skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This isn't unique to California by any means. If anything this should be a big warning sign for any megaprojects in the whole of the US. The laws that allowed wealthy individuals to hold up such a project are federal not state level

Definitely don't think it's a waste though. Hopefully this can make clear what legislation needs to be passed to get stuff like this through. I mean, should we also just give up on nuclear? Nuclear power plant projects across the US have been famous for double or tripling the initial expenses and timelines
Maybe they can do both (high speed rail and better metro transportation)
Yeah the whole ads industry has been getting better and better at hiding the fact that they are ads. It's come to the point where ads are everywhere hidden and almost subliminal. The next step is to just use mind control on people to just get them to buy your stuff.
California and the Bay Area specifically need to seriously look in the mirror and apply some basic logic to the situation.

Public transport being bad and crime filled, is not the fault of public transport. Its a symptom of systematic failure to do even the most basic city planning, in fact maybe the historically worst example of city planning I can imagine.

The solution is to continue to invest into walking, biking and public transport infrastructure. Continue to make it better while at the same time attempt to build real urban environments in the area. You need to build housing for literally millions of people inside of the current boundaries of the cities around the bay. The good news is that there is gigantic amount of commercial zoned land that could be turned into mixed use urban environments. Even better if you can defeat the NIMBY and rezone all the single family housing zones to low density mix use urban.

Given the state of emergency, the city could even build these project and have 15% be public housing.

City planners have been arguing for these basic things for 30+ years. Here is a modern take on some basic things that can be improved:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fUtdFbK4YG4
Thats not what open world means.

My sims can't walk or explore in seemingly endless directions.
No, the developers you picked were wrong. You need high quality devs to create high quality sites
Nobody said that's the miracle solution to bring public transportation for all, that's a key step to it though. Public transports in California cities need to be built too!

Keeping on doubling down for cars/flights will surely never bring any sustainable and environmental solution.
Stuff like this is way more common than just roads.

The further you get from the lawmakers the more reasonable actuality gets, even if it is done plausibly deniable.
Two TN vid's on YT without IEEE's player ...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=edZgkNoLdAM

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=i67rQdHuO-8

80 TN minutes at the 2021 Vintage Computer Festival East

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7vb0FwsMqn0
How is everyone going to get rich then?!?!
Individuals can’t be diverse. Only groups.
Every system has downsides. The question is, is "having to make an immense moneetary gain at the cost of your connection to the trees you planted and the closeness of your neighbors" worse than the system we have now, and for whom?

Again: No system is perfect. It seems to me that the Georgist approach would tend to lay the tax burden more evenly on people of all levels of wealth, even if it does force some people to sell and buy.
Twitter Warns Staff of Potential Cuts to Employee Bonuses
Lots of negativity in this thread. Typical of large infrastructure projects. But other than the US Military this is the best way for the government to provide jobs. Lots of them. And it turns out this project is more than HSR. It’s an entire modernization project. And it’s working!

We need more big infrastructure projects. Lots more. Every dollar spent is an investment in the future.

This seems to be a more positive take: https://youtu.be/rcjr4jbGuJg
probably something like "hey, it looks like updates haven't been installed on your corporate laptop in the last three months. Please fix that or we're going to ban it from our systems."
"He was watching one of Lev’s two thylacine analogs through the kitchen window.…Now it turned, in its uncanine fashion, its vertically striped flank quite heraldic, and seemed to stare at him.
The regard of a mammalian predator neither canid nor felid was a peculiar thing."

William Gibson, The Peripheral (2014).
I can't help but compare California HSR with Brightline in Florida. There are indeed major differences between the two - Brightline is not high-speed, for one (top speed is 79 mph). And California's route will be 4 times the length (~210 miles long vs ~800 miles). And California has much more track being run elevated (Brightline has had several automobile fatalities from drivers going around the crossing gates)

But .. Brightline started construction in 2014 with the Fort Lauderdale station, and is now in operation from Miami to West Palm Beach (Orlando is projected to be added by the end of 2022). Brightline is also double-tracking the route so their trains don't get diverted onto passing sidings. California HSR hasn't run a single train yet.
LOL, only 2MB of minified javascript? How about those over 20MB ones?
Which is part of the reason sendfile doesn’t work well for ZFS.
> Traffic in urban centers (LA, SF, etc.),

What California really needs is adding more lanes to fix traffic.

There are way to better spend money, but fixing traffic is literally the last thing anybody should try to do. Unless fixing traffic means public transport and bike infrastructure.
Are you sure you remember it correct? I specificity remember tests we did over ISDN (64kbit/s). Opening KMail (X forwarded over SSH) and rendering changes took several 10s of seconds.
There is a reason NoMachine and X2Go got invented.
NoMachine is ok...if you haven't spent much time in RDP. Windows RDP is so far ahead of anything else out there it puts them all to shame. I use RDP for work all day long and I couldn't find a workable solution that would have a similar experience on Mac/Linux. And these machines are all on the local network!
Netflix had na outage during last 24 hours with their apps and web streaming not working. Multiple pages, including Netflix Help Center, troubleshooting and "Is Netflix Down" status page were just showing the string "BLOCKED"

curl https://help.netflix.com/en/is-netflix-down
BLOCKED
Because that's how it is in almost any major modern metro area in the world. Forming a tunnel vision into only one aspect of an issue almost always leads to bad outcomes, maybe except in programming and specifically in unit testing.
Which circles back to my original question, “assuming there was a preponderance of evidence, why would someone only destroy a fraction of it knowing that doing so would be irrelevant” - it makes no sense.

Also, at that point I had not read the ruling you referred to, which oddly clearly states the erased data was just a copy loaded to Dropbox; meaning the data exist in at least three places, one one of which is the one in question, that is the disk on the laptop that was erased by the agent. No explanation is provided of what happened to the other copies.

See “parties learned that a paralegal in Mr. Wilkinson's office named Karri Layton had uploaded the Neal recordings to a Dropbox account” here:

https://casetext.com/case/united-states-v-woods-260
The difference isn’t even stat sig, fake news.
You think Meta's VR systems aren't promising? My read on the situation is that they are making incredible progress, and doing so at scale. They're already delivering good revenue growth on a product that no one would say is "done". VR isn't a "build a good product" problem, it's a deep tech/hardware R&D problem before you can even open the door to building a good product.
An optical sensor hoovering up that much information is going to need storage, and also decent editing software, if we're to do anything more than note how old we all look in selfies.

One imagines that the extra data will help to de-jitter video, though.
There's lots of scaling involved in grand feats.

Eg enriching a tiny bit of uranium is 'relatively' easy. Enriching enough of the stuff to build an atomic bomb is a question of scaling. And, yes, in principle you can just use more and more centrifuges etc.

Humanity has already built some small infrastructure off-earth, like the ISS or satellite networks. Also various unmanned probes that toiled away for years in space and on Mars.

Building a habitat big enough to plausibly keep humans alive for the decades or more it would take to get to the Alpha Centauri would involve enormous scaling efforts. And that's not even touching on propulsion, yet.

However, yes, grand feats require more than just scaling.
The only downside IMHO is the lack of an iOS/iPad OS client. I’m in the “make my iPad a general purpose computer” crowd though, mainly to avoid carrying a beefy machine around.
I think they mean neurodivergent, which makes a lot more sense
I keep Screen Sharing App in my dock at right click for prior connections from the popup list.
Yeah but what would a sufficiently advanced AGI find "worthy"? Why is it that they wouldn't find it worth keeping us around? What would an AGI value? Whatever we program it to value or optimize for? Can it change its mind? If not, then it's controlled by us right? If it's controlled by us, why would it ever decide to wipe everyone out?
> My sims can't walk or explore in seemingly endless directions.

That isn't what open world means either. There isn't a game on the market where you can do that, though it is most of the concept of No Man's Sky. All game worlds are tightly bounded so that they can fit on your computer. The edges of the world are always obvious.

Open world is generally used to refer to a game where you are allowed to walk from any part of it to any other part. Compare Doom, where level 1 and level 2 are completely separated from each other. The only way to get from level 1 to level 2 is to beat level 1. There is no way to get from level 2 to level 1.

(Granted that Sims would never be called an open world game. The player isn't even present in the game world.)
I moved to the Seattle area about 20 years ago, and my first encounter with a Giant House Spider was pretty unsettling. Those things are big and fast.

I mostly leave them alone now (though often they become cat toys).
Same reason you use whatever labels you prefer; to express themselves both as an individual and as part of a group.
You are joking, but even sending 10kg to Alpha Centauri to arrive within a century (or at all) is something that has never been done.
Neurodiverse is a wider collection than autism. It's useful to describe a variety of circumstances without needing to enumerate through them.
1 is fine, but do take into account the future sometimes, and be ready for change. As a human you have the ability to do both. Suppose medical technology advances so that within 50 years, you no longer have to worry about dying from old age and associated issues, only random factors like getting hit by a bus (which could just as well happen tomorrow). In effect, many of those still living will no longer soon be dead. If you had an oracle from the future to confirm a particular date when this happens, does that change your priorities in life at all?

2 is most done reliably by having children. Nevertheless, Vitruvius?
I mean the latter, as I maintain the former isn't useful. The people who want to remote desktop into their Windows computer generally aren't asking about this feature so they can simply get fresh access to a remote computer as that's generally not how remote desktop is configured: it is so they can leave all of their programs running on the remote computer and get remote access to it.
When has the state declared bankruptcy?
It is easier than you think.

First, we get rid of PATH= inside scripts. A lot of incompatibilites comes from /bin, not the shell itself. Treat executables like services, rewrite everything (reasonable) in pure shell.

The scenario I'm trying to prevent is "I want to cut a string in OSX but I wrote for a GNU executable and the syntax is slightly different". Most shell one liners can be rewritten as good quality portable code.

If you take just Debian, there are 5 or 6 shells available via apt. These should run wherever Debian runs (x86, arm, hurd, whatever).

You can't write a reasonable JavaScript that runs on JScript.exe (it still exists), Apple JXA, gjs and node.js. But you _could_, the language is stable enough, for long enough, that everyone knows how to feature detect the shit out of everything js related.

For the shell though, we don't even have a solid list of things that work or not in each shell, or differences across core utilities. Something like caniuse.com, but for UNIX shells, not browsers.

Having a page that runs on all browsers was once something impractical and idealistic. Not using tables and invisible 1x1 pixels for layouts was once idealistic. We fixed it though. Mostly.
Sorry, hold on. It was my understanding that the state had a vast surplus of money. Even with a rail project as drawn out and over funded as this one, is that something you expect to happen in the near future?
It is often very obvious to those who need to edit "legacy" code, which so often just means bad code; it didn't have to be that way ever.
Your kids don’t have to go to college.
Also, used EVs will eventually be easy to obtain and reasonably priced.

At $20K, the first auto loan calculator I tried estimates a $278 payment, zero down, ignoring resale value.

Unless this service lets you switch EV types at will (sedan, SUV, compact, truck, rivian, etc...), I really don't see the point of paying the startup fee.
For home I wouldn't really bother with storm control. In the rare case something is actually misbehaving in that regard it's not much work to go fix right and I'd rather do that than mask it with storm control so it's still happening just not enough to cause an obvious signal.

For home wireless another trick, assuming you have a higher end model, is setting it to a different network than the wired. If you're not in particular need for slow service at the very edge of the coverage zone you can also raise the minimum data rate and then BUM traffic and wireless management frames won't be as painful even when they do occur.
Thanks!

> Usually each country has their own cottage industry of providers that mitigate this problem. (By git-ifying the text of legislation.)

We are truly living in the future! And as expected, it's made up of heroic duct-tape to paper over backwards-compatible rough edges.
It’s ok to worry, it just means you care. Find people who will worry and care with you about the same things you do and it will be feel better. Partially because you’ll find more important things to worry about, and partially because talking about it will help you cope!
> but you don't have a stab wound just because you have some of the overlapping symptoms

Nobody said this was true for autism. Only that resulting misdiagnoses may be contributing to the uptick.
Maybe Brendan Gregg can further enlighten his new coworkers at Intel why Netflix chose both AMD & FreeBSD.
S expressions without types make me nervous
They did refurb and reopen a public rest room at the Powell Street muni/bart station in February at enormous expense
https://www.mercurynews.com/2022/02/02/bart-reopens-bathroom...

They are now used extensively by homeless for a variety of activities.
Yes, I loved it!

https://osxdaily.com/2006/12/06/macsaber-turn-your-mac-into-...

I read somewhere that for the past decade this app concept won't work on Macbooks because with the SSDs they no longer have the sudden motion sensor which was used to shut down the hard drive to protect it in case of an accidental drop.
Cmd+the first letter of the button works.
While I’m mildly skeptical about the whole HSR project, it’s a little disingenuous to say “not a single mile of track has been constructed”. Maybe they are not laying track, but it not like they are doing nothing. Their YouTube page shows a lot of grade separation projects being done.

https://youtu.be/ZXgY5fQq3ew
The issue is trust.

I don't mind paying for closed source software one bit if I can run it in a sandbox with extremely limited privileges and network access on an opt-in basis.

But a remote desktop solution isn't useful that way. By definition, it has to have all the powers that you have. And for that reason, it's one of a very small number of categories of software for which closed source is simply a non-starter.
In 2017, 6.5% of global GDP ($5.2 trillion) was spent on fossil fuel subsidies. And you're complaining about trains? Most of the money wasted has been because litigation battles by wealthy individuals who oppose the project

$105 billion is about the size of California's current (and growing) surplus. Or about a fifth of how much California spent in 2021 ($512.8 billion). Yes it could be used to do more important things in the immediate sense but projects like these pay off tenfold in the long term
This is hilarious in addition to being technically accurate and insightful.
Why are principal engineers so curmudgeonly?
I can understand that their 20+ year career has consisted of considering worst-case scenarios. I can understand that they are incentivized to value stability and consistency over moving quickly. I like privacy and security as much as the next guy but I'd estimate that for 2/3 of the PEs I've worked with their risk aversion becomes bureaucratic. Is there anything to be done about this or is that the role they play and we should just acknowledge their perspective and move on?
Guix's bootstrapping work is an amazing feat IMO. Interesting to see how the fix needed to be made in Mes - something so far down the chain.
Are you aware that your comment could yield only irresponsible use of technologies, e.g. with the future generations?
I think I encountered a similar issue on android. The Alibaba app was enumerating the wireless devices periodically and causing my bluetooth headphones to de-sync.

I didn't dig too far into it beyond verifying that uninstalling Alibaba fixed the problem. But it's super obnoxious that userspace apps are given handles on enough of the wireless stack such that they can break things.
What I don't understand is what motivates this world destroying AGI? Like, it's got motives right? How does it get them? Do we program them in? If we do, is the fear that it won't stop at anything in its way to fulfill its objective? If so, what stops it from removing that objective from its motivation? If it can discover zero days to fulfill its objective, wouldn't it reason about itself and it's human-set motives and just use that zero day to change its own programming?

Like, what stops it from changing its motive to something else? And why would it be any more likely to change its motive to be something detrimental to us?
well money can fix car-centric low-density urban planning...
How is the federal government gone stop them?
What situations do IDEs add a bunch of difficult to read code? Auto-adding lines of code for importing things, closing blocks, hints while typing are all pretty clean. I do, however, think Typescript adds a lot of LOC where it often seems unneeded for a responsible developer.
Agreed. Title worship isn't helpful.

Perhaps a qualifier would have avoided this whole issue, eg "my more senior teammate" or "my mentor".

Then again, this seems like a reader issue, not an author issue. The salient point was never that Chet had status X and therefore could teach skills Y, it just was that Chet taught skills Y.
Yeah, they look similar, but this pattern is so commonly, and functionally used that I'm surprised they would make this claim.

As it turns out, this is one of the most popular patterns to use for a cutout for fan grilles on fans, particularly 40mm and under. You might find this exact pattern on anything from air quality sensors to battery chargers to server power supplies.

The reason is simple - a large number of computer fans have the support struts arranged around the hub in this pattern, and putting the grill spokes there happens to reduce airflow obstruction.
This headline, “Quantum-Safe” Crypto Hacked by 10-Year-Old PC, was pretty awesome until I got to the "PC" part.
Old reddit link for convenience: https://old.reddit.com/r/compsci/comments/314ulw/what_would_...
What are the benefits to the user of allowing in-app browsers/webviews?
I agree. I think it's also reductionist to say sun avoidance increases mortality, at least based on the evidence we have.
>I can't remember a time when Ubiquiti wasn't a dumpster fire.

4-6 years ago things still looked quite promising, high energy great community and forums (gone now), a basic but workable issue/feature tracker (gone), lots of clearly talented engineers who were responsive and right there (gone), etc. Very good price/performance, quality and so on particularly compared to other stuff of the time. There was a reason it got a lot of recommendations. That was certainly a while ago now though.

They've always seemed like the MongoDB of network hardware.

Eh. Though a grim bit of irony is how old a version of MongoDB they've stuck on too amongst other things.

>COTS hardware tends to be more expensive and power hungry

Not enough to me to matter I guess. For applications like this one can find solid low power hardware, Xeon-Ds for example, that consume tens of watts at max load and idle plenty low. Or truly embedded stuff a single digits. There are enormous floods of stuff available that is a few years old for dimes or even pennies on the dollar. I replaced all my USG-4Ps with a few years old Supermicro Xeon-D front-network port systems I got for around $350. An extra 20W 24/7/365 is something like $20-30/year, for a device this important that's well worth it to me. And there's no comparison, it's a slaughter. Real systems have actual BMC/IPMI which is super handy if things go wrong. The performance is just ludicrously higher. It's trivial to have more RAM, the system runs off of mirrored ZFS drives I can count on, it can do HA, etc etc. All the normal tools are available.

I'd even take an old Celeron or Atom system over a USG though. Even without going to second hand market, something like Protectli's basic J3060 based FW2B would still be better IMO and has a max power of 12W, fanless. "Purpose built network hardware" doesn't mean much, hardware vlan filtering or offload for CRC/LRO/TSO are something a decent NIC can do, or even plenty of built-in stuff.
In my experience, pro-environmental regulation is always passed over a chorus of screaming capitalists pointing out that it makes it very expensive and difficult to build things. There is a reason that China is the factory of the world - it is legal in China to build things cheaply. There are only a tiny handful of people who know how to build things that are compliant with the regulation (& demonstrate that compliance).

So while the last step in the sequence of events is wealthy people suing, the actual problem here is probably that the CHSR may be illegal to construct and there are people with an interest in testing that theory.
The grifts are certainly getting more elaborate
My dad is an accountant. I joke sometimes that I got my dad's Autism and my mum's ADHD. Dunno who gave me dyslexia though.
I had a similar experience looking for a background track in an episode of This American Life. I couldn't remember which episode it was, and none of the lyrics were in English. Pretty sure I went through backwards through the episodes and listened to all the credited songs to find it. The song was 69 Police by David Holmes, which still feels perfect to me. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IWissIWxqKk

On the topic of background music, tons of original background music copies/imitates famous stuff. Sometimes it's "I wanted the sound of X but couldn't afford it", but there are some in-jokes in there too. Wish I could remember some examples.
Dr. Eggman cosplay required
would you mind pointing at those coins, perhaps even add relevant public key information if still known?