skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Show HN: I built a transit travel time map
This was something I built while trying to look for housing in Toronto that was decently transit-accessible to my office while still cheap.

The backend is written in Rust. It parses public GTFS data from transit agencies and performs a simple heuristics-based BFS on the bus lines to calculate how long to reach all points in a city.

The frontend uses React and Mapbox GL to render each individual road segment based on how long it takes to reach.

This project was a great excuse to learn Rust, deployments, and mapping. The source code is here if you are interested: http://github.com/econaxis/time2reach
It's a fair question! I've thought about that a lot, as someone who has plotted maybe ~200 pieces of their own work (and generated plots for ~500-ish).

In person, it is very obvious that you're looking at something created by a physical pen. The lines have a glossiness to them, a slight pressure, etc. It's an artifact a printer couldn't have created.

Process-wise, it's a fun challenge too, but that's a different thing altogether.
That's technically true but also myopic. This was an explicit step to weaken the judiciary, strengthen the hard right and also indicted PM. This move is not explicitly anti-arab but it greatly empowers anti-arab leaders at the expense of democratic fairness. And rather severely at that. This was a canary. The next bill be worse and the one after worse again because they know they can't be stopped.
It’s a useful convention; I’m not sure why you dislike it other than some invalid conception of purity.
Thanks for the explanation of the 'direct message' aspect. I didn't know that, but it's interesting
Chesterton's Fence is a principle that says change should not be made until the reasoning behind the current state of affairs is understood. It says the rash move, upon coming across a fence, would be to tear it down without understanding why it was put up.
Well the lobotomy and several nobel price for peace winners prove that nobel prize winners have stupid ideas also within their domain.
> The court is now barred from overruling the national government using the legal standard of “reasonableness,” a concept that judges previously used to block ministerial appointments and contest planning decisions, among other government measures.

So which court and check and balance would oversee something like this?

Edit: Looks like they can still overrule laws and regulations but just can't use "reasonableness" to overrule. I agree this gave the courts unlimited power.
"x.com is parked free, courtesy of GoDaddy.com"

Wild. I was expecting they'd use the obvious domain name.

Does this rename include retaining the original trademarks (name, "twitter blue", etc etc?) - or can someone now clone the site and restore the original functionality?
Once can be luck. Succeeding multiple times at very hard things is not luck.

People can't wrap their heads around the idea that someone can be simultaneously a genius and an idiot. In the real world this is very common.

I like to put it this way: how many musicians do you like who are geniuses at composition, drums, guitar, vocals, or some other musical skill but are absolutely intolerable assholes and/or complete lunatics in the rest of their lives? Can you still enjoy their music? Does their music cease to be good when you learn about their personality flaws?

IMHO much of Elon's success can be attributed to two things:

(1) He is at least a good enough engineer or has good enough "engineers' intuition" to hire people who know what they are talking about and get them working on the right things. He seems much stronger in physical areas like rockets can cars though, not software.

(2) He doesn't listen to pessimists and nihilists who say things are impossible if, when reasoning from first principles, they can be shown to be quite possible. Example: ignoring people who said you can't land a rocket or that an EV could never do well in the market. Ignoring pessimism can be a superpower.

I do think Elon shows signs of chronic burnout at this point. The far-right / conspiranoid brain worm infection he's developed is IMHO a symptom. Opportunistic infections take hold when the immune system is weak.
Around a decade ago it was considered pretty dumb to spend all your time and money building rockets and electric cars. I sometimes wonder how high the bar is set for 'intelligence.'
I use nexusfont to manage my fonts.

Between google fonts and squirrel fonts there are thousands of fonts and styles.

Nexusfont lets me build sub-collections and then i can install only the fonts i want from the dialogue to keep my system from having a bloated fonts folder.

The drawback is having to reload inkscape to see the new fonts. The benefit is that loadtime is much faster when only select fonts from a much larger collection have been installed into the system.

I tried the font browser dialogue in inkscape and it was not on par with what I'm already doing. I also tried FontBase but was just not thrilled with the some features being paywalled behind a FontBase Awesome Subscription model. While nexusfont has less polish, it also has less B.S..
Note that some captive portals will break here, because they will use various kinds of redirections for everything except the well-known Google and Apple captive portal check URLs.
For an easy, out of the block, self-hosted experience, allow me to recommend:

Docusaurus.io framework. Why? It's compatible with MermaidJS-- simply run 1 install command, and setup 2 config settings-- shown here: https://docusaurus.io/docs/next/api/themes/@docusaurus/theme...

Docusaurus provides: Docs, Blog, Pages. Via Markdown. And for pages, it even allows basic JSX (reactjs style components).

Lately I've really been enjoying the combination of Docusaurus & Mermaid to document my personal projects.
I think they’re a design smell. If your interface is designed well, you don’t need them. If you hide features behind cute-but-meaningless icons with no text tooltips, you users will still struggle to find them even with an irritating onboarding tutorial.
Your comment reads like you’re opposing what I said but you’re not actually refuting or addressing any of the points I made..do you have anything to add to the conversation or are you just yelling in the opposite direction?
Twitter missed out big time in search. There is so much high-quality content on that platform, yet it's practically undiscoverable. I've way too often spent 15 minutes+ trying to find a tweet I saw at some point. Usually I never find it again. Search is a great save for ad revenue.

Leave Twitter as is otherwise, add search and cut opex. Twitter was great for what it was from a user perspective.
The logo is interim, so we should expect a re-design in the near future.

No any other assets have changed, which means the logo change was mainly to highlight on the vision. I actually appreciate the sloppiness. Twitter is now like a dorm startup. Change the logo? Sure, <img src="new_logo.png"...>
Israel is no ethnostate. It is ridiculous to assume that to be the case even with the context of the Jewish religion. It probably is less ethnically lopsided than the vast majority of other countries.
If you google "most beautiful college campuses", three of the first five articles use Notre Dame's dome as the primary image for the article. The other two don't have a primary image.

- https://research.com/universities-colleges/most-beautiful-co...

- https://www.architecturaldigest.com/gallery/most-beautiful-c...

- https://www.travelandleisure.com/attractions/colleges-univer...
This was extremely well written and full of information I've always wondered about. Thanks a lot for sharing.
>Is it worthwhile compared to wind farms and solar power?

The sun doesn’t shine at night, the wind doesn’t blow all the time, and batteries often are astronomically expensive and impractical at large scales. Solar and wind vary greatly, both over an individual 24-hour period, and seasonally throughout the year. A nuclear plant is producing its maximum capacity 93% of the time, as opposed to wind (34%) and solar (24%). To get 1 GW of reliable energy at any given time, you need 3-4 GW of wind and solar in the hope it will be enough, as opposed to 1.1 GW of nuclear. (Worth noting that coal is only 48% reliable).[1][3]

In order to build a grid that is able to meet demand consistently and reliably, you would have to massively overbuild renewables so they were able to meet peek demand, and deal with the issue of huge load shedding during times of overproduction. See section 5 and 6 of [1] for a study of what it would take to reach 80% and 100% renewables for California. To reach 0% fossil fuels, a total of about 7GW of nuclear power (the equivalent of 4 Diablo Canyon plants) would reduce needed wind by 11.5GW (the equivalent of over 5 million wind turbines) and solar by 5.7GW (the equivalent of 1.8 million rooftop systems). When you only need 40% the capacity, even double the cost is cheaper. Nuclear is only expensive when you compare it to coal and natural gas, which are baseload generating power sources. Again, with intermittent renewables, it is cheaper to build nuclear than to massively overbuild solar, wind, and grid level batteries.

[1] https://www.eia.gov/electricity/monthly/epm_table_grapher.ph...

[3] https://www.energy.gov/ne/articles/what-generation-capacity
I can't a realistic scenario see Apple moves off Aarch64 at this point for their MPU. They're having boatloads of success with what they've done there.

But I can imagine there's interest on their part in using something like RISC-V in supporting chipsets; modems, power mgmt, disk controllers, etc.

That and having something in their backpocket "just in case."
I don't see why this isn't a focus in RLHF. Just heavily discourage confident lies and encourage admission of ignorance. It can't be that much harder than "safety" training.
But then we would probably end up with things like "As an AI language model, my knowledge of the world is limited, but if I were to guess, ..."
I have worked on an RFP for migration. It persists because the cost for migrating can be quite high -- many mainframe environments have many applications with complex sets of dependencies (after decades, not surprising). No one doubts that it could be migrated, but it is not a trivial undertaking.

When folks have replaced significant enough chunks with other apps, or otherwise made the prospect less daunting, then it may happen. It just comes down to cost and risk management.
> With SpaceX and Telsa mostly his value-add has been looking at things and saying "This isn't elegantly designed enough" sort of like Steve Jobs but for internals. And he seems to be right often enough to be successful.

That wasn't his value add for either case. In both situations he brought together teams of extremely passionate and talented individuals and gave them a greenlight to employ a "move fast and break things" mindset that they otherwise couldn't in extremely conservative industries. Elon didn't send people back to the drawing board because he had some vision of a more elegant solution, they went back to the drawing board after the most recent iteration exploded.
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Also HP NonStop (Tandem).
Solar city was saved with Tesla money in a situation it would have gone bankrupt had Musk not lied about the product (and that it was "ready"), without telling Tesla shareholders about what's going on.

Which is typical Musk conduct: he lies a lot, people believe him, and he somehow makes it through until the lies do not matter any more. See robotaxis, self driving, etc.
No no no no no.

Design your product to be understandable at first pass. Apple famously doesn't do any of this with your iPhone, while Sony forces you to do it on every new device.

Let the onboarding be a forcing function for usability. This isn't a crutch, it's something worse and damaging.
Big 5 is accurate but hard to explain. MBTI is fairly easy to explain and honestly it's not like astrology where it is random, an INTP does act very differently than an ENFJ
spinrite from grc.com works on SSDs. It can speed them up, from what Steve Gibson says. I don't have a way to measure my SSD speed, so I can't provide evidence.
I used Inkscape quite a bit back in 2007-2008. Time to fire it up again. The open source modelling world is on fire. I recently discovered FreeCAD when I couldn't convince myself to keep using SketchUp due to the price. I found that FreeCAD is highly regarded, imports and exports from Blender, and has solid support for making parts (3D printing and CNC) and architecture. It has thermal and torque modelling!! In short, it easily replaces SketchUp and many other modelling tools that cost a fortune (SOLIDWORKS is $50k).
Grimes also wanted a weird name.
Do you have a source for "Twitter obeying government censorship requests have gone way up since he took over"?
I'm not saying the success of a company is entirely down to luck. That would be stupid. I'm saying that some part of it is. I suspect Musk has been luckier than most, mainly because he's had more success than most. If he hadn't had some of that luck then any of his ventures could have failed.
I'm not sure you read any of my comments, apart the one you replied to.

My only point is that discussions concerning the use of encryption must be accepted, because there is nothing inherently evil or unnatural in them. Don't let's get shocked any time someone proposes something that goes against some folks' credo, and let's debate the proposal in a constructive manner.
I highly doubt there is something out there already that does this.
The issue with them is that it's not simply "looking at oneself".

If you were using divination for that purposes then it's no issue. Harmless superstition is fine.

But things like personality tests and other pseudoscience see regular use in hiring and promotion. And that's just ridiculous, damaging for both "honest" applicants and the company, as such processes favour dishonest people.
> We've already seen the excellent things Apple was able to do with ARM because they had the chip under their own control and were no longer beholden to ARM (or Motorola/IBM before that).

Sorry? Apple remains an Arm licensee and everything they have done will be consistent with the terms of their license.
Wow I feel so trolled that he’s lighting more of his money on fire. Buy an extremely well known brand for 44 billion and replace it with something you spend 5 minutes of effort on.
Maybe not... but your joke on the other hand... ;)
MySpaceX
The mmdc tool does this!
Have you looked at d2lang - it supports SVG output:
https://d2lang.com/tour/exports/

The syntax is a bit different though, so it depends on where your source is coming from, see here:
https://text-to-diagram.com/?example=sequence&b=mermaid
What's a post on X going to be called? An "Eh?"
> I don’t really see what Musk is trying to accomplish.

Have you followed his twitter account? Watch his interviews. Read his SEC filings? He's been pretty open about his intentions.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/X_Corp.

> Everything he’s done to Twitter carries the foul stench of Death by Private Equity. No product improvements, but worse reliability, more spam

That's not what 'Death by Private Equity' is or looks like.

> and a weird desperate-looking rebrand.

Desperate weird rebrand? The rebrand happens months ago. It's not a new thing.

"The concept for X solidified in October 2022, when Musk tweeted that acquiring Twitter is "an accelerant to creating X, the everything app"."

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/X_Corp.

Elon is doing what exactly what he said he was going to do but you are twisting into some bizarre 'Death by Private Equity' that doesn't make sense because you don't like elon? Isn't that the gist of it? The anti-elon pr campaign is no different than the anti-zuckerburg campaign.
Migrating a suite of programs written w/ COBOL, CICS, DB2 from z/OS to Linux is fairly straightforward. MicroFocus COBOL compiles IBM COBOL, DB2 runs on Linux or you can swap out another RDBMS. The CICS part requires a simple runtime easily implemented in C plus a new scanner to replace the calls in your programs.

I was part of a 4 person team that knocked this out in under a year. 1,000's of mainframe programs running w/o change (at the time) on Unix. This was in the 90s.
Show HN: OpenAI-Functools: Simplified Generation of OpenAI Functions Metadata
I've always heard that as "scheduled uptime" or "unscheduled outages". When I worked in a mainframe shop, they used to IPL (reboot) the mainframe every Sunday morning. That down time was never considered as part of the SLA.
> re-negotiate federation

That's not really how it works. Federation happens ~by default in general; restriction is reactive, not proactive.
Github Markdown supports Mermaid OOTB, really useful.
good point. for me, the difference is the sense of time

A easy example is say I am looking for a job, and have sent out 200 applications, 4 phone calls, 2 interviews and still unemployed.

Therapist will obviously help you out and prepare you mentally- the astrologer typically will "inform" you that tour next 7-9 months are hard for you personally and it will work out if you do continue doing it plus some x,y,z things
It's a slow slide into an authoritarian state, which will accelerate as power is consolidated.

Similar to what the Republican party is trying to achieve, but by stacking the Supreme court (done), having them rubber stamp vastly increased presidential powers and locking up the presidency though gerrymandering (partially done).
There has never been a "full democracy". Democracy means rule by the people. Every democracy that has existed has been some kind of representative sample filtered through a select group. That select group does the work of making biased or prejudicial decisions, as they have the powers of rhetoric and overriding the rabble. The judicial section of a democracy has traditionally been limited as well (if it wasn't, there'd be no point to a legislative branch)
Right, that's (the vinyl cutter variety) not wildly different than the Cricut (which I mentioned before, and can also pen plot)

I guess I'm thinking larger than 17" and the two flatbed ones you linked would suffer from the same problem (except that the first probably has no way to do larger than its bed)
Musk is absolutely not anti censorship. He's proudly removed views he disagrees with and fulfilled government requests to remove tweets (which is about as definitionally censorship as you can be.)
As the current government is making abundantly clear, 67 borders are irrelevant. There are roughly the same number of Jewish and Arab people within the territory Israel controls.
It's wild that a two-state solution was widely accepted 30 years ago, and now the Overton window has moved so much that Israel occupying the entirety of Palestine and killing or displacing all the Arab population is no big deal.

I sympathize with the desire for a Jewish state but the United States has supported them to the hilt in human rights abuses, war crimes and expansionism that aren't related to that goal.
I can highly recommend PlantUML as a simple language for creating sequence diagrams. It also supports other UML diagram types, which, despite what the article says, are also useful sometimes (so long as you don't worry about every last silly detail that's specified in the standard).

@startuml
Alice -> Bob: Authentication Request
Bob --> Alice: Authentication Response

Alice -> Bob: Another authentication Request
Alice <-- Bob: Another authentication Response
@enduml

https://plantuml.com/sequence-diagram
It sounds like the encryption was limited intentionally, so government organizations could easily decrypt it.
> musk's tweets promoted to everyone's feeds...

Almost surprisingly, blocking him does still appear to work. Though it will sometimes have him in the list of suggestions to follow, even if you've blocked him...
He was sort of a dick when he was younger. Very standoffish with teammates, fans, and the media. Definitely mellowed out with age.
Having to use npm did put me off initially (as I had never used it, or JS, before), but it was quite painless, and now I have pretty sequence diagrams inline my org-mode docs. Its is about a billion time better than using the confluence builtin WYSIWYG graph builder.
> The constitution doesn't allow the feds to ban substances.

Article 1 section 8 gives congress the power to regulate interstate goods.

The reason we got a constitutional amendment was because the teetotalers of the time (rightly) saw that removing a constitutional amendment would be MUCH harder than undoing a law.

Employment Division v. Smith, written by Scalia the original originalist justice, makes the argument that religion doesn't shield you from regulations regarding substances.
Was that something living in a state that decided it should be a different kind of ethnostate? This might be a controversial take, but I think ethnostates in general lead to poor outcomes.
i'd be very glad if i get thoughtful responses
I judge parties by what they do. And what they've done is monumentally center right, with small local exceptions.
In the US: Pizzagate? Jan 6 Capitol riot? I'm not sure the whole "go with your gut, bro" thing is working out. Tribalism, confirmation bias, fundamental attribution error, etc. are real obstacles to understanding each other and having a big world of content people.
I'd assume the hype is over. Now people don't play with it as much as before - they only use it now. Which is a decline in numbers, but far from the end of the tool.
Securing the Web forward: Addressing developer concerns in web security
Atari has launched collectible arcade circuit boards of retro classics
This tweet has the graphic it’s talking about, and explains better than the referenced article:

https://twitter.com/keewa/status/1683378941732728832?s=20
Mermaid [1] has been good enough for me for years.

[1] https://mermaid.js.org/intro/
There is none, they used to have a pro version
It's not even good PE. Like unironically Vista and Thoma Bravo are too smart to do stuff like this. This is like MBA search funds rebranding the trash disposal company they purchased.
Just avoiding the inevitable I suppose: June 22, 2023, "Ford agrees to $9.2 billion US government loan" [1].

That's the joke in the end: there are no companies (and there is no government), just a bunch of chaebols [2], at least South Koreans don't lie to themselves.

[1] "Ford previously took out a $5.9 billion loan under the program in 2009. That loan was fully repaid as of last year (2022), according to the DoE. [3]", https://edition.cnn.com/2023/06/22/business/ford-department-...

[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chaebol

[3] https://www.energy.gov/lpo/ford
Not to be conspiratorial, but captive portals always felt like a little broken piece of internet technology that's never been fixed bc it benefits Google

This has a very cryptic failure mode if you travel to China. Android will just tells you you can't connect to the internet :)

It's pretty easy to work around. You just go to detectportal.firefox.com/

But naturally you need to know what's gone wrong in the first place !
I know you're being sarcastic but I think that same something really soured the world on there being any ethnostates at all, anywhere.