skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I mean its not like they really had much of a choice for the route. They didn't build new tracks, just reused old existing tracks and built stations along the way.

I lived in Austin when they were voting to build the rail line and there was so much opposition that they never would have been able to get funding for any serious development of new tracks. There was a proposal for a while to run trains up Mopac, along the train line in the middle of the highway there, but apparently that wasn't possible because there is too much freight traffic on that line.

> The political opposition is typically strongest exactly where transit is most valuable

That actually wasn't the case either. The original proposal was for a roughly $2 billion project, and while it had lots of support in the central city the suburbs voted against it.

In the end they got the proposal passed, but with a drastically reduced budget, and were only able to spend about $100 million to build a rail system. So they just slapped together the red line on existing rail tracks
And, ultimately, what is a bicycle but a very efficient pair of running shoes?
> Otherwise you're only conveying your personal subjective feeling.

Well that can’t be right; it would turn the entire topic of climate change on its head.
It's an interesting conundrum - where does skill end and technology pick up the slack? This has played out so many places from the speedsuits in competitive swimming, to space-age materials used for baseball bats and golf clubs, and now running shoes. While these things probably won't help the average Joe much, even a minute change at the top end can mean the difference between millions of dollars in winnings and sponsorships.
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Similarly, I can vouch for the T495s' sturdiness. The whole thing genuinely feels like a slab of solid rock (but is still lightweight); I can't quantify how robust this thing is, but Lenovo guarantees that every T495s has been through some sort of military testing where it sits in different environments for several hours (sandstorm, scorching heat, freezing cold, humidity).
> Unilateral changes actually have a net negative impact because other parties simply consume more (CO2 in this case).

I fail to see your logic. If many people consume less petroleum maybe the price goes down and others consume more, but I don't see how they're going to consume more than what was the state of things in the first place.

Honestly it seems like a shallow rationalization to avoid taking personal responsibility for your actions. That might sound harsh but I'm a firm believer in extreme ownership as espoused by Jocko Willink. I'm allergic to excuses and rationalizations.
A few years ago in a commuter town about 60 miles from London I saw an add for a ground worker team leader next to a PHP developer, The ground worker was paid more.

Ground worker is what would have been called navvies
This confusion reminds me of a scene from the 2002 film of Dave Barry's "Big Trouble".

(Driving to an airport) "Okay, we gotta pick a road. Arrivals or departures? We're arriving, but then we're departing."

https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Big_Trouble

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EjHHzZAUxbM&t=300
This is definitely not scientific and is effectively misrepresentative.

"But it is frightening just how much a few tenths of a degree can change the seafloor. The changes in the ocean are massive." It's misleading to pursue this idea that tiny changes in temperature, which fluctuate up and down as well, are somehow the primary drivers of such things. Such changes happen constantly, all over the ocean.

Species of moths and insects come and go, and sometimes cause what we perceive as destruction. This may be due to a variety of factors.

I think what happens in such situations, is when you take a kernel of truth (like climate change), that also happens to be emotional for many people, they can easily turn anything anecdotal into evidence to support their view.
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Is there evidence that it was actually used for playing games? The irregular placement of the divots makes it look like a kind of vandalism that was popular when I was in school, where people would surreptitiously use coins to grind divots in walls while waiting for class.
It can be tough to do that when both you and your partner work.
Who sold the car with a federal disclosure window sticker that represented it had full self-driving capability installed? Tesla.

Who failed to include any mention of removing that equipment that was included in the legally required lemon disclosure statement? Tesla.

Who allowed the dealer to inspect the car and test drive it in a state where the equipment and features that were listed as included equipment were present and working? Tesla.

If Tesla wants to remove features when they resell a car, that's fine, but they have to disclose it, and they can't misrepresent those features as included in the material and documentation provided. That would be fraud.
At 222M USD to drive to work in the morning, I'd certainly find other modes of transportation.
> But sure, HN, go ahead, discuss if it's the right format/UX to deliver the message that we're fucked. Heaven forbid we talk about the message itself.

Please don't contribute to the problem by going off topic in this way—it just adds more of what you're complaining about. (As, alas, does this comment.)
Norway's sovereign wealth fund is over $1 trillion (with a T), which is all from petroleum profits. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Government_Pension_Fund_of_Nor...

They should pledge at least 75% of that fund for CO2 removal technology R&D and other mitigation solutions.
I've been running 1.3x fake scaling for years by just tweaking fonts. In previous Ubuntu versions with Unity that was just a standard setting. Now I need to set the font scaling in the tweak tool and in the firefox about:config. After that everything just looks fine.
The funny thing about this is one of their product idea is quantitative analysis for VCs... And then they say send us a pitch, we don't care about numbers at all!
I just picked up a kneeling chair and it's been an adjustment. It's nice though -- it sort of forces you to keep your spine and neck in a good position. This is the one I got: https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B07W99RSZK/
It’s faster (especially to encode), and in my opinion, better tuned for high quality. H.265 can give a “usable” image in a relatively small file size, but it sometimes takes a surprising amount of additional bytes to get rid of the somewhat oversmoothed aspect, and that additional amount can vary a lot from one image to the next, so with the current implementations, you have little choice but to verify visually. At least, that’s my experience with the reference encoder. I haven’t had a chance to experiment with Apple’s implementation.

In contrast, with JPEG XL, I can simply use the high quality setting once per image and be done with it, trusting that I will get a faithful image at a reasonable size.
IIRC the movie explicitly says "due to global warming" at the start or something to that effect.

But on the other hand, society had collapsed along with most of the stored knowledge of the world, so maybe it was just the people being uneducated and highly insular. They don't even know how long a kilometer is anymore.

There was a point in history a few hundred million years ago where the entire American midwest was a shallow water ocean; we could easily be heading back to that scenario in just a few centuries.
They can't though. There isn't enough 3d space under the earth that can be practically reached.
> "we're going with Angular because we're a Microsoft house"

Is ms invested in Angular?

It's a Google project, isn't it? Is it first-party in dot.net? I though that was Blazor?
I don't think it was that "little"; 1800-1900 encompassed a lot of early fossil fuel usage, including a lot of coal and nearly extinguishing whales for burnable oils. There was also a great deal of deforestation. Don't forget to take into account efficiency improvements in your mental estimates of how much CO2 was released, we don't produce that much more CO2 than the 1800s because we do a lot more with less. (An LED lamp compared to a whale oil lamp is an amazing difference in carbon output thanks to all sorts of efficiency gains.)

Certainly, we are in trouble if our goal is to somehow get back to pre-1800 temperature levels. Which is why the goal setting has always "merely" been to try stop the current slope from so dangerously remaining exponential, and has never been about entirely undoing the effects of man-made climate change. As a species, we can try solve that after we've done what we can about the present problems of that sharp forecasted curve.
My impression is that developers are drawn to and associate with these specific projects rather than the GNU umbrella. But I might be mistaken.
No we shouldn't! You don't give up the principles of science just to expedite your political ideals. If you were going to do that, why bother with science in the first place? Just declare it so and shout it until everyone believes you!

I have memories of world 30 years ago being hotter than it is today. I don't credit it to "global cooling" because I'm not that silly. You shouldn't be either. You'll never notice a degree C of average temperature change. You regulate your body's environment's temperature with clothing, housing, heating, etc. And it varies much more dramatically hour-by-hour than over decades. If you simply changed your bedtime a little, you could experience global warming or cooling of the same magnitude as what actually happened.
The thing about climate change is that some small proportion of the population, probably elites, farsighted and lucky will likely benefit from it, in the form of profiting off the weakest and more vulnerable by providing some sort of assistance or accommodation, from new industries that will arise to accommodate or from arbitrage on land that will become uninhabitable versus that which will become newly inhabitable.

It's a massive structural shift in the earth's environment. So I wonder if not for some they happily welcome the change as an opportunity to seize the commanding heights of the future.

If climate change cannot be avoided, than the next best thing is to get ahead of it in terms of advantages over competitors in terms of technology, territory, products and services that the newly impoverished and vulnerable will require to survive.

I wouldn't be surprised if this was the real thinking behind billionaire oil tycoons or climate deniers. They see it as fundamentally political as opposed to scientific in nature.
Walking and waiting for connections is inherent to taking the bus. There's nothing gained from planning things tightly when service isn't predictable. In fact, I think it would be a mistake to even think of buses in my city as having a schedule. They just have a rough frequency.
How is this relevant? This would require action on part of the poor. What I am talking about is using technology that is already being developed. Namely, bio weapons with antidotes that is marketed to the rich. I'd do it in a heartbeat if I was a billionaire. Clearly one cannot talk about this because it is true.
Do municipal water engineers still think in terms of acre-feet, or has everyone converted to cubic meters?
I'm getting some serious déjà vu here.

Anyway, pjmlp, if you have some time, could you please explain how WSL makes sense in a world where SPIR-V already exists?

Both are intended mainly to be compiler targets, and both will need verifiers for use in WebGPU. The main advantages of SPIR-V are that some tooling already exists (as opposed to none), most of the specification is already done, and it will end up being faster with Vulkan. The only advantage I've seen for WSL is that it's text-based, so you can cut and paste pieces of code together more easily. I don't know how that would even fit in with the idea that WSL is meant to be a compiler target, though.
> Android (the OS part, the one you want opensourced) is pretty much not making any revenue (which is easy to see on the earnings report).

All licensed Android phones are also forced to bundle Google apps like Youtube, Chrome, Play Store, Google search, Drive etc. And all these products make Google a LOT of money. Not to mention the amount of personal data it helps Google collect. Google didn't buy and develop Android out of kindness for its customers.
Yes, it is absolutely true. Literally from the Canada Health Act: "Private health insurance plans are prohibited from duplicating coverage for health services provided in Canada which are insured under the Canada Health Act."

If you start to provide services normally covered by the government, you will be shut down, or you'll have to take your case to the Supreme Court where this law is still being tested.

There are places that provide parallel services, they operate in a grey area. For example, the Supreme Court of Quebec ruled that private services can be provided for treatments wherein the government does not provide 'timely service' i.e. 'wait times are too long'. But exactly the parameters of those 'wait times' nobody knows, and the only way to find out is to go to the Supreme Court. So not a good business plan.

The laws vary from province to province however.

[1] https://www.canada.ca/en/health-canada/services/health-care-...
Highly recommend the book "Let My People Go Surfing:The Education of a Reluctant Businessman, Including 10 More Years of Business Unusual" by Yvon Chouinard the founder of Patagonia and the precursor to Black Diamond (he spun BD out and sold it to his employees after losing a frivolous lawsuit).

The man is a legend in the climbing community, and wrote a whole book on balancing professional vs enthusiast gear while following his own moral compass.

It's a fascinating and worthwhile read for anyone who wants to find your own internal balance on being true to yourself and your values, while dealing with the realities of running a business. The discussions on what do we owe ourselves and others is a refreshing take on what it means to be successful.
The progressive mode in Jpeg and JPEG XL is quite different, because the quality is so much better your perception of it changes. Where Progressive Jpeg are literally useless before it finish loading, JPEG XL provides decent quality.
In Koch’s picture, then, the Turing Test is irrelevant to diagnosing inner life. What’s more, it implies that the transhumanist dream of downloading one’s mind into an (immortal) computer circuit is a fantasy. At best, such circuits would simulate the inputs and outputs of a brain while having absolutely no experience at all. It will be “nothing but clever programming… fake consciousness—pretending by imitating people at the biophysical level.” For that, he thinks, is all AI can be. These systems might beat us at chess and Go, and deceive us into thinking they are alive. But those will always be hollow victories, for the machine will never enjoy them.

This is really damning humans with faint praise. "Machines may eventually do every job better than we can, and be immortal, but I promise that humans will remain superior in some completely undetectable way."
Harsh reality of the internet content is once you start making something available for free somewhere, then it will be worth zero everywhere. This is pretty sad, because at local level you still have to pay real monies to buy bread & milk and nobody of sound mind would ask for freebies just because somewhere else someone is giving bread & milk away for free.
I loved the process as you could think about what you were seeing. Also to be able to read without annoying ads or extra clutter was wonderful.
the browser itself has such permissions that allows it to override OS settings (and as a dev you just utilize these built-in capabilities)?
If you take protecting your users seriously then any of their personal info counts as a "valuable" so yes, you should secure everything. And it strains credulity that you might be running any kind of actual business where it would be appropriate not to take protecting your users' data seriously. Even if you're doing something as mundane as hosting cat pictures, you have email addresses and password hashes and analytics data.
This is a standard phenomenon in discussion forums. The fix is to post something on-topic, without referencing the off-topicness. If you post by complaining about what's off topic, that will then get upvoted even more, turning the thread into second-order meta off-topicness. See also https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=false&qu...

Moderation can help, because once we see it happening in a thread, we downweight the off-topic subthreads. But ultimately the only fix for bad discussion is good discussion, and discussion about bad discussion (even about how much you dislike it) is bad discussion.
We first chose to display only data points obtained after 20 or more epochs of training. Then, by slicing through the “loss” axis, we observed that larger learning rates led to better performance (perplexity). You can reproduce this example here:

https://facebookresearch.github.io/hiplot/_static/demo/ml1.c...
Didn't seem to care about more than a paycheck until they'd collected a big one for 15 years. Idealism is easy when there's no risk involved.
Assuming that CO2 is the actual cause of global warming...
No, Hacker News is for stories that are intellectually interesting. Please see https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html.
There are very few submissions that doesn’t have someone complain about something. HN crowd tend to be critical. Might be harsh sometimes but not necessarily a bad thing. If you want your ideas poked full of holes, submit it here.
unless... you run into a moral loop
Interestingly the search history isn't from the time of the crime (1979!), but rather from the time of his arrest (2018). The judge's reasoning was probably similar to the reasoning used to exclude prior bad acts. If this was the reasoning, it would have no relevance to the type of search history that I assume is much more commonly used in trials: that the defendant searched for instructions or materials related to the crime.
Studio headphones ftw!

But yeah it's true, you hear more 'imperfections' when using higher-end audio gear. Wouldn't go back though.
>That music industry money isn't going to the artists.

No argument there! The artists have always been the last to be paid. It may be getting worse for the artists, but the situation for actual creators has always been bad ... on average.
Thanks for that.

I guess I've been fortunate in that, all of the people being excluded were truly not pulling their own (traditional) weight because they were going through family trauma and on anti-depressants or something. (Divorce, loss of a child, etc.). People were pretty forgiving, but definitely didn't want them in critical path.

The handful (let me say, 5 G, 2L and 2T across 10 small teams over 5 years that I am going to use as a sample, circa 1995~2000) of alphabet people (is that phrase offensive?), were objectively AWESOME in terms of personality and group engagement and work performance. It really was never a problem. Maybe we hired well. Maybe we were lucky. I guess I haven't seen the passive-aggressive exclusionary thing you are talking about, but I will keep an eye out for it in the future.

Again: Thank you.
Even if we could be bothered, I think we've lost the political technology to organize large government projects and complete them on a sane budget/timetable.

The budget plan for the James Webb Space Telescope was $500m with completion in 2007. We're now at $9.6b with completion predicted in 2021. Some of the cost overruns and delays were caused by the unexpected complexity of fabricating the mirrors and assembling them in space, but that underscores my point. The Apollo mission was orders of magnitude more ambitious at the time.

I'm not pointing any fingers because the causes are complex. NASA is underfunded and relies on unreliable funding from Congress, which itself is a source of inefficiency. Defense/aerospace contractors are greedy, sure, but there's a much bigger pie to be had if past successes encouraged even larger-scale projects like moon colonization they could bid for.

I don't know what's gone wrong, but we are failing on these big projects as a species for some reason.
or maybe they just aren't sycophantic tesla fanboys.
And civilian khaki's were probably to pose and steal valor from the military. Almost everything style wise is deep with symbolism that sometimes loses touch with any original meaning.
Crypto mining botnet found on Defense Department web server
Regarding a standardized schema for recipes: https://schema.org/Recipe

I have no idea if this is in use anywhere or if any actual recipe service exposes this information, but there it is.
auto-correct strikes again...
At some point automating becomes a full-time job. And that's literally what I do.
An Evening With George Steiner
Much respect for Dan's minimalist site (can't say I've ever waited for it to load) but this much CSS makes it so much more readable:

html {
display: flex;
flex-direction: column;
align-items: center;
line-height: 1.2em;
font-size: 1.1em;
}

body {
width: 650px
}

As for the actual content, I agree with it a lot. I suspect most people are quite bad at learning. It's not something that's taught in schools, and when it is, it's probably lost upon kids due to their lack of executive decision making skills.

For instance, I tutor kids in math. I don't think I'm an amazing tutor. My limited bag of tricks are stolen from my teachers. But what I do provide is a fully concentrated hour long study time with feedback. Which is more effective than 10 hours of slightly distracted studying with little to no feedback.

Basically, improvement is a combo of concentration and feedback. Sounds facile but it does work.

There's a great Donald Glover^[1] quote about this:

> “I realized, if I want to be good at P.E., I have to be good at basketball. So I went home and shot baskets in our driveway for six hours, until my mother called me in. The next day, I was good enough that you wouldn’t notice I was bad. And I realized my superpower.”

[1]: https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2018/03/05/donald-glover-...
> the gas station down the street makes profit

The gas station down the street isn't paying its employees six figure salaries. That employee might be making $7.25 an hour, which is the federal limit. Assuming 40 hours per week and 52 weeks per year (no time off!), that's 15k before taxes. Is that gas station clerk a better/more worthwhile person than a gas station clerk in timbuktu?

> Do you think that makes you worth more than someone else?

Getting paid more than someone else doesn't make you a better person than someone else. It just means you're earning more income, and that company is willing to pay you that income for any multitude of reasons. That's it.

Programmers can provide immense value to companies, and companies make handsome profits despite paying their engineers immense salaries. This also has to do with cost of living in some areas: chicago is more expensive than many places in the world, so if you want to base a company in chicago and pay someone who lives in chicago to work for you, you need more money. It's not rocket science.

I think many companies don't need to be based in SF or Seattle, etc, but that's another discussion.
I've been thinking the same, well that I need to get better lighting in general - I have remote calls daily and during the summer that's fine because there's sunlight all the time whilst I'm working.

But now in the winter, it gets dark quite early and my normal room lighting is not bright enough. Doesn't make me look exactly as if I'm sitting in the dark but it's close to it :P