skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It reminds of a (somewhat recent) article and discussion here on the design parameters for long-term nuclear waste storage facilities. One of the points was that to deter interference from pesky curious humans across the time scales considered, pictographic or lexical warnings may get degraded or lose meaning: the structure and area itself must convey a message of menace, drabness or inhospitability.

I'd have bet this was a test site for such a project. Which given the name of the installation might be the goal. If anyone remembers the paper in question, my algolia-fu is failing me.
>I see a lot of negative and dismissive comments from you in this thread.

Please stop with that.

>"enable /tmp cleaning"... wow. I'm secure now.

That's one point, you know that. And then you do the "negative and dismissive comments" too.

>pretty pathetic if we're being honest

True it is...but not the hardening dialog or secure-level.
It's written through a virtual file system which stores in blocks and not files, the implementation of that could happily run zstd on the way to the multiple physical disks.

This isn't about them shrinking your individual files, its compression on their internal transport.
Isn't the pendulum due for swing back first?
Fact is, up until recently, monuments were dismantled and their materials used for other purposes both by subsequent rulers and by the population at large. If this art installation were to become the basis of an actual settlement in 100 years I'd say the money wasn't wasted. Unfortunatly we have so much unjustified reverence towards art that doing so would probably be forbidden and these structures will simply rot and disintegrate
It's an odd way to judge the success of a project based on number of recent blog posts or whatever.

In general Elixir is a bit more quiet that way, but that doesn't go to say its not nice to use.
So we should just let the stars waste the enormous amounts of energy every single second while providing near-zero value to anything concious, when we could instead harvest it?
For as long as humankind has existed, we wanted more and we strived to get it. That's not greed, that's a struggle towards better tomorrows. Energy in abundance has a tremendous potential and not just for more wanting and more consumption. Consumption goes hand in hand with creation and of course we will always want more. You speak like it's a bad thing that people have desires at all.
I think 'more' is definitely an answer here, you're just thinking too small.
It’s all gravel, not paved smooth, so maybe a dirt bike would be more appropriate.
It's in the Python standard library. Tkinter is just a wrapper around Tcl.
Really interesting conversations here! Thanks community.

Is there any free / open source solution for Mac? Parsec is really nice. So is JumpDesktop. But running a closed source is a little jittery because no one knows what it could do and capable of.

The workflow does require some security and privacy since it is not like gaming. Sometimes accessing a sensitive file or a document across multiple networks requires the opensource software's trust which can never be provided by any closed source application.

Some of the mentioned solutions like RustDesk is really good and it is open source and can be self hosted (it does win on many areas naturally!), but it still lacks the performant part to the likes of Parsec or JumpDesktop or similar high performance RDP solutions. Anydesk is again closed source.
This is like saying "Batman Returns" has taught me all I need to know about the practices of US law enforcement. (It seems that US law enforcement is largely carried out by independently wealthy martial arts hobbyists with latex fetishes.)
The point of bitcoin is never bitcoin apparently... You do make the economy interesting to foreign investor by investing in infrastructure, education, safety... not buying bitcoin and making yourself hostage to companies such as Bitfinex...
The way I view this as a net-gain is that AGI agents will be able to have innovation on improving themselves (exponentially?) and the whole world. They very well may be the path to a utopia.

Task 1 for AGI: Optimize your own system so you don't cost 50 million dollars to train.
Looks to me like when you break of the map in video game and find developer testing areas
A 145 megapixel image of our sun using a specially modified telescope
One could (and many do) burn 30M rather quickly building and trying to scale up some completely pointless app or service.
All but one of my Macs lack them. I also need a solution that works on Linux.
In fairness the US system probably mirrors the rest of globe in complexity in many ways from an economic perspective.
Very minor nitpick, but I think you mean h264. x264 is the name of a certain software project used for encoding video into h.264, but it's not a video codec itself.
They'll be fine. Evidence will point out that people traveled long distances to be there, supposedly to participate in some kind of ritual. Which is all true.
Culture is created therefore by literal dirt on the bottom of my shoe. By the very nature of being. Well, that's great. But eventually the word loses all meaning. It becomes a filler for "this thing exists at least ephemerally in the world we inhabit... how... monumental."

If anything is art, then all judgement is moot. It's pointless for any of us to even engage. Agree. Agree. Disagree. Blah. I may as well throw my mooty mud into the mix of debate. To me, there is not a singular emotion this piece evokes other than a self-indulgent egotistic lump of cement articulated with, (reviews await), likely, essays of arbitrarily cloying fascination. It's fine as a thing that exists. Whatever. But it is equally a sinkhole of value.
Go-tpc supports TPC-C/TPC-H/CH for both MySQL and PostgreSQL compatible DB
A toolbox to benchmark workloads in TPC for TiDB and almost MySQL compatible databases, and PostgreSQL compatible database, such as PostgreSQL / CockroachDB / AlloyDB / Yugabyte.
No, I agree with environmental protection but fundamentally disagree with your live small mindset. We can do both, we sustainable and be highly technologically progressive at the same time.
I haven't ever seen a single popup ad for Apple services - what are you referring to?
I questioned neither success nor usability.

(Apparent) activity of a project relative to how active the overall space is seems like a decent metric to look at.
Well yeah. S3 is ~$23/TB/month vs $10/TB HDD NRC + $0.20/TB/month electricity for a data hoarder NAS. I can’t imagine S3 users are very price sensitive. Most of them store <1PB.

Of course there are cheaper cloud services like B2 at $5/TB/mo, but even that can’t compete on price with physical infra when you have more than a handful of drives.
Some guy enjoyed building it for several decades. I think that's good!
3 is the cart before the horse.

"Real" terminal apps (i.e. command line utilities) are fine the way they are and you wouldn't use them any differently locally. They don't even need to care if stdout is a tty, and they reap all the benefits from a CLI because you can script them and pipe them into grep/awk/etc...

But as soon as we skid into ncurses territory, we're stuck with ANSI terminal codes to make some sort of graphical UI. Those apps don't benefit from being in a terminal (e.g. you can't grep htop output), and there's obviously some desire to make something visually appealing. Using in-band magic escape codes from the 1970s with severely limited functionality for that is just a workaround for the lack of a standard remote desktop protocol that actually works, is reasonably efficient and SSH-friendly.

Sure, the fact that you can make ncurses apps feeds back into complacency with the status quo, but that's always true. The enemy of great is good enough.

The other alternative is making a web UI, which in principle has the right architecture (run the UI on the client side and only push/pull meaningful data to/from the server), but unfortunately that's tied to HTTP(s), which isn't exactly SSH-friendly. What we'd need is a transport-agnostic version of HTTP that can be given a socket and communicate with the server through that without demanding to know how to open more connections to the server and demanding that those connections be made through AF_INET or AF_INET6 sockets.

So again, some server software is implemented as a web UI (like CUPS), but that's a workaround for the lack of something more straightforward that's also a de-facto standard.
Seems like your post is also completely missing the point: if you want a sustainable economy you will have a sustainable standard of living. That roughly translates to eating grass hoppers once a day at our current population density.
This is funny because I just went down a vacuum research rabbit hole and Dysons are despised by many techs and aficionados. Bagless vacuums in general are seen as a downgrade, and Dyson was the biggest hand in pushing their popularity.

My favorite is one vacuum tech who said Dyson’s biggest innovation was having a clear chamber that showed you the moving dust. Not much utility, but great product marketing.

But because this is HN, I look forward to a grizzled vacuum industry veteran coming by to put me in my place.
I think it's unbelievably ugly and pointless tbh
You can task the human-level AGI to optimize itself. You can create an army of copies of itself to work towards that. It's self fulfilling.
> I am amazed the women of America did not rise up and slaughter your political classes and judges in your red states and the federal courts

Then perhaps you probably don't know much about American politics. Until recently, there wasn't a huge gender gap on the issue. [1]

> You are to all practical purposes at this time in many ways an illegal theocracy operating in a nation state which constitutionally forbids it.

The declaration of independence explicitly says that our fundamental rights are endowed to us by our Creator. [2] The pledge of allegiance calls the US "one Nation under God". [3] The US, unlike France [4], isn't afraid of God.

[1]: https://news.gallup.com/poll/245618/abortion-trends-gender.a...

[2]: https://www.archives.gov/founding-docs/declaration-transcrip...

[3]: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pledge_of_Allegiance

[4]: https://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2021/12/france-...
Nixon did, but then other things happened.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Project_Independence
Shipping water isn’t expensive. Southern California has been doing it for decades. It’s a steep initial investment but not a prohibitively expensive system to maintain.
It’s probably a subconscious critique of suburban sprawl. Highways, strip malls, no trees - industrial.
Damn, those load times.
didnt know what you built, but certainly fullfilling for you, i guess.
What is our consciousness other than a set of physical chemical reactions?
Monuments need to be visible to normal people in order to have any cultural value. If the Tour Eiffel or Statue of Liberty were in a secluded forest, they wouldn't have had any real impact on culture.
This is a scenario where there are no zoning rules preventing the denser housing from being built.

It might be easier to fix zoning first?

(Property that's zoned to allow more development is more valuable, but property owners are often against lifting zoning restrictions anyway.)
Almost all new electricity generation is renewable. Nameplate capacity installation is only about 66% renewable, but the the actual generation of electricity by natgas plants is switching from continuous to intermittent peaking, so that balances out.

Regardless your original thesis is also wrong, since a gasoline engine is 20-40% efficient and a combined cycle gas turbine is 50-60%+ efficient.

If you measure by carbon emissions, it's even more stark. A gasoline car emits more than twice as much carbon as an electric car running on natgas generated electricity.
We just use Xrdp. It's not as fast as RDP into a Windows server, but it's still pretty decent for us.
> The similarities between the Hypertext Transfer Protocol and the Bitcoin Protocol are almost too perfect.

Except maybe for the fact that HTTP was not looking for an actual, legal, constructive use-case that it solved better than existing technologies say... more than a decade after its creation?
The article seems interesting but too much chat about the present. The challenges from 300 ad to now and how can it survive. Why Italian not known for its kindness all these time (Axis …) tolerate. Is it part of UN (guess no putin yet if Italy)?

It is the history and politics we should talk more.

Pictures. We have lots of beautiful places and tourist places … I pass.
We didn't build them because of a smear campaign by fossil fuel industries.

I don't understand how people can look at big tobacco, big sugar, big oil all paying for fake science between the 1940s to today and then think "Yes, but coal barons are the one group of people ethical enough to not spread fud about their main competitor".
I’m wondering if for these extreme use cases a bare metal program that doesn’t sit on top of a OS / kernel would be substantially more efficient.
I think :has() is probably the most anticipated addition to CSS 25 years (although rounded corners is probably also up there). I’m really looking forward to being able to use it. However it’s almost a shame it took so long, I’m not sure how it will fit in with utility class frameworks that are so in vogue. It’s much more closely aligned with the traditional separation of concerns.

Also very happy to see Apple and the Safari team push web standards forward!
As I know that there are some NASA people here, I was wondering... just curiosity

Do the NASA staff receive training in spiders and other alien-like creatures from this planet? A course about basic arachnid communication at least?

In the (unlikely) case that they don't, I think that they definitely should study arachnids and molluscs at least.

Is unlikely that alien life will be just common english-talking people, with blue make-up and some ear prostetics. If we can't tolerate spiders at the earth that only bite in self defense, how we would communicate effectively with aliens? (And being illustrated about the whole kind of traps created by earth predators is always handy)
If you intend on commenting to replace any positive critique with "I like this art" as well then carry on.
1½ miles long and half a mile wide, in terms of actual scale.
I don’t know the details of how a VNC program work, but I would be surprised if encryption would measurably change anything - at least on a file system level it doesn’t make a difference, due to out-of-order execution - it easily fits in the “waits” for IO.
isn't what i'm exactly doing, I have no idea what you are talking about? I was critiquing a comment that said "completely ignore what this post says". If you don't like what a post says, then skip it and don't comment.

Saying "this historically important place on a geopolitical basis is very pretty, so forget the geopolitical aspects and just look at pictures of it" I think is a weak and worthless thing to say.

I'm not sure what you disagree with. Yes, I understand snowflakes not only don't like to be criticized, they can't stand to see somebody else criticized either. But where I stand, ignoring the substance of what somebody says and directing attention to something insubtantial is MORE DISPRESPECTFUL than saying to somebody's face "I don't like what you just said."
Nixon: the best president the US deserved.
It’s typeset in Comic Sans, presumably as a torture test of the reader’s motivation.

The content is worth it!

The Hokusai painting (slide 94) with three depth planes reminds me of Shadow of the Beast, an Amiga game that used this kind of parallax scrolling planes very effectively for a feeling of depth and motion.
grace and hopper? from stranger things?
Totally. But, what's with everyone in the article being so grandiose about it.

I never felt like I just "didn't get art" until reading the quotes in this article.
> In developed countries, high density housing will either make the city unbearably expensive(NYC)

I think you're reversing cause and effect.
Just need 1 rock from the sky or 1 more stupid war like invasion of Taiwan will extinguish our home fire I guess.
Definition is necessary. What's 'progressive'?

Is post-modernism (and associated Social Justice Activism, identity politics and focus on culture-wars) 'progressive', or is 'progressive' defined as old-school, 'social democratic' politics, social justice, rights/freedoms and classic liberalism? These are almost diametrically opposed viewpoints.
It's an art tourist attraction. It's inaccessible, so it's good conversation/blog post fodder afterwards.
They are talking about media interviews, not job interviews (which may not be what you expect if you're seeing this on HN)
Carrying capacity depends on tech as well as lifestyles and dietary choices.

If we were willing to cover the entire planet and make 99% of all species extinct (and I agree that would be bad), greenhouses would are enough to boost production to the 100 billion to 1 trillion range, hydroponics and aeroponics about ten times that.

But that's expensive and we don't have a clear and present need to shift away from open air farming in most cases.
Wait those dots are trees?
Some perspective from the UK: HS1 completed in 2009 for domestic passengers (also used by the Eurostar to Europe) is our first high speed railway since the 60s. The three "high speed" stations on the route once leaving central London are Stratford (London Olympics 2012 site), Ebbsfleet, and Ashford, have between them probably had close to 200,000 homes built within walking/cycling distance of the station. Further 'slow line' stations that the services serve once they leave the high speed line probably contribute as much new housing again. That's over the 30 years of route planning to opening.

Yes, there's a bit of a spurious correlation between the UK house building, and the high speed line, but there is a direct and indirect economic correlation.

Regarding 'personal safety' on the service. Trains in the UK are typically pretty safe, but the HS1 route in particular, they're obsessive about catching fare dodgers, so the trains are staffed with 'revenue protection officers', and often British Transport Police (and branch of the police force peculiar to the railway).

And then there's Canary Wharf, reachable from... Stratford on the HS1 route. The former London Docklands that since the late 80s/early 90s has gone from being acres of empty docks, to skyscraper offices and skyscraper apartment blocks (pretty uncommon in London).

My point being that there's a virtuous circle of 'build it and they will come'. Planning is everything in making it successful. In fact, any large infrastructure project in the UK is government planned (federal - in the US?), and the cost/benefit value is calculated, and explains why the south and south-east of England gets a disproportionate amount of investment, because the economic returns are so high. California high speed rail would have money thrown at it if it were in the UK.

I really hope California's high speed rail works. But people need to be patient. It really is going to be 20 or 30 years before the economic and social benefits become obvious to everyone.

In the UK if there's a mainline station in a city, we typically build many high rise office buildings in and around that station wherever possible, and then the outer stations often become 'dormitory towns'. I'd envisage something similar in California. The areas around the terminal stations in particular will grow offices, and the other stations, will see more housing and commuters. If, of course, working from home doesn't kill it.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/High_Speed_1

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Canary_Wharf
I think this is super amazing. What a piece of art. I have seen a couple of Maya city ruins, and this reminds me of them.

It’s also a great reminder of what you can achieve if you focus a considerable amount of time on something.
Code becomes unmaintainable when it was organized poorly and grows or if discipline was not maintained during growth.

React projects are just as susceptible to that, and "modern" web development is quite frankly a larger maintainability headache due to the dependency hell they bring.
Several are listed here:

https://github.com/AboutRSS/ALL-about-RSS#a-webpage-in-engli...
I sometimes search for specific keywords in the transcript of the video to directly jump to the point in very long videos. Otherwise i just click at the middle & judge.
I don't think it's just a FAANG thing. There are FAANG employees outside of the US also. I think it's simply that many US-based people are just blinkered to the world beyond.

It's a cultural thing. For decades the US has aimed to export its values, democracy, world view, etc, to other parts of the world. They think of themselves as the world's protector, the upholder of what is right, the benchmark for freedom and liberty in the world.

This is not to say those values are wrong - I think, by and large, they are indeed good, but the arrogance with which they are expressed by the US often just doesn't help.

This is a superiority complex which is ingrained and, frankly, tiring -- there are many places in the world which can legitimately claim those accolades, but many US citizens just seem incapable of acknowledging that.
The most surprising thing for me is that Safari is first with this.

Am I in a HN bubble where everyone are always complaining about safari, or is that genuinely unusual?
Any coincidence it's strangely close to Area 51? Just sayin...
This is awesome but needs the expansion
I no longer use a Linux laptop for work but as recently as a year ago, plugging an external monitor/keyboard in to my X14 wouldn’t wake it up (required manually opening and closing the lid), I could use the headphones on AirPods but not the mic, and screen sharing on teams (and a bunch of other video conferencing software) would only work on X11 and not Wayland.

This was running the latest Ubuntu at the time (20, and then 21).

Perhaps things have changed in the last year?
Oh hey, I remember you!! I really appreciated your comment, that one in particular stuck with me.

And yeah, it's so much fun. It's a real privilege to work with such motivated, optimistic, hard-working students. They have all the energy that's been knocked out of me since 2014!
I think it's mostly just download time. Didn't take long for me.

Oh, do you mean between game areas? I didn't actually play it yet!
Its namespace extensions are still actively developed. For example, source namespace by Dave Winer and podcast RSS namespace by Podcast Index.
It looks extremely useful. It’s slightly different to what I imagined a parent selector to be many years ago. When I think of “parent selector” I imagine putting the logic with the sibling and not the parent e.g. “if I’m in a hover state make my parent green, regardless of who/what the parent is”. It’s a small difference that in reality can be achieved with :has and collocating logic higher up but it’s an interesting difference.
Sure. I didn't make it clear in the other comment, but the slow process of building reactors is part of my world model — remember, the benefit I see from them is about preventing correlated failures, and those can happen any time not just tomorrow.
This Week in KDE: Dolphin Selection Mode
The black widows will eat you alive before you find a brown recluse in riverside