skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This idea that San Francisco (or California or the whole west coast) shouldn't build transit because it doesn't meet some idealized version of transit in some other hip city is one of the worst takes I've seen. It's naive at best disingenuous at worst.

The last time I checked (which was pre-pandemic) Muni carries around 750,000 riders daily – it's waaaay lower now. It's the last resort for privileged, antisocial techie types who've never lived in a city before, but is in fact the primary transit for a whole lot of people (including bicyclists). BART saw closer to 500,000 daily. Honestly I can't remember the last time I thought a station smelled overwhelmingly like urine.

Seattle? Waiting in a vomit soaked line to clear immigration at the airport was up at the top of my list of unpleasant travel experiences.

New York? Have any of you actually talked to New Yorkers? Or even bothered to look at a NY oriented site like Gothamist? I'm guessing not because otherwise you'd be well aware of the decrepit state of the NY subway (rats, violent crime, constant late night service disruptions, etc). Complaining about the subway is pretty much the city's favorite pastime. God help you if you end up in Penn Station (easily the most aggressively awful public toilets I've ever seen) or Grand Central and have to deal with the various infighting between the transit agencies. Late night service has been a mess for years as they try to prop up the dilapidated infrastructure. And if you want to talk expensive boondoggles there's always the 2nd Ave subway line.

Paris? Plenty of junkies and whatnot when I was in Montmartre. RER out by the Eiffel Tower was equally sketchy.

Frankfurt? Plenty-o-prostitutes and junkies around Frankfurt Hbf. Busted TVMs at the airport station. Want to check out the Lufthansa Technik museum? Good luck catching a train.

Madrid? Easily the worst smelling metro I've ever been on. It's absolutely oppressive during the summer. Hopefully you're able bodied because the Madrid metro stations are pretty dang deep.

Berlin? Graffiti covered trains. My most vivid memory in Kreuzberg was watching a zombie stumble out of the station and into the street only to get clobbered by a motorcycle. They ran away when someone offered to call an ambulance. Don't take my word for it (and, yes, Kottbusser Tor is gross). https://berlinspectator.com/2019/10/31/how-safe-and-comforta... https://www.thelocal.de/20191031/more-people-instead-of-came...

Singapore? Do you know why food/drink are banned? Because people are fucking gross. Ask a Singaporean what they think of the efforts to increase the automation on MRT lines.

Osaka? Homeless guys living out of cardboard boxes.

Public transit is a reflection of the society in which it's located. Unfortunately for all the handwaving, and as it turns out foreign countries are not utopias.
> Instead they can end their life inhumanely anyways

That's an option that always exists. I simply have a (much) higher threshold than you in regards to a state killing its own citizens.
Microwave ovens are simple to design and that makes them not comparable, almost all the cost comes from running the factory and buying inputs.

A consumer level OS on the other hand is extremely expensive to develop and basically free to copy, so the advantage of scale is extreme, you wont see that level of competition there.
Please keep trying to do nothing.
Ask HN: Outcomes of using HTDP vs a popular language course as intro to CS?
How to Design Programs aka HTDP: https://htdp.org/

It is used by many schools like NorthEastern, Brown, UBC, etc. as an introduction to programming and computer science. It uses a set of student languages of increasing difficulty to teach concepts of programming and computer science. But it mainly uses functional programming and doesn't discuss imperative style programming. Although in the first edition it discusses some mutation and state topics, but those have been dropped in the second edition.

The thing is the universities which are deemed top in CS goes a different route while teaching introductory CS. Like MIT teaches a course in Python. So does Cornell. CMU has a later course on functional programming in SML but not as an introductory course (for that it uses Python/C0). Berkeley uses Python. Stanford also now used Python, C++ for its intro courses.

Now, I don't have anything against the popular languages. They are popular for some reason and one of those reasons is that they are used widely. Like Python for Data Science and Machine Learning research in academia as well as industry. Whereas the languages of HTDP are not.

As much as we like functional programming, imperative programming is still here to stay and when we are out in the wild doing research or industry jobs we have to code and maintain in imperative languages even if we don't like.

There have been quite a few studies about how HTDP does a good job in teaching principles. How do the students whose first intro to programming and CS was HTDP fare in the wild when they have to pick up languages that are mixed paradigm like Python, C++, etc for a course that needs it.

E.g: In deep learning research if you use a library like Pytorch or tensorflow you are bound to use OOP code to design networks and use for loop constructs to train them.

How does the knowledge transfer coming from HTDP background in the real setting? E.g: Does using mutation, looping constructs become hard or easier to model inside your mind?

I am sure there are quite a few students from either camps here on HN. Would like to hear about your anecdotes and experiences, even if you are self taught.
Not the pro versions, they can be removed, and it still entails 80% of the desktop market worldwide.
My understanding about George V is that his son, future Edward VIII - an all-around asshole - was pressuring the doctor to euthanize him.

So “the family” knew.

But the “the family” was more interested in securing his inheritance and title.

Which is ironic considering how quickly he threw it away.
Great for Skateboarding!
Jack Sparrow's Compass
The Australian Commodore 64
When I first used CD music it was ugly to my ears. It was full of high frequency sound compared to the hissy tape. I got used to it and all this digital sound DSP was available to change the sound to your liking.
Oh man, this definitely took me down memory lane! Awesome work! So many good games back then
> We know from 1929 crisis that pure capitalism as such doesn't work.

That's nonsense repeated by fiaters to justify their money spigot. Federal Reserve was created in 1913, and low and behold took it less than two decades to fail catastrophically by causing credit and asset bubble that collapsed in 1929.

Capitalism works perfectly fine if you let it be. It has some boom and bust cycles caused by human psychology, but non-prudent actors get periodically removed from the system and that's about it.

If you do any research on the subject and read anything that isn't coming from government sponsored sources, it is clear as day.

> Yet governments ...

Yes. Because the governments are the problem, not the capitalism. In capitalism rich greedy financiers would go bankrupt over and over and over, and there would be no government to bail them out.

Your problem is not capitalism. It's the government.
They also got that steam train they've been riding which makes it pretty easy to say they're not interested in being part of a roll-up.
I assume there are now a half dozen people working in the desert every day to maintain this thing, given that a lot of it seems to be loose material?
I recall reading a music artist (Akufen, maybe?) would scribble over CDs with a marker to get them to skip, then use the resulting sounds to make music.
Finally, I was thinking just how much I would like something IRL that reminded me of The Witness.
Mostly US schools.
Pure guessing and speculation. You have no idea what California will manage and what it won't.

As for Brightline, that's another joke argument: it's privately run! It's not public at all! So it cannot possibly prove anything about what "Florida" can build. Right? So what's your point?

Right now, it runs between Miami and West Palm Beach, btw. That's it. So climate change will wipe that out soon anyway, along with most of Miami.

Postscript: it's also not "high-speed" rail. At all. It fails to meet even "the lowest high-speed rail standard set by the International Union of Railways" as of now, which is 200kph. It's about the speed of car travel.
But don't the product designers define the Mac Experience rather than the SWEs?
> We know from 1929 crisis that pure capitalism as such doesn't work.

There was a large depression 10 years prior, but it ended fairly abruptly and lead to an economic boom not long after precisely because the market was allowed to operate freely.

The depression of 1929 held on and was worsened precisely because of state intervention.
Trying to compete with Adobe in this space seems pretty futile. Pro users are deeply entrenched in their workflows. The R&D costs of innovation are off the charts and the market is extremely tiny. The same problem occurred with Autodesk.
I can't see how it's horrific. It's got an incredibly strong historical record.
Sounds like the days of a lack of ads on Apple products is changing: https://www.macworld.com/article/831218/ads-stocks-news-app-...
The game’s Bond: the making of Nintendo classic GoldenEye 007
macOS is so frustrating at times, as there's some cool features that are gated by magic, so not only do they not work at times and offer no diagnostic resolutions, also cripple networks.

I recall disabling the `awdl` adapter can stop a lot of this behavior, at the cost of breaking these systems. I used to do this when using Moonlight, as it would cause periodic ping spikes.
> Apple needed to get off of Objective-C (who knows C anymore, to say nothing of objective-c?) and AppKit (30 year old technology at this point).

Ah yes. It absolutely needs to get off AppKit. Because... It's old?

How about: AppKit works, is easy to work with, delivers amazing results and doesn't have even 0.00001% of the issues that plague SwiftUI.

I mean, with SwiftUI they can't even get the most primitive layouts and interactions right despite working closely with the SwiftUI team https://twitter.com/nikitonsky/status/1560745508624551936
> having been born there

See also https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Original_sin

This has been taught through centuries to millions of people around the world. No wonder it gets visible here and there.
You have to look at it in the context of the field, ~25-30 ish grave soil samples under fairly controlled conditions (e.g., burials in each group within about a km of each other, control soil samples taken from each grave, similar time period) ain't bad for paleo-helminthology. Sure, it leaves uncertainty in terms of conclusions but 'low quality' is a bit much.
Yes, Safari is piss-poor for 2022.
Docker? After attemping to install dependencies and build GIS tools originating in the 90´s, I am so thankful for people who have published docker images of obscure software.
You don't need to understand long division to be able to do that. Long division is over the integers. It's got a weird notation, and I never learnt it.

There isn't any reason for 99.9% of mathematicians - even in abstract algebra - to know long division.
The past 3 companies I’ve worked at since 2014 issue MBPs to all developers, data analysts, etc.
Yeah a lot of local businesses did hire private security, but then there were a bunch of random plainclothes dudes with guns walking around, which wasn’t great for business. The soccer field is publicly funded so I guess the city government could have hired private security but I’m not sure the police union would’ve been happy about it

Also this sounds like the “no true Scotsman” thing. Some of the people in the zone were self described anarchists, they were setting up co ops and volunteer medical services, and if it had succeeded (meaning, not been overrun by violent crime) I’m sure people would have pointed to it as a model of anarchist principles in action.
San Marino is one of the most beautiful places in Europe. Forget about the article and google yourself some pictures taken from San Marino.

For some special nerd bonus, have a look at the Cosplay/Comic Conference: https://www.sanmarinocomics.com/

This fair is held in the San Marino castle and this is one of the most intriguing atmospheres I have every experienced, whether you like Cosplay or not. I accidentally ran into the event a couple of years ago.

Another bonus tip: San Marino is near Rimini as well as Venice. Party and culture meet again.
"The Dispossessed" has teached me all about anarchism and capitalism I need to know.
I often wondered about the noise I was hearing from my Discman with headphones. You'd hear this hiss when you pressed play, even before the CD loaded, so it was probably the cheap consumer audio hardware rather than the CD format itself.

I think an additional layer of hiss would show up when it actually started playing.
Used Ubuntu for almost a decade now. Wouldn't call myself a tinkerer with respect to the OS, the defaults are totally fine. Drivers are rarely an issue ime. Maybe things have become better since last you tried?
No, it is not the case that if the thing I said was true, then textbooks wouldn't contain diagrams.
Yes, both comments. RIP, King Terry.
I've seen so many "bash but with type inference, unit testing, and all those nice features to make your code safer."

I want to see someone try "bash but we really embrace the insanity."

For instance, make recursively affecting all files in subdirectories the default? Or have a global option where any prompt is automatically answered with yes? Maybe some heuristics to detect if the user wants unquoted variables expanded?
Good point, uh, GabeR
https://www.inaturalist.org/
IT professionals were using Mac before that, or do you think DTP, 2D, Excel, Illustration,... sprungs out of thin air?
Ask HN: Why do anti-progressive comments get so many down votes?
I feel like I may be the only developer that prefers Windows to MacOs. I really, really just do not get the "Mac Experience". It feels so clunky and counter intuitive.

- Why does the alt tab equivalent cycle through applications first, and I need another shortcut to cycle through the windows of that application? When I have an IDE with 5x instances, hosting different projects, it's a pain switching back to the project I want from another application

- I attach a non Mac external monitor to a new MacBook Pro from work and the text is super blurry. Much googling later and I need to use something called Better Display to create a virtual display, and project that to my monitor. It's so confusing and sometimes break when I wake up from sleep and need to configure it again.

- Why is there 2 modes of "full-size" windows? Regular style "fill the window", then another wierd one that sort of takes over the whole screen

- Why does finder sometimes open in a sub folder as the "top level", then it's a total pain to move up to where you want.

- Why are 3rd party applications distributed as Disk Images? Then some as package installers? It's weird and nonsensical.

Mac hardware feels great, but I just cannot understand why it's the preferred developer platform.
Oooh they are local! I have very likely bumped in to them at Maker Faires and other local events.
Safe and effective
Here is a what you should add to search request to find mostly old style forum discussions: inurl:forum|viewthread|showthread|viewtopic|showtopic|comments|"index.php?topic" | intext:"reading this topic"|"next thread"|"next topic"|"send private message"
I'm kind of with you about Google being heavily responsible to the level of which Go became an success, but that has been the case (backed by large companies) for many popular programming languages such as C, C++, Java, Rust, etc... It helps, but not every corporate backed language is successful or makes it to the top 20.

I don't completely buy the argument that a Google backed Haskell would have been as popular as Go. Readability (which is subjective), familiarity (often C is the reference), and the ease of which the language can be learned are still major factors in widespread acceptance.
Anarchism does work, but only in certain limited contexts, a fact anarchists don't want to admit. It doesn't scale and it doesn't have a decision mechanism that can handle dissensus. Basically anarchists are like Quakers who are (probably) inot punk rock and would rather forget about the religious origins of their philosophy.

I actually think anarchists bring something valuable to politics, but a lot of them are LARPing as revolutionaries - in the sense of seeing opportunity for a different sort of polity in the failure of the current paradigm, but without any capability to realize that or any functional model to draw upon. Like Marxists, they're mostly stuck in the 19th century.
I think you'll find that many (most?) anarchists disagree with the idea of accumulating property (it's where Proudhon starts, after all.)

It also doesn't sound very anarchist to prevent others from using your accumulated property with hired guns. That's the basis of capitalism!
So true. If I let myself go and immerse in family life I sometimes struggle to clock in 10-20 hrs per week, let alone 80-160!
The dev’a comment above indicated that they are working on a desktop version.
> one gui framework

Every time I try to copy a fragment of text on my iPhone, I am reminded that "one GUI framework" is very far from a solved problem.
Kinda gross we have to pay people who have so much money that they own houses they don’t even live in, to convince them to rent.
Humans have been on this earth for 300 millennia

Most of that time, we were nomadic hunter gathers.

No one really knows what is "intrinsic" to human nature.

We only have records for the most recent 1-2% of our time on this planet. And that 1-2% of "recorded time" is by far one of the most abnormal periods not in human history (300,000 years), but probably one of the most abnormal periods in the history of life on our planet (4,500,000,000 years).

Your perceived "intrinsic" need may be true to our nature, but it's more likely a result of the strange environment we find ourselves in.

If you could talk to 100 people from all of human history, the majority of them would be hunter gatherers. You'd be lucky if you got a single person who even understand the concept of "history".
Exactly this. When we do it for our beloved pets, it is compassionate. When we do it for someone who specifically asked for it, under entirely similar conditions? Where is the difference?
Real-world hunter-gatherer societies hardly match the idyllic anarchistic fantasy projected onto them. They tend to be superstitious, and patriarchal. With explicit, arbitrary hierarchies enforced by physical violence, or deprivation.

When people discuss hypothetical anarchistic tribal societies, the first thing I think of is the parallel societies that sometimes exist in immigrant populations in the first world. They often feature hawala systems, cash-only societies, occasionally even alternate currencies. I have firsthand experience with this from my own family.
Can't edit previous comment but - I tracked down the actual study, the soil was indeed from graves (right under the sacrum where the bowels were) and was compared to control samples by the head or feet of the grave. The friars were buried with clothes, the laypeople in shrouds so similar deal and the sites were a few hundred meters apart so about as well controlled as you could expect, I reckon.
I wonder if that RDP server works over Wayland.
Hope someone spends an afternoon to building this in Unreal Engine. I know art world gets indulgent, but this project always seemed very extra. Looks like fun counterstrike map though.
See: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lagrange_polynomial
This would fit perfectly as a tony hawk proskater level.
So dull and dusty. When entropy wins, where will they put the food trucks and porta potties? New spot for Burning Man?
HSR beats flying every time in medium-distances, which is where anyone is really pushing to build it.
If you work hourly just pad all the work 3x and tadaa you are working 3 jobs.

In a way “consulting” have been doing this for ages.
It used to be the only way to do UNIX development, many moons ago, via thin terminals.
I think there are a lot of people who would have trouble with that knowing that person could be their own child, an ex, a parent, a friend, or themself. Even if you personally believe retribution or comeuppance, I there are good faith arguments that can be made. My dad smells like he's rotting due to a degenerative condition and can no longer drive, does he not deserve the ability to get to the hospital or bank on public transportation despite an offensive odor, occasional incontinence, and a somewhat homeless look? Should family be responsible? What if the rest of the family died in a car crash?

The opiod epidemic alone showed significant numbers of people trusting a corrupted system being over prescribed addictive medications leading to the destruction of their lives so some billionaire can make a few extra dollars. Situations like that mean I don't find the people in bad situations deserve their fate argument very compelling.

I personally don't want them on public transportation myself, I'm even ok with banning them, but I do think society owes the unfortunate transportation, even if it is comped uber. I think good faith people can disagree on that and respect arguments otherwise.
Ah finally someone has made a real life version of Gridmap from BeamNG:

https://documentation.beamng.com/official_content/levels/gri...
The point is not that paying $4 a month rent isn’t useful to some people. It’s that another group of people want to own a computer that doesn’t beg for rent at all.

The old macOS provided that the new Mac, not so much.
I have to say, it looks pretty boring and underwhelming to me.
What if someone hired even more private security, and just tore the whole thing down? What if they shook everyone down, took everything and bailed? Is this a 'perfectly anarchist response'?
Ironic that you latch onto a completely inconsequential mistake to divert from the fact you had no idea what you were talking about.
I think he means a 30% reduction in used storage and not that 30% of objects were no longer being stored.

It would be a reduction in data, but not compressed data.
Only partially, it gave birth to the Surface and all those hybrid laptops that are quite common and a nuisance to Android tablets.
They probably use the card number to buy stuff from legitimate online stores, e.g. gift cards, to ensure that the transaction is hard to reverse/they get to keep their "winnings" even if the CC company does a chargeback.
This experience is distinctly "looking at a vintage website on a 2022 monitor".
No, you likely won't. I read that book and personally found it extremely dull. It's just a series of anecdotes about some historical heists and some more about some time the author spent with the FBI's break-in team. The author is an architecture blogger, and I think he thought there was some profound insight into the nature of buildings we could glean from unconventional uses of them, but he never actually arrives at any kind of point. He just says "Hey! Look at these burglars cutting through walls and using fire escapes and roof entrances in ways they weren't intended! Isn't that cool? Wow, I bet we could learn something from this!"

The point of the book was to learn something from it. He didn't.

I am on the market for books about heists and burglars in the 19th century. So far I have Ben McIntyre's The Napoleon of Crime, about Adam Worth. If anyone else has recommendations, I would appreciate it.