skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Geez are you really arguing that the US is somehow a model for access to health care and that it's because of the free-market? Is that why the more economically free (according to the heritage institute) Switzerland has better health care outcomes than the US at a lower cost? If so, how does that explain the access to health care in the dramatically less economically free Cuba? Maybe it's because they both have universal health care? Why does the US has an avoidable mortality rate closer to poor eastern bloc countries than the rest of Europe?
> Every time I hear that argument I have to point out the millions of American short hop regional flights

Those routes didn't need tens of $billions in land acquisition and construction costs.
“Runaway Train”: Did Soul Asylum’s music video save 21 kids?
People aren’t dying of thirst, or hunger in the American Southwest.

All damming the Grand Canyon would have done is destroyed an amazing natural area, and made it so we didn’t have to worry quite so much about watering our lawns and golf courses in places where they don’t belong.
It can be very draining.
Assuming everything west of I5 will be toast is a pretty bleak conclusion, I wonder how many people have moved east of that line due to this prognosis.
West Virginia has a smaller population than Dallas. I don't see why students can't go to another state to get their education.
niagara falls: “At any given moment the water diverted upstream from the falls, to run the various power plants, is anywhere from 60 to 75%. That’s an average of 1,200,000 gallons (4,542,500 liters) of water per second with only 600,000 gal/sec (2,271,250 liters/sec) left to run over the Horseshoe Falls and a mere 150,000 gal/sec (567,811 liters/sec) for the American Falls. Although it may seem as though the Falls are being deprived of their natural flow, the water that remains to cover the falls is still an impressive sight. Many waterfall enthusiasts agree that reduced flow makes for waterfalls with more “character.””
https://nyfalls.com/niagara-falls/faq-4/#diverted
America has very popular mass transit between cities; airplanes.

The TSA/etc overhead make this suck for short-distance hops and from an environmental perspective it isn't very exciting, but it proves the point that Americans are willing to leave their car behind when traveling if the mass transit offers sufficient advantage over cars.
You’re right. And it wasn’t my intent to editorialize (to imply I feel one way or the other about the subject.) But I can read how an opinion could be inferred. Anyway, my actual opinion is that people like us tend to be more useful than not, but also it definitely takes people with more specialized knowledge to make progress with some organization goals. For example, at my current role we have a team of people with a much deeper background in mathematics (we’re in the financial sector), algorithms, and computer science in general. Due to a life event, I dropped out of my computer science degree towards the end of my second year, and ended up pulling myself through operations roles (which I typically found comparatively boring) until I landed in DevOps after a lot of open source work and networking. But I am not as strong as some of my peers in mathematics, algorithms, and computer science topics (what is a big/little endian lol?)

Anyway, cheers. In short, I agree with your take.
It bothers me way less when it's not a medical treatment research.
Blogging is “destroying the business model for quality”? (2011)
get a local hobby
Here's a page about towns that have been permanently flooded in the US. Elbowoods, ND is pretty messed up. Native people were displaced and lost their good farmland so that people down river would benefit.

https://clui.org/newsletter/spring-2005/immersed-remains-tow...
I was talking with a colleague once about this and they mentioned that as long as everyone being pitched was wearing a suit then they wouldn't worry about the wild claims the sales people made about our software. But if there was an engineer in the room they'd feel obligated to nudge everyone back to reality.
IME, Rust is the best language for doing major refactors of your code. You can make a major change, and if it compiles you can be relatively confident that you didn't miss a side effect of your change. So it's an excellent language for continuous improvement.
How will you un-wear a battery with a press of a button?

I don't see anything inconsistent with a subscription if the manufacturer is responsible for replacing the battery during a warranty time. I prefer large ecosystems with 3rd party parts to dealing with proprietary manufacturing and warranties though.
I think you just did. The claim of being an all-in-one web framework is really just a piggybacking frontend framework with telemetry.

Before the crazy train of web frontend frameworks that promised to bundle all the things - there were a couple “all-in-one” web frameworks out there. Rails being one of them. That handled all of the above mentioned issues, until frontend went SPA/CSR crazy. Now we are coming back to the idea that SSR isn’t as bad as we thought it was. We can have our cake and eat it too with web components and hydration (silly rebrand of an old XHR html concept, but modern) and still have things like data modeling, API’s, security, communication, etc without having to farm it out across my domain origin.
LIGO detects gravitational waves in the frequency range of hundreds of Hertz (10^2 Hz), which are produced in the last moments of the in-spiraling of merging neutron stars or blackholes.

Nanohertz are 10^-9 Hz which relate to a rotational period of decades of years.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gravitational-wave_astronomy
The only long term solution I've found that works is to minimize the need for 3rd party dependencies in the first place.

I completely gave up on bundling and all forms of optimization beyond that. Turns out it doesn't matter as long as the total amount of source for your site is less than what twitter or Facebook use (it will be).

I recently had to take a dep on three.js and a few others items for a side project, and instead of reaching for one of the various toolchains, I grabbed the raw JS/module source and wrote my own import map by hand:

https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/HTML/Element/sc...

Note that you will need an ES module shim for iOS/Safari if you go this path: https://github.com/guybedford/es-module-shims
There are but they are all done by companies with an interest and therefore other parties cry foul that their product was not setup to give best performance. fwiw, I work on the OpenZiti project which may interest you too as the overlay is a smart routing mesh network (think concepts of MPLS as SW) including ability to have multiple nodes with E2E latency being used to shift paths.
Disclosure : MS employee

I love dev containers and do all my work in them. I often start from the above images and then add more, like adding postgres in the container. If you are looking for examples, nearly all the repos linked from https://github.com/pamelafox have dev containers. Mostly for Python backed web apps.
Heh, how about they get Amtrack to be reliable first.

Last I checked, the train between Dallas and Fort Worth is too unreliable to use for a job commute.

...Which is awful, because the commute into downtown Dallas is surely one of the worst on the planet. I have never seen such a concentration of angry drivers.
Maybe. On the other hand as a German I was unpleasantly surprised how many sites (that were accessible at home) are blocked in Italy when I spent my holiday there.
Indeed. Too much land in Texas is privately owned, and there is not majority support for this type of thing. It is easy to think otherwise if you generally stick to the big cities here.

TxDOT is also actively making the problem worse by widening I-35 through Austin, which will result in a decade of construction. They could support alternative transit if they chose to, but it will never happen.

Even in cities with majority support for this type of thing, we can't get it done. See: Austin's Project Connect failure.

The problem is that most Americans have never lived in an area that is not car dependent and experienced the benefits. Their biggest exposure has likely been on a trip to Europe/Asia (and they wonder why the area they visited is so much nicer than their home city, never quite making the connection!).
This is what he says:

"One thing few people realize about billionaires is that all of them could have stopped sooner. They could have gotten acquired, or found someone else to run the company. Many founders do. The ones who become really rich are the ones who keep working. And what makes them keep working is not just money. What keeps them working is the same thing that keeps anyone else working when they could stop if they wanted to: that there's nothing else they'd rather do."

That there's nothing you'd rather do in the present context, doesn't mean that'd also be true if you make it literally financially pointless.

In any case, I think this is all a non-starter. If loop-holes were not readily available, people would simply move to different countries. The exact thing is happening in Norway to a somewhat comical degree. They recently chose to increase their wealth tax on billionaires. Dozens of billionaires thus chose to leave the country directly because of this, resulting an overall decline in tax revenue than if the country had retained the previous tax levels. [1]

[1] - https://www.theguardian.com/world/2023/apr/10/super-rich-aba...
> But surely if your code base is that difficult to setup your dev environment for - it’s likely a sign of much bigger problems?

I think it less about difficulty and more about when you have a desire to run your dev environment in a container. How are you getting your source code into the container? How is your editor accessing the source code to make changes etc. Dev Containers provides a pattern to follow for doing this that works across tools and OS that can simplify it for your team.

If you work on a large team where devs work on the OS and Editor of their choice it can also simplify the development docs and environments you need to maintain. You can develop things like Node, Python, Ruby natively on Windows but if you are deploying on Linux, especially if in a container on Linux, having the dev environment running in Docker has advantages and there is less for the developer to setup and maintain.
I love cinnabar moths and their caterpillars. They're the reason I keep as much ragwort around as I can manage without pissing off my HOA.
http://bactra.org/reviews/wolfram/
The title heading is inappropriate to article content - the article lists in detail all the factors that amplified the fire promoting its growth and spread (e.g. confluence of weather conditions, drought, etc), but there was no mention of what the original CAUSE of the fire might have been.
The Dream Was Universal Access to Knowledge
> The people responsible for the measures against COVID19 do not want, that the people know the truth.

What is your specific allegation?

> and I didn't read a single one, yet, that discriminates between vaccinated and non vacccinated regarding SARSCOV2.

Then perhaps you should stop ignoring them? Sorry, a quick search shows literally thousands of papers doing just that. Do you have any actual medical training? Perhaps the issue is simply that you don’t understand what you’re reading? I’m really trying to give you the benefit of the doubt, here.
https://archive.is/ONFvB
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Yes to both questions.

This is essentially how Codespaces works too, fwiw.
Why is that hypocritical? Would it be less hypocritical if they polluted more locally?
Hubris.

>> What does owning a stock mean

Ownership requires property rights but you only get contractual rights. If you want to sell your stock and you both parties want to conduct that transaction under a different jurisdiction, perhaps for tax advantage, you can't choose to do that, because you don't own the property rights.

>> The technical financial structure is a bit irrelevant

That's a pretty controversial take because:

>> since this structure is created to reduce transaction costs

It also served to ensure a middleman was enshrined in all future transactions. What if you want to change the middleman, what if you don't want a middleman at all? Like I say, controversial.

>> you don't really "own" the stock, because some other party is holding it in trust - is simply not true.

History shouts loudly for us to be cautious here but presently we're blessed with a freedom to blissfully ignore those warnings.

>> you do the same with the money in your bank account

You don't. In one scenario you're a party to a private contract and in the other you're under-written to the tune of $250k (assuming USA)

>> hold out with hard cash

What does that mean in the context of a fiat currency?
I wonder if anyone has looked at population homogeneity vs transit adoption? It seems reasonable that higher trust societies would be more positive towards modes of travel involving mingling with the general public, and high trust society -ness correlates with cultural (at least) homogeneity.

I think this is probably the root of the problem in the US, including the “what will happen to my home values” type sentiments. Not saying that this is “right” morally, but blaming “car culture” as if it is some isolated delusion without deeper causes is probably not accurate.
Isn't "cargo-cult-science" simply "engineering"?

You use the models handed down by the researchers because they work. They help you make machines and navigate reality and such. There's nothing shameful in that. You don't have the time for research. Time is money after all.

You are not a scientist. You are not interested in Truth. You just want to get from A to B.
Many Salesforce employees are Siebel alums.
The OP seems to be making the commonly made point that drugs wouldn’t flow into the USA if there were not lots of Americans (rich and poor) who wanted to consume said drugs. Before you attack me, I am not trying to argue for or against that point, just noting that it is a common one on any of these HN threads.
This is the enterprise equivalent of putting up a landing page and collecting email addresses. Salesforce uses the same lean product development concepts that we espouse here. They test messages and products and then make R&D investment based on real customer demand. It just all happens with a massive marketing budget.

In this case, nobody was actually being sold a defective product. Salesforce is very careful to “safe harbour” their statements about future products and their actual customers know that.

While I was there after having sold my company to them, I launched several products and features for others. Every time we developed a concept, shopped it to early adopters and found design partners to test it.

Incidentally, salesforce customers often pay handsomely for some of that engagement. That is because they know that if Salesforce is serious about the product, this is their best chance to get the functionality as a customer.

Also, if you go in to a meeting with Parker Harris and you end up getting fired, I would place a bet any day of the week that YOU are the asshole. Parker is just a fantastic human being based on my experience.
This observation is pretty nice, though. Of course technically it is part of doing the puzzle, but it skirts doing most of the arithmetic.
> > But surely if your code base is that difficult to setup your dev environment for - it’s likely a sign of much bigger problems?

You're misinterpreting ease of setup as a solution to "it's difficult", from what I assume is a bias; the two are not the same coin. Docker based development, which is what devcontainers is a template for, works in Linux too and is a useful way of having everything ready to go. You can of course put instructions in a README, this is one step further than that which is to prepare a docker image.

> where as in my experience with software you’re developing for Nix it’s not really a big deal. Usually you’re just checking out the repo(s) and running your languages command to install the libs.

That isn't entirely true about nix environments, or it depends which *nix environments you mean. On Linux, yes it can be pretty much clone and go (install dependencies where needed). A very "close 2nd" is WSL2 on Windows as it's also just... Linux. On Macos you need to perform a series of brew gymnastics to get the environment into shape because all the included defaults are practically insults. If you're considering that clone and go, then you might be doing it so frequently that you don't equate it to a difficult to set up environment. However even on Linux, it depends on the kind of development you're doing, because if you've ever worked with Cuda/Torch/Tensorflow, then you know that isn't necessarily a smooth experience but has to be carefully controlled.
They may not all have ended up in prison, but certainly they, on average, went on to commit a much higher level of violent crime.

Violent crimes of all types have trended downwards steeply in the time since those types of punishments stopped being accepted. We are well rid of them.
You are correct that Debt-to-GDP is not dimensionless, but the ratio is a common comparison in evaluating national finances. It has units of time: $ / ($/year) = years of full GDP required to pay off the debt.

Similarly power-to-mass ratio is not dimensionless, but it is useful to know the possible acceleration.

Think of Debt-to-GDP > 1 year as "credit card debt exceeds annual salary".

Yes, credit card debt is $, and salary is $/year, and exceeding 1 is not a particular tipping point, but lower values are better than higher.
History of the Block Horse
Dumb, dumb, dumb. Building more =/= Cancel Zoning. And guess what? When WWII ended and people flooded into NYC, rents began to rise rapidly. You know what NYC did in 1947? Rent control. That year, there were 2 million rent controlled units, and the middle class took off like a rocket ship. You want to reduce rents? Rent control. Building expensive “luxury” apartments everywhere isn’t going to do jack shit about pricing. Set maximum rents, and provide low interest HUD loans to ensure the production of new units because the private market can’t or won’t build anything affordable if it can make bigger profits by charging more. This isn’t complicated.
I remember being handed this back when I was taking numerical analysis for the first time. It's an old document, but still useful.

IMO the critical pieces of CG that make it a favorable choice for many problems in scientific computing are

1) the fact that it can be performed matrix free

2) its rapid convergence behavior on operators with clusters of eigenvalues (useful for low rank structures)

Thet being said, practically speaking, even if I know my operator is positive semi definite, I often find minres out performing cg. There's a nice paper comparing that, "CG versus MINRES: An Empirical Comparison".
Agreed. Poor intra-city transit and lack of mixed use density in our city cores is what makes HSR unfeasible.

I recently traveled to Germany on business, traveled from Berlin to Munich via the ICE inter-city train.

Arrived in downtown Munich, hotel was 7.3 miles driving from the station. I jumped on the u-bahn made a quick transfer at Odeonsplatz and arrived at the hotel in 30 mins–including a 10 minute walk from the train station.

Door to door from Berlin to the hotel in Munich was 5 hours. If one were to drive my trip door to door, maps says 361mi/580km traveled if driving direct with a drive time of 5.5 hours.

For comparisons sake, let's take a hypothetical trip from Dallas Union Station to Apple's headquarters in Austin, TX, which is located 14.7mi/24.6km from the Austin train station.

According to Apple Maps, using public transit would take 9 hours. Driving direct from Dallas Union Station to Apple HQ in Austin is 187mi/300km in total with a drive time of 3 hours.
Maybe it'll be like a lot of ferries with most of the space being dedicated to drive-on car storage. It could be a way for Texans to spend more money on their cars which could seal the deal. They could also get more traction in some other car-obsessed places by making it coal powered.
The question that Dallasites and Houstonians need to ask is whether they want to evolve their cities over the coming decades [1] toward a form that supports High Speed Rail. Primarily this would look like denser development around the rail hubs, plus infrastructure upgrades into and out of those locations.

High-Speed Rail is a very long-term (probably multi-generation) commitment.

(Edit: A typical mistake that people make when thinking about high-speed rail is to assume that the current form of a city is permanent. Dallas and Houston in particular are very pro-development, which means that in some ways it's actually easier to change the city form of those places.)

[1] My father's last job before his retirement was long-term land use planning for Dallas Area Rapid Transit (DART).
In 2001 I took a 5 day cruise on the Yangtze river with the express reason of seeing the Three Gorges region before the dam was completed and everything was submerged. It was (and is) very eerie.
India's timezone is Asia/Kolkata and not Asia/Delhi
There is wide support in FL for it from people on both sides of the aisles.

The hang up was always the cost (not the environmental cost, likes the birds or whatever) and Brightline being privately owned meant zero hang ups

FL is a forward looking state: it looks forward to different future than Cali dysfunction
It seems to reflect the general way we understand the brain right? Wiring together/firing together? Then ~ abra cadabra ~ meaningful blobs of brain buzzy stuff emerge from seemingly simple rules? It seems beautifully pure that mind maps are literally "mind maps" in a sense, a bit like we have grid cells arranged proximally to mirror physical spaces as we walk through them.
About as likely as the Japanese giving up fish and rice.
This was one of the first games to truly capture my imagination. Zelda was the very first, but I was more an observer, watching my older brother play. Super Mario Bros 3 was one I was capable of playing all the way through, together with my brother.

There was also the way it was revealed, with the placement in "The Wizard". Hard to explain the degree of hype around that movie for elder Millenials of a certain age. The PowerGlove reveal, for one, but then the sneak peak at SMB3 at the end.

It's really cool that 3 worked on the same hardware more or less as the first Super Mario Bros. (Caveat that cartridges themselves could pack a whole bunch of technological tricks up their sleeve.)
I don't know what "run VSCode as a server" is supposed to mean in this context, but there are other comments in this page that suggest the integration between dev containers and vscode is pretty good, e.g. opening a terminal is just scoped to that container by default, etc.
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Mindful Context Switching
FL built a rail line in South Florida recently and if the US decides too, can make things happen
Maybe they sent you the noob team for practice because they didn't think you were a big enough lead.
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You haven't answered the question, it doesn't take days if you use a standard dockerfile, and it can be used by team members who don't use vscode.