skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> So it’s silly to suggest public transit can replace cars

Ew. This is so flawed.

What is china’s car ownership per capita? Trips taken per day?

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

China has 2 cars for every 10 people (#99 in the world), while the United States has 9 cars for every 10 people.

While China buys a lot of cars (duh, they have a population of over a billion), they would buy even more if they had the dismal public transit of the US.

Of course public transit replaces cars.

Another fun fact: you would need 15 lanes of highway to handle the same amount of passenger load as a two-track subway tunnel. Manhattan as we know it would be physically impossible to exist if public transit “couldn’t replace cars.”
Only because you're reading the damning into it. Acceptable isn't a euphemism for bad, I just reserve "great" for things that are, well, great. Like Factorio level's of optimization (Even though that game is capped at 60fps). 100+ fps with 7 year old hardware is perfectly adequate in my book. Skimming some popular games that use Unity and run fine: Rimworld, Outer Wilds, Gunfire Reborn, Enter The Gundeon, Risk of Rain 2, Hollow Knight. I see some more, but I haven't personally played or watch someone play them so I hesitate to list them.
No need for a screen with countdown.
The egg timer dial is also the display.
I don't understand the concerns over vehicle utilization and parking. Even if autonomous vehicles are made to work they will still be idle most of the time in order to have sufficient peak time capacity. Across most of the country, parking isn't really an issue because there's plenty of space. It's only a concern in a handful of dense cities.
Case Study: Native American Tribe Uses Water Reuse
Driverless cars are significantly safer than human drivers.

https://arxiv.org/ftp/arxiv/papers/2309/2309.01206.pdf
Until Nakamoto is unquestionably identified, we can't be sure how many events he has been involved in since 2013.
There is Zoox
> I wonder why there isn’t a print-on-demand service for those folks

There is. It’s called a copy shop.
Well, you're the one who asked.

And reasonable people disagree as to whether practices like link previews and precaching invade privacy or not.

Obviously, I'm someone who doesn't think it does.
It would be nice to see innovation in the Wasm space rather than copying products that already existed before.

Wasmer already launched the exact same product one year ago (Aug 2022): https://wasmer.io/posts/wasm-as-universal-binary-format-part...
(BTW, way more performant than the Hermit copy).

The only thing that Hermit does is using APE (Actually Portable Format), which we also analyzed on the second post of the series: https://wasmer.io/posts/wasm-as-universal-binary-format-part..., also published a year ago.

On one hand, both ape and Wasmer rely on a “universal binary interface” to interact universally with the Operating System: Cosmopolitan (as a universal libc POSIX interface) in the case of ape, and WASI in the case of Wasmer.
anybody else getting blocked by cloudflare?
I’ve been learning Gleam the past couple weeks and it’s got amazingly well-developed tooling and community for its age. Overall solid documentation, a full Exercism track with active mentors, good compiler hints (and LSP support) and an active Discord channel.
I don’t think that’s necessarily true. We have mirrored nerve bundles dedicated to limbs with specific junctioning in the CNS. I don’t think it’s just brain plasticity at play, it’s fundamental wiring structure from limb to brain as well.
Those prompts are wild. It is deeply impressive that it works. Think about what would happen if you gave such instructions to a human. Would they be able comply? How big is the overlap between people who are creative enough to produce the kind of pictures Dall-E produces and disciplined enough to follow complex instructions so rigourously?

It also is just straight up impossible to convert those instructions to "regular" code.
> Let’s start by having trains take you to the airport directly…

I thought the US had legalised those now, so they'll happen as new systems come online.

> In the meantime, getting self driving cars that are all electric will be a big win.

Why? They're still going to take up as much road space (maybe even more, since they'll be moving around empty half the time). They'll still be spewing particulate pollution around our city centres - maybe more since they'll be heavier. They'll be consuming vast amounts of rare earths that could deliver much more benefit if used for electric bikes.

Self-driving electric cars will deliver at best a marginal safety improvement and a marginal reduction in whole-life emissions. There are much better ways to improve cities, transport, and lives: road-use pricing, bicycle priority at junctions, better parking laws, building more transit...
> Unless they somehow convince OEMs

Wait, do they have a different laws about shrink-wrapped licenses in EU? I thought this particular aspect was pretty much universal everywhere, with very minor deviations. My understanding is that you buy a computer with Windows pre-installed, it requires to accept an EULA on the first boot, you either do it, or you can install a different OS (and theoretically ask for a refund, although this is where jurisdictions and realities start to really differ and I don't know about EU).

OEMs only put some bits on the device (drive and firmware), but to best of my awareness license acceptance always happen after the sale and is between the user and Microsoft. If EU had tackled this somehow, please let me know (and forgive my lack of awareness).

> You're not allowed to require acceptance of additional terms after the transaction has occurred.

Surely they can with a new version? Apple does it this way (e.g. just recently watchOS 10.1 came with new EULA, requiring acceptance before an update can be installed) worldwide and I haven't heard of any government having issues with it.

In Microsoft's best new traditions they can pester users to upgrade and even make it super Microsoft-friendly, with forced automatic upgrades that spend 30 minutes applying patches, then showing an EULA, then rolling back for another 30 minutes after it's declined.
Less users is probably a feature.
Look at how Christmas trees work. It's exactly this simple.
yeah, I managed to corrupt my btrfs on my laptop a few months ago (loose memory stick causing crash at bad time, apparently). I was able to recover almost everything with btrfs-restore (my latest backup was several weeks old then) but it was still not a pleasant experience...
Thanks for sharing. Do you still implement your own designs or "throw it over the wall"? Any tips on making the switch?
I don’t like being a defeatist, but being anti-public transit, infrastructure investments, and inability to build public infrastructure is very well ingrained into American culture at this point. Countries like China and India call pull it off because government makes the decision for people. Would be a political suicide for any level of government to get up and say “we will take over the land as we see it useful and build useful shit”. And I don’t even want to talk how in North America, our easiest path would be to hire people who can build that stuff very well (engineers from the said countries), which also won’t sell well with the public.

Admittedly I live in Canada, and in my city we have a fairly functional subway and bus system. But nowhere near as good as Tokyo, Hong Kong, Taiwan and etc. It’s such a bummer every time I visit those countries and see how they’re ran, and then travel somewhere like California or Washington to see the opposite when it comes to transit. I know not everything is the best, but I also don’t know how we can fix this problem when majority of people are against the fix.

Oh well, sorry for the rant.
The one thing I valued most about online communities at least "back in the day" was not knowing this stuff.

I could genuinely be interacting with people as persons without being biased about them. It was the great equalizer and part of what drew me towards "the hacker's manifesto".

Most of us I think fail to understand what an immense treasure of justice anonymity or at least pseudonymity is. It sucks that the modern internet financially is surviving as a result of fighting against these values.

I disagree with you about knowing people's gender's being a good thing. Look at what people say and do and get to know and then hate or like them to your heart's content. There are few places left where you can meet people and get to know them without a profile pic or a reddit post like this HN post tells you the same exact things that bias us in real life and result in so much strife and injustice.I hated places where people asked "A/S/L?" as you can tell, what do you think of petitioning to ban asking such info to the general HN audience?
This article doesn't really make a strong case aside from "we don't like strong typing."

There's a 99% chance that they have a build process in place already, if for nothing besides minimizing and concatenating their JS files. Adding the `tsc` step is pretty minimal overhead, and all valid JS is also TS; although the language service is going to complain about the lack of types, everything will still work exactly as before.

My argument is that in general, it will cost more in time and effort to add types to a more mature product than to keep them up-to-date in a young product. It's like good comments and documentation - either go 100% or accept that you're going to have a lot of tribal knowledge that is difficult to efficiently disseminate to new employees.

Putting pain off until tomorrow is perhaps good for business, but not for people. Remember that developers are people.
Think bigger.

"Driverless cars" are a technology that moves atoms without the need for people, a lot like how we move bits around today. There are innumerable benefits to moving the right atoms to the right places at the right time.

There are many form factors that moving atoms can take, only one of which looks like a car. The car is a good place to start for many reasons, including everyone needing transportation, existing infrastructure, existing culture, wasted time commuting, etc.

Now think about what comes after all "cars" are driverless. Their form factors change, roads change, infrastructure changes, proximity between people changes, life changes. Roads are like arteries that feed population centers, and if we can reconfigure them without worry about whether humans can keep up, we unlock whole new ways of living, almost like unlocking new organs with vastly different structures in the super-organism that is society.

The very story of life itself is evolving to move atoms around in new and more complex ways. This is one of the most fundamental and important techs we can invest in.
Thanks for the reference, I've never seen it but it's quite good. I haven't seen anything quite like it, at least for the time-and-place.

It makes me see the downside of wfh..
Incidentally, the author of Kiki's Delivery Service mixed the two up and used the trademarked version instead of the generic one. When the anime was being made several years later, someone decided to look into it, and found that they did not actually have permission to use the trademark. But, the owner of the trademark agreed to let them use it, so they didn't have to change the name of the anime adaptation.

Meanwhile, I'm off to write a book about people who google xeroxing kleenex.
And spotify is a barrier for so many artists to be fairly compensated. Turtles all the way down.
We should frame public transportation as a defense issue and use that obscene budget to fund and subsidize it
about nothing, I always thought it was hand gliding, but now that I think about it, hang makes wayyy more sense. Anyways, TIL.
Or them .. this is a nome de guerre from deep in heart of Nicolas Bourbaki territory.

No majority consensus to act can explain a great deal.
The limited availability of KiwiSDR's have made it crazy high priced. I've been trying to get one for a year now but they're up to like $600 on aliexpress. KiwiSDR2 has been announced, but that's a ways off from being sold.

WebSDR on other hardware is a better alternative-ish.
But great news, we're on HN, so maybe jgrahamc or eastdakota can show up and explain why it's totally normal and fine that their product prevents random people from reading about the causes of natural disasters.
This thing is the definition of vendor lock in. It's a rack full of non-commodity hardware using non-standard connectors and a bunch of custom software.

The industry moved to commodity x86 for compute for a reason.
It's because modern society uses income/GDP as the only metric for value.

It's a stark difference to basically every other point in history. This'll probably be seen as how we look at smoking today. It shouldn't be any surprise that when both parents are mostly absent and taking high stress jobs, the children won't be as mentally healthy. Mentally unhealthy kids become mentally unhealthy adults, and that leads to this downwards spiral we see in society what with mentally ill people going into law enforcement and management. Even with all the new pills, they're not curing the root causes.
the fact that it's solved outside of the US is irrelevant here.

the American Dream requires that each successful American owns a Car (and House, which is another reason American Cities can't be like other country's cities). they don't have to drive it, but since you have to own one, you might as well drive it, right?

places like the uk, germany, china, japan, etc all have working public transit, but they don't have the American Dream, so it's not a valid comparison.

the only people in America who will trade in their Car are the same people who might trade in their American Flag or Gun, which is to say the immigrants, poors, and other false-americans. no true American would ever give up their Car.
> the intent [of DCMS' letter] is quite plain for all to see […] as evidenced by youtube's response

I'm trying to parse this: what do you mean by "YouTube's response"? Their decision to de-monetize Brand (which came before the letter and is entirely independent of it)? Or their response to the letter we're discussing (which they were not sent, and do not appear to have responded to?)?
The surprising lack of choices if you like digital clocks
Passkey does not appear to be a well defined term - more a marketing term - but you cannot disconnect the concept from FIDO/WebAuthn. There is no way to use a “passkey” without using the WebAuthn protocol, and hence “User Verification” is an available option and hence it’s reasonable to assert that passkeys support MFA.

So, if I am a site that needs additional verification (previously used MFA), I use “User Verification” == “required”. Then I know two factors “something the user has” and “something the user knows/is” has been used.
And bikes. My first thought was “oh god here comes the pro-bike bullshit again”.
>as well as techno-libertarians wanting to tell you about their new startup

Well uh, isn’t this the reason why this exists in the first place? We are on the subdomain of a startup accelerator.

I don’t like with most of them either, especially those that loudly complain about not being able to legally siphon my data without my consent because of the GDPR.

But we are on their turf after all.
We really signed our death sentence 20+ years ago. Californians won't have the attention span or the conviction to undo it with a phased or abrupt approach. We'll just have this unequal footing... forever
Do we even know if the design industry is shrinking YoY?
> we unlock whole new ways of living

Please speculate on what some of these ‘whole new ways of living’ might be. I’m struggling to picture it.
I can't stress enough how decent and high quality the discord users are. Big respect.
Uh? That’s criminal
I’ve taken the train from New York to Boston. While it does go pretty fast for a couple miles, think the average speed is about 82 mph.

My 4 mile commute from Hoboken to midtown took anywhere from 45 minutes to 90, if there was a problem. Try getting to the East Side of Manhattan.

See people fighting congestion pricing for driving? If mass transit was good, few would drive into the island
You’re totally right that there is now more complexity, especially around tooling and deployment. We have pipelines now, Docker containers, things that just aren’t simple and direct like a plain HTML+CSS website

However in my experience the best “front-end engineers” are designers. One of the best I’ve ever worked with called himself “Devsigner.” He was a passionate Android developer who knew the platform conventions better than the designers did, he was able to identify tiny flaws in designs (incorrect font weights, inconsistent padding, adherence to platform conventions), as well as larger flaws in the UX, for example, how to consistently and intuitively navigate between screens, when and where to place navigation elements, etc

Development wise, he was able to devise the app architecture clearly. Write end-to-end mock servers to perform UI testing, build the dev ops pipeline, manage app releases, and implement the UI using best practices

I am the same sort of designer/developer, and I expect that many people are capable of doing both things like this. They just need the opportunity and positive feedback to get there

Websites are more complex, but I expect people to be capable of learning complex things and to be aware of, and apply, design principles
The hardware only lasts five years at most. That means you have a decent cadence of repurchases.
I (and many others, I’m sure) had the pleasure of listening to him on the Lex Friedman podcast. I’ve listened to that episode three times, I really enjoy it. Not only did he discuss his research, but he also dips into the philosophical domain - connecting electromagnetic communication between cells to philosophy of the mind and the self. I don’t know what that itch is, be he scratched it.
We do have a Terraform plugin in active development. It's good enough that I use it every day, but in fairness it isn't released yet.

Our API is also under active development, but it is open source today:

https://github.com/SoftIron/hypercloud-api

Go bindings included, other languages are under discussion.
I'm still bullish on automated long-haul trucking. I'd much rather share a road with an self-driving semi on I80 instead of a human driver hopped up on speed driving 14 hours a day.
Also, the Ryanteck RTk.GPIO (PC GPIO Interface) has USB and 2x20 pin GPIO:
https://uk.pi-supply.com/collections/all-raspberry-pi-hats-a... :

> The RTk.GPIO is a Plug & Play USB Device which adds 28 x Raspberry Pi style GPIO pins to your computer

The Pi Pico RP2040 has one onboard LED on pin 25. The Pi Pico W (RP2040W) has an onboard LED but it's no longer connected to the 2x20 GPIO, so it's `machine.Pin("LED")` instead of `machine.Pin(25)`.

Wokwi has a WASM Pi Pico simulator.
I specifically said in this context because I had this certainty you would form an argument from the origins of the word.
Really I have the most trouble with getting a high-end GPU and high resolution screen on an AMD laptop. Framework is great, but doesn't offer what I'm looking for.

Need me some 2160p or 2400p @ 120hz OLED. I'm often in hotel after hotel after hotel and I don't have a docked setup. I just have the 1 laptop. Certainly not toting around a high-end portable monitor for this need, you can't find 120hz OLED anyway. Another poster linked how Intel influenced what OEMs were offering with AMD CPUs and I think that's exactly what's going on. When you go to Dell.com you can very easily see the many options for Intel-CPU'd laptops, and the handful or less of AMD options for screen configurations, hard drives, memory, or graphics cards. It's just very fishy.
University of Twente in the Netherlands has a great websdr[1] running some custom hardware that can tune into pretty much the entire shortwave spectrum. I've spent countless hours tuning in to various European radio stations and broadcasts (you can even pick up the odd number station if you are on the right frequency and get lucky with timing).

[1] http://etgd1.ewi.utwente.nl:8901/
So the patent for MTG has expired and anyone can make cards now?
Cute nicknames don't scale and thats OK. Worry about it when scaling becomes a problem.
Yeah you can override the global allocator pretty easily[1]. But the default uses the system allocator, and I guess it sounds like Wine's is pretty bad

[1]: https://doc.rust-lang.org/std/alloc/index.html#the-global_al...
"Plenty of other countries" isn't the US.

For reasons that have nothing to do with cars, the US will never achieve the clean, safe, reliable systems like you see in Asia that are often heralded as the posterchild of ideal public transit.

Wave a magic wand materialize the Tokyo or Seoul subway system into an American metropolis, and within a short period of time, you'll see it devolve. We just cannot have nice things here.

Ironically, the contingent of people that are most aggressive/ambitious about promoting public transit are often the same that are most against taking the (admittedly, not always the most pleasant) steps needed to sell the idea to the masses.
IMO not so much unless you travel a lot. It's more expensive, but you'd worry more about a residence card being used to e.g. open fraudulent bank accounts in your name.
> pry open Apple’s control of the iPhone

I wonder if this might backfire and have the opposite effect, compel Apple to enter the search engine game because Google is attacking them on their own turf.

If Google controls search and the browser on iOS, Apple would have ceded a ton of control to Google.
Thank you for your reply,It's a pleasure to discuss it with you.We are not only discussing the query side of SQL (DML), it is the essence of SQL, relational algebra, and the examples in the post are just for a more intuitive representation of this. The efficiency of executing a complex SQL statement can usually only be achieved through the automatic optimization function of the database engine. As you said, SQL does not specify ordered vs hash grouping nor merge instance of hash That is an engine implementation detail and only touched upon in DDL (schema declaration). Even if more optimization is done in DML, the selection of the underlying algorithm cannot be changed, at most, it makes writing SQL more convenient for users.
I wonder if it means photogrammetry can be used (eg. OpenDroneMap) to construct a 3D model of the landscape/buildings...
..has Empire vibes
Because it seems to me like poor engineering to leak it. Not disputing it, just surprised to see it
I don't have a hardware background, but it's sort of unclear what they're talking about here.

> We had stuff being pulled out of people’s desks and were shipping it. 15 year old stock was shipped. Lots of non-automotive parts shipped as automotive. Tier1s were signing waivers all over the place to get material.

Why did these companies have 15 year old stock lying around? Wouldn't signing a waiver that acknowledges your company used sub-standard parts for safety critical systems be incriminating? Which "parts" of a car could be reasonably pulled from employee desks in any large semiconductor company?

The gist of this claim seems to be that cars manufactured in that period are low quality and unsafe. But this leaves a lot of open questions. Or am I misunderstanding?
I've seen enough scifi to know exactly where this will end up.
I've installed two of these several years ago and integrated them with Home Assistant. Working pretty well, no major complaints. It uses a distance sensor to determine whether or not the door is open, so it's not as reliable as state that that the garage door opener has. There was one time the distance sensor acted up and I didn't know if the door was up or down, which was annoying because I was 100 miles away. Other than that, it does what I need it to do.