skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Amtrak has not been “funding-starved for decades.” https://ti.org/antiplanner/?p=1502. Amtrak is publicly subsidized about the same as the average for Western European rail systems.

“The report estimated operating subsidies over a nine-year period between 1995 and 2003. A report from the European Union, Panorama of European Transport, lists total rail passenger kilometers for 1995, 2000, and 2004. I averaged those and divided them into the average annual subsidies. Converting to miles results in subsidies ranging from 14 cents a passenger mile in the U.K. to 32 cents in Austria. France was 20 cents and the subsidy for nine western European nations as a whole averaged 22 cents. By comparison, Amtrak subsidies, figured the same way, averaged 21 cents per passenger mile.”
Would removing the punitive aspect of punishment be enough to keep things making sense? For example with temporary insanity someone isn't considered deserving of retribution without real fault, but incapacitation and rehabilitation might still be justifiable if there was a risk of reoccurrence. Deterrence seems like it could also still be justifiable, for example if you thought someone could be aware of such a punishment while temporarily insane and less likely to commit murder as a result.

My understanding is the focus on punitive punishment has been higher than average since roughly the 1970s beginning with the war on drugs and is arguably not working very well measured in incarceration rates (US is #6th worldwide) so a shift seems away from culpability seems like it could potentially be a positive change. That being said like you say it's potentially it's own can of worms overcorrecting the other way.
That's an interesting thought. I think a lot of people who are upset about this are not truly upset at the type of partnership being described in the article, but rather adjacent programs that might be developed further down the line. Personally, I don't think they're wrong to predict something closer to true advertising being incorporated into LLMs; I wouldn't be surprised if the industry does take that sort of turn.

For the time being, though, I think you're right that this seems to be something a little more innocuous.
Yeah auto update on Windows is a mess. One way to get it is to use MSIX, in which case Windows will delta update your app for you, even when it's not running (Chrome style) but without the need for special servers. Unfortunately old Windows versions have a lot of bugs. My company sells a product that makes all that easy to deal with and works around the bugs but it was a hard slog to get it all working well.

Sparkle on Mac is great though.
Did your sense of taste change after your surgery? My sister is considering a similar procedure and is concerned that everything could start tasting like hot garbage.
Velcro is actually substantially more annoying to launder because it can clings to fabric.
Ditto. Enjoy traveling and often looking for the best deal, as we care much more about the destination that getting somewhere in luxury. When close enough driving always seems best, after a certain distance flying is cheaper and of course much faster. Every once in a while look at train options to see how the time and cost compare but in my limited lookups, the train was more expensive and often total time longer. The idea of always sounds relaxing.
By truly stable I mean that society changes. You must always have wiggle room. You can't just hammer down every nail the moment it sticks up. Regulates never more fast enough to compensate, so less regulation used to reach a desired outcome the better.
> The gaps seem very teeny-tiny

That's how all markets start. Every product or startup needs to start off as a very targeted application because otherwise you will drown in complexity and lack of strategy, but with a forward facing vision on how to expand into adjacent problem spaces.

$TECHNOLOGICAL_APPLICATION for $SPECIFIC_INDUSTRY is always the best method to start building out a product, and expanding from there.

> Is finding gaps just hard now

No.

You might just not be looking hard enough. Try and find specific problems in a domain you are very experienced in.

Also be open to pivot if needed. For example, Slack started off as a chat-app within a failed videogame.
I was setting TCP_NODELAY at Bear Stearns for custom networking code circa 1994 or so.
5-meo-dmt is made by human neurons' INMT when aquaporin-1, corticotropin-realeasing-hormone-receptor 2, and other 7p14 genes get transcribed.
New Ferro Cap with Energy Density 19 Times That of Commercial Alternatives
"Sensitivity to light" is the primary function of the eye.
Nobody is harping, you are the one attacking others and virtue signaling.

"Simp". Dude, this isn't Twitter. Grow up or leave.
> [I]n the end, technology always is at the service of the power structure...Progress happens in that brief period before the enshittification takes root.

Personally, I'd deny there's ever any progress against the power structure due to technology itself. Anything that seems like "progress" is ephemeral or illusionary.

And that truth needs to be constantly compared to the incessant false promises of a utopia just around the corner that tech's hype-men make.
Given that he made Prometheus, I don't think that Ridley Scott is scared of exploring Christian topics.

Then again, the whole Jesus-was-an-Engineer subplot that was dropped from that film but still alluded to also makes me doubt that Scott's take would have been particularly "nuanced".
Ah yes the Alexa model. They should ask Amazon how that's working out.
Above 20ish mph most of the noise from cars come from their tires not from the engine.
So an ad at the end of text is worse than one embedded in the answer? Care to explain why?
How Engineers Created a Flying 'Star Wars' X-Wing
Heritability is a population statistic, individuals dont have "heritability". So it doesnt apply to any "kid" anywhere.

It's a practically useless concept outside of extremely narrow fields of biology, where you can control causes or otherwise eliminate genetic variation.

In the vast majority of cases where people use 'heritability', it is useless. Knowing how much a trait varies, or fails to vary, with genes tells you nothing about whether its inherited.

Under stable genetic equilibrium near universally inherited traits will have a heritability of zero; and under cultural, social, geographical etc. selection of mates, 0% inherited traits will be arbitrarily close to 100% heritability.

It's a statistics designed for cases where the experimenter is actually controlling the genetic variance (ie., breeding plants) across populations; it's otherwise meaningless.

Consider a security guard who forces all past shoplifters to wear a tag. Under such an induced causal relationship, wearing a red tag becomes predictive of future criminal behaviour. Otherwise, it's useless.

Likewise, when an experimenter is inducing genetic varience, then it becomes explanatory and predictive; otherwise, it's useless.
The demo video is excellent!
OpenAI, Mass Scraper of Copyrighted Work, Claims Copyright over Subreddit's Logo
I have this. I don’t notice it. People must think I’m really socially stupid. I try to say things that I think are commonly-shared. Then, in every group, out of nowhere (it’s only months later that I remember what may have triggered it), I’m expelled (generally for another reason, because it would be too simple if people said “I don’t like you because…”).

I’m 40 and since 4 years, my solution is to recluse myself and meet as few people as I can, with people who get over my defect.

I must be able to do something about it, but it requires tremendous effort. Basically I have to try to remain silent and innocuous as much as I can, and guess people. It’s hell.
I don't think this comment fully appreciates the density of hydrocarbon-based energy sources.

No, a RTG-powered bulldozer isn't going to be clearing caves and trenches on Mars, ever.
Train a machine learning model and run it inside your iOS app via CoreML
"Weighing more than 1,000 pounds, the drone was the first remotely piloted electrical vertical takeoff and landing aircraft of its size approved by the Federal Aviation Administration for public demonstration, Connor says."
This was a great episode and the really drove home the importance of visualization.
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> It's true that Linux has a stable-ish syscall table.

It's not "stable-ish", it's fully stable. Once a syscall is added to the syscall table on a released version of the official Linux kernel, it might later be replaced by a "not implemented" stub (which always returns -ENOSYS), but it will never be reused for anything else. There's even reserved space on some architectures for the STREAMS syscalls, which were AFAIK never on any released version of the Linux kernel.

The exception is when creating a new architecture; for instance, the syscall table for 32-bit x86 and 64-bit x86 has a completely different order.
> exhausting yourself ... is definitely on the table.

No. It's not.
keepalives are an optional TCP feature so they are not necessarily supported by all TCP implementations and therefor default to off even when supported.
Apologies for the inadvertence. Thank you for the correction.

https://www.theglobeandmail.com/technology/canadian-firm-cau...
there existed drum scanners, flatbed scanners, and I think even hand scanners that you could drag over a bill https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Image_scanner#Hand_document_sc... but maybe you'd have to check computer shopper from 01984 to be sure
A Nation-Sized Battery (2011)
Me too, thanks.
The orbital timing makes little difference, because the velocities involved are significantly faster than planetary orbital speeds. Longer distances will take longer times, but not proportionally longer: the limiting factor is the acceleration and deceleration.

The diagram the parent linked is the conventional presentation for how to relate orbital transfer times with orbital phases—conventions that do not apply to high-Isp transfers, such as this concept. Orbital phases are not important here.
Thanks. Please share your experience if you ended up using it. I will be more than happy to address any issues you might face or any concerns and suggestions you have.
I think they’re over in line behind “The La Brea Tar Pits”
I mean, think about a plumber or a carpenter. Those jobs haven't really been more productive since the 1970s. Sure, PEX or nail guns are marginally better than previous methods, but not by that much.

But since we still need plumbers or carpenters, they're more expensive than they were in the 1970s. Because of opportunity cost - imagine 1h of plumber's time in terms of TVs over 50 years.

Because all opportunity cost is translated to cash, plumbers are more expensive now despite not being a growth sector.

It's the economic equivalent to Amdahl's law in a sense. Things that can't be easily improved become economic bottlenecks (healthcare, education, construction).
Were you committing a criminal offence or tort, and was it in your personal or corporate capacity?
One of the biggest problems with the DMCA is that it is unaccountable for those submitting legal claims anonymously. They should have to identify themselves to submit a legal claim of ownership.

> https://taxpolicy.org.uk/2024/02/17/the-invisible-campaign-t... To remove something from google's search they copy the text, they create a fake website / company with a URL with copied text then submit a DMCA claim saying theirs is the original. Google automatically rubberstamp approves it and the URL/text they want removed from the search index is removed.

There's a simple and easy solution: there should be "know your customer" for claimaints for laws requiring companies to follow up on legal claims like DMCA reports. KYC is obviously socially accepted and easily implemented since it's being required for so many other things. The whole basis of an adversarial legal system is that you need two legal persons on either side. This is a context in which you have to wonder why it isn't already like that.
You made the "grotesque" comparison multiple times. If you find it so grotesque you probably shouldn't have said it begin with. Now you're throwing it back at me. As I said before you continue to engage in a disingenuous way.

As always in these conversations nothing of substance was reached, you had no interest in engaging in a curious manner and instead wanted to spread your own disinformation, when you were confronted with the truth you continued to misinterpret reality to your own twisted purpose, once even that failed you have started to attack my character.

I'm done being maligned and attacked, I hope you consider having some empathy for those who have been the subject of an attempted genocide and ethnic cleansing in nearly every single generation for the last 2000 years. Instead of siding with those who would commit another atrocity.
The reproducibility crisis and general decay of academia has given us a few decades of bad science. Entire fields have been built using massaged statistics to deny common sense in the pursuit of tenure.

We're just now "unlearning" much of this, especially in the social sciences.
In my personal experience, the only bad build laptops out there are HP ones. Thinkpad and Dells have been solid. People just install a bunch of shit that runs in the background and hogs resources, especially if you have one issued by a company that has all the management software. But again, this is just my personal experience.

Its easy enough to pick one up on ebay for like $200 from a few years ago, get an ssd and max ram from Amazon, and install bunsenlab linux to test drive it.

Pixel 5 no longer gets updates from Google, and it doesn't really need it. All the app updates work fine tho.
Because a pathogen could potentially sicken or kill many more people.
Amtrak owns the tracks from DC to New York (and mostly from New York to Boston too). There’s no freight rail anywhere on that corridor, and Amtrak takes priority over most of the passenger rail on those lines. Service on that route still sucks. My wife and I commuted daily on Amtrak from Baltimore to DC/Wilmington and it was horrible. Barely above a developing country in terms of timeliness and reliability.
It is already norm in too many places to get that maximum revenue…
Yeah definitely worth fixing... This seems overall rather thoughtfully designed but that bug hurt
Yeah exactly. In all years of my experience I have seen different implementation of this which is hard to maintain. I hope this can help developers to keep their focus on the actual problems that they are solving.
This should say “data” not just ads

“All your cookies and passwords are stored locally and never on our server. Our business model is around selling collaboration services and enterprise features, not ads”
Some comments here impute some deceit, or alternatively, transparency in this. While there are ethical issues in rescinding internship offers, the ethics overall is not what speaks to me in this action.

What I see is another one or two more bad quarters foreseen by Tesla senior management. It takes time to get a supply of resumes. It takes time to hire. They even need to hire a new head of HR. Evidently there will be no hiring any time soon.
Futex for a very long time was only accessible via syscall.
I think that as a practical matter, they are extremely correlated. Wealth sitting in cash loses half its value every 20 years. Physical assets require upkeep and property taxes.

In practice, if you aren't making income, you losing wealth.
RB 3GD glasses remove color to create a different image. I don't see how that would generalize to add color.
Since it is on topic - sharing useful link I have in my bookmarks about transformations in general: http://fmwww.bc.edu/repec/bocode/t/transint.html
Movement: Trade thousands of memecoins
Memecoins are absolutely blowing up, but it's too hard for most people to get started.

Most memecoins aren't listed on centralized platforms like Coinbase, so you have to use a complicated "crypto wallet" to buy them. By the time the coins are listed on Coinbase, it's too late. The million-dollar financial opportunities are gone.

We've built Movement – the Robinhood of memecoins. It's a "crypto wallet" that abstracts all the complexity away, making the user experience as easy as Coinbase, Robinhood, or any other trading app we're all used to.
can you expand? Who got 1bn of funding?
> Pattern matching on the "top level branch" of the ADT, whatever you call it, is pretty darned useful. Pattern matching on the next level down is a power tool to be used with care.

Which is exactly how Perl apologia arguments went.
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OT but according to Algolia this posting is 5 days old: https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=false&qu...
It literally does. GP used (high) delta-v as a measure which correlates energy and change in velocity (which proposed propulsion is about) and porkchop shows it's not how as simple as how far/near source and destinations are, hence its existence and use.
Apple's Worst Ad?
I love California for so many reasons, but charging me more for using less is not one of them.

If we can’t cut costs by running on pure renewables because we need to “make up for lost profits”, this whole green plan will never work. Will we pay oil companies for lost profit from EVs?

Just make usage below some threshold free and keep the same rates (or raise them) for high users. Simple and fair.
49M Dell customers data breach
> orbital transfer times with orbital phases—conventions that do not apply to high-Isp transfers

The minimum distance to Mars is 33.9 million miles. The maximum distance to Mars is 225 million miles. You're telling me this engine is so powerful it doesn't matter when you launch you'll always get there in 2 months?

Isn't Mars occasionally on the other side of the Sun from us?
I'm still failing to grasp this.
Amtrak is more subsidized than those other modes: https://ti.org/antiplanner/?p=18116

“Americans spent an average of 25.0 cents per passenger-mile driving their cars, light trucks, and motorcycles, while highway subsidies averaged 1.1 cents per passenger-mile. Subsidies to highway trucking, incidentally, averaged 0.8 cents per ton-mile.
These highway subsidies compare to subsidies of 1.1 cents per passenger-mile to air travelers, 36 cents to Amtrak passengers, and $1.09 to transit riders. Amazingly, air travel is by far the least-expensive mode of travel, costing passengers just 13.8 cents per passenger-mile, while Amtrak fares average 38 cents and transit fares 30 cents per passenger-mile.”
Kinda weird to ask when we're at the dawn of AI. There's relatively low hanging fruit everywhere right now thanks to LLMs, the industry will be digesting use cases of just the tech we have today for the next decade or more. It's not even that hard to get caught up with the research and start kicking out research ideas. Two weeks ago I was telling my father that the next step in transformer efficiency would be an algorithm that worked more like diffusion models, in which many tokens are predicted simultaneously with the model incrementally pushing them towards the correct answer. Just a day or two ago, CLLMs are announced and do exactly that. My maths isn't good enough to write that sort of paper but the idea was so low hanging that even a dabbler could work out what to do.

And that's ignoring all the bits of tech we use every day that could just be a lot better. JVM build systems are a mess, there is a serious need for competition there, to pick just one example that bothers me regularly.

Once you get into the swing of it the problem is not gonna be finding ideas. The problem will be finding ideas that other people will pay for. That's the hardest constraint.
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14882880 - July 29, 2017 - 2 comments

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2476440 - April 23, 2011 - 110 comments

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2209970 - February 12, 2011 - 1 comment

Couldn't find more, but I thought it had come up more times.
> People working in their spare time make better apps than these.

So? If you want better software, pay for it.

This infects all embedded development--not just medical.

Everybody refuses to pay people what they are worth and then wonders why all their software sucks.

> In any case, I was responding to the notion that the FDA was quality-controlling these things. They aren't doing a very good job.

The FDA doesn't exist to ensure something is "good". It exists to ensure that something "does what it says" and "doesn't actively do harm". That's all.

If you want something to be "good", you will somehow have to ensure that there is pressure or money to incentivize such behavior.
FWIW, I did my PhD in neuroscience and am now working in R&D in biopharma. It would be very difficult to have landed my current position without a PhD. Lastly, most STEM PhD programs pay a stipend (a small one, mine was 30k/year), so you’re not going into debt to get one.

I agree with your sentiment. Academia as a career path isn’t viable (or even feasible) for the majority of people who get a PhD
Haha, was going to post this exact comment
This seems to be a model of the solar system which is more commonly known as „orrery“.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Orrery
Babylon 5 had that with telepaths who sing songs to block out the noise of human thoughts.
Lead-acid is not the cheapest way to store energy at scale.

Grid storage is already a thing, and is primarily delivered with pumped storage hydro. The benefits of this are numerous. Very few moving parts, no toxicity, enormous storage potential, etc.

The cost differential between this and other technologies is enormous.
Let's see: maybe try writing sentences that starts with "I wish I could".
Rich Otto, head of product launches, resigns from Tesla
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rtgs can be used to aid solar in charging batteries, the digging process can take a long time, if you space it correctly you would be able to get that energy from solar etc
I'm not into the space at all. What's different on Hinge than Tinder?
Australian Startup Mimics Trees to Make Cheaper Green Hydrogen
Symlog is symmetric log. It's not arcsinh, instead it's a normal logarithmic scale, that turns into a linear scale around zero (for example in the range [-1,1]) and then it turns into a negative logarithm on the other side of zero. So similar but slightly different.

https://matplotlib.org/stable/gallery/scales/symlog_demo.htm...

for an example.