skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
UML's problem is that it is boxes-and-lines.

The trouble with boxes-and-lines is that they work fine for small problems and collapse in a mess of overlapping nonsense for complex situations.

This is not a UML specificthing. Any visualisation that is boxes and lines that is not a strict acyclic single parent heirachy is doomed to failure for anything complex.
some studies suggest some studies are full of BS
Users neither love nor hate decentralization. Users don’t care how it works. They love features like not having to worry about losing their wallet if a piece of hardware dies or having to manually back it up.

People hate manual IT management. We are nearing the point at which the idea of doing this will be compared to cranking a car engine by hand to start it. If decentralized systems can’t offer this kind of “it just works” experience then the future is 100% centralized.
I thought I had a stroke reading this. 95% sure that's it's a bot.
And even still for those “others” - nothing individually they do is that important, it’s how the team they’ve assembled operates when the leader isn’t around... and as much as a belief system can anchor people into habits and behaviors, it’s still the deputies or vps of a cause that must maintain consistency in purpose...

That’s a long winded way of saying, no ones individual contributions are that important... it’s only through the concert of others that any person reaches those heights.
Had exactly this happen to my Fit. Can confirm it was an expensive fix, increasing TCO of the car by a significant percentage since it wasn’t a very expensive car to begin with. I can only hope the squirrel enjoyed their $1,000 lunch.
> Can you imagine if Apple behaved this way? If iPhone sales drop one quarter, cancelling all their chip production until sales picked up again?

Actually, Apple HAS done this. And it can kill a company.

For example: Peregrine Semiconductor who got bought by Murata in the aftermath.
From the source cited, here is a breakdown per industry:

https://ourworldindata.org/ghg-emissions-by-sector

Energy usage for industry is 24%

Road travel is 11%

It seems aviation’s 2% is not the low hanging fruit.
Can you please give specific examples which are enabling things that aren’t intra crypto speculation?

The only examples I’ve seen tend to be services that make money off crypto investing, which is obviously circular: those revenues ultimately depend on there actually being value in crypto.

But perhaps there are cases I’ve missed.
Ideally this would be coming from the legislature, but I'd rather a judge do it if no one else will.
Peak oil is “a largely forgotten issue” because it was a largely overblown issue to begin with. Fracking relieved the immediate supply pressure while reductions in demand will help matters even more.
That is how a self proclaimed monopoly on truth should behave, shouldn’t it?
Together/J made a really good attempt at it.

So good that Borland bought them up and shit canned it.
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Truly beautiful, glad I read it. The judge really stuck their neck out. Hope it all comes to fruition and a lot of things are learnt from it.
Likely every global power has the maps and the tools to do it, but doing it would not be very useful unless it's a part of some kind of terror campaign. Military equipment that needs communications likely can operate over the air, or has some internal networking - it's not like they're usually deployed next to major network exchanges. You can cause some inconvenience, even panic, maybe even stock market crash - but any over hostile action from a major power would do that anyway just by the fact it happens.
From sf to la wouldn’t need stops in between. At most you’d need 1-2 stops in between. I could totally see this as cheaper than dealing with every land owner in between the train’s path
Amtrak is already competitive in certain regions. The northeast is the most obvious, but the train is my preferred mode of travel between Vancouver, BC and Seattle, WA. Whilst a flight is quicker, in the air, door to door is no faster. Driving generally would be quicker but I do try to be concious of the carbon impact of my travel choices.

The primary issue I have is that the hours the service runs, the first departure is a little too late to arrive for a morning meeting, and the latest is a little too early to leave the office after 5 - an earlier and later option would make it very viable for one day business travel.

Whilst the US population is generally much less dense than much of Europe, there are large areas (PNW, the northeast, much of California) that definitely have high enough population density to support an extensive rail network. Yes there must be political will to make these improvements, but surely that is true of all infrastructure spending?
I think we also need to account for the fact that a pandemic of this scale hasn't happened in recent history, you cannot expect the private Pharmaceutical industry to have pivoted to give away their IP. U.S. Gov was indeed involved in subsidizing and helping vaccine companies hedge the risk. The scale of this was massive: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Operation_Warp_Speed

Just look at the situation with SLS and the lunar gateway program from NASA. It's a complete shitshow. I would expect absolutely horrendous performance if we nationalize pharmaceutical industry, particularly vaccine program. Meanwhile, Moderna's market cap is over $60b from practically nothing last year. IMO, U.S. vaccine program is a huge success despite of the subpar response to the actual containment of the virus.

PS - What's with this article's header image? Portraying someone with devil horns just shows how insecure the article is that such a crutch is needed. Just offputting IMO even if they had good points to make (they didn't).
Paris's different rail stations are well inter-connected by the Paris Metro. Said network doesn't have to be made up of just one form of transit; again, the Swiss network does an absolutely phenomenal job of matching up train, bus, etc. schedules into one unified transit network.
Huge advantage of amtrak is that the stations are in prime locations. In the northeast that's a huge advantage as going from train to destination might be a 15 minute walk. Meanwhile airport to destination could be an hour drive. Sunbelt cities have no density, so the trains location isn't as valuable.
They were right. The previous attempts did in fact use the wrong approach, and people have now successfully turned lead into gold. The only problem is that it’s too expensive to be worth doing.
Anyone have a working link to the map pdf?
Yes.

Just as I hate the bizarre truncated relative time tagging.

"A month ago" , "15 minutes ago" , "An hour ago" ?! That's f-n useless.

ISO 8601 or die! YYYY:MM:DD hh:mm:ss How hard is that? Just leave the time stamp alone, geeze.
Sharing some thoughts from our own experience fighting cryptominers and the negative externalities for CI companies and their users. I'd be curious to hear if any other services have been affected.
Interesting how the article completely leaves out the Heroin/Fentanyl/Meth epidemic.

SF is another example of what happens when public policy gets it wrong, our false compassion is killing people and city leaders are doing less than nothing about it.
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Morgantown PRT has 20-person capacity cars. That doesn't seem so inefficient. On the other hand, it only operates as a PRT during off-peak according to the wiki page - during peak hours, it's just a standard scheduled service like a train or bus.

That said, the Musk Loop type plans where the cabs/cars only carry 1-4 people - which seems similar to this SkyTran - is obviously inefficient and not really a realistic alternative to cars or mass transit systems.
Midtown & Brickell are great on the Miami side. Sunset Harbor and perhaps South of 5th have some tech folks on the Miami Beach side.

Sounds like some of the offices for venture funds are opening up in Wynwood, on the Miami side.

Hope that's useful!
Apple's tooling peaked while it was still OpenStep. It's been a sharp downhill ride since then.
You would love Svelte. It makes the entire web ecosystem look and feel like the dark ages in comparison.
Unfortunately, such is the world today, if you are in the public eye and attempt to keep the cause of someone's passing under wraps this has to be expected.

A tragedy whichever way it's cut.
I've always found them a bit of an annoyance! Algonquin Park is full of them and they make some of the backcountry routes difficult by changing water levels through it. The amount of beaver dams I have pulled my canoe over!
Python the language != Python the runtime.
The history is more complicated than that. The artists back then probably wanted their games to look hand-drawn, but were forced to create pixelated designs in acknowledgment of technological limitations. By the time technology caught up around the turn of the millennium, 2D games were being wholesale replaced with 3D games (often to the detriment of the games). At that point 2D games were almost entirely relegated to portable consoles (with some notable exceptions, e.g. Odin Sphere on the PS2), whose hardware was a generation behind, further perpetuating the pixel art aesthetic. Then, once developers finally acknowledged that not all games were better in 3D, pixel art had itself become a vogue retro aesthetic. The fact that we're finally seeing a ton of 2D games that don't use the pixel aesthetic is a sign of maturity in the industry (although a well-done pixel aesthetic can still look great).
I suspect it is a much stronger option to people without cars.
MIT study finds indoor mask wearing much more effective than social distancing
I’ve used Anka for running macos VMs with good success. So much so that we replaced all our bare metal workloads with portable and repeatable environments. The trade offs are performance related and bugs with the VM tech but those are less costly than managing the bare metal.
Interesting. I wrote an Internal Go Application (not very mission critical) and i literally deployed the binary using supervisor and nginx as a proxy in front. A quick scp command as needed for changes down the line.
Now let’s see if the city appeals.

Edit: They have. https://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/federal-judge-orders-lo...
Buildings are naturally described by drawings, logic is naturally deacribed by notation. We wouldn't ask a civil engineer to design a building using prose, and so we should not ask a computer engineer to describe logic using boxes and arrows.
> if they really didn't we'd be using operating systems written in LISP instead of C

Some people live happily inside Emacs. It has become an OS for them.
Three for three?
When I was in uni recently I was learning UML and wondered why all the FOSS tools for UML sucked. I quickly worked out it’s because no foss programmer actually uses or cares about UML
The 0 key I use the most on my keyboard is next to 1 and 2, and farthest from the 9 key. I wonder if that has grown naturally to me because of tohster's explanation in his reply:

Benford's law shows that the lower digits are much more frequently used than higher digits [..] If the 0 key were next to the 1 key, many numbers would be faster to type with just one hand

It's for this reason that dedicated numerical keypads place the 0, 1, 2 and 3 keys in close proximity: users can rest their fingers on these most-frequently-used digits and enter data more quickly.
Figma is pretty killer
I get even better joy creating CMake files, they just work.
If you actually read (or even just search), they do compare it in the supplemental material, they explain in detail why it’s not the most appropriate algorithm to compare with, and it’s generally mentioned repeatedly across the entire paper.
Not taxing externalities is a subsidy. We need carbon tax.
Did you think about share your knowledge that you've learned so far?

You seem pretty strong about programming but what about teaching what you know to other?

It could be a new start. And btw simply by observing, I think the majority of scientists people in some point of time need to meet other people to discuss more deeply of what they are working for and why.

I would be glad to see what you can share about your past experience and further more!
After the planned flight program concludes, would it be possible to have Ingenuity follow Perseverance on the rover's travels?

Perseverance moves pretty slowly - it would seem straightforward to have Ingenuity do a daily catch-up flight to stay within comm range of the rover.

Having demo'ed flight successfully, it would seem useful to keep using the helicopter to gather more engineering data.
>A very simple pattern of 4chan posting culture is to offend others in order to provoke a debate about what you actually want to discuss. It's the 4chan version of clickbait. The /g/ catalog is absolutely filled with people doing this. Want to talk about Linux? Pretend you're a superior Windows user and mock Linux for not having some feature. File picker thumbnails are a common example. This happens all the time and can generate some rather unique discussions.

I do this with investment ideas on /biz/ regularly, particularly in the stock market general thread and have had some very enlightening debates as a result.
Hello fellow borderer!

It would take an essay as long as the op article to do this justice, but the farming community in this area is spectacularly insular, inward looking and isolationist. And I would know I am related to several. A year of Covid, and the new trading arrangements with the EU changing so many things is going to play havoc with mental health. Truly scary times.
Yes! The technology for rail exists today (and is well proven in Europe and Asia). Self driving cars are largely new and unproven with no clear path to widespread use, with both regulatory and sociatal challenges, in addition to the technical shortcomings that remain.

I would hope that Amtrak in the long term also electrifies the rail network so that the dependency on diesel engines can be reduced - for some routes this may not make sense, but where you have frequent services it seems that it would be a worthwhile impovement too.
This works for their particular use case because their server doesn't even have a database.

It doesn't address runtime configuration like remote hosts, passwords, etc. It doesn't even address the difference between provisioning and deploying a host.
That's US English, this is British English.
Society is organized around individuals and groups working in mutual self interest. If you go against this principle to find your solution you risk backlash to your (perceived or real) tyranny.
The "Slander Industry" has existed for a long time.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Richard_Jewell
I agree. Debugging docker is a total nightmare across various stacks. I don't know how people bother with it. Like you use it for deployments but not for development. I'd rather have slightly more time setting up a project (which in all honesty is usually a few commands) vs hours/days of flakey debugging.
The Global Village Coffeehouse Aesthetic
Opioids are at most a companion to the homeless epidemic.

If we're on the subject of compassion, millions who are no longer able to acquire effective pain relief could use some.
“From” in this context I associate more with British English, and “for” with American English
Business requirements still have a measure of ambiguity and "do what I mean" to them. They are more formal than natural language, sure, but fall far short of the formalism of a declarative programming language. This is a big part of the business partnership underlying most Agile methodologies. If the formal spec could be handed off, then it would be and Waterfall would work better in enterprise settings. Instead, the team is constantly requiring feedback on the requirements.

So I guess I still see declarative languages as being part of the tech stack and something tantamount to AI being needed to handle all the "do what I mean" that accompanies business process documentation.
‘Bad parent’ theory. Please, tell a mum who’s child died after being burnt through the inside because they left a remote on a table that she is a bad parent.

They don’t realise the danger because there are no warnings, they assume a device is safe as is. Have you not figured that out yet?
Meanwhile Republican states keep sending their homeless to CA...
Bitcoin Continues to Fall
After peaking at 65k following the coinbase IPO, it is now at 47,700, decline of 27%. By comparison, the S&P 500 is at new highs. Anyone who bought bitcoin over the last 3 months is underwater to varying degrees despite all the hype about NFT riches. I think the lesson is, over and over again, is that chasing whatever is the latest 'hot investment' almost always leads to under-performance. Index funds will remain superior to bitcoin on a risk adjusted basis. I don't think there is enough $ to prop this up anymore. Bitcoin is simply too big.
It's unfortunate - the western north-south corridor has the potential to be a very useful transit link. I (pre-covid) took the train from Vancouver, BC to Seattle, WA semi-regularly as my preferred mode of travel, but there was at least one instance I can recall of a multi-hour delay due to freight traffic...
Personally I'm a very keen on Markdeep: https://casual-effects.com/markdeep/
Amazing how beavers can chew through a steel conduit used for containing the cable.
> Carter ordered the City and County to provide offers of shelter within 90 days to all unaccompanied women and children in Skid Row; within 120 days shelter for all families there; and within 180 days shelter for everyone there. Further, he required them to offer housing and treatment services to all individuals within Skid Row who are in need of services from the Department of Mental Health or the Department of Public Health. He also required them to offer support services to all who accept shelter offers.

> Judge Carter ordered the city to place $1 billion in escrow; ordered the cessation of all sales or transfers of public lands;

Does the judge have the power to order such things?
>it doesn’t matter what they think

A thought provoking message. Just quoting it for posterity. Carry on.
Why would you ever not want to iterate your design? Doing is the fastest way of learning. The details can drive a design, so that if you don't remove all ambiguity, you will create an architecture that won't actually work. The problem people who just jump in face, is that they do not abandon their bad prototype and begin again, instead clinging to faulty architecture which leaves them in the same boat as someone who made an architecture unaware of the details.
Autopilot on the old planes didn't require full attention of the pilot. They can take the hands off the controls. Fill out forms, run checklists etc. It is like level 3 self driving. Telsa autopilot requires drivers to keep their hands on the controls. I am not aware of any self pilot system that requires 100% of pilots/drivers/captains focus to be on act of controlling of the vehicle/vessel/plane except Tesla.

Most other car manufactures label similar level 2 systems as lane centering and adaptive cruise control. Cruise calls it super cruise in reference to being a better cruise control system. If it was level 3 capable, autopilot would be a descriptive name.
Honeywell "automatically generated" all of the flight code for the James Webb Space Telescope using Rational Rose in the early 2000s. They were still trying to fix the code when I was at NASA Goddard in the mid-2010s.
> Amtrak is always lowest on the priority totem pole

It's unfortunate, but this is probably the way it should be.

Economically the repeat customer should probably get the benefits of predictability / stability.

Also, passenger commuter lines do stick closer to schedule than long-distance trains.

When I've traveled amtrak, the first time I was surprised to have such unpredictable times, but after that I just factored it in. Most long-distance amtrak travel is for the scenery and the pace, not for private-jet-efficiency.
reminds me of https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Six_Sigma best practices for software development
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From experience, yes, they can. Make backups of the DVDs, CDs and Blu-ray discs you care about.
Sequence diagrams are the one UML diagram I regularly still produce to communicate behavior both to other developers and less technically minded people. I personally find them great (as long as you don’t get carried away in very minute notation)
This reminds me of my neighbour’s recent problem with his fibre (to the premises) broadband here in the UK. After losing internet connectivity, he eventually managed to get a BT Openreach engineer out only to discover the overhead cables had been chewed through presumably by a grey squirrel. Apparently they have a taste for something in the outer casing..
How do you do the 3D stuff remotely?
I agree in theory. In practice, national rail has to pass the Senate where Wyoming, Alaska, Montana, Hawaii, and the Dakotas are twelve percent of the votes. Throw in all the places you are leaving out and you're close to half the of it.

National passenger rail isn't politically viable in the US because passenger rail is an absurd approach in most of the US.

The west and the midwest are most of the US.
practically it is
They are supposed to have priority [0] but the system lacks enforcement.

[0] - http://blog.amtrak.com/2019/05/why-are-amtrak-trains-delayed...
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In SF our homelessness is driven by drug abuse and the lack of ability to put addicts and the mentally ill into conservatorship, its well documented.

> If we're on the subject of compassion, millions who are no longer able to acquire effective pain relief could use some.

Could you clarify what you mean by that?
Beware you young men with fresh brains. Brains can and do get worn.
I could say almost exactly your words about my younger self, but not anymore.
Now I suffer badly from never having learned and trained a good note system.
Get your external memory configured and operational in due time.
What is the best way to monetize my blog?
I'm surprised Facebook still uses software to do video encoding.

Most big companies with millions of hours of video uploaded each day have realised it's cheaper to stick a bunch of hardware video encoding chips onto an accelerator board and be able to transcode 100 HD streams simultaneously into all the formats and resolutions you need to host.

The power savings on CPU's pay for the custom hardware in a matter of months.

It does reduce flexibility when new video formats get released though.
To be honest we actually figured even this one out.

It just requires a particle accelerator and the amounts are so tiny that it’s ridiculously expensive. But hey, we can still do it!
Along the same lines, the “chain” shape of a urine stream explained: https://youtu.be/eOuai2p3qgw

It’s a property of the shape of the orifice and surface tension.