skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The tracks between Toronto and Montreal are owned by CN and freight has priority over VIA. VIA trains are often delayed having to wait for freight trains to clear and can only be scheduled for times and speed that do not interfere with freight.

It takes 3 days to travel the 4500 km of rail from Toronto to Vancouver because the first 1500 km are through muskeg and around lakes where building straight, flat, protected 200 km/h high-speed tracks is just not an attainable option. Even if you managed 200 km/h the entire way, it's still 2 days travelling.

Planes travel about 800 km/h and can go in a relatively straight line without fear of a moose or a washout. It's 5 hours Toronto to Vancouver and 4.5 hours the other way because of tail winds.
Fantastic! I love the creativity that went into this.
I think there's a difference been taxing, and banning. Surely you should still take a plane in this case, and 99% of folks still will, no?
It is mostly just repurposing older stuff in my opinion to make it sound cooler and make it the new fad. You know what the biggest no code tool is ? WordPress. Tell me why it is different than the shiny new no code tools.
That's ... what they did. They say so in the article. They swapped the CPU on a revised board.
Apple Services aren't the same as their hardware.
Concept is fine, but I can't imagine this surviving Denver winters.
Presume all inputs are hostile.

Whether people or processes, something is likely to introduce the character at some point.
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There's a second version of the unhappy path, as well: you're trying to use the tool for what it's good for, but there's a bug that makes your particular use case unnecessarily difficult. At worst, what happens is you silently either get bad results or lose data. At best, you either don't use the tool for that purpose until the bug is fixed, or, you implement some silly workaround. All in all, this can be a rather disempowering situation for a non-technical user, which is the exact opposite of what "no code" promises.

TL;DR: "no code" is just somebody else's code. You're introducing a massive external dependency you have little control over by using a "no code" solution.
That's not true unfortunately, batteries are too heavy to make bigger planes workable right now. We need denser batteries and more powerful electric motors, and there are companies working on both those problems, but they aren't solved yet.

Look at the specific energy of jet fuel compared to batteries on this page: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Energy_density
Well in this case, it's more that svelte is the least of all evils when it comes to this. React and Vue have way more boilerplate and React in particular has the most framework-specific stuff of them all. Svelte is much closer to pure html/css, or so I'm told.
The standard library should be a good starting point.
didn't some grad students at mit wrap the intan adc/amplifier with an fpga and open source board design like 10 years ago? i think the component prices came in under $200.

dunno about signal or clock quality though. (i suppose that's a function of the intan package)
Remember to add time waiting for luggage. In Frankfurt today, it took 45 minutes from touch down until luggage arrived.
we started building this one August 2020 but honestly just had a lot of fun working on the design and UX! Conveying your feedback to him now!
Houston is imfamous for not having zoning. That's how you get an industrial plant next to a school next to a mall next to housing next to a cattle feed lot.
This comment is the key isn't it?

If someone tells you there's an election in some province of a country that you know nothing about, and they tell you there were two candidates A and B, and they tell you that candidate A received 17,652 votes, do you not need to know the total number of votes cast in order to assess the election results? I always thought you did.
What is holding companies back from using recycled plastics?
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I'll have a Blue... Christmas... without you...
Darn, it seems like they are not something a regular consumer can just buy and use. Guessing something that good wouldn't be appropriate for consumer environments. :/
For example, clicking on a news article from the "News and Interests" panel force-open in Microsoft Edge while there is absolutely no valid reason why it shouldn't use the default web browser.

This is frustrating, and I'll simply turn off the panel instead of using it.
Jon Purizhansky and his black swan named Joblio
Thanks for posting these. I did see these threads before posting this Ask HN. However in most of those threads there wasn't much discussion at all.

I'm finding the comments in the current thread quite enriching to be honest.
There’s a kernel of a good idea there, particularly for cargo. I’ve had similar thoughts.
> Frontend developers like to change frameworks every week it seems like

This sentiment is so old and played out.
Front end engineer, here. Not very experienced, less than 10 years exp.

Dumb question - why do we still need compilers like Babel and SWC to compile our es6 (excluding TS) to...whatever version of js the compiler is targeting? Are browsers still so out of sync with each other that we still need to compile to es5? If yes, wouldn't it be more worthwhile for the front end community, including TC39 and every major browser engine developer (google, apple, mozilla, etc), to focus on the base implementation (engine) so they are no longer so out of sync? The most popular browser are based on open source engines anyway.

Don't get me wrong, I am sure there is a good reason for all this rust tooling - faster compilation does not hurt, but it seems inefficient to have an intermediate compiler (Babel / swc/ TS/ etc) that creates deployable code that will eventually be interpreted by the user's JS engine (V8 / webkit / gecko) anyway.

A standardized engine seems the way to go and it seems like we are going in that direction with only a handful of JS engines in use today.
What about in less than two years? Republicans could control both the Senate and the House then.

This could have legs in the future, if it becomes part of the Republican platform (I.e. McConnell and that Kevin dude whip for it).
Pinterest is not legally liable for the copyright infringement, but they're still facilitating it and making a ton of money off of it. It doesn't make it any more right.

You're right it's only "possibly" infringement - there are cases where it wouldn't be (fair use) but the default is that generally speaking, it is, and I would be surprised if more than half the content on pinterest was there legally and with consent of the copyright owner.
A couple of years ago, there was someone who went from somewhere in south England to London by of Berlin because that was cheaper than taking a train directly to London. Took way longer, but planes are somehow ridiculously cheap.

We should stop subsidizing fossil fuels, and start taxing them by how much they pollute.
In India, you will find all kinds of homemade vehicles on the streets and similar ingenious use of existing materials, although it seems to be mostly applied toward providing a service or making street food (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2rnG91loNzk).
Sw which converts -- and __ on the fly. Same sw converts quote pairs "for your convenience"
The way things are going, will there be a human future we actually want anyway? I'm seriously, 100%, with all my heart, believing we are going to live in a dystopian world in 20 years.
one had the knowledge, the other had the vision
Are posts by YC companies handled by an API that submits at around 7am PST?
I added Planet Mars to Outer Space Shack, a realistic space base building game
I don't think so because there's rarely a drop in replacement unless you designed your board ahead of time for multiple options (of course exceptions exist, there's drop in replacements for many devices including the esp8266 I mention below).

But for example, an ESP8266 hasn't really lost much value in the past few years, and is unlikely to lose significant value if it sat on a shelf for another few years, so they don't mind a bit of an overstock.

Meanwhile the current year car model will lose a ton of it's value when the next model comes out so they don't want to risk over-stocking it.
Probably an unpopular opinion, but I've followed Balaji for a couple years and haven't derived much value.

He's very good at writing Tweets and spinning narratives that are popular among his followers, but his writings have this grandiose nebulosity that makes them feel like deep, intellectual writings while simultaneously not really delivering much of substance. Or the concepts are so high-level or only addressing something so far off in the future that there's little room for practical conversation.

For example, from one of your linked Tweet threads:

> The pseudonymous economy is preferable to ritualistic announcements of immutable characteristics.

Okay but why? That video (while I disagree with their decisions) wasn't the "woke" crisis that everyone thought, but rather a ham-fisted attempt to include more narration for the benefit of audio-only listeners. The execution was dumb, but it's more of a fumble than a harbinger of some epic societal shift that Twitter users like to use as a springboard for pseudo-intellectual rants.
So as long as it's street racing, drifting through intersections, breaking 100mph in crowded downtowns, and revving your engine loudly in order to menace pedestrians without ever hitting them, then it's fine?

For real: what other product is regularly portrayed in advertisements being used in such criminally reckless ways?
I certainly hope not. Can you imagine how loud it would be hearing a few thousand of those things buzzing overhead?
Users shouldn't be "transitioned" to a closed-source app store full stop, no matter how nice it would be for Canonical metrics. Only specifically typing `snap install` should work.

If they don't want to continue making auditable builds for this package then that's fine, but they should also stop knowingly making these disguised Snap installation packages which just leverage the package's popularity to increase Snap usage.
IME == Input method editor?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Input_method
This is very overdramatic and isn't actually based on reality. Svelte is far closer to vanilla JS/HTML than any other framework, while also using extremely similar patterns from the other modern frameworks. Yeah, it has some sugar, but it's not just some templating system any more than React is just some templating system, and the only "unique syntax" you could be referring to is the auto-subscription to stores using $, which is super convenient.

You're acting incredibly disinformative, and have no legitimate basis for your assertions.
Also AppImage. I hate them all. It's just lazy developers who won't package their software for each distro. In fairness I get it - that's a lot of CD pipelines. But it really is a second rate experience for the user, compared to a properly packaged app in a repo, which you can install or update with a single command, and which properly integrates with the desktop and doesn't create a bazillion weird mounts.
Exactly. My former employer had repeated battles with the EPA over his supposed refusal to improve emissions. Never mind that we had already done everything technologically feasible, they only saw the pattern of improvement and then stopping. And they kept comparing us to a competitor that we kept telling them had to be faking the numbers. Took them 10 years to figure out we were right--and we spent more on compliance than their penalty when their non-compliance was finally discovered.

Other than mixing our own colors everything involved was available at the local hardware store. We were simply staining wood, the issue was the solvent evaporating while drying.
Personally I have mixed feeling about this.

I guess I'm not a fan of seeing investors money expand it's control over the open source ecosystem. I like open source because it empower the little guys. But I don't expect others to share my values and perspective and perhaps Rich Harris turns out to be a robinhood. Why not doing something like the creator of Vue? With that said I look forward to see what comes out of their shop. Good luck :)
> they don't have the savings to work on it for 6-12 months

A founder* is a hacker that never uses excuses.

Virtually any single person in the US can find a way to work for a year with low expenses, if they accept compromises. Appropriately enough for this thread, perhaps even by offering a very small percentage of equity to a friend to board.

Edit: How many founders have divorces, neglected children and ignored parents? How many founders avoid a relationship? Not a requirement to neglect family, since a successful founder is likely to be skilled at finding good compromises in business, and likely to use the same skill making reasonable compromises with their family life.

* think foresight combined with bricolage, jugaad, engineering compromise, ‘rubber band, bailing wire and bubblegum’ solutions. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29164495
My favorite feature of Sveltekit is probably the server-side endpoints. It's so easy to create an API using them.
No-code is definitely useful today for certain specific use cases, especially to create apps that collect data, store it in a database, and report to the client the results of some analysis of that data.
It is quite frustrating. I'm a medical device hardware engineer, so our quantities are in the low 1000s per year for our highest-running SKUs. Just today had to deal with a panicked contract manufacturer who was going to bring our line down for an oscillator and a capacitor that they were shorted. Distributors will tell you they're sending a reel of 1000 parts or whatever, but you open the box and they just threw in 30.

Every other week it's another *drop your NPD responsibilities and come up with a solution to this shortage so we don't stop our assembly lines* which is quite frustrating to keeping "on schedule" and "in a flow state"... If it's not in *your* warehouse or allocated to you in *your* contract manufacturer's warehouse, it doesn't exist.
The issue is that many of us know there are ways to make our civilization more sustainable, but the incentives are often to maintain the status quo. Something needs to shake or break loose.
Can someone please explain who this is and what this site is about? I poked around a bit but couldn’t make sense of it
I don't think the particular metaverses available right now seem that good, but I don't share the consistent prejudices against virtual reality. Why is real reality any better? You can build awesome stuff in virtual reality as well (in fact, you can build almost anything imaginable, at a much lower cost).

Keeping in touch with reality is extremely important (because we are bound by its rules after all), but virtual existence has enormous potential as well :)

(that can't be realized, and certainly not realized for everyone, in the world of atoms -- virtual reality is delightfully egalitarian)

Value the bits and atoms!
I've read they're working on a 16gb capable nxp soc. That'd be more useable.
How to make your own game engine (and why)
Sometime after 2010 all university fpga research up to that point was given up on or erased/forgotten.

There was a lot of exciting stuff being worked on 2007-2010 in that field.
Fast Flux Test Facility – Closing the Cycle
Have you read Desert?

https://theanarchistlibrary.org/library/anonymous-desert
How much did that url cost?
I think if you live in a rich western country you're going to be mostly ok in 20 years. But yeah, a lot of places around the world won't be.
5 Tips To Come Out Of Couple Crisis And Save Your Marriage: https://www.hackerslist.co/5-tips-to-come-out-of-couple-cris...
> - The Boring Company is quietly working on fast tunneling. This doesn't get nearly enough press, but it's the last very important ingredient. Not for the whole way, but to solve congestion in and around cities.

Tunnels already exist around most cities in the EU, it's nothing new. The ground is already swiss cheese from 20+ rail/metro/tunnels there, a small tunnel isn't going to help in any way.
Recently I've used ReScript + esbuild for a completely webpack-free experience with just a small node_modules folder
The syntax feels more unusual than some others but it isnt so bad once you use it.

It still baffles me when i try to understand parts of it in isolation. As with all things it normalizes with exposure.
I just launched a non-profit, part of is it high quality air quality monitoring for Gary, IN. I'm looking to install it at/near the nearest residential area near USS Gary Works.

I've only been able to afford a 3 month rental of AQMesh's sensor, hopefully it'll trigger enough interest to get a few of these bad boys around Gary/Chicagoland.

If you drive past 80/94 or 90, there's a real rotten egg smell, or Hydrogen Sulfide. It's been known for a long, and is a common complaint in NWI https://web.archive.org/web/20210204024942/https://www.wbez....

When the sensor is up and running, I'll be adding the data to the air quality site I run https://millerbeach.community
I wonder how the viral load classes therein correspond to the asymptoatic to symptomatic spectrum
> i have avoided it for a long time because of the inconsistent syntax i have seen in the wild.

What do you mean?
I don't think the 14h is correct either. I've done that journey a couple of times and I'm sure it wasn't that long.
It's mostly an internet forum that had a lot of subforums for different topics (TV, anime, drugs, etc.). Lowtax was the guy that started the forums. The forums also splintered into other projects made by other people, most famously 4chan
This is so true. K-street mostly writes bills and then invites staffers over for reviews before they hand them off with the check on the side to the reps who vote on them without ever actually reading them. Those staffers are often plied to do the bidding of k- or whatever letter street, with stuff like offers of a job later. (See Jack Abramoff's talks) Such a bullshit state of affairs.

Our representatives don't represent us at all. We live in an oligarchy.
Thanks for the support. I really don't think most people realize the power of ebikes. You used to need at least a 50cc engine to get to these speeds, and they were relatively big/heavy vehicles (dirt bikes, Vespas, etc.) and always loud. Not any more. Your bike can look like a regular road bike and easily hit 45mph with a kit from Amazon or eBay.

I know because I've done it.

And it scared me so much, I had both myself and my 19yo son go take a motorcycle course this summer to get our M1s before we ended up wrapped around a tree or under a truck.
would be nice to have a HackerRank style set of problem sets for that wouldn't it?
I've been working in the development space since 2015 and recently joined fast-growth no-code startup (https://welovenocode.com). We just raised $1M and achived $150K MRR. Happy to share my opinion based on my experience of leading "code" and "no code" startup.

No-code is basically the art of creating solutions (native apps, websites, web apps), which could have been written with code but instead using visual methods (without coding). Most no-code tools use a visual drag-and-drop interface. A lot of them have pre-built templates that you can customize. There is also a slight difference between "low-code" and "no code".

With "low code" a lot of things can be done with a drag-and-drop interface, however, some coding is required to for a finished product. So you ANYWAY need some background in coding. This is typically great for people with intermediate technical skill.

What can be built with no-code?

Mobile apps, web apps, websites, workflow and automations, marketing tools, payment systems, and the list goes on. Basically, "typical" products & MVPs benefit the most from no code. So founder can built something in weeks, really fast. For example, WeLoveNoCode (https://welovenocode.com) connects founders with the best no-code developers to build their software and apps without a single line of code in like 10 days. All that is based on a monthly subscription.

Why all the hype?

Well, ho code has A LOT of the advantages:

- will save you money

- You can build and test your ideas quickly

- Anyone can use it > Designers, product managers, marketing managers now have the ability to make their ideas tangible products.

What are the challenges you may face?

Just like new thing, tools have to be learnt and they all have their learning curves. However, it will take you much less time and resources learning how to use no-code tools. Unlike low-code tools, no-code tools have a limit to how much they can be customised. If you want to change every aspect of your product or want to build very complex products, no-code tools may bring some limitation. However, there’s so much innovation and growth with these tools so I expect these barriers to reduces in a few months.

I should add that there’s no limitation with scalability. No-code tools have the capacity for serve increase to allow as many users as possible without breaking. These tools are also very secured.
Not always at the cost of the users?

If dceddia is able to add features and fixes more quickly, that's good for users too.

And if Svelte on the desktop becomes popular, people will likely come up with more efficient options. For example, a more efficient Electron or something like "Svelte Native", which could be a good thing.

I'd love if all software were more efficient, but getting up to speed on a new platform has a huge opportunity cost too.
The bigger the BOM, the higher the probability something is not available, blocking the product from being fully manufactured.

Cars have bigger BOMs than IoT devices.

Given the long lead times, tech companies are scrambling to use alternative chips: first finding something functionally equivalent and pin compatible; that failing, qualifying something close enough and redesigning PCBs with an updated component footprint; last case scenario, porting FW to a different chip and redesigning circuits to accommodate.

Traditional car companies largely rely on suppliers to redesign electronics (at even greater cost and lead time). There's also more liability with cars so last minute redesigns have to be taken very seriously.
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I'm pretty sure they're suggesting doing it all in hardware, not more clever software
That's impressive. Here someone created a slab of glass that turns the caustics into a picture of his cat: https://mattferraro.dev/posts/caustics-engineering

(discovered via: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29063617 )
Living in the area at the height of the protests, so I can fill in.

Some of the reasons: many people (including experts) argued that the project could have been done for half the price with almost the same effect by upgrading the existing station above ground instead of building an entirely new underground station, for example. Costs kept increasing – nothing new for big public infra projects, of course. But when a multi-billion euro project slowly triples its budget, people start asking questions.

That way it also took away funding from other smaller necessary projects. One should consider here that DB (railway operator) has been shutting down smaller, rural lines for decades making it harder and harder to rely on them, when you don't live on the main intercity network.

There were ecological concerns about the planned changes to Stuttgart's inner city layout and how it affects the already bad micro climate.

Plus there was a general sense of the project being pushed through by stubborn DB officials and state government as a kind of vanity project despite the aforementioned concerns. They acted completely tone-deaf to the protests and in one instance used excessive police force to crush a peaceful assembly. Just altogether bad topics, which did not make the project more popular.