skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This is a good point for why an actual rack is a bad thing for some use cases in the home. When moving into my current house an AV Geek neighbor setup a home theater type setup with the receiver, amp, in house audio (VSSL) amp, and other devices in a large high quality rack that I spent too much money on.

None of this uses a lot of power or makes a bunch of heat. The receiver tops out at 140W total RMS over seven channels and the VSSL is about 20 per channel. The rack adds an additional 75mm to each side of the rack and 120mm to the front and back. It takes up a lot of room in its closet and I’d be happier with more space to move around it.

LACKs are a bit too flimsy and small for the setup I want to replace. The parent’s shelving unit example looks like a great replacement, especially since I want to store things in that closet on shelves anyway.
In both comments, you spoke only of "Trump praising an action made by Obama." It was not a comment specifically about this issue. I think that's fine. I don't have a problem with you failing to cite everybody who has ever done anything on this issue. It's just the irony of your comments.
As an example of what I find when I look, here's Anandtech: https://www.anandtech.com/show/17024/apple-m1-max-performanc...

'We had indicated in our initial coverage that it appears that Apple’s new M1 Pro and Max chips is using a similar, if not the same generation CPU IP as on the M1, rather than updating things to the newer generation cores that are being used in the A15. We seemingly can confirm this, as we’re seeing no apparent changes in the cores compared to what we’ve discovered on the M1 chips.'

And Wikipedia: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Apple_M1

'The M1 has four high-performance "Firestorm" and four energy-efficient "Icestorm" cores, first seen on the A14 Bionic. [...] The M1 Pro and M1 Max use the same ARM big.LITTLE design as the M1, with eight high-performance "Firestorm" (six in the lower-binned variants of the M1 Pro) and two energy-efficient "Icestorm" cores, providing a total of ten cores (eight in the lower-binned variants of the M1 Pro).'

The efficiency cores on the Pro and Max aren't (so far as I can tell) faster than on the regular M1. But where the regular M1 has 4 performance + 4 efficiency cores, the Pro and Max have 6 or 8 performance + 2 efficiency. (Also, more L2 and L3 cache.)
people get realt sensitive if you criticize their boondoggle because they worship public transit even if its clearly awfully executed
If I flew from New York to San Francisco, then I can go to another location on the HSR route. Isn’t that straightforward?
One use case I can think of might be as a way to drive a Tesla now without having to wait a couple years for the supply chain issues to die down. I waited 9 months for a new one, and according to the guys who installed my charger a lot of people pay a large premium on lightly used Teslas just to not have to wait 6-9 months for delivery. All I can say is the wait for a new one is worth it. Pretend you have car payments already and set those payments aside every month. Put all of that towards the payment upon delivery.
> You seem to enjoy listing things that are "entirely possible". Might I suggest reading some research?

I agree with much of your argument but I think the question of how common ADHD medications affect people without ADHD is fairly inconclusive, see e.g. https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3591814/ and https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3489818/ for examples that show some effects (and not others) and https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6165228/ that does not (but with a small study size).
"unmanageable"?

Probably not. C was devised back when there were very few high-level languages, when most people were obliged to use assembly-language or machine-language. And in those days of slow hardware, assembly-language was the most efficient way to work.

Most of us who are comfortable using C find it a universal-machine assembly language which is fast and efficient and which is an alternative to using a high-level language which is easy to write but is 'slowish though fast-enough' in use.

That which is good endures. That which is not is soon thrown away. Many 'best thing since sliced bread' programming languages have come and gone in the decades that C has endured in the background.
> I'm pretty sure they were joking

haha, only serious (currently suffering from a 2-month-past recluse spider bite wound, going to the wound clinic next week cause it’s not healing very well).

yes, the progression of the bite wound is unmistakeable.
yeah i did that flight dozens of times and super simply easy and cheap. dont see the benefit of making it a train
Ion-exchange resins are fantastic at filtering some chemicals though.
Yup. Very true. It’s an odd culture we have.
For Emacs Lisp users M-x macrostep-expand from the macrostep package is a cool tool that allows for inline expansion/collapse of macros, step by step if there are multiple levels of macros.

There is also M-x pp-macroexpand-last-sexp that comes with Emacs. And the macroexpand function itself of course.
La sure, SF is one of the densest cities in the US and one of like two where it isn’t terrible to get by without a car
One example - I can get a direct flight from my city in Australia to LA, but not to SF. Would be useful to be able to take the train from the airport at LA into somewhere in SF.

So it could potentially replace a lot of short-haul connecting flights.
I have a dozen of these tied together, with the cross bracing, into an L in my basement. The whole unit has a few ties to the cinderblock wall behind it. That arrangement adds a good bit of stability. I agree that a on their own or in small numbers they’re not very stable.
There is no sane universe in which we lie about how fast we can do something in order to account for differences in how long we can do it. If you have two models identical save for one having twice the battery we don't account for this by pretending the lesser endowed unit is actually only half as fast.

While these things are interrelated you actually want both pieces of data and you don't want them complected by using them to forge some number made entirely useless and incomparable by incorporating both facets in one useless whole.
Homelessness and traffic are not issues that money could fix. They are both problems borne from car-centric low-density urban planning.
Yep. There’s actually a known issue with the CalDigit USB C Pro dock that causes this. It’s when the laptop comes up from or goes to sleep and it takes down the whole network. Fortunately there’s a firmware fix for it but it took a while to put two and two together.
Aluminum is comparatively cheap..

Or so I thought, I just tried to Google the comparison per KG and it's completely spammed by alibaba and miscellaneous SEO.

Good luck, have fun with that. Would appreciate any industry in insider POV.
Huh, vertical rack like that reminds me of immersion coolers for servers.

Example: https://www.grcooling.com/customer-successes/tacc/
Unfortunately one of the reasons why active and passive advocates of right to privacy are losing this fight is because people don't intrinsically understand how important it is politically for them. The ignorant lightly mock us, asking what do you have to hide. Sure, it is easy to make them think about this by asking them to turn over their email / IM account credentials if they "don't have anything to hide", but it still doesn't really educate them.

People don't understand that our right to privacy protects us from becoming easy and vulnerable political targets. It is essential to provide us a sense of security that is essential for our mental well-being ("life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness" as the US constitution puts it very simply). You may be a minority - a gay person or ethnic / religious / linguistic etc - and even if you live in a healthy democracy, you can be subject to light prejudice. Can you really feel secure if a Google search or a facial recognition software reveals everything about your identity to a stranger or a person in authority who can politically abuse it? Obviously, No. And this is not just confined to minorities. Even the majority community does experience anxiety and insecurity in a foreign or multi-cultural environment (a popular political saying in India is that everyone becomes a minority when they step out of their community). That sense of personal security and belonging can only come if you have a right of privacy and are in control of how much of your personal identity you want to reveal to someone. Democracies exist to protect minority rights. And everyone of us, sometime feel like a vulnerable minority because of some part of our identity. Without a right to privacy, our democracy fails us.
America is the outlier. The problem doesn't just exist in California.
Doing some calculations at compile time is useful. What sucks is when the language for expressing this is difficult to think about and interacts poorly with normal code.
> My evidence that it actually does not mean that is RFC2547.

RFC2547 does not support your claim... anywhere.

I'll use Webster's definitions for my evidence. Also, every explanation of what VPN is everywhere on the Internet speaks of anonymity and privacy. This means the P in VPN could only mean free from public attention, secret and NOT for the use of a particular person or group, as in private parking.
I hear you on the downsides of Electron. The upsides are that there is a plethora of ready-made UI and backend integration solutions to choose from and an abundant pool of candidates to hire from, for a reasonable wage.

I don't think there are more than 1000 people worldwide who have shipped a moderately complex mac-native app within the past decade.

Apple doesn't seem to think it a problem - they're well on their way to becoming a company people despise but continue using, like Microsoft, Google and the rest of em.
Is there that much instrumentation looking outwards or inwards that would be useful enough on scale to have this sort of service?
If you look at services like QuickBird you can get high res meter resolution satellite imagery pretty cheap. A lot cheaper than renting a satellite yourself.
The Sims has only very weak goals and scoring and functions perfectly as a sandbox.
"420 of 500 miles now cleared"

Any bets on how long those last 80 miles take to get environmentally cleared?
> Apple itself uses webviews for complex UI in their desktop Music app

And that's why that new app is complete garbage. If you think iTunes was bad, this is much worse. iTunes at least had some actual functionality - its replacement has mostly whitespace.
This was one of the goals of AMP cache: require sites to use a subset of HTML and vend the data from a server local to the request.
Getting to SF is rather critical to the success of the project though.
To me, the choice at the low end for an oscilloscope rather than a USB dongle is between Siglent and GW Instek with Rigol being a touch more expensive.

It used to be that the Siglent and GW Instek actually had slightly better specs relative to the Rigol's--which was quite irritating given that the Rigol's were more expensive. In addition, the Siglent and Instek used to come with serial decode while Rigol would charge for it as an add-on.

Due to the semiconductor supply chain issues, what was in stock varied wildly. I don't know if that has settled down.

If you keep your eyes open, you can generally find any one of them being cheaper than the other due to specials, shipping, discounts, etc.

I use 4 analog channels (vs 2) a LOT, and that's also enough that you can do basic serial decodes. I recommend stumping up for the 4 channels.

I don't put a lot of stock in MSO. I have an MSO on my big Agilent, but I use a $10 Logic Analyzer way more often for digital since it's a lot more convenient. I also don't worry about accidentally putting too much voltage on it as if I fry the analyzer, it's just another $10.

I like the GW Instek scopes because they have dials per channel. Having to multiplex controls irritates me to no end. YMMV.
And the downvotes tell me some folks have absolutely no sense of humor
Today's g.722 (HD Voice) is better, but GSM codecs are also 8kHz sampled, then lossily encoded. If the compression is appropriate, gsm is 13-bit per sample vs 8-bit per sample commonly used for POTS (minus robbed bit signalling in the US), but if the compression isn't appropriate, you get some pretty nasty artifacts. Encode/decode delay can be significant in some applications, but since GSM is TDMA anyway, you're going to have buffering and may as well use that to encode; a T1 PRI multiplexes one sample at a time, so a lot less delay there.
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For sure :( We are at least v aware about it and basically need a person at Microsoft to be really chill

https://twitter.com/JustineTunney/status/1541801499210092544

A very narrow slice of what Justine said in Discord: "But yes, at least one employee at Microsoft has to vouch for the project, or else Windows support won't be able to continue."
It's not Electron, but it does use a fair bit of web views, or at least did in the past (there might have been talks of some of it being moved back to native code). Either way, it feels like an Electron app, and not even a good one. It's a piece of shit.
I would love a postmortem of the whole thing, understand what on Earth happened there.
The whole point of HSP rail so connect the different rail-system and serve a backbone between the northern and southern rail systems.

If you want to be serious about rail, having a such a backbone makes sense.

Of course, you need to continue improving regional rail as well. And as far as I know, California has been trying to do that too.
> to do what?

Mostly to polyfill around the fact that basic DOM manipulation is garbage and the default UI widgets are ugly.
Read Michael Abrash's Graphics Programming Black Book for the story of how the original Quake came to life. You'll get an appreciation for John Carmack's ability to thoroughly research widely varying solutions to a problem, quickly create production-quality implementations of the promising ones, and even more quickly abandon the dead ends. The result is this almost boring, seemingly linear progression toward a final product that seems obvious in hindsight, yet it represents a leap forward the way Quake did in the mid-1990s compared to other FPSes at the time. I don't know of other public stories of individual engineers who can span both the very cutting edge of research and the practicalities of shipping real commercial software.

https://github.com/jagregory/abrash-black-book
> Many east coast cities have the advantage of being planned out before cars so they are structured for high urban density. It is different in cities like LA or SF where it's all about urban sprawl.

San Francisco is the second densest city of its population or larger in the United States (behind NYC), and has about 50% greater density than the third, which is Chicago, not an East Coast city.

Also the LA-Long Beach-Santa Anna metro is the densest metro area in the US, and San Francisco-Oakland-Fremont is the fourth.
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As someone that lives in the Bay Area and doesn't want to fly or drive to LA I want this so bad.
Your suggestion is not bad, but I like HN User "stickyricky"'s suggestion better. It's more all encompassing. Would certainly be nice to maybe stack this on top of his suggestions.
Personally I hope this fails because of the disaster AGI would be for low/entry level jobs.

The last thing the world needs is to give technocrats such power. I know it’s an interesting problem to solve but think of who will own that tech in the end…

I hope AGI is never figured out in my lifetime.
Diablo 1 for Web Browsers
I do 99% of my day job on a windows laptop connected to a Linux NoMachine session. It's not perfect but it works really well.

There are RDP implementations for Linux both client and server. x11rdp, remotedesktop,, etc.
This is true. I'm just responding to OP though, they said:

> Yeah its pretty scary, 6 years mean you've either only understood on one or two big systems, or you've job hopped more projects and never understood them in depth.

Which is blatantly false. I only need to provide one counterexample, and John carmack blows this assumption out of the water. I wouldn't expect the average developer to be anywhere near that level.

But if the top percentile is shipping over 20 commercial products and literally changing the industry with a technical innovation in only 5 years, then I would wager it's very attainable for an average dev to reach a "senior" level of experience in 5 years.
> Have found them in my house several times and even been bitten by them. I guess I'm just lucky but I never had an overly bad reaction to their venom.

I think you may just be lucky, they may dry bite, or maybe there’s some folks with antibodies. I have a 2-month-old recluse bite wound on my leg, it’s currently an open wound about 1.5 inches across. Been through debridement, 3 courses of antibiotics, etc. Appointment at a wound clinic next week to see if there’s anything can be done.

I too have been bitten multiple times in the past with no serious effect, just a black spot that healed slowly and left a tiny acne-like scar.
SoundHound also has/had the hum-to-identity that is apparently present in Google’s offering now.
SunRail has an average speed of 31 mph. This is less than BART (35 mph). Tell me more jokes about how red states are superior?

And tell me again about how this is high-speed rail? It also has a ridership that's a small fraction of BART.

Would it be too much to ask for you to get a grasp of basic facts before bashing California for its efforts? California did better with the system it built half a century ago than Florida did in 2017.

P.S. The word is "Democratic".
US, with the typical ANSI (long) return key.

The trick is to use right alt as compose key. This way I can write virtually any character (e.g. á, ß, §, ō...) in an intuitive way. E.g. ø = Compose / + o, æ = Compose a + e, etc.

I regret not using ANSI much sooner. I switched 10 years ago and I couldn't be happier. All symbols are in the right place, which helps a lot when programming.
Thanks and very much agreed, the resources in your comment are much better than the OP.
Its so that you don't have to go threw the mountains and that should actually make it cheaper.

Most housing needs to be fixed with infill, not continuing sprawl around more cities.
LA has areas of density. LA as a whole though includes large mountain ranges where almost no one lives. It would be like including the Marin headlands in SF and saying SF isn't that dense.
A "government of elected representatives" (which is not what ruled in this case, of course, that's not what the EU body in question is) actually is the worst possible way to determine what a good customer experience.

Which is why God invented corporations for this purpose. I'm all for democracy, and there's a place for that. This isn't it.
> is not a fair assessment

> one of the most productive agricultural regions

And since when farmers relied so heavily on trains for their commute?
Conversely, though: what gives you the belief that you should get to dictate to companies built and run by other people the way in which they run their business? Why do you get to decide?
I'm surprised by that. I would expect low enough exposure to cause abnormally low bone density and other calcium-related problems via "vitamin"[1] D deficiency.

[1] It's not really a vitamin, because we do produce it internally (as opposed to having to ingest it in diet).
Airports are great sources/destinations of passengers who don't have cars.
This is exactly right. All of these details were laid out at the time we voted for it! This is what we voted for. Newsom getting cold feet on it hasn’t helped, I’ve gotta say.
The exact problem of California's High-Speed Rail is that individuals (as well as local municipalities) keep suing them. The original timeline and budget would probably not have been too far off if it weren't for this

The current route has been modified a bunch to appease local municipalities that want, or don't want, part of the tracks or a stop near them. Maybe that can be stopped by voting, but the wealthy individuals will continue to sue and force more expensive litigative battles like the one that resulted in this environmental assessment needing to be cleared
Even electric trains will be horny - it’s required by federal law.

But with work you can convert a crossing to no horn.

https://railroads.dot.gov/highway-rail-crossing-and-trespass...

Of course the easy solution is to raise the rails or lower the road
At some point around 2006 I could sort all Netflix titles by user rating and even better, what Netflix expected I would rate a given title. This expected rating became incredibly accurate after I’d rated 50-100 titles according to the extant five star system. It was so good that I found myself watching many titles that I otherwise wouldn’t have considered, because the system was invariably right. I could also safely avoid titles I was very interested in when the system surmised I would be disappointed. And I could very easily inspect, sort, and edit my watch list.

Today I rarely use Netflix, and I wouldn’t pay for it. Periodically I open the app and add to my list those titles that are immediately visible which I know I want to watch, like comedy specials of comedians I’m familiar with, but I don’t inspect further, because if I haven’t already heard about a title from some external sources I trust, it’s not worth my time to check. That list just grows and grows, though titles are often removed as they become unavailable, but I never prune the list, because when I remove one title, I’m taken all the way back to the beginning of the list. Trying is just a wast of time.

It is baffling to me that anyone could interact with Netflix’s current UI and conclude that it was anything but a raging dumpster fire.
Dude do you even know what John Carmack contributed to the space? Take your own advice you gave to 15 those 15 year old boys and read a book on him.

And an aside: DOOM Eternal absolutely rocked. Please state your issues with it as well please list what you would consider an amazing FPS game.
Try to visualize yourself lying in bed 5 minutes before your death. Imagine you know you're dying, set a timer, lay down, and really try to put yourself in your own shoes.

Let the panic set in, don't try to change the subject. Imagine as the seconds slip by that you struggle to reflect on all the parts of your life. 5 minutes can seem like a long time, but when it is your last few seconds they vanish quickly.

Really be in that moment. Take it seriously. Embrace the terror.

When the timer goes off none of the problems in your life will seem one-tenth as serious as before.
A friend from Japan landed at SFO on a Sunday and figured they would take the train to Mountain View. It took them four hours to take one BART to San Bruno, a second to Millbrae and a Caltrain to MV.
I appreciate you clarifying a bit on which types of regulations which does offer some nuance. The state of CA is having to step in and stop NIMBY laws in places to allow more housing. Houston also has some terrible regulations around parking minimums and is an egregious example of car culture gone wrong.
Having no regulation would eliminate zoning and cause an untold amount of problems.
It seems we can both agree it’s more about having the right regulations, which is nuanced and difficult as opposed to just thinking regulations are the problems and we need a fully free market.
Don’t plug in that free Microsoft Office USB drive you got in the mail