skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I'm not getting "fooled" by anything. I've spent most of my life in various parts of the Eastern US. The problem, to a big degree is that the parts of the US with the density for rail are both already big freight areas with major ports (LA, NYC, Baltimore, Boston, Savannah, Seattle) and have the good land already taken for freight rails, and also, because they're dense areas, are exceedingly difficult to find space to run new rails in that go to places people actually want to go.

We're past the era where we could just put a highway or rail line through the poorest neighborhood of minorities we can find, pay them all $10 for their land, and pretend it's a net good for the country. Without some truly insane government intervention that is both unlikely to happen, and probably shouldn't happen, I don't see how we'd add a full new rail system.
I never heard of "Age" before this post. Thank you to share. If others are interested to learn more, here are two other interesting posts about Age:

https://github.com/FiloSottile/age/discussions/432

https://words.filippo.io/dispatches/age-authentication/
That's nice and all, and in a pinch maybe convinent, but most of the time im not looking to read in random places.

I appreciate that might not be true for everyone, use cases vary. For me its essentially being better at a feature i dont use.
From what I have seen, the servers for hackernews are a bit delicate. At least when OpenAI does something stupid...if our usernames are a primary key ID a single update to remove the username is far less costly than actually dropping all the comments.

Or they just want to have an archive for some background monetization scheme, anything is possible!
Well, good.

The state level regulation is made to force these dysfunctional city halls to get their ducks in a row or face builders remedy.

50 years on, it's clear zoning regulations being determined at the municipal level is toxic, because regulation gets captured to enrich existing land owners at the expense of everyone else.
It's known that many developers implement various flavors of similar simple languages. What would be nice is to have a library of functions which make implementing such languages much simpler than in C. One of benefits of J language - and other APL descendants - is the set of built-in operations which really simplifies working with structures of such kind, even though it's not the only their purpose.
Oof. Well I feel like an internet twat now :p However this is also one of my most heavily accoladed HN posts (in terms of imaginary internet points) so clearly this struck a chord with a lot of readers.

Clearly you are optimizing a different set of constraints and loss function. It seems like you value sticking closer to overall shape and count, as well as certain allegories between the tool and the element of that slot.

But on the other hand, like, why not solder at 82 (Lead)? Why not collets at 24 (Chromium) (a pun on CR collets and also collets are frequently high-chromium steel). Make room for oxy cutter / thermic lance on 8?

This is some god-tier nerd sniping, I love it.

> By all means rag on me for that choice too.

Actually I thought that was a great touch. Also I am pretty sure even-sized wrenches (hex in particular) is a reference to 6-member carbon rings, very appropriate.

> But then I ran out of heat-related tools that made the cut to be categories

You could fill halogens exclusively with welding processes. Odd/even wrenches are separate, why aren't AC and DC welding, or stick/mig/tig? Absolutely this is one of those "engineering/design decision" tarpits.

But...

BUT...

Really, when I think about what the periodic table means to me, I don't think about it in terms of shape, count, or location even. Really, I think about it in terms of valence electrons. My orgo teacher always said "The electron is where it's at". If I need a soft +2, I could grab Mg or Ca, sure, but maybe Cu2+ will do the trick. I can make soap (or something soap-like) with basically anything reasonably willing to shed those first two electrons. I can reach in my chemical toolbox for one of a collection of similar atoms to pull off a certain task, because of that lovely electronic geometric dance of electrons. And it just feels like the "shape" of each group going down the line is just not as consistent as my, admittedly very neurotic, neurospicy brain would like. And that's a me thing. Fundamentally, this is all my opinion.

> In conclusion, please keep the hate flowing and buy my poster and book.

You definitely earned a purchase for me :) I was already eyeing it but your rebuttal definitely sealed the deal.

I'm sure you put countless hours of effort and emotion and decision into your table and I don't mean to detract from the art of it (and let this be a lesson to the audience of the perils of feeling pseudonymous on the internet). I really appreciate the work. But boy howdy does it nerd-snipe me!
Blast Corps. Loved it!
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Recent and related: Botlib: C Telegram bot framework - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38408873 - Nov 2023 (85 comments)

Btw please let's not argue about this program being written in C—it's not the spirit of the OP and it's mostly a boring digression.
> I can do that with Firefox, Chrome, Brave or any other browser as well without being forced to create an account.

Oh I use Chrome too, I was under the impression that you have to sign into Google to sync bookmarks, but I guess your point is the login/account creation steps come afterwards?
Hah hah! I had to lug around a Rhodes suitcase, a B3, and a Leslie. My DX7 in an anvil case weren’t nothing.
RustDesk with Tailscale on Arch Linux
A quick look reveals that, while this is true, the industry wants to achieve full load factor due to economics. What surprised me was to learn that up to 35% of trucks on the road are empty. Also, companies like Home Depot, Amazon, Walmart, etc., who have more control over the loading of their trucks regularly achieve 85% load factor.

I think this is a potentially interesting question. If 85% load factor means that it would be safe to add 12,000 lbs to a trailer to electrify it, the exercise might make sense.

The bottom line is that the economics and the logistics have to make sense. I don't know enough about the combination to have a valid opinion one way or the other. The only thing I can say is that, more often than not, things that sound good on first inspection fail to survive contact with reality.

For example: The fleet of non-electrified trailers are simple and inexpensive when compared to electric trailers with 200 kWh in batteries, powerful motors and all that goes with that transition.

I could be wrong, on this. I just can't see a business model that makes sense for replacing all "dumb" trailers with electrified trailers. It would be horribly expensive, the trailers would now require logistics, maintenance and support of their own and the transportation system isn't setup to support them.

To me it makes far more sense to keep trailers dumb and electrify tractors.
I know Caltech did/does use it in their undergraduate core(?), and even has Dr. Prakash speak w/ the students. That said, I'm pretty sure field application of the device hasn't really panned out and runs into resolution problems. I'm honestly not sure if that was the intention, but checking a few literature review articles and recent pubs doesn't seem to show any major success stories, and mostly notes about resolution.

My favorite invention from his lab is the Paperfuge[^1], though the device is probably too recent to know how useful it'll be. Considering that so much point-of-care diagnostics can be done with either a cheap lateral-flow kit or some Cepheid or Abbot microfluidic product though, a non-integrated centrifuge might be a bit tougher to justify.

[^1]: https://www.nature.com/articles/s41551-016-0009, the first author now leads his own lab at GaTech: https://bhamla.gatech.edu/people
You only read when you poop?
Short focal length was a neat idea, it let it left lots of room for the subsequent iterations to fill in the background.
The two major differences are that broadcasting in julia is

1. caller based. As a user, I can ask for a broadcasted version of any function (not only specific functions which implement broadcasting)

2. composable. The expression `sqrt.(exp.(x).+1)` in julia will generate a single loop over `x` compared to the numpy version which will make 3 passes over the memory.
>> Today, Wayland has been recognized as the de-facto windowing and display infrastructure solution.

> Is... optimistic.

Is it? Wayland is largely developed by the old X developers. They’re the ones who say Wayland is the future and there is nothing else. Xorg hasn’t been under real active development for a very long time.

The people in the best place to decide decided. They’ve been fixing the remaining issues.

There is no path forward for Xorg. It won’t get better. Only Wayland has a future.
> do you mean there's a terminal emulator out there which forces you to login?

Haha yes indeed that's what I meant, I suspect this is only going to become more common whether we like it or not
I can answer what they meant with "does not follow the program."

The person you replied to is an overt racist who promotes anti-Semitic conspiracy theories about Jewish people.[0]

The line "does not follow the program" is an anti-Semitic dog whistle. You should feel really good about yourself that you completely missed the hidden meaning and thought they were referring to billionaires.

Background on dog whistles if you're unfamiliar: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dog_whistle_(politics)

[0] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38441058
CDs were also so much cheaper than cartridges to manufacture that margins must've been a fraction of what the Playstation enjoyed
Has GPT-4 become lazy?
I'm excited to take a look at this. I learned F# early on in my career and really enjoyed it. These days I'm into ultimate simplicity. I really like V-lang. It has the simplicity of Go but adds some ergonomics that Go has been missing. Also, it can seamlessly interact with C libraries. So, that is my current favorite language. Hopefully Roc will be my favorite functional language :-).
Very nice. As a beginner Hindustani student, this tool is helpful in both vocals and playing around with different ragas.
This is brilliant - thanks for sharing the story. This is one of those ideas that, on the surface, looks really hard to build but your breakdown made it look super easy. Very inspiring :)
I think the sentence before that is more important though I do wonder if that is correct:

In order to make a VoLTE phone call, your phone, your provider, the receiving phone and the intermediate network providers must all support the protocol.

The receiving phone? WTF?

So I can't use my VoLTE phone to call a land-line in another country? That would be stupid if true.

Meaning that really can't be true.
My kingdom for a video! Anyone have a clip of a homebrew demo (or game!) made with this engine?
i use rustdesk AND "aspia" on a daily basis, 8 hours a day.

aspia has clipboard under wayland which is nice.

both work wonderfully resilliently in a zerotier network.
>" They rolled all these acquisitions into a single business unit to sell (formerly) Pivotal Cloud Foundry (PCF), Pivotal Container Service (PKS), and other products in an on-prem, enterprise PaaS offering."

So what happened to Heptio exactlY? Were they combined with Pivotal and spun-off?
I've always liked the visual effect of the East Asian typographic rule that commas and periods at the end of a line hang. Makes the entire block of text look better aligned.[1] Probably matters more for text in those languages since the width of normal text characters doesn't vary as much as Latin text characters do.

e. More to the specifics of its use in CSS, it looks like Safari doesn't support the attribute to aggressively follow that rule,[2] as in the bottom right example of the previously linked image.

[1] https://www.thetype.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/11/AI-hangin...

[2] https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/CSS/hanging-pun...
> you're just being semantic for the sake of it a bit.

No. I'm calling it as it is. I don't pretend that something isn't a framework when it has all the same things that the frameworks they so love to vilify do.

> The Lit team are huge advocates of aligning with native standards

Which of the things that lit provides are native standards current or future? Its template DSL? Its custom decorators? Its data binding system? Tasks? Directives?

Not to mention the usual workarounds like support for SVGs https://lit.dev/docs/api/templates/#svg
> It seems like people just didn't feel like it, and building something new was more exciting and would look better on their resume

Those people were largely the Xorg developers. They knew what they were up against and clearly decided this was a better idea.

They may have overcorrected, but they’ve been fixing things compared to the early releases.

Wayland is here, it works (for a great many things), and it’s under active development to keep improving.

Xorg is not.
> Stop dumbing down complex arguments

It's not dumbing down. It's extracting the crux of the matter that the complexity of arguments is trying to hide, perhaps unintentionally. Either the brain implements a function that can be approximated by a neural network thanks to universal approximation theorem, or the function cannot be approximated (you need arguments for why it is the case), or magic.
e-readers can go for days to weeks on a full charge depending on how often you use them. Definitely much longer than the average smartphone.
> "Promoting your database system or start-up with a shirt is almost as important as getting the thing to actually run. As I've told my students several times, in the world of databases you don't sell the steak, you sell the sizzle...A good shirt can get people to feel like your DBMS is going to solve all of their application's database problems."

I can't tell if this is sarcasm or serious, but either way is a sad reflection on the state of the DB industry.
I got that MongoDB shirt at a conference in Seattle about 10-13 years ago as he stated. He ain't kidding. It's a great shirt.

Now I gotta go find it in my closet...
I had some fun playing Goldeneye with friends back in the day. Though I’ll be honest, I have no desire to play it again.

On the other hand, I’d happily play SM64 and OoT through again, along with dozens of NES and SNES titles.
Does anyone else experience a physical reaction to AI generated art that resembles repulsion and disgust? Something about it just feels “wrong”. Something I can compare it to is the feeling of unexpectedly seeing an extremely moldy thing in your fridge. It feels alive and invasive in an inhuman and horrifying way.
If it was worse during the great depression we’re having it good? Maybe it’s not that bad yet but it looks like it’s coming fast
It’s a complex topic that would literally take a textbook to explain fully. How is that obtuse?
No comments on this?? Seems like a strange move given they just made a splash with XTTS.
It's also got a nuclear reactor which rules out Oregon doesn't it ?
> You must agree to the terms of the sale in order to access the media.

Plenty of media doesn't have terms, it just has default copyright. And that's a good thing.

> Morally speaking, either you believe someone can control their property, or you don't believe that. Sometimes that control involves letting many, but not all, people access that property. If you believe media moves out of someone's control without their consent merely through distribution, then you necessarily do not believe in ownership.

Without their consent? Of course not. They have to consent to the distribution.

I believe in limited ownership for ideas.

I'll mention the public domain again, because you haven't addressed that. If you make a movie, eventually it's going to become owned by the public. That's not negotiable.

> Either a person owns and thus controls something, or they do not.

Fair use is also a restriction on the ownership. A big one. So if it's this simple, then "they do not" must be the correct answer for how the world already works.

> go there, rental car

Those are physical items. They don't act like IP. If we apply physical rules to IP, then anyone can copy anything because it doesn't affect the original.
I wouldn't be comfortable wearing a MongoDB shirt in public either. I mean, it's awful technology.
I just can’t understand why the “builders remedy” isn’t the default housing policy.

[edit] If the government wants to control rents and define what a neighborhood looks like it should buy the land and build itself; then rent it out using policies it likes, or sell it as “affordable housing.” Works great in Singapore.

Otherwise private land shouldn’t be subject to this silly overbearing approach to “rent control” and shadows and color schemes and building heights. If a neighbor doesn’t like what you’re doing on your own land they should buy your land or stop whining. Plenty of remote places they can buy a tract and decide what’s what.
No, you would be lying about the poem being in the source code. In theory they'd need to take down Youtube until the counterclaim was filed, no?
That's the price of not one, but several houses in Bay Area! Crazy!
> because regulation gets captured to enrich existing land owners at the expense of everyone else.
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Mm, there's a fine line there - people who aren't contributing aren't entitled to demand work from people who are, but that doesn't mean that their complaints about shortcomings are somehow invalid. Or put differently, just because Wayland is given away for free doesn't make it immune to criticism.

And

> Nobody is working on X anymore as of like 10 years ago

is just factually incorrect; it's actively maintained, and it's kind of hard to point at a single changelog because of how Xorg releases components separately, but ex. https://www.phoronix.com/news/Modesetting-TearFree-Merged is a feature release from late last year, and there have been multiple security/bug fix releases this year.

In any event, yes, I am donating to drive work on Xorg; am I allowed to call out regressions now?
> What those guys intended is often arbitrary. They took captures from some sources and tweaked them. The whole hi fi paradigm is predicated on the idea that the recording/mastering guys are high priests who get to exercise their taste, and the lowly consumer must obligingly reproduce what they put out.

Don't be dismissive of audio engineers and mixers making records. I don't think you realize how much care and consideration goes into crafting an album. These choices are far from arbitrary for those who are working at the top of their craft.

Additionally, don't make the mistake of conflating people who are "hi-fi" enthusiasts with the people actually making the records. They are not always aligned in their goals.

You also seem to have the mistaken idea that mastering engineers are trying to impose their taste onto a record. You know which mastering engineers try to shoehorn their taste into a record? The ones who don't get hired a second time.

I am a mastering engineer. By the time that a record reaches our studio the creative decisions have already been made by the artist, the producer, and the mixer. Our goal at this stage is to function as midwife to the artist and present their music in the best possible light, which sometimes means doing as little as possible, so as not the get in the way of what's been delivered to us. Our role is to hear the record as objectively as possible and then give it a final level of polish/balance so that the artist's intentions shine through and translate on as many different playback situations as possible.

Finally, if a guitarist's amp is putting out too much 6kHz at a rock show, then it is the live sound engineer's responsibility to fix it, either through EQ or through communicating with the guitarist to adjust their amp settings.
Valid. But so long as "periodic table of X" is a trope, I'm gonna complain about them.

I could have sworn there was a subreddit or something for "bad periodic tables", where someone has laid out a collection in a table-shaped way, without any mind to organization or patterns. But all I find now is "breaking bad" related stuff. Maybe it was a fever dream.

I agree that it's fairly arbitrary, but humans like order and structure and patterns. I think that's why the periodic table is captivating and magical.
The big official content providers live in an expansive bubble world of sustaining themselves enough through legally sanctioned, DRM protected content streaming under restrictive moat conditions that they can afford to ignore the obvious stupidities of their distribution models. At the same time, they continue to lobby for anti-piracy controls without even slightly recognizing the deep flaws in their methods.

Why? Because enough rent gets extracted from things as they are, from millions of consumers who are just content enough to keep paying, that it doesn't really matter to do anything innovatively different. Instead, the existing balance between lobbying legally against piracy and maintaining a strangled content distribution system works just well enough.

This is why we keep seeing idiocies of DRM restrictions and policies that seem designed for a world in which the fully global internet and flow of information wasn't even a thing. You thus get situations where certain content is absurdly blocked in certain places without a single good practical reason because the balance I describe above isn't badly enough affected, at least for now.

However if they keep pushing along this path, things will change, and possibly in nasty ways against their interest to a point where they'll have to open up more or deal with genuine damage to their rigged markets. Technology often (though sadly not always) has a funny way of suddenly breaking down dams in unexpected moments. In this case it would be especially easy for this to happen because the infrastructure of piracy is already here and easily available to anyone who puts in a modicum of effort. New innovations aren't even really necessary. it only (again, for now) lacks the incentives that could make it surge.
What do you mean they struggle to hold conversations? I was an awkward kid and you could say I struggled to hold conversations but it wasn't due to an addiction to tech. I'm also socially well adjusted now, as an adult.
How do people market something like this?
Brightline isn't HSR either. According to Wikipedia, the max speed is only 200kph.
I had the same experience. Even if uBlock Origin kind of works, somehow it doesn't block the same number of ads as it does with other browsers, I wonder why. Same uBlock Origin version, same filters enabled, fewer ads blocked on Orion. I used this site for example to test: https://d3ward.github.io/toolz/adblock.html - scores 65% on orion and 99% on other browsers
> and messes with semantics - it will add or remove parentheses in math expressions

Wait, so prettier rewrites code incorrectly? Aka, it’s buggy?
Sure, but the issue with prettier is that it goes beyond style and also mangles semantic details. That's their explicit design choice - they feel that conforming formatting in all cases is more important than preserving semantic information about code, and that devs should add "// prettier-ignore" comments to every line of code with semantic details that prettier would throw away.
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