skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> Because money is limited and those routes lose money.

The money problem is in large part lack of money for capital expenditures, which Amtrak wouldn't have with a pure-NEC system anyways. The capital expenditure is going to have to come from Congress, and it's a lot easier to beg money from Congress if it isn't seen as purely benefiting rich coastal leftist elites.

> While we can (many do) debate what route to run new rails, what is the most important step to take first, and many other details, the big picture is the same to all observers.

Having read several transit enthusiast blogs, I will assure you that the big picture is not the same to all observers. The viewpoint of most enthusiasts tends to boil down to "just build something and people will get excited about it," whereas people like Alon Levy have instead argued that the real issue is that the US is relying on a century-old mindset of how to run trains and somewhere between ignorant and irrationally dismissive of how foreign countries run their superior modern rail systems.
This is a poor comparison of performance. All of these networks are CNNs, and very old architectures at that. They are all probably memory bottlenecked which is why you see the consistent 50% improvement in FP32 perf.

It is also not clear what batch sizes are being used for any of the tests. If you switch to FP16 training, you must increase the batch size to properly utilize the Tensor Cores.

If you compare these cards at FP16 performance on large language models (think GPT-style with large model dimension), I am confident you will see Titan RTX outperform the 3090. The former has 130 TF/s of FP16.32 tensor core performance while the latter has only 70 TF/s.

Link: https://www.nvidia.com/content/dam/en-zz/Solutions/geforce/a...
Don't forget that at least three threads have forked from this because some nimrod clicked Reply instead of Reply All
I remember doing live A/V broadcast and we had a similar setup for comms for the whole team - a hardware push to talk switch was amazing. Might have to invest in something similar for my home workstation too.
That's a great idea - "kitchen staples", perhaps? Thanks!
Here, gay hide their gayness from such catholics. They occasionally do comment on their inability to express their gayness with those catholics. They also prefer company of people they dont have to so careful about keeping secret with.

Note the keeping secret part - it all stands on gay knowing he is not even in position to say I am gay without there being price.
For paid options, the best is the ATK/CI site.

The reason they're head and shoulders above anything else is quality control. You don't have to worry about a recipe being good or not because they test them so much. Even the NYT, which has more adventurous choices, aren't anywhere near as reliable.
Actually you can.

I had a first generation iPad that I dug up last year. If the newest version isn’t available, you can still download the “last compatible version”. In some cases, the backend APIs that are needed to support the app have been deprecated.
Woah, there. They said they were just learning. No need to purchase special hardware until you're trying to run state of the art models.

You can get very far on any laptop before hardware becomes the main blocker. And before building an ML machine, there are cloud compute options available for far cheaper.
> a fun hack that simply happens to work across browsers

Didn't work on IE.

But still something really interesting
Actually privacy-first analytics: https://matomo.org/.
Yes! Speeding things up just causes distances to increase and facilities to centralize.

Game-theoretically, each individual does save time, but soon everyone has a car and the equilibrium shifts. It's like two income households, college degrees, or access to machine guns: Great when only you have it, bad when everyone does.

Or like commute times: It doesn't matter where you are or what the distances are; people are willing to commute about 40 minutes. Increase speeds and they just move further out.

The centralization brought by high speeds then destroys Main Street and shifts power to big box stores. Yes, the overall economy does get "more efficient", but in a way that the gains are captured by the Walton family.

If infrastructure were changed to make higher speeds more difficult -- if we could blow up the damned highways -- then the equilibrium would shift again, and, within a few years, people would be spending no more time going back and forth to the grocery store, because smaller local stores, bodegas, would have popped up.

If you go to "developing" countries you see more of this. There are villages and little shops. The roads are dirt, and you travel by moped/scooter at low speed. Sometimes cows wander on the road. The whole economy and transportation network fits together. And it's totally fine.

This is closer to how we should live in America. Yes, outright poverty is bad -- you need food to eat. But once you reach the "middle income" bracket? Once you have a moped, a (not "smart") cellphone, two molded plastic chairs, a pair of flip flops, and a t-shirt? At that point, so long as the weather is warm, you're basically fine. You can't live like that in America. But if we all did, then (in many of our climates) you could.

Now, you don't need to turn the US into Cuba to accomplish this. There are ritzy high end places that have made this trade too. There are a few suburbs built with networks of low speed paths, where everyone just drives golf carts (except to go outside the community). There are retirement communities in Florida that are basically Disney World. There are resort-town beach islands where cars are banned. People love these places.

Something like 60% (remembered stat) of Americans now live in places administered by an HoA or condo association. We're turning into a weird feudal sprawl of gated communities. Which sucks. But it may also offer an opportunity: Those communities, being more self-contained, might be able to experiment more.

And the experiment they should do is to look to the pre-industrial past, and the lower-income present. Money, cars, highways, McMansions, Whole Foods, corporations, "leaning in" -- they are a curse. They rob you of your happiness and of your grandchildren. Build villages. Grow food. Keep shops. Have families. Find better gods to worship. A civilization, a culture, a built environment -- they all fit together. They need to be conducive to life.
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you can find the part you need to fix that machine.
There's also a NeXT emulator, Previous that works really well.
"Finally, a command line shell for the 90s"

I laughed so hard when I read their motto some years ago that I had to try it. I use it mainly for the nice autocomplete and write scripts in bash ...

It is nice that they added "&&" for "and" etc. It was quite annoying until I got used to it.
Okay, well I guess that’s a bad experience. I don’t think it invalidates the fact the usually book authors should be somewhat knowledgable - of course it doesn’t automatically
mean that all of them is good to work with.
I believe that rule zero that every developer should follow is "fight for the users". This is a great example of such: Regardless of how useful it can be for certain businesses, the combination of unreliability with the potential for abuse just makes it a net negative experience for the users.

And that it can save their company in the long run means that everyone wins. Or at least I hope so; they're doing the right thing.
I agree with you, but I find it interesting to contrast this with what this site is describing as social cooling. The website's claims are entirely big data and algorithm driven. But what you describe here, and what I think most people initially think of in terms of "social cooling" is the type of self-censorship and fear of the masses that is the result of masses of individual users, rather than algorithmic bias adjusting to our digital fingerprint.

The two aren't completely inseparable. Social media and the modern internet drive the kind of digital puritanism you are describing, and social media and the modern internet are largely based on monetization through advertising, which is driving the social cooling the website is describing. But the two are different phenomena, and I find the one you are describing much more relevant and terrifying than algorithms tracking my clicks to curate my advertisements and Instagram feed.
I know you're being jokey, but there's no contradiction here. Not listening != doing the opposite.
They do create some excellent stuff. Their 'Workers' product is incredibly well thought out. Makes me pay close attention to the rest of their catalogue.
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Does anyone have tips on persuading the other participants in regular video calls to do even the bare minimum of wearing headphones? My own setup is pretty good, but I’m stuck in a hell of people using built in laptop speakers and microphones, or wireless ear buds, despite everyone in the company being issued a decent headset.
India was never really secular.

The previous PM advocated for Muslims having first rights on resources.

https://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/india/Muslims-must-have-...

I am not really sure how that is secular.
But I can’t buy virtual currency somewhere else and use in Fortnite. I still have to go through Epic to buy digital goods on their platform.
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Personally, I use NixOS in conjunction with Home Manager[0] to more conveniently use Nix to manage my user-level config. The configuration that I manage with Home Manager includes my Emacs config, my Git config, and my Bash config. Additionally, almost all of the other programs I use on a daily basis are at least installed through it. Since it’s primarily only used for managing some packages, the configuration process was simple compared to setting up NixOS for me.

I would imagine that you could use Home Manager on a non-NixOS system to at least create reproducible configs for the programs you use, although the OS as a whole would of course still be non-reproducible. However, I do not know how well Home Manager works on non-NixOS systems.

As you mention, just using Nix itself can be sufficient to get a reproducible set of packages on your system. I recall reading a blog post about someone who does this on both Ubuntu and MacOS.[1] The way this person does it is interesting because it’s more sophisticated than spawning the occasional ‘nix-shell’ or something. For example, they get the benefit of Nix “generations,” with a new generation being created each time they modify their declarative config files.

[0] https://github.com/nix-community/home-manager
[1] https://www.nmattia.com/posts/2018-03-21-nix-reproducible-se...
That already happens. When I ran my own email server, I didn't reject invalid addresses because that was the anti-spam advice at the time (whether or not it worked, I don't know; most of my email was still spam). But that doesn't appear to be what providers like Gmail are doing; they are happy to tell you that an address is invalid. It is somewhat important to human users for the mail server to tell you the address is invalid. (An example: many years ago I interviewed at Google. Some time during the process, my recruiter left. I found this out by sending them an email and getting a message about the address being invalid. I then complained on HN, someone followed up, and I worked there for many years!)
This is really eloquently put. A concrete example: I grew up in Minnesota in an area with a lot of Somali refugees. When the Trump travel ban went into effect, many of them were cut off from their families. I have friends that had to choose between packing up their lives to immigrate to Germany or never seeing their family again.

In that context, I'm not particularly interested in engaging with the idea that the travel ban is A Good Thing Actually. And I don't think I'd maintain a friendship with someone who thinks that it is. I do not consider this a character flaw.
How is Plausible/Matomo/Fathom/Simple over priced at scale? I use Fathom and their pricing is $75/mo for 2M views a month... If you're getting that much traffic, $75/mo is a BARGAIN.
How do you know that? I am going to go out on a limb here and say you have not done background research on TV manufacturers who focus exclusively on inexpensive dumb TVs, so how can you know it's not worth it to them?

It is entirely possible there are other factors as to why we are not buying from them right now, such as supplier-related issues unbeknownst to us.

In short, the economy is more complex than claiming "demand" and saying we are done.
In the context of a system where it's almost impossible to lose money above a certain point and almost impossible to make money below a certain point (edit: without doing something reckless, which often happens).. No this does not make sense to me.
A new pair of bionic gloves that are letting the 79-year-old play with both hands for the first time in more than two decades. Video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mDXuk9xo8hQ&feature=emb_titl...
Ask HN: Professional portfolio under a pen name?
I have several side projects that I work on with online communities I enjoy contributing to. However, I'm not comfortable bridging the gap between the online communities I make things for and my real identity. Especially because over the natural course of time, there are bad actors and I don't want them ever finding out who I am.

How do others with a similar situation of keeping their professional life separate handle this? I have nothing to show employers even though I'm constantly working on projects. I've even amused the idea of reskinning some of them to put onto a portfolio, but would rather not.

Is it socially acceptable to give a portfolio under a pen name? Are there any well known developers that have a professional brand that isn't their name and face? Do developers just keep their professional and "fun" projects on separate Githubs/portfolios? I want to begin looking for better opportunities and feel so stuck.
I wonder if that technique could reduce sonic boom in aircraft like Boom Supersonic's?
This is the Best opportunity to gather support to push Apple to make a proper TV set. One that value privacy, and something I have been advocating for years. ( And hopefully a return of Airport Express as well )
So you want Google to basically advertise/encourage how to install stuff from unknown sources or to enable it by default?

I am not sure that's a good thing for majority of the population. Sandboxing does nothing if you download untrusted apps and give them permission to send SMS or setup a VPN or do whole lot of damage. If you aren't a geek you are saying ok to anything any app asks.

Android actually optionally, with rightful warnings allows PC like anarchy for geeks - if you are arguing that should be the default I am not sure many people will agree with that.
No problemo!

Sure, you may want to come up with a few different sets, perhaps Italian stuff, Asian-focused, vegetarian, etc.
A video of the welcome to NeXT multimedia mentioned in the article: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lCPlGgA6tE4
There is a science fiction story by, I believe, Isaac Asimov which has as it's main story point that:

- fusion is developed

- b/c of fusion, the cheapest "rocket fuel" is basically water heated into steam by the fusion reactor

- people on Earth get upset about the "spacers" taking all of the "earthers" water

- the spacers then have to go to other sources of water in the solar system (I think it was either rings of Saturn or the asteroid belt)

The thing that struck me at the time was the "water as propellant" without the extra step of breaking H2O into hydrogen and oxygen.
>your analysis is grade school level

Correct me if I'm wrong, but I didn't analyze anything. My goal was to assert: Inflation is present in the US economy, Home prices as an example; and to provide some relative bounds on what that rate might be.

>I wonder if tax policy has anything to do with this

What's you thesis of the tax policy changes that occurred in the past 12 years that caused asset-price inflation?

>way wealthy people can shelter money in a residence

How are "wealthy people" "sheltering money" in the bottom 50% of all home prices -- those homes who prices would need to change to change the median price?

>lack of savings interest is a big driver

The opportunity of high, investment returns doesn't reduce the prices of the goods we need to buy to exist.

If I was to actually provide some analysis for the price increases, I'd posit:
Downward, interest-rate manipulation by central banks has caused systemic-wide credit expansion. The new money that results from this policy affects economic of all goods but most severely inelastic goods -- such as houses and in markets that receive artificial economic intervention from central planners (in the US, the housing market is a prime example).
I'm not sure why I'm being downvoted either, but I guess many people find it hard to believe that not everybody has the same experiences they do?

Like, I don't have a baby crying in my house because I don't have a baby. Or pets. If you do, stay muted. Where I live my environment is very, very quiet. Which the article says is step 1. If you can't do step 1, then yeah, this article isn't for you.
Not realtime. Users would sync periodically during their working process.

There are lots of mutable things in a DAW that are not numeric parameters.

The state of a playlist (just think "some time ordered list of objects") is not treatable in the same way as the value of a fader.

If you had a context-aware XML parser and access to timestamps for every XML node, you could do the human-aided merge by considering each node and just using the latest version of the same node, falling back to the human when there's a deletion conflict (for example). But this doesn't actually merge the attributes of a node or deal with conflicts between otherwise sequential edits.
I recently got an email from a mailing list saying "goodbye" to me because I don't read their emails anymore.

Of course, the catch is, I open their emails several times a week: I just block remote images. I replied back to them to tell them I don't appreciate them trying to track whether or not I open my mail in my inbox, but to keep me on the list.

I could get upset and unsubscribe because I'm annoyed they're relying on tracking, though FWIW, my experience demonstrates their tracking isn't working. And hopefully, me directly communicating with them that their strategy is both ineffective and unappreciated may help nudge them away from this sort of behavior.
The 3090 RTX is also $1000 cheaper than the Titan, so there's that. It would be nice if there was a good way to express value per dollar. Perhaps in GLUE accuracy and training time.
Bitcoin and Beyond: A Technical Survey on Decentralized Digital Currencies [pdf]
Competition is what keeps private corporations well behaved. Governments are monopolies and thus unchecked.
+1, I agree strongly that the "channel" is a powerful UX metaphor and enables better high-throughput communications, and that other modern ideas are expressed in chat applications in a way that's more comfortable to us than they are within email.

I also believe that there's a big gap between traditional text chat and an audio/video meeting, where casual discussion and emotion trade off against calendar space and long periods of captured focus -- so I hope we have progress to make here!

(I posted in a different thread in this submission that I believe in this so strongly that I'm making a product to try to bridge that gap, but I won't muddy things by re-linking it repeatedly.)
If you download an unsigned app you need that rigamarole, but it’s easy to distribute a signed app from your website, and a user who knows what they are doing has no real difficulty.

This reduces the chance my 85 year old mum will accidentally download malware while still making it easy for me to install whatever I like on my machine or, for that matter, hers.

And they document how to switch off that protection if you’d like as well.
Maybe you're just putting it this simplistically for the rhetoric, but if you're doing research it's not really free. You're actually getting paid (albeit not much) and having your tuition waived to do work as a researcher.
Agreed. Parent seems to think that engaging in rhetoric is universially fun and useful endeavor that will expand our mind and better us as a person. This is not true on a number of issues.

Disenfranchising issues (such as gay rights, police brutality, immigration, right to abortion, etc.) is not only theoretical to some people, but a real threat to their lives and well being. A person playing the devils advocate arguing for limits on immigration to an immigrant is not only annoying but actively threatening to an immigrant at risk of being deported.

A number of people have full rights to be insulted when points are raised on a number of subjects. In fact they also have the rights to react angrily if the subject is a direct threat to their lives and livelihood. People arguing things often don’t realize that there is a person on the other end of the debate, a person with feelings, like love and compassion, but also anger and disgust. If a subject threatens or belittles, them being insulted or angry is the natural response.
I wasn't familiar with the stats here, and this seems to be true (though I'm not sure I'd go so far as to say "far fewer"):

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

Though note that the gap closes when you compare "equivalent to a 4-year degree or higher" rather than "equivalent to a 2-year degree or higher". Seems that 2/3 year degrees are much more common in the US for some reason. Wonder if that's 3-year bachelor's degrees vs. the more common 4-year in many European institutions.

E.g. US/UK/DE/FR, pct completed for 25-34 yr olds:

2 year: 47/49/30/45
4-year: 36/42/28/28

I'd be interested in further reading/analysis as this is a pretty rough eyeball of the tabular data on my part, and I'm not claiming to have understood this fully.
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I suppose your defenition of maturity is different than mine, I would assume that maturity is defined by the traits held by most adults in a species. If it isnt held by most adults in that species, is it really an indicator of maturity? But we are getting into pedantics here. I agree with you, I just assume from human history that what we as a society claim to be maturity is a idealist goal that we set out to achieve but ultimately fall short of. He are going to have to up out maturity baseline in order to tackle the challenges we have created for ourselves.
Yeah, I'm not sure what the parent was getting at separating them out since from the clients perspective they're the same. I guess they mean that getting a tcpcrypt connection on your server isn't a guarantee that there isn't a middlebox either.
Good point. Supreme court justices have constitutionally protected, lifetime appointment job security. They can't really get fired for writing politically incorrect memos or dissenting opinions.
I am sure this is mostly seen as a positive but this can also backfire in an interview, and later, at work (I see a sibling comment addresses this). If a person leads with saying he has written a book on a topic, and then is unable to provide adequate responses to basic questions, the panel opinion goes south very soon. I have seen this happen.

Think of it as when a candidate claims she knows a language X well, but then is unable to answer reasonable questions around X. Saying you have written a book is like this claim, except dialing up expectations to the max.

Not saying advertising a book is a bad idea, but be aware of the expectations you are setting up.
Arguing will get you nowhere
The observable universe is much larger than the hubble volume. I understand this to be due to changes in the rate or expansion of the universe over time, though I'm no astronomer myself.