skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Nitpick: on a 26 mile stretch with stops at both end, that train will do closer to half its top speed. It has to decelerate and accelerate one more time. I think that will add closer to 15 minutes to the time on the full stretch.

But yes, they need riders, and thus intermediate stops. Most train passengers don’t ride the full track, just as most highway drivers don’t ride the entire highway.
In the games business, Valve is surprisingly OK. Also they're private and not interested in becoming part of a roll-up. I don't think those things are unrelated.
Property taxes are a way for the governments to make sure that you never own your home. Ever. It is the most brazen thievery that has now been normalized and a crime against people who have been gaslit into believing that they have ‘rights’ under a state that they think they chose by the democratic process of election.
Since iTunes doesn’t exist anymore, I guess there’s no way to not remove iTunes.
thanks for this input! Parsec looks promising
Under "Settings" I have an "Quick SOS" section where this can be configured. From 3 clicks to 5 clicks, or disabled. And the behavior can be to call 911 or to share location with emergency contacts.
If they would add multiplayer support I’d be super happy.
Go is very simple, provides decent static type safety, has a nice concurrency model, and compiles to fast static binaries across all major platforms. People choose it all the time because it’s a great choice. A wild number of popular open source tools are written in go, very few of them created by google. As someone who wrote go for many years I think you’re overstating how limiting it’s “major flaws” are. And fwiw go ranks much higher than haskell on stack overflow’s annual developer survey.
I lived in Capitol Hill in Seattle during the formation of CHAZ. Anyone interested in anarchism in America should read up on what happened there because it was effectively a month-long stretch where the Seattle city government just abdicated a few blocks. In that short period of time a local rapper with a bunch of guns started patrolling the streets at night, some kids got shot, some murals got painted, parts of a field got torn up to make a crappy community garden. It was a wild ride. Finally got steamrolled by SPD when another two kids were shot.

Wikipedia: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Capitol_Hill_Occupied_Protes...
"we don't want to let people end their life humanely because I think I know better than them about their life. Instead they can end their life inhumanely anyways." - I rewrote what you were saying to make its intent clearer.
https://www.nytimes.com/2017/06/16/us/suicide-texting-trial-...
Where? I have several Macs in my office, I might have seen a question on upgrade, but that's it. In Safari?
Ultima Online for Web Browsers
> making it available widely with no counter measure is a very dangerous proposition.

Why? And, dangerous to whom?
I don't understand this argument. Are you really worried about being tracked or what the outcome of that tracking is?

When a company tracks you anywhere - let's say Google on Website X or Apple on Apple product Y, they will both use that data to sell you advertisements. Neither will actually "sell" your data to an advertiser, but will use their technology to let an advertiser target you.

What's the difference? It's the same outcome, you are being sold things.

You mention "opt-in" as one potential difference - that one can opt out-of the Apple ecosystem but apparently not out of other places...I don't understand, you can opt out of any website that serves Google Ads. In the same way you can opt out of Apple products, you can opt out of Google products.

They are both corporations, equally committed to earning money for their shareholders.
Yeah that's absolutely correct, creeping eruption where they just tour around under your skin like a game of snake is usually caused by species adapted to using other animal species as hosts.
The SF peninsula line now has to eliminate all grade crossings for high speed rail to run above 70MPH. That's the big job. Which means re-doing most of the line, right after electrification is completed.

I think the high speed rail system should have bypassed San Francisco and gone through Oakland to Sacramento. Just build a BART station with a cross-platform transfer between high-speed rail and BART. No ticket barriers. High speed rail would include a BART ticket, and anyone who gets on high speed rail without a ticket gets dumped in Fresno, which should discourage free ride attempts.

SF still plans to tunnel over to connect Caltrain and high speed rail to the "Salesforce Transit Center". But by the time that's needed, downtown SF will have finished moving eastward to the existing train station. Look where the new construction is.
I have incurable cancer and I'd really like to die on my own terms. Why should that be hard? Today it is still way too hard in most of the world (including in countries that have MAID).
Also, it's not just about it being "hard". Sure I could blow my brains out, but I'd like to have the option to die with my loved ones by my side without traumatizing them (or getting them in potential legal problems).
That gets kinda to the heart of the problem of "labels" right there. It's just a way for people to label groups of "other" to make them easier to target for fear and hatred. Everyone is different (even so-called "identical" twins), and you can group 'em together a billion billion different ways.
So, kinda like a very small scale zombie apocalypse? Cool stuff.
I've literally never found anything better than the NX-based NoMachine (I think version 3 was the last one to support it). I'll never understand why they downgraded themselves to yet another desktop video stream. If you can find a copy of the older version or one of the open source replacements (freenx? x2go?) it's worth it.

I was able to use my home computer lag-free at my highschool when it was at home sitting behind a shitty ADSL connection. Later I used it at college with my computer at the dorm with a 100k/sec upload cap (enforced to discourage student file sharing). It pulled some dirty tricks with X forwarding, caching pixmaps, and jpegging the hell out of the individual elements, but it really felt like the computer I was using was right there.
I am having trouble figuring out why infanticide (killing a baby that has already been born) entered a conversation about ensuring a pregnant mom and doctor are able to make healthcare decisions unencumbered from legal liabilities.
We know from 1929 crisis that pure capitalism as such doesn't work. Yet governments go on and on about free market and competition… Yet whenever something happens they are ready to give handouts to companies (especially big ones) because otherwise everything collapses.

It's basically socialism when things go bad and capitalism when things are good.

It favours the rich.
Noted in the footer of the story, but if you liked that content you’re likely also going to enjoy the book, A Burglar's Guide to the City:

https://www.amazon.com/Burglars-Guide-City-Geoff-Manaugh/dp/...
I am instantly taken back to a time where we literally planned to lug big tower computers to my friends house just to be able to play CS 1.6 together. Thank you for sharing!
Yeah, I heard. Still the case of a badly configured device.

Remember kids, it's a software driver configuration. Show me that BadUSB that works on the dumb DOS operating system. No? Yeah, didn't think so. Only "clever" OS'es are pwned by this, and if you dumb them down then nothing gets to run automatically.
I run PopOS on a Thinkbook and overall the experience is more hassle free than my Windows-System these days.
I've also moved on... But unless someone out there gets their hands on a CPU comparable with M2, what would be the point of not upgrading back to a Mac? It's not like Windows is a significantly better experience (gee, the menu item search is such an obvious and necessary thing, is that covered by a valid patent?!)
> people know how to live their own lives and organize themselves better than any expert could

except, of course, for anyone that disagrees that anarchy can work?

> If we ever win the freedom to run our own lives, we’ll probably come up with entirely new approaches to organization

Didn’t take long to come out and admit that!

The truth AFAICT is that humans are animals and animals love a pecking order. You remove the “rules” and all you’ve done is remove the formalization of rule–providing ample opportunity for arbitrary informal rule systems to become established in an unwritten fashion. I’ve found that the people I know that advocate anarchy actually view it as a means, not an end. The real end is the system they think would work best (usually to their benefit, imagine that), and anarchy is simply the step that removes the old system.
> Desktop Linux GUI is still painful and really only suitable for those who love to
tinker.

Nah it works completely fine. There is no photoshop, yes, but stuff does work.
I’m paying like $4/mo for iCloud storage. All my files are backed up there. I don’t get any ads.

Is there an option like that on Windows?
Maybe someone should make a Linux distro with a DE preconfigured to work "the Mac way", kind of like Linux Mint is preconfigured to be "the Windows way".
> Fine the owners $2500 each month that a house is vacant.

What's "vacant"?

Is my house "vacant" if I'm there on weekends?

How about one weekend a month?

How about two months out of the year?

If I have to rent during the other ten months, can I evict when I want to be there? (Those two months happen to be the high-demand time for housing.)
Interestingly the RDP client on the mac app store is really good.

Its better than the Windows client because it just works as another desktop in the Mac OS, with no bar at the top, and you can jump in to and out of various remote session quickly just by switching desktops with Cmd+left or right arrows. Its a really simple, nice to use implementation.
Yeah… I mean I love the “don’t have to think about anything” experience of all Apple products. That’s the reason why I use their stuff.

But at least in the last couple of years before the M1, the number of things that were just plain annoying… it really made me look for an alternative. And really… there isn’t one. Windows is so annoying to use and even the Linux fanatics I work with manage to run into trouble like once a month. And yeah it’s fixable trouble. But I really don’t want to deal with that shit. I want a useful trackpad, a useable browser and a usable mail program. I want my laptop to reliably suspend and wake up. I want, if there has to be a kernel crash, that I get all my windows back in the state I left it. That really doesn’t sound like too much. And yet it is.

And the worst part: Apple knows it. There is now quite a number of subpar experiences (looking at you Apple Music App) that they can just get away with.
I am the "analysis software coordinator" for a nuclear physics experiment (MUSE). The software framework we use was originally developed by me, on a macbook pro, mainly, targeting both MacOS and Linux. We have to onboard new students regularly, and it's quite a software stack to compile (Geant4, root, helper libs, our framework). 5-10 years ago, I was happy if a new student was on Mac. Slap homebrew on it, install the dependencies, install the software. Pretty straight forward. But now, it get more and more brittle. New xcode? Better start downloading new versions and recompile everything, and pray that it works. Now I am actually happy if somebody brings a windows laptop. Slap on WSL, install ubuntu, just works. The number of students we had who used linux already on their laptop I can count on one hand with no fingers :(, but our new postdoc directly ran into an opengl problem on AMD which makes the gpu restart.... So from that perspective, Windows+WSL, with all its warts, comes closest to usable.
YouTube removes video by Tesla investors using kids in FSD Beta test
This.

People just are not building, crafting and using desktop apps specifically for Mac anymore.

That ship has sailed. They either use their own frameworks and build on all 3 platforms, or use Electron. On a lot of daily things people use iOS.

I am thinking what apps I actually use on my Mac the most.

It’s Chrome, VSCode, Terminal.

I still use Preview a lot though… I hope the Swift pushers won’t touch that. If they screw up Preview, I don’t know what I’ll do. Preview is amazing honestly.
One thought I've had to the contrary to this is "centralization is more efficient". In India there's a debate about states programs vs central programs. The central programs seem to be way more efficient since they have scale and appropriate funding than the state ones. Plus over the years people tend to think of everything as India's system rather than Maharashtra's or Karnataka's system. As people's mobility for work has accelerated this has been even more pronounced.

The states complain about losing power in this game but I think the people tend to prefer it that way now.
If you don't mind a hosted service that doesn't proxy the stream, then https://getscreen.me/ is great, you can even watch a movie over the wire performantly. It uses a custom native handshake client and WebRTC for the capture & encryption, in other words, same as Chrome Desktop but simpler to use.
I went through a back injury that saw me wanting to use my desktop from bed for extended periods of time. Support for remote desktop _with audio_ seems very lacking. xrdp on Ubuntu sorta works, except that you can't easily drop into an existing session, and it develops horrible audio lag/stutter if too much of the screen changes at once.

I've settled on Steam Link for remote desktop on Linux. It still has one big issue for me: the cursor rendered by Steam jumps around weirdly at the edges of windows. I would love to solve that problem. However, apart from that, it flawlessly transmits video and audio in a way that Just Works.

I just wish it was packaged as a standalone solution.
Tribal society is not just a hunter-gatherer thing; it still exists today, as the maximum viable scale of informal organization among humans. A small village hamlet, or even a single HOA in a big urban neighborhood, are effectively the modern equivalents to the old "tribe".
This a pretty hot take. I'm in the early stages of learning go. So far I like it a lot, but I come from the perspective of a data person who only knows python. I want to learn a compiled language, what would you suggest instead?
I think it’s pretty stunning tbh
There’s nothing small about the California HSR project. I’m not persuaded by “we should be more like China”. The grass is always greener. They have problems with their rail system that make California HSR look like a Disneyland attraction.
Seems like you're joking but I know far too many people who have bought a garbage $300 windows laptop, absolutely hated it, then they bought a $2000 MacBook Pro.

They always mention how much nicer the Mac is than their old Windows laptop but never mention that they bought a bargain-bin Windows laptop and a modern flagship Mac.

Even if I try to advise them to to just get a Windows laptop in the $800 range or so, they pretty much always go with a Mac because it feels like the safe purchase.
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They have elections and a government. It's basically a city-state, albeit an inclusive and moderately democratic one. I think it owes more to the ideas of Murray bookchin than anarchists like Gelderloos.
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27235970#27242148 listed several back in May 2021.

https://github.com/robmsmt/SpeechLoop "What is the best [Automatic Speech Recognition] ASR for my dataset?"
> No one is held back by bash or POSIX. You are free to use anything that suits your fancy. Feel free to whip out scripts in Python or Perl or Ruby.

The point is that there are many improvements that could be made to bash which would retain the good properties but would get rid of the worst footguns and suckiness. Quite a number of these (though not all) have been available for decades in the form of zsh.

Also, as pointed out already in another comment, bash is not in POSIX at all. POSIX is very much a "lowest common denominator"-kind of specification which moves at geological speeds. Even dash and busybox sh implement some non-POSIX features.
You would only type 'mutable' at the handful places that really need to be mutable.
You would also likely delete the 'const' that are already all over the place.
If you really use mutation all over the place, then either you work on something unusual or you should learn to do better.
Yes, many, including the lattice algorithm NIST chose in the first round of the PQC competition.
NYTimes has a nice graphical piece about it:

https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2022/08/19/arts/design/m...
This. Ableton still works great on Mac, so do all the plugins I use. Logic Pro is still excellent, and I assume final cut is too. I often find these rants a bit surreal.
Barnard's test is appropriate here, because while the experimental design is a 2-way contingency table, only the columns (# villagers and # friars) are constrained, the rows (# infected/ # not infected) are not. P value was just under 0.05.
That sounds amazing! Can you build it on top of Linux so I can run it on Asahi Linux on a MacBook? I refuse to use a laptop that isn’t running an Apple M-series chip now. Intel/AMD have a long, long way to go to catch up and they don’t seem to have any interest in doing so.
It is horrible if people are forced into MAID because of monetary issues, but that should obviously be addressed by improving their financial support, not by taking away the option of MAID.
> It favours the rich.

It favours the well-connected, who then become rich thanks to big government largesse rather than actual productive work.
Yes, that is why I explicitly noted the "express train" thing in my footnote. The route itself is longer, so a direct train will take a little bit longer. A local train that stops will add more time.
Hey, thanks for the hint. I didn't know about Nombas at all.

Did you see the Espruino Engine? https://www.espruino.com/
No, you failed to answer, then doubled down and hoped nobody would notice.

We noticed.
Those are not animated gifs. It's all done using CSS
I wouldn’t. PTO is precious to me and planes are many times faster than trains.
That sounds amazing, please do a show hn when you decide to release it, I’d love to use something that’s closer to classic Mac OS HIG.
Maybe but it seems like your parents have their health and were taking care of themselves.

I'm in my thirties. I'm already suffering from obesity, have chronic pains in the wrists and shoulders and leg, and my hearing and vision are starting to deteriorate, and I've had multiple bouts with gout that leaves me barely able to walk for months at a time.

If my thirty's are already this bad, I can't imagine lies in store in my 40's, never mind 80's.
I’ve tried 108mp samsung camera and sharpness and digital zoom was incredible, provided you can keep subject stable. iPhone 13 Pro is nowhere close in this aspect.
And don't forget all those awful looms stealing workers jobs! They must all be destroyed for us to prosper
Barnards, which isn't as conservative as Fisher's exact. My understanding is Fisher's would be necessary if the number of positive cases was constrained (not applicable to this kind of work really but e.g. 600 years ago someone had ten eggs and distributed amongst the laypeople and the friars).
That's an impressive level of devotion to portable bash arrays.
I'm a little bit arachnophobic sometimes, and one of the most stomach turning moments I recall was going into the garage barefoot and having a spider the size of a small mouse run across the floor and bang into my foot. I've run into a few more specimens since then, usually ones that fall into the laundry sink and can't get back out, and I think they're some kind of wolf spider. Apparently they bite, but they're not venomous so you just get a nasty infection. [Shudders]
Alternatively I could tell you to fuck off, because absolutely nothing about your statement is factual or fair in even the slightest.

People like you love to say shit like “well just go make you own platform”

Cloudfare will ban you, AWS will ban you, the investors that are poor fronts for private equity will ban you, it’s controlled. You won’t be able to take payments in your little rebel SaaS because Visa will
Kneecap you.

You pretend that there’s some kind of free, open exchange of ideas where some free market determines what is popular and thus allowed for social discourse. Instead there’s the allowed discourse of the elite, which you freely participate in with glee, and worst of all you pretend you’re free.

So please keep simping like a good little serf. It does all of us good when we conform to what your institutional therapist thinks is “good” lol
The World Economic Forum says Africa has 60% of global uncultivated arable land. [1] This might be what you remembered?

Africa’s problem isn’t the availability of arable land it’s soil fertility. The soils in Africa are mostly bad to meh. [2][3] The less fertile the soil the more fertilizer inputs it needs to produce.

1. https://www.weforum.org/agenda/2016/01/how-africa-can-feed-t....

2. https://www.nrcs.usda.gov/wps/portal/nrcs/detail/soils/use/?...

3. https://www.isda-africa.com/isdasoil/?location=-17.741%2C-45...
Consciousness isn't well defined enough for us to prove your assertion as right or wrong.

As such, we also don't know if consciousness is required for an AI that can perform most useful tasks at human level.
For the curious, here's the satellite view: https://www.google.com/maps/@38.0334984,-115.4461277,1423m/d...
Last time I tried guessing the cost of a high speed rail line from Denver to Chicago it seemed fairly cheap because it's 1200 miles of flat and undeveloped land. I think probably $100 billion.
Dangerous to the people who would impulsively choose to be euthanized?
lack of law != anarchism. anarchism or voluntaryism is about the right of freedom of association. people chose to live in CHAZ, they weren't forced. disrespect of property rights is unfortunate and i don't condone that... but property owners, like the soccer field owner, could have hired private security. that's a perfectly anarchist response.
that's the theory of TAZ
It doesn’t have to look great if you are after functional results - identify faces, read some text, etc
> It shouldn't be difficult to navigate to a directory via a path

Command-Shift-G my friend.

> or run a program

Spotlight? (Command-space)
Or Mission Control? (Control-space for me, but I think I customized that)

> have the file browser automatically resize its icon view

You want a window to automatically make the icons bigger if you resize the window to be bigger? No idea how to make that happen.
Neo-puritans.