skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
My statement was mostly informed by my weekday mornings at the neighborhood rec center. Half of the geezers I talk to voted for Trump. The other half are so old they probably last voted for Bush — and I don’t mean W. They all talk shit about Biden; primarily about immigration. But when they go on about crime, it’s always local politicians they blame.
It's mentioned a few times in the article, but Brightline has been a outlier in terms of successfully building high speed passenger rail in the US.

I read an article a while back about how Brightline chooses it's routes. I can't find the article at the moment, but I remember the CEO basically saying they made it work by being ruthless with strict parameters.

Specifically, Brightline won't build rail unless the following are all true:

1. The trip must be between 200 and 300 miles. Their research indicates this is the sweet spot between being more than a convenient car ride, but less then a convenient plane ride. I'll note that LA -> LV is ~180 miles, whereas LA -> SF is ~340 miles.

2. Leverage as much existing right-of-way as possible (The LA -> LV route follows the highway)

3. The market for consistent commuter travel between the destinations must pencil (Miami to Orlando / Disneyland, Los Angeles to Las Vegas)

I honestly think the US is so large and geographically diverse, you just need to be really picky when choosing high speed rail projects.

Also fun fact: I used to think that the biggest cost difference from flying vs rail travel was maintaining the rails. The biggest cost difference is actually the staff. Since flights are so much shorter and require less staff per seat, the per-hourly cost adds up.
I have lived in the Seattle core since 2010, not out in the suburbs. Over that time, the crime visibly improved over many years. Then it became visibly much worse, starting around COVID, than at any prior time since I have lived there.

The lived reality is that the city stopped making even the pretense of enforcing the law. Theft and assaults regularly happen in broad daylight and law enforcement mostly doesn’t bother. The prosecutors won’t prosecute much short of attempted murder these days; no point in arresting people if they are going to be immediately released. People stop reporting crime because at best their insurance premiums will increase and at worst they will be loudly accused of oppressing the downtrodden or some such twaddle. There is no ROI. Many women who have lived in these communities a long time no longer feel safe.

Anecdotally, this is driving a lot of people to move into the high rises with real security from high-density neighborhoods like Capitol Hill where having your building invaded by miscreants happens surprisingly often. People put a lot of value on being able to live in a place where they feel secure, and so anyone that can afford it is retreating behind secured walls.
They are extremely expensive box ticking exercises.

Furthermore, I don't think anything except box ticking exercises exists or could ever exist.

You can only write down ways to make a process worse, not better.
Nation States are one of Big Tech's best customers.

Nation States love to give legal and regulatory incentives as 'guidelines'.

It's the average joe that loses. The only way out is privacy from both nations and corporations.

If another person knows your technology exists, it will be inexorably wrenched from your hands and controlled by the biggest bully in town. We see it every single day.
Peer reviewed citations or we'll assume that your data is anecdotal. And skewed from a sub-population that is interested in data and sex rather than mating and marriage. The platforms that provide matches aren't very motivated to find perfect matches that lead to marriages. They haven't yet expanded into the marriage industry.

Women raising children alone may be due to a large number of factors and grouping them into "women don't need men, they just need sperm" is missing the support (sometimes) available from their male partner.
Seems a terrible patent:

1)Demonstrably no novelty whatsoever. "My device does what they do just a bit smaller" isn't novelty unless the processes themselves are some kind of breakthrough which these clearly aren't.

2)Not being obvious is one of the conditions for a patent is the US[1]. It seems you could make a strong argument for this being obvious in the sense that

a)it is. "We have a thing that stores information by making it small. We want to store more information... I know let's make it smaller." is definitely an obvious chain of reasoning

b)to make it more obvious they even helped your argument by naming their thing after the one that's a bit bigger and just changed the name to the next engineering prefix down in scale.

3)Very clearly undermines their whole facade about doing something for the benefit of humanity.

[1] https://www.uspto.gov/patents/basics/essentials
TBH I honestly don't get this entire line of inquiry. Are you fighting against slang or mordern internet culture, what and why is something unreasonably at issue here with entire disregard to the subtance rather than form of input?
Things have changed over the decades. Those countries have become more individualistic and divorce is less taboo among the current generation than the Boomers.
Matt’s blog post does not convince me that this is “entirely bogus.”

> To put this in less abstract terms, if dad beats mom and they get divorced, it’s not accurate to say that, but for the divorce, the kids would have fared exactly the same as a similar non-divorced family where dad does not beat mom. Yet that is what the research Kearney relies upon assumes.

Is she really suggesting that an unstable, abusive 2P household is significant better than any 1P household? Given her quotes in TFA, this doesn't seem to be the case.

Matt also writes:

> As with any group, the missing parents are a heterogenous bunch, but that population almost certainly skews towards below-average earnings and below-average domestic contribution, with many actually having a net-negative domestic contribution, whether because they are abusive, demanding, or otherwise.

> This is easily the goofiest thing about this discourse. To hear Kearney talk about it, you’d think that the single mothers of the world are turning down $44,000 and hundreds of hours of free child care each year. But why would someone do that? If that option is as incredibly beneficial as Kearney says it is, why don’t people select it? Do people want their lives to be bad rather than good?

TFA states that 50% of children in the US are born to unmarried mothers. Should we assume that 50% of fathers are abusive or demanding or just an overall net negative like Matt suggests? That seems like /quite/ a stretch.

Matt assumes that the single mothers turning down “$44,000 and free childcare” must be doing so rationally (because their potential partners would be a net negative). But people don’t always think rationally, especially young people having children out of wedlock. It can be an incredibly stressful and difficult situation.

That, or he ignores social stigma and the amount of work it takes to work and raise a child and quite naively assumes that unmarried mothers have the same ability to find a long-term partner as somebody without kids. Perhaps many of those unmarried mothers actually do want $44,000 and free childcare, but find it difficult to get that after having a child?
> But until this year, the company used diesel generators to power up the chargers.

I imagine the green hydrogen was for PR, because otherwise you could say the EVs were diesel-powered.

that said, I expect things like one motor per wheel that EV's can do will become pretty interesting off-road as time goes on.
I'm not sure that the events of 2021 were seriously endangering the executive branch or any part of the US government. Yes a riot put lawmakers in physical danger, but if the rioters had actually taken over that building that wouldn't make them the lawmakers. It'd probably make them dead. More concerning was the electors thing, but I reckon the most likely outcome would have been a lawsuit and the tightening of the laws around electors.
Could be worse. Happy in current role but explored the market recently with 6 applications and received: 1 no, 2 interviews, and 3 never even replied.

Will see how the process unfolds, I definitely noticed a reduced variety of roles compared to last year.
Maybe that is an indictment of how bad tracking has become that those things are not even considered any more?
Who needs a conspiracy when your product creates such a terrible user experience? I've never written a lick of flash, and I don't care to. I still have awful memories of just how broken Flash sites were. They'd stick out like a sore thumb since none of the widgets ever worked like native ones, there were constantly keyboard focus issues in Firefox, video never seemed to be accelerated and would decimate battery life, the privacy nightmare of the persistent cookies you'd need to load a flash app from Adobe to clear (permissions as with everything else gave the finger to the host system/browser). Who could forget the near constant security and stability issues? I, for one, am glad flash died.

Flash died because while it sucked on desktop systems, it was somehow way worse on mobile just as mobile was becoming more important.
Querying in Tempo/Loki does seem to not scale particularly well, and Loki has known issues with high cardinality data, so...
G: Cross-platform alternative to ls, written in Go
Yeah, my local library has a pretty decent makerspace in its basement, at least if you're making smaller things. These are the machines that are currently there:

* Prusa 3D Printer

* Hic Top CR-10 3D Printer

* Ender-3 S1 Pro 3D Printer

* Brother ScanNCut

* Silhouette CAMEO

* Silhouette Vinyl Cutter

* EverSewn Sparrow X2 Embroidery Machine

* Brother PE900 Embroidery Machine

* Carvey CNC Desktop Fabricator

* Glowforge Laser Cutter

* Sawgrass Sublimation Printer

It also has a lot of audio recording equipment with soundbooths, and a bunch of lighting and photography/video equipment.
> Hackernews getting weird place. How come war between Palestine-Israel is forbidden to talk about but this news is not.

Because the people who run Hacker News decided to implement guidelines around what they consider on-topic and what they consider off-topic. According to this page: https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html , anything related to politics is considered off-topic and, consequentially, discouraged from being posted here.

Not that I agree or disagree, just answering your question.
Like every other issue in American cities, poor land use means you can never afford to have anything except what was already there.

I feel like I read a story about running one in the Bay that was just about having to deal with crustpunks and people having sex in the machine rooms.

Although I think libraries have equipment like 3D printers these days.
I do use them. The hardware is impeccable. The software is admittedly more spotty. But even then, the OS is great.
All in all, I can't think of a better platform or I'd use it.
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37981149
Same question for LUGs.
Real Estate. So many quirky things are viable when there's cheaper rent, cheap buying opportunities, or underutilized space. If I could buy space for $150/sq ft, I might have some extra cash, like the idea of investing in real estate, and like the idea of having a cool community hackerspace. If it's going to cost me $1,000/sq ft, I'm barely going to be able to afford the space I want to live in. If a group of us can rent at cheap prices we're saving money on our housing and paying for a shared second space doesn't cost that much.

Over the past 15 years or so, property prices have soared in so many cities. It really makes it hard to afford space for quirky things. There are certainly plenty of examples of ones that still exist and enough determination and you can still make things happen, but I think the rising cost of real estate is putting a damper on things like this.
To me this is the kind of thing that gives the impression that the whole blog is generated by an AI of some kind, in quite a formulaic way with strong overtones of artificialness much more so than intelligence.
That's a tradeoff, 20 years protection vs 50 000 000 years protection.
They're still around.

If you can't find the kind you're looking for, you can make one!
It’s a miracle of marketing that so many people think what brightline has built is high speed rail.
Geolocating WSJ's "Failed Rocket"
Imagining the ridiculous responses you would like your opponent to make does give you an opportunity to win arguments in your mind.

I don't imagine that kind of intellectual self-pleasuring is really convincing many other people, though.
The {{MEETUP_FRIENDLY_NAME}} is coming up today
Did everyone get this email from startupschool@ycombinator.com, or did I do something to get special glitchiness?

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You have to do a bit more than that if you want exactly once end-to-end (I.E if Kafka itself can contain duplicates). One of my former colleagues did a good write up on how Husky does it: https://www.datadoghq.com/blog/engineering/husky-deep-dive/
Hyper Color tshirts reminded us we all had nipples and sweaty armpits.
https://www.greencarcongress.com/2020/03/20200302-ghsa.html

It's unsurprising when you think about it: America is full of larger trucks which have to meet o on the laxest of regulations to minimize pedestrian damage in case of a collision. Where before the contact zone might be on the knees, many a modern truck will hit a pedestrian in the chest. Add to that how America sets up situations very unsafe street crossings, often 8 lanes wide without a median, and increased pedestrian deaths are unsurprising.

Note that this is a matter of most security freatures: Good crumple zones don't lead to tall trucks with large hoods. The only one that adds risk is the curtain airbags that have lead to wider A pillars, and with that somewhat lower visibility. But we could make cars safe and also safer for pedestrians: Just not by driving heavier, taller vehicles that look like 18 wheelers and have frontal dead zones that could hide multiple Miatas.
Now vacuum cleaners will become weapons of massive destruction!
Couldn’t you just have a global object table and make your pointers indexes into this, using Rc::Refcells throughout? Rust is still fast with runtime GC.
This is a substance-less comment. How are the multitude of EVs on the market similar? If you really think so, do you also think all the cars (ICEs included) look eerily similar? If you answer yes to that as well, then I can empathize with you: these days cars do look quite similar[0] and I found that not everyone will notice the differences. But that's more reflective of the person than the car. (For example ask an average person to describe the differences between bicycles on the market and they likely can't either.)

[0]: https://ade3.medium.com/driving-conformity-49ffb2b1ff9f
Do you live in the wealthiest city in America? I've been to 11 libraries and absolutely none of them have anything on that list.
Yea the costs for sure will vary a bunch -- but just searching around a bit I found this:
https://pedestrianobservations.com/2012/09/25/relative-costs...
That cites some Danish study about elevated vs. non-elevated costing roughly 2-2.5X. Really my point to highlight is that building on the ground ends up in reality being far more complicated than piling up ballast and sleepers on the ground and mounting tracks to that and assuming you don't have many roads. Of course if you are crossing vast areas with virtually no roads or infrastructure, yes use the cheapest option, but in the areas where its just one complicated crossing after another, then you end up with tons of "mitigations" as they call it costing tons of money -- and when that is properly factored in, the cost difference is far less than expected.

That's great that France has the TGV mostly on the ground as they exit the suburbs of every city -- whats the typical configuration of the crossings for roads? Does the road basically go in a small tunnel under the crossing or does the track become elevated temporarily? Or do they actually allow cars crossing the tracks at grade?
Yep similar for me when I switched Open To Work on. Good luck out there.
I've been using Cloudflare pages for the past few projects. It's fast to prototype and to get a quick proof-of-concept deployed and working.
Supreme Court allows White House to fight social media misinformation
Your BOT didn't worked well.
Aside from community (which is incredible important), Hackerspaces are a method of tool-sharing. In the last decade, many of the popular tools that used to live exclusively at a Hackerspace can be now be found in schools, libraries, and homes: 3D Printers, lasercutters, electronics toolkits, etc. And 3 years of pandemic isolation meant that people weren't able to show up anyway.

One of my favorite spaces (though distant from where I live) - Metrix Create:Space - shut down down in 2018 in part because people didn't have as much of a reason to show up [1]

[1] https://www.capitolhillseattle.com/2018/08/tech-junkies-and-...
Is there a compelling article about the ideal microservice to engineer ratio (ie less than 1.0)?
What do you think? (It is customized by me)
(WarpStream founder)

This is more or less exactly what WarpStream is: https://www.warpstream.com/blog/minimizing-s3-api-costs-with...

Kafka API, S3 costs and ease of use
And the hacklabs? In Madrid (Spain), now there is one alive.
Yeah the beauty of flash is that it would crash your browser using way less than 2GB of RAM.
Yes, it's still possible. Unity has a lot more mindshare though. I think what made flash work was everything was made with flash, so there was a community around it
I use one that's to the effect of: migrated legacy Go project to Python2, increasing E2E service latency by 3409ms.
In one thousand years, any format will be proprietary.
I had a dream of running a Hackerspace, and no matter which way I crunched the numbers it just wasn't financially viable - not as a business.
People have been railing against the news for years (decades?) about overreporting negative news and making things seem worse than they actually are. Then an article comes out saying things are actually OK and we get comments like these. I suspect there's really no winning here.
Glitch was really fun! My wife and I still joke about "Yellow Crumbs" every so often. I'm really pleased to see our profiles are still hosted on the website[0] in perpetuity. Was nice to see all my shared screenshots are still up on there... awesome :)

[0] http://www.glitchthegame.com/
Seems like the data is US only, i.e., not worldwide. While the RIAA charts prominently mention this, the OP for some reason does not.
I don't think you read the linked article. Yes, there have been several "USS Recruits" at various bases which have hosted Navy boot camps over the years. One is in San Diego at Liberty Station, a mixed-use development which used to be Naval Training Center San Diego and is now anchored by a Stone brewpub.

Source: I served in San Diego in the reserves, did detachments there while on active duty, quaffed quite a few pints at said Stone brewpub, and have walked around the "ship."
Here in Finland the libraries often have that kind of stuff, in smaller places maybe a little less, but larger cities have nice amount of stuff to use and/or loan.
I wish we could have something for ProSumer. Right now it is still NAS with ZFS / BTRFS, scrub, and replacing it every 5 years. And it is still quite expensive. ( Not to mention big / bulky ). And the most important thing is that I own the data, not another storage inside the "Cloud".
> 9. No one is going to remember you in 100 years. So you might as well focus on what’s going to make you happy now, instead of what money might buy you in the future. There is a Scottish proverb: Be happy while you are living, for you are a long time dead.

That sounds like the exact opposite of what you're saying.
>can't

Won't. Some can't, but we can't tell how many.
The judicial branch is pretty much all powerful.

The Supreme Court rulings can’t be contested except by the Supreme Court.
Nothing realistically complex can be proven "correct". There is even a mathematical theorem about it - given a program's code, one can't even prove that it ever stops.

One can, of course, apply proof of correctness to simple curcuits, where all possible inputs and outputs can be enumerated.
My eyes have never been so itchy, thank you.
I read the same book you did. How is it that I got the impression from the book that most people (Microsofties) actually did overtime voluntarily? I mean Microsoft didn't have to pay overtime because the employees all thought they were sufficiently compensated by the stock price going up!
At my university, they already had the hackerspace locked down under all sorts of training sessions that needed to be scheduled and attended to be allowed access, then when covid came around they started by canceling all trainings, then eventually shut the space down entirely citing covid.

Now that things have reopened they simply never brought it back.
> "More broadly violent crime has been falling for literally thousands of years."

El Salvador is such an extremely interesting study in violent crime. Until recently El Salvador had one of the highest homicide rates in the world. In recent times it has plummeted precipitously (>90% over the past decade) and in 2023, they may very well end up with a lower overall homicide rate than even the US.

What happened was a complete crackdown on gangs. [1] After declaring an emergency scenario, their government 'temporarily' suspended certain rights, and greatly empowered law enforcement. Anybody who even looked like a gang member was rounded up and thrown into prison. And instead of placing gang members together where they often manage to conspire even within prison, they eliminated all mobile service in the prisons and locked down the cells with members of different gangs placed in cells together. Happy times ensued, undoubtedly.

In short it's been the effective end of civil and human rights, yet it's been extremely effective at lowering crime. This system is far from ideal, because there's zero doubt that some, more or less, innocent individuals have suffered severe consequences at the hands of the government. Yet the overwhelming majority of criminals are also being eliminated, saving their innocent would-have-been victims. And, in the past, this sort of treatment of antisocial elements would have been perfectly normal.

When you look at studies of violent crime in the past, the evidence is hazy at best. You can find studies to say whatever you want, and then other studies to point out the flaws in those studies. Ultimately I think the vivid imagery we have, of the past as being especially violent, is because it's a set piece of practically all 'historic' media we consume. But the factual and logical support for it seems far less clear.

[1] - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Salvadoran_gang_crackdown
And that's assuming independent judicial system. Such a precious thing should not be taken for granted.
True but the big selling point for mermaid is the github integration and you can audit the changes to the diagrams via git log -p
Caching is to improve read performance whereas Kafka is used to handle ingest volume. I couldn't correlate the Grafana articles shared