skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I don't think that extreme is true either. I work in games and we have access to workstation hardware even though most of our players will inevitably end up playing on substantially lower end hardware. We set performance targets for subsystems, have thorough profiling available, and regularly _test_ on consumer hardware to gain the above metrics and work with them. That can be (and often is) done.
The “environment” for most people is urban.

I would bet ‘plant awareness’ tracks pretty well with rural vs urban demographics. That’s not to say rural population somehow magically have built-in knowledge as to the botanical science; they don’t and eduction need to improve across the board. Yet I sometimes feel that these articles are written by urbanites interviewing other urbanites and making sweeping generalizations about ‘our’ view of the world.
it drips with desperation
> For instance I can get from 96th to Chambers in about 25 minutes on a subway if I’m lucky with my timing. That’s faster than a car during peak traffic, but slower than a car during any other time of day.

Google Maps says both trips should take the same amount of time in the absolute dead of night.

https://www.google.com/maps/dir/40.7154695,-74.0091386/40.79...

https://www.google.com/maps/dir/40.7154695,-74.0091386/40.79...

Admittedly, both ends of this trip are right by a subway station, but they're also both near the FDR Drive highway. And we're leaving out the time it takes to park your car, and it's the dead of night.
Ah! That makes sense. Thank you for the info.
A lot of these "Falsehoods programmers believe about time"
apply to making a timer:
https://gist.github.com/timvisee/fcda9bbdff88d45cc9061606b4b...
That's interesting considering GNOME (which Cinnamon is a fork of) has one by default, curious why they would remove such thing (or was it not there to begin with when they forked?)
The iPhone photos app does something similar if you take a photo of a plant and click the “i” info button.
Can also do them on iOS by swiping down the home screen
Other options are:

- to ask NAT administrator to forward a port,

- to connect windows to an external vpn network (also a good practice with RDP on a non-supported OS).
I don’t understand this chain of “I’ve never met anybody who…” when you can just ask. I had to use Angular 2 and 3, and I find React to have a better, simpler abstraction.” Was this so hard?

This thread paints people who don’t share your preferences as simpletons without preferences at all. That should be a red flag.
The river table stuff is largely dead, from my perspective. It's a neat gimmick but it's run its course. I haven't seen somebody talk about one, or seen a new one on YouTube, for months. Maybe longer?

And, FWIW, Festool only sponsors a couple of woodworkers and very rarely gives tools to others for marketing purposes. You see a lot of Festool (and Fein and Mirka) because it's worth it if you're serious. They feel good to use; the Domino is a joy to use and their ETS sanders are way less punishing on my hands than the alternatives.
No, I'm saying that web apps are slow because there is no thought put into the architecture of the application, and the structure of the app likely matches the structure of the team, not the design of someone who considered holisticly how it would work.
and Ghost in the Shell re-affirms our long held suspicion that C will last long into the future[0]

[0]: https://github.com/nullgemm/ghck
Can You Scrape Yelp?
NYC has become extremely more hostile to pedestrians in only the last 4-5 years. Now, not only are you on the lookout for cars when crossing, but you have to add e-bikers and cyclists. Both of those often don't honor one way streets, so now you have to look both ways. They don't stop at red lights, so you have to look both ways when you have right of way. They ride on the sidewalk, so you have to be careful when turning a corner. Society loves these vehicles as eco-friendly, and carves out a part of the road for them.

No one carves anything for pedestrians. It's time to leave the city, which now seems left for people in their 20s and people who generally don't care about any order whatsoever.
I don't remember if the exact cause was ever nailed down (Yay ML). One of the leading theories is that "42 7" (or whatever the formula was) was on some porn video descriptions. Who knows if that is what tipped the scales.
Ask HN: Should I sell my project to the big player?
Throwaway account.

I built a semantic search engine in the legal space (non-U.S.), and am thinking about offering the system to one of the established players in that market.

There are several players in the market who have millions of subscribers. Their system, however, only search for legal documents based on whether or not the keywords you entered occur in the text.

My system, which took me about a year to build, uses semantic similarity to find relevant documents. That is to say, it will also find documents that talk about the topic you search for, even though different words are used.

Also, it finds matches not only on the document level, but on the level of individual paragraphs and snippets. Thus saving the user (mostly attorneys) valuable time, which they'd otherwise spend scrolling through pages of irrelevant text just to find the one or two sentences that are actually relevant to their case.

The system I have is up and running. It is not yet perfect. For instance, it fails when users are searching for a particular document by date and name of the court. Also, my database is only about half the size of that of the major players. But it works well enough that it demonstrates that the system works for the intended purpose of discovering court rulings relevant to your query based on semantic similarity.

Now that I have it, I find that I don't want to actually operate it, or deal with marketing, end users, data providers etc..

So what should I do now?

How would I, for instance, go about selling such a system to one of the established players?

To be of use to them, my system would need to be tightly integrated with their own. So I guess my offer should be to work with their team as some kind of technical consultant.

However, I've never done anything like this before, and wouldn't know how to to about it, who to talk to, how to position myself, what to offer, what price, etc..

Because it is such unfamiliar territory, I've already been putting the matter off for several months, and have even considered to just chalk the whole project up as a learning experience and to just move on. Part of me thinks, "If they really wanted such a thing, they'd just hire people to build it".

Also, if they expressed interest, what should I charge, and on what basis? Per month of consulting? Based on successful implementation? Mile-stones, perhaps?

I wouldn't actually be in control of how quickly the system gets implemented. Because I'd have to be working with their team, with a code base I don't understand, perhaps even in a language that I'm not proficient in (say, Java).

Any recommendations how I should proceed?
This is a fair statement, major industrial metros such as Chicago emerged due to proximity to resources (iron, grain), transportation (lakes, rivers, rail), and energy (coal).

There surely will be a new equilibrium including newer power generation means, however many sunny places are far from water and other industrial inputs - moving steel mills to New Mexico is not quite a slam dunk in terms of transportation.
What is it with number 34? Google search gives some "angel numbers" and other numerology.
The RISC-V APLIC’s New Features
Inkplate sells recycled kindle displays with an ESP32 board and all the firmware necessary to use them, see their website https://inkplate.io/

That's easier if you're into e-paper technology, but they don't sell them for £7...
Postmark was bought out in May. Just a coincidence, or possibly co-mingling IP addresses with the new overlords?

https://postmarkapp.com/updates/postmark-has-been-acquired-b...
I started in Angular v1 and it's exactly what you said: batteries included. We were able to build out an ecommerce website with few (maybe zero? can't remember exactly) external dependencies, just what shipped with Angular, because it was so well-engineered, feature-complete, and well thought out. Yeah, there was a bit of a learning curve, but not any more so than learning React + eight other big packages.

Fast forward half a decade, of course I'm using React now because every employer demands it, but god, what a duct-taped ecosystem! You have to reinvent SO MANY wheels and hack them together, when Angular had it all so tightly integrated. I am really pretty sad that React won out in the end. It's honestly kinda useless on its own (there's not even basic page routing).

Thankfully, Next.js solves a lot of that and makes React useful and easy with a brunch of preconfigured libraries and features they wrote well-integrated together. React by itself is nowhere near Angular, but Next.js is amazing.
Can tell Siri to remind you instead. Probably covers 75% of my Siri usage, with the remainder being: asking about the weather, turning lights on / off, and disabling Wi-Fi (as opposed to the soft disable nonsense Apple rolled out years ago)
Certainly faster to bike to many places than taking a plane there
Here is an interesting channel doing predatory plants:

https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC1nQ1UONnucPttZ96w8Jk4A
Very cool. I think Github is the only one who hasn't really added more formats to there register. Gitlab has like 11+ types currently.
We should invest in making public transit more consistent and frequent rather than faster. If something comes every 5 minutes… you don’t need to worry about schedule and the expected wait time from end of task until end of transit is lower.

Plus if you have transfers, it really drives down the time.

If the segment is really fast but only happens hourly, now you have to plan :( If it only happens hourly AND the timing is inconsistent or segments get cancelled, now you just have to possibly wait for hours.
Transit can not be successful in low-density residential build. American life style is lifestyle of rich people - single family houses and cars.
As someone who loves TypeScript, sourcemaps are the problem. It’s extremely hard to get them everywhere. I can get them in about 90% of places, but inevitably there are a few spots where they don’t work.
What kind of game are Google playing at? They’re like evolution at play and routinely prune and trim away anything not working for them. They’re so Darwinian.
It does sell advertising, but it is not advertising itself. Note that he also offers subscriptions. So it's basically a one-man magazine of the specialist reviews variety.
Keras... Yikes
Is this the "uh, thing"?

https://www.theatlantic.com/politics/archive/2015/01/the-blo...
Agree that it’s almost impossibly difficult - curse of the power law. And it’s a book that I’ve written - won’t really translate well to other media… honestly just want to put out the best version of it I can (within the limits of my resources)… whatever happens after will be…
I don't think most people are arguing that you as an individual should switch to walking or public transit without anything else changing. The situations you describe are the way they are because we've spent decades heavily investing in making cars the most convenient or often only option. The suggestion is that we should consider making different choices going forward so people have other options. Everything doesn't have to be so far away and things like public transit don't have to suck.

I also think there's a misinterpretation that alternatives to cars means nobody should drive anywhere. For something like going camping, it's hard to argue that a car doesn't make the most sense. But the point is to make it so you don't have to drive everywhere for everything and can save the driving for when it really is the best option.
I disagree - see my other comment here. It might be part of a bigger Zeitgeist in NY, but pedestrians are bullied and disrespected at every level by cyclists. Danger increases further when bringing e bikes into the picture.
It's ripe for having a bio-bota-computing fad.
If you're an uncool company and you can't find a shaman, import one from another country, and if he has weird hair, paints his fingernails strange colors and calls himself a "digital prophet" even better

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/David_Shing
I don't see a problem with taxing both, as long as the taxes are not equivalent. I don't think some minimal amount of taxation for the ability to rely on the U.S. and return whenever you want and to vote is too much to ask. That's also how you keep rich people from living outside the U.S. but traveling to it and conducting all business within it to avoid taxes.
Looking through your submissions, all of those are such interesting topics. It’s a shame there isn’t time and space for all the interesting topics that must be being submitted all the time.
That's because you live in UWS (that's where I live too).

I used to live in Jamaica and trying to get anywhere that's not Manhattan is a chore. For example going to Flushing would take twice as long because you have to get close to Manhatten before you can switch from F line to 7.

Bus in this case works fine most of the time though. But you still need to walk to a bus station.
> The Kubernetes build system is bash. The project experimented with bazel but removed it (too complicated, bad developer experience).

I know I’m being very uncharitable but I had to giggle at the irony here
Why wouldn’t they remove it? It’s in their best interest to send you to an alternative page where they can show you advertisements.
It's probably one the best known rules of the internet, or more like rules of /b/ (and now I'm breaking rules 1 and 2, but who cares)
I'm mainly talking about ads here, which is what you were celebrating. I agree there are other kinds of marketing. Many of which are much less manipulative.

And I already listed some ways that one could find new products without ads. You have listed some too. It looks like you're well on your way to imagining how a world could work without ads.
I've built apps in both react and svelte, and I personally don't see a significant difference between them HTML-wise. .map vs each isn't a big deal, especially when you're usually constructing whatever you're iterating over anyway, etc.
InfernoJS uses a vdom is faster than Svelte in the js framework benchmark.

Even if we set that aside, the differences between something like Svelte and React are still likely to be far less than the differences you'll gain from changing to a more efficient algorithm.
One of the troubles with widespread static linking is that it makes code vetting more difficult.

> Well, too bad.

Too bad future distros will ship only core binaries and leave the bulk of leaf packages to third-party containers.
"Senate passes $280B bailout package to allow Intel management to justify huge bonuses."
I’ve had a similar experience in Minneapolis. Biking to work was the fastest way to go for me. An additional factor was very little walking once I got there. With the bus or driving I may need to walk several blocks to get to my office and if I bike I can lock up at the building. The actual time door to door wasn’t much different for all three modes but biking was the simplest and as a result fastest.
But, like, do you enjoy that work?

I got bit by this same "I want to run a business" bug in the past, but I've been much happier since I concluded that it's actually better for me personally to do engineering work on successful products that I believe in.
> 1.5 hours of sitting peacefully on public transit is dramatic

Sitting peacefully isn’t really possible on a lot of public transit, especially during rush hours.
The difference is that evolution is the only game in town (well, until humans started bio-engineering).
So… JSX isn’t another HTML templating mechanism?
How can you use internet without knowing its rules?

It’s Rule 34 (if it exists, there is porn with it).
Yeah sure scan iPhones I really don't care lol. But if Android phones get full filesystem scans I'm basically giving up phones.
> If botany is a topic that you could somehow pick-up after university with little ease then it would be something more people would do

You can, but much like anything else most of the work in botany that pays well requires an accredited qualification in the form of a degree.
Consider using the "units" program. It's excellent and can handle almost any conversion and unit-full math expression.
[remy@typhoon:~]$ ipcalc 1.1.1.41/27

Address: 1.1.1.41

Network: 1.1.1.32/27

Netmask: 255.255.255.224 = 27

Broadcast: 1.1.1.63

Address space: Internet

HostMin: 1.1.1.33

HostMax: 1.1.1.62

Hosts/Net: 30
1. I was in the same college so I had a “test book” cover with my photo. For some reasons n they put the photo on the cover and the name and the rest on the book pages

2. No one remembers students’ handwriting.

3. In our system professors only read lectures before large groups of students. They have “docents” (not sure what’s English word for that) who do smaller practical classes professors were taking the exams. Also, some of them passingly saw my face in the hall. Once or twice I got by mistake to my former professors - the company had to fix the issue (with money)
It really depends on the place. This article focuses on New York which has a really bad subway system. In Boston they would reach a similar conclusion as well. But if they were focusing on Prague or Spain or Japan or Singapore or any system which isn't decades-old and falling apart, they would find riding transit is much faster than driving.

Ik it's a dumb spin but if anything, this is reason to improve New York's subway system. Trains should be faster for any non-negligible distance, even counting walking and waiting for the train, as they can go a lot faster and don't have to deal with stoplights or traffic. And trains (even the ones in NY) are much better in terms of efficiency, productivity (can read or work on the train), and climate. The issue is, that trains are a huge long-term investment, and a lot of these broken railway systems need huge renovations. We need someone to put billions into this, of course it will save billions in the coming decades, but I don't see that happening anytime soon.
I've seen variations in published cookbooks too! Maybe not this much, but easily in the 150-250 range. It's a real problem, not just a Google one.
Skrooge 2.28.0
I pay Google for phones, home devices, a YouTube subscription, extra cloud storage... if you are made uncomfortable by the deal of getting an amazing suite of products without paying for any of it then perhaps you can quell your unease by becoming a paying customer.

Even if you are too frugal to part with any of your cash, your statement, besides being worn and trite, is plainly false. Without users (even the free tier), Google goes out of business, which is decidedly an anti goal.
JSX is pure JS, unlike other templating languages.
A lot of literature from that time (perhaps most well known, "The Great Gatsby") have cars and their drivers as the antagonist.
Yep, I won't work anywhere that doesn't have a good marketing department that I'm not involved in. Marketing is super important, usually more important than what I'm doing, but I'm not the right person to do it.
I’ve read the article 3 times now. I still fail to find the part where git broke. I also fail to find a concise explanation on what the solution is. I may need a beer to understand this.
The satisfaction to be gained from doing "what others want" also depends massively on who those other people are, and the nature of your relationship with them.
I'm not saying the supply chain is the best analogy. I'm saying that in that context, "push" and "pull" have very specific meanings, and that's the one I'm using here.

I agree that distilling information is challenging. Challenging enough that places from Google to Wirecutter to Consumer Reports make good livings from doing that. But advertising makes that problem worse, not better.
I’m not sure where this idea that subways are fast comes from. The average speed of the NY subway system for example is ~20mph. High speed rail is a different story of course.
I believe he does discuss that briefly in part 1.
https://www.sapienship.co/
I don’t see why you would expect this to be unpopular.

You are oversimplifying though , the average person is usually going to do what they think is best for them, given the options they know about.

The distinction is critical in topics like city/transportation planning.
https://duckduckgo.com/?q=6+minute+timer&t=fpas&ia=answer
Couple of Emacs Hacks (2003)
> You cannot rely on the managers that you want to let go to implement the change that you need.

I also cannot generate the change I need by myself. It’s a losing proposition to expect too much.
The third amendment was a response to the British quartering troops in American houses. This was often done as punishment or harassment, and the soldiers were often not well behaved.
Founders...Assemble!
A very modest title for what looks like to be much move powerful than your average hex editor.
How I Made a Self-Quoting Tweet
You have an extra 8 bits in the PIA's I/O port direction register. If you're not using inputs right now you can use that as temporary memory. It's not like the joystick cares if it's getting a little backwards current.

Oh, there are lots of tricks. And when the tricks run out, you run on desperation, you rewrite your display kernel for the fifth time, to get 8 precious cycles back just before the score line. Victory is sweet.

I had a cow-orker (we were both out of the 8-bit computer games division) who decided it would be good for his career (at Atari) to learn 2600 game programming. He got a Stella devkit, a copy of the same dev documentation that has been published everywhere (that's all that anyone got at the time), and over the next four months or so I watched him slowly go mad. I'm not kidding, his mental state was terrible. About then Jack Tramiel bought the company and we all got to work on different stuff, yay.

The 2600 hackers over in Consumer games had a reputation for being pretty wild and unhinged. I am half serious when I say that it was the machine that did it to them.
It still has to be fast enough. It also needs to evolve beyond just the hub and spoke model that expects everyone to commute to the big city from the suburbs.
Anything we can read or watch on the transformation Amsterdam made?
Same here!

I remember hacking a loop into TI-Basic by having programs call into each other, since there was no looping control flow built in.

Never did write anything more advanced than TI-basic, I'd heard horror stories of people bricking calculators, and mine was an emotionally sensitive hand-me-down.
Hahah, awesome :P ;) xx ;p
> The only real benefit of public transit is you can read during the commute.

I use audiobooks so it works out for driving or taking public transit. The only difference is the noise level is higher in general with public transit.
I hear that "we're not really targeting mobile" excuse less and less often these days (phones are, what, half of users?). But I do hear another excuse frequently: performance isn't free, as in spending time on performance optimization means something else has to give: more features, quicker delivery, better testing, readability and documentation, package reinvention, whatever.

People cobble together npm packages because it saves time vs having to reinvent their whole color conversion solution, or page routing system, or unit converter or whatever.

And sometimes management is the one unwilling to budge. I couldn't get us to spend ANY time on performance until I showed them a video like, "Hey, I know this works fine on our latest Macs, but check out what happens when I try to run this on a 2-year-old budget Windows laptop, like our users would have. It barely even runs." Only then did we start testing with not just network throttling but CPU throttling too. There are still some really slow computers out there.
It was edited. Previously the article did not spell it out.