skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> Most of it is "dark territory" (no track sensors), unlike Europe.

Have you seen the USA? The places where they lack track sensors are basically out in the middle of nowhere with no one around for miles.

> One of the most lucrative rail systems in the US had an average speed of their trains in the single digits MPH!

That really isn't bad for freight. They optimize freight for throughput, not latency (something passenger rail is more concerned with).
No, the poster has a point. Think of Robert Duvall. Very different profile.
One reason is that, once you arrive, options for public transport within the destination city in the US are limited. So you need a car once you get to your destination anyhow. What do you do when you step off the train in Atlanta or Savannah?

I just spent 7 weeks traveling around Europe by train. I would not have considered that approach without the extensive local public transportation systems. Atlanta is not remotely in the same league as Berlin in terms of public transit.
it looks like tabler uses jekyll underneath for docs and demo (which i personally like and am comfortable with). the demo is really nice, ahd while i'm not big on js any more, the js driving tabler looks fairly straightforward and appropriate to my eyes.

the underlying html and css, however, give me pause about how easy it would be to integrate into a larger project. <div> soup is how i'd describe the demo html, and its css uses custom properties (css variables) in a way that, on first glance, seems to make it more verbose without adding power, flexibility, or maintainability (or accessibility, but that seems a really big challenge for data-heavy frontends like this).

i'd probably try this out if i needed a dashboard on a project, but perhaps would want to test drive it on a small/test project to see where the gotchas are first.
Founders generally do give themselves options instead of shares for tax purposes. The reason investors get shares directly is that they’re buying them, not earning them as income. There are plenty of ways to screw over unsophisticated minority shareholders in a funding round or acquisition even if they have the same class of ownership as the founders. The main disadvantage of options for employees is that they have to pay to exercise them, but the company can trivially make this a non-issue by setting the exercise period to 10 years.
Don't take it personally. There are so many bad actors today that it's easy to misjudge.

Just be confident in your conscience about what and why you do stuff.

The virtual world seems to push people (generalizing) towards negative states of mind as well. If you're using the internet as a medium, be prepared to encounter this from time to time.
Not if you already own the car. Then the cost of the car and insurance are sunk costs that do not count. Sure there is a little wear and tear, but that adds just a couple bucks.

If you buy a car/rent for that trip alone, then the cost of driving is far higher. However for most Americans the cost of a car is a sunk cost that cannot be counted. If you live someplace where it is possible to live without a car, then you can make that argument, but most of us do not.
That doesn't work that way outside the US. There would be repercussions.
No, because you're not homeless if you don't win the lotto. Definitely not better off doing that.
Sixel is a technology that really should’ve been relegated to the history books. Something like Kitty’s terminal graphics protocol makes way more sense. https://sw.kovidgoyal.net/kitty/graphics-protocol/
Is there supposed to be more content on this website? Both of the links on the main page lead to stubbed pages; the one for the SBT (Lasagne) has a GitHub link to a different static binary translator from 2015 (Microsoft's mctoll).

Edit: From the paper[1], Lasagne is based on mctoll?

[1]: https://binary-translation.github.io/pubs/pldi22-lasagne.pdf
Purely from a clarity standpoint, I'm in favor of killing off whitelist/blacklist. They just introduce an extra step in figuring out what something is—whitelist usually means stuff to allow, blacklist is stuff to deny, but I at least have to dig that up from memory since white/black don't mean that at all. Exclude, allow, deny, ignore, block, etc. are all more obvious, and in many cases more descriptive. In most cases, simply replacing "blacklist" with "blocklist" helps. Though I have more trouble with "whitelist", since it doesn't directly suggest anything to me; I have to contrast it with a blacklist, and then remember what blacklist means (for authors or actors or whatever), and then map it back to what's actually going on. (For whatever reason, I have less trouble with using "whitelist/whitelisted" as a verb.) Please please use a term that describes what you're actually doing with the list.

Don't get me started on "false positive/false negative"...
Librem 5 is much more expensive, too. And the performance isn't even comparable.

It's not viable for a company like ASUS to go for the same approach. And not many consumers would buy them, either.
I am not sure Discovery Institute is a reliable source. Wikipedia says that it's a non-profit created with a specific goal of promoting certain non-scientific ideas: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Discovery_Institute
The Raw Materials in a Tesla
I don’t think it’s the printing. The downloadable pdfs have the same issues
The Tower of Babel is almost complete!
You just can't trust any Google product anymore. They shut down your account by mistake and it's almost impossible to get it back. Or they shut down an entire service and all value you had in there is gone.
The term "waterfall", like the terms "capitalism" and "meritocracy", was coined to criticize the (previously unnamed) concept that it defined. "Waterfall" was Royce's term for the way software projects ended up being organically managed by people who weren't putting much thought into optimizing their organization. While I definitely agree that the "waterfall" style of "define everything up front, and then do all the stuff that you defined" is absolutely braindead, the alternatives are unfortunately even more braindead.
All but two. And in my previous role that was a very substantial sample set.
Data driven businesses often confuse the data they can collect with the data they need to collect.
Do some intensive body sculpt: you'll be walking in a different world (of different reactions).
Do hair transplants debunk the scalp tension-hair loss hypothesis? (2021)
I haven't read any books by David Foster Wallace, though every time he comes up I feel obliged to share a fantastic speech of his about finding joy in the monotony of life. I heard it years ago and it's always stuck with me. Video[1], transcript[2]

[1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8CrOL-ydFMI

[2] https://jamesclear.com/great-speeches/this-is-water-by-david...
This is largely why I built Nodewood [1]. Every time I wanted to start a new project, almost always a SaaS idea, I'd skip over the "boring stuff" like building user management, subscription management, teams, admin, all that, to get to the meat of the business logic, to make sure I had a valid idea. But I still needed all that stuff eventually, so I'd have to lose time later building it all in!

So I decided to just build it all once so I could re-use it, and then I found that others had the same problem and are happy to pay a reasonable amount to have it solved for them, and now it's doing pretty okay for itself.

It did end up taking a lot longer and involving a lot more work than I expected, but I figure that's alright, it just means a more-reliable base to start from each time.

[1] https://nodewood.com
I think Luby’s exited stage left pursued by a virus.
Remember the constant rumours that Google Cloud was being shut down? Ahh, good times. What ever happened to those rumours and the suckers that propagated that rumour?
Actual quote - “By the end of next year, we hope the ratio of job openings to unemployed is down to the more normal highs of the last business cycle.”
This is what the sqlglot optimizer is used for. The optimizer converts EXISTS and IN into a canonicalized SQL (some variant of left join) which can then be compared to another query.

So if you run the optimizer first and then the diff tool, it could solve this kind of use case.
imo the more compelling argument is that the first time you hear "whitelist/blacklist" you have to ask what each means (at least I did). AllowList and DenyList are names that say exactly what the mechanism is.
I use Flickr for a curated subset of my photos but it's honestly been a while since I've uploaded anything.

I have Apple Photos but only what I shoot on my iPhone.

Primarily though I organize and edit photos locally with Lightroom Classic. (And, in addition to local backups, it's backed up by Backblaze along with all my other files.
> If a student asked "how did life originate?" a response about about nucleic acid synthesis would be a bit disingenuous...

As the article title does not say or imply that the answer to this question has been found, let alone that it will be revealed in the article, this is at least beside the point.

In attempting to brush aside gliptic's pertinent question, you have switched to a general (and somewhat subjective) claim that does not seem to hold up in this specific case.
If one SSD has a failure rate of 5%, 4 SSDs will have a failure rate of 18.6%. If the 4 devices are in a RAID0 for convenience (don't have to figure out where to put files), there is an 18.6% chance of losing all data vs 5% with a 16TB drive. You can use RAID5/6 to mitigate the risk but then lose capacity.

IMO, higher SSD speeds are not a target for improvement by manufacturers, but a side-effect of using higher-density chips, which is more cost-effective. They probably can't make a slow, high-capacity SSD economically.
Maybe too early to say, but how about Apple's M1 or ARM in general. Certainly when it comes to datacenters it will be a while before this has a meaningful impact, but for investors it's always about the future upsides/downsides. Performance/watt FTW.
I'm not trying to explain, just expressing that, to me, randomness also doesn't explain. The fact that I see intelligent processes going on is what makes me conclude that.
I spoke to three philosophers about the meaning of memes
I still play my copies of Diablo 2 and Diablo 2: Lord of Destruction that I bought on launch day, in checks wikipedia 2000 and 2001 respectively. On Single Player, with Plugy.

I think they were worth the price I paid for them.
Pachyderm (YC W15) is hiring React, Go devs to build reproducible data pipelines
True, it should be no fee for egress _bandwidth_. But yes, some form of egress fee (because of the fetch/get operation).
And dead by 40, so it didn't matter very much at all.
Though unfinished, I highly recommend the Pale King. It's not as consistently great as some of DFW's other works, but the highs are as high as anything else he wrote and IMO it's a little more accessible than Infinite Jest. (For a new reader, I would start with some of his essays, e.g. Consider the Lobster: http://www.columbia.edu/~col8/lobsterarticle.pdf)
I wonder if adding a filing fee of some nominal amount, say $10, for code complaints would reduce these types of reports?
yeah, perhaps. It's just a guess - but I think the marginal cost of giving people links (that they would probably use much less than the usual stadia service) would be cheap considering the overall hit to Google's reputation. I could see it being justified from an accounting perspective, and I already think they're going to keep the underlying tech active albeit in a different form. So it wouldn't bee too operationally intensive, afaik.
I rarely mess with notifications. Instead, I go online only when I want to, that too, for maybe 5 or 10 minutes at a stretch. I'm offline by default. Anything urgent shall reach me the old school way: either call or text. I admit disruption when I want to.
Python Figma API Wrapper
Wanted to share this Figma python wrapper I worked on to try get others involved in the development.
Fibre-optic cables could be used to spy on people a kilometre away
The Coziest Spot on the Moon
Once you download an MP3, you should protect it as you'd protect anything else you purchased instead of expecting that it would be available to re-download indefinitely.
I can see why this is frustrating, especially to someone with no C exposure. But bear in mind that the C underpinnings are part of the reason why these languages are popular in the first place -- like Perl used to be before Python.

In a very real sense, the entire concept of an interpreted language in the modern sense is such an ugly kludge (much cleaner to "go all in" on the language, LISP machines being the notable predecessor) -- but do be aware of the tradeoff.
Amazon Drive is shutting down at the end of 2023
What sort of instrumentation would be onboard? The last mission destined to leave our solar system was New Horizons[0] and its equipment was designed in the early/mid-2000s with the express goal of imaging the outer planets. Both Voyager probes have some instrumentation still sending data back to Earth[1] as well, though current projections estimate we may only be receiving data from them for until the end of the decade. Sending a probe out that only improves on a few areas such as ionized plasma detection and gas chromatography to determine what elements are in the heliosphere seem to arbitrary improvements on a short timeframe; but these are systems designed with a 50+ year lifespan. The 500 page report published by NASA[2] for a future insterstellar probe is a bit much for a layperson to understand, but such a program can also be done over a longer timeframe to justify its continued funding.

It's been over 40 years since we last launched a probe with the express purpose of exploring interstellar space, and technology has improved to the point of enabling these missions to be multi-generational by planning further launches to create a networked constellation. When I was a kid seeing the 'Pale Blue Dot' image in the book Cosmos, it gave a perspective of looking at humanity's achievements on a cosmic timescale instead rather than only the human timescale, and I think setting long-term goals of exploring our universe are held by everyone regardless of nationality. Delivering tangible results to the public like JWST's fantastic images and the 'Pale Blue Dot' photo are arguably just as important as the scientific data gathered.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/New_Horizons#Science_payload

[1] https://voyager.jpl.nasa.gov/mission/status/

[2] https://interstellarprobe.jhuapl.edu/Interstellar-Probe-MCR....
Here in Europe, I have 2-3 spam calls in year. I always asks where did they find my number and then ask politely if they know something about GDPR. Usually they don't waste my time anymore and hang up.
A voter registry search requires name, date of birth, and zip code.

This is just your phone number. The thing you give out to people you just met. What the secure app signal requires for signup. And what spammers seem to always be able to find.
I am not going to pretend to be a process engineer (I am chemical engineer by education) but I can't imagine any other way to do it than as you described. Would really love for someone more knowledgeable to chime in though.
It should have been "netflix for games". If it were, it would have been hugely successful.

As it was released, I had zero interest in Stadia for all the reasons mentioned elsewhere in this thread. And I am the perfect target consumer for Stadia. I have a large monthly budget for games, I travel enough that it makes sense to have a portable gaming platform, and I embrace tech early. Even with all this, I had zero interest in Stadia simply because it was a Google product that I knew would be canceled.
Trains "work" in Europe because many European cities are easily walkable. The trains (and other public transportation) comes every 10-15 minutes, so you can leave and arrive when you want to.

Now, consider the convenience of traveling by car: You can leave and arrive when you want to. For a longer journey, you don't need to deal with transferring between trains/busses/whatever, which means that you can keep your luggage in your car until your destination. Chances are, you can park your car at your destination or very close.

As far as sprawl: In some places, building codes require more land. Other times, banks won't lend to build unless the land is worth a certain percentage of the building. For example, when I built my house, the bank wanted the land to be worth about 25% of the value of the house; and the town required that it was so many feet away from the road. That forced my neighborhood to have large, open lawns. (And as much as I love my lawn, I'd be just as happy with a postage stamp yard too.)

There's also the rumor that the US was deliberately built to sprawl after WWII as a way to survive a nuclear attack. I don't know if that's true or a rumor, though.
What do you think about this concept? Apple forcing apps to be explicit in the manipulative techniques they use, and have toggles for turning them off.
China is backing off their high speed maglev trains. While it is possible to make maglev go that fast, wind resistance means it is far to costly. A large airplane (because it runs at 30,000 feet) is not only faster, it uses less energy.

If vacuum trains ever happen, then things change. However those are very expensive to build, and have safety issues. We can solve the engineering problems with safety, but the expense doesn't seem possible)
Thrift stores have piles and piles of Legos. I've seen various small stores around that sell Legos in bulk. They'll have huge bins, and you can buy them by the pound. I used to buy a few official Lego sets back in the day, but also I would buy the big bucket of generic blocks. They were cheap and gave you a huge stockpile.
There is a standardized API for package tools to expose and invoke editable-install functionality [1] which pip install follows, but Poetry didn't implement this API before (I see it does now though as of this past February [2]).

In other words, this a more thorough explanation of my point from [3]:

> Yes, if you ran poetry install you could get editable mode, but that requires every single end user of your package to install poetry and explicitly invoke a poetry install just for your package. And if someone else's package uses a different package builder, now they need to install and invoke that one. And on and on, and you end up with a six-hundred-line install script because of all the one-off "must install this developer's favorite package manager to use their package" stuff.

[1] https://peps.python.org/pep-0660/

[2] https://github.com/python-poetry/poetry/issues/34#issuecomme...

[3] https://www.reddit.com/r/Python/comments/t3p3ub/comment/hyum...
Dogelog player is a Prolog system for the JavaScript and the Python platform
On Proving Yourself
I thought it was pretty neat - not much info on my number.

Here are how results are displayed if someone doesn't want to search their number:

====

The following data is publicly associated with your phone number
Carrier (MOBILE)

Bragg Communications Inc.
BRAGG/EASTLINK COMMUNICATIONS - SVR /2

Associated Names

HXXXXXX NS

No Associated Emails

No Associated Birthdays

No Associated Locations

No Extra Sensitive Info

No Associated Institutions

No Associated Businesses

No Associated Phone Numbers

No Associated Social Media

No Associated People

No Associated Marketing Info

No Known Data Breaches

====

"Associated Names" is the city and province i reside in, and the carrier is more or less accurate. Both things i wouldn't expect to be able to keep secret without extreme effort.
Argh.

...you can mentally [model] my context...

Always hoisted on own petard.

Point still stands though.

Reading + comprehension > writing.
Interesting but not very helpful
Or do what Apple did and addon an x86 memory semantics mode for ARM.
But I don't have enough room on my laptop for another sticker!
Flying is cheaper than using trains in EU too.
If arbitration wasn't so lopsided then corporations wouldn't have to contractually force it on people.

There is no good reason we should let companies take choice and power away from consumers like this. They only do it because it benefits them.
In the source engine at least, you can playback recorded gameplay at arbitrary timescales, and at one point I had it play back a scenario at several hundred FPS equivalent and used some virtualdub plugin to merge batches of frames, and indeed the footage looked much more continuous than just a single, infinitely fast exposure per displayed frame.
I should add to this, as we know file system filters (e.g., anti-virus) slow down access to read (and write, but irrelevant here) files from any file system format on Windows (NTFS, FAT32, exFAT, etc), storing configuration data in configuration files would be less optimal, though minimal in terms of performance (given your app wasn't constantly re-reading the file). This wouldn't be the case with the Registry, as the hives are already open.
> This right here is why I couldn't give less of a shit about google's C++ replacement.

I think programming languages are a bit different. (Assuming they're not encumbered by patents / trademarks / copyright the way Java was/is.)

If Google decides to bail on Carbon, any design work, published implementations, etc. remain accessible for others to use or build upon.

If Google were to abandon Carbon, the main risk I see is that Google would not longer contribute to Carbon's refinement and implementation. So maybe that would reduce the odds of Carbon reaching critical mass, but it wouldn't flat out prevent people from legally continuing to use it.
Early look at the user experience for Playstation VR2
The timing on this was magnificent wasn't it? Why decide to 'change definitions' now?

It's as if they knew something was going wrong, so they needed to change it and give out excuses like this. It doesn't matter and it has already been indirectly admitted, that they are in a recession. Just look at the media scrambling to defend this administration's incompetency. It is indefensible.

This action tell us that it is probably going to get worse and even if the National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) declares it, then the media and this administration will continue their denial.
This is very timely. In September I will have four days of down time with my wife in Paris. We want to get out of town but don't know where. This gives us some options.

If anybody here has suggestions where we can spend a few days taking in non-Parisian France, let me know.
FYI: I had to disable uBlock in order for the site to work.
That's not a new requirement for amazon. It's needed for EU sellers
Track sensors are especially useful in they middle of nowhere.

And there are plenty of latency sensitive applications for freight rail which are developed in other places. They don't make sense in the US because the capability isn't there, not because there's no market for it.
With that line of reasoning, would we conclude that having H2O formed in the planet 4 billion years ago was a form of life better than not a life?

Would we conclude that everything in the Universe is alive?

I think that's a pretty interesting way of seeing things. And (to me, personally) it strengthens my view that there are intelligent processes going on in the Universe.
The "murica is big" excuse is silly.

What really matter, obviously, is population density. And population density would justify passenger railways on the coasts and in more than half of the US:

https://www.ecoclimax.com/2016/10/population-density-of-worl...

Additionally, it's also based on the flawed assumption that transportation should adapt to the locations of where people live rather than the other way around.
Filesystem fetishization at its finest. Not only is /etc poorly structured (just like portions of the registry are), it also suffers from lack of uniform format for the data. But hey, registry is bad because it's bad.
Your cost will be around $2 per server per hour.