skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> Theres an AFB outside of LA with proper rail siding. He identified it & facilities in thread.

It exists. It has a rail siding. Can it handle the throughput that we're talking about? Air force bases have rail service, but they don't have the infrastructure for high-volume rail traffic.

> Railroad are a regulated monopoly.

Railroads are regulated, but are not a monopoly. (Though a railroad may have a monopoly on rail service to a particular customer, that's not the usual definition of a monopoly.)

> DOT/FRA can mandate service & regulate rates (either for freight or using their track) to prevent one carrier from making movement impossible. If DOT/FRA do it right they'd economically incentivise the short haul.

I believe that the STB is the one that regulates rates and service (and much less stringently than the old Interstate Commerce Commission did pre-Staggers Act deregulation). DOT is more about regulating safety.

Anyway: Could it be done? Yes, maybe, to some degree. Could they move enough containers to unblock the ports in a finite amount of time? I'm much more skeptical. It's not a matter of the rates and regulation, either - it's a matter of building track and other infrastructure at the AFB.
How can Windows do it? It's not like MS has lots of resources to do this very specific thing, and Windows needs to support almost all consumer hardware. That makes me think there's some driver-level barrier that Linux devs just haven't cared enough about.
Funny, thanks for sharing.
You should change the title to "Show HN:", and also explain what's going on.
Ruthlessness. Apple did the same thing when the iPhone first came out with the higher end capacitive touch screens. When it was released, all the competitors raced to catch up but found that the supply was gobbled up by apple for years. If you compared any android touchscreens with apple ones for the first 3ish years the apple ones were night and day better.

Apple is also willing to invest in technology in return for exclusivity for awhile.
> the latter, I would argue, is the core of roguelikes.

I might be showing my age here, but isn't permadeath the core of roguelikes? Like, isn't the point that you have to start fresh each play, and that's why games like nethack offered a bajillion character classes? Even the og rogue had permadeath.
when does neuralink hit beta? i can't wait to train myself into a new facial tic whenever i'm feeling slightly bored
For reference, it looks like Wikipedia's CEO is paid ~$400k. 3m is a really unreasonable salary, and the attitude she has for why she deserves it is even worse, and seems antithetical to Mozilla's brand/image/beliefs.

https://meta.m.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimedia_Foundation_salar...
I’d alternatively recommend microfilm. It’s specifically engineered to last ~500 years and has much higher storage density than paper and ink. The technology needed to read it is fairly low tech and trivial and the format is quite durable.
The Siberians who couldn't figure out how to survive cold weather were killed off by cold centuries ago. If climate change caused sudden cold snaps in normally warmer regions there would likely be many deaths.
That's an interesting list. A lot of those problems, however, are things that most people won't ever see. Of course, some will have an impact on feature availability (like how HDR is still nowhere to be found, be it on Xorg, Wayland or Vulkan apps).

Users care about:

* Hardware compatibility. This is actually markedly improved. I did not do any research when building my PC, and yet everything works. Including the Intel wifi6 card - that doesn't work on Windows 10 out of the box and I had to use Linux to download the driver.

Yeah maybe some CPU power states are not working great on my processor. I haven't hooked a Kill-a-Watt to make sure. Temps look fine.

* "Every game ships broken". Ok great. However, I've been working through my entire Steam library and the vast majority work great. Latest failure I saw was on Sea of Thieves (in game voice chat broken). Graphics though? Working great. Including on other titles like Cyberpunk. Vulkan and Proton were a game changer. With AMD open source drivers.

* "NVidia this, NVidia that". Yeah. That's the main thing. If you don't need a feature that's specific to NVidia, please don't buy their cards. I don't care if you are running Linux or Windows, they are actively hostile to the ecosystem. If you ARE on Linux, then good luck. You depend on their proprietary blob and that's very hit and miss. AMD will work much better on Linux (most likely, out of the box with open source drivers).

Yes, for now they have some tech that's specific to them like DLSS. Their raytracing performance is better than the competition (but mind you, they are the ones actively pushing for raytracing support on mainstream games and spending marketing dollars to entice customers). They have CUDA (then again, they did whatever they could to push it). I'm actually surprised they didn't come up with a fully proprietary rendering API yet.

There was a reason why Linus gave NVidia the finger.
> Not really

Yes really. It makes no sense that every application has different non unified font rendering or rendering in general. Also things like kinetic scrolling and all kinds of application behavior is now potentially completely different for different applications. It's a mess, we need standardized solutions and such a solution already exists: X11.

> The fact that everyone is writing their own compositor is just another symptom of the ridiculous project-fragmentation that has always afflicted desktop linux. They could have cooperated and made a common compositor, but everyone had to build their own.

The Linux community already has huge problems to agree on any standard at all and X11 is such a standard with a huge amount of support functionality. This is rare and should not be squandered. X11 is not pretty but the insistence on backwards compatibility led to a growth of a huge ecosystem (just count the numbers of Window managers). If anything I consider Wayland (and GNOME) a deliberate act of sabotage.
Why would they waste a zero day exploit on you?
It probably had implicit status as post hoc reasoning since the images include post closure photos for at least some markets since some news images come after closure. They'd have to work awfully hard to demonstrate better than random with only prior data.

A confounding problem is that news sources change stories and use a/b testing to pick story winners.

This could even be a meta analysis of emerging sentiment on delay, which means you'd do better timewise on the origin sentiment than the second differential. Except you can't access the same pool of opinion so at best, it's a clever trick to access emerging sentiment through reactive reasoning on news sites. Why is that better as a driving function to invest across the market than other sources?
And even if a user has had the opposite experience:

"Oh, I had an issue and the community was so helpful, I got my issue resolved in a few days from going back and forth with nice people."

Some may disagree but I shouldn't have to enter communities of people to just get my computer to run. I want to put the flash drive in, wait an hour, and get onto what I actually wanted to do with a computer.

And it's sad, because I believe I share the same vision of people developing this software.

I want a world where every computer can have an OS that's free, completely open source, user friendly for every day computing, and empowers you to truly OWN the hunk of plastic in your hands.

It really seems linux is for no one but kernel hackers, software engineers, or to run on server hardware.
Suggested background music: "if I were a rich man" https://youtu.be/j5fCqKbSC7M

If I had a quantum computer, I could do all these wonderful things... it's interesting theoretical research but we do not have the machines yet.
I recently went through my 2013 Bitcoin-related bookmarks.

It's a graveyard!
thanks, I am actually going to try this

Linux is otherwise a very good OS for my needs, but bad trackpad support is a deal-breaker
If you can get by with just text, pass it down as part of your family's oral tradition. See https://etc.usf.edu/lit2go/40/the-memoirs-of-sherlock-holmes...
IMO, falsehoods do not constitute dishonesty anymore than truths constitute honesty. Honesty is about the sharing of clarity, and sometimes teachers Lie To Children¹ and other times people confuse or obscure with facts. What matters is a sensitive understanding of what clarity means to others.

Anyways, if you tell a store person "oh, I'm getting this for my husband" when it's a gift for yourself, that's more honesty than dishonesty, because to the store person, "clarity" with a customer is very goal oriented. Dan Luu wasn't trying to screw with the store person, and in the end they all got what they wanted, even if Dan Luu walked away "looking stupid".

[1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lie-to-children
For the folks at home, you can try

google-chrome --ignore-gpu-blocklist --enable-features=VaapiVideoDecoder --use-gl=desktop --disable-gpu-driver-bug-workarounds --gpu-testing-vendor-id=0x[vendor_id] --gpu-testing-device-id=0x[device_id] --enable-crashpad --flag-switches-begin --enable-gpu-rasterization --flag-switches-end

The vendor id and device id of your graphics card can be identified via

lspci -nnk

As an example, the output for my graphics card is

02:00.0 VGA compatible controller [0300]: Advanced Micro Devices, Inc. [AMD/ATI] Lexa PRO [Radeon 540/540X/550/550X / RX 540X/550/550X] [1002:699f] (rev c7)
Subsystem: Sapphire Technology Limited Lexa PRO [Radeon RX 550] [1da2:e367]
Kernel driver in use: amdgpu
Kernel modules: amdgpu

Here the vendor id is 1002 and the device id 699f. You can check whether everything is working by navigating to

chrome://gpu/

Many of the graphics features should now have hardware acceleration enabled.

There are probably a few extra flags here than necessary, but I found these sufficient to force 4K 60 fps Stadia support on Linux. (You would also need the Stadia+ chrome extension if that were your goal: https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/stadia%20-extensio... .)
IONQ hitting Stockmarket this month
Figure out a way to stop humanity from imploding for 500 years and realize that we're, effectively, like thirty years into using this internet technology thing. So it's quite likely we'll see some really serious infrastructure changes before we get to 500 years out.

My more serious advice is to instead look at the best options for long term persistent data storage and assume that people in 500 years will need to load your site using specialized technology like folks going to the library to view VHSes.
Whatever you gotta tell yourself, I guess. Feel special!
Cool. Now can we please have that for the Quest 2?
So if my users are my customers or employees, this license would make the product unusable. Maybe.

Where’s the line? The product provides my content, in the form of html/css/JavaScript/whatever. That’s technically software/copyrightable but isn’t a component of the AGPLed product.

Otherwise, I agree that the AGPL would require distribution of software mods to the product. I can’t imagine why they would modify or how the author would detect such modifications.

Sorry, but I’m still having trouble understanding just what modifications are being discussed. Nothing I’ve read yet talks about specifics. There should at least be a smoking gun, no? Otherwise, post a link to the product and you’re done.
Isn't the correct answer to put something other people deem worth saving in the website? Then they will preserve it for you
How about "Have it engraved into your tombstone and pay for a perpetual-care gravesite".
It's a bit like in sports. If you play ping pong, for example, there is a certain group of players that blame the paddle, the balls, the table, the shoes, the floor, etc.

There is only one thing they don't blame.
> This is why we're seeing a spate of non-gendered neologisms being pushed - "birthing person", etc.

Almost all of these neologisms are in place to create conceptual space for trans men in AFAB medical contexts and yet almost all of the criticisms are directed at trans women. The fixation on trans women at all times speaks to something more going on beneath the surface in these debates. I think that something is just digust and anger looking for post-facto reasons to lash out.

Like I said in other comments, I think self-id without any qualifications is "off". But the arguments being levied against it come attached to a lot of other arguments that are clearly motivated by hate and disgust at trans women rather than concern over this particular topic.

Like the people against self-id would also like to make it so that a trans woman who transitioned when she was 12 and adopted a child couldn't access a women's shelter for her and her child if she were to be abused by her husband someday just because she has a Y chromosome. This is obviously just as "off" as saying that any guy who says they are a woman can play college women's volleyball the next day.

Like seriously, "gender critical" people are so dead set on sex sex sex that they forget that most trans people aren't TRAs but rather just want to live normal lives and are rather invisible in society. The changes gender crits want to make will make their lives much more difficult which I think is the point right? Janice Raymond said that she wanted to see transsexualism extinguished by making it as costly and difficult as possible to be trans more or less in her book The Transsexual Empire....

It's cruelty for the sake of marginalizing a group out of existence. Very ugly stuff.

If it weren't for that, I think the debate around self-id would be a lot less fraught. It's depressing to me as a person who transitioned pre-2010. Life was more comfortable before all of this rage was unleashed on us. I went from never having to think about being trans to suddenly 15 years in having to think of it nearly every day due to the constant attacks and vitriol in the news.

Like even my husband's parents suddenly became open transphobes which was a shock. I've known them for years. Something very mean is going on that goes far beyond poor miss Stock's academic freedom.
I think the idea is that, though I'm sure the AZ site is unsatisfying as far as water goes, they can always pipe water in and it was picked for other reasons.
I mostly agree. Except that on my personal machines, I will run Linux or a BSD variant 99% of the time. ;-) At work, I never had much of choice, it was Windows all the way.

I know it sucks if the OS does not support your hardware well. And I don't blame people who do not have the time or patience to deal with that. I certainly don't. I used to love spending weekends getting sound or wifi to work, but I have been "too old for this s___" for more than a decade.

But personally, I have not run into any problems in more than a decade. I will admit, though, that I have learned to do a little (and I mean little) research before purchasing hardware. Back in the early 2000's, Win modems and printers used to be a minefield for Linux users, but these days, picking hardware that Just Works(tm) is shockingly easy to someone who remembers the "good" old days.

I think the main barrier to most people is that Linux is just different from Windows, starting with picking a distro, then picking a desktop environment, and so forth. I still consider it fun to experiment with different distros and desktops, but I can understand that most people don't want to spend/waste their time with that. Which also means that PC vendors have pretty much no incentive to put Linux on their machines except for targeting developers.

I don't think Linux (or any of the BSD systems) will ever become a mainstream OS on the desktop, and I can live with that. I might sound a bit cynical, but at least it means that Linux is not and will not be an attractive target for malware.

Given all the crap that Windows users put up with, be it malware or system updates randomly breaking things, I think a fair amount of people might find it worth the effort to give Linux a try. I used to work as a Windows admin, so I'm not just guessing here. But if it hasn't happened by now, I doubt it's going to anytime soon. People tend to like what they know, and with all the third-party software available on Windows and Windows only, Microsoft is going to spend a lot of effort maintaining backwards compatibility for a long time.
Trump's thing is running on Mastodon? That's unexpected.

What changes have they made that need to be redistributed?
surely the correct answer is to put something worth saving in the website. Then people will save it for you.
I would guess it still takes a while, if only to find the relevant information.
Wells Fargo recently charged me $12 to deposit $9,000 cash. I have more cash, but why would I deposit it if they take it? I can use it to get discounts from service companies instead.
Yes the original was better. But the one we got was easier/cheaper to film and his had many special effects shots which would have put them over time budget as well. Remember at the time ST was not the money machine it is now and was one of the more costly shows on air, and they tried to turn them around in about 2-3 weeks (when at the time the average was less than 1-4 days for most shows). Money was one of the reasons we saw a good amount of vasquez rocks in the show. It is in the movie zone and the pay was cheaper.
Of the many possible "classics" to throw at teenagers I feel Moby Dick is far from the worst option. At least it has some humor to it, and on one layer it is just an adventure at sea; its not just pure pathos. And compared to many others its relatively short novel, especially if you skip some of the non-essential whaling chapters.
'You guys paid for all this': Jeff Bezos thanks Amazon staff, customers
That would make sense if senators were appointed by state governors and not by by elections.

Really, Senate representation is set up to uphold the status quo on slavery. It's supposed toaesre that the free states cant outlaw slavery, and so that slave states cant change the due date for when slavery would stop.

Today's representation carries that legacy, where new states are not allowed unless they preserve the status quo.
Saying a company is its employees, is like saying a bunch of dots randomly placed on a piece of paper would magically create a line. People playing a crucial part in a company, but without founders, well oiled processes and risks taken, these people would not be able to create what a company creates in terms of products and profit.
"The question, though, is whether everyone implicated in slavery is ipso facto ineligible for public celebration."

The answer is yes. You can celebrate him privately. We can criticize publicly his incredible hypocrisy. Or just note that his document said men and everyone knows it meant white men, a dishonest omission.

No one is going to put up statues of Bari Weiss. Her "voice" is just outrage pushing.
What a nice illustration of the limitations of pure empiricism.
That’s OP’s point: if this were truly predictive then you would just go raise a few billion dollars and quietly implement this strategy…you wouldn’t write a paper about it.

The fact that we’re reading about a paper, and not a headline about a wildly successful systematic fund, suggests this isn’t all that valuable.
"there should be an official list of recommended hardware and users should buy only it"

That official list would have to be provided by the seller of said HW, like it's happening now for nvidia, intel, amd, logitech etc. etc.

else who to call when it doesn't work?

In the end, as with anything it's all about the dough.
That's what ALSA does. You don't have to use any other features of it. However, the task is a bit more than you're describing, because in 2021, users expect things like:

* hot-pluggable devices (so you need a device notification protocol)

* ability to lock the device to prevent settings modifications (very important to pro-audio/music creation settings). macOS calls this "hog mode".

Also, you're eliding the distinction between the capabilities of an API and where it gets implemented. Contemporary audio has all sorts of requirements that could be/should be/are implemented in user space, but it's unclear if they should be a part of the ALSA API or some layer(s) above that.
Physics certainly makes fools of us all.
VR is advancing at an incredible pace really, I don't think it's sad.
Looking at the past 100 years of change, progress, and war, what do you think the odds are there will be anyone left to view your website in 500 years? Or that the web will be anything like it is today? Or that English will even be in use then?
> he said he would unsolder the chips off the circuit board and put them onto another board ... The judge allowed the testimony and believed it.

I've experienced similar issues with judges. When evidence hinges on something very technical - they generally allow it and place the burden of arguing it on the defense. ...which often allows any other evidence gotten by that means. ...and even if/when it's struck out - the prosecutor uses some parallel construction argument to say they could have gotten the evidence through another means. ...and the judge usually accepts that too.

The prosecutor also then takes things like hearsay, circumstantial evidence, and literal misrepresentations to build a seemingly huge case against the defendant. It's a form of intimidation to accept a plea deal.

I've seen TONS of defendants admit to crimes they didn't commit in plea deals, just because it's such a huge and long uphill battle to fight every single bogus charge.

These aren't straight up innocent or perfect people. They're usually guilty of something minor - like small-time possession / solicitation / parole violation / DUI / etc... But what happens is that when you're guilty of anything, the judge treats you like you're guilty of EVERYTHING, and the prosecutor loads up the charges with anything they can think of to take advantage of that.

Most defense attorneys hate these cases because clients can't pay, so they encourage them to settle for a plea deal - even if it includes admitting to stuff they didn't do. ...and most defendants accept it so they can move on with their lives and avoid prison time.

So yeah, people with money hire $700/hr attorneys, and they absolutely make things go away. Even prosecutors drastically change demeanor when they see a defendant with a high-priced lawyer, because the prosecutor doesn't want to invest a lot of time on any specific case - and doesn't want his office or the police/investigators to be held up to scrutiny with various subpoenas - so charges drop off much more easily, and/or defendants get off with misdemeanor in a good plea deals.

The point of this story is to help shed some naiveté that you might have about the system ultimately being fair - even through the long and expensive appeals process. It isn't. ...and most defendants don't have the time or money to pursue appeals. And moreover, when tech is involved, it is markedly even less fair because the judge doesn't understand the tech, and so will believe whatever BS the prosecutor makes up.
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