skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> but that the cost-benefit ratio for highways is actually rather low, because highway lanes are so low capacity and fill up fast. (A standard metro line can easily carry 30-60k persons per direction per hour; the figure for a highway lane is 2.5k.)

That’s not the complete cost benefit calculation. A 4-lane highway costs $5-10 million per mile in suburban areas. Meanwhile, the DC Metro’s recent expansion through exurban Virginia mostly along an existing right of way cost $200 million per mile: https://www.heritage.org/transportation/commentary/washingto.... So even if the rail carries three times as many people, it costs 20 to 40 times as much money per mile.

That’s the cost side. On the benefit side, few places can saturate a subway line that carries 30,000 passengers per hour. Over the Thanksgiving weekend, just 5,000 people per day used the new Silver Line stops in Virginia. Even the design estimate of the Silver Line was 30,000 per day, and actual use has been a fraction of that. So the benefit side of the equation is a lot lower than the theoretical peak.
What do you believe is the percentage of homes closer to a freeway than to a surface street?
> these social media sites are contracting at an alarming rate.

Really? At what rate?
Also, “contracting” would mean net outflow of users; are Twitter and FB experiencing that?
Gold is by far mostly used as a store of value. Bitcoin is by far mostly used as a store of value. Next.
Cool project, not enough has been shown, way too much talking. I'd rather a longplay of the whole game with no commentary or demo it myself than listen to him talk.
Sometimes i wonder how we were able live on the back of people like you for such a long time. I remember my elders used to grow up on a farm too, getting up early, cold or warm, no excuses. And me just doing IT things, leaving the "day-to-day" duties to others. I feel bad.
Okay I love the site but we've gotten a lot of these posts. Karma farming?
Lots of Goan friends have finally opted for that "ancestral" Portuguese passport and none of them have any intention of either working or staying in Portugal ever.
> Have seen them doing shockingly un-Japanese things with food.

Like what?
A social network does not have to dominate the whole world to be useful and profitable.
Short term profit at the expense of everything else. At some point there will be a reckoning on all the damage this cult has done to society, but I don't expect it to happen any time soon.
Can you provide examples of such cases from your experience?
Bitcoin Obsoletes All Other Money
Sure, an "image problem".

https://gifer.com/en/embed/7iJT
You got a nice lil dvote from our HN friends because you spoke negatively about stonks (they like stonks a lot!) and neutral about bitcoin (they HATE bitcoin! Mostly out of jealousy). I don't think either is a pyramid scheme but both often trade at inflated valuations.
Good. More housing/highways is not the answer.
Then why aren't all highways one lane?
So a Soba Pillow? :)
Well now I want to theme/fork Mastadon or Pleroma to do this.
Sure, but it’s not because of the lack of ads, but rather because they know virtually nobody uses it. I was imagining paid Gmail, but Internet “with Gmail(tm)” being a bundle they would advertise, like when DirecTV offered TiVo. Or when you can buy HBO through Amazon Prime.
Level 1, thanks to full width numbers: https://i.imgur.com/nSn7Yi8.png
No, I didn't as this makes no sense, that's not what this technical term describes.

I've liked Wikipedia on that topic already in this thread. Please take a look.
When is more housing not the answer?
“… so much they are approaching the average water level.”

Next!
What makes the workflow branchless?
> That’s an issue with enforcement, not the legislation itself.

No because the legislation does not clearly define what a monopoly is, making it easy for politicians to hijack it for any reason they want.
8% of construction projects from major companies ($5 billion+, publicly traded) are either on-time or on-budget. Obviously a smaller number are both.

If you can really solve this problem, you can make a ton of money.

Meanwhile, non-trivial projects with clauses like yours are less profitable and therefore tend to be the first delayed when resources are scarce. Which they frequently are. Unless you overpay by default. After all, "on budget" doesn't matter if the budget is 100x what other people are being quoted

Meanwhile, how you described Boeing contracts doesn't seem plausible.
If that was to me, it was subtweeting some of the optimism that we will be anble to fully simulate a human brain, including diffusion of mood affecting molecules, any day now. It is like the people that thought the genome had 100k genes and sequencing it would make it all understandable, only to find out there are just 30k genes and a lot we had no idea about. When your data gathering shows you had massive errors, you are not almost done understanding things.
Yeah, you're just flat out wrong on this one. Google it.
Yes, this was a core architectural requirement of Stadia (running the games on Linux), as opposed to hosting virtualized Windows machines (which would've allowed serving up Windows-based games).

Whether this specific design choice alone killed Stadia, no one can say -- but it was probably one of the most important factors in its demise.
If you can't fix the situation via conventional means, I'd say it's bricked.
Some people will always have to use cars, regardless of how bad the traffic is. Not widening prevents people who wouldn't use cars from using cars. But certain throughout is required.
Same here. Please keep the button.
A growing population doesn't need more housing silly /s
> I don't think this holds in general at all.

given that all industries consolidate and end up with 2-3 major players in every field, your assumption does not seem to hold at all.
Sure, not necessary for tasks...but for AGI.

I don't think current LLM's understand, but they can manipulate language about emotions symbolically. But if we equipped LLM's with sensors and gave them a real time interactive experience exploring a world, with reward feedback for their decisions, I'm sure (but not certain) some of their internal states could become some analogy for emotion, and maybe they could learn to sense and utilize that emotional information. Or maybe it would be necessary to tweak the structure more to achieve this.

It was interesting to read the discussion with that Google "sentient" AI, as well as play with early ChatGPT before many filters were applied, and ask them questions about how they felt. WRT ChatGPT I think it was just "linguistic symbol manipulation", but it was interesting to read the type of language they would construct around their feelings and experiences. Bizarre, but I'm not being judgy...although this whole topic feels pretty scary, and is pretty overwhelming and unsettling. Maybe because we're playing with the 'inner stuff' of things, without really knowing it nor knowing what we are really doing. Ugh...:(
I use it (deliberately) all the time.
Please do mansplain to everyone about "understanding economics or human behavior", two topics that are barely understood and have wildly unpredictable outcomes on any given day. Back to grown up talk: scarcity doesn't create value by itself, no. A giant multi-billion $ bulletproof-ish network of millions of active users trading a scarce commodity does create value.
So TT is a giant organism? Interesting thesis. :)
Ask HN: Do we need a process for excluding bodies of work from LLM
Do creators need defense from LLM scraping the internet? Create a robot-ai.txt file or include language in licenses that instruct artificial intelligence not to include certain content from large language models? Particularly for open-source software, webpages, and individuals who brand their work?
Yes, getting people off the road and into alternative transit options is about the only sustainable way to improve traffic over the long term (unless you have a dwindling population, then you could probably build enough road capacity to fix traffic). More transit only makes things better for those who want to continue to drive.

Not that some targeted improvements to fix road bottlenecks isn't often warranted, but unless you're shifting trips to other modes, the traffic will only eventually create more bottlenecks for each one you fix!
Only to bring us back to Unix legacy APIs.

Don't get me wrong, WASM is a nice idea with some nice properties. But WASI isn't a real improvement to the status quo in general.
Furby: "I'm a cybernetic organism: living fur over a metal endoskeleton."
> Are you implying that advertising is the only viable business model?

No. does not mean that Kagi's current business model is viable either. Strawman much?
Amazing that there are businesses that do so well financially they can abuse their customers to the point of hatred, yet remain in business.
>I don't want some mega corp in a foreign nation holding the means of food production hostage via parts serialization and DRM.

Governments should be acting more in their own nations' self-interest, and simply forbidding any such things from foreign vendors.
The water in Lake Huron two years ago was absolutely insane. Docks and the floor of many cottages were underwater. These were structures built 50 - 75 years ago.
Alex Hormozi
It makes more sense to compare like for like.

The current project to expand I-66 in the DC suburbs of Virginia is $3.7B, which is $160M per mile along an existing right of way.
Posts like this remind me what an amazing phenomenon Internet is. 20 years ago a question like this would have been left unanswered. I hope we get to protect and keep Internet for generations to come.
They license search results from other search engines, and other search engines have the ability to increase their fees anytime they want to make Kagi suffocate if needed. It's not sustainable.
It may be useful, but Twitter has not turned a profit for about four years.
Really seems apparent that BofA was right in their estimation of what Hasbro and WotC are doing to their core business/businesses.
It's a very rewarding lifestyle and I have a lot of good memories of it. It's meaningful work and it gave me a good sense of purpose. I'm in my mid-40's now though and my body just doesn't have the ability to recover like I could in my 20's or 30's.
Finally! It took this many comments for someone to show, via the age-old tulip example, they know nothing about crypto except that there is hype around it. And thank you for adding the date to show you read the top of a Wikipedia article.
Interactivity Magazine would be another to check out. There's a few issues on Internet Archive.
A customer wouldn't pay for our outsourcing work so we left where there was still a significant debt. Contacted a lawyer who took a fee up front. Multiple letters, meetings, etc. Went to initial hearing where the judge was very much on our side and derided their people.

Then the lawyer explained that we would win but with appeal this will take 3 years. Or we can settle for 1/3rd of what was owed to me. The stress in the court room isn't for me. I settled and took the loss. Add the lawyer fees, time wasted and stress. Not worth the effort in that case.
Let me translate it into transport jargon: Instead of mindlessly deploying larger highways to accommodate more cars, sometimes you design better compression in the form of trains.
Unfortunately file extension removals gets into another weird space, where Typescript (well, `tsc`) won't rewrite your extensions, so if you add them you have to write "foo.js" even though the source file is "foo.ts" (at least in ES modules).

This gets solved by using some sort of packager, but it's another sort of bit of ugliness that doesn't feel like it's going to get resolved anytime soon.
I’m not sure what you mean. The reservoirs tend to sit at a watershed’s egress point, runoff is obligated to pass through it. If there’s ample room in the reservoir, no runoff is lost.

I think a correct reading of the article, which is perhaps too oblique on this point, is the loss of water to runoff where it is not in a watershed with a major reservoir, and not able to infiltrate into the aquifer. Add some runoff, such as agricultural runoff, is heavily polluted, complicating the matter even more.
>designed IMO for the low-attention-span trend

Actually the original idea was about posting to the web from SMS, back in the days of limited message size
I like this. In the past, we've considered making our B2C products completely free, as a way to drastically increase our rate of adoption and spur further adoption of our B2B product (which is much more lucrative).

But we've never pulled the trigger, out of a fear that we'd be giving up existing revenue, and because it would make it hard to start charging again later if we decided it was the wrong decision.

Although I like this, I'm still not quite sure what to do with my answers to these big questions. That is, I shouldn't just go and do things because it popped into my head as an answer to an extreme question. If it were a low-risk great idea, on the other hand, I should obviously do it. But what about all those ideas in the middle, which seem like they carry a significant risk, but could also yield a significant reward?
You can use something like Heroic and completely avoid using the Epic launcher.
I think his comment was not well worded, and what he meant was that just building more housing farther away from everything, and then more highways to connect that housing, is not the answer.

More housing is needed, but it needs to be in the city center, and the city needs to have public transit so that the residents of that housing don't need cars.
Agree with that too, it's not a binary tho/either or. We need balance :D Too much suffering/damage = erosion and stagnation, not enough = stagnation. But you need reward, too. Reward greater than a cessation of suffering. Because otherwise all you have is peace, and end to suffering, rather than something more beautiful, fun and useful. Good luck to you! :)
The very short version, as I understand it, is that the sauce is different. From interviews I’ve seen of the guy in Seattle who invented it, who came from Japan, he materially changed the sauce primarily to make it much cheaper and easier to produce so that it could be used as an inexpensive, mass market food.

Ironically, my understanding is that the Seattle version flowed back to Japan and became common there. His modifications to the traditional recipe went viral. I’m not a teriyaki aficionado, but this seems to be widely accepted as the history of modern teriyaki. It does make me wonder if I’ve ever had legacy teriyaki.
I thought so as well, but apparently it's only been posted once before: https://news.ycombinator.com/from?site=mcmaster.com

Immediate Edit: I should have used the Algolia search—there are a few secondary sources referencing it
What you're talking about is often called "collective intelligence" - enabling a larger group of people to collaborate and form a more intelligent unit than any single human could be.

I believe that's one of the few realistic ways to save humanity.

I'm experimenting with a handful of different approaches to achieve this and am connected to some groups of researchers and developers who share a similar visions.

Please reach out if you want to know more or get involved. (Email in profile)
This is user experience design in its highest form, born out of an intimate understanding of the target customer. Very nice to see it showcased here.

The lack of tracking scripts is telling. Adding them would clearly be detrimental to performance, and it’s dubious whether any insights could be so obtained. Always good to remember that observation changes the thing observed.
Any game you would be willing to mod for.
I usually use this: http://bestof.metafilter.com/
Same for most of the meals typically served in North American Chinese restaurants.
I think a lot of people (often Americans) have trouble distinguishing between illegal/legal and wrong/right. In fact, they see no right and wrong: if I can do it then I will do it, other people be damned. They’ll wave their hands right in front of your face taunting “Nyah Nyah Nyah I can legally do this and there’s nothing you can do to stop me! Ha ha ha!” People will go out of their way to be an asshole because they can and nobody can stop them.

Don’t like if I film you? Ha ha! It’s not illegal so I’m going to deliberately film you, and by the way, in other ways I’m going to also go right up to the line of what’s illegal and not cross it, because I can and because it irritates you.
I believe Musk is actively trying to change that. Whether he succeeds or not remains to be seen
I sometimes wonder if companies should/could be forced to publish a “lifetime cost” of all of their products, much like we do energy ratings for appliances. Something that would show all of the expenses over the lifetime of the products, including estimated maintenance and lifespan before replacement so people have a better idea of the true cost of the purchase.

I am confident the reporting would likely be captured by the manufacturers anyway and there would be a lot of arbitrary inputs into the reports, but something to fight the short term profit taking you describe.
My understanding is that while teriyaki was created in Seattle as a pseudo-Japanese dish, it eventually migrated to Japan and became popular there.
Thanks for posting this. I would never have though to check if this was possible even though I know rPi are being used as pseudo mod chips in gaming consoles.
Hate to be that guy but
"You need to enable JavaScript to run this app."
… and yet there are still counter-examples: Candid photography[1] has long been recognized as art, and I wouldn't feel that the photographer is a "shitty person" for trying to capture a view of the world not affected by knowledge that the camera is trained on them. (And permission after the fact is not always possible. Nor necessary, even to avoid be "shitty".)

Photo-journalism, particularly of politicians, would be greatly harmed by a permission requirement: is a journalist a shitty person for reporting the truth, even truths that a politician might not like? (And let's say it's something public, like capturing a politician giving a public speech that would appear to be whipping a crowd into a mob, not tabloid/paparazzi type stuff.) Someone photographing or videotaping police brutality?

Intent, I think, is what matters in determining if any one photo/capture is "shitty"; there are instances where you can be a good person while creating photos or videos that might be very detrimental to the subject. Some of the examples from TFA are good examples: creators looking to find people on the street to make a fool of.

[1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Candid_photography#As_an_art_f...

[2]: (I'd perhaps also add the last time I surreptitiously recorded someone was because the person was issuing death threats to those around him. AITA? But there are other, more artistic or journalistic cases that I think also have merit, which is why this is a footnote.)
We were all thinking it.

I am NOT looking forward to the Bell Riots next year.

Being as I lived in SF in the late aughts, me and other friends would joke about the Bell Riots. Then 2016 happened, then 2020 happened, and all of a sudden it's not a very funny joke. :(
What is it that makes the images of the houses so unsettling? It's similar to "uncanny valley" or "liminal space" but they don't seem to fit too well in either of those categories
Apple Music Sing: Is this the dream karaoke machine?
That applies to all commerce really, but the SV philosophy is "growth like a cordyceps on meth", so...
Great site if you know exactly what you need, but a lot of this information hierarchy won't work for those just browsing or looking for inspiration.

That's the right choice for this site and what I expect it's users want, but not something that every ecommerce site should be aspiring to.

Having built an ecommerce site where the primary use-case was not a specialist who knows exactly what they want, I'd suggest that this is probably the easier type. In my experience, building a rigid hierarchy is the easy part, and building a site around that is straightforward. Add in a user preference of ease of use over looking good, and this isn't a particularly hard problem to solve.

The issue gets harder when categories are subjective, when there are many similar products, when relationships between products are subjective, when browsing, and providing relevant and interesting onward journeys at each step are important for a good user experience, and when design and branding are important for brand trust.

It's easy to be dismissive of the effect of branding, or to say that websites shouldn't be optimising for engagement, but in markets such as fashion, these are critically important to the user experience and perception, and ultimately user satisfaction from the products, and are not just about the bottom line of the business.

tldr: don't apply this all blindly, it's good but relevance depends on the store.
If you start invoking "body count" of religions you're definitely doing religious flamewar. If you prefer, we could say it's perilously close to the edge. The moderation call is the same either way.
I'm starting the process of shifting to Australia (from NZ), and this is going to be the hardest pill to swallow - I'm paying $83 AU for 900/400 currently!
Widening highways fixes traffic everywhere except for the 50 to 75 or so biggest urban areas in the U.S. Go to Google maps and use the traffic option at rush hours and you will find that only those areas have congestion problems (except for temporary accident/construction problems).
> - Complete commitment to grayscale images which make scanning easier (https://www.mcmaster.com/snacks/)

Liars: https://www.mcmaster.com/product/3542N11

(I'm pretty sure that's an oversight but the fact that I have to dig hard just to find this is funny)
Mastodon has seen pretty solid increases in usage rhe last month or so. Certainly a lot of journalists, cs folks, and science people.

and i believe Facebook usage has declined to the point it is discussed on earnings calls.

Even very large and successful networked media companies can wither away (source: I worked at AOL once)

https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poems/46565/ozymandias
The best Furby project I’ve seen is the Furby organ https://youtu.be/GYLBjScgb7o
I wonder if it's anywhere near Kepler-22b. Romulus and Remus were raised by wolves, after all [1].

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Raised_by_Wolves_(American_TV_...
> The only people who seem to disagree focus on the aesthetics of code over the clarity of explicitly telling the reader your intentions to terminate a statement.

Okay, I'll bite. I don't think "aesthetics" and "clarity" are disconnected. Clear code looks nice, and nice looking code is clear.

I still adhere to a "no-semicolons-needed" approach. The edge cases are few, and I can't recall the last time I ran in to trouble because there was no semi-colon.

People not including that trailing comma out of IE-era habits is something that bites me far more often (although you do get an error, but Firefox at least will also issue an "unreachable code" error in your example).
And a precursor to group texting before it existed and when texts were 10c each for most people not on an unlimited plan.