skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Well with Maglev, Portland to San Francisco could make sense via Sacramento. You wouldn’t want to do it on the coast because of the mountains, and there’s at least Redding and Ashland and a couple of other places in-between.

At 500 km/h (310 mph) you could feasibly do Sacramento to Portland in under two hours. The less straightforward question is how much of the metro area do you serve around those two cities, and do you connect that line directly to San Francisco or do you run a separate line to Sacramento via the Delta? Do you go a sort if L-shape around Stockton first? The politics of this could push travel time up, but at 500 km/h you can cover a lot of ground, much of it fairly empty.

So a hypothetical Best Coast system would connect Vancouver, BC to Portland, Portland to Sacramento, Sacramento to Reno, Reno to Las Vegas, Sacramento to LA, San Francisco to Sacramento via Stockton, San Francisco to LA, LA to Tijuana via San Diego, LA to Las Vegas, LA to El Paso via Phoenix, Phoenix to St. George, Las Vegas to Salt Lake City via St. George, San Diego to El Paso via Tucson & Mexicali and now you’re in Texas where options include El Paso to New Orleans via either Austin & Houston or San Antonio & Houston, Brownsville to McAllen, Brownsville to Houston via Corpus Christi, Corpus Christi to San Antonio, Houston to Dallas, Dallas to Oklahoma City and I’m probably missing some, but you have the workings of a Gulf Coast constellation anchored by Texas on one end and Florida on the other.

Thing is, I’ve worked this all out on paper too, including a Northeast, Southeast and Midwest map that looked much like one that someone linked to up the thread. Problem is, our choice of infrastructure is downstream from our cultural preferences which in turn are shaped by the infrastructure our ancestors built in the decades prior.

El Paso is about 725 miles away from San Diego according to Siri, so with the best trains in the world you could be inside the Texas rail constellation I briefly outlined above in about 2-3 hours which in turn could serve as the basis for a Gulf Coast constellation connecting Florida and the Southeast connecting to the Midwest and the Northeast and then to Canada.

It’s not built though because people just fly instead. We worked out how to get cheap air travel long before we figured out super-fast transcontinental rail travel that probably doesn’t make sense coast to coast but if it already existed, probably would make sense going coast to middle and middle to middle and would just happen to connect the coasts. Or you could just fly, which is what we do, and since that already exists and is even faster than rail travel, metro areas can figure out how their own inter-urban rail systems that are slow and local where it makes sense to build them and just try to make sure the airport is connected too. I like trains, but not so much that I’m willing to toss hundreds of billions of public money into some kind of “national rail system” whatever form it took for whatever prestige it might bring. Jumbo jets are cool too.
I flopped at interview at Micron PC (MPC) around 2005 maybe? An interviewer asked me who their main customer was and I had absolutely no idea. Turned out that it was the government.

I was so idealistic at the time that I was thinking about stuff like NAND flash memory and FPGAs and affordable solar panels and multicore CPUs. Which were ideas being explored by Micron. But MPC's business was supplying rudimentary computers for office use. That was a solved problem by the late 90s so there wasn't anywhere for the market to go except a race to the bottom.

On a side note, many techies in southern Idaho felt that Micron and HP had monopolized the local tech scene through tax waivers and hiring up talent, barring entry to startups until around 2015. Today there's an eerie feeling that it's all happening too quickly and we'll go the way of Austin as thousands of economic and climate refugees flock here from other states, paving all of the farms for subdivisions and cutting down all of the trees for 3 story apartments. Now a home that was $150k in 2010 goes for half a million dollars while wages for average working people still hover in the $40-60k range, so the locals are getting forced out just like everywhere else.
It’s also the most rails like node framework (is it still?), which emphasizes DX, expressiveness, convention over configuration, etc

which in my book is a plus
The industry is moving in that direction anyways.
You don't currently have my data unless you have all data. Once I use your service, you'll have it. If you want to build goodwill, supply the methodology to enable the people who want to do this themselves.
The Windows Registry is a pretty good key-value store for centrally storing config.

Because some, perhaps many, have abused the originally good idea, does not invalidate its positive aspects.

Also, I do not agree it is a file system. It is a key-value storage system that is leagues better than the win.ini, system.ini, and the prolific ini file collection hell it replaced.

Some form of version control would make the registry better.
I already don't get support from Google for my pixel 2 xl
> That is, literally and exactly, hoping that conditions for labor get worse

No it's not. If I say "I hope I can find some cheap veggies at the market today", you wouldn't be accusing me of trying to rip off a farmer.

It's a bizarre and bad faith conclusion to jump to.
I've actually been pleasantly surprised building a GraphQL API in PHP (which I just assumed would be a nightmare), Lighthouse is pretty strong for this.
My SO and I often buy the Crossword scratch cards. It's not because we ever think we'll win (we're definitely in the minus), but because we scratch two letters at a time and pass the card back and forth. It's a mindless game that only costs us $3 to play, and we get a lot of conversation in - often influenced by words in the game or letters like J that nearly never complete a word.

We spend a lot more than $3 on our other entertainment outlets, and its better for the relationship than retiring to the living room to stare at a laptop screen. So we get what we pay for with scratch tickets.
Assembly theory from Sara Walker et al. takes a principled stab at questions like this using a combinatorial "assembly" framework of small constructions that recombine into larger ones. The model requires only Markov conditions so fits into this description of probabilities of observing certain assemblages.

Intelligence fits into this in interesting ways. One way to consider it is as a guide to the assembly process from less complex from more complex.
With all due respect, why do you believe that your experience is meaningful compared to people writing actual industrial-scale runtimes, when RC is the hello world of GC algorithms? It’s not that they don’t know about it, it’s that they studied the topic countless times and found significant difference between the two approaches, to the point that no language considered fast uses RC (or if they do, they do so because it is a useful escape hatch to manual memory management that doesn’t need support from the runtime).
> Them preloading game files shouldn't matter, because the actual games still require a DRM license in order to work.

> There's even specialized cache proxies for Steam. What would be the difference between what Nvidia did and, say, having a shared Steam cache server sitting between all of their streaming instances and Valve's servers?

The difference is that Valve, as part of their distribution agreement that publishers and developers sign to list on Steam, claims the right to host and distribute the files. Preloading the files is important, because it's a differentiation of the service -- you're not renting a PC in the cloud, you're signing on to a service where all your games are just sitting there, without your input, already patched and ready to go.
There is always the option to reseed userspace PRNG with with getrandom() regularly. This makes userspace PRNG safe and more versatile than getrandom().
Interesting, I had no idea Switzerland was governed like that. That book looks interesting too. I will check it out.
That's fascinating, thanks! It's bizarre how giving one person's information to another person is a big deal, but giving millions of people's information to a company is totally fine.
You missed the "closed" UNIXes on my comment.
Basically, just click anywhere on the south of Italy to understand how infrastructure investment can be done poorly.
According to this map Jean-Paul Sartre is from Colombia?!? He‘s born is Paris, France.
Common Lisp OpenGL programming tutorial #7 – Colors
This one was pretty fun to write, just to consider why a company would want to transcend the boundary separating the comparatively simple, obviously motivated and bounded world of business for the much more difficult, risky, and obtuse world of statecraft
I'm not sure if what the Intercept is expecting them to say: "We hope to perennially be understaffed forever so that existing employees are miserable enough to demand things?"
> We have a decent idea of how the first nucleic acids may have been synthesized,

Really? Nucleotides are already too complex to have been produced in any valid OoL experiment at more than vanishingly small concentrations. Experiments that demonstrate some chemical X can be produced, and then lead to another experiment where X is made available in pure form at high concentration (and then rinse and repeat down the synthesis chain), don't tell us anything interesting at all.
Choosing PHP in 2022 and beyond
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Many thanks for the links!
I'm trying to remember Win95 on FAT32 (or exFAT?)... on a large hard disk, wasn't the smallest file size 32KB or 64KB?

Different times...
Even "we knows this because we bought a package of such & such data from Data Broker LLC" would be great.
I don't care about content creators
> The system is out of whack. Price stability needs to happen.

Yes, that’s an argument for why one might wish conditions to become more adverse to labor (and its fairly expressly the argument underlying current monetary policy, and that adversity to labor may sometimes be desirable in setting monetary policy is central to the Fed’s dual mandate.)

That doesn’t change that it is wishing conditions to become more adverse to labor.
It would be interesting to see this for the US.

You might be able to get from New York City to Boston within 5 hours. If you're leaving from Fargo, though, it would be hard to make it into neighboring Montana.

Our best case for taking a coast-to-coast train is 72 hours, but I've never seen a long Amtrak train arrive on time.
Opinion by a writer, meanwhile you cant even buy a car in Russia, Industry stopped in its tracks. https://www.euronews.com/2022/07/28/sanctions-catastrophical...

Lots of badly researched of selective listed "facts"

>McDonald’s locations across the country have been replaced by a Russian-owned chain called Vkusno & tochka

and they dont even serve fries because russia ran out of potatoes
Everyone holding USD lost a solid 10% of their bag via inflation in ~1 year. So even the stable paper fell hard, albeit not as much. If BTC goes above whatever they paid, then is it still a failure or not?
Travel between countries in Europe is improving every year too. Next week I'll be traveling from Bordeaux to Berlin (over 1,600km) - it's faster than the car (16 hours by car vs 12 hours by train), and cheaper than flying, in the summer at least (150 euro by train, vs 300 euro by plane - booking 6 weeks before).

That will improve next year too with the direct Paris Berlin train that should only take 7 hours.
Facebook and twitter are out of ideas. What bothers me the most is the failure of both executive teams on multiple levels, but yet again it's the workers that end up with the short of end of the stick.

Zuckerberg says be on the lookout for low performers so he can cut 10% of his staff, he needs to look in the mirror...
> early days of server-side javascript

Err ... Netscape's LiveWire introduced server-side Javascript in 1996 even before Java became widely used on the server side. The module convention, the (synchronous) core modules of Node.js, and its canonical http middleware API and express.js/Connect/JSGI is from the CommonJS initiative, a co-op of 2000's SSJS framework developers [1].

[1]: https://www.commonjs.org/
Big fan of projects like BentoML, the whole ML space is powered by some truly great projects. What we've tried to do with truss is create an experience that is optimizing for simplicity and universality. Our roadmap begins to deviate away from projects like BentoML, and so creating truss was very much motivated by the need to continue this mindset as we march down through that roadmap.

context: I am one of the contributors
> unix differs in that it was built to enable telephony engineers to operate a telephone network reliably and efficiently.

This is a corporate revision of Unix's history: it was originally created to run a video game[1]. Later, when Bell Labs gave that team some more resources (in the form of a PDP-11), the first "business" applications they wrote for it were primarily for typesetting and text editing.

Telephony was never a primary design goal for Unix, even if telephone networks were later retrofitted onto it. This is evidenced by the fact that Bell gave early versions of Unix away, as they were forbidden to charge for non-communications technologies and services under a federal consent decree.

[1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spacewar!
> Do we compare car fuel tank sizes

Yes. I can't tell you why they thought it was important, but in my childhood I've heard multiple adults talk about "My car goes <x> miles before a fill-up". Never made sense to me, gas stations are everywhere and filling up is quick.
>I've posited before on HN that Facebook is dying based on my observations as a long time user. A lot of people said I was wrong and it's strength is in it groups and marketplaces.

People said you were wrong, not because you were technically wrong, but because what you said was dilute to the point of being meaningless.

All great things die. Look at the great companies of old: GE, Sears, IBM. They all suck now. One day FB, Google, Apple, etc will join them. That's the natural cycle of things

So just saying 'FB is dying' is like stating the Earth is dying because the sun explodes in a couple billion years. Yeah we get it... and?

Mean while though, during an economic down turn, they came in missed revenue by 1% while microsoft missed by 3%. They still make 20B+ dollars per quarter.

So like, what's your point?
Yikes, I had suppressed the memory of a terrible university prof I had who was obsessed with DFW, this instantly took me back.
Heard of it? I've bought tim an Icelandic hamburger!
In Silicon Valley, if you leave your car parked on the street for a few days, without moving it for 50 (?) yards or more, you will get cited. I got cited in front of my own house, for my old car, fully on the insurance. Stupid? - yes. Discriminatory? - no.
Slightly disappointed it was not Aesop's donkey. But only slightly.

Bon chance mes amis!
Just because it is in Java (equivalently, C#) does not mean it is OO. Java just makes coding the non-OO parts of a system awkward and unnatural.

Of course most parts of most systems are non-OO.
I love Tabler and have used it for a few projects with great success.

The title of the OP is not really accurate though. It's not so much a framework but a bunch of customization on top of Bootstrap and some pre-built templates for stuff _like_ dashboards, galleries, forms, etc. The site is more like a kitchen sink demo and documentation site for stuff you can pick apart and use in your own application.
I really liked Strasbourg. France meets Germany in a compact historical center, 2hrs each way from Paris on the TGV. Just go when the EU government is not meeting there, because for 4 days a month, they all have to pack up from Brussels and move to Strasbourg. Reims and the Champagne region are on the TGV to Strasbourg as well, making that an easy day trip from Paris.

There are also the night trains (Intercities de Nuit), which go from Paris to some destinations at the periphery of France that are way too long for a normal day trip. It is usually 4 or 6 bunks in a room, but you can pay extra to book the entire room for the two of you. Go to sleep in Paris and wake up 12 hours later in Nice on the Med coast, Briancon (ski resort town in the Alps, great in Summer too), or any of the medieval towns in the Pyrenees near Spain (Carcassonne, Narbonne, Perpignan)
Left Is the New Right Is the New Left
If you don't mind dark magic, you can use SpaceVim to get that IDE feeling with Vim.
Ribosomes are mostly RNA, and there is good evidence that they evolved from something that was purely RNA. The aminoacid transport and encoding mechanism is also basically composed of RNA, with some evidence that something like them would work without any of the protein parts.

Also, people have created RNA-only self replicating mechanisms that could quite well appear at random, with extremely low odds. Life probably comes from some structure with higher odds that we don't know about, but that's not a huge gap.
A higher than usual “ratio of job openings to unemployed” means workers have higher than usual power. By “hoping” for the reverse, they are hoping for workers to have lower power.
Your description of that deal doesn't really add up. If you're putting down $300 and paying $33/month, that's just buying a phone.
Thanks! Macroexpanded:

Why the Windows Registry sucks … technically - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1134307 - Feb 2010 (61 comments)

(it's on my list to write software to do this automatically for links to past threads - or maybe to offer users the option when they post a comment with HN links in it)
The tiny community museum in Shoshone, California has fossilized camel tracks taken from a nearby dry lake.
That's a good point. On the other hand, the future of the world probably includes sea level rise so New Orleans may not have much of a future.
> only that the denial has no informational content for evaluating the rumor.

Disagree. They could have reacted in different ways:

- a) completely ignoring the rumor.

- b) make a "no-comment" message.

- c) deny the rumor

- d) confirm the rumor

a) and b) may increase the likelihood of the rumor being true. But going for c) is clearly an indication that it's not in their short-term plans.
I think it’s easier to consider when you look at the frameworks that provide React + some other features. Of course you could swap React with something else, or write your own rendering + state management.

I think it’s similar to how Java web servers often use the library Netty under the hood. Why re-solve a problem?
Yeah, nowadays Bootstrap looks outdated a bit, agree.
Hmm... maybe they need some Guide Stones which talk about herd management.
>> .io of the domain, which literally means input & output...

Umm, actually, .io is literally the TLD for the British Indian Ocean territory (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/.io).

(Still a perfectly funny rebranding!)
Well it seems we were both wrong.

According to this link the rate of deforestation is decreasing. But still, they say there is less forest now than there was in 1990.

"Since 1990, it is estimated that 420 million hectares of forest have been lost through conversion to other land uses, although the rate of deforestation has decreased over the past three decades.
Between 2015 and 2020, the rate of deforestation was estimated at 10 million hectares per year, down from 16 million hectares per year in the 1990s. The area of primary forest worldwide has decreased by over 80 million hectares since 1990."

https://www.fao.org/state-of-forests/en/
> Never made sense to me, gas stations are everywhere and filling up is quick.

Gas stations are not everywhere, and can be few and far between on certain routes, and more to the point filling up being quick may be the normal conditions, but if you are old enough (or have lived in the right–or maybe wrong would be more accurate–places even without being that old), you have experience of times when filling up has not been quick, or even, on any given day for any given car, necessarily permitted.
I disagree. Google Drive has become worse over the years and I wouldn't consider it good anymore. My biggest gripe: Google Drive does no longer synchronize photos to desktop, but only supports one way upload to Google Photos. Apparently users got confused and deleted their own photos and thus Google pulled the plug on syncing the photos at all.

P.S.: Google Drive desktop was renamed to Backup & Sync which is usually the first sign a Google service is doomed.
Fakery is almost everywhere. To add to the list: modern window shutters.

Plato has some commentary on the confusion of symbols with reality.

Reinforcement learning and cognitive science suggest that learning is deeply flawed, highly situated, but often useful enough in context. Generalization is not guaranteed. Aggregating human learning must be done very carefully or the errors will compound.
> In fact, they (partly) ate passenger pigeons out of existence.

Mann's 1491 suggests this may be a myth, as passenger pigeon remains are nearly non-existent in native refuse piles, so they don't seem to have been a normal part of their diet (at least, before contact). Rather, he paints both their incredible abundance and subsequent demise as consequences of contact with Europe: the boom in the passenger pigeon population may have been a sign of an ecosystem experiencing a catastrophe, resulting from large areas of cultivated land falling out of use as entire cities were depopulated by disease, causing a temporary but enormous increase in easy, available calories for animals positioned to take advantage of it, and of course their decline and extinction is entirely a post-contact event.

[EDIT] I misread you as having written that the native people contributed to the demise of the pigeons, but I think the info's still broadly relevant so I'll let the post stand.
Why not just have the kernel map a page containing random bytes, that it rewrites with newly seeded random bytes when needed? Then userspace CSPRNGs could use that as a basis for their own reseeding.
> hyperspeed card shuffling

The article mentions this case too. getrandom() on my system seems to return the required amount of random bits to perform a shuffle of a deck in less time than my clock seems to have precision for; … that's … too slow?
> Jesus and Muhammad trailing Britney Spears by a factor of 4 or so is my favorite so far

To play devil's advocate (edit: pun entirely not intended!), I'd bet that way more people today could correctly identify a photo of Britney Spears than an accurate rendition of either Jesus's or Muhammed's faces. Obviously this map isn't supposed to be most "recognizable" people, but I think there's something to be said about whether the person itself is different from the mythos around them (which may or may accurately describe their life).
Neil Young too was diagnosed with a brain aneurysm in March 2005, while working on the Prairie Wind album in Nashville [0].

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Neil_Young#Health_condition_an...
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All patterns are anti-patterns.

A pattern is just something your language is not expressive enough to capture and package in a library. If your language is evolving, what used to be patterns migrate into libraries. New patterns arise, and are later captured.
In what sense is this a study? What exactly was researched and how?
Thanks for the link! Will watch later.
Bret Easton Ellis Hates David Foster Wallace (2012)