skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Yes, I have taken cross-country buses probably two dozen times, Amtrak only a dozen cross-country, another two dozen for shorter trips.

I finally got a roomette experience after Amtrak introduced the lottery for lower prices (and to fill empty seats). I really loved the roomette, and the reintroduction of the dining car (I'm old enough to remember when everyone got to dine...). If I had lots of money I would take it all the time.

But most of my experience with Amtrak is coach. On long trips, it's very hard to get comfortable when trying to rest/sleep. Even if you get a window seat (so somebody isn't waking you up to get up), and manage to find a good position to lay in, the whole train is shaking and bumping and banging at odd times, and the cabin is freezing. Add to that the coughing and talking on phones and everything else and it's not a great time. By the time you arrive the next day you feel like you've been in an MMA fight.

The bus is slightly better. It's still not comfortable, but the ride is much smoother, and generally it's a little quieter. You often get a straight shot for 2-5 hours of just steady movement and light rocking, and then a break where you can stretch your legs or use the bathroom (don't ever poop on the bus!). Sometimes they're late, sometimes they're not, and it's always chaos trying to figure out which gate is which route. But in general I don't feel as beaten up and tired after I finish the bus route.

The other reasons to use the bus is it goes where the train doesn't (we have extremely limited rail lines in the US), it's cheaper, and runs more frequently to more places. Buses also take highways where cell signal is available, so if you have a hotspot you have internet; on Amtrak the internet usually doesn't work and on longer trips there's often no cell signal. The bus is definitely a more fraught journey, but the train ride literally makes me feel worse. I guess it depends on the person.

I should add that Amtrak is going to be a much better experience (maybe the only choice, next to a plane) for people with disabilities or the elderly. Long-term parking is also often available at Amtrak facilities, unlike many bus depots. And I will say that the Amtrak quiet car is a thoughtful respite from noise, even if some people don't respect the rules. But I wouldn't travel on any of these lines without ear plugs and an eye mask.
If only it had higher pixel density. If there was a 43" 6K or even 8K screen I'd buy it in a heartbeat. But with only 4K I have to use all sorts of weird tricks with raster fonts to make the text in my terminals sharp.

Also, too bad all the TV makers stopped making 8K screens in 55" and below.
Site there relative to that other mass that wants to accelerate it toward each other.
No, it's not. The point of batteries is, typically, as a storage mechanism for renewables that doesn't have 100% uptime so, battery storage in itself doesn't have a defined GW used per day. The reason why I say it should be scaled to actual long term usage (preferably a calendar year) is that the capability of batteries to replace power plants is dependent on how much excess energy exists to charge them.

For example, a TW of battery capability isn't going to do you any good in a Canadian winter if it's paired with solar that gets a few hours of generation a day.

The comparison required to know how much fossil/nuclear generation these batteries are capable to replace is comparing the worst case scenario for the whole system, batteries and generation included. If the worst day for these batteries they discharge 2Gwh of power, they can only replace 2GW/24 of traditional power generation.

The nuclear comparison is a bit ironic to me as well because one of the things that the batteries are actually very capable of is replacing the "peaker" generation that's required by nuclear/hydro/geothermal generation since it's difficult to scale those responsively. A Solar/Wind/(Nuclear|Hydro|Geo) generation backed by significant battery capacity could completely replace the need for fossil fuels in the generation side and, as renewable production and battery capacity increase, you can drop the rods a bit lower and scale back your nuclear production until it's zero.

I see this article as clearly meant to refute the nuclear energy argument when, in practice, building battery capacity makes nuclear make more sense, not less.
An iPhone held “at rest” cannot be accelerating downward, by definition.
Go has more protections than Rust regarding supply chain attack.

https://go.dev/blog/supply-chain
C++ has an explicit compilation phase after which things like classes remain stable.

Python only has a byte-compilation phase that turns the parse tree into executable format. Everything past that, including the creation if classes, imports, etc is runtime. You can pick a class and patch it. You can create classes and functions at runtime; in fact, this happens all the time, and not only for lambdas, but this is how decorators work.

A JIT compiler could detect actual usage patterns and replace the code with more efficient versions, until a counter-example is found, and the original "de-optimized" code is run. This is how JavaScript JITs generally work.
Very unlikely. Apple can argue that less than 1% of computers users ever upgrade their memory (which is true), and after all, did the EU intervene when GPUs dropped their slotted memory?
Doing it by a state does not make it magically scale in any way shape or form. You still need something like one-to-one or one-to-a-few for care work to be effective. Trying to provide it through the government does absolutely nothing to change this fact.
We have to account for other improvements like better fertilizers, pesticides and the green revolution which would lower food prices independent of automation and migrant labour.
https://old.reddit.com/r/AskElectronics/comments/2ufunr/why_...

I think there's some sign inversion happening there. But don't quote me, all the details are fuzzy to me.
I’ve heard what the article describes about specializing being the way to go. In the US, insurance is also a huge pain in the ass; doctors have to fight to get paid as often as we have to fight to have things covered. There’s also the overhead of insurance for their practice, the costs of running a clinic or being part of a clinic group, maintaining compliance with everything, paying Epic’s extortionate fees, etc.

The last two doctors I’ve had have gone to “concierge” services to help mitigate this. They stabilize their income with annual membership fees that sidestep the insurance company horseshit. They constrain their roster a bit. They can see people more quickly. But you have to be a member.

It’s sad for me, but I get it from their perspective. “Retail” healthcare in the US is by all accounts a nightmare.
It really is, 4K 27" monitors that can do >=120Hz are perfect for me personally.

I just wish that the base macbook pro models supported 3 external screens without resorting to a software-based video-over-usb DisplaySync (not DisplayPort) connection.
No?

A theoretically perfect accelerometer will show something non zero as the rocket engine is in fact shifting the entire Earth by a very very very very very very tiny amount.
Would be cool if you could chose between different hash functions like RIPEMD-256 or some BLAKE variants
nice to see this.
These are still well below what Apple offers at the high end and you can not buy systems like that right now. If you want high memory bandwidth on the CPU today, you will be charged a big markup on Epyc/Xeon/ThreadripperPro CPUs and motherboards, rather than the DRAM.
Microsoft cares, though, because if a game stops working when you upgrade Windows, you blame the Windows upgrade, not Microsoft. So now Microsoft has to maintain these legacy system calls even though they never signed up to do that.
> Some licenses (e.g. Apache 2) seem to be written such that the license itself requires the disclaimer

I don’t believe this is actually true. These instructions are not in the actual license terms and conditions, but rather in a distinct information section after that. In GPL-3.0, “How to Apply These Terms to Your New Programs”; in Apache-2.0, “How to apply the Apache License to your work”. My understanding is that such prescriptions and sections are not normative.

From a pure copyright law perspective: no, you definitely don’t need to put the license in each source file. Copyright is automatic these many years, so you don’t even need a copyright line; and license can be (and practically always is) independent of the code. This would obviously¹ hold for warranty disqualification too. Bigger businesses may like to do it for their own convenience of license management, and individuals or groups may like to do it on their work in case individual files are lifted (… as distinct from smaller units, or even taking a file and stripping the header), but basically the era where this sort of thing could arguably be relevant as a mandate is long-past.

There’s even more definitely no need for a dozen lines. If you really want to put anything, one line for a copyright declaration and one line for SPDX-License-Identifier seems fair.

As for copyright lines⸺ bah, they’re such a bunch of drivel. The way people use year ranges, or just bump the year, it’s almost all such legal nonsense. As in, “if this stuff actually mattered, you’d probably have lost your copyright protection” nonsense. The fact of the matter is that copyright year stuff wasn’t designed for such easily-edited stuff as software. It was designed for “first edition copyright 1925; renewed 1935; second edition copyright 1945”, that kind of thing.

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¹ “Obviously” here means what a normal person would mean; but I acknowledge that some jurisdictions sometimes hold positions that are obvious nonsense.
Proto-Korean-Japanese: A Reconstruction of Common Origins of Japanese and Korean
You're probably not getting ripped off (relatively speaking). When I quit my job to take some time off 3 years ago, and signed up for COBRA, the out of pocket expense for 2 adults came to around $2000 per month, also for an HDHP plan.
I write Go, tried Odin for about 3 weeks, decided it wasn't for me.

I appreciated some things, like the fact that the syntax is close to Go, the easy interop with C, the fast compilation, somewhat complete stdlib.

Other things I didn't like much: pointers have changed to '^', I'm sure there's a reasonable but I just don't like it, I'm used to '*'.
Error handling is a PITA as far as I can remember. Meta programming felt clunky.

This is all subjective based on my limited experience, but I felt that Zig worked better for me.
Take a person that with X% body fat and Y% muscles.

They start going to the gym; after some time, they'll have (random numbers) (X-2)% body fat, and (Y+2)% muscles.

On a scale, their weight will be the same, but in reality, their body composition (and looks) will be considerably different.

This is a very important concept. Beside the obvious case where somebody just looks at the scale, and they don't realize their progress, body composition as opposed to weight is extremely important when doing diets, because an improper diet may lead to excessive muscle loss, which is accidentally perceived as a success (on the scale) rather than a failure (because the body composition hasn't changed as intended).
Search for static site generators, there are many. Some of the famous ones are Jekyll, Hugo, etc, but I personally use NextJS with MDX: https://nextjs.org/docs/pages/building-your-application/conf...
They will be unveiling more M4 devices every day this week. Probably started with the least remarkable to build intensity.
> did the EU intervene when GPUs dropped their slotted memory?

The difference there is that slotted GPU memory is demonstrably impactical, but the memory on the M4 isn't demonstrably better than the LPCAMM2 module above. It's literally the exact same spec. Not that I expect the EU to do anything either when they didn't act on Apples soldered-in SSDs, which definitely aren't any better than standardized M.2 drives.
An interesting thing I'm seeing happening in primary care is that doctors are being replaced by doctor adjacent professions like Nurse Practitioner, Physician Assistant, etc.

A doctor spends a decade working 60 to 80 hour weeks studying medicine whereas an NP is a Master degree, I think which can be obtained online.

There doesn't appear to be clear results yet in studies on the outcomes of NP's vs MD's (see reference).

Another argument is that maybe all that medical school training is overkill in Primary Care and this is perfect setting for NP's or PA's. And also maybe most doctors are not ambitious and forget most of the training they're not using on a daily basis anyway.

I think it would be pretty funny if after more studies NP's showed no different outcomes than MD's.

Interesting write up on NP outcomes.

https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/18766097/
Is this legal? I can’t find a free link from the author.
> The easiest way to see that gravity is not a force is to note that a force causes acceleration, but gravity does not.

Maybe I'm misunderstanding as it's been a while since physics class but I'm pretty sure gravity does cause acceleration. One of the few numbers I still remember memorizing in college 9.8m/s2 -- the acceleration by gravity on Earth.
Congratulations on that last paragraph!
First off, "up to" is the most bullshit metric. I am also up to 10x more productive when I get coffee, but that's when comparing to days where I just play Satisfactory all day long.

Secondly, "compared to a random HP AIO PC with a 5 year old CPU" (since there are approximately zero chances that the most popular PC in a market that is heavily Apple dominated would be a 2023 Raptor Lake) is just, once again, Apple's piss poor comparisons.
It was definitely true in my high school English classes ~20 years ago that we would get red ink on our papers if we used what were termed "weasel words" like "suggests" and "believe". I have no idea how representative that was, or which direction the trend has been since then. We were also taught to use short, declarative sentences wherever possible, Hemingway being the ultimate example of the "beauty" of economy in language.

It is my understanding that this is a very USA-centric trend in writing, probably being exported along with the rest of the complex basket of American cultural quirks that come along with US-led internationalization (hegemony if you like) since WWII.
My brother was a Family Medicine doctor and he got burned out and retired early and is now a potter lol. His ex gf was a doctor and did the same. I suspect this sort of thing is behind a lot of the issues this article is explaining. After Covid, a large portion of the world that could retire did so and never came back. Those that are left and stuck in that world working or trying to use it, are not happy about it.
> we should note that even Einstein himself cautioned against believing spacetime was actually curved. [...] I don't want to appeal to authority

Another example that comes to mind is Max Planck believing that light being absorbed in discrete packets of energy was only a neat mathematical hack he came up with. It took Albert Einstein to say "but what if light is discrete packets". And then as you say Einstein having major reservations against the field of quantum physics that he himself spawned.

> if you think gravity isn't a force, drop a brick on your toe

By that logic the centrifugal force has to be a force. If you don't believe it, just drive a vehicle around a curve, or whirl a rock on a string.
> optimally drain their wallets

I mean, that's basically it. The difference between part costs of 8GB/16GB/32GB RAM chips is nearly a rounding error, and they're probably eating a bunch more costs stocking and adding assembly for different RAM SKUs.
I can't tell if this is joking or not.
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So.

A god, created the universe, in all its hugeness and complexity, and kicked it off to run by a set of rules. (which technically could have life anywhere).

Then

On this one planet Earth. He lets 100's of religions take root and flourish.

Then this god cherry picks a few tribes wondering in the desert and says 'You guys are my dudes'. And here are some commandments about only worshiping me.

BUT, he doesn't let anybody else know, just these tribes wondering around in the middle east.

And then. You are believing all of this, because it was written in a book, hundreds of years after the fact, and was edited by a committee. (which isn't disputed by most Christians).

And based on all this, you believe you are scientific, and believing this can enrich your scientific understanding of the Universe?

WTF?
> Why are you using PCPs?

For primary care. I believe that's where the name Primary Care Provider comes from.

The difference from urgent care is long term. Having the same PCP for long periods of time provides an opportunity for deep insight and developing a personal relationship.
Apple's Commitment to AI Is Clear, but Its Execution Is Uneven
If they had not been paying attention to what you were showing them, then how would they have noticed the emoji?
I was trying to post with the link to the open access paper, but I wound up cut-and-pasting the popular article (which I found first) Sorry.
The river model of general relativity.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hFlzQvAyH7g&list=PL__fY7tXwo...
My girlfriend (who has quite severe ADHD) is exactly like you. Before she can get any work done in our office everything needs to be put away/organized/in it's place or she'll get detracted all the time.
To mimic the effect of gravity on the surface of the earth you could stand on a platform that is accelerating. As long as that platform is accelerating you will experience something similar to gravity on the surface of the earth.

The relative direction of the acceleration would be "up". This is what she means.
for eg, asic custom designed for an application is better than a generalised industrial chip
I think the missing piece in your puzzle is adding the "time" to space-time. A particle moving through time is "falling" in the time dimension. The curvature of the 4d space makes this movement through time also move through space due to the warping effect of a gravity well.
Orbit of a Possible Planet X
There is a specialist shortage. Refs I've sent to Endros take months. I've even had to refer patients to places nearly 150 miles away.
Says the first owner of the machine. Macbooks, and Apple devices in general, have a strong reputation for high resale value. That high resale value is based on having them last quite a while. This falls apart in a few years as hardware requirements continue to balloon.

That was fine when Intel was sitting on their ass, raking in the cash, and nearly everything else (storage, especially external drives, RAM, and even batteries weren't too bad) is upgradeable. This is less great when you can no longer upgrade the component most likely to be the first bottleneck.

Apple pays people to be smarter than me about this, but I still think it's a stupid long-term play to damage one of your biggest selling points
To save people a lookup, 400% of the federal poverty level in 2025:

Household
Size 400% FPL
1 $60240
2 $81760
3 $103280
4 $124800
5 $146320
6 $167600

An annoying aspect of the subsidies is that they have an abrupt drop as you cross 400% FPL.

From 133% (if you are below 133% you are supposed to use extended Medicaid instead of a subsidized marketplace plan) to 400% the amount of the subsidy goes down bit is still substantial at 400%.

This can result in a situation where if your income is a little over 400% FPL you might come out ahead by taking a pay cat to get under.
Roads have been around for several hundred years or more, along with public transportation (trains were commonplace in rural areas in the past), and the car has been the primary mode of transportation for about a century. After all that time, why is this still becoming a big problem?
I've always struggled to find a place where serious programmers would be there to talk and exchange experiences on various topics related to software development. So I built a simple site from scratch where we can chat, send files, post things and share images and links on a single platform. https://chat-to.dev
I think this is a distinction between push/pull? You are interpreting the reading as it being pulled down. You could also interpret it as you having to push it up.

The example you give also doesn't make sense. The acceleration would not go to 0 when you drop something. The acceleration continues for the entire fall. It may be offset by friction if it hits terminal velocity. But, absent that, acceleration would continue the entire fall.

If the reading of an accelerometer does change in freefall, then what it is measuring isn't the acceleration, necessarily, but the difference in acceleration between components in the device. Which makes sense. Is like watching a balloon in a car when you start moving. (With the trick of whether the windows are open or not, of course.)
When you put it that way it actually makes a lot more sense to me. But I think if that's your position, then you should present alternative harms that plastics use have prevented. I'm aware of some harms that would have happened in the medical field where disposable medical devices have likely reduced the burden of sterilization after procedures. Imagine having to clean your hypodermic after every use.
So you think that the research is wrong?

I see it as very plausible. Kids like to break rules and long for forbidden fruits. When weed is no longer forbidden, they have no interest in it just as they see little interest in getting drunk.
Question. Is this phoning home all the time?
Why Duplicating Environments for Microservices Backfires
> The easiest way to see that gravity is not a force is to note that a force causes acceleration, but gravity does not.

When did objects stop falling down from gravity? Or is this some hairsplitting about how gravity takes effect by pulling instead of pushing?
Rally – "people tool" that helps founders solve problems through other founders
Why is Wikipedia structured in such a way that the Delhi High Court has any say in what I as a european can view on en.wikipedia.org?

We can't let the internet be governed by the lowest common denominator of legal decisions.
I have one and I don't much care for it. But one thing it does better than other mice is scrolling left and right. It scrolls left and right as easily as it scrolls up and down. I edit audio files and work in DAWs a lot and it's really great for that. If I'm not performing those tasks, I generally don't use it.
That’s relative to the surface of the earth
There are plenty of reasons. They are just not intrinsic to the isolation, instead they come from complications rooted deeply on the underlying system.

If you rebuild Linux from the ground up with isolation in mind, you will be able to do it more efficiently. People are indeed in the process of rewriting it, but it's far from complete (and moving back and forward, as not every Linux dev cares about it).
I work in banking. This was the take of a lawyer from my local (national) enforcement body in denmark (finanstilsynet). They can't make direct recommendations, because the specific judgement about what is delegated to each RTS is itself delegated to EU courts.

That didn't stop them from giving me their opinion which was that certain parts of certain RTS's fell well outside the delegated responsibility, and would therefore never be enforcable. No matter if it was adopted, because the RTS was never delegated the power to define what it decided to define.

This doesn't mean that you should ignore the RTS, but you need to remember what is law and what isn't. RTS's are never enforcable, they are only technical definitions which you use to enforce that actual law.
It's also much faster to get in front of a NP than a doctor.
Memorization is rather important in an era where a big chunk of the population was farm workers in rural communities and access to information meant taking the time for a trip to the local library with a very limited selection of books.