skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> Charging them is fine, but that is not the basis of the lawsuit from NJ. NJ is complaining about people using NJ to go around Manhattan.

I can't think of a single sane route via which you'd go around Manhattan, via NJ, to get to something in another borough. If you're in the Bronx, you'll go to Queens or Brooklyn via non-Manhattan bridges, and vice versa.

> The only time charges are waived are the two coastline roads that go around Manhattan. All other transit traffic is charged at full rates.

Yes, that's the point. The coastline routes are the highways; there are no highways through central Manhattan's city grid, and there never will be. You can see the highways, which are all exempted, on the MTA's map[1].

I gave you an NJ to Brooklyn route that does not involve the city grid: you can take the George Washington Bridge (above the congestion zone) onto the Henry Hudson Parkway, which will then take you directly to the Hugh L. Carey tunnel, which is I-478, which will take you directly into Brooklyn. This is also in practice already the fastest route into Brooklyn from NJ, since it doesn't involve the city grid at all.

Similarly for North Brooklyn and Queens: if you want to avoid congestion pricing, take the GWB and stay on I-95, and you'll be comfortably outside of the congestion zone the entire time.

[1]: https://congestionreliefzone.mta.info/
More corn % than America even.

Pasture: Is all of that for grazing livestock or does that represent land without trees?
Love this!

I also made a math game 3 years ago.

https://github.com/zineanteoh/clean-the-river

I called it “Clean the river”. It is a web-based game that lets children practice forming and solving basic mathematical expressions by "cleaning the river".
Wikipedia has an article that isn't a Guidelines-violating heap of propaganda.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Strategic_Computing_Initiati...
But the questions isn't "how do you feel about the economy", it's "do you think the s&p 500 went up or down". Even if you think the stockmarket is fake and disconnected from what actually happens on main st, you should still be able to correctly answer whether it went up or not. Failing to do so shows that either you have no grasp on how the S&P 500 is actually doing, can't hold opposing concepts it your head (ie. the "real economy" is doing shit but the S&P 500 is doing great), or can't follow basic instructions. Neither makes me confident in other things you're saying, like how how good the economy is.
Here is a very meaningful chart

https://fred.stlouisfed.org/graph/?g=ctzN

It represents how much the debt costs, as a share of GDP.

Federal Debt: [debt as % of GDP]*[Market Yield on U.S. Treasury Securities at 10-Year Constant Maturity, Quoted on an Investment Basis]/100
You know, I really loved your previous blog [1]. So many great tips and tidbits in that series. With your new blog you seem like a completely different man, posting those surface-level overviews full of gaps that seem to only push your product. I can see what happened.

Sure, you don't owe me anything, don't reply if you don't have time. Don't pretend that you've answered my questions already though, everyone can see you didn't. Honestly why reply at all, if you are going to lie and use the "I know better noob" line?

Never meet your heroes.

[1]: https://www.gafferongames.com/categories/game-physics/
And that's fine for most weird nerds. Being cordial and respecting of knowledge is all that's needed in the workplace. Most wns wouldn't make good friendship material either. Their opinions and tastes have a wide range from normal to rather eclectic. But without these people you will never be able to deliver the next new search paradigm. That's how they bring value and that's why the employer hires them. They also tend to be the ones that work very long hours, tinkering with stuff because it's "fun."

Re: racism and sexism, I suspect that's not just wns and may have more to do with upbringing than personality. Most wns tend to be free-thinkers, and barring some oddballs, they tend to self-select out of that way of thinking.
I don't think they're confusing anything. If we use your numbers, then 180GW of solar is less than 5% of energy needs, and that is increasing at less than half a percent annually.

At that rate, decarbonizing by replacing a meaningful amount of the other 95% with solar will not happen in our lifetimes.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cross-device_tracking#Ultrason...
> TeX the ungodly complex language

A friend, although he is a good mathematician, kept criticizing TeX, so I explained one view of it: TeX was not intended to be some new big steps forward in interactive user interface, to replace Microsoft's Word, HTML or Mathematica, or for making images or movies. Instead, TeX was, first, for something he knew well -- the journal of the AMS (American Mathematical Society). For doing the word processing for the AMS, TeX was a nice step forward from what went before.

TeX seems fine to me, just the way it is. Started with Knuth's book and also got his file of TeX source his book. The book is easier to read, but with my favorite text editor KEDIT sometimes the file is easier to search.

Also with the TeX software have the Windows program to display the formatted output on a screen and the program to write the output to a PDF file. Both work fine.

It appears that Knuth made commendable efforts to get any bugs out of TeX.

Wrote some macros for TeX: The main collection has, just checked, 86 macros. Also have macros for some special purposes, e.g., foils, inserting images, verbatim, business cards, etc.

Use TeX for business letters; used TeX for the last paper I published: The paper had a lot of tricky math notation, and TeX handled that well. The journal seemed quite pleased to get the TeX input with my macros; then they were able to format the paper right away.

When rusty with TeX, my old papers, letters, etc. and macro collections get me productive again quickly.

Since I like TeX so much and since the philosophy of LaTeX seems different, never used LaTeX.

Knuth's book shows that it's possible to write long documents with TeX.
Or plain just getting away with shitty behavior. Uncle Rick's a raging asshole and we still accept him as part of the family, which means so can I.
Nee, maar ik ken de muffinman.

(Mijn hele Nederlandse taal heb ik via Google geleerd.)
Yes, 2 degrees, because autism is a neural "over-connectedness" in the brain that leads to common physical and mental symptoms like toe walking, double hair whorl, sensitivity to sound, etc.

The spectrum can essentially be thought of has the degree of neural "over-connectedness".
A lot of this is Covid Long Haulers who have been dismissed by their doctors as anxiety who are now following the research themselves and pursuing tests and treatments all away from medicine. The medical system is very slow to pick up on new research and Long Covid is so debilitating that people don't have a choice to wait the 20 years it takes it to adopt the research.

Its not just happening in the USA its a worldwide phenomena. The more the world and healthcare especially ignores the Long Covid problem the more people will turn to private diagnostics and treatments away from existing healthcare.
A description versus price equation, where there's a lot of variables on one side and only one on the other, does seem to be the model.

I guess I would add that it may only be a Salient as it is with respect to certain things like flights, because there are a couple of outstanding counter examples like cell phones and and automobiles which seem to exhibit the exact opposite trend.

A deeper analysis might reveal that there is a cycle at at work here, wherein the initial novelty of a prodict or service which is destined to become a commodity, means there is not yet a strong set of expectations about what the service or product is "supposed" to provide. distinction in the market has to come from adding context to that essentially commodity utility.

But later on some consumers begin to recognize that some of the additional context may not be strictly necessary or offer a value to them and would prefer compartmentalization of the core product as distinct from its value-added variants.

When flights were a comparative novelty, or at least a novelty in different market segments at different times, distinction between products was through different levels and configurations of service or features rather than price.

This may still be the phase of the product cycle that cell phones (setting aside the fairly stable tiers of product within that category) are in. It's harder to make as direct across the comparison with cars as they are older than both air travel and mobile phones, and because of all the regulation that enforces standardization of non-optional features related to safety.
I’ve used gatsby before and it’s clunky and not well supported any more.
Basically it was the first PaaS to improve the developer experience when working with server infrastructure. It had git integration and allowed to scale easily your apps from a CLI
> the other thing that happens is they'll kill your account and permanently ban you

This practice really should be illegal. “I don’t want to do business with you because I screwed up, you correctly called me on it, and I had to refund you.” PERMABAN.
if you have a bowl of candy on your desk, do you eat more or less than usual?
This is now linked from the docs home page.
> Nowadays with mass media and powerful almost immediate public reaction to government, such "you'll thank me later" moves seem less likely, and arguably, we are worse off for it.

The problem isn't mass media, the problem is that they did use this card many times over the past decades to promote neoliberal policies, and in retrospect it's clear that nobody is thanking them.

The main lesson is that you can indeed force things on people, and when you do so for good reasons you'll be thanked later, but you must do it wisely and be sure that people will thank you, otherwise you're just destroying public's confidence in politicians (which doesn't matter to the neoliberals anyway, since they don't think State is a valuable institustion in the first place…)
Cataclismo
A few years ago, I would have said that the challenge-response approach was doomed to failure, but in light of the concentration of spam and phishing emanating from Gmail accounts, Gmail addresses are the new IP addresses. How long before someone starts distributing a Gmail address blocklist?
GPT in a Spreadsheet
Studio Six Digital makes the very useful app AudioTools. They test all iOS devices to create generic profiles for the built in mics. They’ve found them to be very consistent which is kind of remarkable for a consumer cell phone device.

More info here: https://studiosixdigital.com/audio-hardware/generic-audio-ha...
You're nearly there my friend: bookmarks should be centered around content and not around links.[1]

I've written a lot about this, and I got so annoyed with bookmarking and highlighting services getting it so frustratingly wrong[2] that I wrote my own solution from the ground up in 2020[3], and I have never looked back to Pinboard, Instapaper or Readwise.

It's honestly not that hard once you get the mental model and if you aren't interested in using a service you can easily build something that suits your own needs over a few weekends.

[1]: Links are definitely important metadata though!

[2]: https://lgug2z.com/articles/the-bookmarking-data-model-is-wr...

[3]: https://notado.app
Please stop, it hurts.
If we're gonna find a better way to work together we need something neutral so that there's no reason to miscategorize yourself. I definitely prefer "weird nerd," to anything that feels like a diagnosis or like praise.

In education they call this "twice exceptional".
BYD makes nice cars. Definitely nicer than the EU companies make at the same price point
It isn’t too hard to get fairly close to that by drawing something that’s extremely stable, for example something very wide but not tall or an equilateral triangle, with one corner facing down.

Then, use your first attempt to correct for the correct height.

⇒ I think a good game would need some other constraint, maybe score more for max height above the surface, or for how long a polar bear can keep their feet dry while it melts (a very wide but not tall stripe will melt faster than something resembling a ball)
so that people can identify themselves as being part of a group, and then find others who are also part of that group, just to have a community for support. if I want to find a group of left handed pansexuals who are into Pokemon Go, the Internet facilitates finding your exact flock.
I heartily second that. It's one of my favorite books.

For anyone curious about it, you can click the Read Sample button below the cover image here, or download the sample to your Kindle device or app:

https://www.amazon.com/dp/B07JW5WQSR

If Vint Cerf's foreword and the first chapter don't convince you to buy the book, I don't know what will.

Another good read, as many know, is Mother Earth Mother Board. It is more about the modern undersea fiber cables, but touches on the early telegraph cables too:

https://www.wired.com/1996/12/ffglass/

On my PC, this article says it is for subscribers only. But on my phone (Android with Chrome) it loads up just fine. Go figure.
TLRs are really fun to shoot. You can also understand completely how they work just by opening the back and looking with your eyes.
I'd be curious about the fidelity floor in analog vs digital optics.

I'd guess(?) that you might be able to do more information reconstruction from analog + lense parameters + film parameters than digital + lense parameters?

Simply by virtue of digital being quantitized at some point.

(But signal processing is far outside my area of expertise, so honestly curious)
Fantastic comment, thanks for putting in the effort to write it!
You have to account for fat fingers on mobile. Twice have I pressed the 4th square instead of the 3rd, and I don't even have "fat" fingers. Just remove the ending squares if they are operators.
We already have that: Forth.

The above sentence can be a Forth program. This? Another Forth program.

What does my post do? Run it to find out!

> OK
These aren't core Republicans; they're the rare breed of never-Trumpers. People want to believe they don't exist, and they're mostly right: they pretty much only exist in suburbs surrounding Dem strongholds and in Utah. It may not be a viable national strategy (though they're probably to thank for Biden winning in 2020), but they definitely could flip local & state races, especially if the core Republicans went MAGA during the primary.
Running a DNSBL is/was hardly a glamorous job. It takes a peculiar character to withstand the endless onslaught of complaints from unscrupulous marketers, clueless sysadmins inadvertently running a spam cannon, and end-users feeling the need to threaten lawsuits because their church distribution list got blocked.
No domain and website registered?
Isn't the entire point behind "language server" (guess it's referring to LSP - Language Server Protocol) that it gets rid of editor-dependent stuff?

The dream (as I understood it) was that people could write things like this, and it'll work out-of-the-box for a bunch of other editors, as long as they follow LSP.
As someone who oversees repairs of these things. Most computers to don't like tea. Depending on the severity the MacBooks can be repaired. But if you spilled and every thing is corroded you're looking at close to 80% of the cost of a brand new similar device. This is for most devices.
No, parking spots should be made smaller and people should be prohibited from buying large vehicles unless commercially or otherwise necessary
When I wrote "based", I meant it was pretty much a 1-1 copy of a design by Cypress (although they have all evolved since than). I dont like the idea that one particular company should sell this for a shedload and anyone buying a cheaper device from elsewhere is doing something wrong.

Saleae claimed that people buying "clones" use their desktop software without paying, which is a reasonable complaint. But with Sigrok around nobody is doing that anymore.
>people just want to say "they're wrong" instead of trying to figure out why people feel that way.

Why are these two things positioned as opposing/contradictory? Why can't those people be wrong but we still try to figure out why they think that way?
Now I've got a reread of Aristotle (was it NE?) queued up.

My working model of his virtues since the XX has been a cardinal one:

Courage
↑
Justice←♦→Prudence
↓
Temperance

Where Courage helps us to take risks when they are worthwhile, and Temperance to avoid them when they would be dangerous, while Prudence helps us to act in our own interests, and Justice to act in everyone's interests.

(Courage and Temperance are balanced in opposition when a risk is on the efficient frontier; Prudence and Justice when an action is clearly beneficial, but requires either sacrificing personal/ingroup interest to collective, or vice versa)

But if much younger me had somehow come up with an interpretation which I can no longer justify when revisiting the text: well, it wouldn't be the first time!

(then again, I think it is possible to assign vices to all the corners of the diagram above: for example, "Vigilantism" could be top left.)
The termites thing is kind of amusing. But isnt much of whats described in the article properly known as “rent seeking”?

A monopoly might be the ultimate form of rent seeking. But for example a company that buys other companies/products in bulk to trap customers, but never improves or maintains those products and increases prices, is not only engaged in rent seeking but probably committing fraud. But expectation fraud is not a crime.

I think theres a tipping point in economics that once rent seeking becomes a certain percentage of the economy, its pretty much over.

Its economic corruption partnered with govt corruption.
Is there a comparison against cc65?
Hey there, you should start a blocklist!
Assuming you're in the US: It's usually the rule here (state laws vary) but rarely enforced.
Don’t bump into the top of the dome. You’ll get charged for disinfecting the equipment.
Is that really the most pressing problem we should be tackling in the consumer law? Some people willing to pay more than retail for things they really want?
I had the same problem for my bookmarks, but I (kinda) answered it using 2 ways:
Random link (when you don't know what to search but want to visit a (curated) cool link), and search (search in title, link, tags, description).

On the paper it works great, if only you can tags those links and write a comprehensive description using keywords you'll remember. But in real life, it's something like this: https://links.l3m.in/en/ and the search barely work (because no tags nor description is not helping).

The project seems cool btw!
Thanks for a thoughtful comment
That's great news! I'll check clojurescript again when they get ride of Google closure
However, in my experience the vast majority of brilliant nerds way overextend themselves, and are much too confident outside their domain. They're also much more likely to be jerks and will tumble from conflict to conflict until they get their way by attrition or status. Conflicts are strangely more personal because so much ego is tied up into it. They're more likely to assume they're right in every (non-tech/science related) situation.

Your next paragraph gives advice to the weird nerds, but this is practically a genre. What I haven’t seen much of is advice to an organization about how to deal with what you’re pointing out here.

You have an employee that’s brilliant in technical area X but also has very strong and very wrong opinions about how the company ought to structure its cap table, pay its cleaning staff, and market to potential customers. He gets into constant arguments about these things. What do you do?
Looks like a pretty small project. Only had 40 stars on GitHub before the repo was removed.

Was this the main method of GPT4 and Claude integrations for ComfyUI?
That was an awful period, at the beginning of the AI Winter. The expert systems people were in charge, but expert systems couldn't do very much. I made the unpopular comment at the time that expert systems will turn out to be more important than syntax-directed parsing (once a hot topic in computer science - YACC, Bison, etc.) but less important than relational databases.

I visited CMU and was inside the ALV once. Didn't get to see it move, though. It had a really slow 2D LIDAR scanner, with two moving mirrors, and three racks of SUN workstations. It wasn't a fundamentally bad idea. It just needed about four more orders of magnitude of compute power. They made it work by making it really slow, using a hydraulic transmission to allow creeping speed.
By the DARPA Grand Challenge of 2005, it was finally possible to do off-road navigation. It's taken another two decades to deal with complex traffic successfully.

Neural nets were around, but nobody had enough compute power to use them on anything useful. I once had to write a neural net program to recognize digits 0-9 as a class assignment. That was about what you could do before 2000 or so.
The original link, not sure why it was replaced by moderators (is HN still being moderated by @dang alone?): https://paleofuture.com/blog/2013/4/30/darpa-spent-1-billion...
I was going to suggest:

> initially try just being a faster, lighter or lower-power Electron or WebView.

But he mentioned it himself, though maybe someone might want to try this with no intention to become a full browser. Can you skip any of the tricky security requirements if it'll be bundled into an app? Or is that just asking for trouble?
Verisign has a profit of around $1B with around 1k employees.

Ingersoll Rand has around 18k employees. SBI holdings has around 19k. Beiersdorf has around 21k.

I don't know what the author was thinking or why it was phrased that way, but Verisign seems vastly more profitable per employee than others on the list. Also, I have no idea why they even need ~1k employees.
That's crazy but makes sense too.

When I biked from Amsterdam to Antwerp in ~2014, it was difficult to not run into a village every few km.

I guess there's no cheap enough real estate left to grow the massive amounts of soy, cow corn, and hay to feed the animals.

Since it's such a huge source of climate change GHGs, pandemics, antibiotic resistance, and air, water, and soil pollution, perhaps globally we need to scale back dairy and meat agriculture.