skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Desirable land is finite. Tax dollars are finite. Time is finite. Americans have spent generations and trillions of dollars building highways, roads, and parking to make driving really convenient. Every acre used for highways and parking is an acre that can’t be used for train stations, apartments, and fully grade separated bike roads.

Any discussion on reallocating some land or dollars to alternative transportation is immediately rejected by the car dependent majority. “Why should a portion of gasoline tax go toward public transportation?” “Bike lines increase traffic!” “The new development would change the neighborhood character!” “Add more lanes!”
> More PCI lanes is only interesting if you plan on using them

I’m hard pressed to think what else you would want in a file server.

Storage uses PCI lanes (4 for NVMe), network uses PCI lanes (1 for each gigabit of network, typically).
> I had never even imagined that meditation could be so distressing.

It was not evident to you that taking some time to be alone with yourself could be uncomfortable? It's almost a polar opposite to how most people live their lives. I am genuinely curious what made you believe otherwise - I cannot imagine it.
Deep down, it really is about your own finitude. Fear of death. Not doing enough. Not doing it right. Quest for meaning.

You can explain it away with 'the information age' and try to find a magic bullet organizational system [0] but it is ultimately a human problem.

For a practical person, the best bet is to try to orient reading towards a goal so that you bias the random walk into a desirable direction [1]. Or to simply have fun finding connections [2]. And maybe improve things for others along the way [3].

[0] e.g. 'David Allen - getting things done'
[1] visual from 'Richard Hamming - you and your research'
[2] 'Isaac Newton - "like a boy playing on the seashore"'
[3] poem 'HWL - Psalm of Life'
Last I checked you'd still be speaking HTTP (even if it's "WebSockets"), not raw TCP. Certainly there's no UDP support. You'd need a translating proxy of some kind.
The undersides are going to have to be painted in vantablack or something similar. Then I’m sure people will notice dark streaks on their photos. But it will at least be a bit better.
Airplanes are pretty common and don't account for much of the overall pollution. According to the EPA, transport accounts for 29% of total emissions, and of that, only 10% are airplanes. On the other hand 75% comes from cars and trucks.

If rockets became commonplace, they would most like replace leisure travel on airplanes and would eliminate car traffic once you arrive at your destination. The CO2 emission of the current SpaceX rockets is about the same as one full plane across the Atlantic. So if you could take 300 people in one launch, you'd probably take those 300 people away from an airplane flight and it would actually be better for the planet.
I was kinda disappointed that the whole thing was just one shaky camera shot, no in-vehicle cameras on Bezos' face getting squished from G-forces or anything =(
Here is a headline that sounds suggestive, and an article looking to vilify the safest form of sex work in existence.
Never underestimate the poder of idiots in large amounts.

"hundreds occupied high-speed railway tracks for around 3 hours, blocking services linking Figueres, Girona and Barcelona,"

https://www.thelocal.es/20181001/pro-independence-protesters...
Mercator: A spherical persistence-of-vision display
No. WebSockets are a specific protocol tunneled over HTTP, not raw sockets, and WASM doesn't expose any functionality which wasn't already available to JS.
Is The Wire real?
See my sibling comment. I think the OP overstated the lack of non-government jobs in the area. I've lived here (Dulles tech corridor) most of my life and work in non-government software.
Linux apparently provides a similarly named set of sized integer types to Rust, ie: s8 u8 s16 u16 s32 u32 s64 u64

But of course getting C programmers to use these integer types rather than the ones they grew up with isn't easy.
It's the rail line's issue too -- they only care about shipping freight and passenger traffic is a second class citizen. They also are pushing back against Positive Train Control because they don't want to spend the money (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Positive_train_control) (sorry no citation on pushback because lazy).

We could do much more with our existing rail lines if the will was there. I maintain that we should "nationalize" the rail lines (the literal rails and whatnot) and invest in making it safer and faster. Not maglev, but at least have passenger trains run at a decent clip and not have to be sidelined for freight.
I wouldn't follow the path that this company took. I am a solo developer, use Kubernetes on Google cloud and I couldn't be happier. Parts of my application runs on AWS, taking advantage of what AWS does better, such as SES (Simple Email Service).

All I had to learn is Docker and Kubernetes. If Kubernetes didn't exist I would have had to learn myriad tools and services, cloud-specific tools and services, and my application would be permanently wedded to one cloud.

Thanks to Kubernetes my application can be moved to another cloud in whole or in part. Kubernetes is so well designed, it is the kind of thing you learn just because it is well designed. I am glad I invested the time. The knowledge I acquired is both durable and portable.
Don't think about it as visual programming because that's both inaccurate and will only mislead you more. Reason about it as a rule system for messages. You're designing little conveyer belts (or pipes if you prefer) for packets.
if yoga is injuring you, your understanding of it is wrong

That feels a lot like either victim blaming, or being fed a No True Scotsman truism and accepting it.

One could say the same thing about staying within their skill level for any high-risk adventure sport. "If that advanced ski course is injuring you ...."
Why did you leave AWS?
'Enlightenment' appears to be thrown around liberally while it is clear that few people achieve it (if at all that word refers to a concrete state) perhaps spiritual practice mixed with great expectations underlines the same lack of clarity or understanding and trust which lead the west to esoteric ego infalting practices.
Google shutting down Google Bookmarks on September 30
I hadn't seen this before, thanks for the tip! Not being able to capture certain pieces sounds like a fun challenge.
If we're talking about the tradeoffs between feasibility of astronomy as a whole versus the interests of (potential) users of satellite internet, that may be an interesting debate, but if it's a situation where professional astronomy at major scientific institutions would be mostly okay but just amateur astronomers would be shafted, then I'm afraid that the debate would be very one-sided. Telecommunications is arguably more important for societies than astronomy - that might be debated, but they're definitely more important than amateur astronomy.

Amateur astronomers are a sufficiently small niche with limited practical influence so that any society - no matter if democratic or authoritarian - would IMHO quickly decide that sacrificing the whole hobby of amateur astronomy as such would be a trivial cost to pay for even small practical gains in rural telecommunications (which affect far, far more people than amateur astronomers), otherwise it would be a tail wagging the dog. Amateur astronomers can have their voice heard - and taken into account if it's not too difficult (e.g. the changes in Starlink satellite coloring to reduce brightness is a good example) but they do not get veto rights. Their interests matter if there are no conflicts, but when multiple interests collide, the niche community will likely have to concede.

You might convince societies that certain results of astronomy are essential and should not be traded away, but if these important results can be obtained even if "researchers who don't have the funding/equipment/software" are excluded, well, then excluding them is a plausible (and even likely) option and amateur astronomers will have to just take it and tolerate satellite streaks in their pictures.
The only difference is that in QM the marbles don't really exist until you look at them.

Somehow they still manage to align themselves so if one person sees red the other sees blue.

Although it's even more accurate to say that if one person sees [colour] the other person sees [opposite colour].

The colours are random, but the relationship between them is fixed.

Very crudely (and rather misleadingly but never mind) this is why you can't communicate at FTL.

You need the other marble to know whether you had [colour] or [opposite colour]. And that info can't travel faster than the speed of light.

It's even more accurate to say there are no marbles anywhere - only interaction events between marble objects and people-looking-at-marble objects, and the API does not allow you to look inside either to see state.

(The state has to exist somewhere otherwise none of this would work. But Bell proves it's not inside the marbles. So it's "non-local" which is code for "we have no idea where it is".)
Also you could look up some other, related quality instead and the result on the other side would still be the reverse. This cannot be explained using some hidden variable in the particles (like the color of your marbles), so it requires an action to happen in the distant particle dependent on which quality you chose to look up in the local particle.
So, let’s set aside the commercial applications and just focus on general aviation for a second. Avgas, which fuels over 160,000 small planes in the US alone, contains lead [1]. Even if electric flight is only practical in the general aviation sector, it would remove one of the last remaining sources of lead pollution in our environment. A pretty big win all on its own.

[1] https://www.faa.gov/about/initiatives/avgas/
TL;DR = Ponzi scheme selling "AI investing" nets $12M.

If more people knew how computers and software worked, fewer would believe in software or AI scams.
And the percent on time is not much better than the 90-95% quoted for Ireland above, too: https://www.deutschebahn.com/de/konzern/konzernprofil/zahlen... Long-distance trains are delayed more than 5 minutes ≈25% of the time in bad months.

Also fun: a planned stop that was cancelled doesn't count as delayed, it's simply removed from the statistics. (An occasional ∞ delay would really hurt the average.)
> "Customer is king" mentality should die.

Totally agree. My first computer store boss had a general rule that he repeated often to us: "The customer is always right until they're wrong; That's when you hand them over to me." When the day finally came that had to be tested, we watched him actually "86" (perma-ban) a customer from the store. That customer then tried to spread false rumors about the store that literally no other customer was willing to believe, because they all already knew our boss was a fair guy and wouldn't have banned someone without a mighty good reason. Still to this day wish that type of boss was more common rather than a total rarity.
I've seen this t-shirt around. As a Baltimore native, it sort of irritates me even though it's tongue in cheek! It assumes that Baltimore is a bad/unlikable place that people need to learn to love (or need to convince others that it's worth living in).

In fact, I think there's a lot to like about the city right off the bat and that many people are drawn to it without feeling like they're being forced to live there.

I don't know, maybe we can start with the positive image of the city rather than having a base assumption that it's some kind of hellscape. Doesn't mean we should ignore the negatives, just that the negatives don't need to precede the rest. I don't hear NYC residents say "New York...it isn't all rats and homeless people!"
Technically speaking, the US has eminent domain laws which allow it to force people out of the way (generally by paying fair market price for the land).

The problem isn't legal, but entirely one of political will.
Yeah I expected an orbit too. But it was their first manned mission, so I think it makes sense that it was a simpler thing. But it shouldn't have been such big news. It only was because there was a billionaire on board, and that's really dumb.
I learnt about this (similar) topic about 4 years ago: Rolf Dobelli mentioned something in some section in his book "The Art of Thinking Clearly". It's not about the technology, but the same idea may be applied. Since then I have given up many "good" things.

That's a good book and I think you may learn something from it too.
Again, it's entirely possible I missed some very subtle point in AF2's system, but my understanding is that each target AF2 predicted had an underlying structural template covering the majority of the domain and the mapping was established through the MSA.

IE, any MSAs would always include alignments to known protein structures. Are you saying their MSAs don't include alignments to known protein structures?

(the reason I'm asking all this is because if I'm mistaken, then AF2 did do something "interesting", but everything in the paper says that everything they did is template based. If they are just folding proteins using MSAs without alignments to protein structures, that's far more interesting. I don't think they did that.

edit: I've now reread the paper again, and I believe their claim of making predictions where there is no structural homology is incorrect from a technical perspective. I've communicated this to both the CASP organizers (whom I know) and DeepMind.
Well I'm going to move all my documents and files that are available for download to a public ftp. If you use Firefox you won't have access, sorry.
Why Python in the Browser Isn't Enough
> This wouldn't be a problem if "int" was defined as the same size as size_t.

That would lead to a hole in the type sequence (char <= short <= int <= long <= long long) for 64-bit targets (where int is the 32-bit type while size_t is 64 bits).

> IMHO one should always be using C99 types instead of int, but Linux predates that.

On the other hand, on Linux "long" has always been defined as the same size as size_t, so using "long" instead of "int" everywhere could also be an option.
Came here to say this. It sounds like Ably is slowly moving towards creating their own orchestration tooling. Before you know it they'll need a bunch of additional features such as scaling up an individual service that runs on the same EC2 as 5 other services. Or permissions. Or whatever else. Kubernetes has it all solved. With the current abstractions given by major cloud providers such as EKS and GKE, it makes running it a lot simpler than it used to be. All of this effort they've spent on doing this would have likely taken a lot less effort than their current setup.
Wrong. More lanes doesn't lead to more traffic unless there are way too few lanes in the first place. I know of plenty of places where adding more lanes would not add more demand - North Dakota is full of them for example.

The only problem is we can't afford to build enough lanes. There is a limit to how wide you can go, and up or down is vastly more expensive than at grade. We could do it if we wanted to spend the money - but most such places find that a better bus and (not or!) train network is a better investment.
This is an incredible explanation! I'd love a deeper explanation of the uncertainty principle applied to the Doppler effect for radar that is mentioned in passing.
Folks were hospitalized with aphasia, where they couldn't figure out how to write normally any more.

That's quite an extreme reaction. Do you have any links about this? I'm unable to find anything through Google.
You can continue to use most command-line FTP programs without problem. Since the terminal is a fairly stable interface, programs written long ago often have no problem compiling and running on modern systems, or only require small changes.
You watch, eventually everything be a layer over HTTPS[0], and 443 will be the only port. RIP Internet.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/DNS_over_HTTPS
I'm a Firefox user, and Firefox doesn't support torrents. Yet, I can access torrents. Because of course you can have dedicated protocol handlers that do the job better than the download manager baked into the browser.

Sure, there might be a user that doesn't know how to get a good FTP tool. But how many FTP servers are they accessing? Probably not enough of those to justify the maintenance effort.
> I feel like if I stop, I'd lose out on something that'll be valuable.

Internalize that you're wrong. Most info isn't valuable at all. Regarding that which is, most has already been sifted from the dreck by others. Find a best books list that you vibe with and focus your completionist energy there.
Politicized Language
Majority of Unvaccinated Americans Believe Microchips Are in Vaccines
In an online course recently, one module involved an API with an attribution requirement that neither the instructor nor any student was aware of - they specifically described it as free use, no attribution required, because they were unaware. Despite there having been more than 20k previous students, I was the first person to mention mention this and link to the clause, and the instructor was surprised.

Almost everybody skips reading the terms and licenses of things

In the chess case, the team probably assumed that open source meant “do whatever you want,” and nobody dug any deeper than that, and now they’re getting sued

Edit: the comments below say that they knew about the license issue for years
I don't understand all the negativity around this. People complained when Firefox added Pocket, in part because they took a browser extension and made it a feature that was ostensibly unrelated to web browsing. Now they're taking an old feature that's definitely not related to web browsing and removing it, and people are still complaining?

Firefox can't be everything. It should focus on being a great browser and not a great browser and also great FTP client, or a great browser and also a great feed reader, or a great browser and also a great mail client. People using FTP can use a dedicated client, of which there are plenty on every platform, and people who don't use FTP (i.e. the vast, vast majority of web browser users) won't even notice.

A modern web browser is probably some of the most complex software humanity has invented yet, besides a full-scale OS. Taking a maintenance burden that's unrelated to the core browser product of a struggling NFP should be welcomed with a sigh of relief.
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How to be uncertain with dates (2020)
> If CASP is calling methods that use any sequence similarity (the grey area) 'ab initio', that's disingenuous and intellectually dishonest.

The category is given the name, not the methods. People can use any method they like to solve the structures. The organizers are not zealots.

The ab initio portion of CASP consists of proteins that the organizers know have low sequence identity to anything in the existing databases. They represent proteins that are "difficult" to solve using what any practitioner might call homology modeling. That doesn't mean that you can't use a method that takes into account the biological databases -- and essentially all of the good methods do!

For example, the Rosetta method has competed in both the homology modeling and the ab initio categories for many years. They mix a bit of both -- using homology models to get the fold, and fragment insertion to model the floppy bits.

I haven't paid close attention to CASP in a long time, but I assume the competitor list still has tons of entries from people who cling tightly to the purist vision of ab initio modeling. They don't tend to do very well.
Yeah, people have been doing sentiment analysis of press releases etc for years now and very few corporates bother trying to use software to test/counteract it
Be fair. Many of those rows contain duplicate names (identical teams), so the count is much smaller.
So good luck configuring your firewall or NAS that don't have a valid certificate.
> This will probably be nuts to follow since HN doesn't have any kind of notification but I appreciate your response.

You're welcome!

> why is a backend needed for MMS? is it not direct like phone > cell tower > phone?

The MMS stack is....interesting. It is a mix of SMS and HTTP (SMS acts as a signalling to the client (phone) to tell the client an MMS exists, and HTTP is used to get/send an MMS), and MMS has its own encoding scheme. mmsd-tng is an abstraction layer to do MMS decode/encode and send/recieve it all, so a chat application just has to talk to mmsd-tng to get/send MMS.

There is a modem Abstraction layer (the two popular ones are oFono and MOdem Manager), and neither support MMS natively. However, with mmsd-tng, they don't need to.

(visual voicemail is the same way, except it uses IMAP...yes email IMAP for downloading voicemails)

> Just don't embed ads in it like Android ha

haha. My GUI isn't exactly pretty, but it works! Plus if I went crazy and did that, it's pretty easy to fork my work.

> I just hate the bloatware it is particularly a problem on cheaper phones and part of the carrier eg. Boost they have these notifications you can't get rid of, that's the stuff that "boils my blood".

This is sadly why I steer my family to getting iPhones, despite my personal misgivings of Apple.

> Interesting info about the deployment stuff. Yeah someone pointed out if your app is like a basic to do list probably not going to get added.

A lot of devs are volunteers as well, so the dynamics of the "app store" is much different. I personally think the biggest issue is making sure apps just don't get abandoned. If you really don't want to use official distro channels, flatpak seems to be the way to go (but you can build your own apt repository too if you really want to).

> Anyway good luck to you, maybe I'll see you in this field ha whenever I get back into this. My Pinephone is currently just sitting on my desk uncharged.

Thanks! I'm not hard to find on Matrix

> I gotta check out Matrix too have not really heard of it, offhand I'm like "is it like Mastodon" or something... but yeah.

I liken Matrix to "IRC on steriods" or "Slack without the vendor lockin". It's a group chat with different servers and channels.
> Sex work might be damaging for many providers, that's for sure (although, as others mentioned, so are other professions deemed essential); but damaging for consumers, I don't know.

As Online sex work as increasingly adopted the 'influencer' mentality to it's marketing, I think it is damaging to consumers. Maybe you think things like NLP don't have an impact on you, but they certainly do on others. As other comments on this thread have mentioned many of the ads/content have become a lot more targeted.
FTP is dead. ycombinator killed it. Thanks, dropbox.

the sheer lack of awareness here sometimes, I swear.
There is also this: https://equitablemath.org/

which is on its way to be implemented in Oakland, CA schools.

PDF brochures: https://equitablemath.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2020/11...

WSJ opinion piece on it: https://www.wsj.com/articles/california-leftists-try-to-canc...

Edit: Please scroll down and look at the signatories. Dozens of professors at University of California are voicing their concerns and the people of HN have nothing better than to flag it? It takes courage to put their names/careers on the line.
> Orchestration, in general, isn't needed. The major cloud providers are already doing it with virtual machines, and have been for a long time. It's better isolation than Kubernetes can provide.

Sure it's not needed! But cloud providers aren't needed in much the same way.
I'm pretty sure Elon thinks Jeff's Blue Origin is impotent in delivering the technology needed to progress the return to the Moon https://twitter.com/kchangnyt/status/1386787651412451329?s=1...