't necessarily easy to use and understandable.
From the article:

Here’s my one simple rule for debugging:

Reproduce the issue.

Unless it's one of those cursed things installed at the customer thousands of miles away that never happens back in the lab.

Some things can be incredibly hard to debug and can depend on the craziest of things you'd never even consider possible. Like a thunderstorm causing voltage spikes that very subtly damage the equipment causing subtle failures a few months later. Sometimes that "software bug" turns out to be hardware in weird ways. Or issues like https://web.mit.edu/jemorris/humor/500-miles – every person who's debugging weird issues should read that.

Once you can actually reproduce the issue, you've often done 80-99+% of the work already.
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Nope[1].

[1] https://datagubbe.se/fontfest/
> whose opininions already completely dominate mainstream media and all of public life

How do they completely dominate mainstream media? Twitter is mainstream.
Yes hopefully ladybird is the final nail in Mozillas coffin and the ladybird team shows that you don't need >$6.000.000.000 to build a proper browser.

(written in Firefox)
This is usually not the problem
Because it's easier and because it makes it impossible to make a case for any other kind of tracking under laws like GDPR once this exists.
While I'm a bit dubious of how they'll define a 'one click' flow, this is a great move. Maybe auto-subscribing free trials can be banned next?

I live in France, and they do everything possible to make subscriptions hard to cancel - I signed up to my gym online, but if I want to cancel it I need to send their headquarters a physical letter in the post, and expect a 4-6 week processing time haha.
But you still can’t block them with lists.
What are your circumstances?
NCSC has advised against arbitrary forced password changes since 2015 https://www.ncsc.gov.uk/blog-post/problems-forcing-regular-p... - one day we might see this practice gone
Isn’t that illegal, for elected representatives?
> It’s because the CIO or whomever is running the show is a relic from the 1990s.

More often, it's because the "cybersecurity insurance" is a shitshow. When you as a CIO deviate from their requirements and get 0wned, you're getting stuck with the bill.