skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
"American railroads move more than 5,000 ton-miles of freight per person per year. That’s compared to 500 ton-miles per person in Europe and less than 170 ton-miles per person in Japan."
(just a neat snippet on just how important freight rail is to the US - obviously due to the enormous size of the US, but plays into your comment on amount of track too. A lot of it is just vast distances connecting empty stuff. Still not convenient for running multiple services)

As for shipping, yeah, you can definitely take the canal, but it will still take longer to ship from china to east coast than to unload in los angeles and ship it across the country. And ofc requires a freighter small enough to navigate the canal. A lot of freight does get unloaded on the west coast then shipped across the country. At that point while the ship would be more efficient energy-wise, there just isn't the capacity and speeds needed, so the comparison is still truck versus train.
Most populated areas have cheaper grocery stores than Walmart. Walmart is usually only the cheapest option in rural communities.
You don’t need a multinational company to tell you shoplifting is rampant in Portland. You can just visit there.
yup this is correct
I'm sure there's a distinction, but this is an anecdote, and the above link is specifically another person's anecdote. My comment makes fine sense, if you want to say they are completely separate products, it's probably unrelated just do that, don't be an ass.

Our IT department doesn't treat us like idiots, FF was an officially supported browser until a month ago, we were on the most recent version. I believe them if they say it's about webapp compatibility, even if this does help them manage the browser under group policy or whatever. They could make this decision for whatever reason they want and wouldn't have a problem getting people to go along with it.
Your recollection is spot on.

Re. CnC, how about something like:

@thread-safe @lock-free @sparse
map map[K,V]

(Let's not get hunged-up syntax.)

> What tends to be more like a CNC machine are libraries.

If a language or library gives you composable semantics, you may have a programming CnC on your hand. CnC requires minimally one degree of disconnect between the artefact and the artisan. A language compiler/runtime (or library) that applies composable semantics to logical & computational abstractions.
Much of Your Work Will Go to Waste
you can lock meetings that has started

this is not a UX issue, it is people who give no fuck about security of privacy

otherwise your government would have voted anti data-spying laws, they haven't therefore they don't care, therefore they didn't think of locking their meeting after it started

i can spell the agenda that's cooking

https://blog.zoom.us/keep-uninvited-guests-out-of-your-zoom-...

https://support.zoom.us/hc/en-us/articles/201362603-Host-and...
Interesting. I gave away my old monster CRT so I cannot check.

I wonder if it would be possible to buy a modern 27" or larger CRT these days; I recall that the CRTs always looked better than the LCDs when LCDs first became popular.
I wonder how those numbers compare to the wage “shortages” those stores collect from e.g. requiring employees to do some work off the clock.
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29677298
What do you do for backups? If your house gets destroyed in a natural disaster, will all your pictures persist?
Yeah, first thing I did was to try to get a feel for when I needed to hit the main engine. Executing a landing with 1 or 2 fires I can do with some regularity. Getting the boosters to 1 or 2 is very hard due to initial conditions, but 3 to 5 is also somewhat doable. All of it coming together for a 90 point landing involved some luck for sure.
> why there's a pop-up explaining some new arcane feature unrelated to their goal

This is one of the worst things apps and websites have started to do. I can hardly open an app without encountering this. Note to devs and PMs who think these are a good idea: I don’t read them, I dismiss them immediately, and every time you do this I like your app a little bit less. Stop it.
Instead of "containing" china, how about just working with them? if you want to create an adversary, forcing an economic asymmetry which otherwise wouldn't exist is a pretty good starting point. It's a massive economy, it runs to a different tune for sure. I am really not confident that this move around modern VLSI isn't capable of backfiring hard.

That said, the article isn't wrong: if you believe the risk is solely future chips you've really misunderstood the depth of IPR in existing chips.
What I don't get is that Amazon Go stores are closed on weekends (at least in Seattle). Seems like they're going for the in-office workers, I guess that would be a reason start closing them.
Speed reading is really teaching you to skim. You can retain the main info but not so much of the finer details.

I've read about studies where they quantified how much was retained between people reading "normal" speed, and those speed reading after taking a course, and it didn't bode well for those "super memory" type courses that end up being just (surprisingly unrelated) speed reading. At first they seemed to have learned the material, but only a short time later it was only the "slow" readers that passed the same tests. And the slow readers had more complete recollections, resulting in richer descriptions of what they had read.

My take (which could be wrong) is that speed reading makes it easier to convince you that you suddenly have "mega memory" because you could apparently read faster and retain more information than you thought you would have been able to, but really only until the end of the testing period. They're much like other snake oil treatments such as anti-wrinkle creams that actually just puff you up with fats and lymph - the wrinkles are gone, but it's a mirage of sorts.

There are many of them known. Sometimes mentalists use knowledge of them in their tricks. As do "faith healers." Miraculous changes that end up only short term quirks of psychology.

How many people do you think have read Tony Robins' books and got super rich like he supposedly did using those same techniques? You'll apparently feel really confident while you still live the way you were otherwise, and blame every positive event that would have happened anyway on that book.

Snake oil. But good if you want to learn how to skim (or get rich quick, since that's usually the supposed end point any time such programs make it to TV).
Where's the "report spam" button when you need it?
Well shit. Wal-mart oughtta open up their stores again and quit letting thieves take all the dang groceries this time, if you ask me.
Well, for one thing not everyone is in the USA. I was not. My older daughter graduated from university. So I do know. But also not in the USA.

Does nobody in the US live with their parents while going to university?

It's not uncommon where I live for parents to save to pay for their children's education. Believe it or not, the government even gives you money if you do that.

EDIT: That said, the US has plenty of good paying software jobs. You can pay back your loans even if you don't work for Google. I'm sure this isn't easy for everyone (especially these days).
This is life.

People fail to recognize so much of life is imperfect down to our own biology and the design of the systems that span our planet as well.

At some point, there is no return on the investment of perfect design.

It seems our entire world is underpinned by “perfect is the enemy of good.”

- https://cosmosmagazine.com/science/human-egg-cells-are-imper...

- https://biology.mit.edu/revealing-an-imperfect-actor-in-plan...

- https://news.harvard.edu/gazette/story/2020/04/human-knee-ev...
In fairness Plex does tell you when the server needs an update. It's orange on black on the header bar. I've yet to miss an update anyway. It takes seconds, haha

Maybe don't install crap on your dev machine if you're not going to keep it updated.

Blame a normal person? Nah. A senior engineer with keys to the castle? They should really know better.

> The blame simply is on not practicing proper isolation and keeping work to a secure and controlled environment.

Who is responsible for setting this up?
As someone who grew up programming but always scared of bit fiddling and number theory, this was amazing to read.
Programming is more than just writing code.. its about figuring what to build, architecting the solution and putting together code to build that.. ChatGPT in fact helps in the last part. It is in fact allowing me to write code faster and hence giving me more time to focus on the first two things..
This is why I stopped relying on robots.txt a long time ago. I still use it, but I also have my server check the user agent for crawlers and return a 403 to them.
Agreed. Boo frigging hoo.

Wal-Mart didn't design itself to fit into major cities or local economies but to change them in a way that serves their purposes.
A cosmonaut was stranded in space. Now a pop star tells the story
Paranoia is good - keeps one vigilant and on one’s toes 24/7.
Opsec mandates to buy throwaway devices for such purposes.

The easiest way to travel state borders is to buy something like an old Dell Latitude (core2duo generation) with libreboot and a LUKS encrypted Linux on it.

Don't take your phone with you, especially if it's necessary for 2FA or can be (ab-)used for recovery of accounts.

Use a phone that's easily reflashable in case it gets compromised. Fairphone 3/3+ or Pinephone come to mind, depending on whether or not you want to deal with mobile Linux. Otherwise Xiamo Redmi Note 8/8T or devices with a MediaTek CPU. MediaTek ARM CPU has developer tools which have been leaked, and is a rootkit that can uninstall/reflash other rootkits :P

Note that there are already some rootkits in the ARM space so you also need to make sure the ARM blob hasn't changed, which is why I would not recommend a device that hasn't been integrated with the upstream kernel or hasn't got their blobs available.

Never use broadcom based wireless Hardware, because of broadpwn and bluepwn. Change the laptop's wifi card to an Atheros one.
I find Zero Hedge such an interesting website. 90% dull meandering analysis of noise. 9% absolutely loony things. 1% pure gold!

Occasionally their data monsters pull out a winner but it can be a lot to dig through.

Also as an Australian, "First time for you?". We have been waiting for a gap into the market for well over a decade.
> Hosts will have to submit several documents to the city, including a diagram with exit routes, proof the host is a resident of the building, and the number of non-host residents in the building.

This is such a wonderful development. It should never have taken this long to have such a basic safety issue addressed.
This write up is "wikipedia edit wars" between one author/editor and themselves.
This just reminded me of a piece of software I haven’t thought about in many years, and I don’t know the name of it. Sometime in the mid-1990s, I have this memory of floor model PCs at retailers like CompUSA in Circuit City running a screensaver consisting of an assortment of pre-rendered, 3-D geometric eye candy. They were basically looping animated GIFs, probably 320 x 200, running full screen, and cycling through the collection at regular intervals.

Anyone else remember this?
There have been endless articles about:

- how felony records, addiction to opiates, lack of citizenship paperwork, etc have made so many people undesirable hires
- how so many people have moved onto disability insurance
- how certain populations are opting to play video games, watch porn, and live at home with parents
- young women were squeezed out of the workforce during the pandemic and have yet to return in large numbers
- medical bankruptcy (a mostly US specific issue)
- inefficiency in hiring funnels (“the resume firewall”)

We are asking them. We just don’t have solutions to help them re-engage. Many Western countries put too much onus on individual responsibility and don’t have a functional social system for optimizing retraining and unemployment-hiring matching.
I'm not sure who ever said "if you want to make music on a computer, learn DSP programming".

Making music has many different approaches, and potentially lots of different stages that can be permuted, combined, discarded, repeated. Composition, performance, timbral adjustments, editing, mixing ...

That said, tools like PureData and Max/MSP are not there just to do DSP. Consider this lovely example of generative music that has almost no DSP going on whatsoever - the entire patch is focused on composition:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vy-Ahm0j1CU

That said, if you wanted to make music that sounds like Fleetwood Mac or Taylor Swift or Duke Ellington, then computer tools are probably not where you should start (though may be where you end up).
I often wonder how this story ends. I think there’s two paths:

The first, where we don’t make substantial change and renting for life becomes a norm for all but the wealthiest of the wealthiest. First in the large coastal cities then in more and more American cities over time.

The second, where we rezone our cities and orient them around robust mass transit systems. We build tons of infill housing to keep up with demand and reduce our reliance on private transportation to accommodate the influx of people.

If I was betting I’d bet on #1, but I hope we can do #2.
That's precisely what i was saying.
Yeah, my first question is why aren't they? If it had that much property tax in arrears, surely it would be seized and auctioned off.
1 - I don’t know the hiring standards of every company and that 90% sounds made up to be honest.

2 - We can not trust the CV. Maybe the company did a test, maybe they didn’t. Maybe their test are to our standard, maybe they aren’t. Maybe the candidate barely passed. Maybe the candidate actually failed but made up in other ways that might be relevant to the other company, but not ours. I doubt anyone would give us this information about their current or former employees. Maybe the candidate really did work on the projects he claimed or maybe he was only tangentially involved. That is a lot of unknowns. A test clears up what the person actually can do.

3- Yes. It works for us. Do we miss out on some good candidates because of this? Yes, but it definitely prevented us from hiring bad candidates.

Again: if there is a better way then I would like to know. I have not found one yet.
I know close to nothing about this website. But in a matter of seconds I'm confronted with things that make me want to take it less seriously - an ad for a mail order bride, the article's author is "Tyler Durden", obvious editing errors (though sadly these are more common since many websites like this don't actually have editors).

The article might be bang on but I wonder whether it makes sense to take it seriously when there's red flags like this.
But are the publicised rates correct - theyre based on a basket of goods, of which my understanding is, many standard items are not included. I think petrol might have been one?

I’ve seen online estimates recently 3 or 4x what you’ve stated and it wouldn’t surprise me if those were correct but we’ll never know.
And which is this?
Right… so we won’t have any regulation on wall socket design or voltages then, I guess. It’ll be great!
An earlier publishing of the Walmart Company Statement was made by KPTV and referenced by the later National Review article (echo'd in full by the linked Yahoo! copy pasta).

KPTV made no mention of theft, National Review "linked" that to Walmart closures via a throw to a contextless statment made by Walmart CEO Doug McMillion in December 2022.

The official specific statement (as quoted by KPTV) was:

Walmart says they are closing the stores because they were not meeting financial expectations.

“The decision to close these stores was made after a careful review of their overall performance. We consider many factors, including current and projected financial performance, location, population, customer needs, and the proximity of other nearby stores when making these difficult decisions."

https://www.kptv.com/2023/02/23/2-portland-walmart-stores-cl...

https://www.nationalreview.com/news/walmart-set-to-close-all...
It should be noted that this is not an inevitable outcome, but merely the one that is caused by our existing socioeconomic arrangements. We have a choice whether it will deprive huge number of people of their livelihoods and dignity or not. If we go with the existing model, AI - like any capital - will end up concentrated in very few hands. Except, crucially, this is the kind of capital that - at least in the long term, if not quite just yet - does not require labor to produce value, which is normally the limiting factor on how inhumane capitalism can get.
Just landed safely, so think I am sending my resume to NASA for the upcoming Moon mission.

https://imgur.com/a/Qq5lqOm
Strongly agree. It took me quite a while to learn that one of the big differences in photos I really liked was sensor size.
Tbh the way that hiring is done in tech is just lazy and reeks of mediocrity. Memorizing 'take home' assignments, banks of algorithms, pair coding, white board interviews, what a joke. Companies want to place all the burden on candidates and spend as little money as possible. It doesn't matter if they waste people's time.

Whatever happened to getting to know a candidates work? How about look into the work that a person has done and take the time to understand where a person's skills are. The problem with tech hiring is we have people trying to cut corners. So-called 'non-technical' recruiters doing interviews with a checklist, companies that treat people like hoop-jumping monkeys, and generally f*king idiots that won't do their job (they get paid for it, why again? They're not actually doing their job.)

Hiring is not a complex problem. The problem is literally incompetent people doing hiring.
> I think this is why functional languages don't tend to get traction while the multi-paradigm languages do. Given a choice between purity and pragmatism, most engineers will pick pragmatism.

Well, it's obvious to the working corporate-employed programmer, not so obvious to the ivory-tower theorist.

The short argument is that the entire point of a program is to take inputs and produce outputs. Making the consumption of inputs and the generation of outputs a second-class citizen in the language with the goal of "purity" just makes it that much harder for a program to perform its primary task.
You're right, the academic homepage style has always been a major inspiration, including during this project. (It was one part of refusing to use a more robust Javascript solution to get link underlines which clear descenders.) I still find the [Prof. Dr. Style](http://contemporary-home-computing.org/prof-dr-style/) compelling and think about ways to emulate it.

I'm convinced there's a sweet spot which retains the academic homepage "feel" while solving some fundamental readability issues like width, whitespace, and contrast. I think of it as one step of complexity "up" from bettermotherfuckingwebsite (but no more!).
There’s a more obvious reason why AirBnb won’t sue a listing.

It has a decent chance of sending a terrible message to other listings worldwide and misinformation and fear could easily trigger an exit from providers.
Because if my instincts cannot be altered to the point of having "neutral" heuristic judgment (again, whatever the heck that is even supposed to entail and even supposing that that is an ideal) then it is literally a benefit to their community if I am not regularly among them. My presence among them would necessarily be parasitic (regardless of my intentions, because we are talking about inflicting harm unconsciously). That is, so long as I am otherwise giving to their community as much as anyone else in that community.

Even though I don't think it is necessary to make an appeal to the destiny of an ethnic minority, I would nevertheless maintain that Martin Luther King Jr.'s vision and really the whole paradigm of "civil rights" beginning with the Fourteenth Amendment was and has been objectively bad for blacks in America considered collectively. We romanticize decisions like Brown vs. Board and the forced integration that came thereafter because of cherry-picked pictures of well-to-do white ladies screaming at a little black girl in Little Rock, but the fact of the matter was that most black parents wanted their children to attend all-black schools, and these schools basically went out of existence and many black teachers were left without jobs because they couldn't get hired at the integrated schools that stayed open that were by-and-large white-administrated. Of course, the civil rights apologist would say that this was because federal government had not yet gone far enough, but the federal government is necessarily slow and there is little incentive for a holistic program of forced integration on behalf of the executive branch. But there is just enough incentive to dish out these measures when it appeases some short term interest a particular critical mass, and this kind of high(center)-low(periphery) cooperation against the middle(subsidiary) is quite commonplace throughout Western history. The fact of the matter is that the history of civil rights in America is a sequence of not-having-gone-far-enough-yet that stretches to nowhere. This is why I prefer the Malcolm X approach, despite some of his own flaws. Blacks do not have a position of national sovereignty. They have a position of being dispersed into the urban areas of major cities and integrated (often initially by force of higher power) into what were originally WASP institutions. Their dependencies on white institutions is what has utterly screwed them for decades now.
Not saying we don't need more affordable housing in the US (we absolutely do), but I would expect rich people to own more homes than the typical household, so I don't think this stat is as egregious as it initially appears.

It wouldn't be unordinary for a rich person to own 3 unaffordable homes for the typical household, whereas the typical household will only own 1 affordable home.
In my idle brain cycles I've been thinking about a hypothetical implicitly-parallel computing architecture that could be built upon the concept of processing events, instead of the current mostly-linear execution that happens to get interrupted every now and then.

Everything would be an event: The computer powers on, user presses a key, an app icon is clicked, OS launches a background task, or an app wants to call its internal routine.. and a central scheduler or something sends that event to all available CPUs/cores, that could work on it simultaneously preferably without needing to worry about getting in each other's way.

I'm sure this idea has been around for a while and already has a name. Does anybody know?
I regularly back up to some external HDDs that I keep outside the home.

For pictures specifically, I recently discovered M-Disc [0], which are (allegedly) archival-quality, writable Blu-Ray discs. I'm considering burning an M-Disc of each year's pictures and storing them in jewel cases at a family member's house.

[0] https://www.mdisc.com/
"Inclined To Hire", meaning someone who either interviewed the person directly or reviewed their hiring profile and all the interview feedback is saying yes, we should hire this person.

Basically the equivalent of the Roman emperor thumbs up/thumbs down except it's a small group and you need a certain number of thumbs up to move forward. The number of people you need Inclined to Hire differs from org to org that use this method.
inflation is not scale-independent, the first goods to be bid up are the ones purchased by the people who receive the freshly minted funds.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Richard_Cantillon#Monetary_the...
It's not like stores with big levels of shoplifting are likely to perform well, unless in some very specific situations