skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
At some point even if your train is infinitely fast, you can't get above a certain average speed, dependent on the distance between stations.

Fun fact: technically the boring large Pacific Surfliner trains could be "high speed rail" since they could get to 120 MPH through Camp Pendleton if the line had PTC and was signaled correctly. As it is hits 80-90 through there, but it soon has to slow down for a stop.

To do high-speed rail right you basically need four tracks - a slower local service that stops at every stop, and a faster high-speed express service that only stops rarely.
org-roam file names are configurable (see org-roam-template slug formation), by default are ctime timestamp followed by note title stripped of eventual special char/spaces. Beside that personally when I need more than just direct heading search&narrow and org-ql is overkill a simple counsel-rg (or consult, helm etc depending on your taste) works very well so I'm feeling exactly no need to access notes via filesystem.

Actually using org-attach and linking I essentially chased to use the classic filesystem + file manager for almost all my in-home activities, everything is accessed via org-roam-node-find and works beautifully well.
Okay I understand your point.

I think you're technically right, but what you're implying is not. States following all kinds of economic systems work well together. For example, Venezuela works well with Russia and China, and is a fully socialist state.

And while you are right about capitalist states benefiting from the cheap labor of totalitarian states, capitalist states benefit even more from the capital skilled work forces from other capitalist states.
Is universal access to IPv6 from IPv4 connections turned on now?
When I worked as a patent examiner, it seemed to me that the bottleneck in searching is usually the searcher, not the specific search technology. Many technical people (for example, HN folks) tend to severely overestimate their own search ability. I certainly did.

With the right search query, one can frequently find exactly what they are looking for very quickly. In some sense having a dumber search engine than Google is advantageous here as you won't become dependent on the "magic" of the search engine and will have to craft a good search strategy.

The most valuable technical feature of the internal search tools (PE2E Search or EAST) was speed, not anything fancy. I imagine this was the motivation: If the results can't easily be ranked (and they couldn't in my experience), make handling a ton of results as easy as possible. That's what the USPTO did.

You could "flip" through documents quickly using only the keyboard, and if what you were looking for was easily visible in a drawing then this usually was the best approach. For text they had a good way to show what you were looking for in context. I'd love to see a similar setup for web search but I don't think it would appeal to most, so it probably won't happen.

AI/ML based search tools were interesting but usually not helpful. I'd always try at least some of them. I think the main limitation for these in my technology area (mostly water heaters and ventilation) was that they didn't look at the drawings at all, just the text and citations. That's missing a lot. (When they were helpful they did save a lot of time.)
There is nothing brave or heretic about holding those views in Silicon Valley. SV skews quite left even though most people's actions don't match words. You'll find a high degree of acceptance of these views at all levels in SV including tech CEOs who worship at the altar of pseudo-socialism.

Sometimes, you will get nuanced pushback (since these are very old ideas), but I've never seen a person cancelled in SV for holding the suburban socialist/communist ideologies that you listed. You are more in danger if being labelled alt-right if you argue against these things.
SimpleNote from Automattic is simple, markdown based, local and cloud synced. It doesn’t get too many updates because it’s pretty feature complete for what it does.
I have a cat who will deliberately create a diversion so that she can steal my chair. I know when she’s doing it, but I go along anyway because it’s fun. The first time I saw her do this, it involved pushing the lift button on the motorized standing desk. I stood up, she jumped into my seat. She does similar tricks with other chairs around the house.
The ultimate heresy for SV culture is genuinely attempting to address even the possibility that the world is worse off because of their existence.

Of course any answer to that question has a lot of nuance to unpack. But SV culture I don’t think would even accept the premise that this question has valid answers on both sides.
The word "profit" has turned into a pejorative in the modern lexicon for some reason, but don't think it's unreasonable that such services should be self sufficient
> (it doesn't mean that they are either

Then we should start with the assumption that they're not, right? I'm guessing that starting out by assuming the worst in others is one thing that contributes to the current polarization in US politics.

> Please, protect yourself from the backlash from these "seemingly reasonable" people.

What specifically do you advise that I do here? I don't want to just ignore challenges to the idea that accessibility should be a requirement. If I pay attention to these people and put in the effort to understand why they think as they do, then I can become a more effective advocate, or possibly even revise my position. Yes, the latter may lead me to question whether I should even exist, but it seems to me that a healthy mind should be able to dispassionately contemplate hypotheticals that even threaten oneself.
I’m pretty jacked into Twitter, but there’s still a higher order bit that seems to be related to people reacting to things like this with broad, sweeping outrage. A lot of people on Twitter either just roll their eyes or think this is funny at least in terms of meta trolling skill. I think a lot of people are very unwell.
> What is the liklihood of the child being confused, mistaken, or later changing their mind?

Definitely not 100%, but regardless of that: definitely not something I, a neutral part, can answer, let alone groups with an anti-trans/anti-LGBT agenda. This is a case-by-case thing to be decided by professionals.
The main article cited here [1] just runs a climate model assuming that a nuclear war would put 150 Tg of soot into the stratosphere. Where did this assumption come from? From here:

"Turco et al. [1990] give a range of 20– 290 Tg of smoke injection over the Northern Hemisphere, and our 150 Tg case is just in the middle of this range."

In case terra-grams is not your favorite unit of mass, you can mentally exchange it for MT = mega tons. The Pinatubo eruption for comparison put 20 Mt of soot in the stratosphere. As far as weather or climate are concerned, it went basically unnoticed.

What else put a lot of soot in the atmosphere? Saddam after Gulf War 1. Not much happened then either. So much of a non-event it was, that Carl Sagan (one of the co-authors of the aforementioned 1990 Turco paper) conceded that their nuclear winter prediction was wrong [2]

"It was pitch black at noon and temperatures dropped 4–6° C over the Persian Gulf, but not much smoke reached stratospheric altitudes and Asia was spared."

[1] http://climate.envsci.rutgers.edu/pdf/RobockNW2006JD008235.p...

[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nuclear_winter#Kuwait_wells_in...
I'd love to see more of this!
So why did Russia then invade and annex Ukrainian territory? What does any of this have to do with that?
> Nobody is debating what it means to be black, jewish or muslim. People's attitudes to people who are those things vary, but for the most part everybody is in agreement about which people are black, which people are Jewish, etc.

If this is the case, it’s only the case in the most vanishingly contemporary moment of ours. Both the Holocaust and the American system of chattel slavery were fundamentally predicated on questions of identity (“one drop”). Both moments also fundamentally shifted how and when people consider themselves Black or Jewish, because they are aware that others might consider them so for the purposes of persecution.
It doesn’t seem reasonable to me for people to get offended if I use the pronouns that best match the gender presentation I see. This is what English speakers have been doing since there have been English speakers.

But there are people out there that tell me it is bothersome. Out of respect, I modify how I speak and write. Why shouldn’t I get the same courtesy?
This is the thing - everybody thinks the heresies they are opposed to are also false. Many of which are based purely on ideology.
Nobody is appeasing anyone. They are trying to keep the lights on while everyone scrambles to find other sources of energy. These are the largest sanctions ever, already, oil and gas are on track to be included within six months, they have been impounding yachts left and right, delivering offensive weapons on previously unknown scales, etc.
I prefer an explicit pass.
The compiler is asking the developer to state his intent.

The fact that some programming languages are overly pedantic is part of their design.
> You would essentially have to be a robot to make this statement without purposefully implying that women are less capable of running a Fortune 500 company.

It depends on context. You and I are not robots, so we see an individual sentence by itself and add context. But this isn't good.

What if the follow is "And that needs to change. Which is why I'm proud to announce our first scholarship program for female entrepreneurs!" Do you still think the statement is sexist? Do you think the person making the statement is sexist?
The literal quote is about the “x-ism” of the statement, not its veracity. He goes on to extrapolate about truth later.
Take this statement: "all trans people are misgendering themselves and _should_ conform to the gender assigned to them based on the sexual organs they had at birth".

This effectively denies the existence of people who believe or desire to be their non-assigned gender. The statement tells trans people that in the eyes of the speaker, their personal identity is a fabrication.
For replies to my own comments, I use the "threads" link.

I use https://f5bot.com/ to get an email when one of my projects is mentioned here.

For tracking threads where I want to see every comment, I wrote a little tool called hacker-news-to-sqlite which I can run against a thread ID to populate a SQLite database with all of the replies. Then I can sort by created date descending to see the most recent at the top: https://datasette.io/tools/hacker-news-to-sqlite
> Is that “heresy”?

Depends on whether you get put to the stake for this socially unacceptable thing.

At some point it was socially unacceptable/heresy for a woman to float when thrown in a pond.
The behavior he's calling "heresy" here cannot be evaluated in a vacuum; these kinds of statements are all contextual, ESPECIALLY hinging on who is saying them. And the reason that is the case is because the consequences of saying something are different depending on who says them.

Paul Graham is wealthy and influential, and actively tries to influence folks with essays like this. So when he says something, it is judged in a harsher light because those words have a much stronger effect than if, say, some L2 software engineer on Twitter said them. If PG says something that _could_ be interpreted as racist, it threatens to normalize believing that in the minds of the people who follow him. If L2 says something that is on the fence, at worst some of their immediate friends will pile on to them about how uncool that was (barring the rare occasions of people going viral for bad takes, which is an outlier).

I think that's reasonable social policing to keep our discourse healthy. Having that influence over people demands a price in return. If PG wanted to stop getting pushback for approaching what society thinks is an acceptable line, he totally can, he just needs to rebrand and get out of the startup game.
The complete lack of examples means that essay doesn't work very well now, and I doubt it would work any better in the future. It's an extreme form of watering down your complaints via overgeneralization, to the point where it's very difficult to "read between the lines."

All that's left is a bunch of bare, generic assertions. It would be very difficult to convert them into falsifiable statements.
Ha, I went and researched this too, thinking I'd post the same basic comment. Should have read a little further. In general, I think it's good practice to do like the newspapers and define an abbreviation on first usage (which in this case would be the original post).
I bet you could say those things (and other provocative things) at a dinner party with other CEOs. It is, after all, what they do at Davos: fling socialist talking points at those immensely wealthy, smiling, capitalist faces.
>> While you can get some benefits from simply practicing meditation, it can feel a bit aimless

> Isn’t that… the point of meditation?

Absolutely not! The secularization of meditation in the west has completely divorced meditation from it's original purpose (in the Buddhist context). Meditation is a complete mental training program. Monks did not just sit there on a cushion; they worked with teachers, reflected on ideas, and gained insights.

There is a mistaken view that meditation is just sitting there, but meditation is an active practice that includes eating, walking, cleaning, etc.

Being divorced from tradition is what makes it aimless and pointless.

I am not personally against secularization, but if we are going to extract ideas from these traditions, we should honor them and make them work effectively in our modern lives.
Trapped in lockdown, Shanghai residents turn to WeChat groups for food
Whataboutism would be if they were trying to justify Russian actions. They arent.
Yeah, I am sure they also upload the metadata of every PDF file you save / open in Acrobat (I am sure Apple Books also does this) and I just find the whole Apple iDevice ecosystem irritatingly intrusive as hell for this reason - they deliberately do not have an application firewall for Wifi that would plug all such data leak.

That said, there are some use cases where Acrobat may need such permission for their "pro" version:

- Contacts: For sharing and / or collaborating on a PDF file.

- Photos / Media / Files: For editing or authoring a PDF file.

- Camera: For converting a photo of a document into a PDF file. For inserting a photo (e.g. signature) into a PDF file.

- Wi-Fi connection: For syncing / storing a PDF file into their "cloud".

But even if they do actually need these permissions, it should still work as a "Reader" / viewer without these permissions and / or demand permission only when a feature needs those permission, instead of a blanket opt-in.
Please try not to misquote people you disagree with. The GP did not say most women can't because most men can't - they said most women can't and most men can't. I.e. most women can't because most people can't, which seems uncontroversial. It's a very hard job.

Unrelated: I don't understand what you mean by a "neutral" hypothesis. The hypothesis can be made for neutral or non-neutral goals, by a neutral or non-neutral person, but that's all true of any hypothesis.
This book is designed to [curse], rather than to perform exorcism. For those interested, this is the current state of exorcism and possession:

"In most cases, possession is because of people in astral forms entering the third eye of the possessed. The Mage Class generally weaponizes this; agents possessing civilians in the Matrix is an unocculted analogy. In most cases, 10 or so --millions or more (in the case of a powerful target [https://www.facebook.com/MegaTher109/posts/342082221180453]) --humans in astral forms are used to possess a person. Mages often release videos of possession in action. This video (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Mwt35SEeR9w&t=495s&ab_channe...) poses itself as a documentary on people faking madness. If you sense the astral content of the video, you'll notice that they are being possessed. That said, non-human entities can also possess. There are classes of Nature Spirits, Animals, Plants, and Lifeless beings (the so-called Demons) who take part in possession.

The standard technique in the past was to create a state of consciousness in the possessed that would result in the astral being fleeing from the eye. In many cases, the astral forms were identified with their manifest counterparts and neutralized. As with demons, it tends to be very difficult. They're distilled evil forms of a certain skew, and they need to be handled in a custom fashion. Examples: [Piodharan]/Arrogance, [Suhimon]/Theft-Greed. If you want to invoke all known demons and their forms, for study, use this [invocation].

Possession should be impossible now because of the armour around the Third Eye and the Body. There are spells available to the Healer to kill people in their astral form and Soul Trap them without maintenance.

Permanent possessions don't happen. What often affects us across incarnations are deals made on the Soul. For instance, in the last age, all women only had a portion of their souls. They exchanged it collectively as a gender with [The Three Spider Witches] for power thousands of years ago. Such deals NEVER work out. They need to be handled on a case-by-case basis where some counter-deal has to be made or dealt with the power of the warlock's brimstone.

The Gorgon-Illuminati Ultimate Weapon for the Chosen One has always been their [Shamash Perish] possession unit. Billions of people, from our occulted 180 billion strong human population, and classes of captured and tortured wrathful Nature Spirits. The [quakes] you are feeling are because of them."
Strange, I'm trying out standalone w3m right now and also don't get nesting. Maybe the emacs version is different. I'm guessing HN must indent with CSS (which w3m pointed out it does not attempt to support) even though the comments are in a table.
No, but we will be reading listicles with AI generated stock illustrations
I wonder what would be his reaction to someone trying to unionize in one of his shop. He would probably not call that cancel culture but right to work.
Nice article.

Hopefully the complexity of fabs and their operations makes it obvious why chip shortages can easily take 3-5 years to address if creating new fab capacity is the problem. It also costs between $30B-$50B to create a new "mega/ultra/super fab" operating at volumes typical of TSMC, Intel, Samsung, etc.

Even then, the small corner of a fab my business operates in isn't even mentioned in the article because it's far "too small" - all the businesses combined into our segment has total market revenue ranges in the $5B-$10B/year range. We are essential but small money-wise for most people to care.

The other part of the story with water - some of the most advanced water purification and recycling development is happening in this realm as well. Another company product line unrelated to ours is able to detect 10-nanometer-sized contaminants in water at volume both to assure incoming water purity as well as outgoing. Much of the total volume of water is recycled.

There are also surprising ways seemingly unrelated parts contribute. For example our product operates on clean-room floors but we put a ton of effort to reduce the floor footprint (we're 30% smaller than the de facto competitor). That directly reduces the amount of water consumed as a multiplier effect because it means you get more productive output per square foot of HVAC air processing capacity. That HVAC is primarily chilled water based. It also reduced energy consumption or increases productive output per unit kW.

Whenever you have high capital investment, you get the most innovation in basic technologies required for the business and the most spin-offs as well. Whenever you have low investment, you get zero innovation.
Dumb question but why can’t they just tack on passenger carts to freight trains?
Can all of Russia's deployed warheads actually reach Europe without either burning up in the atmosphere or overshooting? Not many of them are intermediate range missiles, so for most of them their range is several thousand kilometers.

Sure most Europe falls well under that, but warheads tend to be deployed on solid rocket motors as they're comparatively low maintenance. Solid rocket motors can't be shut off once they're started, so you have very little control over its burn time once its started (this is one of many reasons why the Space Shuttle had so many black zones where an abort would result in the death of the crew). All you can control is its trajectory, but targeting europe, would mean either a very shallow trajectory, relying on air resistance to sufficiently slow the missile at the target, potentially resulting in the missile and warhead burning up or tearing up from g-forces in the lower atmosphere; or an extremely steep trajectory, resulting in, again, either strong g-forces or incredibly high temperatures meaning the missile burns up or tears up in the lower atmosphere.

Given the reluctance toward a first strike, I'm not convinced that russia can strike most counter-value targets in Europe with its fixed deployments. I think of the few missiles it has that can reach europe, they're likely aimed at counter-force locations, with the rest aimed at the significantly larger nuclear force in the US. Its subs are a different question though.
None of these views are socialist or communist - at most, they are social democratic, which is a very common and moderate position outside the US (and was also common in the US before the 80s).
The fun comes from actually building something useful and then getting to use it. I see too many programming tutorials with code snippets that can technically run, but won't actually do anything interesting. I feel like this turns a lot of people off who would otherwise make excellent programmers.
Why? It's been years since I've heard anyone transition to Bitbucket. Self-hosted or SaaS, even companies that have fully embraced Atlassian tools don't move to Bitbucket. There are much better options out there, in terms of features, speed and reliability.
Might be simpler. PG no longer has to censor his own speech in fear it will rebound on his business.
> For the record, the commenter above who casually states that "most women can't run Fortune 500 companies because most men can't either" <---THAT is sexist

I think you read your biases into that, too:

> The statement “very few women are capable of running a Fortune 500 company effectively” is factually true, but implicitly sexist (very few men are capable either).

I read the "very few men are capable either" as "the problem is that running a F500 is hard, not being a women". There's also no "because" in there - they don't imply that women can't because men are mostly unable, they just say that it's similarly hard for men.
> Wolf packs are generally a monogamous pair with their recent offspring.

Larger packs have been observed in Yellowstone. I think it’s largely a function of prey density. In a case where family packs merge into a larger pack I imagine somehow the animals work out who the leader is as a necessary condition for cooperation.
We don't need a subsidized government run bus line, the private ones work fine.
I think polarization can be decreased, I just think one of the prices to pay might be we need to collectively agree to refrain from the luxury of arguing with random strangers.
Can somebody list “heresies” which we are not allowed to say but they are ok? I cannot find a single one. But maybe I’m missing something.
> Have you ever heard that phrase about how “Every happy family is the same, but every unhappy family is unhappy in their own way?”

This really deserves proper attribution: it's the opening sentence of Anna Karenina by Leo Tolstoy.
No, the freight trains don't make frequent stops or start and end in places you would want to travel to/from.