skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
About one in every two households in Amsterdam own a car. I would bet many that don't use taxi services themselves now and again, and almost everybody would indirectly rely on roads used for deliveries, workmen, emergency services. And that's about the best case for a European city. It's comparable to New York City.

Paris, London, Prague -- higher.

The reality is that these romantic notions people have of cities not relying on cars or roads is an unrealistic fantasy. Yes it's certainly nice if you have good public transport that many people can use for most of their transport. The reality is though that even in the very best cases of those like Amsterdam and Tokyo, personal car ownership rates are still enormous, and the cities would cease to function without small private vehicles for commercial operations, let alone removing the roads for garbage collections, busses, emergency vehicles, etc.
Again, public transport is usually not feasible if you have a severe medical condition.
There’s no use in talking about the origins of something by basing it purely on subjective experience. This comment section is bigger than it needs to be and too many are taking the author’s version of history at face value.
I would call hacking a culture more than a philosophy. Specifically it's a counterculture, much like the group that seems to have the ire of PG, who can (perhaps ironically) be seen here supporting the existing hegemony.
> The machines struggled to handle the newer / stronger ciphers

Sort of like "test your stuff simulating a really shitty network connection", perhaps something else in that vein would be "test your stuff with excessively slow crypto and longer-keys."
Immigrants survive because their children have more independence. In one karen helicopter parent town I had police called on me because my child was crying so a law must have been broken. They looked up my license, saw I came from <Immigrants dominant city>. They called my city and asked if the child was kidnapped and were essentially told to fuck off by my hometown police. I later got the body cam and these pathetic beasts were shocked my local police would not entertain their claims or even really give them the time of day as it were.

So you can see the difference -- in karentown you must shuttle the smiling children everywhere or have them taken by CPS because God forbid they bike to a playground and entertain themselves. Meanwhile in immigrant town no one is entertaining even fraudulent kidnapping claims.
Yes agree it's not great for clicking, you can cycle around between locations using the arrow keys as well (random). So it's more for browsing and not seeking specific locations, at the moment..
Which is why I buy them and then cripple all of that stuff by not giving it a network connection.
It's still normal in many European cities.

The three obvious answers are crime, perception of crime (even though crime is going down, perception of crime is going up) and perception of the subway (is it a transport method for everyone or just for poor people and low-lifes).

Going one level deeper, you arrive at the media, poorly-handled immigration and failure in law-enforcement as main sources.
A common performative-progressive talking point during the rise of Trump was that we should not try to figure out what's motivating rural white people to support him. Instead, those people need to quiet down, step aside, and make room for lesbian women of color, etc.

So yeah, your philosophy sounds nice. Aggressive performative-progressives sometimes claim to subscribe to it, but their actions tend to differ in practice. See this article for details on this phenomenon: https://slatestarcodex.com/2014/07/07/social-justice-and-wor...
I'm sure it's all part of some tiktok prank video.
> he'd create offense

That's sort of the point of the essay, he compares woke to a religion and explores how companies deal with various religious beliefs at work, ie: no one religion is ever allowed to suppress others no matter how righteous its believers feel or offended they may become.

I'm not sure why that's a bad thing or would create "confusion" in your mind.
I thought you were joking and I laughed, but then I read the article and it says "It also holds more than half the volume of Lake Tahoe".. hmmm..
Isn't he within legal rights in fact to take away certain public services whenever he does want? Assuming that's the case (and that is an assumption), the fact that WPEngine went all in on a half billion dollar business model dependent on Matt is a big risk they took; I would think it would be absolutely top priority on their part to understand the nuts and bolts of the ecosystem they depend on.
Monkey butter.
What pager incident?
If people are mugging, they should be arrested. I see no need for the other laws.
Show HN: chDB 3.0 released, 12% faster than DuckDB
> You're just indulging in hyperbole for the sake of it. Nobody said git has an issue tracker in it.

Yes they did. That's what this comment thread is about. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42691624

(Unless you're splitting some really fine hairs about what "in it" means?)
HTTP/WebSocket relies on a stateful connection! Man that strikes me as so not smart!

Comedically, UPnP was also HTTP, but not as stateful as websockets. Often httpu, http over UDP. And for service discovery, httpu over multicast, pretty much like mdns. I'm surprised that s2 would have broken, given that I'd expect s1 to also need multicast. Maybe Sonos setup a pinhole router via upnp-igd, so devices could talk to each other inside the network, even if multicast was off? It's be interesting to know if any upnp-igd rules were created in s1.
When was the last time you noticed? Not saw a HN post, but it actually stopped you from pushing commits or commenting on an issue or whatever?
https://archive.is/kRfd2
> Still, traditional Hifi is dying to the "crap tiny speaker" folks.

I wonder if it also ties into living situations and customers that are in a separate house.

With my apartment-situation, I'm always using a headset (or bluetooth headphones.) Perhaps not crap tiny speakers, but not so big that making them good takes as much effort.
Reminds me a bit of the gentleman who didn’t check his AMZN stock for ~20 years and found out it had gone to escheat with the state of Delaware. They had cashed it out years earlier for less than 10% of its present-day value. His play is to hope the hypothetical value continues to grow to the point that a specialist attorney will take the case and split the spoils with his kids.

https://www.npr.org/transcripts/799345159
I’ll trade you 18 lake Tahoe’s for one Lake Michigan.
The comparison is certainly relevant, but I disagree with the lessons you want to draw. What we saw in Iraq was just how willing the Americans are to escalate into a major war with no provocation or, indeed, prospect of gain. It is quite significant that they don't feel they are able to pull the same sort of mindless violence against Russia - we've put bounds on what the US military is capable of. It can handle a small naiton like Iraq, it can't manage Russia and given that they seem to be balking at an Iran invasion they are probably anchored somewhere around there before their ability to directly confront a nation runs out.

Also notice that the US was in a much more dominant international position 20 years ago. They had a level of moral and economic leadership that they ceded through the early part of the 21st century - the moral part mainly because of the thuggery in Iraq and Afghanistan. If we had a replay we might discover that they can't even handle Iraq any more, I doubt the Russia & the Asians would take it on the chin quite so willingly.
I don't mean everybody likes the act of driving, I mean everybody likes what driving [a private vehicle] can do for them. I didn't mean even that in the absolute literal sense either, but anecdotes from people who don't have a car or get driven by friends and never take taxis or uber anywhere would be interesting and will probably help us to understand why virtually everybody likes driving.
Developer here: Lots of apps around mock interviews with AI, and some around filtering as well, so this is not a new idea.

But a lot of the existing apps are not super easy to use, and come with a lot of restrictions and paywalls. With LLMs getting so cheap in 2024, I don't think it costs a lot on my end to offer this for free for quite some time, atleast to all consumers.

As for the business side, every friend of mine that owns a company has this pain point that they spend way too much time going through job applications, so that's a genuine problem I'm trying to solve here.

Any feedback around the idea would be awesome.
Having an unbelievable level of public safety probably has something to do with it.

Let's hear it for strong public prosecutors
You understand as well as anyone that something is either a definition of a term, or it isn't. I'm simply pointing to someone who says "This is a concise definition," and then pointing out that, no, if the definition isn't complete, it isn't a concise definition. And that's fine, we just need to acknowledge that the way people use "woke" is a shorthand for something else, in this case I'd characterize it as the pseudointellectual wet fish flopping of a billionaire struggling to blame someone, anyone, for the world being bad, when he's had outsized control and influence over it for the entirety of his career.

But I acknowledge people may disagree with this.
This was a well written article! It was nice to read the process of troubleshooting with the rabbit holes included. Glad you stuck it out!
After having a similar childhood, I concluded criminals normally avoid targeting small children - I haven't been mugged until becoming a teenager.
First big case of a tech company taking a major dive for not respecting Local First.

Things used to work without the cloud. Then the cloud got added and latency shot up, connectivity went down, and systems behaved worse.
The English language reporting on this reform proposal is not comprehensive.

Here's an article on it by one of the national papers of record, El País: https://elpais.com/espana/2025-01-13/sanchez-anuncia-una-int...

Some interesting tidbits from the article:

- Some local governments, which are run by a party opposed to the governing national party, oppose the existing laws regarding price regulation and refuse to enforce price caps. This is possible because Spain has a lot of power devolved to local governments. The proposal attempts to side-step local governments by giving property owners a 100% income tax rebate if they abide by national price regulations for their properties. It essentially incentivizes individuals to enforce what regional governments are supposed to be implementing.

- Spain's public housing inventory is low compared to other European counterparts - Spain's at 2.5%, France at 14%, Netherlands at 34%.

- There are some comparisons to the construction rates during the 2000s housing bubble and how the inventory has shifted between single and multi family dwellings.

- The measures include plans to promote prefabricated/modular housing as it is much cheaper to produce at scale.

Sidestepping uncooperative local governments is an interesting technique given their devolved system of government. I would also be curious to see how prefab/modular housing measures develop. If they are combining some old school "price cap / limit foreign investment" strategy with a pro manufactured housing YIMBYism, that would be kind of unique.

From my quick scan of the article, the 100% tax on non-EU residents isn't even reported on. The reform is much more comprehensive and, in my mind, likely to get passed in some form even if the 100% tax gets cut from the final bill.

There are also some less than factual opinion statements like this dropped in the Guardian's article:

> Given his government’s longstanding struggles to pass legislation, one analyst suggested to the Financial Times that the government’s aim was to deter foreign property investors by creating “uncertainty and noise” with a proposal that has slim chances of becoming law.

IMO this is under-selling the current president's political survivability, regardless of what you think of him or his policies. He is currently in power because he convinced a separatist Catalonian party whose leader is exiled from the country to join his coalition.

I'd rather not get into it on HN, but read about his tenure for yourself. The Guardian's article is not a good enough summary of what is being proposed and is not giving thorough enough context.
Do you not see how insane it is to at once 1) demand cheap housing and 2) demand it increases in price at breakneck pace?
> Engineers are in a better position to understand what the customer wants and needs

As an engineer, I had no idea about:

- what the utility companies wanted when I was working for a SaaS company that printed and processed bills

- what the field service techs wanted when I was writing software for ruggedized windows ce devices

- what the railroad car owners or repairmen wanted when I was working for a company creating a SaaS (https://public.railinc.com/sites/default/files/documents/CRB...)

- I knew nothing about what the healthcare industry needed in the three SaaS companies I worked for including software for health care workers dealing with special needs kids

- the various “enterprises” mostly in the edtech or state and local government space in consulting.
You won't read it based off of its title I presume? On Twitter he says how so many people jumped into conclusion without even reading the essay.

Btw this falls squarely into "tech culture" category.
An AI tool that helps you create PlantUML diagrams in seconds (not hours)
Oh, "PTC gear" as in equipment, not just one magical gear that prevents accidents, as popped into my mind at first!
Title: How Watch Duty’s wildfire tracking app became a crucial lifeline for LA
It's a next token predictor capable of some impressive stuff, but there's no intelligence behind it. You will never find a novel idea from an LLM.

Like so many successful applications of computers it's a new way of taking a monotonous task and grinding through it quickly. In this way I think it's different from some previous fads (e.g. block chain) and there is real utility.

I agree though that it's exhausting to read people anthropomorphize and hype it up.
Uhm, scientology? What?
Vagrant is still kicking! But yeah not as popular as back in 2014-2016?

A hybrid(?) alternative is enroot, which is pretty neat IMO, it converts a docker container into a squashfs file that can be mounted rw or used in an ephemeral way. https://github.com/NVIDIA/enroot
Apologies, I did misread 2012 as 2021.

This data is much harder to draw a clear trend through, yes.
Not an Apple user here. What's changed? Can you share more details about what made them "dogshit"?
I don't disagree with the objective you describe, but I disagree with the Jonathan Swift-esque idea of abolishing free parking and increasing meters. That would increase the burden on the already-burdened and only nominally affect cost of convenience to the wealthy. I suppose everyone can tip their wait staff by letting them use their residential parking spot-- because without that pre-existing transportation infrastructure, employer provided transport/parking, affordable cost of living, and a living wage for all, I'm not sure how people are getting to work in dense urban areas. Although I love the idea of abandoned luxury vehicles lining the streets with boots on their wheels-- like a broken window theory for late stage capitalism.
Of the resources you mention, #2 is probably the best starting point for someone who wants to start building software soon. Karpathy's videos fast.ai's courses may also fit that purpose.

But the other books (#1, #3, #4) seem like they're intended for those who want to understand all the math. Many people don't want (or need) a full understanding of how all this works. They can provide significant value to their employers with some knowledge of how machine learning works (e.g. the basics of CNNs and RNNs), and some intuitions/vibes about SOTA LLMs, even if they don't understand transformers or other modern innovations.
At least I've never seen UTF8 math symbols in the wild. Julia, Python, and other languages will let you use the pi symbol for 3.14... instead of just calling it pi.
If your friends are away or busy and they want their agent to schedule meet up times or provide info like what's ur bday ..but that was a tail end thought. Each business or doctors office or other organizations buying their own AI agent from GPT or whomever jumps on this market I see valuable.

This thought popped in my head recently. I use ChatGPT while driving ..talk to it (have full conversations with it) to get things done and as a knowledge base . I recently asked give me steps for junking my old car in Pennsylvania which it did and gave me local businesses. I wish it just interfaced with the businesses and set up the day / time without me having to call them.
I think dreamhost runs php as fcgi.

I'm actually not sure that fcgi is that bad, even for other languages, but most shared hosts will probably limit what you can do in terms of resources.
Well, I know what I’m doing tomorrow when I get up.
Except in downtown SF there are dozens of giant empty lots, some are just abandoned, some are flat lots used for 6hrs a week for event parking.
Just a reminder that Unit 8200 is staffed mostly by conscripts who are serving out their mandatory military service and chose to accept an invitation to serve in the cyberwarfare arm of the IDF instead of choosing to shoot guns.

In other words, it's staffed by Israeli kids who made the choice most of us would have made under the circumstances. It seems a bit unfair to hold that against them more than 10 years later, no?
No, they're arguing that society should punish those who spoke those ideas, where "those ideas" is whatever terminally online leftists are whinging about at the moment (i.e. a bar that is way too low for the proposed repercussions).

But I think you already know that and went with the selective quote anyway.
Thee context here (and upthread) is about needing a nominee because you aren't in the country. IE if you were in country you'd control the asset directly.
In fact I'd say that self driving cars will mean that it's important that parking is not more expensive than simply driving in circles. You can bet that companies will drive self driving cars in circles to store them while not in use if it's cheaper than parking, and that takes up both more space, and higher value space.
The key point is that traffic is basically exponential in number of cars. Roads have a capacity below which there's almost no traffic, and above which capacity stays constant (or goes down). The amount of traffic in a city without congestion charging is the amount caused by the last couple percent of drivers most willing to wait in traffic. By introducing a fee that switches the decision for that small group of people, everyone else's commute gets a noticeably shorter (including all the people that were taking the bus previously).
It's trivial to insert ads into an API response. The fact that people don't is simply because we were never really API-first.

But it's also why ad-blockers generally work.
https://www.faa.gov/uas/getting_started/b4ufly
Small children don't normally carry anything of much value.
HUDs?

Love my meta ray bans but sorry Zuckerberg they won't replace phones only compliment them. You can not take selfies with glasses while your GPT phone/ AI Agent can take the right selfies for you (get u to best lighting).
The 100-vs-1 is a ratio.
Kids still walk to school where I live in midwest USA.
Police response times in my "10% as dense as it should be" suburb (a place that would be the poster child for everything urbanists hate) are 3x faster than they are in NYC. That is largely due to having high mobility through the town. In pure distance terms, I live about 20x further from the police station, though.

The average door-to-door time between my house and the nearest level 1 trauma center is 10 minutes shorter than it would be when I lived in Manhattan. It turns out that having the paramedics wait for an elevator really cuts into their response time. A level 3 trauma center is 25 minutes closer (there are no level 3 trauma centers in Manhattan).

https://patch.com/new-york/new-york-city/nypds-slow-response...

Cities are built for average-case living, and that is fine until you need it not to be.
Very small discussion 2 days ago (12 points, 3 comments) https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42667292
In soda because its acidic, sucrose breaks apart to fructose and glucose.
I think that's an acceptable takeaway in the context of the train company. And I don't think it's a sentiment incompatible with optimism about technological progress

As far as I get from the article they didn't call for help for two days trying to free the train with other trains, and the train was stuck in there in the first place because the staff saw a wall of snow and tried to plough through.

I don't know if those were or are standard practice but it sounds like guests got somewhat close to suffering pretty serious consequences for it.

Avoiding cannibalism is nice but also a pretty low bar to clear
I have added this to-do to my time-travel list -- thanks!
Japan has no drug problem because it has strong borders.

It has a decent medical system to preempt or treat psychiatric symptoms.

And it has federal level construction laws to allow housing to be built anywhere. So look up "cheapest housing in tokyo" where you can rent a tiny place for $100/month.

Japan has smartly designed and compassionate infrastructure. It's not just "culture"
Buddy, if wokeness is making you a racist then you were always a racist especially within the US context where families have endured 100s of years of generational racism. You’re not making any sense
Probably partially to do with how many other children do. The entire spectrum from 5-80 years old all take the train in the morning and throughout the day.

There’s attendants at every station, so if they get off at the wrong place they can always find someone to help.

The child (most of them anyhow) will have a transport card with them registered to the parents address/phone number, so even if they lose their mind staff will be able to contact the parents.
Give me free stuff. If you say no you’re a landlord.
> most people would also agree that an activist blogging about using the world "unhoused" instead of "homeless" is more woke than the one advocating for the wealth tax.

Just wondering why you are allowing "homeless" to be used without retribution, but someone using "unhoused" is disparaged as woke. Seems like language policing to me.
>The output of progressive movements is political correctness

???

How did you conclude that Graham believes this?

Can you quote a specific passage from Graham's essay that supports this idea?

I thought Graham was quite clear in targeting priggishness. He analogizes wokeness to Victorian prudishness. I didn't see any claim that priggishness is inherent to progressive ideology. In fact, he wrote:

>Racism, for example, is a genuine problem. Not a problem on the scale that the woke believe it to be, but a genuine one. I don't think any reasonable person would deny that. The problem with political correctness was not that it focused on marginalized groups, but the shallow, aggressive way in which it did so. Instead of going out into the world and quietly helping members of marginalized groups, the politically correct focused on getting people in trouble for using the wrong words to talk about them.

And also:

>But by the same token we should not automatically reject everything the woke believe. I'm not a Christian, but I can see that many Christian principles are good ones. It would be a mistake to discard them all just because one didn't share the religion that espoused them. It would be the sort of thing a religious zealot would do.
Michigan's alright, but there are superior lakes out there.