skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> Rail systems work in Europe because densities are extremely high.

Rail systems work in Europe because European cities have decent local transit/walkability. Rail systems are challenging in the US because the US invested heavily in destroying local transit and walkability for a mixture of reasons (auto industry influence, deliberate attempts at de facto racial segregation, especially in the wake of pressures against de jure segregation, and some other reasons), so once you get somewhere by rail you can’t get anywhere else, unless the train station wastes a whole lot of space – and airports already do, but its less of a burden for them because airports need to be pretty sprawling to start with — having giant parking lots for round trip passengers and rental cars and for access to serve as giant road transport (bus, taxi, rideshare) hubs.

Which is why you can’t just build long-range passenger rail in the US, you have to also build or significantly upgrade local transit networks at the termini and intermediate stops and also deal with the local development patterns in all those places (you don’t have to do it all at once, but if you don’t, you have to accept that you aren’t getting all the benefits until you do.)

And you are going to be fought the whole way by forces that recognize the connections and oppose any part of it, for any of the reasons the status quo exists as it does.
The way the Buy America rules work, there’s a certain percentage of work that has to be done in the US, and the rest can be done overseas. My understanding is that Stadler does most of the higher-skill work in Switzerland with its existing workforce, ships the components to Utah, and does final assembly there. Basically they do the bare minimum in the US that’s required under the law, so I’m not sure that this transfers a huge amount of domain expertise to the US workforce.
Arbitrary-precision real-number libraries would disagree with you there.
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Having just completed a CP/M 3.0 BIOS for my homebrew Z80 machine, I am in awe at the amount of planning and foresight that went into it. The fact that you can write a piece of custom code in 2024 (for hardware that didn't even exist back then) and link it with the Digital Research binaries from the 70's to have a fully-functional and compatible O/S that is able to run almost any software written for CP/M in the past 40 years is just crazy.

Unlike CP/M 2.x, CP/M 3 allows for banked memory and disk data/directory buffers, resulting in a lot more usable memory for applications (Transient Program Area) and faster disk access. Although with an SD/CF card, the CPU is more the bottleneck than the disk I/O.

The project was both nostalgic and informative - trying to maintain performance while counting every byte of code has shed some great insights into low-level O/S design.
Not at all. The living can know of this program, and know that this is true of them. It just seems like you're not a very spiritual or sentimental person when it comes to this topic, but I don't see how these statements contradict each other at all.
Not sure what your point is but Apple also claims up to 8.4x faster than Python:

https://i.imgur.com/CZ6vTZV.png
Cruise to resume robotaxi operations with small human-driven fleet in Arizona
Vampires?
You should probably use a specialized DB for analytics (a.k.a. OLAP DB) anyway. As long as you have an automated way of replicating data from SQLite to your OLAP DB, everything should be fine.
Again, every time I've seen that folks make non-portable assumptions about the environment.
I genuinely wonder whether such a thing is possible without a single centralized political party and severely limited avenues to disagree with the plan.
Kind-of, you can typically get rechargeable lithium versions of the same form factor as alkaline batteries, as well as the fact that many "proprietary" batteries like digital camera batteries are actually pretty common and standard, or widely available. For example, if you design a device to take standard gopro batteries, that will be easy to get for a long time. Standard button cells, which have been lithium for a long time, can be obtained in rechargeable versions.

However a major issue is that the charging circuitry/method/design is not standard for rechargeable versions of non-rechargeable standard batteries. So you often need to remove it and charge it with a charging system from the battery manufacturer instead of charging in place.
I've had a few gadgets -- for example, an Instax bluetooth instant photo printer -- that ran off of batteries originally introduced by Nokia for phones around 2000 (BLC-1/2), including charging them. I doubt many people buy them for their Nokia 3310 these days, but they're readily available from many manufacturers[1]. I think some old Canon DSLR battery form factor is used similarily.

[1] Many manufacturers, possibly a single factory somewhere in China.
You could write your SQL in SQL.
The fiber optics are also extremely power hungry. For short runs people use direct attach copper cables to avoid having to deal with fiberoptics.
Yes, because PTC systems never fail.
Ugh.
I wonder if with the advent of LLMs being able to spit out perfect corpo-speak everyone will recenter to succint and short "here's the gist" as the long version will become associated to cheap automated output.
> that can be done

It can be done, but it is very expensive. A 8 mi mountain railway tunnel like Wienerwald cost around $400m to build. That same amount could literally be spent to expand the Altamount Corridor Express railway (ACE) into downtown San Jose, thus having an impact in a closely integrated metropolitan area of 10m residents.

Why spend that (and much more) money integrating two cities that aren't even that closely tied from a commuting standpoiint.

Only 2.2 million people travel between Greater LA and the Bay Area annually, but 5.5 million travel between San Jose and San Francisco annually.

Clearly there is some demand for LA-SF connectivity, but it's hard to justify.
I don't know when, but I can tell you where, Argentina. It's been operating under the premise that their borrowing won't create inflation for the last 100 years.

The recently departed government still claims that their borrowing wasn't the cause of the problem.
They tried that--and found abortion was a far bigger factor than lead.
Some have higher inmate propensities than others. ;)
Any evidence of any physical phenomena is probablystic? Maybe this is true of you go deep enough into mathematical/philosophical/quantum rabbit holes, but it doesn't pass the intuitive smell test - I could off-hand name tens of physical phenomena that will perform as expected 100% of the time, deterministic physics (on the macro scale, at least) are like the entire basis for the scientific method.
They run a proprietary SaaS called jetpack that injects a lot of tracking into otherwise self hosted wordpress blogs.
I agree with you - about the sentiment around the GenAI megaphone.

FWIW, Chronon does serve context within prompts to personalize LLM responses. It is also used to time-travel new prompts for evaluation.
I was looking for something similar recently and had found CogAgent[0] that looks quite interesting, has anyone tried anything similar?

0. https://github.com/THUDM/CogVLM?tab=readme-ov-file#gui-agent...
Most childhood prodigies don't end up being all that different from the average person as an adult, and of course no one's born with the knowledge of some revolutionary discovery in their head.

While all of us have things we find easier to do than the average person, short of a literal mental disability, we can build up skills in things we are not good at through practice. I used to barely pass in math class and didn't even understand the concept of negative numbers until 8th grade. A year of practicing daily for 2 hours after school, and my fundamentals had gotten good enough that I unknowingly derived a calculus-based solution to some problems I was stuck at, 2 grade levels before when I'd actually start learning calculus and got to skip a year as a result.

Similarly, I've been teaching myself to draw despite having been pretty terrible at it and discovering how 'deliberate' most professional artists have to be with practice and building skills.

I think it's pretty common for people to write off their inability to do something as just a lack of innate ability, when it's really just that no one really sees the struggle anyone famous for their work/skill has gone through to get there.
Yes, that is next on our roadmap.
That’s a fair point.

Perhaps Lisbon (and PT in general) should focus its efforts on levelling up its economic activity in to higher value areas. The time I’ve spent in PT all people talk about is the negative impacts of tourism and not improving the wider economy. There seems to be a very conservative mindset.

But that’s probably from a thin slice of exposure.
Can you support your main claim? Privacy Sandbox has settings for publishers, SSPs, DSPs, and consumers to opt in/out of the solutions. It is not perfect. I would want zero tracking and zero advertising in an ideal world. Today, sandbox is in 1% of all browsers. Someone with Sandbox experience can correct me if I am wrong.

I am curious. How do you view 3P cookies from a consumer perspective? My mom would consider those a dark pattern without transparency or control for ads or general tracking. What about sharing your phone number with any entity? How do you feel about Apple's tracking transparency where it removes data from app developers but Apple retains data for itself or Apple's private click measurement?
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"It's just one additional requirement; it won't break the bank"....this logic, applied over and over by building construction regulators for the past few decades, is an underappreciated but important contributor to the housing affordability crisis. Everyone talks about zoning, but building codes, etc are a big issue too.
Notably Fairphone removed the headphone jack on their phones so that they could sell us these wireless earbuds. I appreciate that the battery is replacable on these buds, but not worth it imo! After all, wired earbuds don't even need batteries. :(
I think the basic assumption is some kind of change to the laws of physics and thus transistor frequency scaling otherwise it’s effectively just asking what it was like in the past. So dropping 6GHz 64 bit chips to 300 MHz doesn’t imply everything else is the same and where just using 32bit PII era hardware.

Similarly rather than NVMe 2TB SSD’s at 6000 MB/s we could have 2TB SSD’s at 300 MB/s. Which then opens the door for even more extreme differences.

If the “PIII was a 12 ^core^ CPU at 500 MHz” that’s quote odd by historic standards.
TSMC's plans are proceeding ahead of schedule, should be operation by the end of the year:

https://www.datacenterdynamics.com/en/news/tsmc-updates-ariz...

So we should hopefully see soon!

It's kind of funny to me how little the media is reporting on both the extremely major legislation that happened over the past 4 years, as well as news like this.

It's almost like they'd prefer to do silly culture war stuff rather than report on substantive matters with billions of dollars of subsidy and substantial progress for the US.
Right, clock speed seems like a distraction to me.

A 20x reduction really isn't that significant in a historical context. Gray beards here have seen CPU performance increase by 200x or more over their computing careers since the late 80s or early 90s. And that is ignoring multicore/SMP gains.

I found this nice figure trying to summarize CPU performance trends over many decades: https://www.researchgate.net/figure/CPU-performance-Historic...

Prognostication depends on other unstated assumptions about the market or fundamental technological limitations. Generally, I'd say that if the single CPU core trend was more flattened, we would have seen more emphasis on parallel methods including SIMD, multicore, and the kinds of GPGPU architecture we're already familiar with.

The kind of programming model that is at the heart of CUDA, OpenCL, etc is exactly what the high-performance numerical computing researchers were using back in the late 80s to early 90s when computers were much slower. They were simply applying it to exotic multi-socket SMP machines and networks of computers, rather than arrays of processors on a single massive chip.
The wikipedia page list a full pages of li ion battery sizes

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_battery_sizes
Here’s how I see it.

The web should rely on open standards to cultivate innovation and improvement. Having a separate entity would save the project from constant internal battles with other Google products and outside accusations of favoritism. My hope that being an independent entity, browser projects can push for further enhancements. For example, I’m very confused and frustrated about the fact that there is no standard to say “do not track me” that prevents those ugly popups. I already made my decision about ads, why should I repeat it for every website while the browser can enforce it. Just like the location preferences etc.

I do acknowledge however that like any other open source project, the funding would be a great issue.
That works quite well, but I had to repeat it a few months later. I recommend cleaning also the other stick as the plastic in the DS4 casing can break from opening it too often.
Which was written by Lina Khan, (now) the current chair of the FTC. Very pointed.
> but I'm regularly forced into what's apparently called "Google Cloud's operations suite" to grovel through logs

Is this google cloud logging? If so, personally I quite like it, especially for looking through logs from multiple sources at the same time. Being able to put all your logs through there, and then search them with a simple query language, feels very convenient.
I think there are ways to address trauma that don’t involve divorcing yourself from reality or forgiving someone who doesn’t deserve it.
This is a terrible perspective. Por que no los dos?
No, it does not -- but it fixes at least one aspect of short-term rentals having a structural advantage supporting them undercutting hotels. Back when it seemed that AirBnBs were pretty consistently cheaper than hotels (esp when accounting for space), part of that comes from service differences (self-check-in, no onsite staff), but part came from "unfair" legal and regulatory differences -- your AirBnB could be in place where zoning wouldn't allow a hotel, your AirBnB wasn't paying this 2-digit tax, etc.
> What an absurd headline. If the island somehow disappeared, they would soon find out that the "entire island" was not in fact backed up.

I totally agree, it's the kind of grandiose exaggeration I've come to expect from SV culture. In reality, they scanned 40,000 documents and 60,000 images.
I absolutely LOATH it when people post a video instead of a document or deck (except in cases when they need to demo something) because they essentially offload the work onto the audience. Obviously there are exceptions, but in general writing an update requires the author plan what they want to communicate. In my experience, off-the-cuff Loom videos are often rambling and verbose, and leave it to the viewer to synthesize. On top of that, videos are harder to scan, harder to search, and require headphones or a quiet space to be consumed.
I'm wondering if this Dilbert was prophetic https://imgur.com/a/JB5g9Fx
This video demonstrates using LM Studio to run an LLM on an RX 7600XT 16gb so you should be able to run it on an RX 6900XT:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VXHryjPu52k
that doesn't sound anything like the extraordinary claim made earlier.
It might be difficult to steal First Class flyers, their opportunity cost is mileage rewards which can be used anywhere in the world the alliance accepts them. The train company might have to join that alliance and offer those rewards too, but would likely be opposed by the airlines it competes with.
I haven't replaced a pair of AirPods other than wanting upgraded models.
"Eschew flamebait. Avoid generic tangents."

We detached this subthread from https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39980210.
You should try https://github.com/alfateam/rdb

It is database agnostic. It works with sqlite, mssql, mysql, postgres, oracle, and sapase.

It gives you full intellisense without code generation - even when running pure javascript.

You can run it from the browser in a secure manner, as you can host it in express js via adapter.

I am the author.
I assume they're recovered, cleaned and sterilized, and offered for sale after slaughter.
I've been tracking this closely, I don't know if I should wait to buy one in a year or so when the technology is available or buy one now so I get a cheap saw. I am not a cabinet maker so it would be for various building projects (like finish work).
Another cynical take would be that SawStop has secretly invested heavily in a saw blade manufacturers to profit from more blades being destroyed when the stop event occurs.
There is(was?) a restaurant in Los Angeles called “Mao’s Kitchen”. I wonder if they’d be able to pull off “Pol’s Pot” or “Hitler’s Schnitzel” as easily without people objecting.
I built a SaaS for hosted GitLab runners and got a subscription.
Yes, but as you say they're faster and about the same cost.

> Make train travel cheaper, reliable, comfortable, and to places that people actually want to go, and people will take them. Of course some of these problems are much harder to fix than others.

How?
Paywalled for me
It's not really in their interests: Apple pushes developers towards developing native applications in Swift that target their platforms.

In contrast, Microsoft has a very healthy web development platform. Edge allows debugging in-browser Javascript and C# (via WASM) in Visual Studio.
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> We'll also learn how to use the official Sony Psy-Q libraries

Is there not a cleanroom SDK for the PS1? I doubt Sony cares too much at this point, but selling a course which relies on leaked proprietary tools still feels a bit dicey.

The Portal N64 demake got shut down because it used the leaked N64 SDK rather than cleanroom tools.
I thought technically BAR is the OSS heir of Total Annihilation (which then Supreme Commander later developed).

Only 2 sides, no unique Experimental units, etc.

That being said, it's a great FOSS game and really captures the genre feel of epic scale.
Assuming there is a maintainability premium, €150 seems too little for great earbuds.

I got attached to my AirPods Max. They allow me to have meetings next to people who are also in meetings. Even if they are in the same meeting.
As the spelling "Yolŋu" attests, I guess IPA goes a long way towards allowing dictionaries for non-alphabetic languages. (It's well known that the polynesians lost the t/k distinction moving eastward, in between settling Tahiti and Hawai'i, but at one point it occurred to me that missionaries moving westward might also have gotten better at transcription?)

When I was into The Expanse's Lang Belta (a creole), I was following BBC Pidgin: https://www.bbc.com/pidgin to get some feel for the possible antecedents. (UK:"Most read" = Pidgin:"De one we dem de read well well") Just to complicate things, what gets called "Hawai'ian Pidgin" is actually a creole as well, eg: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R15IQAVT7Rg (Is the use of "Aunty" parallel between this and Oz cultures?)

I'm just a fan. Thanks very much for the pointers into a new set of cultures* for me; up until now I've been enjoying cultural appropriations (consider the platypus!) in the other direction, eg polka acca dacca: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n_gtGfAail4 (and songlines I only discovered today while trying to figure out what the Oz equivalent of the https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Inuksuk might be)

* so far these mobs have been using a basketball court as an impromptu community centre/dance floor, which I guess they share even with very highly produced numbers, like "Baby One More Time"? As basketball had yet to be invented, earlier germans contented themselves with dancing around lime trees: https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tanzlinde
Automattic very rarely shuts down any products they acquire, so I'd certainly be less concerned with them as the buyer compared to another company. (Their failure mode for acquisitions tends to be underresourcing them and letting them stagnate, not actually shutting them down.)
> when competitors point out the superiority of their own product, are they also often correct?

I would say they are in fact usually correct about the specific point they're making. However, it's also common for them to be drawing attention to the dimensions on which their product is better, which may not be the same as the dimensions that matter most to customers. They may be reporting selective truths and making correct-but-mostly-irrelevant points. This also goes for criticizing competitors, of course.
Course looks really cool, just wish it wasn't $100 but I know that's unrealistic to expect. It seems most people who want to get into video game programming are poor.
The ability to train against powerful computer programs have indeed elevated the level of play in many games
Hey,

I double checked. I don't really see an issue. The only specific thing that affects 2023 is that I removed the users seen / last seen in 2024 (since it is not complete year). The aggregation is simple also: count the users first seen, grouped by year. count the users last seen, grouped by year.

There was a separate issue though (I didn't filter out the "dead" and "deleted" stories / comments). I fixed that and updated the article. Some values changed, but the patterns and conclusions stands.
> There is nothing stopping us from doing the same thing

Well what's stopping us is:

1. prioritization of private property ownership over every other possible measure of societal health, people can drag out these projects fighting over the land in court for decades

2. government cronyism isn't even organized enough to stomp out the issues with #1 using eminent domain, because all the small fractious governments of states and local municipalities are working against each other to each win the cronyism battle. at least in more centralized governments, the cronysim is organized enough to get the project done while skimming 75% of the money off the top.
yes there are multiple, such as https://github.com/Lameguy64/PSn00bSDK
Loki OSS is just a sales pitch for their managed service. It doesn't work well without dedicating significant time tweaking and configuring it. Documentation is confusing at best if you want to do anything serious. You have to also be ready to handle support calls if you open it up for others to use, because it WILL have issues fairly regularly if you have a good volume of logs and query range is more than a day or two.

Unless you have the bank to go with their managed service, don't bother.
I think it's more like "how much is a 0.03% risk of losing a finger worth?"
Acquisitions go mostly wrong and the buyer usually kills of side projects - $200 gone.
Eco-friendly startups are turning to treeless toilet paper
Multipoint Bluetooth (which these feature) covers my use case 95% of the time. The gist is that certain headphones can connect to 2 Bluetooth endpoints and switch between whichever one is actively sending audio. If you step away from your desktop and start playing something on your phone, it will grab the phone's input and take over from there.

It's not a carbon-copy of Apple's approach, but I've had issues with iCloud switching too so I'm rather glad it's not. Plus, the Multipoint approach works with all my weird stuff like my Switch and smart TV.