skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
My theory is that after a few generations we've treated Science as a truth, and not a process. Science should be displacing existing science. There are likely some things that we have understood wrong, but nobody is out there trying to actively disprove what we know of physics. Nobody can get funded trying alternative hypotheses that explain the same phenomena.

This might also be because there are no new phenomena to explain. There's a lot of resistance to observing new and old phenomena because that can "disprove science", as if there's some war between science and some kind of alternative. For example, ghosts have been observed by millions, but instead of finding some solid hypotheses for these, we dismiss them as some kind of mental illness in observers. Ghost hunters use electrical signals or some similar sensors, and we dismiss them too, instead of trying to find out what is causing these signals.

A lot of scientific work still happens in fields like psychology/cognitive science, or medicine, which people intuitively feel are off. But little in physics.
Including pedestrians, cyclists and all other forms of transportation that become much more dangerous due to how many cars there are on the road.

Imagine how many people would be biking, riding electric scooters and walking if US cities were actually designed with these modes of transportation in mind.
> phones

Basically everything except computers. Smart TVs are another one.
> If it was 4-6 hours (120-200mph)

So, you're either blasting a giant gap in the Sierras, blasting a giant tunnel under the Sierras, or have some novel HSR technology that'll run over the Sierras.

For a much less useful route, it'll probably be more expensive than the actual full proposed CA HSR system.
Also interesting thread on concrete in HN https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18651154
An alternative would be to take a major cloud on as an investor+customer. If they can deliver a truly cloud worthy CPU, it will have a market and especially if a major cloud is already a customer.

This investor+customer approach has a history. Yahoo did this with Google (search) and Apple did this with Adobe (laser printers).
Quite the contrary, I rarely if ever use redux now that hooks are out. I think I was more highlighting Facebook's intent when creating them. Abramov (creator of redux) definitely seems to be distancing himself from redux as React as an ecosystem moves forward with Context and Hooks.

I've seen it said that "redux is just money laundering for global variables". Can't say that I disagree
After a while typing `if err != nil` or reimplementing sorting for your custom data type pretty masturbatory in my experience.

Is a language without generics plus "masturbation prevention" more economical than a language with generics where code review is used as "masturbation prevention"?
Even adults would be safer in a car seat like the ones kids sit in, if anyone would be willing to use one.

If you scale up a toddler car seat, it looks a lot like the safety seats in race cars or fighter jets: the seat wraps around the outside edge of the body and upper legs; the head rest wraps around the sides of the head with padding; the restraint straps have a 5-point attachment system.
Only provides service in DFW and Houston. Currently, anyway.
Manitou Incline
well yeah, that's why they are called "unpopular opinions" and not "unpopular facts"

If all that stops you from trying a new tool is some crazy guy's ramblings on the internet, you probably weren't going to be effective with that tool anyway
Fits the bill. Brilliant.

Hanzism
"what's the difference" is half the reason you use Pihole? I think you meant to reply to OP.
The architecture of these seems quite different from GPUs and Google’s TPUs. It’s interesting that they went with smaller amounts of on-core memory and very high bandwidth, rather than a large amount of on-card memory.
> Also, it would contradict the term Unique Resource Locator.

wikipedia defines URL as "Uniform Resource Locator", and i don't think i've ever heard "unique" in there
Didn't see this coming /s.

Of course they are! With a (mostly) single source of investment, lack of public trust (no chance of an IPO any time soon), a disgraced CEO - they need to minimise costs ASAP otherwise they'll be into liquidation very soon. Wouldn't be surprised if that's the long term plan anyway - make as much money for the higher-ups as possible, become indebted to people-in-the-know, go into liquidation to pay them back, and laugh all the way to the bank.

It amazes me that anybody would still want to work there knowing their job could only have 3-months left. Unless they have incredible perks, I'd be updating my resume and going to interviews on my lunch break.
That's largely because automobiles, buses, and airplanes are better suited to the geography of the United States.
There are corridors and regions where trains make sense in the U.S, but many rail lines went from necessary to obsolete with the natural progression of technology.

AmTrak was created when the private passenger rail operators were failing, and they were failing for a good reason: demand for long-haul passenger rail service declined sharply when better alternatives entered the market.

The one thing that rail can do better than these other forms is comfort and service, but for the vast majority of people, they would rather be able to afford to make it to their destination.
I bet that Interpol uses VPNs without backdoors.
so, like, 99% of what people are using them for?
Nope, not at all. My skin has always been clear my whole life, and I often consume dried fruits (raisins are currently my favorite evening snack,) as well as many other commonly 'triggering' things (red wine among them, tea, alcohol and soda spring to mind, though I've cut back immensely on the last two)

That being said, you still might be right, since the science behind canker sores is a crapshoot to begin with, as I've learned

Personally, what works for me is: If I bite my lip, or feel a sore coming on in general, I immediately have to wash it out. After that, the only way to prevent a full week+ long sore is to put alum (pickling spice) on it for 90 seconds or so, once or twice a day. And of course, I need to make sure I meticulously brush and floss after every meal (of course with toothpaste without laurel sodium sulfate) Usually I can suffice for the normal once or twice a day

And that being said, this isn't exactly scientific. This is 100% just correlation and gathering personal anecdotal data. If I happen to stumble across something better, I'll take it. But all things considered, it's not a particularly bad thing to suddenly feel the need to take extra care of my mouth once a month or so
Chrome: Can't see tabs from other devices despite both devices being synced
Photogrammetry has been around for centuries. Post War, before digital imaging and fast computers, people would manually match features in images to derive the terrain models.

https://ibis.geog.ubc.ca/courses/geob373/lectures/Handouts/H...
>A few days ago @karpathy presented their workflow with PyTorch and also said some numbers, to train the Autopilot system with all it neural networks you would have to spend 70,000 hours with a decent gpu - that is around 8 years (depending on which GPU you are using). In total the Autopilot is a system of 48 Neural Networks. When we compare this to what I will show you, you are gonna see that this is insane.

I'm very confident that it is not insane, for reasons that you have yet to discover, and the arrogance of calling insane inspires a fear in me considering what you appear to be doing on roads with other people.

Your project is very cool, but also very irresponsible. Are you using this on the road with other drivers? For the love of all things good, what are you thinking? Please clarify this. It's one thing to trust your own life to your creations, it's another thing to endanger everyone else's.
The Physics of Spilled Coffee
Well understood?

I wonder what the outcome would be of such analysis, I bet it would be interesting!
But interstates only make sense because of local roads. If local roads didn't connect to the interstates, then we can discount them from the equation.

Personally, I think people should be paying more for using the roads. From what I can tell, most states' use related taxes (gas taxes, registration taxes, etc) account for less than half of total road funding. This makes driving artificially cheap compared to mass transit options, to the point where it's often cheaper to drive than to take a bus or train, which is absolutely ridiculous. For example, my commute is ~10 miles, and the IRS claims this costs me $5 (~$0.50/mile). I did some math and estimate that my costs are closer to $0.30/mile, probably less (insurance, registration, gas, maintenance). A bus ticket is $2.50 each way. The bus takes >40 minutes assuming I ride my bike there, >60 minutes if I walk, and driving takes ~20 minutes.

Assuming my state funds roads ~50% with income taxes, switching this over to purely use-based taxes (gas and registration taxes) would likely double my driving costs, making mass transit make sense financially, as it should. It certainly uses less resources to take the bus than drive, so it should also be cheaper. Yet it doesn't look that way according to my calculations.

Also, taking Amtrak is often more expensive than taking an airplane, even if direct routes exist, and it takes way longer. Amtrak should be way cheaper than flying, yet at best it's a wash, but usually way more expensive. We need faster, cheaper trains, and trips within 800 miles should be competitive with airlines (<6 hours, about the same price or cheaper than flights).
We just run the same thing our customers run on-premise. Some companies that allow you to run one instance of whatever they make, would usually tie that to a single cloud provider. That simplifies their operation but also reduces the potential customers.

Not everyone may be using the same cloud provider, not everyone may be able to run on the cloud or even may have OS/distro restrictions.

As always it's a matter of tradeoffs.
Redux is simple in concept, but surprisingly confusing for a lot of people. My strong belief is that the Facebook/React team came up with hooks as a more gentle approach to state management so that Redux wasn't the high barrier to entry for React apps
No worries. check out /r/photogrammetry for a 50/50 mix of hobbyists and professionals.
What is your useful definition of art that is useful in this discussion?
I think more interestingly, this shows just how big Australia is. Many people don't realise just how big the continent actually is, since they've only heard of Sydney (isn't that the capital? there are other cities there too?!).

Australia fits edge to edge almost completely over Europe, and completely over the US and part of Canada. Yes, unfortunately, the vast majority of the continent is uninhabitable desert, but the sheer size of it is amazing.

If terra-forming is ever possible, I think Australia is a great candidate to test it out on, before trying it somewhere more expensive like Mars.
Is it peculiar that the language report does not mention "active objects" in its text? Is there a different but equivalent term in use?
They mention it in one of the lines of this blog, but apparently this individual (perhaps with the help of others, it wasn't clear) has come up with two of their own software licenses, with a website and everything.

https://guide.licensezero.com/

> The Prosperity Public License (Prosperity) works a bit like a Creative Commons NonCommercial license, but for software. Prosperity gives everyone broad permission to use your software, but limits commercial use to a short trial period of 32 days. When a commercial user’s trial runs out, they need to buy a private license or stop using your software.

> The Parity Public License (Parity) works a bit like AGPL, but requires users to release more of their own code, in more situations. Parity requires users who change, build on, or use your work to create software to release that software as open source, too. If users can’t or won’t release their work, they need to buy a private license that allows use without sharing back.

I'm one of those folks that usually defaults to AGPL for their open source work for practical reasons - it's much easier to go from a copyleft license to a permissive one due to circumstance than the other way around. However, I always found it a bit strange that there were dozens of variants of the MIT and BSD license out there, but aside from the GPL and MPL no other popular license really took up the mantle of copyleft, aside from perhaps the old Sleepycat license.

This looks like a very appealing license on its face, but the fact that it's specifically _not_ written in legalese is a little weird, though the fact that the author is a lawyer is some reassurance.
> "The big tech companies don’t employ so many engineers because they need them, they do it because they are afraid of being understaffed when the next big paradigm shift happens"

Nope, can't agree with this one. The reasons the big tech companies employ so many engineers is 1) Empire building by senior management to justify their next promotion and 2) said big tech companies are floundering around trying to build something that create the next big paradigm shift, 99.9% of which gets cancelled before ever seeing the light of day or flops miserably in the marketplace if it does. Been there, done that.
"cement" is just the beginning of a more fascinating journey into the work of Joseph Davidovits. I encourage anyone interested in this to read his books, including "The Pyramids: An Enigma Solved" and "Why the Pharaohs Built the Pyramids with Fake Stones". This isn't a crank theory. He has patents on the process, which ironically, could have been declined on the basis of "prior art", but since no one believed him, he has the patents. One can buy kits of everything needed to mix up personal batches and independently confirm his chemistry.
https://www.amazon.com/Pharaohs-Built-Pyramids-Fake-Stones/d...
https://www.amazon.com/Pyramids-Enigma-Solved-Joseph-Davidov...
https://www.davidovits.info/book-why-the-pharaohs-built-the-...
My need of AWS/GCP/Azure magical pixie dust is low.

So I'll keep the cheap CPU/Ram/Disk/Bandwidth, thank you.
I greatly enjoy that the top response starts off with the heading "Forget talking about security." but lists lack of antivirus as one of the 2 things to bring up.

I 100% agree with the other point being the main thing to say. Really by now most should have noticed it without asking. Even using a specially compiled version of a fork of FF meant to extend support for XP ~ a year ago when messing around with VMs I found a decent amount of the web to be breaking and many apps had trouble opening newer files.
Translucent Windows were a thing in Windows 2000. You enabled Alpha Blending in GUI. It was also present in Windows ME.
Car seats are regulated by the Feds. They get recalled. If a second hand car seat is recalled it shouldn’t be sold etc...
> completely over the US and part of Canada.

No. Australia is large, but it is slightly less than the area of the continental US.
This is all explained in the books of Joseph Davidovits.
Because rural voters hate the idea of taxes at all and so when given the option they will literally vote to ban metro areas from taxing themselves as they just did in WA.
> There was a thread on the Rust reddit where someone was asking how to do something relatively simple using some elaborate combination of map/reduce/filter/continuations/who-knows-what, and someone said "just use a for loop", and the OP was enlightened.

I think it's hard to discern between "that overly-complex functional and declarative definition is unfamiliar to me" and "that is way over-complicated and should just use a for loop".

Any chance you can track down that example so others can compare the two examples as well?
Cement is cool. But you know what’s really cool?

Rammed earth.

It won’t crack like cement. It doesn’t require any special chemicals like cement. Doesn’t need to be shipped anywhere...

At least not... as much of it. If you built a rammed earth structure you will use a little cement actually. So everything that’s in cement, there will be a little of it in your rammed earth home.

But mostly you’ll just use readily available local-ish materials. Now for the benefits:

- Will last 1000 years

- Perfectly finished on the inside and outside with no fussy carpentry, mudding, or painting

- Thermal mass for free

- Load bearing

- Sheds water

- Breathable

- Insects won’t bother

- Basically as strong as stone

- Stunningly beautiful

- Largely free of odd vapors and perfumes

I am a fan.

There are downsides. It’s not right for every application. It is labor intensive. And it’s skilled labor bordering on artistry. But from my research, it’s the ultimate wall there is.
> https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&query=jakeogh%20%22dis...

> This page will only work with JavaScript enabled

Really!? Why the hell would you link to that?
How to Sell a House in Southern California: Make a Movie
It was a German study, though finding it again, it looks like it was heavily criticized.

Also, How is it a straw man? Coal power plants still exist. While some governments are forcing them out, it exists. If it's true, it is a real concern we should take into consideration.

source of study: https://www.brusselstimes.com/all-news/business/technology/5...
"I assume your 500m/s comes from the assumed algebra in my post"

I assume you didn't even READ my post, as the very first sentence is "How much energy are you going to expend to ensure that hundred-trillion+ kilogram rock can fall at the rate desired by the prior positor?" Key words - AT THE RATE DESIRED BY THE PRIOR POSITOR - as in the person who I was originally responding to in this thread, and not you.

Since you did not read my post and obviously didn't read theirs, I'm not entertaining yours. You lack the required information to make a useful contribution to this thread.
Every dollar does count, but being reckless with dollar bills is going to get you in a lot less trouble than being reckless with twenties.

For what it's worth, we have a family of five, my wife stays home, and I believe we currently save somewhere in the ballpark of 35% of our income. I think that counts as being pretty frugal compared to most of the people I know.
Expansion of cytotoxic CD4 T cells in supercentenarians
They should be dropping prices, not raising them, at least for longer trips. It costs about the same to take Amtrak vs an airplane for a direct connection 750 miles away, which is ridiculous because it should be far cheaper to run a train at 60mph than an airplane at 400+mph per passenger, and trains can carry far more people than airplanes. They also need to be way faster (120mph at least, ideally faster than that) to be a reasonable alternative to airlines.

The only way Amtrak gets to raise rates is if it drastically improves service.
Check your math. It was 70,000 tapes over 30 years. At $5/tape that would be $11,666/year or just under $1000/month.

The movie trailer mentioned the multiple homes she owned, so she definitely had money. Being a Communist organizer shouldn't imply that someone lacks resources.
I don't know if it's 100% true that Amtrak benefits only the areas it's in. People who take the train instead of flying (less carbon emissions) or driving (less interstate maintenance, paid for out of the federal budget, less gasoline consumed) are providing benefits to everyone.
Certainly bizarre. Among other things, almost none of the archived distros can read the RAR format.

It's weird, come to think of it, that RAR has existed for a quarter of a century, and yet the format has never been documented or reverse-engineered and no FOSS implementations exist. The only way to make a RAR file is the official program, which is binary-only shareware; there is public source code for extracting RARs but under a license that explicitly forbids using it to reverse-engineer the format.

But I guess the overlap between people who care about all that and people interested in the kind of stuff RAR is used for is next to minimal.
You should see stress marks on the plastic
I'm not an economist, but it seems to me that it necessarily contemplates ideas of profit that don't match accountants' - otherwise there would be nothing to it.

Also, I've noticed how actual economists speak of "economic profit". Whether you use the word "economic" or "social" or anything else, the modifier implies there is some deeper truth than whatever a given accountant writes down.
Another feel-good, pseudo-psychological self-help article.

But it does touch on an interesting phenomenon about reputation. This explains particularly well why good students in high-school and college are more likely to continue to do well.

High-achievers in general (once they achieve the status of a "high-achiever" in the eyes of their teachers) are more likely to be graded higher than others because of the assumption they will do well. (I haven't got a source, but I do remember reading about this a while ago).

I think this does apply in the workplace as well. Once you have a reputation for being a hard-worker, knowledgable in a particular area, efficient with your time, etc. managers will be more lenient of you when you slip up, or assume you just need a breather if you leave early or take longer breaks for a little while. It definitely pays off to create a good first-impression of you and your work ethic from the very start.
one could argue that what the corporations are offering is also very irresponsible.

I have a hard time faulting an individual for taking on the effort while everyone seems to want to cheer on the big dogs in the same field -- the big dogs that have been routinely shown to make irresponsible decisions with regards to pedestrian and driver safety.

imo : until everyone is more regulated with regards to sensor-driven driving, have a ball. The carnage will probably fuel the legislation that's needed to stabilize the field, sadly.
Found this with a search. Is this close to what you are/were looking for?

https://archiveos.org/yggdrasil/
Those cities are "grappling" with problems of their own creation by decades of NIMBY zoning and investment policy. We should have more and better rail infrastructure but part of that in terms of commute is insuring that the stations service enough patrons to justify building them. Low density sprawl quarter acre stick houses dotting miles of windy lane and a half road without sidewalk connected by 4 lane boulevards are ill fit to benefit from a rail station even just a few miles away. The opponents of urban development would just decry such projects as wastes of money when ridership doesn't compare well to European and Asian contemporaries because everything beyond the station is so poorly planned.

The solution to the urban housing crisis was, continues to be, and will be until its done the building of more housing. A lot more. Density, at every price. Without mandated parking, without vertical clearance limits, without per-unit size limits, without the ability for NIMBYs to stall out or shut down expansion efforts for their own personal gain. Nothing else will cure the ailment - all else is just treating the wound.
I backpacked it about 20 years ago. I was foolish. I didn't know how long it would take. It took a bloody long time! Even family couldn't relate until I printed the map of Australia on top of Europe (and northern Africa) at scale.
> People build libraries to solve real problems.

Not always, some Rust community members in fact don't build any sort of applications with Rust at all, and only build libraries. I think it's reasonable to be skeptical of this.

I think the community can do better by promoting more talks involving applications written with Rust. As an outsider this is a puzzling omission to me as there seems to be more people using Rust than there is Firefox and Cloudfront engineers, so I'd like to learn more about where it's actually used.