skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> Traffic sucks because the local government has bet the future on light rail.

In a place with consistent high population growth like Portland, induced demand would create congestion on 2, 3, 5, or even 10 lanes of road.

Investing in modes of transport where each person requires less space is the only way to have both population growth and not look like Houston or Dallas or Atlanta.
Also worth mentioning the Hardware Book, which if memory serves dates back to before 2000. http://www.hardwarebook.info/
You can fix Teslas in third party shops.
> But that's different. Ads in real life are passive. They are part of the environment like the color of the house.

So let's say that the "color of my house" is obscene and disturbing imagery designed specifically to elicit an emotional response in viewers for the sake of making them feel bad. Point still stands; you don't have to actively get in someone's way to be a nuisance that's detrimental to the quality of life and leaves people worse off than without it.

It's also worth mentioning that advertisement overwhelmingly refers to its targets in second person exactly to create the subtle illusion of addressing you specifically. To some small degree our brains probably don't recognize the difference.

> And the vast majority of people will never ever check that to find relevant things to them.

If I'm not actively looking for things that will improve my life, perhaps I am already content with my situation, and the things in question actually aren't that relevant to me.
Or immediately buy something else with those bitcoins, or immediately invest in something else, do both while keeping some for savings etc

Some people will never get it
I'm sorry but what's the point here? Rich's talk was not even remotely aimed at HTMX yet this article is nothing but a shameless list of HTMX features.
I literally just downloaded a Python program that didn't run because I had the wrong version

In Rust, when you compile an earlier edition with the newer compiler it actually works
Bit off topic but there's something I never got quite right in american linguo: do they say people do 9am - 5pm workdays ? Cause in France where I worked 3 years and Hong Kong 7, it's more 8:30-7. Someone leaving at 5 is almost reason for a riot in a team in both countries, how is it so common in the US?
> If fusion power is forever more expensive than solar+storage is there any point to it?

Yes, because fusion has the potential of harnessing much more power in a relatively small power plant. Even if it's more expensive, it's TWs you wouldn't otherwise get.
Did he? The services model as a large-ish revenue stream for Apple was pushed mostly by Tim Cook IIRC. And certainly not with the first iPhone.
> I wonder if a lot of creatives have obsessive personalities that cause us to want to fiddle endlessly with something before we release it

Perhaps this is true. There can also be pain associated with shipping too early: gnarly bugs, data migrations from hell, technical debt to name a few.
> Beware that many masters programs from top schools are degree mills and the undergrads who went there know this and actively loathe them (based on their experience sharing classes with them).

Thank you for mentioning this. So many people don’t realize that masters programs can be fairly worthless even from elite schools.
Transplants complaining about how they're better drivers than native PNWers gets pretty old after a very short while. Apparently winter weather driving accidents never happen anywhere else in the country.
It’s like you completely avoided reading my comment. It has nothing to do with severity of illness it has to do with infectiousness and it’s the closest thing we have to measuring infectiousness.
How come he didn’t convert it to an ICE vehicle?
How does someone economically store tens if thousands of terabytes of data needed for the indexes of a large scale search engine?

And have the large server instances (lots of ram)?
>> how do we reach Type 1 asap

Kardashev is a measurement of energy access/use. So we build lots of new power plants. Everyone starts driving giant vehicles. That should get our energy consumption up enough for Type 1. It's an old scale that doesn't acknowledge that a very advanced civilization may decide not to use all the energy it theoretically could.
Chicago was a balmy 55 on Christmas Eve. It was in the lower to mid 40’s on Christmas Day. No white Christmas here. Just some rain.
It probably won't be well-received here (although the site made it to the HN front page once IIRC), but for sarcastic/humorous weekly summary of HN, there is n-gate: http://n-gate.com/hackernews/
Whenever anyone offers any advice on any subject at all, I find it essential to determine whether they have kids or not, because the with-kids solution set seems to be entirely different to the without-kids solution set.
a 600 horsepower engine does tends to cost that much to repair
The town tiles growing over time mechanic of Civ 4 was amazing, and made war costly even if you didn't lose cities or units.
This issue contains simple code that is claimed to be >300x faster: https://github.com/czbiohub/xicor/issues/17
it would be nice if you could link to the original paper as well. I would imagine there is some irony here, but it's impossible to tell without seeing the paper in question.
I mean, you can truthfully say "even if I knew, I wouldn't tell you".
The best games I’ve played on Oculus Quest 2 so far are:

The Room VR

Myst

Death: Unchained

Until You Fall

Tales From the Galaxy’s Edge

The third Vader Immortal (the Dojo part and not the actual game though)

The Walking Dead game is OK, but there’s too much wandering around and returning to the school bus for my taste.

Red Matter
I'd love to have a public health leadership that is trustworthy, but it would be foolish to trust them if they're not.

Feel free to point to anyone in the public health leadership who has acknowledged that things might not work as predicted or when they got it wrong.

Remember "15 days to flatten the curve?" Then there's the mask flip-flop (early on, health officials said that ordinary people didn't need masks, possibly because they were trying to avoid hoarding that might interfere with having enough for medical professionals) and they're still overstating the value of typical masks.

Along the same lines is the PHS response to the :Barrington Declaration". It wasn't "hey, what is their data and how did they arrive at their conclusions". It was "How do we discredit those people."

Maybe they were wrong, maybe they were correct, but anyone who says that they're wrong because of who they are is doing politics, not science. Moreover, arguing that they must be evil and discredited because of their conclusion is even worse.

And then there's ever popular "outdoor protests that we like are safe but the ones that we don't like will kill everyone, and that's good because those are bad people".
The fear is that there’s an analogue to Keynes’ “Markets can stay irrational longer than you can stay solvent” along the lines of “Markets can stay irrational until irreparable damage is done”.

Some will say that hasn’t ever happened yet, so it won’t happen this time, either, but typically, those will also believe “Past performance is no guarantee of future results”, so that’s no guarantee it will never happen.

In the end, this is a matter of belief.

Also, even if we get to the “desalination plants and solar/nuclear fusion saved California”, we may end up with a different California, where “big water” has the power. Some will think that’s not an outcome we should aim for.
I kid you not, I was just setting up HOMM 3 to play with my kids now. It used to be a New Years Eve tradition in my family and I think my kids are just about old enough to enjoy it with me.
FAA is actually quite good at ignoring theoretical non-problems.

This is a sample notam for what the anti-interference alert will look like.
How do those camera work at night with a peep wearing a ski mask? Or even an IR hat
The deflationary aspect of Bitcoin was a design flaw, but it's not inherent to cryptocurrencies generally. Nothing says there has to be a finite supply of coins as opposed to the supply scaling in proportion to how much the value of the currency exceeds the cost of hardware or electricity.

And even with Bitcoin itself, think about what Wall Street and governments would do with securities derivatives and Bitcoin-denominated debt instruments. The supply of Bitcoin isn't actually limited by the supply of Bitcoin.
>functional respirator
What do you use? N95?
You wrote:

> It wasnt Germans, French or Spanish though was it, it was Romanians, Polish and Bulgarians.

as if this weren’t the result of normalisation of hate against Eastern Europeans. Not that I care much, I’m not Eastern European, but I’d try not to contradict myself in the space of one and a half sentence.

> so what does that say about them?

That there isn’t any “them”. Your neighbour is your neighbour and doesn’t bear the sins of his fellow countrymen.
I prefer not to delude myself into thinking it's my city.
The point is that the hypermedia approach, which is what htmx (among other technologies, such as hotwire and unpoly) takes, can address many of the usability criticisms that Mr. Harris levels at MPAs, without abandoning the fundamental REST-ful web architecture.
It means no longer hosting your own server for sending email, but rather use eg smtp.gmail.com to send outgoing mail. It would mean allowing Gmail.com to send email from your domain via SPF, thus allowing all with a Gmail account to spoof your from domain/header.

Ed: as sibling correctly notes, "smart hosting" specifically referes to setting your smtp server to relay via another (eg: Gmail) - eg exim or postfix allow setting a "smart host" so that rather than looking up the receiving smtp server, all mail is shunted to the smarthost to figure out.

Added: you might get good delivery to Gmail using Gmail smarthost (requiring you to have a Gmail account) - but you might need to use outlook.com as a smarthost to get good delivery to o365 accounts... Etc.
The bands seem to be 200mhz apart, which is a massive gap. If it was my decision, I wouldn’t think of any consequences. I still think this will only affect the crappiest of hardware with the crappiest of filters.
> Lithium isn't cheap and so batteries aren't.

Lithium makes up a tiny portion of the battery cost - Nickle makes up a much larger fraction of most BEV batteries, and removing the Nickle cost is most of why LFP (lithium iron phosphate) batteries are more affordable and starting to be the dominant battery in EVs.
“nice” in Unix is a way to lower the priority of a process, so that others are more likely to be scheduled.

Eg https://man7.org/linux/man-pages/man2/nice.2.html
> moral right, not legal right

Thank you, this pretty neatly covers what I would have liked to add but couldn't find words for.

I find it pleasing to approach his approach as works and displays of art. Are they explicit calls to aggressive, rebellious arms? Maybe. Is he selling out from commercializing on his art? Perhaps. I don't really care to respond directly to either of those questions here.

Mainly want to give a shoutout to his Barcode stencil, which made a really big impression on me so far (I haven't finished the Banksy book that I found it in) and that I think is pretty fitting here. Looking around on the web, it seems there are variants, but the one with the leopard is great.
If it makes you feel any better the government was reading his letters, and both parties knew their letters were being read.

Not applicable to your complaint in general though.
What Happened to the Hippie Trail?
They aren't totally secret. Other companies in the field know about and can see them. The patents are just not made as public as normal patents. So friendly companies, those with the appropriate security clearances, still benefit from the shared knowledge.

If, sitting in your garage/basement, you invent a tech covered by a secret patent then you will be getting a job offer. If you market that tech then you will probably be arrested for dealing in weapons or other heavily-controlled material. Building missile guidance systems or uranium enrichment centrifuges is not something done by home tinkerers.
Have you considered a small backup generator? If it exists I would go with one that is propane powered. Propane goes to -50° before freezing so unless you live in Alaska, you have quite some margin here.
The good news is that there wasn't much left in the article save a silly meme. Although perhaps this is worth pondering:

> We are fond of talking about the HOWL stack: Hypermedia On Whatever you'd Like. The idea is that, by returning to a (more powerful) Hypermedia Architecture, you can use whatever backend language you'd like: python, lisp, haskell, go, java, c#, whatever. Even javascript, if you like. There's no accounting for taste, after all. Since you are using hypermedia & HTML for your server interactions, you don't feel that pressure to adopt javascript on the backend that a huge javascript front end produces. You can still use javascript, of course, (perhaps in the form of alpine) but you use it in the manner it was originally intended: as a light, front end scripting language for enhancing your application. Or, if you are brave, perhaps you can try hyperscript for these needs.

> This is a world we would prefer live in: many programming language options, each with their own strengths, technical cultures and thriving communities, all able to participate in the web development world through the magic of more powerful hypermedia, rather than a monolith of SPAs-talking-to-Node-in-JSON. Diversity, after all, is our strength.
It’s the kinds of values for things like `nice(2)`: https://linux.die.net/man/2/nice

In short, an offset from the base process priority.
Look into the city of São Paulo, Brazil, before and after banning billboard ads before drawing an example from the USSR
Yes, these are all lovely examples. However, in the meantime (at least for the time being), millions of people:

* build cars
* work in retail
* construct and repair buildings
* sew mass-market clothing
* build, maintain, manage the energy supply system(s)
* plant, grow, harvest and process food
* run the machines that move people, products and materials around

It is quite possible to find meaning and purpose doing any of these things, but they are generally unlikely to offer the sense that you exist in this world to do whatever it is that you do for a living. Despite that, the people who do this sort of work play an invaluable role in how our societies work. Rather than encouraging everyone to run away from the critical work that needs to be done, I'd rather build a society in which people can feel meaning and purpose in their lives regardless of what they do for a living.
Maybe getting contracting gigs might be easier than finding perm roles?
Seems like a way for the author to get clicks.
But the 1950s had very few working women. One would imagine that, having added women to the numerator, a 60% now means society has changed a lot from a 60% then.

That is, the two 60%s tell different stories. Of course, the right way for me to see this is if housewifery rate has returned to the baseline, or if female labor participation rate is similar to what it was, or if households can be supported and are supported in the same way as the past.

My impression was that the rapid growth in labor force participation was because of women. But I have not recently tested if that is correct. M
On a whim I started listening to 1920s and 1930s music. It’s not at all my style but you know, after awhile, it’s kind of good. The feeling was very much like learning a new language.
Check out Master of Orion if you haven't already.

I think it came out before LOM, but very similar, made by the same team etc. The difference it is sci-fi themed, but otherwise they are closely related.
If you run `brew doctor` on a brew installation with a custom prefix, you get several spurious warnings depending on what all you have installed.

It's not spam, but it is annoying if you're trying to use `brew doctor` in an automated process.
Google requires that you verify ownership of a domain before you send emails as it with Gmail.
> We recommend that HTTP server implementors, and in particular, CGI implementors support the use of ";" in place of "&" to save authors the trouble of escaping "&" characters in this manner.

Thankfully that did not happen (widespread), and now people understand they have to escape.

I do remember jsessionid being after the semi-colon..
2x just like regular ICE vs full EV.
I forget where I read it, but my understanding is that the secret patent would become public if you try to publicly patent it. I don't know if there would be any compensation for you, but I don't think you'd have to deal with patent infringement.
> You are equating guilt with acknowledging privilege, and those aren’t the same.

This is one of those fundamental misunderstandings I see when discussing things with folks of a particular political persuasion. It's the same folks that belueve we shouldn't consider outcomes when evaluating processes. There's just something different about the way they think, I guess.
> What is something that juniors are often not aware off. Something they don't know they don't know?

The key is to keep on asking this question about every project you work on. The world is made up of innumerable little complexities and the faster you reach out for guidance on each domain the better.
I've had similar messages articulated to me by my manager, and have found myself articulating similar messages to my team.

In my team, the key is for the state of the project/product we manage, cost optimization is likely one of the lowest ROI activities we can spend too much time on. That doesn't mean we don't tackle some clear low hanging fruit when we see it, or use low hanging fruit as training opportunities to onboard new team members, but that we need to be conscious on where we make investments, and for the stage we're at, the more important investment is into areas that make our product more appealing to more customers.

I think it's easy to say someone, like an intern could pay for themselves with savings. But this to me overlooks that someone has to manage that intern, get them into change management, review the work, investigate mistakes or interruptions from the changes, etc. And then they're still the lowest earning employee, since most of us aren't hired to pay for ourselves, but actually to turn a profit for the company.

So while I'm not sure I agree with the message "whereas increases in income are larger and compound better.", I certainly understand and have pushed a similar message, that we be conscious on where we're spending our time, and that we're selecting the highest impact activities based on the resources and team we have. Sometimes that may be fixing high wastage, but very frequently that will be investing into the product. And I think for the stage of the product we manage, that is the best choice for us.
I think notebooks are great for building a presentation / reports of a data exploration, but I agree that they shouldn't represent programs.

Rstudio won't export an R-markdown notebook to PDF without rerunning all cells sequentially. It's great for keeping the code "in check", but for things that takes hours to run, it can be quite annoying.

I do think most of the problems with notebooks go away if you somehow force sequential running before presenting it to other people.

Another really cool take on notebooks are Julia's Pluto Notebooks. Like a spreadsheet, there is no sequence that cells are run in. Everything is updated simultaneously. It's kinda hard to explain, but the JuliacCn presentation on these is absolutely wonderful: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IAF8DjrQSSk
The point is that Rich suggested that SPAs are the only way to solve these problems, and that MPAs can’t. This is a rebuttal from HTMX suggesting that MPAs can in fact solve these problems.
> In actual shortages where there's a strong political motivation to efficiently distribute goods (e.g. wartime), we switch to central planning (i.e. rations) because we know that's what works,

There's a big difference between war and peace. Markets allow individuals, who do not necessarily have winning a war as their number one objective, to pursue their own objectives with their own demands, as communicated by prices.

In war, there is a political motivation to override individual objectives and force everyone to serve the needs of the war effort above all, even if they don't particularly want to.

Central planning isn't used in war because it's the most efficient way for every individual to achieve their own objectives, it's the opposite - central planning is the most efficient way to erase individual objectives in favor of a single overriding objective: winning the war.

This isn't an argument in favor of price gouging, my point is that full-on central planning isn't a means to general prosperity, and that's not even why everyone centrally plans during war. Central planning is about control and the erasure of individual freedom. Sometimes that's needed in a war. Inefficiently pursuing one objective (the war) is more effective at winning a war than efficiently pursuing a whole range of objectives, most of which have nothing to do with war.

The old socialist arguments about central planning being more efficient even during peacetime have been dead and buried for decades.
original: https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0125830.s001

corrected: https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0125830.s002

source of the links: the section above "Reference" in https://journals.plos.org/plosone/article?id=10.1371/journal...
I did the math a while ago and figured California would need a desal plant on every couple miles of coastline to meet its total water needs, including ag, assuming no other water sources. Something else has to give even with the current rain and snow levels.

And I fear as a central Oregonian that we're going to have our own water problems. Planning to ship our water to California is a political third rail here, just like in the Owens River Valley.
Linear algebra (both for vector spaces and Hilbert spaces) is not really specific to quantum physics. What's specific to quantum physics is complex valued spaces, as opposed to ordinary statistics which works with real valued states.

And Von Neumann entropy is Shannon entropy, as applied to quantum states.
In my opinion this is required reading: https://wetmachine.com/tales-of-the-sausage-factory/what-the...
The life of a parent is full of inconveniences for the good of your children.
Software is like water. It fills up whatever medium provided.

The easiest way find and learn big tech is to work for a big-ish tech company with a big problem to solve.
My gripe with Stack Overflow is that TypeScript and JavaScript is now what is conflated by question askers.
Multiply it times a billion. One Banksy is tolerable, a million people graffiting their opinions everywhere would be truly awful. Therefore what Banksy is doing is immoral.
Show HN: Advent of Code 2021 in Google Sheets
I thought it would be a fun challenge to do Advent of Code without actually writing any code!

I imposed a rule of no Apps Script (cell formulas only).

Fair warning: some of the linked spreadsheets are very large, and may make your browser very unhappy.
I don't mean to belittle anyone, but libraries like htmx are rather primitive compared to tools like svelte. What makes them see themselves so important?
Samsung has started spamming people with mobile notifications that are ads.

The goal of the system is to mediate every interaction with digital technology and then leverage that mediation to become an ad delivery platform.

Fight it.