skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I believe this is possible if you turn on "Use keyboard navigation to move focus between controls" in System Preferences -> Keyboard -> Shortcuts. I have no idea why this isn't on by default.
To be fair some of the HSR money did end up being spent on electrifying CalTrain, the Bay Area commuter railway on which HSR will run unto SF. The upgrade to 1970s tech should improve service substantially since electric trains accelerate much faster.
That's what I'm wondering, too, and I was expecting that to be the thing described in the article based on the title.
When first it was approved, the Bakersfield routing appeared to be a boondoggle to get a specific vote.

But the more I think about it the more important I think it is to tie the Central Valley into SV, SF, and the LA basin. It will reduce housing pressure, move some industry into the Central Valley, and tie a red place together with a blue and a purple area.

And it was smart to start in the reddest part of the state and give them any benefit first.
There are so many things in such a short comment to unpack. I don’t think I have the energy to do so right now, but I’ll leave these initial thoughts:

You’ve got a rhetorical style that suggests you’re familiar with sparring on the topic. I’m not interested in that kind of exchange even if I do have energy for it. If that’s how you want to discuss the topic, you may have the last word.

If I’ve mistakenly categorized your reply,

- What happened when natives arrived is as relevant to what their descendants do now, as what happened when europeans arrived characterizes what their descendants do now. I’ll leave that open ended

- Of course businesses which didn’t exist couldn’t have caused things which happened before they existed

- The history of when natives arrived or even whether they migrated is disputed

- All of this historical focus might be interesting from a “how did now come to be?” perspective, but it’s not an analysis of what’s happening now

- Applying a similar historical analysis to euro records doesn’t produce megafauna or any other exculpatory extinction records

Now if we resume conversation, I hope we can agree not to engage such gotcha bullshit.
The West is in terminal decline, especially Democrat states. Since the California High Speed Rail project was passed and funded, California has completed just over 30 miles. China on the other hand, has build over 12,000 miles of fully connected High Speed Rail in the same period of time. I've ridden on it, and it's wonderful. China's network has a top speed that far surpasses California's plan. Additionally, Red states have completed high speed rail projects, notably Florida's SunRail project, though the top speed of their projects are still lower than China's system. I'm not sure California will ever finish this project, I support high speed rail; but the corruption of our state is incredible. We should fire the State of California, join the Belt and Road initiative and hire the Chinese to complete the project.
Operator Overloading in C [pdf]
if we could simulate the universe on the meaningful scale to model intelligence. we wouldn’t need artificial intelligences. we could just simulate a detailed scan of a real human and be done with it (ethical issues aside).

but there would be a drive to simulate this more efficiently. simulate using a classical model and see if the results match well enough. then the atomic level; then looser and lower-resolution chemical/E&M models, and so on. start compressing the elements being simulated (simplify the environment, prune and rearrange the neurons so long as the thing as a whole still acts the same), and so on. there’s a good chance we can go pretty far before the simplified simulation meaningfully diverges from the true simulation.

why can’t this be flipped? start with a simplified model/simulation, and keep adding details until you reach the point of diminishing returns? it’s a reversal of the same search process as above, but if you subscribe to the first approach (do you?), then is the latter approach truly impossible or just difficult in different ways?
In the real world, it's rare to find a non trivial business where operational costs to its problem size scales linearly. Let's take an example of search. If t he web size grows by 10x; this not only means # of your user grows by 10x but also # of web pages to be indexed, size of the ranking model, ratio of unstructured/dynamic content formats, faster pace of content updates, reduced informational density of overall web, size of user logs, advanced SEO, (those are just a tip of iceberg, there are so many other stuffs) etc etc... Every single dimension scales and stacks up. And you need to handle all of that within a limited latency budget where you cannot really make any compromises.
A small version of this occurs in the Mountain West. Some well-maintained rural roads are actually maintained illegally across Federal land by the locals. The Federal government is responsible for maintenance but often doesn't do any for decades and so the roads go into severe disrepair. If you ask permission to repair the road out of your own pocket, you will have to file absurd amounts of paperwork and the Federal government charges you money for the right!

Some of the local illegal road repair crews are well-organized. They descend like a flash mob with heavy equipment when the odds of getting caught are near zero. The Feds are incurious about who is maintaining the roads illegally because it is kind of doing them a favor.

I first learned about this when I naively started jumping through the hoops to get permission to repair a remote road. One of the local ranchers heard about it, pulled me aside, and explained how things worked while admonishing me for ruining my plausible deniability. The whole thing was wild.
There's another where you tap a beat with your space bar, and a website tries to guess the song.
For 99% of people, I'd argue there are at least a couple of things they know they ought to be doing, that they aren't doing, and a couple of things they are doing, that they ought to lessen or cut out of their life.

For the remaining 1%, maybe it's worth contemplating being vs doing, reading Tao Te Ching and going hmmmm :)
Even unaligned tool AGIs of a certain level become very very dangerous, becoming genies that give you what you asked and not what you wanted.
Wasn't there also a lightsaber sound effect application for Mac laptops, back when they had spinning hard drives with accelerometer sensors that triggered the head to disengage?
Who says it's the land owners that are the people that made it more valuable? It could instead be the employees of nearby businesses or more likely renters.
Can you delete reviews? An alternative could be to take them up on the offer, post the review, cash out the kickback and then delete the review.
But basically Ubiquiti has become a toxic dumpster fire of a company and their product lines (UniFi in particular) on a downward trajectory in terms of performance, features and stability for quite a while.

I can't remember a time when Ubiquiti wasn't a dumpster fire. They've always seemed like the MongoDB of network hardware. For basic stuff it was okay, but "advanced" features like RADIUS, hardware acceleration, etc. never worked well. Their stuff's worked okay enough for me in the past, but it's really flared up with Sonic's 10G gear.

But it's very, very pleasant to have the full spectrum of quality PC hardware available, you can get far more power for less, and you're never stuck with a critical aspect.

Gotta disagree here. I went with Ubiquiti because I wanted purpose built network hardware. COTS hardware tends to be more expensive and power hungry. I'm cautiously optimistic about the new Marvell (ex-Cavium) stuff but it sounds like Mikrotik is having a hell of a time with that too.

The big problem is that homelab/SOHO folks (myself included) don't want to pay the upfront cost of supporting or developing/testing modern hardware. At the price point Ubiquiti is targeting I think any entrant will be doomed to failure.
This is the most money wasted on something nobody wants in the history of California. It’s just a kickback scheme for political supporters
Don't buy any IT equipment from Amazon. Better yet don't buy anything on Amazon.

Counterfeit networking equipment: https://www.justice.gov/opa/pr/ceo-dozens-companies-and-enti...

Counterfeit memory cards: https://www.diyphotography.net/psa-fake-sandisk-memory-cards...

FYI F3 aka Flight Flash Fraud is a good albeit slow program to verify memory: https://fight-flash-fraud.readthedocs.io/en/latest/

Counterfeit i9 processor: https://www.reddit.com/r/intel/comments/8vk94b/received_a_fa...

Counterfeit laptops: https://www.reddit.com/r/laptops/comments/lod5ha/dont_buy_la...
Worth looking at Japan’s Toukaidou Shinkansen. The route could take a direct path from Tokyo to Nagoya to Osaka, being super fast and hitting up only the main cities.

But it doesn’t. It hits up the southern coast through Shizuoka and a bunch of small cities.
>Thanks for taking the time to reply.

No problem, glad to chat about this and commiserate a bit with someone in a similar boat.

>I've also soured on UniFi a lot over the last few years. It's crazy. The SMB / MSP market is massively underserved and instead of staying focused and capturing it Unifi is trying to compete in the enterprise market where, IMHO, they aren't going to succeed.

Yeah, it's such a huge waste. But the CEO is a classic trouble case with near total control (owns majority of the stock and thus effectively owns the board, a few caveats in terms of protection for minority shareholders in public companies don't really stop the trend).

>If we try out Omada and feel like it gives us everything Unifi does without all the feature creep then we'll do the same thing as you; EoL sites will move from Unifi to Omada. I'll always take fewer features and stability over continuous new features.

UniFi hasn't even had "continuous new features" though! Or rather, their "features" have been stuff like reskinning the GUI or doing their own entire custom silly speedtest stack for a while, not "features" like PPSK, or for that matter just having normal DHCP and DNS management! Or any sort of certificate management or customization, or, like, anything of substance. Or on hardware, they didn't even bother to upgrade their UniFi Security Gateways literally ever, not once! The ones still selling now are the exact same hardware as 2014 launch, no new updates in forever. They intro new stuff without ever sunsetting older stuff in general really. Use "EA" as a popularity poll test. The dysfunction goes on and on.

I don't know if Omada will be the answer yet but worth a spin IMO. I'd definitely hate having to either go back to lots of individual management or something cloud-based. I am stick with UI for PtP/PtMP stuff for the time being though, even if some rot is creeping in there too.

>We've used pfSense forever and have been happy with it. However, 2.6.0 has some gateway/dpinger issues where the bug fixes are slotted for 2.7.0 on the CE side, so it feels like the inevitable neglect of the CE version might be starting to kick in there.

I'm afraid that company has a history of scummy behavior too :(. I think OPNsense is just plain better but ymmv. FWIW, while it's OSS there is at least one company (Deciso) that does a "Business Edition" at a relatively sane rate (~$150/yr, less for a 3 year) with no hardware reqs (they sell hardware too but I don't suggest getting it) and does business support contracts as well. And Sunny Valley Networks does an interesting little layer 7 inspector that can plugin to it. It conversely might not be good enough for your needs either, but it's not crazy. And the free version is still quite solid. As I said in another comment the docs are pretty decent so might be worth giving them a glance and firing up a system in a VM.

At any rate my clients are happy now. And despite rough edges I'm grateful there are a number of essentially decent options available.
Remote Work Is Hurting Productivity, New York-Area Firms Say
take my eyes but not my app
Getting your whole genome sequenced is around 200-300$. Nebula or Dante labs offer that. Once you receive the data, which is going to be a VCF file, you have to annotate it with something like Ensembl VEP, which adds useful information to analyze it. After that, you can download a list of genes associated with autism from SFARI and extract the variants that you have in those genes. You remove the common variants (say those that have more than 5% frequency) and focus on the coding variants (the ones that affect the exome). From there on, the interesting part begins. Depending on the kind of variant, you can get certain conclusions or certain others. There are tools that predict the pathogenicity of certain variants; other variants you know almost certainly that they render the resulting protein non-functional, so you have to take a closer look at the gene and see if having a single copy of the gene is enough. And so on.

It's not complicated at all and a lot of it can be done with basic Linux tools, like grep, and visualized with CSV viewers like Visidata. That's just a basic explanation. If you end up getting your genome sequenced and want to analyze it, let me know in a comment.
> the quicker we can get rid of the Mac with its decades of legacy baggage

legacy baggage, a lot of which is/was well-designed or well-thought-out baggage, that is also being thrown out the window in the rush to mobile-ify everything, making people less productive overall, because big companies (and users) are bent on the idea that users shouldn't learn how to use their tools.
Good lord. I dislike cats, but this is vile. Totally lost any respect I had for Carmack.
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32398471
Yes well, by that argument anything we choose to do at all must be part of God's plan and hence Good™.
If anything, this post has only succeeded in making me even more anxious about all languages that aren't built on s-expressions...
It might prove that the language has decided not to have too many language features.
Why doesn't Apple make a section for lower tier apps? Or just a notice, that it doesn't meet the "high" standards but you can download it and it is safe.
The value you put on living around your family and friends in this scenario is zero.

That's not how normal people value those things.
I’d stay away from any of the PC based stuff. Get a scope with physical knobs and screen.
There are half a dozen studies per year, going back decades, assessing the safety of PTFE in implants. Many of them are longitudinal. Chemists routinely boil PTFE in acids such as hydrochloric and sulfuric for hours without degrading it even slightly; such degradation would contaminate their reactions.

I bet you can't find a study demonstrating natural selection in the split-leaf philodendron, either, but that isn't a good reason to go around saying "some questions remain unanswered" about whether the split-leaf philodendron is an exception to the laws of evolution.
West coast is no where near dense enough to support mass transit rail system. You would have to get in your car, drive to a central rail station, park in a massive parking garage, ride the train to your destination, then rent a car when you get there. At that point you basically have slower and far more expensive version of an airport.

Many east coast cities have the advantage of being planned out before cars so they are structured for high urban density. It is different in cities like LA or SF where it's all about urban sprawl.
Most of them probably don't fulfill my needs. They're likely stuffed with ads and spyware, have numberic precision issues, are missing functions I need, are subscription-based etc.

These days, I just use F-Droid for this sort of thing.
Relax. My post didn't talk only about jail.

> you have the right to force Apple to carry any apps you want

You might be talking about that, but I get the impression that the rest of us are talking about something else. I have, for example, specifically mentioned jailbreaking.
Eigenvectors for eigenvalue 0 characterize the null space. The eigenvalue 0 can have a multiplicity of eigenvectors, these eigenvectors span the nullspace.
Nowadays absolutely. Worth keeping in mind HTTP/2 made it into browsers 4 years before that media query though. You can also request that info via header nowadays if you for some reason were really dead set on sending the minimal CSS directly.
Small and cheap oscilloscope is normally the PC based oscilloscope. Early this week someone posted this review of a cheap USD$60 portable PC based oscilloscope [1].

On related note, if you want to understand the inner workings of oscilloscope, there is an excellent book on sales now at Springer Link (50% back to school discount). It also covers PC based oscilloscope technology.

[1]How good can a new $60 oscilloscope be?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32474122

[2]Oscilloscopes: A Manual for Students, Engineers, and Scientists:

https://link.springer.com/book/10.1007/978-3-030-53885-9
The emissions logic is non trivial. Also, it’s just more expensive to build analog everything these days, and most consumers will think digital is shinier anyways.
just ask. i am doing 3x6.5
If their family lives nearby, they probably own homes and can all sell and move together, move in with each other, move to an area not far away that's substantially cheaper, use your huge winning to build an ADU in your dear family member's backyard and be even closer together, etc...

You. Don't. Lose. By. Winning. $1M.

You get options.
Reality does not conform to the politics du jour, ergo, we must suppress reality.
> Who told you this? :D

Apple explicitly said so in a WWDC 2022 video. I think it’s the State of the Platform one, or if I’m wrong, the one titled like What’s New in SwiftUI. Their statement is that while UIKit and Objective-C will serve us for a long time, the best way to write new apps for Apple platforms is with Swift and SwiftUI.

I don’t believe that though. Swift is a great language, I agree, but UIKit is way ahead of SwiftUI and I would never use SwiftUI in a product where meeting deadlines matters, at least not in the next 3 or more years.
Brilliant stuff is easy to understand, a lot harder to come up with. I could do that! (With a little help from wikipedia, audio processing libraries, the answer sheet, and the knowledge that it's possible in the first place)

To me, this highlights how hashing is the closest thing programmers have to magic.
Maybe in a parallel dimension
where internet took a few more decades to be created we call a number to listen to our Twitter feed narrated by some robotic voice, and we get a bulletin/form every week where we write down who we want to follow or unfollow, and of course a field where to write our own tweets!
That works, thanks! Although there is a weird bug that going forward with Tab cycles through everything and goes back to the first field, whereas going back with Shift+Tab stops at the first field.
The main problem is that OSes do a terrible job at reporting Wi-Fi performance. RSSI is a very poor metric by itself, yet is all that's driving the wireless signal strength indicator.

Most wireless links are constantly in a barely working mode that's only made usable by TCP and various retransmission/error-correction algorithms on top, so a lot of connections that people think are "fine" (especially when the signal strength meter is maxed out) are actually not fine at all. There is no magic and those workarounds don't work for real-time streams such as calls/games/etc, so those "fine" connections will crap out miserably as soon as users jump on a call or game.

I'm not sure if there's a way for the OS to get any more info about the link quality/stability from the network card itself, but a purely software-level workaround could be to just track all TCP sessions (should be easy, as that's already managed by the kernel), average the percentage of retransmissions across all of them (to prevent a single bad server from skewing the result) and factor that into the "signal strength" meter.

An easy way to test this yourself is to run a ping towards your default gateway (the IP of your router). You should see a consistently low latency (in the low single-digits range) and no packet loss. If you're seeing losses or significant variation in response times, your connection is bad and you should do something about it (get closer to the AP or install a second one).
What competition? All new construction undergoes extensive red tape from localities.

If your talking loans, nearly all mortgages are conventional mortgages (or a similar defined breed defined by the feds). When you are loan shopping, your really just shopping for a broker, not a loan provider. That's going to be Sallie Mae or Freddie Mac, who in turn are backed the Federal Reaerves. That's why you'll receive a letter pretty quickly that your loan has been sold to one those two.

Your not even shopping for a loan servicer - as that can be sold and changed almost immediately too, or is already subtracted out to Mr. Cooper or someone else.

There is very little competition since it's all defined by the feds already. It's super regulated.
CMD-Delete almost always serves to press the Delete button or the equivalent in those dialogs. Not sure how you're supposed to find that out though!
xD, spoiling an algorithm
Is it consistent? It's still not good and I'd be curious about the explanation, but at least if it's consistent with no packet loss it shouldn't cause any issues.
Interesting discussion from a few years ago in "What would you do if you discovered a sufficiently fast way to do prime factorization?" - https://www.reddit.com/r/compsci/comments/314ulw/what_would_...
Hey at least they’re killing it. Which would be, under the frame you’ve laid out here, a kind of progress?
Several dozen generations of nations of native peoples may like a word on that. Yes. When you are somewhere, what you bring to it is the value of that place. Newcomers grow it and may increase the value, maybe even drive the residents off as they have, but it was the stewardship of the residents that made it inhabitable in the first place.

It's a lot like founder and startup equity in a way. Is it more fair for people who arrived with money and grew something to reap more benefits, or the people with time and sweat equity who took way more relative individual risk?
This doesn't seem right.

Carbon fibre is price competitive with aluminium.
Lenovo sends cease-and-desist to Framework over a stylized letter “O”
Worked for the company that made this game many many years after they got out of gaming. For years we got calls about it. Sometimes licenced it to other developers for nothing. We had some cool Japanese packaging and artwork from that era. The guy that did the sound turned into a great .net dev and we built several cool products together that ran for 15 years without maintenance.
> “The Sims” is an open-world game, meaning there is no right or wrong way to experience it

that's a 'diverse' definition, maybe confusing it with the concept of 'open-ended' ? (the sims is not generally considered an open-world game)
Naw, he's a punk. ;)
Not necessarily; if it were oil they would notice the smoke, while the fumes generated by teflon are quite subtle until a much higher temperature. So there have been many cases where people killed their birds before noticing that anything was wrong.

While I'm totally comfortable with eating teflon, I'm absentminded enough that I've overheated cookware many times, so I wouldn't use it if I had birds.
The unified RAM helps with memory bandwidth, but doesn't actually help with latency at all.

It also makes the GPU architecture very different in ways that makes performance hard to compare.