skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
All of the commenters are missing a huge point. US commuter rail projects are hugely corrupt enterprises. Just look at Honolulu for a blatant example of corruption in infrastructure spending (their train NO-ONE wanted)
Many unrealistic things about this. Various hallucinations, mistakes, anachronisms, etc. Interesting, but not the mark of an AI capable of abstraction or memory.
Dense urban life is far more environmentally friendly and efficient in terms of consumption than suburban life.
Learning to use your tools is part of any job. I don't understand the point of this article or why such a low quality entry is on the front page.
If stored on ZFS, at least it would be validated each time it was copied.
I like these maps. I do think it glosses over many details of vertical parking. It's hard to compare how tall the parking garages are. It's unclear if it covers underground parking for buildings with other uses or not. It's hard to determine exactly how much parking is provided in the red shaded regions. It's hard to determine what are parking garages and what are parking lots.

I also would have liked to compare street parking options in various cities, but this doesn't seem to document it. Street parking can have just a big of an impact as garages and lots, as it leads to wider roads, people hunting for a spot, and a hazard for bicyclist.
I'm just a data point, but I lost 12 friends before I was aged 20. This was in the rust belt during the 90s. The reasons ranged across the board: opioids, crack, alcohol, cancer, preventative health conditions, accidents, and suicides. I was always amazed that people didn't report on this kind of stuff back then. But, all of my friends were poor.
For three years now Xojo has said "Android support coming soon". Doesn't build much faith that it's actively supported.
Nuts! I have been thinking of leaving an emergency encrypted backup in my car, but evidently that is likely to self cook almost immediately. I assumed the lifetime was not great, but that is far more aggressive than I had feared.
Truly the mind and body are mysterious things. For example, if you walk around in an area where toxic chemicals are burning you can also feel ill. We have no way of knowing what the causes are.
Or Celerity BBS or how about let you play Tetris while your file downloads?
Actually works great (as far as I know, haha, I can't see what I'm sharing). Getting it just right was sort of fiddly, and starting up OBS before meetings is a bit of a hassle but it only takes a few seconds.

I'm probably not explaining the entire thing too well but honestly I find it to be an ideal solution to sharing a region of my desktop.
Except that the answer to this is public transportation??

The problem is that people need a place to store their single-occupancy-vehicles. which means that each individual with a car takes up a permanent ~100 Sqft. They also need places to put that car. If you remove the parking lots, and the roads, admittedly, you'll create a more walkable city that means people don't need cars. But people will still want something for longer distances. And that something is public transit.
what exactly is your job?

This reads more like an all-star capabilities brochure than someone’s real life/work
'Hard' engineers do this, though. If you want the label you should take the responsibility as well.
All I'm saying is pooling the entire United States into a single data point is fairly useless. We need to know which demographics are the ones bringing down the average the most in order to make moves that will improve this metric the most.
I mean, I don't care about the guy but man, 13 days later you're now looking like the fool since 'the claim' has now suddenly turned into a fact. [0] [1]

This also didn't age well at all.

[0] https://github.com/twitter/the-algorithm

[1] https://github.com/twitter/the-algorithm-ml
The article forgets to mention that the way Firefox sets itself as the default browser was simply reverse engineered from the way Edge sets itself as the default browser.

Microsoft always wants to set rules on how applications can promote themselves and ignore those rules for their own applications.
Well, coding != complicated frontend development, which it appears you are teaching your students as an allegedly "easy" programming environment.

You could perhaps consider starting them with Racket or some other "batteries included" programming environments specifically designed to avoid tooling bogs?
I forgot the place I read this:

Software development ("programming" in your taxonomy) is a solitary activity. Software engineering involves multiple people and the explosion of complexity involved.

I do like your point about knowing when not to program. Will keep that in mind next time I think about this.
They sell 2.2M cars a year, so if 5 model years of cars are involved, that's >$2200 ARPU. This makes no sense at all. It's orders of magnitude too high.

Some auto leases are about that much!
Bank accounts were not "arbitrarily frozen". This is total nonsense.

https://nationalpost.com/news/canada/banks-were-only-asked-t...
It hasn't disappeared from my memory! There were people who did very, umm, "creative" things with S3 (classic example, creating a virtual disk by storing each 512-byte sector as an S3 object) who suddenly changed direction after the pricing changed.

I agree that AWS does much better than Google though -- the S3 change was a big wakeup call to them about pricing all the dimensions rather than assuming people will use a service the same way as Amazon uses it internally.
APLcart – Find your way in APL
Can you please share some examples?
This video goes through some of the nuances
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tNgFMBzYcl8

Take a look at RDFox, unlike postgres where you can only derive a column from another column once, you can't derive a column from a derived column, RDFox can derive unlimited columns or even objects through rules incrementally. Kind of like unlimited chaining of materialized views

https://docs.oxfordsemantic.tech/
It's been almost 20 years since I studied any of that, but those proxy wars in far-flung places did directly challenge other powers because of the Domino theory

I don't necessarily agree with Morgenthau and Carr as I think most IR Theory is bullshit made up by academia... particularly the stuff around how players "gain power"

So I make my own argument which mostly hinges on the idea that two powers really means "my power" vs. "everyone else" which is not a recipe for peace
Sam Altman – Worldcoin launches proof of personhood SDK
Meta hires DJ to play in cafeteria to urge workers to return to the office
Hmm, pretty sure the Beav was long gone from the airwaves by 1969…
You should check out some teacher forums and see what teachers are complaining about to get an idea of what would help. Classes are too big, teachers are pressured to pass unprepared students to the next level, underperforming students are hard to motivate, there isn't enough time to prepare lessons and grade, etc. There are many areas that could be improved with funding, but you should start at the known problems.

Think about this from the perspective of behavioral economics. Teaching is a profession with a high degree of intrinsic motivation given how stressful it is and how little it pays. Paying for performance on some test primarily rewards people who will game the test because that has a better cost/benefit ratio than heroically catching up kids who are performing several grade levels behind and have a difficult home life. Pay for performance tends to damage morale and increases attrition of intrinsically motivated workers (the kind you really want). This is what happens in controlled psychology experiments and it's what happened with NCLB.
There's an entire genre of anti-car content popular on social media right now that completely overlooks the reality of how most US cities are dispersed. I agree that the utopian ideal of a car-free existence is appealing, but it's far from realistic for a lot of places and there's an awful lot of shaming and shunning going on of regular people living their lives right now.
I like my suburb :)
The most practical highly-effective radiation shielding would be putting your drives in a waterproof container and storing them at the bottom of a swimming pool. That will also do a pretty good job of keeping the temperature stable and not too high.
this is april fools, right?
>In my experience teaching programming, we spend very little time helping students actually write code.
>Instead, the mentors mainly deal with problems of tooling – “it says ‘EADDRINUSE’ and crashes”; “git is giving an error”; “npm just says segmentation fault”.

He is doing things wrong. If he wants the students to use modern tools he first need to give a course on the tools and later another one on programming.

Otherwise he must not use modern tools (no git, no react) and use some simplified teaching environment (not ideal, but at least he will not be distracted by the tooling issues).

In my experience (I have to work a lot with Ph.D. students in science with very little IT expertise) the tools are always the issue, while the algorithmic thinking is rarely a problem, so probably a course on the tools is more useful than one on programming.

He must focus on tools that are not the fashion of the moment, so the terminal is okay, git is okay, React is not okay.
The words "vibrant, dense neighborhoods" might mean "high crime, low privacy, and high noise" to people who prefer living elsewhere.

Lots of people write glowingly about the "gritty, vibrant" streets of 1970s New York City too. Places like that helped spur the move to the suburbs - ask yourself why.
By Design

Won't Fix Working As Intended

Declaring Bug Bankruptcy

Google doesn't test. Google relies on the public to test its software and even then most bugs don't get addressed. If the bug is a gap in the spec or open to interpretation it won't get fixed. Spec bugs are not allowed.

The reason that Google has such a high hiring bar is that most of its processes run open-loop and it relies on having smart thorough people to prevent the large swath of issues from being created in the first place.
The gas lines are gonna leak whether you use them or not.
Where’s the money in that?
Sorry, I was reacting to the The Conversation article linked above, not to the actual Nature paper, which seems much less patronizing to the group under study.
Two questions…

What’s fundamentally so threatening to corporate interests that Activision like the early robber barons engage in such tactics to prevent collective bargaining by employees?

Do worker protections result in lower shareholder value OR does the c-suite just hate the idea the idea of rank-and-file employees having the power to disagree without being fired?
Have you seen any of Robert Miles content? He's well spoken and his arguments are backed by research. It isn't guaranteed to wipe us out, but a misaligned ai is a real problem.
I wonder if they have the ML wizards to make this happen
> Honestly, being afraid of a place where nobody is around is statistically safer - people don't lock their doors in my neighborhood.

I live a city and neither do I, at least during the day. Only when I go to sleep I try to remember to check it to make sure it's locked.

And cities are often measured to be safer than suburbs:

* https://science.time.com/2013/07/23/in-town-versus-country-i...

* https://www.nydailynews.com/opinion/ny-oped-your-children-ar...

* https://www.nationalgeographic.com/culture/article/130724-su...

There's no slam dunk case for either.
What good unlocked hardware exists that is comparable to current apple silicon laptops? (In price, performance, heat, keyboard, trackpad, display quality, battery life, etc.)
Compared to Uber that hasn’t made a profit in 10 years?
> At 8.5 miles a commute by bicycle or e-bike

GP said Boston.
If you have/apply for a CTO title, and you’re writing code without equity. You’re not a CTO. You’re a software architect with a fancy title. That’s not saying anything negative about you. But the business will not see you as a CTO. They will see you as a fancy IC or Architect.

If you have/apply for a CTO Title and an organization will not give you equity at a great valuation, for the purposes of growth. They don’t value your input, respect your leadership, and won’t give you the tools needed to succeed.

A CTOs job is not to produce code. It is to lead, it is to be accountable to the board and the CEO. It is to be the person who sets the tone and pace for technical decisions and is the ultimate decision maker for technical things.

Part of a CTOs job is to be able to shrink delivery times, increase security posture, increase efficiency within development, and overall improve the entire department through measurable goals and metrics. A CTO should be able to explain the exact dollar amount their department has increased and saved the organization. They should be able to showcase improved velocity and delivery metrics to the board that have outward visible justification.

In many cases a CTO might also be over support. In which case customer retention and happiness is also a factor and must be measured and considered.

This is all in addition to the people management aspect of holding a budget, being responsible for report’s growth and improvements, and ensuring the department is healthy from a personnel standpoint.

Any company that thinks a CTO can do all of that effectively and push effective source code is both delusional and going to fail.
Interesting thank you! Also the primary/secondary core of the M1 is pretty clever. Intel 13th gen uses a similar strategy now, but not AMD yet, which is surprising considering their chiplet approach.
Also all of these are minimum requirements. They don't actually imply much, except about the state of technology when the statement was written. Flash has been improving very quickly on all axes.
Trends come and go, but the suburbs will continue to grow.

Anti-car posts are fun because they are escapism from the worst part of the suburbs. However, you lose all of the best parts when you switch to the current alternatives (expensive density and shared public transportation).
I've never been. Are bicycles illegal there?
IMO the Android team should have realized the Android team was not creating internal libraries at a sufficient level of stability and change tracking for the Android team. This quickly gets into cultural priorities that I have very little context on - but I do think that processes failed here.
This reminds me of how a recent Android version (12?) suddenly made certain characters (e.g. ?:<>) illegal in file names[0], probably because to increase compatibility with NTFS. Wtf, Google. Nowhere was this breaking change announced.

Not only does my notes app, which has worked flawlessly for years, now crash when I accidentally use one of those characters in a file name / note title. (Unfortunately, the app no longer receives updates.) But suddenly my entire ebook library (which follows the name format "first author & second author: title (year)") no longer synchronizes with my phone (running AOSP / GrapheneOS), either. Fantastic.

[0]: https://android.googlesource.com/platform/packages/providers...
HN is such a bubble sometimes. Hearing the problems of 250k/yr+ programmers is so completely strange.

I know there are a lot of us programmers and tech workers working in non profits, government, education, or in small but sustainable businesses.

I'm resigned to making well under what HN would consider a junior level salary, but in exchange I get to work at a place with a mission I can believe in, and I still have a comfortable lifestyle.

Maybe we're doing it wrong? I could probably double my salary at some VC funded company, after all. But in threads like this I do wonder if mo money means mo problems.
There is indeed a dollar value one can pin to the extra parking availability. It's business dependent, but absolutely it can be tied to additional revenue.

And yeah, 'personal scooter consultant' is the pitch.

It's concierge and not traditional, but so am I.

As far as mass market application of this concierge service, I don't think there needs to be a mass market adaptation. Once there's some minimum buy-in, scooters will be normalized and more and more people will default into using them.

Its way more likely you would buy a scooter once you'd ridden on a friend's scooter from the gym to a local park for throwing a Frisbee. If, however, you didn't know anyone who owned a scooter, maybe you'd never own your own.

So... I'll hand-hold and concierge whatever is required to get critical mass.

I've already got two friends that have bought scooters, and they love it. I have four more friends now about to take the plunge. Scooters spread through friend groups, it seems.

Once you see how many problems they solve, and how much more fun and convenient they are, it's hard to unsee.

But it's damned hard to be the first person to make that choice.

I, too, don't know that I have seen this exact model before, but each scooter purchase saves a parking spot for another customer, so the businesses I work with will be invested in the results.

It's fun to work on, and everyone I've talked to has been super interested. Parking issues dominate the lives of general managers/directors/owners of Denver area businesses.

They'll try nearly anything to make those problems be less of an issue.
> cannot find any evidence of your intent to hurt that person

in CA second degree murder is the unlawful killing of a human being that is done without deliberation and premeditation, but with malice aforethought (or with an intent to commit an act)

if there is literally zero evidence available as to intent, it cant be murder.
Zuckerberg: Early-career eng tend to perform better when in person '>=3 d/week'
There’s a level of zen above this where you simply do not care about the concept of what the company cares about or who you’re benefitting. Not everything has to be a move in the game.
The Lenovo Yogas and LG Grams are my favorite in the MacBook class. But if you want more upgradability I recommend the classical Framework 13 and HP elitebooks
I'm curious if there are any bright ideas on practical first and last mile transportation for people who want to take the bus or train. Say my house is 1.5-3 miles from the closest bus stop and my destination is 1.5-3 miles from its closest bus stop. Should I be bringing my scooter on the bus? Is there room for everyone's scooter on the bus?

Curious to hear from people who use the bus or train daily, how do you get to and from the bus stop in a timely manner and in the cold.
Great idea. I've thought about 'content marketing', and only have planned on local podcasts, but RevZilla is a great idea.
> And that seems to be politically unfeasible at the moment, for reasons that elude me.

Because the majority of the people in the US don’t actually want to ride public transportation and they like houses. It’s not that difficult to grasp.
Just read the article and not the comments. Comments here used to be something you learn new stuffs, apparently that is not the case anymore.
Intel is rapidly losing the server market to Arm. So, if you are targeting phones or the cloud, having an Arm laptop is an advantage. (MacOS includes a hypervisor that runs Arm Linux better than any native Arm Linux device I can purchase for myself.)
The point is, despite the twitter/article author's (perhaps sensationalist) claims, the numbers don't support the extreme emphasis on the 5-40 age group. The difference in life expectancy, which is what we are talking about, mainly (~2/3) comes from health and healthcare issues, and is in fact spread out throughout Americans' lives, from about 0-79 years of age.
Computer made of DNA made by computers made of DNA works out…
It depends where in the sciences they come from. Physicists don’t have much problem with abstract thinking, but biologists, maybe not as good (I used to help my biologist PhD student roommate write some Perl to crunch numbers). It reminds me of that xkcd comic https://xkcd.com/435/.
I don’t recall chatting with anyone who wrote with such good grammar, spelling, or politeness. I do remember a lot of “shut up kid go back to high school!”

But I can see how someone who wasn’t there might think this is what it was like.
> How is having some open space worse for the environment than being tightly packed?

All that open space means things are farther apart and you have to expend more energy to get from Point A to Point B. Less density means more joules per capita for transportation:

* https://transportgeography.org/contents/chapter4/environment...

Does it take more energy to drive 5 minutes to the store to pick up some milk and eggs, or to walk (or cycle) 5 minutes to the store?

* https://www.vox.com/science-and-health/2017/1/26/14388942/bu...
I've been thinking about all day how I cannot wait until AI can write and produce entire new episodes from TV series that are long over, completely in the style, simulate the actors and voices.

Just feed it all the existing episodes, give it a plot idea and week to render.

By end of the decade? They can already do the images and voices via AI, now ChatGPT can write the script and a movie is just thousands of still frames?

https://www.vox.com/technology/2023/3/30/23662292/ai-image-d...
I think scooters could be great for older folks, too. Help them retain balance and stuff. Scooters are way more stable than bicycles, but can go fast and can ride as fast as a car, if needed.

Totally agree with old white people representing political power, so whatever they want is what happens.
I was big into BBS in the 90’s, and you are correct. It’s not even remotely similar.
that's a far better problem to have because you'll at least have the indication that you are maxing out your equipment
Thanks! I didn't get the idea in Bali, but decided to start working on it while I was there.
I don't see the "shaming and shunning" aspect much, myself. When I do see it it's usually directed at people who are driving dangerously or fighting policy that would make it easier to live without a car.
Because even a zero byte file consumes space and if you give people the option someone will create several petabytes of zero byte files.
Biking here in the states isn't a problem from a distance perspective -- the problems are road safety and destination security (bike theft is a big problem but typically not valued by police because of the nominally low dollar impact). Walking, yeah.
Version 100 of the MIT Lisp Machine software recovered