skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> People don't care about libre software, they care about software that works, is supported, and they don't have to think about it.

Which long term libre software helps them do. Without it companies just keep stealing the open source features and moving the target of "good".
> They still equate public transportation with being poor and not how millions of people who live IN the city get around.

I rode BART out of Oakland for years. I don’t agree with NIMBYs but it’s not like they are making it up.

I assure you, it is indeed full of insane people, homeless, the trains are nasty and smell like urine, frequently break down or get stopped because people regularly suicide themselves on the tracks. I’m sure in Asian countries the trains are fantastic but here people aren’t adults and ruin it for everyone.
wounded knee 1973 and .. mhh .. "the troubles" maybe?

Also not sure if it "counts" if they got the weapons from other means. I think IRA got tons of weapons from Gaddafi. Which would make it a counter points as you can resist even with stronger weapons laws?
> I wouldn’t classify it as trivia to know the big-O complexity of an algorithm or to have some idea of the worst-case behaviors you may run into (like inserting already sorted data into a binary tree).

It's trivia, and more often than not it's completely useless trivia.

Big-O complexity refers to asymptotic complexity which is only theoretically met with very large datasets which are already in the realm of a RDBMS. Until that point, performance is far more sensitive to cache locality and other implementation details. This means that all those trivia numbers don't even match with real world data you get from your own performance tests.

So what's the point of wasting time memorizing trivia that doesn't even match real-world observations?
This makes me miss the Chumby, which had such untapped potential and was given up on so quickly. I have many uses for a smart, controllable and low-code screen in my house, and barely the time to figure it out myself. Very glad this project came across my page today!
Dupe: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38845059
> He got a quote back for $120,000. “Elon laughed,” Davis said. “He said, 'That part is no more complicated than a garage door opener. Your budget is five thousand dollars. Go make it work.’” Davis spent nine months building the actuator.

This seems like a bad business decision, yet is apparently the cherry-picked highlight of his technical acumen.
My understanding is that while you can reverse engineer something like a new material via trial and effort plus some basic lab analysis of samples.....stuff like chips are a PITA to reverse engineer.

My understanding is that a major hurdle is just how tiny everything is on modern chiplets. If I remember right....someone managed to reverse engineer the Intel 8086 or the 8080....but my understanding is that our lithography is so complex at this point you can't accurately reverse engineer the physical chip layout. If one could reverse engineer the physical layout and chemical layers...you could probably use that information to reverse engineer the photolithography mask and chemical etching step.

TLDR: we can't reverse those modern server CPU's ....we can only learn via what the fan or the chiplet owner be it Intel or and or apple decides to release regarding architecture or chip layout.
Necessity is the mother of all invention. This could just be related to socioeconomic factors.
With some apology for rewriting the abysmal headline

> It keeps people with schizophrenia in school and on the job. Why won't insurance pay?
Do you have any studies, review papers, or other evidence of this?

There is no increase of organic farming on these fields in Minnesota, yet wildlife is coming back. Other interventions around habitat preservation and restoration, and decreased runoff, seem far more crucial. Even organic farms use fertilizer, the runoff of which is far bigger contributor to ecosystem destruction than pesticides, at least according to everything I have seen. Algeal blooms and water ecosystem destruction are caused by excess nutrients, not from death by pesticides, for example.

I would love to see soemthing new that I have not yet been able to find with regards to this evidence!
If you count émigrés, hell yes.
> Raising the price would just extract more value for the owners from a very limited resource.

Yes. If you own a limited resource it's your right to make money from that. I know we like to pretend people making money from things they own is somehow evil but it's how all of civilization has been built and is an objectively good thing.

> If you have 200 cars and 50 parking spaces there's no price point at which the 200 cars can park simultaneously.

No, but is a point where 50 can park simultaneously and nobody who wants to park there and can afford to is denied that ability.
I hate take home projects, but with the hiring environment being what it is right now, I'm not sure we have the luxury of refusing to interview with companies just because we don't like their interview process.
You far overestimate the state of the art, and even our basic understanding of what superconducting is mechanistically. Simulating a single atom, alone in the universe is still a struggle not quite achieved.
This is as good a time as any to link to "Falsehoods programmers believe about names"

https://www.kalzumeus.com/2010/06/17/falsehoods-programmers-...
Not sure why you’re getting so many downvotes. The first two are definitely real issues with a lot of self-published work.
Congrats. Is it fiction or non-fiction?
I only just got around to watching Brainstorm sometime last year. It's far from a perfect movie, but definitely worth watching.
< They still equate public transportation with being poor and not how millions of people who live IN the city get around.

Because statistically that’s very true almost everywhere in America. Even flagship cities like NYC have pathetic trains/subways compared to Europe/Asia and 90% of the population has never been that far abroad to see what’s possible. I’ve tried the express busses and “train”(can you call it that with only two cars!) in Austin and gave up because they waste much more time and are less comfortable than driving. Never saw rich professionals on them, but plenty of mentally ill, drug addicted, and unbathed(not that we should avoid the homeless as much as we do now) persons.
Without reading everything it seems like you can change the paths and still keep the history (of both), while seeing both simultaneously, as opposed to switching branches, like it seems you are saying.
For those who find this depressing…there are probably five of you to the one who sees limited time as a reason to succeed…FWIW…
Cats are not a "natural" predator in the modern context.

They have massive advantages over wild animals including but not limited to

1) A guaranteed source of high quality disease free calories
2) Veterinary care
3) Safe places to rest and recuperate

As a result, the numbers of domesticated cats in most environments is radically larger than they would be in naturally balanced ecosystems.

The vast majority of modern domestic cats are sport hunters. Most will not even eat their prey as they have better food readily available.

It is also worth mentioning that domesticated cats are an invasive species in any environment outside the Nile Delta in Egypt.

Modern domestic cats are not "natural" predators in any sense.

They can be very cute though!
I'm almost certain steam deck has at least grabbed some pragmatists.
A bit of a tangent about Azarinth Healer's journey to follow, with a more generic wrapup...

> To use your example, Azarinth Healer’s author significantly reduced output while working on editing the book without disclosing why they were doing so.

Interesting. This drama must have been largely contained to Discord, since I never really saw it come up in Patreon itself. Plus, their output has been a bit unpredictable due to real life mental health complications for years. Notably, though, supporters on Patreon were not charged when they were not producing new chapters.

Ultimately reduced output, especially for the sake of fixing prior works for publishing, is acceptable to me.

> They then didn’t hand out copies of the edited work on Patron thus massively discouraging people from continuing to support them.

The author probably couldn't. They can't even keep the un-edited version up on Royal Road, so the contract probably stipulated what could and could not be done with the edited manuscript. And, honestly, I'm OK with that. Since Patreon charges have been turned off for awhile, paying $5 for the edited books is acceptable IMO.

> distracts from actually writing

Authors gotta market their work; even traditional publishers aren't doing that nearly as much anymore.

While output might be the key metric that some readers judge authors by, at the end of the day it's not the metric authors need to worry about the most. An author who can't support themselves by writing will produce even less output than one who is bound by the need to make money.

At the end of the day, I have a hard time being sour about authors - Rhegar included - finding a way to earn a living off writing.
"Empty" means with no passengers. That should be obvious. Defend millionaires and their private jets if you like, but don't hide it by twisting words.

Typical empty flights are to move a private/corporate jet. The plane flies someone to Brussels, flies back empty, flies someone else to Edinburgh, flies empty to Brussels, brings the person back, etc.

This airport doesn't have bulk freight flights. They mention "time-sensitive logistics", which is presumably the private jet version of using FedEx etc, and bottom of their list of activities anyway.
Because it’s nice to have practically every amenity possible in easy walking distance I.e 5-10 minutes walk.

Probably 20 restaurants, 20 small shops, coffee shops, ups, usps, fedex, hardware stores, museums, parks etc etc all within 10 minutes walk.

It’s nice not having to drive for everyday errands. driving and parking is soul draining and causes suburbs to be ugly, not to mention freeways. Those are ugly as sin.
Apart from a brief spike around the turn of the millennium the share price has been dismal.

https://www.macrotrends.net/stocks/charts/XRX/xerox-holdings...
> aligning with a somewhat minimal rolling distro that is quick to update packages, especially considering how comparatively slow the other big distros are

Is that an issue besides GPU drivers? I assumed (though I haven't really tried it) that Steam is pretty relatively self-contained on Linux and doesn't really rely on system packages that much (most games are running on Proton/Wine anyway).
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Bike infrastructure means some brick separators and painted lanes. It takes less than a month to build city-wide rudimentary protected bike lines.

BRT is similarly quick to implement, if a little more expensive. Remove 1 lane of parking from major downtown roads & replace with a painted BRT lane. Order about 50 buses to run in 1 way loops around the downtown area. Have high frequency BRT between the out-of-downtown parking area <-> downtown core.

Either should be doable under 1 year.

The blockers are all political.
That sort of hardened environment is what I would expect the sysadmins/operators of the darknet marketplaces to run.

That's the impression a lot of these 'hardening guides' give, intentionally or not. But fundamentally they're like 'tactical' pants except for nerds.
"As often as" in colloquial English doesn't mean "with exactly the same frequency as". Typically it means (and I meant): "with at least the same frequency as".

This, by the way, is the kind of non-mechanical, subjective analysis judges and juries are expected to perform all the time.
I do wonder how far the value has to fall for it to genuinely hurt him. Obviously he'll tough it out for as long as possible, but at some point reality surely has to set in.

I have no personal experience with this sort of thing as I am but a lowly engineer, but I would imagine you can only double down so many times before bluff and bluster will fail you.
How is parking legislation like this forcing 'that lifestyle' on everyone else?
I envision a future where maglev trains whisk you to ice fishing.
Can you explain what you found funny? Everyone is entitled to their own sense of humor, but I don't see how a drowning death is funny because it happened to a scientist that invented a tool.
for people on a mac, run

brew install fortune lolcat cowsay
Do you know for sure this was written with GPT4? I might have missed a statement in the article to that effect. I think if one isn't sure, it's politer to ask than assume.

That said, a number of statements do sound very GPT4-ish.

> The common narrative surrounding small games posits that creating them is a crucial preparatory step towards developing larger, more polished games. Many articles overwhelmingly advise beginners to start with small games.

I've found GPT4 loves to sound grand if not told otherwise.

That said, I think it's likely that the author's first language is not English. If so, I think GPT4 is a great tool for communicating across language barriers, so I don't begrudge them at all.
Ah yes, 10 years ago, when the TEA partiers ran rampant and a disturbing large group of people somehow, believed the president at the time was born in Kenya. Quite the golden age of truth and authenticity.
In Los Angeles there are ~ 3 parking spaces per car, and < 1 housing unit per person. We mandate a bunch of parking for every new building, but no housing. Its no wonder that people live in cars.
Cyclic logic that says you're wrong for wanting a stable kernel interface, because the kernel keeps changing so the solution is to just get your code merged into mainline. As a tautology, it's true, but it's also a cover for "because we don't want to".

See Windows or android GKI for existence proof that it can be done if so motivated.
I don't think it is so black and white. The original authors made trade offs that made sense at the time, but in the intervening period the context has changed and those trade offs don't necessarily make sense. The parents point is obviously exaggerated, but currently disk is cheap and the cost of inscrutable code, especially code that is run by millions or even billions of people, is extremely high: bugs are harder to spot and harder to fix, the barrier to entry for new maintainers is high, new features are harder to add etc.
This is specifically about eInk displays. They do not suffer from the problem you are describing.

Generally this is solved by displaying more than one image and rotating between images on a time interval.
My point is that, this being written by the authors of Rawjs, who unironically proselytize that "npm install programmers need to clean up their act" while providing a project which would require you to `npm install` dependencies is telling.
What would you consider Austin or the suburbs of Austin? If you live in a city or close enough to one, sprawl is terrible as it gives you all the cons of car dependence with fewer benefits of a concentrated population center. The rest of the country can decide they want to live 45 mins drive from a grocery store, but fixing car dependency in cities should be a priority, and I think you'd agree with that.
There have been protests out the wazoo in the UK recently and the police have done nothing. If anything, the police seem to concentrate on pursuing easy targets like the subject of this article. Anti-social behaviour, especially in the younger generations, is out of control across the UK. Everybody is unhappy with the police, even the police.
And the soil will be filled with lead contamination from it being turned into a battlefield
Extensively discussed: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38776591
This kind of military superiority argument lost the US 2 wars. Yes, you can absolutely flatten a city block with ease, but if the US couldn’t do it to people 1000s of miles away in dirt poor countries, they’re going to have a hell of a time convincing enlisted soldiers to shell their neighbors.

Regardless of the practicality, the second amendment explicitly calls for the regulation of government via militia. The Supreme Court has continually held that right extends down to individual citizen’s right to own firearms. From your perspective, perhaps citizens need access to more powerful weaponry to fulfill the 2nd amendment’s mandate. Currently, laws like the NFA restrict practical access to automatic weapons, and introduce licensing requirements for specific weapons and accessories, such as suppressors and short barrel rifles.
That's such a sweet idea. If you're looking for a weekend project idea, I recommend flipping it 180: https://days.sonnet.io
> * Reputation. It can just feel cool to say "Oh yeah I have a book published by Tor" (or whatever). This one is pretty weak for me. Trad publishers don't hold that much special prestige anymore.

I think it's a validation thing, largely. If you get trad-published but the book does poorly—well, at least you got trad-published, so you must not be too awful (although... if you're in certain "hot" niches, there's some real crap put out, that looks like it was barely even edited), but your book just didn't land well. It happens. But you're an author, for sure.

If you self-publish and your book doesn't do well—did you market poorly? Would it have done better with a trad publisher? Are you... in fact so terrible at writing you shouldn't call yourself an author, and it didn't sell because it's total crap? You may never know!

Since there's not real, real money in it unless your book's such a hit you get movie deals and such (with rare outliers who make it big-enough purely on book sales but don't get adaptation interest) it's largely about being an author, so having that validation up-front has real appeal.
Specialization is at the core of economic profit. Damn you, economics!
I think you're assuming that mass transit is the only lever to improve traffic. Eliminating parking minimums allows businesses to pop up nearer to where people live, where they're accessible by foot or micromobility. If anything, plentiful parking in and of itself causes traffic to be shitty because driving becomes the only safe/comfortable way to get around; housing and businesses come to have huge paved deserts between them, completely hostile to non-car mobility.
We've never had social interaction before the modern city /s
How Japan Airlines crew led 367 passengers to safety from a burning plane
You'd be surprised how many banks, electrical grids, oil rigs, and large ships run on old hardware. If ain't broken, you don't replace it. But keeping the system up-to-date is always a benefit.
Is 2024 the year we are going to witness the invasion of Taiwan, given how China has observed how lame the world has responded to the invasion of Ukraine?
Depends on what you want to work on. But if you’re picking data structures without understanding the implementation details, then you’re not grokking the decision but instead comparing traits you happen to know about and ignoring the ones that aren’t explicitly thought to be called out. Basically the trait everyone things about is O(1) or not. But the design space for data structures is vast and CPUs they run on complex. Heck, sometimes the available abstractions are readily available just because it provides a simple general propose API that we’ve iterated in through trial and error over a long time. That doesn’t mean that design is actually optimal for your problem. Now in many problems you might not care. But there are definitely problems where you do start to care. All your answer is saying “I work at a very high level of abstraction” which is fine for you but there is real value in being able to cut through layers of abstraction (performance, bug hunting etc) and discarding that as trivia is myopic. It may not be valuable to you but it is valuable knowledge I’ve used countless times in my career.

Think about ECS in games - that requires a knowledge of data structure that transcends big-O trait comparison to exploit CPU architecture for drastically better efficiency.

You might ignore memory allocations but the under the hood allocations can be important in some cases to make sure they play friendly. Or understanding cache impact and why using a linked list may not be a great idea. Or when sorting+searching may make more sense than just searching.

The more you know the better able you are to make effective decisions and people who work strictly in abstractions tend to be limited in their ability to solve problems that cross abstractions.
I have been in the Bay Area almost 40 years and I still enjoy intentionally dropping "Frisco" and "San Fran" and even "San Fran Frisco" to unsuspecting individuals, just to witness them cringe.

To me the whole thing just reeks of "None of the cool kids call it that!"
Because a lot of people like living in cities.

They want to visit friends, go to a museum, join a sports club, check out a book from the library, go shopping, visit a restaurant - there's way more of those in a city than in the countryside.
How is protesting an airport expansion not a protest against climate change?
Also good luck running most macOS games that were published 5-10 years ago or more and not updated. Apple really doesn't care about backwards compatibility at all which I think is a bigger issues for games than most other software. MS OTH is doing an exceptionally good job at this in comparison.
Yeah, and the assholes are the ones who expect people to move out of their way because they're bigger.
For instance this year I gutted my windows install down to a 20GB partition after moving one game I play over to Linux at a time and testing it works for a while.

Guess what... I did this after I purchased a steam deck and saw how much better proton and wine are.