skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
We’ve already lost a tremendous amount of craft over the last 1,000 years. There are almost no craftspeople left in the world who can do the kind of moldings & designs you see in renaissance era buildings.

Having been a classical musician, what I noticed about getting tuning right is there is a body sensation of lightness/breath that is palpable if you are a classical enthusiast - even if you can’t distinguish the sound you are hearing from an “ideal memory” of what it should sound like.

But the largest reduction in auditory tech has already happened - mp3 compression.

Uncompressed audio is radically different and richer than low fi digital compression, but almost everything we hear everywhere is coming through streaming services.

The rare delights of extreme tech built around the first principles of a discipline like sound/music are achieved by overcoming very difficult and confounding problems. They are technical wonders as much as they are refined experiences.

I once worked with a scientist who had permanently solved the issue of mic feedback. Imagine what revolution that would be for AV use cases everywhere! But it required a radical shift in the protocols used to build both mic and speakers, so even though Sony optioned it there’s not a single product you can buy with the tech.

Like the Internet, everything is really just a semi-poor adaptation to a semi-poorly design system. Fundamental protocol changes (like ipv4 to ipv6) are brutally hard.

We like to believe that modern society is hard-wired for improvement, but it seems mostly hard-wired for minimal change that delivers marginal improvements detectable by the lowest common denominator consumer/user.

To me, that makes it all the more extraordinary when genuine protocol level changes - like EV cars - are made reality.
Also is it worth it. We know longer know how to make a saturn-V rocket like what took us to the moon. We could figure it out, but we have much better technology and so if you want a rocket like that it is better to start from scratch at this point. (it probably would be cheaper as well once you adjust for inflation, but for sure better. Faster depends on your budget, NASA paid a lot of speed in the saturn-V program)
You can; I worked mostly with WiMAX instead of direct satellite but the radio transmission is the killer either way.
So the canonical solution to this is to use Bazel. The reason I did not end up using Bazel is because it is a pita to manage and I didn't have enough time to allocate to this problem to implement the FAANG solution.

The shell scripts I wrote are a painful, but less painful than dealing with Bazel.
I'm wondering if he could just adjust the API to give an error message that an LLM (or a person) could understand and then correct. It might be worth putting some effort into beefing that up, to cut down the support requests.
USPS plans rural slowdown after election to cut costs
Correct. The solution is to modify packages A and or B, which is a high cost approach (hence why FAANGs could throw warm bodies at it, but most everyone else throws their hands up in exasperation).
In Berlin (and probably other German subway systems, can't recall) you can trigger the open doors handle/button a few moments before the train completely stops, similar concept to Paris.
Impressive dogfooding
> DrakonHub is written in DRAKON-JavaScript and DRAKON-Lua.

https://github.com/stepan-mitkin/drakonhub
I think about this when cooking. There are 1000 variables like ingredient choice, prep methods, spices used, cook time. Changing one produces an effect too small for me to discern. But when I make suboptimal choices on 20 different variables, they stack up to produce a dish that's noticeably worse. :( How can I do science and improve my skills when I can't observe the difference changing one dimension makes!?
I think most Germans see the train delays with silent resignation. The delays have been a constant for a long time now despite everlasting promises of improvements.
Well no, I said there are loads of tutorials in the language of your choice - I have no idea what language OP is proficient in - my personal preference is for C++, but would that be useful here? No idea.

>>The way you go about writing a N64 emulator is vastly different from GB

I specifically said "There are loads of resources online on how to write a gameboy emulator", what does N64 has to do with this?
Because fertility has feedback loops. When there are two people left on earth, their decision to have children or not will not be based on any of the economic or social concerns that we currently face.

It's a completely different situation, and none of the shit we are arguing about applies to it. There's a fundamental difference between running and meeting the long-term needs of a human society of 10 billion people and a human society of 10.

The mathematics you're using is the same reduction to absurdity that leads a manager to believe that nine women can deliver one baby in one month.
The ghosts of the officers and NCOs would never allow the brass to be tarnished, anyway.
That's not as much attention as to cover everything we can direct our attention at. This is so obvious to me that it almost seems like a tautology.

More so, there being enough attention to go around is tangential to whether the sum of our attention colors in all the space.
Exactly. CSMA/CD (carrier sense multiple access with collision detection)
That is a reflection on the types of tool a good craftsman uses.

While a good craftsman can use some bad tools to good results, they almost always use good tools (not using good tools is often done to prove a point).
Awesome to see this launch and to see James Tamplin backing this project.
>Given the above I'm really surprised that IMAP doesn't work better than it does. Often gets disconnected and I have to restart to get back to it.

Same happens to me. This is gonna sound scuffed, but I just started running aerc in a while loop and I hit q to quit if it's acting up, only takes a couple seconds to load back up. Still my favorite mail client, but could definitely be better.
> Your discernment in a subject often improves as you dedicate time and attention to that subject. The space of possible subjects is huge, so on average your discernment is terrible, relative to what it could be. This is a serious problem if you create a machine that does everyone's job for them.

This is the "first level" of expertise. Yes, you will notice this as you delve into more and more areas, but you also find there are a lot of common modes and human patterns that inextricably become part of the subject matter. Having a grasp on this allows you to very quickly get to the intermediate level in most subjects.

Consequently, this is why I dislike modern math's continued fascination with Greek symbols, when Greek or Latin is not taught anymore. It creates an artificial barrier to entry that's very frustrating.
Doubling the register size only affects things if CPU operations were the bottleneck. Often he bottleneck is memory accesses.
I'm sure the author (in addition to this blog post) posted some trite little post on LinkedIn with a photo of a vista or something. We live in a golden age of narcissism.
> When was the last time you saw ethernet frame collisions because you used a hub not a switch?

10base-T1S is just beginning to ramp up in the automotive industry, which modifies the super-successful 100base-T1 to be cheaper by (a) allowing cheaper PHYs; (b) allowing cheaper endpoints due to the lower data rate to handle; (c) allowing lower-spec single twisted pair wiring; and ... (d) allowing multi-drop. This is intended to allow Ethernet to push down into the space that CAN-FD is currently occupying, and looks likely to succeed, at least in some niches.
How does the complexity of CSS make JS a "garbage language"?
That delay wasn't an issue with Muni's previous trains which also had moving stairs.
Yes. I had heard about someone who had fixed a bug in a linker, and then I thought just how hard can it be, and then there is this.

*GREAT* explanation.
Is Bayesian A/B Testing Immune to Peeking? Not
Not sure if they still have the wooden cars on the A (blue) Subte line in Buenos Aires. I lived in Caballito for a little while in 2007 and got a huge kick out of opening the doors early, hopping off the train and sliding on the platform with my crappy slippery shoes.
mpv is the name of the actual program, I'm not aware of it standing for anything. MPlayer is an older project.
This is a curious statement

>ignore the huge gaps in our knowledge and deny that individuals can know anything objectively about how their body responds to things, even though science has no explanation for it

You’re claiming that

There are “huge gaps in our knowledge”

And that (some group) denies that “individuals can know anything objectively about how their body responds to things”

Implying that the latter satisfies the first

This is precisely what I’m asking about

You’re suggesting that a less specific and less measurable vague notion is more predictive than the current state of the art in measuring bodily

On what evidence do you rest such a claim?
I took the OP to mean "any one of n keys can decrypt", not "you need at least n of x keys to decrypt".

In that case... dumb answer... but couldn't you just encrypt it twice (or n times), with n separate keys? Or encrypt the actual thing with a symmetric key, then separately encrypt the symmetric key with a public keypair for each of n users, such that any one of them could regain the symmetric key for that one thing (but not anyone else's private keys).
You encode the cleartext with a single master key. Then you encrypt the master key with multiple keys and store it together with the encrypted cleartext.

This will not take much more space as only the master key is encrypted multiple times.

Now anybody who has one of the keys can decrypt the master key and subsequently decrypt the cleartext.
On positive side, cyber squatters will be priced out from holding millions of domains.
I am not really trying to say anything about Maduro, only about racist caricatures of Latin American leaders in US videogames and other lowbrow media.
A PDF? Oh! There it is. Thanks.
wow, that's terrible. I was a competitive swimmer in my youth, and we did similar competitions from time to time (very rarely). I've never seen or even heard of a swimmer passing out underwater.

A more common drill we would do in practice were called "hypoxic" sets, where we would do one length of the pool breathing every 3 strokes, then the next every 5 strokes, then 7, 9 etc.. until you were going across the whole length (25 meters) without breathing. Not everyone could do it towards the longer distances without breathing, and the coaches would look out for "cheaters", but never once did anyone pass out. Maybe most swimmers, by way of the typical training and exertion in the pool, just don't develop a very good suppression of the "breath signal". I also never remember seeing anyone purposely hyperventilate so that they can stay under water longer.
I occasionally run across something called K8-Sexecutor, or at least that's how I pronounce it.
My first thought/question as well.
If you extend your journalism one back a quarter, you lose that trend, instead, we start and end with the fine art of creating click bait. Yellow journalists followed by Buzzfeed bloggers
A few weeks ago I was visiting UK & France, and had several opportunities to experience both LNER and Eurostar trains. I have no illusions that the US is ready for actual HSR, and we'd probably subject it to TSA security as bad or worse than what the Eurostar has now. But LNER ... now that is something I'd like to see here. Not HSR, but 125 mph is still half again as fast as most Amtrak trains. No security hassle, just hop on like you do with the tube.
I'd even import the British rail class 800 trains that support both diesel as well as pure electric. Smooth and straighten existing 80mph lines so they're 125mph capable. Run electric in the metro areas and diesel in between.

That's a dream. I know. But I do recall Amtrak saying something about making the existing tracks capable of >80mph between Portland and Seattle, and the Talgo trainsets they have now are rated for 120mph IIRC. So maybe we'll get something that doesn't suck.
> Instead of the rumble of a diesel engine, the trains now run on 100% electricity.

What fuel is used to generate the electricity? (Honest question since I have no idea how electricity markets work)

> Caltrain […] was the first service to convert from diesel to electric in the West. (A handful of other passenger trains in the country run on electricity, including an Amtrak line in the Northeast.)

This is so misleading that I wonder if the author did any research at all. There were too many electric interurbans to even list here, but even if you try to narrow it to heavy main lines it was not the first by any possible interpretation: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Category:Electric_railways_in_...

The saddest electric-mainline loss in Caltrain's territory is the old Sacramento Northern, part of which forms the Western Railway Museum trackage:

https://www.abandonedrails.com/sacramento-northern-railroad

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sacramento_Northern_Railway

https://old.reddit.com/r/rustyrails/comments/vij28p/route_of...
That's fu.

This type of behavior demonstrates why capitalism unrestrained is pure evil. Employers view employees as mannequins.

A number of years ago, a former employer of mine expanded a mid-west claim center and hired several hundred new employees, the majority of whom pulled up roots and moved their families from NYC, TX, and CA offices that had been closed. Then 6 months later 75% of the new hires were laid off because 'corporate conditions changed'. Zero compensation to those who had uprooted their families.

Fortunately this didn't impact me directly, although it did sour my view of the corporate world.
Ohh, I still need a database, I just need the JSON doc format.
Ah the traditional lispish naming for predicate functions, applied to questions of an amorous nature!
I do almost everything in Typescript these days. Is it the perfect language? No. Are there libraries for everything? Yes. Is it easy to run? Yes.

The bonus is that I'm using Typescript for front-end development anyway, so using TypeScript for my backend and scripts just simplifies everything I do into one language.
> I left previous job because I was too efficient at solving problems. After X time, there were no outstanding issues so I was no longer necessary.

And so I was fired and could no longer support myself or my family, that's why I'm applying to a position with the lowest pay grade,

It's the capitalism, not a red cross
The delay observed happens after the train has stopped. The delay is due to laggy software and can be eliminated without extending anything from the train while it's moving.

The old trains have no moving steps.
Besides the shift in composition itself, the process shift reporting was informative (quite a few states switched processes recently)
San Francisco to Sunnyvale is 40+ miles. 45 minutes is unrealistic unless you're right next to the freeway and traveling when there's zero traffic.
Oh, is that why all the banks are increasing their checking account fees this quarter?

Those losses have to be socialized somehow!
How about the horns? I heard that they are much worse in the new trains.
> There was never anything stopping Microsoft from approaching Intel and AMD and working jointly on making the same kind of improvements at the hardware level for the benefit of the software

I feel like those who have the overall decision on the direction of Windows, do not use it, because the OS is filled with many own goals that make it worse compared to macOS (e.g. ads, no atomic updates, constant app changes)

> Windows tacitly enabling the Crowdstrike debacle by underdesigning known vectors of failure is not a blameless situation

The issue could of easily happened on Linux too (in-fact a similar issue did).
PFAS contamination from sewage treatment biosolids.

> estimates from the Environmental Working Group suggest these harmful chemicals could be polluting nearly 20 million acres of cropland, more than 20% of all U.S. farmland.

https://www.ecos.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/01/PFAS-in-Bios... ("PFAS in Biosolids: A Review of State Efforts
& Opportunities for Action")
> Combined with the difficulty in getting Clojure talent

Why bother looking for talent in a specific language? Every reasonably intelligent (not even necessarily talented) developer can learn another high-level language in some weeks.
That's certainly one possible outcome, though you could argue that talking to bots is like walking on a treadmill, it seems less satisfying somehow, though you are getting some exercise clearly... (but couldn't you just go outside?)
* As you can see by opening the link, "pydong" is the name of the blog, not the Python preprocessor

* I'm glad that we are not ants. Deciding everything "as a community" would be hell
I’d be interested to hear about how these trains (and others) would behave in an earthquake. I remember a work colleague who lived through the Loma Prieta going from Berkeley to San Francisco and I’m sure it wasn’t pretty.
PS.: huge fan of trains and public transportation here, hopefully other places in North and South America would follow suit!
Pretty much. We know how it was produced, but we have better steel available and so nobody is willing to go through that much work to produce an inferior product. If you want a good sword you start with good modern steel and treat it like the book says - which includes give it as little time in the furnace as you can get by while shaping it. If you want a sword that looks pretty you can cheat to apply decorations that look like Damascus from a distance and that is good enough (you might or might not start with good steel, but if you do it is better than a real Damascus sword). Nobody has the patience to do things the old way as there is no advantage to it.

If the old way actually had advantages someone would do it. In the case of Damascus we have enough science to know it wasn't as good. There are other areas where people to go through the effort to create something the old way - either it isn't much more work (it may be more work, just not too much more), or the old way is somehow better.
Given the extent of Entrprenerial Lubricant the wide swatch of available tooling is in the age of AI' Elite Script Kiddie abilities are - -if they were any sort of sound PM, they should be building something of their own informed vision from their time as a PM -- what were the gaps that needed serving that whatever SnakeWare they were slinging was missing.

Personally, and I believe its a good trait - although it definitely exacerbates distractions - is that I've always been one to see the opportunites within the gaps in the market, available tools, etc.

I get so much inspiration and ideas just from reading HN every day. If one is PM - they would do well to read every show, tell, ask, launch HN post - some remarkable niche-like functions that actually when you see all these things from HN, they are like an ecosystem of tools, apps, ideas and services that can all be like Lego pieces when looked at holistically.

I've already done a number of things with some posts recently on HN to expand my learnings..

So -- hopefully any PMs are lurking and finding opportunities that mayhaps they can craft something meaningful/fun/interesting.
I think it would be difficult to compare at this point, as there aren't many details about Zero outside of the blog on their landing page. I believe it's very much in early (but active) development.

From that blog:
> We are working toward a source release in summer 2024 and an open beta EOY 2024.
Windows 10X potentially would of prevented the Crowdstrike issue, but some exec at Microsoft clearly didn't like it for whatever reason.
Just in renaissance? There is virtually nobody left in the workforce that can write JavaScript. Most of the old timers have gotten out, and the youngsters are an epic example of the article: the loss of perspective to self-reflect due to a machine (library) that does their jobs for them. Case in point: take React and querySelectors away and watch the sadness unfold like an apocalypse movie.

Yes, yes, I know there are still people who can/do write JavaScript... they just are not statistically represented in the workforce.
Where's here? The UK and most of Europe, for instance, still has plenty of diesel service.
Seems like Chipotle provided private jets too

https://www.reddit.com/r/Chipotle/comments/10w0dyg/comment/j...
yeah, it's called the gameshark, for about $20. You could hook it up to your PC and hack on it, best of all the toolkits were Linux/FreeBSD. outside of SPIM, psx introduced a bunch of hackers to r3k and showed us that the future didn't have to be x86.
>> didn't string up every single politician responsible for the conflict.

But more than a few dynasties ended as a result of the war. Certainly the Romanovs were not allowed to continue. And there were no more kaisers after the war either.
> Advertising is not zero-sum. It is a money multiplier.

You misunderstand zero sum here. Gas stations can’t grow total gas sales making the selling of gas zero sum, but they very much provide a useful function in aggregate.

Advertising is going to exist with and without tracking individual users, the difference is simply relative value of undifferentiated content. Selling camping supplies on an outdoor website is targeting, but linking user’s history allows anyone to get a cut of premium revenue even if it’s lowest common denominator crap. But remove tracking of users and specialty content like local news becomes a lot more valuable and clickbait far less, a major public good.

> we start from the position that a new business creates net new value in the economy (on top of existing value). This is an economic maxim that must be true otherwise our GDP would never grow from 1770 standards.

I understand the point you are trying to make but existing companies also evolve their offerings over time. Nintendo in 1889 wasn’t selling video games.