skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Probably the Salesforce Transit Center.

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

It's a somewhat shiny bus terminal near downtown San Francisco which is now actually used a lot (though it would have been used a lot more if not for COVID and work-from-home). It has a basement level prepared for the California High-Speed Rail (the original subject of the article we're discussing) but it doesn't connect to Caltrain, BART, or Muni Metro, although the latter two are a relatively short walk away.
>>So, if they're saying it'll cost another $100B to complete, the real cost is probably $250B. If they say it'll be done by 2030, it'll probably be 2035 at the earliest. And that's fine. As a country we need to stop thinking in the short term. Unless we want to start acting like China and just bulldoze our way across the country regardless of property owners, residents and the environment, this is how it has to be.

At this dismal level of spending efficiency, the US would go bankrupt long before it matches China's scale of public works construction. So if the choice is between falling behind China as an industrial power, or exercising eminent domain, and sidelining environmental regulations and labor unions, to get infrastructure built like China, the choice is easy. Build the way China does.

Every major US city being connected by high speed rail lines would have innumerable benefits far exceeding the costs associated with rapid construction.
> So many cool ideas are being developed by the community. Here are some of my favorites.

> Batch inference optimization: FlexGen, llama.cpp

> Faster decoder with techniques such as Medusa, LookaheadDecoding

> Model merging: mergekit

> Constrained sampling: outlines, guidance, SGLang

So essentially a handful of people are doing God's work. They have deep knowledge on modeling and optimization, and they build amazing libraries for millions of mortals. On the other hand, it'll be hard for an engineer to work on training frameworks or building models with new knowledge or new capabilities (except some small-scale finetuning) or optimization in general -- the hardware cost for doing such work is prohibitive to such engineers.
I think the problem I've noticed is - the furniture that is built to last very frequently fails the partner test - "that looks like old fart stuff".

Same sort of issue with cool remote controls. For example, la-z-boy has pretty good controls - remotes have better designs, have lots of adjustments, and motors seem to move faster. And they too fail the partner test - "that looks like old fart stuff"

I kind of like some stressless recliners.

oh, there is one class of furniture that has a lot of control - the massage chairs. Except they seem to be furniture you want to hide from everyone, they fail the "normal human being" test.

maybe I need to know pointers to other furniture/designs?
I love the attention to detail here, like any customer ever has navigated to this page trying to find out how to give consent to having their data collected.
Radiologists work as part of a system that saves lives, high level "engineers" work in companies that push ads and collect + sell data on their users
Postgres is eating the database world
Well that's kind of cool to log in and see on HN. This is right next door to where I live in Bend.

A few suggestions in that part of Oregon:

* Close to Bend, you can visit the Pine Mountain Observatory, which is open to the public in the summer. https://pmo.uoregon.edu/visiting/ - at 6000 feet, and far from anything, the views of the night sky even without telescopes are amazing. And the staff there point the scopes at interesting sights and explain what they are.

* Further out, Steens mountain and that area is incredible. It's one of the most remote parts of the US outside of Alaska.

* The Christmas Valley area has a lot of interesting things like Fort Rock, Crack-in-the-Ground, Hole-in-the-Ground and the sand dunes.
You often convert units while driving?

What would be an example of unit conversion you need to get done while en route?
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This should really be a requirement for bio type related generative methods rather than a nice-to-have. A very high percentage of compounds generated by genai type methods have been shown not to work as intended. Anything without wetlab validation should really be taken with a large grain of salt
MM1: Methods, Analysis and Insights from Multimodal LLM Pre-Training
I take it you're not from CA. Anyone who lives here has seen Caltrans workers, and instantly understands why it costs so much to do so little. If you don't have at least 5 people standing around the hole watching 1 guy dig, it isn't Caltrans work.
I'm not good at finding fire hydrants either.
Maybe he's a bad guy, but prison is worse than you think, and probably doesn't fit the crime here. Imnsho.
I just bought a sofa 6 months ago. It was my first time buying a big piece of furniture from a proper furniture store. It's (allegedly) American made. It is one of those pull-out queen bed convertible things, and that part is fantastic. The couch is nearly identical to the pull-out-bed couches I see in hotels. The only difference is the fabric. The bed mechanism is rock solid, but the couch itself is creaky and the cushions are already noticeably deformed. It's like they wrapped a great, tried-and-true bed mechanism inside a much shittier couch. It's clearly a step above Wayfair detritus, and I certainly didn't break the bank to get it, but I'm still a little disappointed.
> They care about being the ones to capitalize on space first.

that's fine - because exploration is a useful side-effect of "capitalizing" space.

The problem with gov't funded public works projects is that everyone involved knows it's gov't funded, and adds their own margin on top. Not to mention the land acquisition gets more expensive over time - both purely due to inflation, as well as the idea that the land owner could squeeze more juice out the later the project is in (after all, if you're the sole "hold-up", you could squeeze the gov't for your land at above market rates and they'd have to pay or lose the entire project!).

It is really a result of freedom of the individuals in america (vs their gov't) compared to places like china.

You don't get to overcharge for your work as a "contractor" in china - you work for the state-owned company that employs you at a fixed wage.

The land is always something the gov't can just take as imminent domain, and pays you what the gov't thinks is fair compensation (which, of course, is going to be lower than market cost, as you are forced to accept it).

Lastly, those "pesky" environmental reviews in the US doesn't really exist in china. At best they get rubber stamped.

While the result of china's infrastructure development is definitely impressive, those who had to eat the hidden cost exist, but is powerless to stop it. Hopefully they also get to enjoy the fruits of the infrastructure, and that it outweighs the cost paid by them.
Managerial bloat is a side effect of ridiculous anti-growth legislation and nimbyism.
Siri's bad, that's not the same thing as the claim (there's an Apple executive who is so worried about AI becoming super intelligent that they hold it back)
Exactly. It's that damned JS "class" keyword! ...right?
There was another AI/browser automation project posted yesterday that got to the front page https://github.com/lavague-ai/LaVague

I guess the main advantage of this new project is that its probably more accurate by using computer vision, but as others has said it uses much more resources.

Costs will come down over time though.

Get ready for alot of "Back Office" jobs to be automated away.
Depends on the level of chaser. One professional that I know has reinforced his windows to survive hail and other potential debris. He's now to the point where he has sponsors, so his car has vinyl wraps and damn near looks like it would be at home at a NASCAR event.
See my post elsewhere here about Pine Mountain Observatory. It's not quite that high, but they have telescopes and knowledgeable staff to explain what you're looking at.
> The solution here is breaking up the existing holding companies like Meta and YouTube into separate corporations so there are more independent platforms, and putting forward stronger public utility rules.

I agree with this idea. However, if those social networks are regulated like public utilities how would they prevent meddling by the U.S. gov't just like China has meddled with TikTok via censoring/bannding user's/etc? A public utility social network would basically be beholden to the current administration by proxy would it not?
With a self directed IRA you can buy pretty much anything. No you don't have to be an accredited investor, and even if you do, under trump's tax rules you just need to pass a test.
this is recent https://www.nature.com/articles/s41467-023-38824-8

Progress is being made however admittingly it is very slow.

Cryonics research has significantly less funding than any other type of longevity research (probably 100x, 1000x?) When I called Cryonics Institute I was told they received less than $1,000 in donations during 2023. Compare that to SENS or Methuselah Foundation there is huge disparity. I believe with more funding we would see a lot more progress.
FWIW one can skip Preview and just do Cmd-Shift-3, click the thumbnail, and interact with the text in the quicklook. Then, delete the image (trashcan in top right). Cmd-A works, too. Here's me using it on that comment: https://imgur.com/a/q0NvcS6
When replacing screws in soft material, I slowly turn them to the left to feel when they drop into the existing thread rather than making new grooves. And in my experience, IKEA furniture reassembles fine multiple times. You also have to make sure such screws are and remain tight, because if they start getting loose that working back and forth will destroy the threads of the softer material. If a piece of furniture isn't solid, figure out why and shore it up before it gets progressively worse.
I think the only holes left from the big dig that haven't been filled are in the MBTA's budget from the imaginative financing used to make it happen. The actual physical digging and stuff is all done.

And it made Boston a habitable city.

https://www.boston.com/cars/untagged/2015/01/05/can-we-talk-...
It doesn’t seem like he was punished for litigating in bad faith but rather for lying about his grandfather dying. Lying to a judge is about the worst thing a practicing attorney can do.
Imagine all your streaming video or calls froze for a few seconds every hour for days on end. 9 hours in one continuous outage is fine, constant short outages are infuriating.
HSR between LA and SF will never be able to compete with air travel, especially with how many stupid stops they are planning on.

A flight takes ~1hr, plus another hour for TSA and whatnot. Rail will take several hours at best. Unless rail significantly undercuts the cost of a flight (which can be had for extremely cheap these days) people just aren't going to use it.
I’m not sure if that’s meant to be a success story or not.

125MPH is the max speed of the train. It runs the route at an average of 67mph, end to end.

Adult tickets start at $79 for a 235 mile ride.

That’s about $0.33/mile, which is cheaper than driving with only two people in the car. With three, it’s cheaper to drive.

Ridership is over 2 million per year, which seems good. (Ten years at that ridership means the track construction cost $300 per passenger trip though. No idea how much maintenance has cost.)

However, overseas, the older trains are averaging well over 100mph, and the new workhorse trains routinely run faster than 200 mph.

For a train and tracks completed in 2013, I’d expect the 235 mile trip (6 stops; say, 4 minutes per stop: 235 mph top speed) to take about 90 minutes; 100 minutes figuring in time to accelerate and decelerate 6 times.

It takes 3.5 hours. That’s probably slower than a car.

Also, according to wikipedia, the system is incredibly unsafe (by train standards).
Oops thanks. Should have checked my link but it feels like I only looked at it a couple months ago.
Levelized costs refer to the costs the owner of the asset has to pay. For grid solar that’s liekly the utility company, but it’s definitely not you. For your own solar you’re the owner.

It’s the minimum breakeven sell price for the owner. except you don’t pay the utilities that price. You are also charge, at a minimum, transmission and distribution fees.

Further, the grid isn’t 100% solar and electricity prices are dictated by a variety of factors, lcoe being an estimate for the floor of each asset.
The manuals for the utilities like awk etc. are still very helpful and clear, a bit dated but can help you learn the basics. I remember the ads and now wish I had bought Coherent back in the day as it would have accelerated my Unix learning.
Furniture in the normal "furniture store" price ranges are built for price-sensitive markets with economies of scale. If you really want measurably higher quality furniture, you're probably going to want to look at brands with pricing an order of magnitude higher. This quality of furniture typically does not sell at high volume, so it is often only at specialty retailers, or is made-to-order.

A good place to start in my opinion is with the well regarded office-furniture brands, Herman Miller, Steelcase, Hon, etc. They are well experienced in making furniture that can handle abuse, because commercial furniture takes a lot of abuse. And as far as durability goes, they make durable furniture in the highest volumes and have the most reasonable prices you're going to get.
I was using something like this for awhile, but I found tesseract did poorly quite often. That resize trick didn't seem to affect much. I'm not sure what pre-processing would make it better.

I'd love to if TextSnatcher does anything to improve on this. The github page is opaque.
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This is only true if Google never release old private keys for DKIM signatures, which various people have been campaigning for them to do in order to provide long-term deniability around DKIM-signed mails.
Yeah, I noticed that at some point last year. This is my first vehicle with CarPlay, so I’m not sure how it works in other vehicles, but with mine the CarPlay interface completely replaces the infotainment display. The car will also show the current media in the cluster, but it’s a few clicks away and not what I had configured. I finally realized that the car was still able to see what I was listening to with CarPlay when I navigated back to the car’s default Home Screen while idling one day and saw the name of my book playing in the car’s native media app.
Nat-birthday-paradox: birthday paradox applied to NAT traversal
Heh.

There are several independant accounts of Elagabalus, his behaviour is as well documented as any of those times to be sure.

That said, for context, he was hardly representative being described as "showing a disregard for Roman religious traditions and sexual taboos", claimed as having replaced "the traditional head of the Roman pantheon, Jupiter, with the deity Elagabal, of whom he had been high priest".

Most tellingly he lived fast and was assassinated at just 18 years of age.

I have no axe to grind here, it's a great little story from history; it should be made clear that both Nero and Elagabalus were relatively rare flamboyant exceptions to the norms of Roman leaders.
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I've spent large amounts of time in other countries. America is an absolute embarrassment.

There are countries you can go where it feels like the government actually cares about trying to help people have a better life. There are countries where infrastructure projects get completed. There are countries where infrastructure isn't just completed, it's good. There are countries where the administrative overhead of health care is 2% instead of (a likely underestimated) 25%.

You can't fix infrastructure policy, or any other policy, in America without first fixing campaign finance reform.

As long as senators and justices can be openly bought and sold there is no hope of getting responsible leadership that acts in the interests of citizens.

Very good video explaining the core issue of American politics by Harvard Law professor and founder of creative commons Lawrence Lessig-- Our democracy no longer represents the people: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PJy8vTu66tE
This is a very valid point.

You can see this at play with the support of the Ukraine. Billions are being tossed around but how much 'punch' does that dollar have when it reaches the frontline? Does it even get there at all? Is 10B in American aid even close to 10B in Estonian aid?
Most of the transportation budget goes to lowering the capacity of commuter corridors (car and public transit) in the cities, and devising ever-more-dangerous non-standard bike lanes.
Breaking Wi-Fi Passwords with Intel Arc Graphics Cards (2023)
Discussion a couple of months ago: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38594866
There is a new (2020) interesting "sun diver solar sail" proposal which could get all the way to Voyager 1 in two to three years.

Article: https://www.universetoday.com/148241/want-the-fastest-solar-...

Paper: https://arxiv.org/pdf/2009.12659.pdf

Interview with paper’s author: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=W-E83lC-eN0
That’s a rather strong claim against batteries given that they are already being used to large degrees in the power grid. And that they can fill the niche of very rapid response times, unlike the other listed options.

As is placing hydrogen in the cheap category.
Bring down the infra or foot you a 6 figures bill at the end of the month
The mattress one is a bit of an interesting one.

It's actually illegal to sell a used mattress in the US - and there are very legitimate public health reasons for the being the case. You can't really clean one - that's especially true of foam, and they can be riddled with lice, bedbugs, and all kinds of creepy crawlies.
They've been sued multiple times for it, including by the New York Times.
The thing is, antique stores are stuffed to the gills with heirloom class furniture, and it doesn’t cost 100x the amount. Gorgeous solid cherry, mahogany, etc, where even the backs and drawer bottoms are solid can be had for a song. We recently tried to find a mostly solid wood IKEA dresser, but because they’re switching all their designs to new anti-tip designs over the next few months, almost everything was out of stock. So we decided to look a bit further afield, and we went to our local antique shop. We ended up spending $600 for a totally refinished solid cherry dresser, delivered into our room. It’s stunning, totally solid cherry, and I think slightly less expensive than the IKEA dresser we were trying to get. Not spending 2 hours cranking screws was a really nice bonus.
I take stimulants for idiopathic hypersomnia and ironically they give me ADHD like symptoms. It’s much harder to concentrate on a single task when I’m on them.
The article essentially says--whether this is a good idea or not--that GTK is the one hold-out, which I wasn't really expecting as a punchline; why is GTK not implementing this?
Why it's hard for your laptop to switch from one router to another
Wait a minute. How does on device bridge work? Say WhatsApp?
my proposed fixed: election reform so we can have representatives that actually serve the people
…on the straight away of lap one. The top trim model 3 performance best time around the green hell is like 9 minutes. There are factory Porsches that will do it in under 7.

This is a very ironic comment to have made in a thread about how cheap things aren’t as good as they seem once you look a bit deeper.
That it is, which means you should already know that fair use is more complex than simply "was it transformative" and that fair use is enforced on a case by case basis. We sure are learning a lot about the law these days!
not really, your brain will be full of pains accumulated over years, LOL
Some vids attacks from adacic1033 vids library backup
I think more than a bit of it is typical American trademark laziness and inability to follow directions. I see so many of the bookcases without the backing sheet on them. Even if it's just thin cardboard, it provides a lot more of the structural integrity than you might think. The point is to keep the cubes from deforming and having a progressive failure.
They probably read copies from their libraries.
The OP didn't mention LCoE. The comparison was based on quote "the price they pay for power from the grid". That price includes transmission overhead, retail markup and government charges, all of which the "individual" who installs their own power plant avoids.

And he's usually right, although I'm not so sure of the "dramatic" bit. It's why people who own their own houses in a sunny location save money by installing solar.
"...And they shall know no fear."

https://imgur.com/a/5oMQhEu
Documentation is extraordinarily difficult to create. You need to anticipate the potential questions and answer them and anticipate all the potential perspectives and answer them from that perspective.

What is enough? A reference describing all of a thing? The source code to a thing? The source code and build chain to make the thing? The source code, build chain, source code to the build chain to build the build chain to build the thing? The source code and the machine and the tape drive to read the tapes to build the ....

How much documentation for TOPS-10 would you need to implement wireguard on a toad? How much context do you need to even make that sentence even make any sense at all?
As ridiculous as that is, claiming his grandfather died as an excuse then claiming the court lacked jurisdiction and decorum by asking for proof is really something.

Damn.
Interesting enough I made a chrome extension that does almost exactly what you are describing. It’s called automize and it lets you very quickly generate custom selectors and export the code to puppeteer, playwright, selenium etc. it handles all the verifications as well as provides a handy ui that shows what you are selecting
Crazy idea: We could have a train corridor from Sacramento to Oakland, then San Jose and Los Angeles, then run a ferry between SF and Oakland.

Oh wait, we had exactly that, and then ripped it out / prioritized freight on it.

I don’t see why they don’t just imminent-domain the tracks, and straighten them so the existing amtrak trains could run at their top speed on them (125mph vs today’s 60mph if I remember right).

They could even run frequent commuter trains within cities at rush hour.

Later, they could upgrade the trains and tracks, until it’s ratcheted up to modern speeds (> 200 mph) in remote areas.
I find it quite astounding that there are already over 900 open source AI tools (and from the article, it doesn't sound like these are all mainly clones/forks of each other.)