skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
CarPlay navigation displayed on the large, easy-to-see, and easy-to-touch screen in the car is hugely better (and IMO safer) than any OEM Nav system, which are IME universally between utter garbage and merely outdated.
I would like this if it were merely hiding latency - that is, if the time for loading the next page weren't affected

This probably means doing the http request and the DOM layout while the animation is still running
You are thinking like an engineer and not a business person. A three person team that generates 20mm/yr is a huge success.

Your job isn't to fix the technical mess, but rather not kill the product. As an owner I wouldn't care how fast features can be released if my revenue started to drop.
For anyone else looking for a link to Herb Sutter's accompanying talk at cppcon:

https://youtu.be/CzuR0Spm0nA?t=14532
> I don't need you to use 20 watts all the time to show a shiny background image and a clock...

Even the latest Chromecast (4K with Google TV) requires a 7.5W power supply [1], it can't possibly draw 20W. Also it looks like it idles at around 1W [2].

[1] https://support.google.com/chromecast/answer/3046409

[2] https://www.techspot.com/news/95809-streaming-media-player-p...
>Using a conservative cost-per-mile figure of $0.50 for the car and ignoring the bridge toll, the 37 road miles between those stations would cost over 5x more than the BART fare

Do note that the BART fare is heavily subsidized, actual costs[0] are closer to .40cents per passenger mile. So Bart is only slightly cheaper, by lets say 25cents per mile[1], than a car which is much faster, cleaner, serves a larger geographic area, and is far more convenient.

[0]https://www.bart.gov/kpi/stability .39$ in 2019, undoubtedly more now with inflation.

[1]2022 IRS deduction of 62.5cents
This gives me an idea. Like obfuscated code competitions, can we get obfuscated contract competitions where the goal is two fold. 1) Write the most difficult to parse contracts, and 2) Sneak it into actual contracts with ever increasing importance. Eventually, one of these contracts/laws would go to trial, and nobody would be able to understand it. Hilarity ensues.
This focuses on the money that "leaks" out of the Bitcoin ecosystem due to mining, which is entirely correct but it's not the reason Bitcoin isn't a good store of value IMO. Bitcoin has little or no guaranteed demand (i.e. things that you can only buy with Bitcoin); what's left is speculative demand which has no floor.
What China, Marvel, and Avatar Tell Us About the Future of Blockbusters
I delete e-mails the moment I don't need them anymore.

Right now, on my main mail, I have ~400 mails in Trash, but only 10 in Inbox and Archive + another dozen in Sent.
Turn the phone off and go outside.
Agreed. I commented with more detail as well. I guess a lot of people expected a different show. But if you actually know the source material, it's a good depiction of that, IMO.
The original required 1A (5W) and the current one is 1.5A (7.5W).
I don't know how seriously anyone can take any of his criticisms, considering the lack of foresight into the physical possibilities of the things that he actually suggests. It's nonsense

Maintaining the vacuum of the hyperloop would have used more energy than it would have saved from friction and reducing air friction would not have gained any noticeable speed over a well designed bullet train

Plus have you seen the weird top heavy transportation thing he suggested lately? It's entirely absurd
How did he find it?
"Admits"?

This is phrased as if it is some bombshell, when it seems this was obvious from the beginning. Elon's been a critic of the CA High Speed Rail project for nearly a decade! [0] The literal whitepaper that announced the Hyperloop concept contrasts itself to the CA Rail project on the damn first page! [1] He's basically been screaming for everyone to aim higher instead of accepting mediocrity even relative to what already exists across the pond.

The Hyperloop project itself was proposed clearly and explicitly to contrast with the CA rail project, suggesting "maybe this is what we could do if only we tried!" In practically all the public appearances about this project (and in explanations for why he founded SpaceX) he's been clear and repetitive in stating that he wants to see inspiring things get built, if for no other reason than for us to want to get out of bed in the morning.

Of course Musk desired the CA rail project not to be built. And of course he didn't intend to build the Hyperloop himself. He'd been plenty explicit about that as well -- it's the explanation for why this was a paper and not a 5th company he's CEO of today.

[0] https://twitter.com/elonmusk/status/376439054209781761
[1] https://www.tesla.com/sites/default/files/blog_images/hyperl...
Own enough homes in an area and you can control the market.

The Econ 101 supply/demand theory does not work in the highly regulated (mostly to slow down building) housing market.

People pay an irrational amount of income on rent all the time.
Isn't that more akin to a constant? Because #define macros are quite powerful, they can also express constants.
My chemistry lab experience was a lot like software development, but not in the way the author means.

We were often given open-ended or under-specified chemistry problems that required some analysis work in the lab before you could develop a strategy toward whatever the assignment objective was. Also, in some instances each team was given different problems that required different approaches, so to some extent you were on your own if you got stuck. Our lab was unsupervised most of the time, though we were well-drilled on lab safety and procedure. The professors only reviewed our plans in case we were using unusually dangerous chemistries -- not to stop us but to provide specific additional safety information related to that chemistry.

It was fun but I spent at least 25 hours per week in the lab for a few years. And the structured planning in the article really wouldn't have helped much because we didn't know what we didn't know, by design as a teaching tool. It wasn't paint-by-numbers. In hindsight, I appreciate that they made us learn chemistry this way. It was a struggle at times but it forced us to grow and learn how to deal with unknowns.

This maps much more closely to my early years as a software developer -- being comfortable educating myself on the fly in order to tackle an unavoidably under-specified software problems. I appreciate the benefit of efficiently structured processes, but that won't help you be a successful software developer if you don't know how to systematically grapple with unknown unknowns effectively. Or perhaps more accurately, those skills are most useful if "software development" is limited to domains where the software problems are usually well-specified, like enterprise widget factories.
The US incurred massive debts fighting the war of independence. They didn’t have to pay for their freedom in reparations, but the cost of the war did lead to massive inflation.
> Bart station attendants make over 3x the median rider.

which job title specifically are you referring to? from the pay schedule linked above, the closest thing I see is Station Agent, with a pay range of $73-86k.

and where are you getting the data on the median salary of a BART rider?
https://github.com/surrealdb/surrealdb

Real graph databases support OpenCypher. It's still cool if you can't be bothered.

Hard to compete with Nebula (https://nebula-graph.io/), unless you're some kind of Rust Precog.

Sane C++, or even ASM-- wins in the short-term
Minimum page requirements for essays and papers dont reinforce brevity in writing. They do the opposite, a way to be flower-y and add cruft.

Minimum page requirements are often the bulk of your grade in non stem. If you wrote the minimum pages, followed the style guide given to you, used mostly correct English, and followed citation guides. You will get a passing grade. It encourages finding a bunch of sources that back up your point ad nauseam, and paraphrase them repeatedly.
Yea I got the same feeling. Like those “inspirational” stories like the kid running a lemonade stand to pay for his school lunches or a family getting enough GoFundMe donations to afford cancer treatment. There’s nothing inspirational or wholesome about these. They are macabre depictions of our unnecessarily cruel social systems.
BART has grade crossings? Isn’t entirely underground or elevated? Caltrain has grade crossings along its entire length.
> If the network is valued at $568B, but costs $7.125B/year or more to secure, that’s a pretty big leak for something that is supposed to preserve value.

> Now some of you are already thinking, hey 7.125/568 is only 1.25% per year. But that’s not exactly how market cap works. This 1.25% system leak doesn’t necessarily translate to a 1.25% price decrease per year.

Far from “not exactly how market cap works”, this is more or less “not even close to how market cap works”.

Econ 101 time: value is subjective. Human beings merely use value as a description - it does not exist inside of any object or inside of any equation. A “store of value” has always been an ill considered term - but this is not the argument against it.

What Bitcoin is good for is being internet dollars that can’t be spent twice. That’s a nontrivial feature.
I used to use Trello for my entire personal KB, but the description editor grows unwieldy with large cards and you only get a few levels of nesting. It's still great software.

It took a few times to stick, but I've now fallen in love with Obsidian and am migrating everything except a large project's task-tracking system to it. The WYSIWYG editor, fully nested hierarchy and fast full-text search is fantastic and makes it better for my personal documentation.

I'm extending my Trello backup project to make the migration easier. Take a look if you're considering the same move. https://github.com/GSGBen/t2md
As is the case for 90% of public services in the United States.
I just actually looked at the JSON, I just assumed the rule was going to be defined as regex, not a human readable pattern.
> imagine just being able pay more for better writing.

Is it that difficult? What if you ran a contest to write the best script, winner gets a million dollars and top billing in the credits?

Seems there should be plenty of college students who can write better than e.g. last season of Game of Thrones.
Does it mean we are banning the taxation of old or disabled people to pay for elementary and secondary school?

Seems a bit weird, why not just not do said thing, why is there a need for a law banning it? Is it just to make things difficult for the other side (presumably democrats)?
IIRC that's also why the hours of BART are so limited. They have to do all their maintenance when the train isn't running since they can't route around it
> Have you ever tried this? I've never had X11 network transparency be a good experience.

I did, nearly 20 years ago. The computers were over 2500 km apart, though it was over a good university to university connection. The Gimp was certainly usable, though I will not go as far as saying it was good since 20 year old memories can be hazy and the standards of the day are different from the standards of today.

I also experimented with X over a 14.4 kbps modem a few years earlier. It was mostly while writing papers (plotting graphs and viewing dvi files, not the actual writing). It was slow, but it got the job done and was better than juggling documents between software on two computers.

The one really nice thing about X was the ability to use individual applications across a network connection, rather than dealing with an entire remote desktop. All of this remote desktop stuff strikes me as being better suited for accessing a remote system, rather than for running remote software.
You funding the lawsuit?
30 years ago in central Texas we visited northern Mexico many, many times a year. 20 years ago we thought it was funny other people were starting to be scared to do so. 15 years ago we stopped going. We haven't been back since.

It's so weird that, from a central Texas perspective, we used to be a short drive from visiting another COUNTRY, which is now effectively a blank space on the map of the world around us. Ski west in New Mexico, eat easy in New Orleans, Hike north in Colorado. South? Here be dragons.

Maybe the next 30 years will be the same story in the opposite direction, but I don't know. I haven't seen anything to give me hope of that.
Marked as duplicate. This is not only already implemented, but an alternative implementation, DOS, is available and often preferred by users. I.e. have a bill be so long that a politician can't read it all before having to vote on it.
> That is, the Gimp runs on your home machine while your notebook has the GUI.

Have you actually tried that in recent years? In my experience not much actually works this way anymore, the performance is just terrible.
Money that can’t be stopped by meddling do-gooders has high utility value.

Just ask the poor slobs in Russia or Venezuela who can’t sell their software and feed their families, or in Canada who threw $50 to support their trucker buddy and got their bank account frozen.

Also - there is easily $7B of “stranded” energy in flare gas and hydro “rotating reserve” available to secure Bitcoin and similar systems. Besides, the limiting factor for a successful 51% attack isn’t the energy — it’s the capacity to actually create the hash capacity to execute the attack. Not even the NSA could do that, let alone some non-state attacker.
This is a pioneering talk about regenerative agriculture (RA); the year is 2013. Today, RA is all over the press. See [1] for example. What's more important: Alan Savory, the TED speaker, is billed as the father of RA [2] and he runs an institute to support it [3].

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32801061

[2] https://www.agriculture.com/livestock/cattle/meet-allan-savo...

[3] https://savory.global/
RJ45 vs. RJ48C? (1997)
So Apple should have kept 32 bit support in the chip and processor forever?

Libraries being able to consume less memory and being able to either reduce the die size or add more features is a direct consumer benefit.
>This is modern marketing

I certainly wouldn't mind if all advertising was done this way. Unless the information here has been copy-pasted from somewhere else, there's enough value there to stand on its own.
this is true, and in theory will only drive up the cost of college, as there will be continued demand as the repayment will be dissociated from the amount of the original loan

IMO the better solution would be some limited forgiveness for current borrowers, then shoring up/restoring funding for state/public universities, undercutting pricing at privates
Satellite state is the usual term.

It's not clear that the term colony implies direct governance. For example, the Brits applied almost no direct governance to their colonies in the Americas from 1650-1750.

One could also just say that the Russians occupied Eastern Europe for the half-century following World War 2.
See also: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24358401

This has been already submitted repeatedly over the past few days. Turns out nobody cares? I was surprised, too:

https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=false&qu...

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32881110

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32867760

RIP Celeron, I loved my 650Mhz beast that ran OC'd on Air at 1.3Ghz circa 2003. RIP.
> It is in their terms of service that what they are doing is legal

I don't know what you're trying to say, but that sentence is complete nonsense.

You can't make an illegal action legal by putting it in a contract.
I don't mind a slow pace. It's when the humans (unusually pale compared to the rest of the show's diversity) started complaining about elves taking their jobs that I checked out.
Everyone wants US visitors so by including other countries it brings up the inventory of people looking/clicking ads which brings down the price per click which creates more ad spending
I have two 1920x1080 60fps screens and one 2560x1440 120fps screen and they work perfectly in sway. The DPI between them is different but it's minor enough that I haven't bothered fixing it
There are already separate acceptance requirements for STEM majors based on things like the math prerequisites and minimum GPA requirements. At the university near my house, you need at least a "B" average on your freshman transcript to be accepted into the College of Engineering. Many of the engineering and medical courses have extra fees on top of tuition. Also, the parents of these kids have already paid more by living in school districts with high property valuations, that can provide the necessary preparatory coursework.

A not insignificant number of college students have no hope of majoring in STEM even if all of the economics are screaming at them, which they are.
This puzzle is definitely along the lines of a Leetcode-style traversal exercise
If you're American, anyway :). Though default autocorrects are trying to globalise the Z over S anyway :(.
I regularly use older devices. The great thing is that almost every device has a relatively modern browser. By "modern" I mean JavaScript and DOM. So if I engineer my pastebin-like website to be compatible with them, and allow HTTP (accessibility over security) I can use just about any device for taking notes and communicating.
Successful systems that solve real world problems are not perfect. This works in your favor though, as when you release your project, its perfection will be a great competitive advantage
> However, without a radically different approach to pricing, Adobe’s competition problems will persist, and leave it with M&A whack-a-mole as its main defence. Is that the plan? Because at least with Compu-Global-Hyper-Mega-Net, Microsoft had a plan.

Good point at the end of the article, maybe it'll help address some of the concerns everyone has about the acquisition. (m-m-m-maaaaybe).
Social security was a higher percentage of gdp in the early 1980s than it is now. Even if it goes back up it is to a level it was at before. People can come to different estimates about what future gdp growth rates will be and have different estimated.

All health care costs in the US are going up. The US government has to pay HMO corporation profits, Americans have to pay higher drug prices unlike other countries. The government can continue paying current Medicare rates, or it can hand more money to health companies if it wants to. As the government is still handing extra money to health companies apparently no one thinks it is a problem as of yet.
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> I've got no idea of whether/how profitable YT is.

YouTube: 20 billion USD profit in 2021 on 28 billion revenue

Netflix: 12 billion USD profit in 2021 on 30 billion revenue

There's a reason why people call YT a money printer. And I just heard they are trialling showing five(!) ads before each video now.
And youre against easy transportation around the state because ...?
edit ... im gonna go in with im am voting NO for fixing any major, non trucking roads in the future. your future hybrid SUV better have wings and graceful landings.
> Businesses do it because they think contracts should be simple so anyone can write them adequately. Those organizations are half right.

I can empathize with writing contracts being hard. However, reading them should be easy. Ironically, writing something that is easy to read is hard.

If I had more time I would have written a shorter letter
I'm so glad modern GNOME has xrdp support built in. It's just a toggle in the settings.

My previous attempts to make it work have ruined the standard configuration so I'll probably need to do some serious purging/reinstalling to get it to work, but for new installs I'm sure remoting into GNOME must be a LOT easier.
What do the different colors for the domain links at the end of stories mean?
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Dude sells cars now. Of course he is against trains.
People who see themselves as "fans" are the worst, basically.
Again, its carplay or googlemaps or bingmaps, but there is no reason to connect the phone.

Google , Microsoft , Meta… they are software companies, thats what they do. If VW or Stellantis comes to them asking to do their satnav app they wont refuse.

Its easy to list all the bad UI but remember that BMW pioneered the central console wheel back in 2005. Car OEMs generally know better given that they build the actual car , especially the interior

When car OEMs try to copy phones you have disasters such as touchscreens and absence of physical buttons which is a trend that the maniacs over at tesla started and needs to be rolled back ASAP because it is dangerous and bad design
The Search for the Origin of Eels
>Far from “not exactly how market cap works”, this is more or less “not even close to how market cap works”.

>Econ 101 time: value is subjective. Human beings merely use value as a description - it does not exist inside of any object or inside of any equation. A “store of value” has always been an ill considered term - but this is not the argument against it.

Who cares? The general point here still stands: bitcoin's valuation will have to double every halfening (in terms of some indicator like USD) in order for the cost of security (total block reward) to stay constant in (terms of some indicator like USD).

>What Bitcoin is good for is being internet dollars that can’t be spent twice. That’s a nontrivial feature.

Any cryptocurrency can do this, and many do not have bitcoin's crippled market cap or development structure. The question is this: "Why bitcoin?". Bitcoin's sole advantage over other cryptocurrencies is its name brand.
I had the same problem. I was trying to click on things but not drag. Maybe if one of the animals is clicked but not dragged, it could expand and immediately get small, as if it had been dragged 0 pixels?
Handshake Instead of a Bookmark Link
Agreed, along with a message of some kind explaining what's happened. My kid ended up with all the animals on the boat and unable to move any of them off, and didn't know why. This was before she understood all the rules of the puzzle.
Each time I tried running Firefox over ssh with X11 it either lagged or crashed. With Wayland's Waypipe it works flawlessly, I could even watch a Youtube video through it.

I'm double checking it right now using a remove machine a few blocks away from my home. Running `ssh -X remote firefox` lags a lot worse than `waypipe ssh remote firefox`. The latter feels almost native, very responsive.

So no, I don't think we are giving up a lot. X11 was designed to work over network, but it never really did.
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32888021
That's their base pay, but they make huge amounts of overtime depending on seniority.

https://transparentcalifornia.com/salaries/search/?a=san-fra...

Many of them make over 150k, some over 220k

BART claims says their median rider makes 50k, based on a survey they conducted in 2020. You can find various sources by searching "rider profile" or something like that.
>The problem is not "useless degrees" (they're all useful, regardless of what you may think of them), the problem is insane cost of education.

STEM degrees are essential for modern society, humanities degrees are pure luxury that could be replaced by just reading the course syllabus for free and discussing online or with local groups

As for the cost of education, that could be fixed overnight by allowing loans to be discharged. Colleges would instantly stop providing most humanities courses because they know the students won't be able to repay them because they provide no real world value