skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Why would bridges EVER be 100x safer? Twice as safe would be a huge transformation for any mechanical engineering project. 100x is the sort of process that happens over centuries, and is probably asymptotic (there's a limit to how safe any physical object in the world can ever be).

Cost 1/10th? Why? The materials haven't become massively more available (or changed significantly). The technology and therefore the labor involved in building large scale civil infrastructure hasn't changed much in at least a century, which you seem to view with alarm rather than the idea that maybe we're pretty good at it. Costs due to regulations represent the growing importance of values other than "get it done as cheaply and quickly as possible".

Take 1/2 the time? Why? The physical world isn't amenable to the same sort of reconceptualization that symbolic computation allows. Although the numbers and materials have changed over time (e.g. the arrival of the iron bridge, or suspension systems), the changes generally involve trading off mass (e.g. compared to stone bridges) versus complexity and precision. Why would anyone expect this to reduce construction time by 50%?

And yes, software has seen incredible strides forward. At the same time, sending someone a file is still an enormous challenge for most computer users, most software has failed to incorporate at least 50% of what we've learned about UX over the last 40 years, and most of it is still riddled with bugs that are not that hard to find. So we have to be a little careful throwing stones at those who build material objects.
Good to see a goverment take a stance against individuals who choose to use the SHA256 algorithm without permission.

I hope to see more goverments prevent individuals from performing hash computations on their computers.

The hash function is a climate disaster.
How the outhouse helped save the South (2012)
How profitable was/is tobacco?
Being a big AoE2 fan myself (pre-ordered the original version back in the day), I think you should try it.

For me, there is one major downside: The camera. I really don't like the 3D camera. I think it could be worse. So you can actually play the game without turning the camera, but what I don't like is the perspective. Sometimes you have to move to camera to another position, just to be able to click on a unit. I found that much better with the classic dimetric projection [1]. In addition, I like the art-style of AoE2 a bit better.

However, after putting these things aside, I love how they have adapted the AoE2 concepts. It still feels like an Age of Empires. But then again different enough to be AoE4. So if you like the changes from AoE1 to AoE2 then you might like AoE4 ;-)

The civilizations play more diverse than those of AoE2 so even with just 8, there is a lot to learn. The story telling of the campaigns is also a bit different, but it still has the concept of teaching some history. AoE4 actually has some nice videos about armor and weapons of the time. The fortress building in AoE4 feels a bit more like Stronghold with the ability to move units on the walls and I think that is a good thing :-)

So much after playing AoE4 for about 13 hours.

[1]: https://gamedev.stackexchange.com/a/16757
Previously he only announced leaving MSR two months ago: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28473733
A buddy of mine recently moved from DC to Florida. He tested the auto-train once, with his family of 7 and a car and the total cost was $1800. After COVID, it now costs double that. Now he just drives the 12 hours using a diesel pickup truck.

So they weren't always so disconnected from modern pricing, but I don't think the effects of COVID have fully played out across all the transportation options yet to know what 2021+ prices should look like.
Nice, I like how short and simple it is. The title seems to imply it runs on multiple datacenters. How does it sync messages between those?
I'm trying to remember the other country executing disabled people.

Not sure, but maybe NYT's investigators and journalists can find out.
No, this exists between DC and Orlando on Amtrack. I considered contacting Amtrack to charter a car train to my location to another. They'll probably do it for enough money and it's not that much money.

What you need to know to argue is, say, they're not losing all of the berths on a vehicle transport car if you want to move one car. They're having you pay the upkeep for that one trip which is not the same as the fully loaded vehicle car.
That's something I never understood. Why do designers always do that thing? Do they not use the products they design?
Even if you trust your boss, do you also go for drinks with the CFO and CTO on the weekends? Have cookouts with the VP of engineering? Join the board meetings where they decide to kill your region? In the end a middle manager is just a small cog with most everything out of their control. Having a decent relationship is as good as it gets but it’s hardly a safeguard against much of anything
I was enthusiastic, but for medium complexity questions I spend more time footing with syntax then it would take to do it myself. I probably use it for a high complexity question once every few months. I’m happy that it exists, on balance
It strikes me that a lot of people died from something that's no threat.

If instead you mean little (not no) threat to you, sure. If you mean the response was not commensurate with the threat, you might be able to make that case.

But not a threat? Sorry. Once you know someone in their late 30s with no comorbidities who dies from this your perspective changes a bit.

To be honest I find the histrionics about this horrible, draconian fascist response a bit ludicrous.
> I don't know about "hacks", rather observations.

They are definitely hacks: the Enchiridion lists a few of them. Stoicism is anything if not a practical philosophy.

> An observation about slavery is that you've traded in the burden of responsibility that liberty introduces for the comfort of not having to worry about what to do with yourself

I interpreted it as a hedonic treadmill of responsibility; okay, you're not a slave anymore but a citizen so now you have the responsibilities of a citizen to worry about. You're no longer a citizen but a senator, so now you have senatorial responsibilities. You're no longer a senator but the emperor, so now you have to deal with all the problems an emperor needs to deal with it (as Marcus Aurelius can attest to).

Moving up in the world just means that you replace one set of problems with another set of problems. Slave or emperor, it makes no difference if the problems are beyond your control.
If we take the climate agenda at face value and genuinely want to reduce the amount of CO2 in the atmosphere, I'm not sure the same radical conservationist themes make sense. Especially if we accept that this is a world ending emergency.

Forests should be managed for the maximum yield of lumber instead. Reforestation, yes. However these forests must be used to capture carbon in the form of finished wood products. Allowing these trees to rot and decay releases the carbon back into the atmosphere. Similarly, there are periods of peak growth, as compared to old growth which may not develop at the same rate. Also consider the constant production of debris such as fallen leaves created by older trees, relative to the faster growth of younger trees.

Once again the stated goals do not meet with the proposed actions. At what point is it reasonable to inquire about ulterior motives and examine the political economy of the proposed solutions?
Notes for UI designers who have lost their way
Japan's Skyscraper Factories
> There's git hosting solution that are really light and as easy to install than fossil.

I'm not sure that is really the case. Almost everything in the git universe is git + webserver + cli tool + scripts + gui tool. It really isn't the same... you have to concatenate an awful lot of tools to add fossil's base features to git. That said, I end up using git on everything but personal projects... then I use fossil.
I still use it once in a while when I don't want to bother converting non-base10 units, like to know the date in 90 days, or how many hours in x days, etc.
> Anyone who uses it in 2021 is looking to give offense.

Most people in the world have no idea of the current state of racial tensions/issues in the USA. The majority of English speaker in the world don't live in the USA.
and rent-free.
You should attend your local PTA meeting if this what you think parents are trying to pass down.
A Deep Dive into Serverless UI with TypeScript
I have such an intense love/hate relationship with Wikipedia. On the one hand, I'm so thankful that a resource exists to give me instant access to lots of mundane shit -- on the other hand, the internal politics, the so-called professional Wikipedian class (in truth, largely un(der)employed obsessives who have genuinely nothing better to do than fight over mundane bureaucratic issues) make it a resource that both cannot be relied upon and that is largely impossible to correct. It is both such a scourge and yet such an important resource.

For most things of any import (aside from areas like geography or fundamental parts of science, which are usually trustworthy), I rely on the sources cited by Wikipedia to try to suss out actual information, rather than Wikipedia itself, but that often takes a lot of time and doesn't change the fact that Wikipedia, for better or worse, is the central general knowledge repository of our time.

The adage that teachers still teach, "don't cite Wikipedia" -- has some merit, sure, but also has increasingly become a joke because actual edited encyclopedias (which yes, had their own issues, but also had standards and oversight that needed to be answered to) have basically become extinct -- so what are people supposed to use?

I genuinely long for the days of stuff like the Encarta CD-ROMs, or even expensive encyclopedia sets -- not because I think those resources could keep up with the breadth of knowledge that Wikipedia obviously has, but because whatever biases they may have aside (and every source or text has a bias -- which makes Wikipedia's NPOV mandate all the more ironic), they were edited and staffed by professionals.

I'm constantly bombarded by pleas for money from Wikipedia/Wikimedia Foundation, despite that fact that the Wikimedia Foundation has revenues of something like $150 million a year, and where most of the budget goes to pay for staff (hosting is only $2.5 million), not anyone who actually contributes to the content. The whole appeal of Wikipedia is supposed to be that anyone can edit it, but that isn't actually true (the gatekeepers make even correcting typos a chore) and the lack of commitment to verifiability, especially when it comes to living people, makes the whole thing utterly depressing.
Hope this isn't too off topic:

I've noticed increasingly in the past few years, news article headlines of this exact form: <something good>. Then <something bad>. Personally it often feels like clickbait to the point that the title feels like a disservice to the actual content.

But what I'm interested in is - is this a particular person's style of writing? Or is it actually a trend?
Based off IRC?

Did you mean TeamSpeak/Ventrilo? Discord was a direct replacement for voice servers used in gaming communities. Not IRC.
It's fun for life expectancy.

Step one: Ask for your own life expectancy.

Step two: Ask for the life expectancy of someone years' younger.

Step three: What.

Step four: Oh.
> Once he decided that every student would have a single room, he realized, “We had a window shortage. So we just copied what Disney Cruises did. The way Disney does it, the window is really a television set. Those work beautifully on the ships. But I wanted to have a spectrum of sunlight, so with a curtain hanging over it you couldn’t tell if it was artificial or real. I figured out how to do that. Programming the lights to copy the sun was too expensive. So we will give the students knobs, and they can have whatever light they want. Real windows don’t do that.”

So just to recap: The rooms neither give you a sense where you are in the building, nor any sense of time of day.

You wake up and literally are unable to tell if it's day or night.
Step by step solutions were free around 9/10 years ago
Sure, I never said it would.
True. The scenario I was thinking of was `./configure && make && sudo make install` and iterating on all the missing dependencies that the configure script flags.
Factoids from memory:

Apple DOS 3.3 usually lived in $9600-$BFFF, which was the top of the semi-standard 48K RAM Apple II. So the whole thing was 10,752 bytes. That included a LUT to assist with disk nibble-byte conversions, I/O routines to read, write, and enumerate files and text streams, and a disk initialization routine.

The cold boot code lived in 256 bytes of ROM memory-mapped to $C600-$C6FF on the Slot 6 disk controller. It generated another copy of the LUT, read the first few sectors of the disk to a temporary RAM location, and jumped to it.

Every disk had to be at least partially readable by this 256-byte bootstrap code. This was why every disk-based copy protection scheme on the Apple II was doomed; disassemble what it read, and learn the scheme's secrets.

The original DOS was slow because it did an extra buffer copy while processing 256-byte sectors. Lots of people produced aftermarket fast DOS versions that removed the large initialization routine and replaced it with smarter in-place reading/writing code. This allowed the system to be ready to read or write the next interleaved sector on a track, rather than having to wait for the disk to complete a full rotation. I remember Diversi-DOS and DavidDOS. The video game Sheila included a fast DOS as well; my high school friends and I extracted it from the game and used it as our "daily driver" DOS.

Various routines in DOS 3.3 became de facto APIs. So you'd see random programs JSRing to $Axxx to do something with the disk. You could also send text commands to DOS 3.3 through this brilliant pair of hooks that let it intercept characters to/from the screen. I think the print routine was $FDF0 or thereabouts. Crucially, Applesoft BASIC used those two hooks, so BASIC was DOS-integrated that way.
Thats a part of the Greaber hypothesis in his new book The Dawn of Everything. He says anthropologists have had a too simplistic view of prehistory and people were more sophisticated than pop history gives them credit for.
They need maintaining this to somehow be less work than maintaining GNOME Shell extensions
I think some restrictions are good, actually. Side-loading is not optional if your school, employer, or government distributes apps (that spy on you to prevent you from cheating on tests, say) that way.

> As macOS shows, when the use of the app store is optional, most developers would rather pretend it doesn't exist.

Okay, wow. Have you used an Adobe Creative product on macOS recently? It comes with so many junk processes constantly running in the background 24/7, I wish Apple could step in on my behalf.
"Never message someone on your team, “let’s talk when you get a minute”."

This advice applies beyond the manager/report relationship.

I always ignore these freaking "hey" or "got a minute?" messages on slack. For the life of me, I can't imagine how either dumb or disrespectful you have to be to send such a useless message.

Just tell me what the f you want to talk about. If prod is down yeah, I definitely have a minute buddy. If you're wondering how to organize next quarter's roadmap it can wait until I'm done doing whatever I'm in the middle of.
a Malaysian man convicted of smuggling heroin into the city-state, arguing that he should be exempt under international law because he has an intellectual disability.

"During his 2010 trial, he claimed he was coerced into carrying the drugs, but he later changed his account, saying he had attempted to smuggle the heroin because he needed money. The court concluded that his story of duress was fabricated and sentenced him to death.

In 2015, he appealed to have his sentence commuted to life in prison. His lawyers argued that his I.Q. of 69, which is just below the internationally recognized threshold of 70 for determining whether someone has an intellectual disability, made him incapable of fully understanding his actions. They also argued that he suffered from attention deficit hyperactivity disorder and a drinking disorder, which affected his judgment and impulse control."

The title is quite misleading by itself.
It is around $1k square foot, which seems about double what houses would cost, but universities have a lot of requirements. I.e. stricter fire safety adds costs all around.

The room is $70k, the shared space in the module per room is about $70k. The other $90k is convertible classrooms, a Costco, etc which would normally be entirely separate building projects.
Wholeheartedly agree. Gnome in particular I have been very disappointed/baffled by in the past few years. Killing off desktop icons, system tray/status icons, pushing out global menu bars. Not to mention the way they handle HiDPI and fractional scaling is atrocious.

Pop_OS has added a lot of this crucially missing UX. If they can build a better mouse trap, I wholeheartedly welcome it.
This is the model being tried at the Miami Brightline station. The owners were (are?): Florida East Coast Industries, which is owned by Fortress Investment Group, which owned by Japanese conglomerate Softbank.
I miss Unity. It was leaps and bounds better than Gnome. Wish Canonical never killed it. Whatever System76 makes will be better than Gnome. System76's implementation of Gnome is the best I've used.
You're severely underselling Google's incapability, e.g. https://i.imgur.com/UoIZSU2.png
this 1000%, let me finish the sentence for you, they get to decide what is good for us and our children, while sending their own children to schools that have better accomodations, or they just pay for their kids' accomodations (buying houses, condos, etc and flipping them after their kids are done living there) after they're no longer required to stay on campus. Some high end US univ's require at least 1yr on campus residency, so it's back to the penthouse loft after that.
Banks are institutions. Rich people are not banks and not creditors, the institution is.
A good way to ask Dang something, is via the |contact| link below.
Hello old friend!
Maybe they stay up late every night? It’s easy to go until 3am if that’s you’re usual bedtime
Give your baby a normal (by today standards) name in your language. Thomas, Alessandro, Alfredo, Rene, Elizabeth, Clara, Helen, ... then in 20 years time it will be unusual and exotic ;)
On this point: What they've uncovered here looks to me kinda like a jousting field [0]. The raised line in the center separates the running area of the two opponents' horses, though some of them are too far off-center and the hump next to the line would be a bit of a mystery.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jousting
It's still around but I imagine it is experiencing a bunch of competitors biting chunks out of it.

A lot more people can script now, so open source packages of computer algebra systems (Sage, numpy, scipy etc.) Probably take a small bite.

And then you have closed source ones to consider like Matlab.

The second largest chunk probably being bitten out of it is its web and app competitors (desmos, symbolab, etc.) Alexa rankings show that these see a lot more traffic and engagement (2 - 3 times).

Finally, a small portion of its functionality is now covered by search engines. I imagine they'll continue to gobble things up. There are also a few good Web tools, I used one for a linear algebra course I found a lot better than the freeware version of WolframAlpha that came with my Raspberry Pi.

I can't find any reports on its revenue or net income. I would be super curious who uses it. Maybe it's growing... who knows? I also remember it being recommended a lot in the early 2010s.
The sandwich example was brilliant! I never expected that to be possible (the example of packing smaller circles in a larger one in another comment is also brilliant but less useful for me today I think.)
My favorite is probably this 8 bit card made to attach a vga monitor to the S-100 bus: http://www.s100computers.com/My%20System%20Pages/VGA%20Board...

There is also a 16 bit version: http://www.s100computers.com/My%20System%20Pages/VGA_16_Boar...
> And yes, slaves could be freed but that was also true in the American slave era. Just because something is possible doesn't mean it's accessible, particularly by the slave themselves. Also, freedmen in Rome had less rights than citizens.

In the US slaves were used as collateral for loans. In a way slaves weren't owned by plantation owners, they were owned by the banks. That if anything explains some of the pernicious aspects of US slavery. Also likely the US banking system. And the mistreatment of blacks after the civil war.
No.

Here's a good resource if you want to read up on how class works in the US: https://siderea.livejournal.com/1260265.html
I posted a comparison to UC Berkeley's new proposed dorm. TLDR; this is cheaper per sq ft by $360.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29132614
Very nice article, I am passing the link on to non-tech friends and family.

For more details I like "The Age of Surveillance Capitalism: The Fight for a Human Future at the New Frontier of Power" by Shoshana Zuboff and also "Privacy is Power: Why and How You Should Take Back Control of Your Data" by Carissa Veliz.
Your experience in flying between NYC and Boston on a Friday afternoon/evening flight must be really different from mine. I’ve spent hours in one or the other airport at times waiting for god knows what “equipment” to become available.

The other side of the coin is that I find I can get a lot of work (or book reading, or movie watching) done with a beer in my hand on the train.

Obviously different people have different preferences, but I wonder sometimes if our preconceived preferences affect our perception of the real events we’ve experienced - that includes my own to be sure.
the beds look almost identical to a 'charpoy' you would see anywhere in the modern day Punjab in south asia

"The webbed bases of the beds were made of ropes, the imprints of which are partially discernible in the cinerite,"

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charpai
> They're not convenient because they're not standard and require ~~qmake~~moc. A regular function with a regular event loop is convenient. But Qt doesn't let you poke around its event loop without using signals and slots.

Like I said, you don't have to use moc, there are alternatives. Also, Qt has supported "regular functions" for many years, since you can use connect() with function pointers, PTMFs, lambdas etc.

The only difference between a "regular function" and a slot: method is that the latter has some extra RTTI data which allows it to be safely called from dynamic bindings. Another use-case is old-style (Qt 4) connect where you pass the slot name as a string and connect() has to look-up the method pointer at runtime (and also checks parameter types etc.). That's a rare sight, though.

> iostreams are just as easy as qt and without the bloat needed for it.

iostreams is an atrocious API and bloaty on top. Easily the worst library in the C++ standard (in no small part due to its sheer age, being one of the oldest parts of the language).
> In SFBA the Caltrain stations are totally deserted

Whilst some are, there are also a lot that are right next to "downtown areas" with restaurants/bars/coffeeshops. Sunnyvale, Mt View, Palo Alto, Redwood City for examples.

Are you thinking just of the San Francisco terminus or the current "pre-Google development" San Jose Diridon terminus?