skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
There are many comments claiming that "walkable" neighborhoods are better for everyone which is why mixed-use neighborhoods should make the most sense.

But with southern hot cities like Atlanta, Houston, Phoenix, etc, walking anywhere outside for more than 10 minutes will leave you a dripping sweaty mess. I think this is why the USA doesn't see a tidal wave of walkable neighborhoods. Thus, suburbs requiring cars (with air conditioning) still rule. Even in Florida retirement communities where there's a "planned" walkable neighborhood with a nearby fitness center and small grocery store, most use motorized golf carts instead of walking. Unlike coastal cities with ocean breezes like San Francisco, walking is very uncomfortable in many places.

Another issue with grid street neighborhoods is that many don't like thru traffic and noise. Thus the dead-end cul-de-sacs that many academics hate are loved by residents who prefer the reduced car noise and extra privacy.

American suburbs is one of those topics where mainstream media misleads their readers. If you only read from New York Times, New Yorker, or even the topmost upvoted threads on HN, you'd miss out on the "dark matter" of residents who genuinely prefer American style suburbs.

[EDIT] : I want to add some more comments for those think many Americans are unaware of the advantages of dense living and their choice of suburbia is from ignorance. The counterpoint to that is many Americans follow this life timeline:

- early 20s (single no kids) : going to college in a city or working at a downtown firm so they enjoy the dense city living like Manhattan, Chicago, etc... walking to restaurants and bars, museums, cultural things

- mid-life with kids: they enjoyed cities in their younger years but they want to raise a family so they move out to the suburbs. They want the better schools, yard, garage to putz around in etc.

- retired and kids are grown leaving an "empty nest": some senior citizens might sell the suburb house and move to a city condo and walk to museums again.

My point is that many people who live in suburbs are quite informed by real life experience to the advantages of "walkable cities" but the still prefer suburbs for its advantages as well. This aspect is underreported by the mainstream media.
I've lived in France and Spain, never the US, and giving so much upfront still seem massive to me.
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I've seen them too, I believe you. I think we're being visited and watched from a distance.

Skepticism is normal and understandable but I'm surprised at the amount of uninformed skepticism on this topic here. It seems like a lot of people still don't know what's going on.

So many credible, high-ranking people in military and government have come forward over the years. Edgar Mitchell had a PHD and walked on the moon and tried to tell us about UFOs.
One thing I don't hear mentioned very often in the "why would aliens bother coming here" debate, is a comparison of UFO behavior and our behavior with other species we study in remote locations.

Consider the mountain gorillas in central Africa - we'll send a person out there to sit in the trees and take pictures, and if they catch a glimpse of the human, who cares? Meanwhile, the way we travel to the gorillas home, our cities, our whole way of life are totally unknown and even incomprehensible to the gorillas. What does a gorilla know of internal combustion, or tranquilizer darts, or digital cameras?

If there are aliens visiting us, I imagine it's similar. Maybe they're just coming to take pictures and check out what the local tech-apes are up to for a research paper, and if one of the humans catches a glimpse of your spaceship, who cares? Even if they get a clear look at your ship, they have only a vague idea of how it works and what it's for.

Maybe there's no aliens, but the universe is a big place and we barely understand it. Our comprehension of what's even physically and technologically possible changes every century. We're just apes who saw a land rover in the distance.
The “theory max” is not that hardcoded, superresolution is a field and we don’t know what all they are up to with billions to burn. There were reports at some point about high altitude drones stationary above cities that can read license plate level data (not license plates themselves) at video rates over the entire city so who knows!
I also don’t understand why we need to negotiate with the private sector at all. This is a crisis. Set a fair price. Mandate an open license, open up manufacturing to anyone and everyone who can do it and just start doing it. Regarding supply chain difficulties we can also throw money at that. For sure there are people and companies who can solve each individual problem if given the resources. Right now we don’t have the luxury of efficiency we just need to get it done.
It is now clear that the FSF will never denounce the behavior of RMS, as they are his creature forever. As such, the organization is inherently toxic.
That many of you cannot recognize the problem of having RMS in a leadership position, or indeed see nothing wrong with his words or behavior, is itself a savage indictment on tech culture. Please wear FSF and Free Stallman badges prominently so I know to avoid you at conferences and warn others from using your software. You are pariahs.

Flag this all you like, it's something I'll keep repeating. You're on the wrong side of history.
I generally subscribe to PG's definition of a startup, which is a company designed to grow fast: http://www.paulgraham.com/growth.html
Good news, it isn't US only (anymore)! Criterion used to be available through Hulu (US only), then it was available through another streaming service whose name escapes me, but they (Criterion) finally started running their own VOD Netflix-like service:

https://www.criterionchannel.com/

I have it setup on my Apple TV in Canada and it works great. Highly recommended!

EDIT: Just checked [0], it's actually USA + Canada only for now... Sorry about that.

[0] https://www.criterion.com/faq/channel
If a baby would come out it, that is just as productive as a job (though more and more people do abortion nowdays).

I don't see why working/producing is anymore meaningful than partying / socializing. I think people can find meaning in their life in different ways.
Why should prestige matter?
Too many Corporate Ladder Climbers have used YC as a resume point to get that next promotion at a corporation b/c they view it as more prestigious than things like a graduate degree.
That's not a positive for YC, it's a negative. Corporate Ladder Climbers block out those that actually want to do a startup.

As long as the quality of the program remains high, and that is entirely dependent on the quality of the partners, then the program can scale.
> “Exponent two” refers to the ideal speed — in terms of number of steps required — of performing one of the most fundamental operations in math: matrix multiplication. If exponent two is achievable, then it’s possible to carry out matrix multiplication as fast as physically possible.

Can anyone clarify what "as physically possible" means here? Are there physical systems that perform matrix multiplication in O(n^2) ? (I feel silly even asking that about a physical, non-computation system)

I remember there were applications of optical computation, including a startup that wanted to accelerate deep network inference through optical computation: they had a way to do matrix multiplication using a projector (for the data matrix) and a 3D printed lens (for the network weights).
2s exposure time, 64x64 raster grid, looking behind a barrier 1.43km away.

Summary: by bouncing light off of a target barrier and having the light scatter around the barrier, you can compute an image of objects behind the barrier.
Not the GP.

Because society has accepted liability for vaccine injury (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/National_Childhood_Vaccine_Inj... and https://www.medicallicenselawyers.com/blog/covid-19-vaccine-...), it seems to me that it would be good for society for me to make the best choice for myself about the vaccine. Since society will pay if I get hurt, it would be best for me to weigh that in the decision to get vaccinated.
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I had encountered unexpected hostility against cyclist on the road. No making car travel unappealing was involved, just someone existed on bike and someone else somehow took it as provocation.
You can't. It's a universal philosophical limitation on science. One humorous way to phrase it would be, "there could always be a gnome hiding behind the camera."

You have got to see the implicit, unspoken qualifiers that are on all statements like that. "It would be counter to all known patterns if...", "it would have to be extraordinarily small, beyond unimaginable sensitivities, if..." and "we can't imagine any practical distinction between what it seems like and what it might be," are all reasonable interpretations of the statement "it isn't." The only unreasonable interpretation would be the literal one.

(P.S. It is not actually fundamental, it is made up of right-electrons and left-electrons, coupled together.)
Perfect. I will try it, and perhaps update the post with this approach as well. Thank you. I haven't done anything with Turbo yet, although it's my next step. I first just tried to refresh my Stimulus knowledge with the 2.x changes.

But as for the AJAX call, I still think it's quite simple solution that most will instantly understand (and that's a good thing).
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>I have been saying this for many years, and have been condescended to a lot (by friends, even) for saying it.

What exactly have you been saying?
It really doesn't. Sure the mathematical model you have of a prism might contain terms that the solution is encoded into, but these terms either a) require rapidly increasing effort to extract from the experiment as the computational problem grows or b) are precisely where the model is diverging from reality (e.g. assuming infinite precision despite physical fuzziness due to effects like finite temperatures and Heisenberg uncertainty).
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Curious why YC hasn't added a third batch per year. Seems like a good way to scale faster along with increasing batch sizes. Eventually you could even have overlapping batches.
I concur, shoulder and back work is one thing that helped me open my chest up more than anything else. Even just hanging on a set of rings for a minute after sitting for a while feels really good.
As far as I understand it did actually react.

AlphaStar's training process consisted of two phases: an imitation-of-human-players learning phase that created a base set of "templates" and then self-play among agents seeded from those templates.

When creating those templates, they basically ended up with "baked-in" build orders. But self-play among agents ended up creating a variety of reactive strategies on top of those build orders, so that agents would modify them on-the-fly as the game situation changed. At a high level this is basically how humans use build orders as well.
That hasn't been my experience at all (living in the DC suburbs).

Local example: I live in Reston VA. We've slowly been adding bike lanes to existing roads as other improvements are made. In some cases, this required cutting from 2 lanes to 1 lane. However, in all cases, traffic timings and accident analysis was undertaken and in all cases that I've seen, traffic flow either improved or if there was a decrease, it was on the order of 1-2 seconds per mile traveled. Additionally, in most cases, traffic accidents of all kinds were reduced.

But, you wouldn't know it from listening to the anti-bike crowd. They see the reduction in lane count and immediately jump to "nobody rides bikes!", "run them over" or worse. Seriously, it's that bad.

I'll also add that in some places, the bike lanes are rarely used, but that's as as direct result of poor designs created to silence the noisy motorists. Another local example - the main thoroughfare along my neighborhood has bike lanes. However, the lanes stop just prior to the two places you would want to ride your bike - the high school and the shopping center. So, of course fewer people use the lanes - they don't actually GO anywhere! It's infuriating.

Edit - the sidewalks along this same thoroughfare also start/stop or switch sides. This makes it less tenable to walk to the school or shopping (the road is about 2 miles end-to-end; shopping center at one end, high school near mid-point). Lots of people are within 1 mile of either destination, but running back and forth across a 45mph busy road is simply unsafe. A pedestrian was killed a year ago running from the sidewalk on one side to his home on the other. How the heck is this even to code? Argh.
Any 4 year old would identify a car/lorry/plane as such.
They're mostly small or large versions of the same design.

Our spacecraft from Semyorka to Apollo, Spaceshuttle and Falcon 9 all look like 'rockets' as they're constrained by the physics and propulsion systems.
I think the way it'll go is: it'll be implemented in Fotran, BLAS and so on until it percolates to numpy / CUDA so mortals like us can use it.
There's no link to more technical detail. What happens when the site I type in the URL bar doesn't support HTTPS? Will it error out? (with a timeout?) Or will it automatically fallback to trying HTTP? (In that case, could a MITM block HTTPS to force the browser to try to downgrade?)

EDIT: I see that the article says it will fall back, but Chrome Canary has options in chrome://flags, and it's not clear which option they picked.

> Omnibox - Use HTTPS as the default protocol for navigations

> Use HTTPS as the default protocol when the user types a URL without a protocol in the omnibox such as 'example.com'. Presently, such an entry navigates to http://example.com. When this feature is enabled, it will navigate to https://example.com if the HTTPS URL is available. If Chrome can't determine the availability of the HTTPS URL within the timeout, it will fall back to the HTTP URL.

The options are: Enabled, Enabled 3 second timeout, Enabled 10 second timeout, and Disabled.

So how will it work, exactly?
Partly I'd say it's about real estate ownership. In the US, living in a city means either spending enormous sums on real estate (suffocatingly so) or renting. But in the US, real estate ownership is incentivized as a primary way to build wealth and stability for old age and retirement. Thus, rent is viewed as a short term living situation. But, affordable real estate that acts to build wealth, especially for people who needed to spend their early career paying off student loans or don't have parents that can buy them a down payment, can only be found in the suburbs.

So it seems to be more structural due to government. That's not necessarily a bad thing. I like having a big yard with dogs and a cul-de-sac for my kids to play in.
As an actual American, I've never heard anyone talk about small European cities. Are you from Europe? If you're only talking to American tourists in Europe, there's going to be some strong selection bias favoring people who like Europe and want to visit.
Presumably someone in his family history did!

An alternative perspective is that whatever you think of his own path, he has access to many different people and spaces and can observe the kinds of things that worked for those people, in a way that few people can do.

I.e: he may not have unique insight resulting from his own development, but he may nevertheless be able to bring a valuable perspective that results from his privilege.
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Yeah, I agree with the comments that the "for production apps" distinction is a bit weird. I would title it "We are building a Heroku-like experience for big cloud providers".

I can see the point of a service like this and the comparison is cool but there's no need to complain about Heroku, especially when the Gitlab services are not 100% equivalent. If you come for the champ, you'd better not miss and all that.
I'd love to live downtown and have access to so much.

At the same time my suburban street is pretty isolated and quiet, and I can just send my kids outside to do whatever unsupervised without a second thought ... there's a bunch of fairly wild reserved area bordering and near my house....

I see it as a tradeoff and I'm not sure I'd make that trade for the city right now.
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Doing this helps in some cases against passive attackers, sidesteps the need for a redirect to send visitors to your secure site on first visit to have them pick up your HSTS but it doesn't offer any protection against an active attacker on first visits.

Firefox HTTPS mode gives you a (dismissable) interstitial if any site apparently doesn't do HTTPS, which is an opportunity to catch attacks, but less suitable for non-experts because they will find it hard to judge when to be surprised.

As a site owner, HSTS preload remains what you should do to protect visitors if you know you are going to do HTTPS.

Some day DANE and/or DPRIVE plus HTTPSVC will reliably ensure the visitors to any HTTPS site get HTTPS on contemporary browsers, we're years from that though.
hmm so the entire thing is just an conspiracy to fund some cushy research positions. based on the fact that some random person on youtube is better at image analysis then the US Navy?

This is the problem with the cargo-cult skeptics whether it's directed against UFO's or JFK assassination theories, where the complete lack of any genuine skepticism by the skeptics, tend to reinforce people's belief in non-canonical explanations for data that falls outside of the normal and cannot be easily identified.

The real story might not be aliens but it's likely also not an conspiracy between the us navy and the press to create hype around some low level pentagon positions, and the real story might include genuinely unstudied atmospheric phenomena.
I don't agree. The whole paragraph makes that clear - 1 in 1000 is actually pretty good odds that this is just a coincidence, and most people should know this intuitively.

> The measurement from LHCb is three-sigma - meaning there is roughly a one in 1,000 chance that the measurement is a statistical coincidence. So people should not get carried away by these findings, according to team leader Prof Chris Parkes, from the University of Manchester.
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Let me add my own anecdote about the bubble I live in. I currently live in a Asian city where nearly everyone lives in apartments and takes very good transit (although cars are very popular despite the massive import taxes). Coming from the US, I’ve been told many times how envious they are that one can buy a single family home in the US, not share walls with neighbors and have a home over 1,000 at ft (rare to find one over 900 here, most are 600-700 2 beds). That type of single family housing is purely for the ultra rich here. Not within reach of the even the upper middle class.
I'm blocking the blizzard of trackers using Firefox and uBlock Origin. The best I can seem to get is two paragraphs and the audio player embed.

I'm not willing to fire up a pants-down browser to read this.

Edit: I was curious so I fired up Firefox's container system. A clean container does load the article. There's some manner of fingerprinting going on then.
Can you recommend a trusted source for working out what the ideal ergonomic setup is for an individual?
But then you've to consider that many languages have been created in academic institutions, few have become semi-popular, fewer have entered the industry sector.
Lenovo make Android One phones.

I got a new Moto G Pro from them this year. Very good phone for the price.
This has never been true for non-native languages (Scala, Clojure, Kotlin, etc.) as far as I'm aware. They've always been slower. The JVM is designed with Java in mind and co-evolves with it.
Well, CPUs vs GPUs is pretty interesting actually. The #1 supercomputer right now is CPU-only, the A64Fx by Fujitsu. But you're right in that GPU-parallelism is the obvious parallel architecture available to modern programmers. For anyone spending less than $500,000 on a computer, GPUs are probably the most compute for the least amount of cost.

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The issue is that there's two difference concepts here:

1. Parallelism -- When a problem you're working on has an undefined ordering to it explicitly. Protocols and communications for example have undefined orders. You could write a state-machine explicitly, but writing a thread is usually much simpler to understand. Ultimately: this is cofunctions, Python Yield / generators, async-code, etc. etc. Remember: Djikstra invented semaphores on a single-core processor. The concept of "single core parallelism" is hugely useful and can grossly simplify code if used correctly.

2. High performance -- This is a different concept entirely!! GPUs are within the realm of high-performance parallelism (and not just merely "conceptual parallelism" in #1).

GPUs are hard because anyone who uses a GPU expects high performance. Be it the video gamer who wants raytracing on his video game, or the machine learning enthusiast training a billion neurons.

Writing a simple "GPU Hello World" is easy as all heck actually. Its all the performance stuff that gets really hard.
Yes, I was only focusing on Stimulus 2, but someone else posted here how to change the example to use a frame.
I think the HN community can do better re Wolfram. He is productive and accomplished, and another poster said long ago great to work with. In his interview with Fridman he appears quite enjoyable. It seems Wolfram has a good record of not being factually wrong.

Now, regarding this article. I don't know enough math or physics (he has a PHD from Caltech) to be able to judge it on those terms. I also don't know enough philosophy or neurology to be able to pick apart his definition of consciousness. On the other hand, like most of us, I've thought and read about what consciousness might be, and this article expands my thinking space.
Most of the Middle East, Africa, southeast Asia, and India have hotter temperatures and yet still manage to have old-style walkable cities. A lot of the architecture is designed to minimize heat and trap cold air. See riads in Morocco, for instance.

The truth is that Americans are just a bit lazy. (I am American, so this is self-criticism.)
> Atlanta

It's fine to walk in a nice tree-lined neighborhood, even in the peak of summer. Walking out in the sun, where there's concrete and asphalt everywhere, that's a big difference.

> genuinely prefer American style suburbs

From among the options they're aware of. That's a confounder that's hard to control for.
I'm only here for the schools. We'd prefer the close-to-the-city old suburbs (on entirely grid-layout streets, easy walk to various stores and entertainment, parks galore), country living, or the city proper, in roughly that order. The twisty-street burbs with nothing walkable is our last choice. Except it's the only thing available where the good (public) schools are.
I agree, I completely rely on transit and don’t own a car, but it’s clear a lot of activists want to penalize owning a car. Transit can out compete car ownership on its own merits (see NYC, DC & Boston) but it requires significant investment which most are unwilling to accept. Imo the fundamental problem is that most activists are fundamentally fairly left leaning and public/private partnerships would be the best way to build out subway/light rail systems in up and coming cities. Due to ideological commitments they’re unwilling to consider this option.