skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Yeah, but it wouldn't have as far to go, since the maximum distance between any two stations is half as far on a ring city of circumference d as on a linear city of length d, and you can get even shorter if you cut across the ring.

To get the same area, you'd have to have slightly more center-line circumference on a ring city as linear distance on a line, but even so your transit distances are going to be shorter on the ring.
"Conspiracy belief" is a nonsense term.

"Conspiracy theory" is simply a pejorative label.

To ask, 'are there conspiracies?' is akin to asking 'do people lie or cheat for personal benefit?' The answer is 'yes, of course!'

The real question, is 'what is the truth?' And therein lies the problem with this research. Just because something is said to true or a lie (aka 'conspiracy theory'), how can one know it to be so? Can media or Wikipedia or anyone be assured to have the truth? Is there a bastion of truth? If 99.999% of people believe something, does that make it true?

The answer is that there is source for truth, and that no one can determine the truth for anyone else. One can only personally verify something to be true. Truth cannot be outsourced to the BBC, NYT, psychologist organisations, science studies, etc. Whether others believe things to be true has nothing to do with the underlying reality - many people can be wrong.

So, this sort of analysis comes with all sorts of illogical nonsense baked in. It assumes that certain institutions and people are truthful, that conspiracies do not occur, that people cannot act on personally verified knowledge rather beliefs, that truth is a numbers game - where what most people believe is also true.
The recommended resolution went from 512x512 to 1024x1024 in that time span :)
Just like evolution is a product of simple mistakes in DNA replication, human innovation is frequently the result of simple mistakes. So this typo is likely to result in the next big trend in automobiles: built-in hutches! I'm sure some entrepreneur is working on it now.
I'd say that using LLMs to write boilerplate falls under "automation"
> all while in the back alley local chiefs who oppose stupid and unrealistic white elephant vanity projects are executed

Can you give any keywords what to look for to read more about this?
My first thought was that it would be like a perpetuum mobile, but since heat pumps have like 400 % efficiency, it should, yes.
I don't quite get why this is downvoted;
it may not be the absolute truth, but in my personal anecdotal experience, there is quite some truth to it.
I have had a lot of fun playing around with image generation and chat gpt.

But have also had the non-surprising "Hedonistic Fatigue"
that comes with excess access to something originally valued.
I have now been able to generate 4 and 5 digit numbers
of pictures of awesome colourful steam locomotives and epic dungeon vistas,
but now find myself fatigued by "what on earth am I going to use 5000 dungeon pictures for?",
coupled with the dread of being forced to CHOOSE from 5000 options.
And I learn the known principle,
that when you can choose from 4 options, you are happy you
picked the best of 4,
but when you can pick from 5000 options,
you are left feeling inadequate with "I almost certainly was
not able to pick the best of those 5000 options,
and trying to do so would exhaust me".
So suddenly, picking something from your menu of options,
feels dreadful and fatiguing..
(I get the same feeling sometimes, when trying to pick a movie to watch
out of 16.000 options).

So yeah, no doubt the AI sketch/refinement tool will be merged into our
creative process,
but for the time being, I feel a second generation of alienation-estrangement
with my "available options".
It reminds me of CGI in the 90's. Everyone was so astounded over the quality of jurassic park and toy story, the rate of improvements was mindboggling. Predictions were made that in a few years, actors and movie studios would be obsolete. But in the meantime, audiences started to notice artifacts that were not apparent to the untrained eye - CGI was actually ugly! And here we are 30 years later - actors are still on sets.
Almost none of what you said is true. Same scale? Tempo? Same beat? You think artists are just all using the same instrumental track?

And yes it can do odd time signatures. It can do all sorts of genres like art pop, cinematic scores, ambient, math rock, avant garde, baroque, etc.
AI slop (to me) would be to pass this off as a song or something meritorious to listen to.

IMHO this and things like it are basically a sub-class of comedy or satire, so I have time for this sort of thing. It's a joke, and should (can?) only be appreciated as artistic as someone saying "Wouldn't it be funny if ... ?" because now that casual thought can be turned into a pretty instant "well here it is! LOL!".

I don't think you're supposed to appreciate it as music. Maybe I'm calling it wrong though.

(edit - I will admit that upon further thought, I'm not sure how I feel about this when compared to, for example, Nina Gordon recording "Straight Outta Compton" as an accoustic, mildly lamenting singer-songwriter style number 20-some years ago. It's clearly in the same satrical arena but one took a lot more effort and imagination. Kinda, because there was a lot of effort and imagination that went into both the training data and the model, even if this specific output was only a passing joke. It's quite hard to reason about this stuff...)
So universities (in some quite common scenarios) ARE corporate training grounds?
Here you go: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2017–2019_Saudi_Arabian_purge
He doesn't reply anymore.
Sorry to disagree, we already crossed the line where the "Her" movie could turn into a real story. To say it more clearly: It won't take a long to see people even having affective relationships with AIs.
But they do have harmful effects

https://www.nasa.gov/centers-and-facilities/armstrong/nasa-p....
The Spaghetti! https://suno.com/song/4a77dea7-19f3-46d2-8b0a-b2b7e9ea9a05/
The better way? Time & materials..

Fixed quotes work for well defined scope and mitigated unknowns. When things aren't static, when there are too many unknowns, risk (in giving a fixed price) increase, often significantly. I've seen plenty of solo-ists and agencies give the client the price they wanted and then go well into to red trying to deliver.

An alternative is to be heavy-handed in your estimate. Eye it up and 2x it, or 3x it.
>The writers have only ten seconds to persuade the reader

Sometimes they get barely even get one sentence: The article cutting to a paywall after the very first line feels accidentally prescient.
Show HN: Snake-inspired FOSS game Dungeon Rush playable in the browser
I've added controls for mobile and fixed the game running too fast in the browser initially because FPS where not limited.

Original repo: https://github.com/rapiz1/DungeonRush

My fork: https://github.com/midzer/DungeonRush/tree/emscripten
Well, they are mainstream conspiracy theories, so seems ok in the context of this discussion?
The question is what code. In preprocessed languages there can be lots of ifdefs and such for various environments and architectures.
Actually I think you're on to something.
I think most people don't appreciate how hard it is for hardware companies with established products to make non-trivial architectural changes. It's risky and it usually snowballs and becomes more risky. Especially when others in the market are already doing similar things, it downplays the change.

I love researching things too but I can't write coherently. I really enjoyed your article, thank you.
I remember that this song was linked a few days ago. I decided to then tinker around with this tool together with my colleagues (also MIT License text). The results were too funny to not share them in this context:

Our favorite: https://suno.com/song/30c5fff7-7417-42cd-b758-699854ef06d3

The extreme bassdrop: https://suno.com/song/1485e9d0-f0fb-4083-819a-bfb9db6c066a

The country: https://suno.com/song/a4307c43-0a1e-4cf2-94d7-e94a49b196d6
Comics Artist Ed Piskor Dies After Sexual Misconduct Accusations
They don't ship faster because there's no real point in doing so, besides rushing half-baked releases. The CI/CD trend has lowered the standards on release quality and long term support. It's fast-food applied to dev, I see no need to exacerbate it to cater to some trend-du-jour dogmatist.

This is a commercial anyway, the low quality articles on their blog are just trying to give some credibility.
Same with Swift
What I find most amazing is how the music changes at the start of the all caps section. Is this a completely new interpretation of what all caps means or could it have been learned from examples?
> seeing vending machines for cables. The vending machines are about the size of 6 large refrigerators next to each other. They have a large touch screen display. I'm guessing they cost $30k each or more, not including cost to develop them, network them, ongoing maintenance, etc.

Not saying that you're definitely wrong.

But machines like that are often put in free of charge to the business owner. The machine operator company puts the machines in at their own cost, and handles stocking and repairs. The business owner gets a cut of the profits for letting them use their floor space.

I haven't seen these particular vending machines. But there are generic machines with touch screens that can dispense anything that will fit in their spaces. I have seen vending machines at airports where you can buy cables, chargers, headphones, etc. The development cost is written off over many thousands of machines.

A machine dispensing cables is easier to operate and maintain than one dispensing frozen microwave dinners.

Now, there is an opportunity cost for the FAANG company, where managers have to spend some of their time setting up and maintaining a deal like this. Too many distractions from core business is not a good thing.

But working with computers, there's always some type of cable or adapter missing. It takes time to find or buy one. So I can see how it'd be nice to always be able to get what you need in-house.

> There's the real "conspiracy" on how car companies pushed for freeways and roads. Is that a "conspiracy"?

I agree. Each individual company would have an obvious interest to push for things like that. No need to secretely meet with others and hatch elaborate plans.
I quite like inheritance personally, assuming that it's done reasonably well and isn't a confusing mess.
I feel people don't understand what inheritance and (object orientation in general) is useful for, misuse it, and then it gets a bad reputation. It's not about making nice hierarchies of Cars, Fruits, and Ovals.

For me the main point is (runtime) polymorphism. E.g. you have a function that takes a general type, and you can pass multiple specific types and it will do the right thing. And if you want to avoid huge if-else statements, you should put the code for the special cases in the classes, not in each function that operates on them.

You can get this without implementation inheritance, it is also possible to just have something like interfaces. But I do find it very convenient to put common code in a base class.
Both of those look like perfect cases for composition instead of inheritance.
Yeah, I was wondering the same here. How much of Crystals feature can I use here? If it is everything then this is a game changer.
At least it’s not connected to the internet.
Also a semi religion, I'm always seeing people say before OOP everything was terrible, and everything good thing is due to OOP (eg structs, methods, polymorphism)
Spongebob's Plankton AI version of Diamonds (Rhianna) convinced me that generated vocals are suitable for professional music production.
https://youtu.be/9QV55xoOBQk
I doubt generative AI music is going to become popular as anything but background noise, but I think it will plausibly cut into various commercial uses of music in ads and whatnot.

So while I don't think people are gonna be walking around with playlists of AI slop, businesses will be using it as a cost-effective option, which means it will be eating away at the gig potential for artists in the low-to-mid layers of the food chain. Which sucks, but is thankfully less grim than everyone just preferring the AI slop for some reason.
Inheritance is not so bad for native UI stuff where it makes sense for the class libraries.

But in work code I don’t see it much. If it is used it is light weight. Often used incorrectly for splitting code into different files rather than actual inheritance (giveaway is one one derived class!)
Weird, the last post I see at that link is from the 8th of December 2023 and it's not about this.

Edit: Ah, it's the wrong link. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39986047

Thanks SushiHippie!
I assumed headless meant "api only, without ui". Feels like the Nth time I've seen this paradox.
Generally, I agree. I have found it useful for writing SQL, mapping structs, converting from JSON to CSV, etc. i.e. repetitive stuff.
Yeah, I'm really struggling to understand why a linear city is appealing. I suppose if you set a hard limit of one train line in your city, then building it along that train line might make sense.

You'd spend a lot of time on that one train line though - and I imagine in the central bits it would get really really busy as people are trying to get to the other end. And what happens if that train line breaks?

Making a city circular takes advantage of geometry - even at the cost of having to build more than one train line. It also opens up the possibility of other forms of travel - buses, bikes, cars.

It doesn't surprise me that this is starting to fall apart. When it was announced it seemed completely unhinged.
it almost feels forced
HN's "too fast" is approximately 5 comments per day. It's not Reddit.
Ask HN: What tactics have you used from "Never Eat Alone"
I just started reading this and it seems great, but I wanted to see what, if any thing, HN’ers have done differently after reading the book?
Depends on how you use it, but in Java I prefer to use interfaces and no subclassing. I find classes with abstract methods hard to reason about, and much prefer to leverage Functions/lambdas where possible.
We know, anyway, that they used untold millions of cat mummies for locomotive fuel. In other news, Egyptians mummified millions of cats.
I only tend to see inheritance in engines and libraries, where it makes sense to create more generic, reusable and composable code, since most of the functionality in these is defined by technical people.

It makes no sense to use inheritance in the business layer, because a single feature request can make a lot of the carefully crafted abstractions obsolete.
The concept of intellectual property is antithetical to how humans have progressed socially and technologically for millenia.

It's a wasteful aberration that strangles innovation with red tape and hands control of our culture over to those with the financial mean to claim to own it.

The day we wrest back that control will be a good day.
Abu Dhabi does not belong in the list with the other ones. It has been extremely well run since Zayed bin Sultan and will probably transition quite well to a post oil future.
Yes, but in my example, in the 70 classes, all the ::Read and ::Write methods must still say:

a.Read( ... )
a.Write( ... )

And depending on the use case and design, they also need methods such as:

A& GetA() { return a; );
const A& GetA() const { return a; }
He shipped too fast :)
Have you ever seen wildly over-architected OO code where everything seems to be an abstract class and it seems impossible to find out where stuff actually happens?

Inheritance is like a lot specialised tools - it can be useful in some situations but I think those are rarer than supporters might thing. Completely refusing to use inheritance and always using inheritance both seem like extreme views that should be avoided.
If you look at a human being as only a collection of atoms then there really isn't any argument against this.

If you see the human being as a vehicle for a soul then this sort of manipulation can have a counterpoint.
In the current world an "email address" is not solely (or sometimes even primarily) for delivering email, but rather an identity or username for various systems, such as for signing git commits. So a key linked to an identity (email address) does not imply in any way that this key is also used or usable for encrypted communication.
>It outlines an enrollment process by which I would signal to a WKD service that I have a key that I want to enroll into the process. The only problem is I never did that, or at least certainly can't remember doing that. I'm certainly not hosting a page with any key verification stuff.

Now, at least one statement is incorrect. Can you verify your key in your sleep?
It's commonly used among people who don't know what it means and still uncommon but valid among people who do.
Good look enforcing GDPR in Panama…
> Abu Dhabi does not belong in the list with the other ones. It has been extremely well run since Zayed bin Sultan

It's also governed differently from the others in being an oligarchy. That requirement for consensus-building and internal variation creates robustness; it gave Dubai the room to experiment, for example, with religious moderation.

It's not a view I hold too seriously. But I remember visiting the Emirates and Saudi Arabia--shortly after the Phillipines and India--and thinking to myself that the British were, in their time, far better at nation building than we've (EDIT: America) been in the post-War era.
Obviously I had to try black metal version: https://suno.com/song/e00db515-6244-4197-ab71-c8f0555aaba4
> 1. I already have an ebook library in Calibre that I access on other devices, the sync feature allows me to seamlessly integrate into my other devices.

just out of curiosity: I sync my Kindle with Calibre in a very seamless way, too. what is the main difference here?
It's polite of them to leave the glaring error in the title. Otherwise we might confuse it for a high quality article and actually read it.
My impression is the opposite, especially from when I used to work as a full-time Java dev. I often asked myself:

Is there a place outside of GUI programming where inheritance is used in non-habitual and useful way? I can't think of many.

More often than not you have a final class that you are supposed to use and the petrified hierarchy above that is of not much use.
I have vanishingly little experience, but I don't think there's a strong correlation between the cost of a medicine or treatment and its effect on health outcomes. I think it's more of a function of how rare, difficult, new (not generic or out of patent), or experimental it is.

I can see going for a more costly treatment seeming more appealing psychologically though.
But then I'm not sure what your objection is.
isn't the pronunciation wrong for sublicense and noninfringement?
Yes it was. It's a masterpiece by one of the greatest artists of all time. There's a Great Art Explained episode [1] on it that's worth a watch.

[1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ElWG0_kjy_Y
Crouch Beat: The game to save the sedentary office workers
Crouch Beat makes squats no longer boring. Ensure that the computer browser has the permission to open the camera, and moving the face from the upper part of the camera screen to the lower part can trigger the jump.
Sorry to have missed that option; I'd only been able to access the options panel once (can't find a way to display it when the menu bar words are not displayed). Perhaps an option to hide the known-language word (which would be revealed in the pop window when clicked) might help users on smaller screens.
It also avoids a lot of the bloat that e-reader OSes tend to have for vendor lock-in reasons in favour of giving you software that's actually usable. Especially if you have a slightly older device where they've quietly started to pull the plug on most of the services or have pushed OS updates to the device past the point where the specs of that device can handle it.

That alone is a big feature that makes KOreaders existence worthwhile.

The only weakness is that there's no real "true" library view as far as I could find - you're stuck using an SD card browser, which is fine for me but is a notable presentation downgrade.
I imagine a good number of stolen art ends up destroyed or abandoned/lost after a generation or two.
Solar in desert has a lot of issues including wind and sand coverage. Although the deserts of the region may seem like unchanging environments, the ecosystem and weather is hostile to solar installations (amongst other things). Moreover, solar panels become less efficient at higher sustained temperatures, which increases land and infrastructure maintenance costs.

https://eepower.com/industry-articles/is-desert-based-solar-...
If you don't test how do you know the filter works?
Do you think those destabilizing political consequences would turn out worse than the political dysfunction America has already without losing a war?

Since America almost certainly won't get attacked or invaded on its own soil, the US can't "lose" a war in the same sense Ukraine can, or Germany and Japan did. The US can lose face and influence, but I think we're used to that by now after Korea, Vietnam, and Afghanistan. We "lost" all of those wars in some sense (failed to achieve stated strategic objectives) but didn't experience destabilizing political consequences.
Considering that the DRM is so simple to strip, even from Kindle books, it's not a high bar for anyone even remotely interested in uploading it to a filesharing site.

The DRM is not saving any of these authors sales. I buy books because I want to not because DRM stopped me.
Acceleration and deceleration aren't relevant here, the limit would be passenger comfort either way.

Curved tracks do mean limits on top speed, as the centrifugal force needs to be kept below what would be uncomfortable for passengers. It also can cause some issues for building stations, as curved stations require a wider gap between the train and the platform. But neither is a blocking issue, all train tracks in the world do have curve, and curved stations aren't unusual in public transport systems.

The grandparent probably means disk, not ring-shaped when mentioning circles anyway. Pick any 2 point at random into a 33km² circle, the average distance will be 4km, and worst case scenario 6km. Do the same thing in a 33km², 200m-wide "line", the average distance will be 85km, with a worst case of 170km. A circular city doesn't need nearly as much raw speed for it's public transport to be more efficient than transport in a nonsensical linear city could ever be, even if you throw in ridiculously fast trains and sprinkle magical AI thinking.

It's not a coincidence that all major cities are roughly circular even though they are built around roughly linear features (navigable rivers and/or coast line). It's just what naturally works.
We keep the data around for exactly as long as required to fulfill the purposes stated in the policy. If we kept it around longer, the policy would say so.

This is not a "cover your corporate ass" legalese privacy policy, it's intended to be clear and understandable. We also did check it with a lawyer specialized on privacy.

Of course if you don't like it, you're free to not use our community service :)