skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The problem we have seen over the last 100 years in highway infrastructure is that demand always increases to fill capacity. The greatest example of this is LA, which has some of the largest highways in the country but still has bumper to bumper traffic.

You need to think about it on two metrics;

(1) density of transport; how many people per unit volume

(2) power to # of passengers.

On both counts trains are vastly superior to almost all other modes of transit other than boat.
> zlib is 23k lines.

The zlib format includes uncompressed* chunks, and CRC is only non-trivial if you're also trying to do it quickly, so a faux-zlib can be much, much smaller.

(I don't recall if I've done this with PNG specifically, but consider suitably crafted palettes for byte-per-pixel writing: quick-n-dirty image writers need not be much more complex than they would've been for netpbm)

* exercise: why is this true of any reasonable compression scheme?
Alternatively, if the sum of all human writing is racist I would absolutely prefer it be reweighted so it’s not.

The last thing we need is for AI models like this to be an amplifier for the very worst of human nature.
Not in my experience. :P
Yes, but there are tests that differentiate between vaccine and Covid antibodies. (search keyword: "nucleocapsid antibody test")
All the numbers also didn't age well if you look at the stock prices since the last year.
I am using the concept from the article to provide a counterexample. This isn't a conversation about how to lose weight, but about when to be "optimistic" ie apply yourself to the problem rather than giving up.
Than you had one hell of a problem to solve!
>So, Tesla hired a new CIO Jay Vijayan who, along with a technical team of more than 250 people, in 4 months built the ERP system, called Warp, which currently is an essential part of Tesla’s operations and online sales platform.

That's an impressive achievement if true. Coordinating 250 people working on new software is a nightmare and 4 months is a short timeframe to even build a strong foundation.
For me it is a pet peeve that the start menu regularly takes a vacation.

It's particularly bad when the machine is starting, it seems the machine would rather listen to the music in its head than take commands from me. I wish it would put a priority on getting the start menu up and running even if it meant caching the state of it ahead of time so it can resume quickly -- I mean, there are just a few commands that I type in 90%+ of the time if it had those ready to go and took another second or to look up something obscure I could forgive it.
How much better can you get by pushing production to use greener methods instead of reducing demand or changing it to something else (which would fall on personal consumer activity change or raising cost of production via say carbon tax)?

Obviously there's not a clear distinction between the two, i.e. food deserts / car-only locations forcing people to make certain choices, but it seems like for most things outside of energy production meaningful improvement requires a meaningful change in downstream consumer experience/behavior.
Thank you for saving me a click and some time.
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They're very cheap compared to building nuclear, very easy to build compared to nuclear, and go up in weeks or months rather than years, so also quick.

Capacity is being rapidly added, but there's not enough of them yet.
Yep. My introductory physics course in college started with 29 students and ended with 4.
We used to say "wangen", as in "hey wangers, did you shut down the wangen?", which was properly used a source of much mirth for a few years ..
If all X are Y then Y is meaningless when talking about X
The silliest example of this I've seen is "private browsing" mode not allowing screenshots. The point of the mode for me and everyone I know is to have isolated browser sessions for the websites I visit and not have the browser add them to my browsing history. Not to shield what I'm seeing from the OS itself when I try to disclose it.
I would argue the real luck was the depression lifting at a key moment in your life, and perhaps life circumstances that didn't stack up to reinforce it.

I had a tough start in mine (likely starting in childhood with trauma), and that issue worsened significantly through formative years of my life. It didn't ease up. As a young adult, being pretty ill and left untreated can reveal formidable powers of self-destruction.

Luck was there however, in the form or only succeeding partially through the little talent or brains I had in between depressive oscillations. Eventually with the untreated illness however that too can reach its limits. Eventually I still got lucky again, in the form of meeting a couple people who love unconditionally and a therapist who jumped into the fray and was creative with meds. These days I can almost see what it might be like on the other side of the fog for others, and I agree with your post and attitude overall.. But I'm not surprised. Empathy isn't a muscle we all work reliably, and it can be hard to constantly see it and retain equanimity (especially having some for everybody, in or outgroups, self or others).

With meds and therapy and work and time, I do think thatwith or without the depression, I can attempt to create my luck by living through principles that seed it. In my opinion those principles include living moment-to-moment lightly (some stoicism, some absurdist nihilism), and living moments profoundly in their value (anything is an opportunity, most things can be experienced deeply). A bit like a good boxer is light on their feet but heavy on the impacts.
It depends on the type. ARB's are fairly cheap. Alpha 2 receptor agonists are a bit more. When I was on those I paid cash and almost always received a coupon on the spot for some reason but my total price out of pocket was $28 for the agonist and about $12 for the ARB. Some people are on more then 2 types. Happy to be off those things.
I really struggled with moving to macOS for work, but a couple of utilities helped a lot:

AltTab - Windows style tabbing between windows, including thumbnails and tiles for each open window of an application[1].

brew install --cask alt-tab

LinearMouse - Removes mouse acceleration, but also gives you the ability to have different scroll directions on mouse and trackpad[2].

brew install --cask linearmouse

Rectangle - Open source window management tool, I use it for window snapping[3].

brew install --cask rectangle

[1] https://github.com/lwouis/alt-tab-macos

[2] https://github.com/linearmouse/linearmouse

[3] https://github.com/rxhanson/Rectangle
great, what happens when the eye of sauron turns on something you don't feel is justified? what recourse do you have?
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I don't understand how anyone manages to use a touchpad after getting used to how great trackpoints are. I have to use an external mouse on laptops that only have touchpads.
> Tiling left / right etc? Doesn't exist

Sure it does - long press on the green maximise button and you get a little drop down. For me it includes "Enter full screen", "Tile Window to Left of Screen" and "Tile Window to Left of Screen". Tiling is like full screen but with two apps side-by-side rather than one.

If you want to maximise a window instead of going full screen (that is, make it as big as possible but not overlap the menu bar or dock), Option+Click on the green button or double click the title bar. macOS calls this "Zoom". Safari is atypical in that maximising it only changes the window's vertical height, but pretty much everything else maximises height and width.

All these options are on the 'Window' menu as well.
Something like this happened to me this past Fall. I took an undergrad fundamentals of networking course that was honestly fairly surface-level and simple, but the professor put a significant focus on developing the proofs for the course concepts through homework rather than in-class lectures. In theory that's fine, but the issue was that in a time-sensitive setting (i.e. assignments or exams) it became extremely stressful to just not understand where to begin with certain problems. Combine that with the fact that, in my experience, proofs often lead to understanding of a concept rather than the other way around and you had a lot of people going into office hours basically asking for a solution.

I would be very interested to see a study on the relationship between time costs sunk into learning a concept through proofs and students' understanding of the concept as compared to when a proof is simply provided. I'd hypothesize that letting students discover the reasoning behind things on their own would be more likely to develop a deeper understanding, but I question whether there's enough time in a single semester to drive a curriculum that way.
> the same argument is put forth for excessive food, drink, drugs intake and self-control is, by itself, not a real answer, but a diversion of sorts typically given by the item's manufacturer/seller.

But it is a real answer. Solution to being fat is not some miracle pill or miracle diet, but lower the food/calories consumption and more exercise/movement (which is both again self control), simple as that. Seems like people nowadays are so childish they can't even admit how stupid and lazy they are and they prefer to blame someone else for their own misfortune caused by themselves. No one forced you to become fat by excessive eating. You can always become slim, if you start eating reasonable amounts of food and start exercising, but of course you can ignore this and try each year new miracle diet, same as people moving away from smartphones to dumbphones to fix their self control issues.

> smart phones are created with a singular goal of keeping the attention of the user. Incessant A/B testing, analytics and dark patterns use make them more addictive than an average willpower can handle.

I think you are confusing smartphones with apps/sites. Smartphones themselves and their manufacturers (maybe besides Apple since they produce complete package) are certainly not using any of those methods to make them more addictive. People are addicted to social media apps, not the phones, phones are just tools. It's like blaming silverware producers for being fat, because you eat sugary/unhealthy food.

If you wanna blame someone blame companies developing/producing apps/services, your blame on smartphone companies is misdirected. I don't think Xiaomi or Samsung (these two have pretty much all Android market in Europe) produce many addicting apps, while I am certain Facebook, Bytedance, Twitter and other companies produce addictive services/apps.
Cannabinoids and Neuroinflammation: Therapeutic Implications
For all we know people are being smart and smoking high cbd strains in the morning.
I would argue that all of those (and even more) reasons are the same reason. Ad tech driving the "free" web is the source of all the problems. Outrage (faux) is more profitable than journalism and information sharing.
You know you’re old when you still reflexively flinch just a bit when you see PNGs mentioned, as you have battle scars from working with PNG-24 files in IE6.

https://24ways.org/2007/supersleight-transparent-png-in-ie6
And this is why I usually check the comments first. I love this place!
> I checked and double checked and I never visited this website or its parent company. Sure enough I don't have an account

Scalefast handles ecommerce for other companies, such as SquareEnix
> This smells like DRM to me, an it's not a thing on Linux (thankfully). You'd probably have to install DRM yourself for this to be a thing.

That is also the reason why Linux doesn't (and likely never will) get served high resolution content by any significant paid service however.
They're saying it was removed from Windows.
PNG is not a format for uncompressed or RLE "hello worlds". It's a format designed for the Web, so it has to have a decent compression level. Off-the-shelf DEFLATE implementations were easily available since its inception.

I think it is pretty pragmatic and relatively simple, even though in hindsight some features were unnecessary. The CRC was originally a big feature, because back then filesystems didn't have checksums, people used unreliable disks, and FTPs with automatic DOS/Unix/Mac line ending conversions were mangling files.

PNG could be simpler now if it didn't support 1/2/4-bit depths, keyed 1-bit alpha for opaque modes, or interlacing. But these features were needed to compete with GIF on low-memory machines and slow modems.

Today, latest image formats also do this competition of ticking every checkbox to even worse degree by adding animation that is worse than any video format in the last 20 years, support all the obsolete analog video color spaces, redundant ICC color profiles alongside better built-in color spaces, etc. By modern standards PNG is super simple.
I often drive by a home, in a state with legal weed, and I can smell the stench from the road ... every single time too, and no, they aren't smoking outside at all times of day. I'm not anti weed, and I wouldn't complain about someone smoking on their own privacy, or even when alone/not around others, but you can indeed smell it from afar. And if you smoke, you know.
How to Parse Arguments in Your Ruby C Extension
> Transparency and trustability are precisely the tools

I don't get the point of transparency if "we the people" dont have a say on the politics of AI that affects our life. AI is too important to be left to a cabal of "specialists"
I do wish in those kind of comparison's they would make them equivalent: as in "26kg of jet fuel + XXXkg of turbine" vs "600kg of modern Li-on batteries + XXXkg of electric motor" since for a flying vehicle the all-up weight is the significant number.
Read the linked article. Nobody is arguing that there is literally no such thing as a “carbon footprint”. They are saying there was (is?) a coordinated advertisement campaign designed to help distract people away from supporting legislation of corporations themselves.

Whose fault is it that all those bottles are in the ocean - people who bought them and threw them out, or the people who made them in the first place? PepsiCo definitely wants you to think a certain way.
It's very intentional.

Great writing leaves gaps for the reader to fill with elements and interpretations from their own life. This comment thread makes it clear it worked -- amphetamine users see it as a story about amphetamines. People who care about gender thought it was a gender story. People with social anxiety see it as a story about masking.

I watch and read too much sci-fi so interpreted it more literally, thinking about how the puppeteer thing could actually work.
Name of the man is mentioned in the first paragraph (and three times more).

Name of the woman who actually invented the concept you discuss is relegated to "someone" and a footnote.
>>I think the world is very random, practically speaking, but that probably distributions are highly mutable. I found that decisions I previously made set me up for higher likelihood of being chosen for subsequent opportunities.

Indeed. That quote from Sun Tzu's 'Art of War' - Opportunities multiply as they are seized.

One the great things about the GTD system is to make you arrive at the exponentially increasing opportunity trees. Once you act on something, think about the next task(s), when you finish them, think about the next- ad infinitum. Prune the tree every weekend based on your larger goals.

A few weeks to months of this you will have enough opportunities opening up for you which were previous invisible, and way out of your sight.
`dtach` is just a pass-through multiplexer, with no emulation of its own. For my use case — reconnecting from the same local windows to the same remote sessions every morning — it's perfect. I can use the full capabilities of my terminal rather than the intermediate subset.
It's a great app, doesn't do "much" except sending some government news from time to time. It was used a lot during Covid because it showed your negative QR code.
https://github.com/orgs/teslamotors/repositories
I think it was a decent decision to go home rolled ERP - by the time you get where you're going with off the shelf it's often so customised you may as well have started from scratch anyway, at least then you aren't held to ransom over version upgrades which break your customisations and unsupported-nes. Not sure what the connection to open source is as Warp seems to be closed source? It's kind of an obtuse segway.
I personally dislike how environmental damage was rebranded as "carbon footprint", since it removes all nuance, ignoring for instance low-CO2 carcinogens that destroy our bodies.

This quantification into a single number is also promoted by the corporate propaganda machine, since it gives companies more leeway to bullshit being green.

While it's not a coordinated conspiracy, something severely suboptimal is happening. Many identify this but simply don't have a better term to voice their frustration, so we're left with "conspiracy".
Chaos -> Complexity -> Hard -> Simple
This happens to me every time I'm trying to open Notepad or Notepad++. I will type in "notepad" intending to open classic Windows notepad, see the top result I want, and then a new result will appear above it just as I hit enter.
Well, you said it. Some people.

I was a stoner for all my 20s. A toke and the hardest thing I could do was play video games and eat junk food. Meanwhile, my stoner mates would work on their side projects until deep into the night.

We're not all cut from the same cloth.
For you I would be looking at Thoracic Outlet Syndrome being that you are I assume under 35 and male. Just from those two datapoints (age and gender) and the fact that your symptoms seem to be nerve-related rather than tendon-related... sounds like nerve impingement between the spine and arm. I would read up on the symptoms of Thoracic Outlet Syndrome (and related/sub-syndromes like Pec Minor Syndrome, which is sometimes considered an entirely separate condition and other times considered a sub-type of TOS).

There are tests you can do at home (some require another person) to test for all of these, and I suspect at least one will aggravate your symptoms:

- Carpal Tunnel Syndrome

- Cubital Tunnel Syndrome

- Pronator Teres Syndrome

- Thoracic Outlet Syndrome

- Arthritis (it's probably not this)

- Cervical Radiculopathy (it's probably not this, unless you are old or recently experienced trauma in that area, like a car accident)

All of these are TREATABLE, especially the first four. Ideally you don't have one of the last two, but both of those seem to typically be an "advanced age" thing. Statistically speaking, you probably have one of the first four. It is theoretically possible to have more than one of these things, but probably very unlikely (I don't have any stats handy, but I know it's uncommon).
If you already own your own house outright and are not faced with financial pressure in that department, a relatively minor step back in salary to maximize your mental-health and life enjoyment seems perfectly reasonable and logical. It's not like a software engineer (who already owns their own home by the way) is going to end up begging in the streets.

Just be advised that a software engineer's job isn't stress free either. Big projects can wreck you both mentally and physically. In some ways, being a PM is a lot easier.
> I can vaguely understand the security concern, but it's my device, running my OS, why can't I make a simple screenshot?

It's not about screenshots, the point is that screen recording is blocked because the OS can't see the encrypted video path. As it can't there's nothing to take a screenshot of.

(Indeed, you can take a screenshot. It just comes out with all the video data nulled, so it's a black square.)
They are pretty much everywhere nowadays, because they're such good investments. The fact that they're intermittent is a big problem for nuclear and other "constant" power sources, resulting in their gradual disappearance. More renewables will make this happen even faster. The problem is that this is not necessarily good for the grid as a whole if there are no power sources that can fill in when renewables aren't producing as much, while they at the same time have priced the stable sources out of the market.
Sure, and the solution isn’t “wow google is so biased the solution is to show no results for anyone in the name of fairness.”

Go contact OpenAI about how you’re concerned that their bot can produce misandry and try to convince them it’s an important issue that should higher in their backlog.
The difference is that nobody was sitting next to the chimp lying to them about how it works. False documentation is worse than no documentation.
Who is included by “inclusive” language?
Was using Edge at work with no adblockers and got blocked.
I think this has to do with the content in question being rendered on the GPU separately from the website itself. Historically I recall this being an issue with all forms of video display in some browsers but at this point (with website rendering generally being at least in part GPU accelerated) it shouldn't be an issue I think unless for some reason the browser is set up to use software rendering for the website itself.

I do faintly recall not being able to see video player content in screenshots taken on Ubuntu (but the player itself could take snapshots just fine) because of a divide like this some years ago.
This function is interesting: https://twitter.com/jeroenfrijters/status/161520407458818048...
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Everything. I’m forgetting my English. I understand now that “kicked off” means they’re starting something, not banning something.
As someone who never prioritized money but instead gravitated to mission and a career supporting my family life, my biggest recommendation is to keep earning the high salary as long as you can. Money represents options and time in a storable, transportable form — I didn’t realize that when I was younger and just figured I could live within my means. I make more than 5x my parents did in my rural town, but in an urban city it’s a different calculus for a family and I wish I built up enough money to exercise different options in life.

Further, as you get older, becoming an IC has ageism risks, and returning to age appropriate leadership roles maybe hard with the “drop” on your resume.
You have to play the game to understand how weird it is, even if the weirdness benefits you.

There are financial constraints to being off the grid of the game.

Even if I wanted to run off into the woods and live in a cabin, I don’t know if I could live off the current amount I have.

So back to the grid, hence the resentment.
> Cruel optimism, the way Hari interprets it, boils down to the folly of suggesting personal solutions to systemic problems.

This is an interesting start but feels too narrow as a definition of the term.

Cruel optimism, in general, seems like it should mean "cruelty by means of optimism". As in, you don't trouble yourself with how something (which you are morally responsible for) isn't going well and some person(s) will be negatively affected, and you justify that with the assumption that everything will turn out fine in the end, or the problem is much milder or easier to solve than it really is.

Neglecting responsibility for a problem justified by downplaying the problem, imagining the problem away.
"Heute zeige ich Ihnen die Herstellung von Mannlöchern" (subtitle in German of the first scene). I am being childish here, but that is not how that is to be translated.
Agreed. Tesla's decision to create an internal applications team and make their own enterprise software is one thing. This may be interesting at many levels, but it does not provide convincing support that open source versions are needed, much less viable.