skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Someone introduce them to IPv6
Getting "Network error: Please refresh and/or check network settings." after connecting my wallet
In the UK anyone who matters lives or at least works in London, which has always had decent transit and has been gradually, incrementally nudging cars out of the centre for about two decades now (congestion charge, ULEZ, gradual pedestrianization of very central parts) as well as improving the alternatives (crossrail, actually decent cycle routes). Part of it is probably simply that London never completely stopped building new transit for too long; as much as UK people complain about transit development happening in fits and starts, there's always been a sufficiently new and shiny line to point to as a success and an example of how transit should be (Victoria, JLE, DLR, crossrail). But I suspect it's mostly just not having your expectations set by a largely LA-based media.
They're absolutely golden eggs, they just don't bring in revenue directly the way other products do.

Ads by themselves aren't a golden egg. Users don't want to look at ads, and certainly aren't going to pay for them. That's why they came up with those other products, to sell ads to advertisers.

It's just like newspapers: historically successful papers like the NYT didn't get rich by doing great journalism and selling papers to people, they got rich selling ads, with the journalism being a way to get people to subscribe to the paper.
What’s the washing for?
… and building for car-centric zoning and infrastructure makes all of walking, bicycling, public transit, and automobile travel a ton worse and/or more expensive, forming a harmful feedback loop. At first the cars were freedom. Now they’re cages. That you’re forced to buy. And not even for much benefit.
Hum, from the conclusions of the somewhat parallel case of Hans Franke (which is about a catalog of ca. 800 "lost" works and 87 "preserved" works, and a fraudulent CV, as well), already referred to by @dfan in this very thread,

> All in all, the impression one gets is of a complacent, incurious German musical establishment which was not interested at all in Franke or his music but was happy to help Franke's daughter establish her foundation and secure funding from it.

https://www.unsungcomposers.com/forum/index.php/topic,6910.m...
My question is, who is constructing these rail systems in each of the countries? My understanding was that Chinese companies had built a lot of the biggest subway systems in various cities from Kiev to Singapore.

For political reasons that would be untenable in the US. Therefore we have to pay full price to build a thing we’re not good at building and don’t have the ramped up supply chains to support. If there’s only one company left that builds a component you need, guess what? You pay whatever they ask.
> Not all software is security relevant

You're right, only software that has actual users cares about security.

> I run a lot of large simulations. I do not care at all if that software would crash on specially prepared inputs.

But it's not the 50s anymore and digital simulation is a tiny fraction of the code ever written nowadays so it's not a very good argument.

> I do care that it's as fast as possible.

You don't realize it but it ruins your entire argument. If speed is all that matters for your use-case then:

- there's no way you can use runtime bound-checks, and you unconditionally need the compiler to optimize as much as possible around UB, even if it breaks your program every once in a while.

- you likely can't afford dynamic memory allocation, which makes the UAF/double free kind of bugs irrelevant. Not out of “good coding strategy” but because you never free in the first place…

These are hypothesis that don't apply to software industry at large.
X is being sued by their landlord for unpaid rent.
I've seen one of those wasps dragging a relatively large huntsman spider across the ground. Not sure if I got a photo or not. Nature at it's brutal best.
I guess I’m in the minority, but I can’t remember the last time I used Yelp to find restaurants. It’s been obvious for years (it feels like at least 10, maybe more) that they can’t be trusted.

I’m actually surprised they still get enough traffic to be sustainable.
It's perfectly reasonable to get compensated for the (good) work that you do if it's solving problems for someone, which you probably already know.

So I think it's important to figure out why the idea of doing that is daunting to you. Some common "reasons" are:

- People you interact with frequently tell you to not to do it.

- Not having all the skills to execute what you want to do well.

- Asking people for help feels embarrassing and/or is annoying to them.

- The fear of having your work judged by others.

- Losing the "safety" that part of, or all of, your current income offers; especially if you have dependents.

For most people (in the context of what you said), those aren't really good reasons—it's just because it's difficult to leave the comfort zone (nothing wrong with that) because that will require at least some degree of readjustment that seem "risky". With that mindset it's actually very difficult to ever find a good time to do what you _want_ to do because all opportunities appear to be risks instead.

On a somewhat related note, I think it's important to just do what you think is fun and show it to the world, but turning that into something that you can make a living with is an entirely different challenge.

Most people don't actually get to do what they love doing for a living; even if you do, having the pressure that is the expectations of paying customers and/or maintaining revenue could take that love away from you. That's absolutely not to say that you shouldn't—it's just something that's good to be aware of before you jump into it.
The rest of the world would like to disagree.
From what you're saying I suspect that what actually makes you sad is the hands-off approach we take to funerals in general, regardless of the approach to the remains. Would you feel differently if cremation were done in the traditional way—on a funeral pyre lit by the grieving loved ones who watch as the body is consumed? And do you feel less sad about people handing off the body to a mortician to be prepared and buried through the more normal processes we use today?

For myself, I'm all for cremation, and I say that as a devout Christian. When I'm dead I don't want my family to make a big deal out of my mortal remains. That's not me, it's a shell that I left behind on my way home. Cremation emphasizes that I've moved on in a way that for me burial just doesn't.
You meant to write "The only downside appears to be they're electrically conductive".

I sure hope that the thermal pads are thermally conductive :-)
Defaults matter because many people won't change them, and even people that will change them aren't going to change them every time they touch a new system. Especially when the "defaults" have been that way for decades which brings a sense of gravitational pull back to those tools/sites even if the new defaults change.

Some defaults can absolutely be over ridden by a non-stop barrage of interstitial pages and ad banners imploring your to install Chrome because all the default tools you use are Google sites, which just circles back to defaults mattering.
It's both easier and harder. The scale part is easy (the index is <1TB), but there's almost no training data for feedback.
Certainly feels a bit like AI. People on HN are overly nice* sometimes, it contributes to this feeling a lot

*Not a bad thing, I'm just saying the comment could be shorter by 50% and stil convey the same meaning
I'm a big fan of Vim, but I hardly use it as my primary editor anymore (applies for Neovim as well).

I think the ecosystem is amazing, but I hardly have the patience to set things up to feature parity with other editors. Debuggers are the biggest missing/hard to configure feature.

I do, however, use Vim bindings in every editor that supports them (and extensions for browsers like Vimium).

The extensions/Editor functionality are hit-or-miss; some are missing key bindings that I use often, or features don't quite work correctly, but I find it much more enjoyable to use than the "typical" approach.

The VSCode one is pretty good (even has EasyMotion/Sneak out of the box, if that's your style), but often seems to slow down and buffer keystrokes on heavy load/undo seems very hit or miss.
Repeating myself, I believe that many countries find a good way to make train stations destinations in and of themsevles

Japan, for instance, many train stations have small/medium/large shopping centers built on them. The train makes money not only by fares by but renting out the shops, running department stores, groceries stores, renting offices, apartments, etc... There's what I think is a positive feedback loop.

That's clearly not the only way to do it but it might be a way in the USA? because treating it as a public service just makes it a political tax burden. Something to be cut, under funded, etc....

Los Angeles used to have one of the largest public transit systems. Over 1000 miles of track (compare to NYC 650 miles?) and tons of stations. Most of it was built commercially to sell housing. According to this documentary it worked, until the deals they'd made with the cities to maintain the roads the trains went down ended up costing too much money.

https://www.amazon.com/This-Pacific-Electric-Stephanie-Edwar...

This video also shows two extensive train systems from past L.A.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BQfUFhchIlM

It feels like in Japan, they kind of solved that issue by letting the train companies run their stations as retail/office spaces and all the other stuff mentioned above.

I think Singapore, Shanghai, Hong Kong probably have government based public transportation but it feels like they've managed to turned many stations into commerce hubs at least.
Nvidia should have a far more well oiled machine in designing/validating new silicon. Software stack? Nvidia already has that. All models are optimized for CUDA - not Grog.

At a very high level, Nvidia just needs to break out the Tensor cores into its own chips, add loads of SRAM, and run CUDA. They already have all the other datacenter stuff figured out such as interconnects.
As much as I like to see it happening, San Diego is too spread out geographically to make use of their rail projects effectively, unless you're really well situated on the lines. That said, it makes for a great way to explore the city for a day.
TLG is pretty easy to get hold of. You also want Diogenes, an app that allows you to use that database. It’s very useful if you study Latin or Greek, even as a hobby.
My answer without reading the article.

It’s hard in the US because of politics, corruption, favors, contracts for the purpose to burn money, transit other than cars is only for poor people (a US thing), poor people aren’t a priority, reputation for working on transit for people won’t get you reelected by your rich donors and constituents.

It’s kind of a shame because whenever Americans get back from Europe they rave about being able to take the train everywhere.
I can recommend uBlacklist for that: https://iorate.github.io/ublacklist/docs also supports other search engines
And those populations would recover within few generations, like every other continental spanning peoples that's dealt with small pox since 1500BCE and before. No disease keeps populations across large span of geography at 10% pre outbreak over 100 years. It takes human intervention to force a specific people below replacement level for that long. When smallpox epidemics explodes, it wipes out 50%+ within a few YEARS. And then population RECOVERS, within a few generations. Populations develop some level of immunity OR social learned epidemiological responses to curtail outbreaks. Of course disease can kill, but it does not explain why indigenous population levels did not recover, especially on multi generational timelines. Not debating whether disease increases mortality, but saying disease is cause conveniently ignores the fact that persistent deprivation maintained by settlers over generations caused conditions where disease spread/has increased lethality, combined with repression prevented indigenous populations from recovering.

So yes, IMO it's completely debatable 90% of population would STILL be wiped out after 100 years in event of an earlier, pre Columbian exchange where new disease is introduced to the continent. Because unless those visitors stuck around and active took effort to genocide the locals, but using disease as a weapon AND creating conditions where disease can proliferate without response, local population would recover after multiple generations (european population took ~80 years to recover from black death).
I think what's important is that most SMR drives can only write a few MB per second anyway once their buffer gets saturated. That's well within wifi/100M ethernet speeds.

I feel like 10gb superspeed hardware is more than a fast enough connection. The hardware is relatively cheap to build, it's just the software.

I'm not saying you need a super high speed processor or memory either, since the SMR drive itself can serve can serve as (slow) memory for the CPU. The trick is trying to figure out mostly how to replicate blocks across the raid, and then mapping the files to raid blocks.
Outline...

Here’s the timestamps for the episode. On some podcast players you should be able to click the timestamp to jump to that time.
(00:00) – Introduction
(09:26) – Elon Musk
(12:42) – Telepathy
(19:22) – Power of human mind
(23:49) – Future of Neuralink
(29:04) – Ayahuasca
(38:33) – Merging with AI
(43:21) – xAI
(45:34) – Optimus
(52:24) – Elon’s approach to problem-solving
(1:09:59) – History and geopolitics
(1:14:30) – Lessons of history
(1:18:49) – Collapse of empires
(1:26:32) – Time
(1:29:14) – Aliens and curiosity
(1:36:48) – DJ Seo
(1:44:57) – Neural dust
(1:51:40) – History of brain–computer interface
(1:59:44) – Biophysics of neural interfaces
(2:10:12) – How Neuralink works
(2:16:03) – Lex with Neuralink implant
(2:36:01) – Digital telepathy
(2:47:03) – Retracted threads
(2:52:38) – Vertical integration
(2:59:32) – Safety
(3:09:27) – Upgrades
(3:18:30) – Future capabilities
(3:47:46) – Matthew MacDougall
(3:53:35) – Neuroscience
(4:00:44) – Neurosurgery
(4:11:48) – Neuralink surgery
(4:30:57) – Brain surgery details
(4:46:40) – Implanting Neuralink on self
(5:02:34) – Life and death
(5:11:54) – Consciousness
(5:14:48) – Bliss Chapman
(5:28:04) – Neural signal
(5:34:56) – Latency
(5:39:36) – Neuralink app
(5:44:17) – Intention vs action
(5:55:31) – Calibration
(6:05:03) – Webgrid
(6:28:05) – Neural decoder
(6:48:40) – Future improvements
(6:57:36) – Noland Arbaugh
(6:57:45) – Becoming paralyzed
(7:11:20) – First Neuralink human participant
(7:15:21) – Day of surgery
(7:33:08) – Moving mouse with brain
(7:58:27) – Webgrid
(8:06:28) – Retracted threads
(8:14:53) – App improvements
(8:21:38) – Gaming
(8:32:36) – Future Neuralink capabilities
(8:35:31) – Controlling Optimus robot
(8:39:53) – God
(8:41:58) – Hope
I don’t think there are any modern startup “inventions” which bother me more than meal replacements like Soylent. It’s not that there’s something wrong with having a nutrition shake to replace a meal if you’re in a rush.

It’s more that food, cooking, and eating (alone and with other people) seem like some of the most human things you can do. And so trying to optimize them out of existence feels wrong, a crime against culture. Long after the AIs have replaced entire classes of jobs and hobbies, cooking will still be around.
Apple is under anti-trust investigation too. Adding a search engine to their monopoly isn't going to help their case either.
Or Nvidia builds an inference-only chip, uses its already well-oiled CUDA to support all models out of the box, and destroys Grog's market?

Just because Grog is starting out smaller, doesn't mean they will actually survive to 10x their current valuation.

2.8 * 10 = 28 billion. Very few companies ever reach that point.
Yeah in dense urban areas in the US we have transit. Maybe it could be better but we have it. Other places are too spread out. There are not enough people going to the same places at the same times for a really useful transit system to exist.
Real vs. User vs. Sys Time
Classical musicians train for decades to develop good musical memory and the ability to audiate scores (read them and hear what they should sound like). Combine that with the fact that the crowd that likes new music is highly-educated and tight-knit and it's no surprise.

The same goes for professors who spend decades learning to understand experiments who can sniff out bullshit in papers.
IP.network: Check IP Address
Yeah, I still say "Google it" even though I've been using DDG and more recently Kagi for years - I discovered saying anything else seems to lose people when trying to help them. Even just saying "search for" gives me deer in the headlight responses until I say "search on google".
This is your reminder that Claudine Gay is still a professor at Harvard despite the fact that her entire (unimpressive and short) research CV was built on plagiarism.
yep, the point is to bust up google's monopoly, not to kill other browsers and search engines.
What is the consensus on productivity with Vim? I have thought about trying out the keyboard only approach, but haven't wanted to invest time in it yet. When I see people on YouTube using Vim it slightly feels like there's a whole lot of keypresses happening, but not a lot is actually gained compared to using a mouse or even frequently it seems it takes a while to do something that is much quicker with the mouse. I understand half the point is to be able to keep your hands focused in one place, but how do people feel about the productivity?
Nazir Afzal, who was chief crown prosecutor in the north west of England at the time of 2011 disorder, pointed out that videos shared online would make it far easier to identify perpetrators than it was 13 years ago, when the main resource available was CCTV.

Looking at the upside in an otherwise universally downside world.

I am however really pleased by the local community response: repudiates the fly-ins thugs, gets the broom and dustpan out, starts cleaning up.
Was curious as well. The only thing I’ve found is a study on men taking metformin suggesting a risk of sperm formation that could cause defects in male offspring.
This is a silly take IMO. I love eating and cooking good food. I also sometimes need something healthy on the road or in between classes etc. Vanishingly few people replace all food with Soylent. It’s fine as a fill-in between meals.
Since this view seems underrepresented here, I'll say I'd just as soon see the number of aircraft in the sky stay at right about what it is now, not more.

Having random tech bros flying overhead is not an anxiety reducing phenomenon.

On the other hand, taking the other side of this, what you're working on seems long overdue.

I would suggest building for the future (electric). Yeah as you said batteries are not ready yet, but think about it, you should be thinking forward to a time when they are. As an analogy, people in YC today are not just designing products that will be using today's AI. They are designing products that will be using the AI of a year, two years, from now. And you should be working this way too. And with electric, the drivetrain will be way more reliable and people like me who wonder if you're going to dribble gas on my house will have less to worry about.
I stopped using them because they became unreliable. They turned pay to play into an art. Can't trust them at all
Really detailed work. Thank you. For those looking to jump straight to code, here is the link to codebase discussed in the blog.

https://github.com/Ameobea/kan
> what actually makes you sad is the hands-off approach we take to funerals in general

That is a component, not the root.

> done in the traditional way—on a funeral pyre lit by the grieving loved ones who watch as the body is consumed?

Yes, that would be better. I still don't like cremation, but that is also a true sense of finality and closure. Would stink to high heaven, though.

> For myself, I'm all for cremation, and I say that as a devout Christian. When I'm dead I don't want my family to make a big deal out of my mortal remains. That's not me, it's a shell that I left behind on my way home. Cremation emphasizes that I've moved on in a way that for me burial just doesn't.

I am as well, but most traditional Christians do not believe in Ghost in the Shell. The body is an essential part of our being, and does not lose that aspect of our being after death. Cremation was previously only practiced by cultures that believed in a split reality—for example, the Norse pagans and Valhalla.

As Christians, we all believe in the bodily general resurrection and heaven being in "the same place" as we are now (assuming all Christians believe in one of the two forms of the Nicene creed).

Working from there, burial seems more appropriate.
You're correct on this. Tabelog users center hard around 3 stars which is considered the real average. Users on sites like Yelp and Google Maps skew toward an average of 4.5 or 5 for what is considered a standard experience. This makes it extremely difficult to sort for places that are extraordinary because everyone keeps rating the max amount of stars by default. Same problem on Amazon. It doesn't really help to only filter for 1-3 star reviews for each place and read them all because my time is finite and I don't have all day.
I lived in New York City until 2020. According to the 2010 census, the majority of households in New York City do not own a car. I got around fine via buses, subway and railroads. If need be I could take a taxi. The subway runs all night, all over the city, as do buses. The city even improved its transit - the subway now goes to the Javits Center. The Long Island Railroad now goes to Grand Central Station.

I was in San Francisco once and the latest Caltrain going from Sunnyvale to San Francisco was before 11:30PM, and the latest Caltrain going from San Francisco to Sunnyvale was three minutes after midnight. In New York PATH trains, LIRR trains, Metro North trains, New Jersey transit trains all leave well past that.
This seems to come up once a month or so on HN. Here is a non-ideological take, which I suppose means everyone will hate it because it doesn't echo their pet theory:

The US's basic problem with large building projects nowadays is federalism. There are so many different jurisdictions that opponents can always find some court or legislative body that they can exploit to slow down or stop the project.

Everything else flows from that.

Lawsuits? Too many courts.

Legislative opposition? Too many governmental units. Even if the public as a whole supports it, some jurisdictions will not.

Administrative permit hearings, which go on endlessly? Too many governmental units.

Yes, things used to work better in the US, but things change and all systems decay.
Not to be confrontational, but this example is super tiny in the grand scheme of things. Government at this point practically owns us. They take almost 50% of our labor via taxes (under the "noble" euphemism of paying for our fair share of government governing us.)

They don't protect us from crime via police, they beat and imprison us if we stray from their stated path, and we have no choice to not participate. Yes we can technically choose to move to another king's domain and be serfs there. To be fair even this highly regulated legally and not an easy option for many.

Honestly, we're way passed due for a revolution. The government has become a self serving and self perpetuating machine that uses people rather than serving them.
I'm not sure if it's what you're looking for but I've blogged about using Markdown on GitHub as a site.

https://joeldare.com/hosting-markdown-on-github-with-neat-cs...

Edit: Err, this is probably not what you meant.