skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The widening of I-25 between Denver and Colorado Springs, about a 60 mile stretch, is a great example as to why you're wrong.

To add an extra lane to help the load of roughly 20% of Colorado Springs residents (~50k people) that commute between the cities, costs $350 million. To build an HSR would be around $1.8 billion. There was a push to put in a rail as this seemed like a perfect use case (spoiler alert, it showed how niche HSR actually is and how it was a bad idea for lots of places) Even if you charged $10 for a day pass and you had a 100% usage rate by those commuters on every work day (22 workdays a month) that's an income of $132 million a year for the HSR. Hopefully energy, labor, insurance, repair, and upgrades for the rail will be free for the lifetime as well. That's just a constant sink for the public for hair thin marginal benefit. If you make that trip often, you get a fuel efficient car at around 30mpg (what I did). That's about $10 in gas a day. Why would I pay to wait and be on someone else's time? Most commuter rails have narrow commuter hour windows. Not like you can hang out in the city. Worse when you need to travel around the spanse of the city quickly throughout the day. As in, on your time, not on someone else's. Btw, that 50k population ground that commutes, a lot are contractors. As in, they use vans and trucks to carry tools, equipment and materials... so, the practical number of regular users is going to be less.

So, will a politician like to try to convince a population for tax raises for $350 million or for something that's 5 times more expensive? Spoiler again, when it comes to you having to pay for it, you're going to be economical. People were cool with the slight tax hikes for the widening of I25. Not for the major hike that the HSR would need. Doesn't seem political to me. Ain't get more practical than that there good buddy. Let that marinate.

Source, I lived there when this was going on. It's all easy to research since it was a well reported issue. Also, I made that commute somewhat often. HSR wouldn't have worked for me since I was an IT contractor for different companies in the city and needed to move nimbly throughout Denver.
Ahh that's great, thank you. I've been running nixos on my laptop for a year but have never come across that somehow.
Short answer: evolution.
First clinical trial confirms HIV vaccine using Moderna inoculation
This guy writes well and codes dangerously. Would have a beer with.
It does get kind of ironic if you realize that streaming is getting more and more popular. I guess that's a much more cost effective form of entertainment?
I am US citizen and resident and have Estonia e-Residence

Despite all the trouble to get it (fancy packaging though), transferwise (now WISE) as a real bank account is good enough. Not the p2p foreigner venmo system, the banking system. I have euro bank account through that and business banking too, its good enough. There are a lot of kinds of businesses they dont support so just dont say or advertise your business as one of those. The transaction limit is $1,000,000 per transaction, which you can send in quick succession if over that limit
Cursed_things
If this lie helps you sleep at night.. The reality is out there, why don’t you have a look?
Thank you for the link. The English text is very, very good, making it a pleasant read. I cannot judge its technical statements, and would welcome an expert evaluation. That RaTG13 and pangolin viruses were released only after the pandemic commenced was news to me.

The Chinese are much better at stonewalling than you give them credit for. Allowing a team into the country was a major concession, and getting to actually meet (some) lab employees, sheesh! That amounts to a charm offensive, in context.
Yes, I wish it was still like that, with those de facto standards (NE2000, SB / SB Pro2, and we could add VGA/Vesa) that HW manufacturers cared to clone or later emulate. That's what I call the golden age of the DOS days (late DOS / early Windows era). Nowadays good luck trying to run a DOS program on a current computer, as chips do not emulate each other any more and you have to have the right driver for the right chip (as if as an end-user we cared which exact property and advanced feature each NIC has, we'd just be happy if there was a standard 100 or even emulated & degraded 10 Mbps mode in such situations). Same PITA for all alternative/niche OS, which can only support a couple of NICs and sound chips (the NICs' situation is often worse because often no documentation is freely available); the only remaining thing is on graphic cards, which support a few Vesa modes (but the standard never got updated to better resolutions, and by better resolutions I don't mean 4K but much less).

As almost everyone in the comments, I had many NE2000 clone cards (they were really inexpensive, I had more cards than computers), and I never had a problem with them, and I never heard that they had a bad rep (not even with Linux).
Lolz. An anonymous whisper campaign. Yeah that’s legit.

It was pretty obvious that Google was engaging in ethics washing. They wanted someone to pay lip service, but instead got a team that actually tried to do their task and hold the company to account. As the saying goes, if it can be destroyed by the truth, it deserves to be destroyed by the truth.

Google never wanted any of that. Like all megacorps, they want the status quo to be seen as inevitable and good. So they kneecapped the group for being naïve and thinking they were there to do a job, instead of just be gauzey feel good magazine fodder.
like AMP
Kinda, but there’s no way a “Contact us” call-to-action in the middle of a hero is going to look acceptable as a plain underlined blue text. Some links need to be boxed and that makes them look like buttons. Not a lot of wiggle room there.
It's a transformer - I'm guessing it's the magnetics for the 10base2 port.

You can see the two pairs of enamel wires coming out on each side the sides. There are two windings, both wound on a core spool with its axis perpendicular to the board.

What you're seeing looking like the lens of a camera is a hole in the middle of the spool, presumably used during manufacture to hold it while winding.
The hardware upgrade cycle of the Playstation is much longer than an Apple Macbook. Even longer if you only include significant architectural updates.

I only apply this rule to Apple as they seem to think that people upgrade their Macs like they upgrade their iPhones which is every year.
We need a swipe left/right ratemypoo. That site was my jam.
Ehh...I taught myself machine code programming when I was 11. Hand translating programs I wrote in Assembler on paper to byte code and typing it in byte by byte. And I am no programming God. So it might be less hard than you think :)
Gain of Function Research
Let your ship sink, mine will have one fewer hole.
I doubt they are using the money any more altruistically than Apple would.
What I found really interesting was the translation:

> "Alibaba just responded to the punishment: we sincerely accept it and obey it firmly. And the company will further enhance its compliance system."

Really interesting take that a literal giant just accepted this as the best outcome and complied vs. I guess what we've come to expect in the West (even in India) - lawyering up and appeals upon appeals. I think someone also mentioned that this was approx. 4% of their domestic revenues (2019).
Me too!

I mean, almost. I just need to travel to NY to get my kit. :)

I'm planning on opening a remote SaaS company with Xolo and payments with Paddle.
Eruption of La Soufrière volcano in St. Vincent forces thousands from their home
"Offer to take their money" is an odd way to phrase "literally offering them higher wages."
90% of startups fail. Then 0.9^7 < 0.5, so on average your 7th startup is the one that succeeds. If the average startup lasts a year or two, then you better start failing now.
> It is fundamentally broken.

The Wayland developers disagree with you:

https://wayland.freedesktop.org/faq.html#heading_toc_j_5

"It's entirely possible to incorporate the buffer exchange and update models that Wayland is built on into X."

They themselves say they could have fixed X. They just didn't want to. And now they've predictably just made a new mess.
Well, it actually do allows watching videos at all without tearing everywhere, which was not possible on X without a compositor.
Why would they need to avoid GPL? They’re not selling to the general public.
I can both see the value in that approach and, having run across things like this situation before, I can also see an unaddressed question in this post (already brought up by the replies, but worth repeating): how is that scenario not a fundamental failure of management, or some kind of dysfunctional organizational dynamic, to not prevent that kind of thing from happening in the first place?

Bug reports aren't exactly sui generis, they don't just mysteriously appear.
I don't know what it is that people do that breaks being able to open a link in a new tab, but there's little I hate more than that. Especially on an ecommerce site where I'm likely to open several products in a separate tab.

Some break middle clicking but I can still right click and select "open in new tab" from the menu. But there's others that don't even allow that. It's awful.
Author here!

Yes, totally right. There was a bunch i wanted to write about Adobe. Both XD and the current moves they've made with CC etc. But had to cut because too much--so hopefully will have an essay entirely on Adobe coming at some point
Why NFS servers generally have a 'reply cache'
appreciate the kind words!
> We are fixing in Blink (c2103)
Allowing smoking between barrels of gunpowder is different than in an open space.

Wayland is a necessary part of security, but not sufficient.
Managerial type here. This would be great for stand ups if it were a simple recorded video/voice and integrated with zoom or slack and joined the meeting as a person on the call. It could be command activated to play video or respond to a “Go Sarah” Siri type command.

I’d love it but I’m not sure I’d pay for just that unless it’s a one off fee I can spend discretionary (each time I buy something recurring I need to convince someone so tiny purchases are not worth it) they’d have to be other benefits.

Reducing the need for meetings might be an angle to explore. If someone created a “Udemy for my team” I’d be interested. Make it easy for any developer to share their knowledge as
a course. For example I blab on what I know for an hour into a video about how x works. New starter comes in and improves it with timing annotations and a course outline. Now we have a teaching asset that might reduce the need for a technical meeting. We’ve done this but made do with zoom recording and an azure blob to host it! Could be slicker.
You are touching on the subject of attention, which is actually extremely important and has a whole field of research (see for example, the hillarious invisible monkey experiment: http://www.theinvisiblegorilla.com/gorilla_experiment.html)

There are a lot of things that we ignore or don't register consciously. It is possible to decode items in one's working memory in controlled situations (see for example: https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/28155212/).

So I suppose one possible approach would be to hold things in your working memory and have the Neuralink actively decode those. But in that case, as you've pointed out, requires a lot of attention and most likely would rely more heavily on contextual AI to narrow the decoder search space.

The basic premise of my skepticism with the "we need higher bandwidth I/O" statement still stays though -- the bottleneck of human communication is how quickly coherent thoughts can be formed in a way someone else can understand it (output), and how quickly information can be understood (input). For the latter example, you can scan an entire page in less than second. With immense speed reading practice, you can get a "gist" of a page in around that time. But understanding the details in that time is not possible.
oh god you're right haha, I malaphor'd that
There are plenty of good reasons. If your point is they're only going to listen to the reasons that involve them making more money, I'm sure you're right. But at some point that becomes anticompetitive behavior.
This resonates with me deeply. I can barely get work done most of the time. My "solution" is to leave a company before people get too frustrated with me. Changing companies frequently nets me better pay and more promotions than my harder-working peers, but I haven't felt fulfilled by work in a long time.

What do you tell these mentees? What would you tell someone a bit further along in their career who still has the same problems?

Please pm me if you are open to a chat.

titanomachy.hn [at] pm.me
Peter Thiel-Backed Psychedelics Firm Buys Majority of Brain Interface Firm
It's ironic that somebody who is promoting ideological censorship is calling other people whiny.
Had severe vit d shortage and an autoimmune condition (Sjogrens)
Was basically at deaths door. Started heavy vit D. And several others.

Huge improvement. Not cured. Life is still hard. But I have a life now.
You don't have to shut down the labs. Understanding how it happened in the first place can inform effective policies to prevent future lab leaks. The Obama administration temporarily suspended Gain of Function research in the US in 2014 to investigate and mitigate lab leak risks. They did not dismiss lab leak concerns and characterize them as xenophobic attacks on the country.

Frankly, any solution that does not in some way involve "how can we prevent or reduce the incidence of this kind of problem happening" is political nonsense to me. Even with the most effective defensive protocols, a pandemic-grade virus costs a staggering amount of resources to deal with.
I didn't say right-to-work was insane, I said it was insane to complain about dues with right-to-work.

As to right-to-work itself, yes it does sound very odd on the face of it, and that's because the way unions have been institutionalized is quite odd. It's a very peculiar legal framework, divorced from the "situation on the ground". I recommend https://www.jacobinmag.com/2016/06/uaw-academic-workers-coll... https://www.jacobinmag.com/2016/08/eidlin-united-states-cana... for some background.

Now, one school of thought is "these are the tools we have, use them" another school of thought is "this is self-defeating weirdness", I am not sure. But it certainly isn't so clear cut that "of course right-to-work" is bad. Regardless of everything else, it was an anti-labor cudgel created in bad faith. Any solution that finds union compulsion icky but doesn't do something about the monopsony power of employers is not to be taken seriously.
So, you're the other car I see on 101 at 3am :)
Roads don't pay for themselves, we even make them free to drive on. We pay for them with our taxes. Are they a drain on society because there is no revenue stream and they are expensive to maintain? No, of course not, the cost is payed off many times over by the benefits of the economic activity it facilitates. Same thing with HSR. It will shorten commutes for everyone, not just people on the train, enabling those contractors and utility workers do their jobs more efficiently. These things have ripple effects opening up new economic avenues for all different types of people, and not just those who ride the train
in the US a "simple" no frills root canal and cap costs $600 for the drill and fill, and about $500 or $600 for the cap/crown/whatever milling. That includes anesthesia, post care prescription (not the medicine itself, just the scrip), x-rays, etc.

Usually you know when you need a root canal. It's usually because just getting a tooth filled is more expensive than getting it pulled, and most 'decent' dentists won't do pulls, because it eventually, allegedly, leads to all of your teeth shifting and falling out.

I've had dental insurance a couple of times, and while it was $20 to get a full cleaning and xray or whatever, they wanted me to get braces for $2500 out of pocket. I've never had another dentist i was paying for myself ever mention braces or anything else. from 20-38 i went to the dentist like 5 times, 3 cleanings when i had insurance, and 2 wisdom extraction. I'm well aware i lucked out in the dentistry lottery, most people i know have way more problems with their teeth, and i am unsure why, so i never judge people on their dental accoutrements.
author here! haha, yes I love Procreate. i use it for all my (very bad) drawings in blog posts.

And all i wish is that someone would make plugin to integrate procreate and figma nicer

procreate is so great
Insightful comment. Wise is the future, with fintechs providing an interface where you can hold various currencies and plug ins to each country’s payment rails.
Oh hi. I see you work for one of my clients.
That's not really true. Outside of prewar towns it is unsafe and impractical to walk anywhere, so when the train drops you off there's nowhere to go. Trains are awesome for travel at distances that cars are also pretty good, but if you need a car at both ends of your trip, the train really is impractical.

I say that as someone who lived in Europe, loves trains, and wishes badly that we could have a better train network here.

But the problem is the US in the 1950's embarked on the suburban experiment and now the majority of the US population lives in either very low density or with unsafe walking conditions (or both), and you really can't serve those areas with trains effectively.

If you wanted to do rail and have it become useful, you need to actually focus on local rail first. For example, Houston build an original light rail line that - bucking the trend for most car oriented cities - only served a 7mi track through the core urban area. That rail line actually worked really well. Meanwhile the suburbs to downtown transit is just bus lines because there's not enough demand to justify rail.

But if you spent 20 years incrementally reforming land use regulations, redeveloping with better sidewalks and connective safe streets, and gradually better and better local transit to go along with it, then you might end up with a place that was a worthy anchor for regional rail on at least one end.

Honestly I don't think that will happen in very many places, though, or at least not in my lifetime. It requires a long-term vision that is still counter cultural, and decades of land use redevelopment.
Okay, let me know when you wanna talk about it like adults! I'll be around when you do.

Until then, I'm not really interested in being ad hominem attacked and so I'm gonna step back and study for my med school exams instead. It's important to have conversational ground rules and one of those for me is decency and no ad hominems.

As a last thought: You seem to kind of disregard the consensus that exists among virologists (even as pointed out in the very article we're discussing under, the OP). All those statements I made are consistent with the consensus.

And on a small scale, I had that post reviewed by 8ish working PhD virologists before I posted it as part of the editorial process. I say 8ish because some of them have PhDs in non-virology stuff but now work exclusively on virology. It's not a true peer review since I know them and it wasn't blinded. But I want to be clear it's not like I just wrote it out of nowhere.

Many of those same virologists helped me field comments on the original post! It was a great time we all got together on zoom to do it.

Anyway, let me know when you wanna discuss the science and not ad hominems.

Thanks
Nitpick, but it is actually part of the kernel. X server also uses it, but there was no problem because nvidia could release a binary patch for it to use their proprietary thingy. It is not possible with the many wayland compositor so it became an apparent problem with wayland.
You can also copy and paste the messages, or screenshot them. Nobody is arguing it’s impossible to extract your iMessages, just that it’s more restrictive and complicated than it needs to be for technical or resource constraint reasons.
I always find "watch this documentary" to be pointless. If the person's already convinced that patent abuse is bad, they don't need to watch a 2 hour video to reconfirm their beliefs. If the person is sitting on the fence or not convinced, there are better ways to provide information to them than getting them to stare at a screen for 2 hours.
It might be sustainable for some people, but not for me... the only time I put in those kind of hours of focused effort is in a FAANG interview loop, and that takes so much out of me that I lie down and stare at the ceiling until bedtime :)
We're pretty deep into "I support this lab theory for unrelated political reasons", but hey, it's Friday night, I'll get sidetracked.

Their government has more support from their people than ours does -- ours is capped at 50% approval.

So go whole hog or go home. Hair-splitting is for cowards.
Either include the people or, if you'd like, you can start wondering why they think that, maybe they have more context and things are more subtle. But you can't think one is black-and-white evil without including the other.
Yeah, but that's kinda the point: seems that there's always a need for a workaround. Also, I know I'm going to forgot to rename a bunch :/
Try another job for a few months. Something in admin, something that is low on thinking or creativity. I bet you'll see your energy for coding come back.
Anyone who actually listens to his podcast knows that it's not true that he promotes hate.

I love how you resort to the "many people feel" standard with a hand wave. Many people where I live feel that cell phone towers give them cancer so we need to get rid of the cell phone towers on that burden of proof. Many people feel like the moon landing was faked. Many people think educating women is heretical. Shall we surrender to them as well?

Delegating judgment to other people is weak and cowardly. Feel free to form your own opinions based on your observation of the facts but it's disgusting to come in here and say "many people".
Like most major structural issues, nothing.
What he describes isn't grind, it's taking care of a big mess.

Grind is management/company/etc. that says you have to work weekends and late all the time because there's more money to be made that way.

Grind is doing that epic job of organizing and triaging the bugs, then your company doesn't give you a bonus and you're expected to do it all the time.

Doing the right thing is what he did.

I just hope his company did the right thing back.
Now that you mention Tartine, I remember reading about them previously. The books are quite interesting.

Regarding sourdough sourness: Sourdough bread doesn't have to be very sour. Certain parameters influence the perceived sourness, and it is definitely possible to bake sourdough bread that is very mild and barely sour. Have a look at the classic Italian lievito madre (mother yeast) or French levain liquide - the former is used for panettone, a special sweet bread commonly eaten around christmas, the latter can be used for croissants.

I've baked a few sweet loaves that are only leavened using sourdough (with no added baker's yeast), yet they have essentially no discernable sourness.

I agree regarding the guild system.
I remember reading a mailing list posting from a WD engineer despairing of ever persuading David Miller to operate the hardware according to specifications.

As I recall, he talked about a state machine triggered that needed a ... memory? I/O? ... read that would get as many wait states (ahhh, wait states! kids these days...) as needed to guarantee it was done. But the Linux driver would not do the read because, he said, it always returned the same value anyway. As it would, if you did.

Linux NIC troubles were self-inflicted.