skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The I5 Tejon Pass goes up to an altitude of 1.2km with a 6% section [1]. From a quick search, it appears that the steepest gradients in France/Germany and Japan's Shinkansen are 4% [2]. I'm not certain about China but it appears that the HSR to Kunming (1.9km altitude) has a limiting gradient of 2.3% [3].

Maybe they could solve it with clever engineering. However, I don't think 20 minutes is a big deal, especially considering that the Japanese have put up with the humiliation of spending 2:21 instead of 1:07 to go from Tokyo to Osaka for the last few decades. I think focusing on only SF-LA also ignores long-term goals, like connecting with the Brightline from Victorville to Las Vegas. If you live in Fresno or Bakersfield and want to go to Las Vegas, your options are pretty ridiculously long bus rides, or long multi-legged flights. If both the CA HSR and Brightline succeed (I know, I'm hopeless optimistic), then it can be a pretty killer app.

* [1] https://www.dangerousroads.org/north-america/usa/4366-tejon-...
* [2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_steepest_gradients_on_...
* [3] [Note that the gradient here is listed as per-mille] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nanning%E2%80%93Kunming_high-s...
Your honesty is being appreciated.
> prompting doctors and health workers to suggest the procedure to those who might not otherwise consider it.

Please tell me there isn't a financial incentive behind this. The only thing worse than doctors suggesting opioids to those who might not otherwise consider it is doctors suggesting death to those who might not otherwise consider it.
JS is the most abused stuff I guess. Current web apps is a "can we" rather than "should we" approach.
The top speed to Orlando will be 125mph.
It's not ok to celebrate peoples erasure.
I mean, OK, it isn't never useful: maybe you are sitting at a computer that really doesn't have the power to do the thing you want to do, or maybe the thing you want to do really needs access to very large files and it is better to run the computation next to the data.

However, this isn't why people want to use the "remote desktop" protocol. The app that I'm accessing over RDP isn't something I'm running after I connect to RDP: virtually all of the time it is an app that has been running for weeks and will remain running for weeks to come.

I am using my computer right now, after having woken up from a nap. This computer is doing all the things I left it doing when I went to take that nap. It has a bunch of state for all of these running applications, and if every time I walked away from my computer all of that state disappeared, I'd be annoyed, as I want to be able to sit down at my computer and do five minutes of work and then go off and do something else and come back and do five minutes more of work.

This is the primary use case for the remote desktop protocol: I leave a bunch of software running on my desktop and then I go somewhere else and I can remotely log in to my desktop and see all of my running programs. If I have spotty wifi and I only manage to get connected for 30 seconds before I get disconnected, I can just reconnect and everything is exactly where it was as I wasn't logging to run anything: I'm accessing things that are already running.

So, no: "at the end of the day" these are fundamentally different use cases, and the former use case simply isn't something I feel like I ever want to do. Hell: it isn't even what I generally want with a terminal! (I had always set myself up so I had running static screen sessions going that I'd remotely connect into, and then I use either autossh or a little bash function running ssh in a loop to reconnect to that remote screen session so when I open my laptop it steals my terminal from wherever I was using it last to my local display.)

The premise of remote desktop connections is something which kind of changes how you use your computer: once you try it and get used to it, you start to treat the terminal you are at as a commodity, as every computer not only has access to your files but every computer has the same state and let's you immediately jump right in to where you left off with your work. In contrast, I'd claim the use cases where you want to, while you are out, run an app on a computer you aren't at is a niche use case.
This is true. I am intentionally flying in to San Jose on Monday because I hate the Millbrae disaster of "which train goes where".
>Reminder that the initial plan was 130 miles of track laid by 2018. They are at 0.0 miles.

This is a bit of a disingenuous take. There is a significant amount of work to be done before tracks get laid. There are dozens of active construction projects right now including building bridges, viaducts, overcrossings and grade separations. Actually laying the high speed track is probably one of the last things they'll do (there's no value in having tracks laid until a substantial section can be laid without gaps).

See: https://www.buildhsr.com/
I had 5 - 6 rejection before I got it exactly right with Apple on "Integrates With Apple". It was a total nightmare! Now I finally have my app on the App store. All this to get access to step count. I couldn't just drop the functionality after working on it for so long but it wasn't a critical one at best for the app's functionality. My app's main functionality is rearranging the google calendar and getting those tasks placed correctly without any context switching or time wasting. Here's my ios App store link: https://apps.apple.com/us/app/atomic-life/id1594368125.
Bonus points for USB 3.0 wifi dongles that jam themselves.
Public transport will grow from the trunk line, which is essentially what High Speed Rail becomes. The state of public transport and the car centric focus of the state is because the public infrastructure isn't there, rather than in spite of it.

> If you are not directly along the metro lines in LA and headed to a place that's also on the lines ( and the entire westside is a desert) you are driving

This is a problem with every type of transport. You still have to drive to the highway, to the airport, to intercity the bus station. You might see as 'burbs served well by the HSR become popular and developments form near them, that the stations become hubs for business and commerce.
I forgot to mention that it is 100% javascript and has zero dependencies.

The NPM package is here https://www.npmjs.com/package/node-maze-generator
Glitz and Glamour at LA Tech Week
> Neurotypicals are especially neurologically typical than average, and the Neurodiverse are especially neurologically diverse

That's a tad too tautological.
A “foil” is a physical concept - the analog outside of water being an airfoil or airplane wing. It’s just something that creates lift based on an angle.
Im not familiar with this stuff but as mentioned airplanes, sail boat sails, sailboat foils, and the water sporting “foil” all leverage the same principle.
Am not sure how the sport works really and got lost in the jargon.
Am curious to know more about why these hooks exist but didn’t really like the writing/voice of this article to dig deep
Never underestimate the old eyecrometer
The other thing people who own land can do: take out a mortgage to build more homes on their land, live in one and either sell the subdivided land/co-op/condo units or rent them to others.

The only people who can be “driven out” are the renters, but if you let owners subdivide and build more, even they should be able to stay in the neighborhood indefinitely. It’s only once you break the chain by not building new homes that the existing community is forced to move. The original neighbors may become a minority compared to the newcomers, but the alternatives to building enough housing for everyone who wants to live in a neighborhood appears to me to be:

- make your neighborhood undesirable for even you to live in.

- make it impossible for new people to buy their way into the community.

- accept that non-owners and not-rich-enough owners will be priced out and forced to move from their homes.
> I don't think there are more than 1000 people worldwide who have shipped a moderately complex mac-native app within the past decade.

This is grossly mistaken.

The Mac App Store, which is only 11 years old, is by itself empirical refutation of this claim.

Also, I believe your claim is also mistaken that "Apple itself uses webviews for complex UI in their desktop Music app." Where do you get that from? I don't mean to be rude, but your other comment "I've mistakenly conflated Electron with webview use" strongly suggests that you're not technically sophisticated when it comes to analyzing Mac app binaries. No Mac developer would ever make that mistake. (I think we can safely assume that you're not one, considering that you think there are only 1000 worldwide.)
Well, I wasn't trying to prove or disprove anything. Just seeking clarity.

Not sure if you were referring directly to me, but I don't think my comment was harmful. Others may have also been led astray and an exchange like this might be educational for them to read.
Actually, my car has the parallel-parking assist, and I've learned to use it to get a perfect parking job, first time every time! So I've got that going for me, which is nice.
Usually when I'm remoting into systems I don't need a full GUI, I just need access to some resource, for which ssh is great.
> California HSR hasn't run a single train yet.

They haven't even figured out how to lay a single piece of track yet either.
Ah, you want to connect to existing running apps.

Generally speaking, the workflows I try to use center around sharing data between hosts. The tabs in your web browser should be in your history and that's synced between your systems, etc etc.

Regarding rehoming X apps, X can do that with tools like xmove. I haven't ever really bothered to use them because I have no use for that use case, but I do know they exist.

I've always used screen for re-attaching terminals. Batch jobs and background computations are generally logging to files which I can check or interact with from anywhere. That sort of stuff isn't ever connected to a graphical interface in my experience.

The benefit of remote display was, I think, more clear back when there was a greater diversity between systems. I would quite often run graphical tools unique to one unix on the my own system which was fundamentally incompatible (system-wise, cpu arch-wise, etc). Nowadays it's probably all x86 linux, so who cares, right?
I dont understand evolution to be a sentient being though

I was thinking more Stanford students taking behavioral psych classes then going into the industry to help propagate ad driven platform capitalism
Don't meet your heroes.
To be clear, he was the only doctor who was not a Nazi Party member in a hospital full of Nazi Party members. There has also been some counter-narrative about Hans Aspergers being a better man than he has been recently portrayed.

All the same, Hans Aspergers had many of the views common of doctors working in 1930's Austria and Germany, and many of those views are now considered socially unacceptable. Such as his love of Fascism, or his belief that child rape victims were asking for it. So generally, many people find it most uncool to be associated with such a person.

Aspergers has been on the decline for around a decade anyways because diagnostic manuals no longer consider it distinct from autism, the fascist revelations are just fuel on the fire.
It's all trend and bs.
> The law was later amended to allow people who are not terminally ill to choose death, significantly broadening the number of eligible people. Critics say that change removed a key safeguard aimed at protecting people with potentially years or decades of life left.

Here's the thing. If I want to die at 80 because I don't want to live past that point, that is my choice. Even if I have no "illness". If I don't want to be a drooling, pants-shitting, waking-up-5-times-a-night-to-piss, wheelchair-bound, mushy-food-eating, dotty old fuck, the state should not be able to mandate that that's how I spend the last 10 years of my life. I already know that I don't want to regress into infancy just to squeeze out more time. I have had a shit-ton of life already and I'm not even halfway there. The last thing I want in life is for my last 10 years to be miserable.

I will buy a gun, or jump off a bridge, or freeze to death, or O.D. on heroin, or something else if I have to. But I shouldn't have to.

That said, there has to be strong protections against people being put in a position where they feel they have to, or somebody else gets them to, choose euthanasia. There should be a rigorous, wide-ranging, and not-super-slow process to establish without a doubt that, yes, this person is of sound mind, this is only their decision, they are informed, etc. We need both the freedom to choose, and to look closely to make sure they did choose. I think Canada's efforts are extremely noble, and I'm sure that a positive, proactive, intelligent approach can thread the needle. What won't help is FUD, which is what this news article feels like to me. For example, I don't see quotes from people who inspired expanding the laws in the first place.
While I agree with the sentiment, I think some lawmakers in CA think they can get public transportation to rival cities like New York. It will never happen in places like LA/SD unfortunately. There is far too much sprawl. Most ppl in NYC can step off a subway and walk a couple blocks and be at there destination. In SD, where I live, it doesnt seem financially possible.

Recently SANDAG approved a $160 billion dollar Transit Plan. That would equate to $110k per resident if we paid out of pocket; hopefully they can do some financial voodoo so that's not the case.

A few weeks ago SANDAG officials were forced to withdrawal the most controversial part of their plan, a mileage tax that would tax San Diegans for every mile they drive (obviously very unpopular among residents). But, this tax was the main source of funding for the $163B Regional Transportation Plan, so they are forced to find a new funding mechanism. I'm curious what they will come up with.
Because it is Lisp, you will be working solo anyway, and NIH-ing all your dependencies. So it is all good!
There’s always a financial angle in most situations. After all, taking care of a really sick patient (or someone with a difficult condition) costs the state money. If you read the article there are sighs that this may have been a consideration in some cases they list.
Sunnyvale recently told residents that without grade separation, they expect in the future that during a peak hour, up to 24 minutes of that would be crossing gate down time. https://www.sunnyvale.ca.gov/home/showpublisheddocument/3570...
> Just to train a large model once will eat up 20% of this money.

Fascinating point. It has seemed like AI could produce a sort of arms race by players with the most resources because it is so compute intensive upfront.
While not as flashy, this is a free web-based circuit simulator with deep capabilities and a good interface: https://www.multisim.com/
'Forever chemicals' destroyed by simple new method
Brightline is run on nearly 100% pre-existing tracks though right? CA HSR is 100% new build.
You can play the free game here: https://playclassic.games/games/role-playing-windows-games-o...
Wow, that is an excellent social engineering method.
Maybe it isn't worth the cost of reviewing them and dealing with refunds and support?
I've heard some people of old lived by "turn the other cheek". Maybe you must not work on it, even if you think the other guy is.
Sure but if you densify first then people start complaining there’s not enough parking. You need to do both.
Yeah I don’t see what’s wrong with your (in my mind) utopic vision. Everyone who wants to live in a mass of humanity 1000 ft tall should be able to afford to live in that mass, and we should be researching ways to make it more and more affordable.

The only way it doesn’t work is if the community makes it impossible for more new people to get in, or if there isn’t enough economic opportunity to support all the people living there. But people don’t generally want to move into communities where they can’t find work, and I see no good reason we should enforce minimum lot and zoning laws to prevent people from moving to where opportunity lives.
What it means is that the Google mindset of introducing and later killing off whatever services they feel like, extends to how they view the standards process, viz. that it’s theirs to tinker and butcher as well, and coupled to that the implicit belief that their implementation of the web is the reference implementation, and the rest of us simply subordinate to Google’s commercial preferences.

Other vendors do this too - the fundamental conceit at play is as old as the tech sector - but that doesn’t make it any less arrogant or reprehensible behaviour.

With that understanding, the process note above from an ex-Google employee amounts to a description of wilful abuse of market power.
Not the same but apparently quite similar: Apple Maps location scan spikes WiFi latency every 60 seconds[1]

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31356730
No worries. I did this search on Google: https://www.google.com/search?q=axios+rss I've found this helps to find these sorts of feeds that don't easily show on the site's themselves.
Ubuntu Bug #1973434: performance issues since 22.04 upgrade
You can always pick an extreme example of drooling, pants-shitting, etc. etc. But the problem is that "option to die" usually morphs into "duty to die" and then into "involuntarily dying."
Further reading on this subject: https://www.imperialviolet.org/2016/05/16/agility.html
> It was not a comment specifically about this issue.

Obviously, it was about this issue. I was commenting and discussing on this very issue.
I have a very hard time believing that doctors will be suggesting euthanasia to patients who might not otherwise consider it.

There is no financial incentive behind it on a personal level for doctors, given Canada's one-payer medical system, and euthanasia is counter to many doctors' interpretation of the Hypocratic oath.

You could argue that on a system-level there is an incentive to encourage euthanasia, since it could take expensive terminal patients off the bill. This bit does make many people (myself included) uncomfortable and there definitely needs to be checks and balances in place.
Surely many companies have no idea how to accurately measure "productivity", or simply have no good way to even go about it. If net income is increasing then stop whining about people working from home.
What is your hypothesis for why we disagree? Do you think I haven't read the same information you have? Do you think I read the same information, but came to wrong conclusions? Am I in some kind of echo chamber that results in self selecting reinforcement of my beliefs, so they are never challenged? Am I brainwashed by a college education? Am I just not smart enough to see the truth?

I'm legitimately curious, why do you think we disagree?
Offline content as an app without extra permissions seems pretty justified. This is a curated Flipboard or subreddit with the ability to buy tickets, which maybe you could do on Flipboard/Reddit, but then Flipboard/Reddit would profit from the curation, not the person doing the curation who made an app.
> the state should not be able to mandate that that's how I spend the last 10 years of my life

The number of things that the state should not be able to mandate but does is immense. Unfortunately “should not be able to” is irrelevant in modern society. For some reason we all accept constant overreach into private affairs they affect no one else.
“Usually” is doing a metric shit-tonne of work there.
that's quite the statement to make
Does it now? Can you cite any examples?
> Your scenario is buying cheap land in hopes one day it’s expensive — basically a long shot lottery ticket.

Or literally all of Los Angeles 30+ years ago. Or basically everywhere desirable today 30+ years ago.
Visual Sum of Cubes
How is it an example of mediocrity?
The scaling laws for LLMs depend heavily on the quality of data. For example, if you add an additional 100gb of data but it only contains the same repeating word, that will hurt the model. If you add 100gb of completely random words, that will also hurt the model. Between these two extremes (low and high entropy), human language has a certain amount natural entropy that helps the model gauge the true co-occurrence frequency of the words in the sentence. The scaling laws for LLMs aren't just a reflection of the model but the conditional entropy of human-generated sentences.

RL is such a different field that you can't apply these scaling laws directly. eg. agents playing tictactoe and checkers would stop scaling at a very low ceiling.
The post consists of two parts: educational (what macros are) and entertaining (use and abuse of macros in Rust).

I recommend both, and the punch... line made me LOL IRL.
Unless the laws are bad, if property taxes are going up to the point you can’t afford them, why wouldn’t you rent out enough of your high value property to pay them, and live in the rest? That might mean building an ADU or a multi-family unit where you live in one of them, but I don’t see why “people will need to move when their homes rise in price” is a legitimate argument. Unless the laws prevent you from both living on and also making money from owning the same land.
I can’t figure if this is a parody or actually happened… I think the later but even after poking about a bit it’s hard to tell..
Maybe referring to GET, not POST/PUT bodies? https://github.com/whatwg/fetch/issues/83

Seems pretty short-sighted of a decision there, since XMLHTTPReq does it just fine, and it is in the HTTP RFC's
If you're looking for an EV in particular I don't think there's much if any "dumb" models, but otherwise if you're not looking for a new car either, then there's plenty on the used and even classic/vintage market.
I love how the conversation inevitably turns into “Torturing your grandma is evil!” vs “They're coming to kill your babies!”.
If the aggregate risk calculation is correct, the gross proceeds from a bunch of unbundled transactions would be exactly the same even with some unsold since the risk calculation would have taken that into account.
I’m not clear what the takeaway from this is as a human on the macro scale. Is this just support for time restricted eating?

Presumably most adult humans have, all else equal, roughly the same number of cells that live on average X days and then must copy themselves at some point during their lifespan. If I space my eating out to small amounts over the whole day but don’t increase calories am I going to get more DNA damage without more net cell growth in numbers?
Not sure what's mediocre about euthanasia, but I'd be curious to read about your past writings on this tendency towards mediocrity.
I do not have to agree with anything you said, to admit that the Slippery Slope should probably be taken off the fallacies list at this point.
Commercial jets in the US run on Jet-A, which is lead-free and kerosene-like. Adding 737 flights will not add any lead.

You are thinking 100LL ("low lead") Avgas, which is gasoline-like and used for small propeller planes (think San Carlos airport, not SFO).

It's a general aviation problem, not a commercial aviation problem.

*(edited to swap San Carlos, not San Mateo)
Sweet we could have a rail by 2095
RIP my job
> The net effect of this would be that I type "mutable" all over the place

You might want to consider adopting a more modern programming style for the benefit of your coworkers (and possibly yourself). Mutability all over the place is a nightmare, speaking as someone who currently has to work in a large codebase written like that. It's hard to predict what value a variable is going to have at any particular point in your code, since instead of only having to check where the variable is defined, you have to audit all the code between the definition and the use. For the same reason, it's hard to guarantee that your invariants are maintained, since there is a much larger surface area to check.