skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I've commuted on Amtrak quite a bit - sac to bay area...

And I have looked into using them even more - but their is a litany of reasons why its impractical:

THeir ticket prices, staffing, schedules, lack of full-through-connection services, and delays all but make it hard to use as a service for all but one specific type of commuter.

Lets look at staffing.

They will know that its the commute hour; yet they will schedule ONE ticket agent at the counter in a major station - who has no incentive to be efficient with their tasks, and have made myself and MANY others miss the trains they were trying to get to. When you complain to the staff, they immediately take an attitude. Once when I asked why they only had one ticket teller during the major rush hour, the ticket teller didnt answer me, but called the Amtrak police to come question me. (I was being polite - and asked matter-of-fact why they would make such an oversight.)

Pricing: The tickets are way over priced for the service. Also, lets look at the "rewards" benefit - and the "10-pass" packets.

1) The rewards - it costs $19 to go from Sac to Martinez. You get (2) reward points per dollar you spend. For that same $19 leg to redeem points for a "free" ticket costs 900 points. -- That means you have to spend $450 to get ONE $19 reward.

2) A 10 pack ticket expires after 45 days. No matter what. Last holiday season - with validations, office shutdowns, holidays etc - there was no way to use the tickets I had until after the new year - yet they would "expire" on 12/31 - no matter what.

Their rewards points often fail to show up on your account - and its a tedious process to rectify - and even when you do rectify, it take more than 3-weeks for them to hit your account.

The pricing to go any distance, is just absolutely too high.

Now, the good things about Amtrak:

They have power, wifi and a snack car. The cars are clean (generally), and the ride is smooth - and actually faster than driving (more relaxing at least) along 80.

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I really want Amtrak to succeed - but I wish they would address the problems they do have.
That half wavelength damage is deviously pleasing somehow.
In my previous job when I used to write code, all the answers to my problems came when I got up, walked to the toilet and did my business.
Language Blending: A New Way to Teach Subtlety
> The high frequency does mechanical damage to the cables

How does it do this? Like, is it physical vibration driven by the EMF or what?
unless it was a typo.
To the extent a particular neighborhood can be identified as especially wealthy, it would seem fine to require them to pay for private maintenance of roads constructed by the subdivision developer in the first instance.
Bringing the database back up with a fix does improve your customer experience, however!
Artemis – Laser Object Tracking
Artemis is an eyeglass-mounted device that can be configured to locate a specific type of object, or a person. When the target is found, Artemis will track it with a laser.

How It Works:

An eyeglass-mounted camera streams images to a Jetson AGX Xavier. An SSD300 model is used for object localization within these images. When the object of interest has been found, a laser diode is turned on.

A servo is also mounted on the eyeglasses for X-axis control of the laser. A second servo is mounted on top of the first, at a 90 degree angle, to give Y-axis control. The laser is mounted on the second servo.

Images are thresholded in OpenCV to determine the location of the laser pointer. With the location of the object, and also the laser, now determined it is possible to adjust the servos to place the laser over the object of interest.

Full Details:

https://github.com/nickbild/artemis
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zOmJOMlqhAQ
Transportation is an enabler or economic activity. Your point is correct. That being said, there is an obligation to ensure there is fiscal responsibility in its construction. The 2nd Ave subway line comes to mind.
Three Physicists Stumbled Upon a Striking Mathematical Discovery
Logic gates using fluids (NAND, NOR, XNOR)
I have a feeling that its a CPU designed with side-channel attacks in mind. Could be Intel, could be ARM.
I keep hoping we'll get SLC <-> LA via Las Vegas. We have commuter rail from SLC down about 100 miles, and there are some fairly popular destinations along that route that could benefit from train access (lots of National and State parks, St. George is a popular retirement and vacation destination, etc).

But to be viable, it has to be competitive with airline travel, and that means fast trains. It currently costs more to go from SLC <-> SF than by airplane, and it takes a full day (18 hours or so, I forget exactly) to get there vs 2 hours or so by airplane and 10 hours by car. If it was 4-6 hours (120-200mph), it would be competitive with airlines if you take into account security and baggage on both ends. I know I would take Amtrak if that were the case, but for now, I'm only going to take it as a vacation in itself.

There are a lot of companies in CA that have offices in Utah now, so improving the train system between them may make sense if they can get speeds to be reasonable.
Technically, everyone in computing BUT the HDD manufacturers are doing this. That's why we now have MiB, GiB etc. units as well as MB, GB etc.
Hey, it might be a bug that a "real" user could encounter, if you need any kind of motivation to actually look into it!
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Perhaps you mean cog?
https://nedbatchelder.com/code/cog/
I just looked in to this and it looks like what I am thinking of is the AMDGPU driver which wikipedia says released in 2015. I'm not sure what the driver you are talking about is or what the difference between the AMDGPU driver and yours is. I just remember in 2013 people saying nvidia was best for linux use and then with the AMDGPU driver people saying AMD now is.
My guess would be ohmic heating.
Crypto Markets Showing Signs of Recovery While BTC Stalls Above $8500
Gibibyte is not a different definition of gigabyte. They’re different units.
Interesting since the manifesto hasn't mentioned something that's not already completed in Julia. Is their main project or motivation something that is not being shared? I find it quite odd that this manifesto doesn't mention anything that actually requires differentiable programming (old adjoint equations for their applications have existed since the 90's), which makes it a very odd justification for this work.
As someone who had only ever done oil/battery change level auto work this was surprisingly exactly my experience replacing a bad knock sensor in my truck. OBD tells you the problem (a sensor is out of voltage range) and youtube tells you how to fix it step by step. At one point my family saw the intake manifold on the floor and thought the car was never going to run again, but its really just plugging or unplugging things from a big computer now. If you can write software you can do (most) auto work.
Basic Things to Know Before Doing Business in Timor Leste
> What we really need is far more subsidies in urban and dense suburban areas. The problem is that with our bifurcated political system in the US the people who make up less than 50% of the population outside the cities will block investment in the cities because they will feel like they’re not getting equal investment.

Cities and metro areas have plenty of taxing authority at their disposal. If they want to institute additional taxes to fund these types of things then they could.

Why should people living in rural areas have to pay for it?
I take back by correction. Thanks, and sorry. Manchester encoding really is a form of phase modulation (BPSK). It makes sense to think of it as a 10MHz baseband signal modulated by a 10MHz carrier, and therefore having a 20Mhz bandwidth.
2X slower is unlikely, but Pytorch does tend to be faster than TF in most recent benchmarks. See this link posted by another commenter for one example:

https://wrosinski.github.io/deep-learning-speed-vol1/
When you say "they", I assume you mean "browsers"? Sorry for the dumb question. I know precious little about web programming and concurrency.
"That material truly doesn't exist anywhere."

Technically, doesn't the data exist as radiowaves traveling at lightspeed away from their broadcast source on earth?
Which it says in the first paragraph of the article.
Good question. They did it through Harris Poll, which should make it relatively balanced. Sometimes you see these surveys and the population is sourced from customers/audience of the company, which obviously tilts the kind of responses you're going to get a bit.
What new program?
One could use eBPF to do the parsing safely in the kernel ;-)
As if the net flow of funds from the federal government is rural areas paying for city services and not entirely the other way around
Wasm isn't an instruction set and it doesn't replace javascript because it must communicate through javascript, so I wouldn't count on it.
Sure... Now go grab it.
This country has been reconfigured to force almost everyone to drive. Comparing the two on that basis is not fair. Finally, the full cost of car dependence beyond just pollution which is a big one is not bourne by the government but by drivers, just look at the car insurance industry.
Are they really a vast minority? The statistics here are interesting: https://www.nimh.nih.gov/health/statistics/major-depression....

About 17M adult Americans have had one or more major depressive episodes. 35% of them received no treatment at all. That's just the numbers for depression, let alone other disorders.

The pills can treat symptoms but they don't resolve the root causes of the disorders. I think there are a lot of people out there who would benefit from more or better treatment but the latent demand greatly outweighs the supply.
still you could have it mailed lol
It would be cool if Gource could generate the audio track for you based on the commits in the repository.
Or, instead of privatizing roads, the maintenance of roads could be paid for by taxes and the wealthy could be made to pay higher taxes. Crazy, I know.
I’m in the throes of renovating an old house at the moment and dealing with replacing rotting sections of floor has proved a little fiddly due to this. The slightly different joist heights aren’t too bad - you just pack them out before strapping to the existing joists. Worse has been the existing chipboard floor, which is 20mm and I can only buy 18mm or 22mm. You can hack your way around it, but that one subtle difference adds quite a bit of time to the job - something I don think have much spare of at the moment!
I help build quantum computers, and a good chunk of the software is written in Lisp. The quantum compiler and simulator are in Lisp and they’re open source. [1,2]

[1] compiler https://github.com/rigetti/quilc

[2] simulator https://github.com/rigetti/qvm
Thanks for reminding me of trips to See the Atlantus at Cape May when I was a kid.... :)

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SS_Atlantus

(and horseshoe crabs and Cape May diamonds and ...)
> Public transit is far more capable of commuting more people in a shorter period of time than roads.

Assuming you live close to a station and don’t have to carry anything with you. It’s a fools errand to expect a country the size of the US to have stations that connect everything. We also have extensive and ubiquitous air infrastructure as well for long distance travel and airplanes can be rerouted based on demand a lot more easily than fixed rail infrastructure. If there is a big event in some city or town, it’s fairly trivial to add flights, but it’s impossible to add more tracks. Airplanes can better handle seasonal traffic. For commuter traffic, rail can be more efficient, assuming point A to point B. As soon as you need a point C and point D (such as taking kids to karate practice or visiting your aunt Sally, trains become far more painful.
Sure, cost had a lot to do with it. For profit it not, archiving footage back then was expensive. And even those that did Dave forage ran the risk of having it burn up or simply degrade. There are lota of cases were someone tried to save records, only to have them rot, get eaten, get lost, etc.
With the military, I think other countries around the world intentionally don't invest much because they know they can rely on the US's military to scare off attacks.

Healthcare might be the same thing. US residents pay a lot for healthcare, and that's used to fund healthcare research. Then the products of that research are given to other countries without them having to pay much.
Fiber will be replaceable upon ubiquitous distribution of ultra wideband (UWB) technology
> Site speed only matters in so much as: A) google uses it to rank you, and B) it impacts your users ability to use your product

This can’t be an unpopular opinion. Is there anyone disputing that usability and SEO are the main reasons for increasing site speed?
For the price of one small war in the Middle East, we could have nuclear locomotives and trains 10 miles long, hauling goods for basically nothing.
Yes, you can easily claim that the interference introduces bias for the vast majority of people doing basic searches, even while google is indispensable for the smaller percentage of more complex searches.

There is no contradiction.
Probably want to add 2001 to the title.
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Having taken Amtrack from NY to DC and Boston several times, I made the mistake of doing a NY to Raleigh, NC and back. South of around Richmond the service really deteriorates on single track competing with freight trains. The roadbed is old and bumpy from heavy freight usage. Turned out that there was a bad storm as well and the train slowed because they were uncertain about bridges, etc. It was 30 mph for hours and hours. Who would have thought that heavy rain would be a problem for a train?
Its available on the package managers of most linux distros.
The weasel words are ‘compared to another one’.
My guess is that there are serial number / model number / revision numbers that do change when this is done. It is just not mandatory that these changes be published. I agree that it would be nice to know when metal gears had been replaced with plastic.
I'm surprised a manufacturer of such engineering machines hasn't differentiated itself by offering a SLA on driver (and general software) availability for future operating system versions. It would be reasonable to require users to pay a subscription fee for extended support. I'd think the resale value of machines with drivers still available would be much higher than for those without and that this eventually would allow the manufacturer to charge a premium price for the machine at initial sale.

I own a Fujitsu Scansnap s1500. It's out of support, and the existing drivers are incompatible with Catalina. I now must pay a 3rd party $100 for drivers or fiddle around with a Linux scanner server or similar. Never again will I pay $400 for a Fujitsu scanner, that's for sure.
Are you saying we should expect Google results to be as biased as news outlets?
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Recording to tape was the subject of a Supreme Court case, the result of which was to make it explicitly legal for consumers to use VCRs to record broadcast TV.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sony_Corp._of_America_v._Uni....
>Do they open anything in the Windows space?

Freesync comes to mind and I think they had something related to physics/hair rendering.

There is no requirement to open source on linux.
Nvidia does not. It just means you have to constantly update your driver for the latest kernel version and spend time keeping up to date with all of the latest developments like wayland.
I live near SLC Utah, and to get to SF, I'd pay around the same as an airline ticket for coach, but the trip would take 18 hours. If I wanted a sleeper cabin, it costs 2x an coach flight ticket. And this is for 2 tickets, 6 months in advance, which I think has a hefty discount vs individual tickets, especially closer to the trip time. The only way it's cheaper is if I get the "saver" fare, which is a little cheaper, but has no refund if my plans change.

I would be happy to pay that if the travel time was better, but it's almost 2x longer than driving and not much cheaper than driving (it's actually more expensive if I'm bringing kids along).

Trains were supposed to be more efficient than airlines, so why is taking Amtrak essentially the same price as flying?
I'm not very familiar with Ford's work, but I very strongly remember reading his poem about the September 11 attack:

http://nielsenhayden.com/110.html

It's amazing.
abstract reasoning us not reserved for the "intelligent", it's open to anyone who is of average intelligence at least.

Interestingly this implies that the average programmer does have higher than average intelligence (as measured by IQ scores).

The reasoning goes like this:

- At least average intelligence is required for abstract reasoning (and programming)
- This means the the distribution of intelligence for programmers has a minimum around that of the average value
- This means that the mean and median must both be above average.
I click the dislike button on videos that I like
The current and voltage in coax feedlines varies with length - he is probably looking at spots where current peaks and thus ohmic heating causes physical damage.
https://www.intercom.com/early-stage
> I think other countries around the world intentionally don't invest much because they know they can rely on the US's military to scare off attacks.

Ukraine has proved that's not true for US-friendly countries facing US-hostile foes, which is essentially the optimal scenario short of actual formal alliance, so I don't think that actually is a plausoble explanation except possibly for formal US allies.
Pretty sure WBUR runs their website on top of NPR’s technology stack; many public radio stations do.

NPR has a serious in-house technology team.
The purpose of this comment section is the airing of unpopular views. Judging by your reaction I must be doing OK.

You could have shared a bit about your background with these languages. What do you know about Erlang, ML, Haskell and Lisp?
And on the San Diego end, Santa Fe depot connects to all 3 light rail lines as well as most of the major bus routes in the city. Once the Blue Line extension opens in 2021, you'll be able to get off Amtrak at Old Town and be in the center of the UCSD campus in 15 minutes.

San Diegans tend to have a bit of a defeatist attitude toward transit, and there are plenty of suburban areas where transit is bad, but there are also many places where transit is a reasonable option.
Haha, I thought you were satirizing the C vs Lisp article... but no, it's a direct quote! Amazing.

The article on kindness was well worth reading, thank you. It ends

"If you can’t be kind, if you won’t empathize, then you’re not on the team. That team is Team Humanity, where we are all in this thing together. Where we are all flawed and imperfect. Where we treat other people’s point of view as charitably as we treat our own. Where we are civilized and respectful and, above all, kind to each other—particularly the less fortunate, the mistaken, and the afraid."

https://forge.medium.com/its-not-enough-to-be-right-you-also...
That “living (sales) document” thing absolutely happens at all scales I’ve seen in action.
Your employer is an entity (a person, an LLC, or a corporation), you work for that entity. The entity is allowed to distribute it among themselves but the entity prevents itself from distributing to others (by following the license constraints). You, the employee, do not gain the right to the software because the employer did not give you, personally, any permission to the software.

Only once the software has been distributed by the employer to a third party do you, the employee, get rights to that GPL software. You can replace GPL with other licenses, the premise remains the same: an employee is part of the employer and not a separate entity.
This is such a tired argument but is becoming more and more widespread. It's time for IT professionals beyond just the activists like the EFF to stand up and explain how encryption is good and necessary.
Fun story showing how it's more fun to find things in math than just be told them. I think if more people had this kind of experience there would be a lot less hate on math! I have to say I like the subtraction method mentioned more though, both sides of the number end up staying smaller making it quicker to converge and calculate.
Kale as in the vegetable, but I love that we live in a time where this is a genuine question without a straight forward answer :-)
systemd-networkd uses a ridiculously asinine process for determining something as simple as "network is ready", so I'd hope that isn't actually considered one of its core functions upstream.
Desktop and Android users can do this, but iPhone users are still pretty much limited to DNS-based blockers.
At this point I wonder if a whitelist approach might be better for accessing the web. Does anyone know of any solutions for that?
> kids will know when something is made up.

I think if adults SEEM to be believing it then kids will believe it too. Maybe you can say that then is not misleading them since you believe it to be true, but I don't think that proves that kids really have a critical thinking ability. That is why I think they are easily mislead. Of course there is much good to be said about having an "open mind", but having an "open mind" basically means anything can enter it. Kids' brains have their doors wide open. Is that good or bad? I don't think we can say it is just plain good. They need to learn critical thinking, all humans do, that is the skill to acquire.
Guaranteed to be unpopular: Text-based serialization formats (e.g. XML, JSON) are utterly wasteful of bandwidth, processing power, and memory when used for services with a high request volume and should be dropped in favor of binary protocols.
My reading of the article is that the missing piece from all that you mention was the right kind of “third place” for people to assemble outside their places of work, yet away from their homes.

In other cultures, that might have been an ale house. But with the prohibition on alcohol in the region’s majority faith, it would appear there was nothing comparable until a beverage-based drug with socially acceptable effects gained a foothold and a market arose of social spaces serving it.
Every week I commute from NJ to Boston. A jet does the trip in 50 minutes. The Amtrak Express from Newark to Boston is 4 hours. Yet when you take into account the delayed flights, the security, the fact that I cannot sit down and work for most of the time during my air trip, etc... the train wins out every time. It seems to be on time most of the time. And the ride is smooth with free wifi. And sometime I just stare at the beautiful New England scenery.
Building a Camera That Can See Wi-Fi
With very modern point to point microwave systems there are zero 50 ohm coaxial connectors at all. The radio unit has a direct waveguide flange interface and mounts directly on the rear of a dish.