skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
>I bought my house 55 years ago, and in the time that I’ve lived in it the city has grown up around me so that the plot of land that my house sits on is now extremely valuable.

Examples like these ignore that the reason the land around them is vaulable is by virtue of the people living there making it a better and more prosperous place. They earn the windfall for the time they spend there without making it worse. Someone who has lived in a house for 55 years didn't watch its value appreciate, their lives made the area around them appreciate. The reason neighbourhoods get gentrified is because the residents made them attracitve. The reason neighbourhoods decay is because people don't invest themselves in them long enough, or because they don't invest in them at all because they want to get out.

The ostensible justice of taking this investment from people via high taxes is dispicably cynical. Only a bandit looks at what you have and tells you it's theirs. It makes common ground impossible.
Pointless, ou won't get a meaningful sample in a question like this.
The maddening/frustrating part is that Apple ACTUALLY APPROVED almost exactly the same thing, and ironically, by another commenter elsewhere in this thread:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32526387

The app is by the same developer, and is findable at https://apps.apple.com/us/app/zero-ui-gesture-only-camera/id...

So clearly, the App Review process is not deterministic, and highly dependent on which reviewer you get or something similar.
I just received an alert from my credit card company that Pearson charged me for the box set, so 4B appears to be ready early. It's listed as "published" already at https://www.informit.com/store/art-of-computer-programming-v....
Regulation prevents supply from meeting demand. Developers can't use plots to develop huge apartment blocks, asymptotically decreasing land cost to a fraction. This causes the supply/demand imbalance to increase prices for decades, leading to people to treat it as a financial asset, accruing wealth. This leads to knock-on effects from interest rates because it's a comparable financial asset. I offer you SF and Houston as cities with regulations extremely correlated to housing prices. I welcome your contradictions to that correlation across the spectrum.

What isn't a serious argument is you offering no rebuttal except "Please stop." Your quip about externalities is tangential; externalities should be accounted for a properly functioning market. Nowhere did I make a contrary claim.
no, palmdale is insanity. at 550km SF-LA is already marginal for high speed rail, that plus going out of the way to go through every single town in the central valley on the way down and then doing a huge zig zag to hit palmdale is going to cripple service. and also cost a lot of money. should have just followed I-5
From:

> [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Project_Xanadu

Wired magazine published an article called "The Curse of Xanadu", calling Project Xanadu "the longest-running vaporware story in the history of the computer industry".[3] The first attempt at implementation began in 1960, but it was not until 1998 that an incomplete implementation was released.

Ouch!
Who cares if it’s slow and costly though? If that’s what it takes, so be it. Every high speed rail in history has come in way over budget, and when it’s done no one remembers that, they just just love taking the new, fast train.
The Millbrae station is a gigantic clusterfuck and is best ignored.

BART's kind of remedied the situation, but for a while their operational costs were so high that there was no direct SFO-Millbrae service during the day. You had to backtrack all the way to San Bruno. By 2019 there was a "shuttle", and now the red (but not yellow!) line serves SFO and Millbrae.

In addition the Caltrain/BART connection at Millbrae requires a lot of walking. It's tedious and poorly designed.
It's also remarkably bad security. Rich people make better criminals: they don't get caught.
No, they're thinking of how older ARM E-cores worked.

(aka big.LITTLE which is some strange branding.)
Most CDNs just use DNS to route user traffic, and can redirect if latency spikes even at ISP NOCs (the CDN traffic controller often doesn't care why a given service is under performing).

Have a wonderful day. =)
Labels would be more readable for that IMO:

outer:
for (...)
for (...)
if (...)
break outer;
The next major investment is the capital corridor route needs to be purchased by the state and then electrified between San Jose and Sacramento via Oakland. That would give CAHSR a route to run on between SF and SAC once there's a second transbay tube with standard gauge tracks.
X allows me to run a program on one computer and see it appear on a local desktop, not access a remote desktop from random machines. The former is simply not a use case I am interested in, as I can pretty much always run the graphical program locally instead; in contrast, the latter is something I have found to be extremely useful in numerous situations and even on a near-daily basis back when my life was organized differently... and X simply does not do that, which is why people use solutions like Xvnc (which runs a local X server on the remote machine and then provides you VNC protocol access to its framebuffer).
And yet, as time goes on, it seems like streaming and cable is moving closer to distinction without a difference. The more things change...
> There is no need for batteries to "replace fuels". Batteries are useful in places, but fuels, soon sythetic fuels, will continue to be used, particularly for shipping and aviation. There is no need for pumped hydro to "beat batteries". Both will be used.

Further intntional misrepr#sentation. Batteries solve the short term storage problem (especially sodium ion batteries). You're proposing a much worse solution to the short term storage problem as if it is relevant to the remaining unsolved problem (long term storage). Solving the long term (in space or time) storage problem yields solar supremacy -- conditions in which it becomes untenable to open a new fossil fuel facility or even keep existing ones open in 10 years even with trillions in ongoing subsidies.

> Construction cost is not proportional to capacity. At worst, it goes as the square root, to build the perimeter dike.

You need to make it deeper, or use more land. And when the largest project in the world is at cost parity with batteries in spite of using an existing project and river, that's a damning indictment of anything smaller.
Two hosts on the same LAN can have excellent performance with VNC. There are some things you need to know and some work you need to do, however.

First, the two most common DEs, Gnome and KDE, use X compositing by default. This is very bad for VNC. You want to turn that off. Unfortunately you can't with Gnome, which is sad. You can turn off compositing in KDE, and that's one reason I've preferred KDE for years. Other DEs can also forego compositing.

Second, turn off all encryption between the VNC client and server. No SSH-ing, no build-in VNC encryption. Nothing. Ignore the nag warning about the lack of encryption some VNC clients hit you with.

Third, no VNC compression. You're on a LAN and you don't need it or the lag it adds.

Forth, don't "share" the VNC session with the remote host's desktop. Use the vncserver headless X server. Every "shared" VNC system (where the desktop appears both local and remote) I've encountered is laggy.

Fifth, use a fast VNC client. RealVNC's VNC Viewer is excellent.

Sixth, do not scale. Ensure your vncserver's resolution matches your VNC's client size exactly.

Seventh, tune your DE to remove whatever animations or alpha effects exist.

Eighth, no wifi. Ethernet only between VNC server and client. Wifi is awful for this.

Ninth, use decent ethernet gear. Some NICs are low end and impose more latency. Likewise, low cost switches are bad news as well.

Do these things and your VNC session will be difficult to distinguish from a local DE. If you're using gigabit or faster LAN you'll be able to play video through VNC reasonably well.
So how many mistakes can a distro make before we boycott them? The extreme version of that is we all pay for Red Hat Linux and refuse to use anything less "professional". So it's a tradeoff, and I think this article draws the line very unfairly.
> You pay your bank interest on money that cost (used bank resources) less that the face value.

[0] Every sustainable business sells for more than it pays.

[1] Central banks won't make that money available directly to me.
in the UBI version, the tax is purely redistributive. each of the 10 inhabitants pays some $ figure proportional to their monopoly use of the land, and then receive the sum divided by 10. if all inhabitants own roughly the same sqft, it has no real effect.

in the case where Georgist tax is used to fund public works, things look identical before outsiders move in. the inhabitants are taxed into some fund, and now receive payment from that fund for their charitable improvements. it’s a closed economy. however, once a non-charitable neighbor moves in, they too are taxed but do not receive anything from this communal fund (since they aren’t working to make communal improvements). now, the 10 original inhabitants continue to make those original public improvements they enjoyed making, and as a bonus, they all receive a little extra for their work.

depending on who you are, maybe you don’t like the idea of having “freeloaders” as neighbors, even if you’re materially better off for it. there are a few knobs you can tweak to shape the kind of neighbors you attract more explicitly (e.g. the $/hourly rate the community fund pays for labor, the rates associated with property taxes, etc). the key is that this tax is levied as part of a closed labor economy. you’re effectively monetizing the labor each neighbor was already investing into public spaces. the average neighbor sees no difference in their $ balance as before: no threat of not being able to afford to stay. UBI does better at protecting the elderly, community improvement fund better at protecting the hard-working/able-bodied.
See Ethernet pause frames

Usb ethernet adapters will send these pause frames, waiting for the computer to reconnect.. but they end up flooding dumb switches..

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31268134
You can buy a house with a ten year mortgage. You'd pay roughly 20% more than the value of the home before it was paid off.

https://www.bankrate.com/mortgages/10-year-mortgage-rates/?m...
This is an interesting post, But requires changes "to the system" that is a little too big for my small brain to think about. If I might diverge from a little as a thought I'm still figuring out:

It ends on the thought of "for a common good" which makes me think of that utilitarian ideal, one that I don't think is going to be approached by democratic processes of popular vote and the like*

So what then? if not "democracy" to get us looking after the common good, is the alternative autocracy, totalitarianism? being realised through monarch-ism or dictatorship?

There's a good video [1] about how fascism was able to be so prevalent in the 20th centry when politics became less individualised and more collective will, "Common good for US" etc in both communism and nazism. Fascism itself relies on having an "us vs them" approach - which, while old kingdoms also had, were perhaps less pronounced and pointed? (I don't know, I'm just imagining a kingdom wanting to keep to itself rather than invading europe)

So it leads me to think: is the only way we can get towards this "for the common good" is to fall in step behind a mono-government that we must be selective to ensure that no harm is done to those outside of "our" domain? or is this all just friviolovily and it's up to us to organise and look after those around us (smaller feudal states or such)

Not sure, interesting thoughts, happy for any corrections if I was wrong about something.

* There's an interesting approach to popular vote that I've found however, that might be of interest, being that "everyone gets to vote as many parties that they want" https://youtu.be/yhO6jfHPFQU

1: https://youtu.be/1T_98uT1IZs
My worry though is that when Windows fucked up, Mac OS was a viable alternative. Now that Mac fucks up, what's the alternative? Linux has its own challenges.
Find a mentor. There are many executive coaches out there.
Using clang won't get you any of those things. Autovectorization is mostly mythical.

Calling into a system BLAS library might, but most benchmarks wouldn't do that.
>
>
> Hello,

>
> Thank you for your response. We encourage you to
consider ways to make your app stand out.

> We understand that it can be difficult to determine what
the best experience is to offer your users.

> While there isn’t one set answer that works for every
app, the following iOS development videos offer great

>information for helping understand how your app can provide a great user experience: – Essential Design Principles –

>Design Tips for Great Games

> You may also want to review the Human Interface
Guidelines available on Apple Developer.

> Best regards,

> App Store Review

That is some passive aggressive, nose all the way in the air, *bullshit*.

Be better than this Apple.
Linux is powering the web, like 99% of it + half of all the mobile phones. BSD is like a drop in the ocean in comparison.
Guix bootstrap toolchain fails to build on NVMe disk
Yes, Atherton, Los Altos, and Portola Valley are just like every other rich neighborhood.
To me, it just means that the formats shouldn’t be hardcoded to a single algorithm (e.g. like Git is to SHA-1), but should allow for different (including future) algorithms, like e.g. X.509 certificates do. I do work in the electronic signature space, where this is important, and there are no negotiation scenarios there.
> My general mental rule is "could this app be a website"? And in this case it absolutely could be.

By this logic the overwhelmingly vast majority of the App Store's catalog shouldn't exist.

...and I wouldn't necessarily object to that outcome, but still.
Why would be provide an alternate to a clearly superior technology?
Where are you getting ads? I have YouTube premium so I don’t see yt ads which are more mainstream iirc. But I’m Facebook newsfeed I get a ton of off non-mainstream ads. Maybe your profile is super vague so only big companies bother to pay for your eyes.
I believe almost all long distance high speed train proposals are based on land banking for future value increase, and nonsense like that. The actual social benefit agenda is secondary to an investment model which sees speculative rise in land and property value along the route at strategic locations with a very long tail, and the local and state tax outcomes which follow motivate agreements by authorities.

Instance in point: Brisbane Cross River rail. The economic impact statement is spectacular for land, rent, rate and building income. Same for intercity rail Sydney Brisbane Melbourne. For Brisbane, a state minister lost her job over a house purchase near a significant rail development (rightly or wrongly) but it's even explicit in economic modelling: they bank the future economic impact.
What was the latest projected estimate for this project? 2050?
Excessive regulation causes (1). With developers able to match supply to demand, there isn't any return from a deteriorating asset.

(2) Land value can appreciate while housing prices dramatically fall when the land is able to be better utilized according to (housing) demand.
The enter key activates the blue (default) button, the spacebar activates the one with the focus ring around it. You can move the focus ring with tab.
I'm not sure the point of this question - a brain size larger than a human's doesn't matter that much if the extra size isn't going to the right places. From what I can tell it's the size of the brain dedicated to higher cognition (cerebral cortex) and the "power" of the neurons it contains (humans spend more relatively more energy on their brain than an animal's brain of the same size). The answer to your question (how to make AGI dumber than humans) simply seems to be have fewer neurons in total, fewer neurons doing higher cognition, and have those neurons be less powerful.
And algorithms have no humanity. Between Google Play's automated rejection, and Apple's people rejecting you manually, somehow neither works quite as well as it should.

For the record, I will continue to point to this as an argument in favour of being able to load ones own software without needing approval from a third party.
Another +1 for the Analog Discovery 2 if it fits the use case.
Rational self interest? Isn't "not losing my job to a computer" reason enough?
I've been in the field for about 18 years. I feel like I "got it" about 11 years in, and that's being generous.

I did mentor a couple of interns that were juniors in college, though, and they were awesome. It might just be me that takes 10 years to get it.
So why are you doing it? Why not just leave it UIKit. Is it just a learning experience? Clearly, UIKit is not going anywhere for a LONG time, so I don't feel compelled to update old code.
The aim of Apple Silicon isn't to be "faster", it's to have a high perf/power ratio ie be fast and have high battery life.
Even as a consumer, Apple’s arbitrary enforcement of made-up rules is infuriating. One of my most-used apps is a radio streaming app “MusiCharts”. It hasn’t been updated in years because (according to the developer) Apple refuses to let him update the app since they think it’s too trivial. Yet, it is the only radio streaming app I’ve found that can scobble to Last.fm, and it provides huge value to me. Hopefully, it will survive a few more iOS updates.
Yes I think you are right on. Thank you
Really going to have to disagree with you on that one, 3 hours SF to LA is well within HSR times (4 hour is considered the max), and will still be time competitive with flying because of how long it takes to check in and what a nightmare LAX is. Serving more people is absolutely higher value then the 50 total minutes lost going the route it's going.

Look at any HSR map in Europe and you'll see the same thing, the major city service is great, but it's the smaller regional service that makes the system and drives ridership. With remote work on the rise, people already are moving to smaller towns in between SF and LA, this gives them an alternative to driving when they need to go into the office. Once SJ to Merced service is operating, you could even reasonably do a daily commute, <1 hour.
Agreed. Trump was fading and now he's back in every headline. "No such thing as bad publicity' and all that.
If you've ever driven the I-5 Corridor, it isn't exactly always an easy thing.

To be able to do LA-SF without the possibility of a road accident causing you a multiple-hour delay is a huge benefit.

Intra-state would be even better. Link the entire West coast with high-speed passenger rail.
"The Concord" models often get speculated as the future, but as often the energy economics does not sustain.

There is perhaps a very probable risk of rising energy costs this decade, which might make such models unfeasible.

In that light, your comment makes a lot of sense to me.
Microsoft at least made a semblance of sense because some Windows laptops have touchscreens and some even can be turned inside out into tablets. They wanted to embrace those hardware capabilities but did so at the expense of the remaining 95% of their users.

There are no macs with touchscreens and no plans to release any from what I gather — that's what iPad is for, after all.
It does. What I like about HN is they are very conservative about making changes. They have done some work in the past to make it more mobile friendly, but clearly they kept the table layout.

The upside to this is the familiarity - which is something I love. I am not keen on redesigns unless the original design was really really bad. If I am even using your thing, it isn't that bad!

Too many companies redesign their sites, for almost no advantage to the user. This also applies to all software. For example look at Windows. Horrendous multiple levels of dialog style and behavior of various vintages. This leads to very hard discoverability in Win11. Ubuntu is so much nicer and hasn't changed much over the years from what I can tell.

The "old frowned upon thing" + "familiarity" can trump "keeping up with so called best practice" + "great I have to relearn this thing I was familiar with".
This can be a contentious area as a lot of different sources will throw different figures for the noise floor of a CD. I recall anywhere from -98 to -130dB. Either value, at the minimum level, is something like 4.6dB. Which is completely inaudible in normal listening conditions.
"Sentience" is a weird word because it's a such fuzzy concept, but I think if we define it properly there are testable answers to the question of machine sentience.

I would define sentience as an awareness of oneself in relation to one's environment, that generalizes to different aspects of self and environment (eg. social, physical etc)

One of the key aspects of intelligence is learning from 3rd-person perspectives - eg. you observe another ape hunting with a stick, and decide to emulate that behavior for yourself. This seemingly simple behavior requires a lot of work, you have to recognize other apes as agents similar to yourself, then map their actions to your own body, then perform those actions and see if it had the intended outcome.

Current RL agents are not capable of this. The data used for GATO and similar agents for imitation learning are in first person perspective. If an agent could learn from a 3rd person perspective, via direct observations of its environment, I would say that would be the beginning of machine sentience.
They are giving the blobs to Linux proprietary driver users too. I'm not sure why that isn't viable, but they definitely did it for very old unsigned versions of the firmware on old GPUs. I guess they got tired of the upgrade treadmill if they aren't doing it any more, but probably they have such a script for their own reverse engineering efforts but don't want to deal with the support issues from when users try the script against newer driver downloads etc.
Touchscreen laptops are an abomination and should have never been invented in the first place.
Like a few other people in this post, I generally support the idea but find the implementation details and the political climate to be iminicable to rapid progress, which, given the extraordinary cost associated with the project, makes one truly wonder if it will ever be completed.

I'm also curious what it will look like in detail for the HSR to share the Caltrain corridor. I live about 1 mile away and every night, I can hear the existing diesel (which are transitioning to electric https://www.caltrain.com/projects/electrification/electric-t...) Caltrains lumbering along once the freeway noise quiets down. It's not the engines so much as the horns- the horns are very loud and some drivers hold them down for long periods.

There are several areas along the way where people are regularly hit by the train (there are level crossings https://www.caltrain.com/projects/grade-crossing-improvement...). i struggle to imagine precisely how Caltrain will share this with a high speed rail service, even with fixing all the remaining level crossings. There isn't room to add more track.

The one time I saw really quick construction was after a truck burned in the Macarthur Maze and caused a section of overpass to collapse. The contractor for that one managed to expedite the process... significantly
https://www.sfgate.com/bayarea/article/A-MAZE-ING-His-reputa...