skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
i’ll go even further, i dont include attention is all you need in my list. i think theres always a necessary intellectual history, but sometimes when you just want to do a specific job, you just want the current thing, and you can backfill the older stuff later (which yes can bite you in the ass if you are ignorant)
The EU looks like a trust fund kid who always has had their their cake and eaten it too, but now looks to be on course for a reckoning with reality.

Perhaps to the naive Europe still has a nice allure, but when you lift of the carpet it's hard to find confidence in it's future.
And yet, what good is growth if we have to sacrifice social safety provisions?
You're not necessarily wrong but maybe a bit naive about what cutting edge research entails.
If I could travel by train domestically in the USA as is common in Europe, I would prefer it.

It's a real shame that the USA has yet to develop decent passenger trains.
> Do you see why this is different?

Not particularly, as long as they have a monopoly/duopoly, because that acts as a giant pile of free money which can pay for these things.

If we had some kind of mechanism in place that resulted in aggressive competition, then maybe "you have to provide service for $15-20" would be a problem.

I think it would be quite a bad idea for the city to pay the asking price to this kind of monopoly/duopoly, because that rent will get jacked up extra high.
The market is already distorted by the telephone and cable companies being granted local monopolies.
I think my main argument is having history with someone is not checking his profile.

If I run today into someone from primary school we probably will connect over that.

If that someone will start talking how he have seen photos of my trips or my life events or how he totally loves band I added to my profile half a year ago - without ever sending me even happy new years message - I will be creeped out - and totally not “aw cool you follow my posts”.
... the total NYC budget is $109 billion. They are not spending $13k/resident on trash collection.

Edit: according to https://www.ibo.nyc.ny.us/iboreports/understandingthebudget.... residential garbage collection is $10 million per week.
i try to watch SNL,but its just not funny 99% of the time, weekend update is the only thing that could get a half chuckle anymore most of the times
Marcher here means "work", "function".
What "performative" and "social justice" would have meant in 1960 would be very different and a throwaway line to that effect does nothing to rescue the piece. But to give an example:

> A successful theory of the origin of political correctness has to be able to explain why it didn't happen earlier. Why didn't it happen during the protest movements of the 1960s, for example? They were concerned with much the same issues. [1]

> The reason the student protests of the 1960s didn't lead to political correctness was precisely that — they were student movements. They didn't have any real power.

The issue is a factual one. Student protests were in fact a huge contributor to the civil rights movement which was undoubtedly very successful. Applying his theory with this correction:

"The output of progressive movements is political correctness" + "1960s student movement output civil rights" = "civil rights are political correctness"

Of course Paul Graham believes in civil rights, which is why he instead decided that the 1960s student movements must have had no power or effect. Remove the modern context/our understanding of PG and the philosophy of the piece boils down to "things progressives try to impress on society are bad". Vague asterisks in regards to the distant past don't solve that fundamental problem.
Cheating Is All You Need
It’s not bad journalism, it’s modern journalism! It reports data and invites readers like you to confirm your preconceived biases with it, such that it never challenges those beliefs and risks losing you as a reader, nor risks confirming your beliefs and losing other readers. It’s win win all around!
If that's what you want to do, why would you ever sign a contract saying you won't do it?
It should be a utility. I'd like the government to eminent domain all internet infrastructure and resell bandwidth to ISPs at fair prices.

I would in fact enjoy a great deal of schadenfreude. The carriers pocketed giant government handouts but did not make the commensurate improvements in infrastructure those were intended to fund.
Where is the “r”?
What percentage of these are complaints about staring on a train?
all those PM's and middle layers are going to be an "AI Engineer" soon, so now you know
I would say a lot of what drives wokeism is not priggery but ignorance and just going along with the crowd, sometimes in forms that are well meaning.

e.g. sometimes white people have some experience where they realize how much crap black people get; they might actually meet some black people or learn about history (e.g. black people have been complaining about the police in America as long as there is America, why are we supposed to remember one person's name but forget Rodney King or the Watts Riots, that people like Booker T. Washington had trouble w/ the police) but instead they chant thought-stopping slogans like "defund the police" (tell that to the black people who have gunshots in their neighborhood every night) and instead of saying something like "Black people are beautiful" they have to say "Black lives are beautiful".

The trouble is that people today are looking back 15 minutes and looking ahead 15 minutes and are up against the likes of Xi, Putin and Netanyahu who are thinking in terms of hundreds of years if not thousands. They're like children in the hands of gods.

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There is an undercurrent of priggery in attitudes about sexuality that's a different and much more complex theme that starts w/ Baudrillard's essay at the beginning of

https://monoskop.org/images/9/96/Baudrillard_Jean_Seduction....

and continues with experiences such as discovering that when squicky rumours are flying around it is is the former BDSM professional several steps removed from the event who goes the the police with a garbled, confused and hysterical story or that the transgenderist gatekeepers of Tildes don't know that there are 549 paraphilias (see https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paraphilia) and that pedophilia is just one of them in their mad rush to cancel anyone they can. In contrast the people who pray a few times a day, homeschool their kids, and volunteer on deadly cold nights at the homeless shelter, while people who hate them are sharing hateful memes online, who "seek first to understand" the way Steven Covey says you should)
Ah, through USB-C? That didn't occur to me.
There literally was a national-level inquiry investigated when the Tories were in power and a set of recommendations were put forth as a result of that inquiry. The current Labour govt is actively implementing those recommendations. If there's one thing that's bipartisan, it's this.
There's no other nationality in the world where commenting in the subreddit devoted to that country results in being automatically banned from other subreddits.
Ask HN: Dense Tree Layout Algorithms
I recently bought a poster which features a really beautiful rendering of a phylogenetic tree of the world's bird families (a rooted binary tree).

https://lynxnaturebooks.com/product/orders-and-families-of-the-birds-of-the-world-poster/

I am sure it was carefully designed by hand. What algorithms could automatically generate a layout like this? The graphviz layout algorithms are poorly suited to the problem because they cannot seem to avoid edge/node coincidence beyond a certain node density.
I think something a lot of people don't understand is that nobody is entitled to respect. Respect is something that is earned. If someone behaves in ways that you disagree with, you are not obligated to respect that behavior, or the person engaging in that behavior. I think one of the greatest disservices we have done to our young people, for a couple of generations now, is to teach them that everyone is entitled to respect no matter what they do. Just as it is your right to behave however you want in society (within legal limits), it is everyone else's right to judge you for that behavior. The younger generations act as if "judgement" is a dirty word, and that people are committing some sort of grave transgression if they judge you.
>The City was among America’s premier trains, a luxury streamliner that could hit 110 miles per hour while white-jacketed waiters balanced trays of cocktails

I wonder how passengers back then would have imagined rail travel today, 75 years later (aside from the life-threatening storms, of course). The Overland Route is now freight-only, and the closest equivalent, the California Zephyr, takes about 52 hours to make the journey this train did in just 40!

More on topic, I was surprised to read:

> When the steam generators’ water tanks ran dry, heat disappeared, too.

Weren't there surrounded by frozen water? Is there any reason snow couldn't be used in an emergency to heat the train?
da Vinci's solution to turning a spit [video]
The Universal Robot (1993) [pdf]
Our artifacts are getting smarter, and a loose parallel with the evolution of animal intelligence
suggesLs one future course for them. Computerless industrial machinery exhibits the behavioral
flexibility of single-celled organisms. Today's best computer-controlled robots are like the simpler
invertebrates. A thousand-fold increase in computer power in the next decade should make
possible machines with reptile-like sensory and motor competence. Properly configured, such
robots could do in the physical world what personal computers now do in the world of data--act
on our behalf as literal-minded slaves. Growing computer power over the next half-century will
allow this reptile stage will be surpassed, in stages producing robots that learn like mammals,
model their world like primates and eventually reason like humans. Depending on your point of
view, humanity will then have produced a worthy successor, or transcended some of its inherited
limitations and so transformed itself into something quite new.
FreeBSD - from what I know - does not support Hibernation (S4) - it supports Suspend/Resume (S3) - as shown in video.

The difference:

Suspend/Resume (S3)

CPU is powered off. RAM maintains power and data. Very low power usage. Sometimes referred to as 'Save to RAM' or 'Standby'.

Hibernation (S4)

CPU is powered off. RAM is powered off. Data/RAM/files wrote to disk. Power is off. Sometimes referred to as 'Save to Disk'.
The fact that so few people blog these days makes blogging even more influential than it used to be.

You can establish yourself as something of a global expert on some topic just by writing about it a few times a month over the course of a year!

Don't expect people to come to your blog. Practice https://indieweb.org/POSSE - Publish (on your) Own Site, Syndicate Elsewhere - post things on your blog and then tweet/toot/linkedin/submit-to-hacker-news/share-in-discord etc.

Also, don't worry too much about whether you get traffic at the time you write something. A lot of the reputational value comes from having written something that you can link people to in the future. "Here are my notes about that topic from last year: LINK" - that kind of thing.

There's a lot to be said for writing for its own sake, too. Just writing about a topic forces you to double-check your understanding and do a little bit more research. It's a fantastic way of learning more about the world even if nobody else ever reads it.
Several fans have created their own (unauthorized) completed versions of the Alph-Art. Most famous is Yves Rodier's version from 1991.
Because you end up with neither.
You should read my original comment.

git bisect should operate on bisectable commits. Which may not be all commits. Git is missing information. This is, imho, a flaw in Git.
This comment is being deservedly downvoted. It's misinformation. Here's the statutory threshold for harassment: https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/1997/40/section/1
The left put everything under the lens of oppressor vs oppressed. That's the idea that disgusts lots of moderates. The idea came from Leninism, but nonetheless is considered woke as fuck. So, no it's not necessarily a boogeyman, unless you throw out anything you don't like from the bucket of woke (and vice versa).

Oh, CRT is also woke as fuck, unless you believe it's the right framework.
> Just do it directly

It is impossible to do it more directly than at the point of sale.

Literally every other method is less direct.

A tax is ten thousand times less direct.
> In short, not many people want to funnel users through N code paths with slightly different behaviors, because not many people have a ton of users, a ton of engineering capacity, and a ton of potential upside from marginal improvements.

I’ve been in companies that have tried dozens if not hundreds of A/B tests with zero statistically significant results. I figure by the law of probabilities they would have gotten at least a single significant experiment but most products have such small user bases and make such large changes at a time that it’s completely pointless.

All my complaints fell on deaf ears until the PM in charge would get on someone’s bad side and then that metric would be used to push them out. I think they’re largely a political tool like all those management consultants that only come in to justify an executive’s predetermined goals.
I cannot find any evidence on IMDB or Wikipedia that he had involvement.
I think parent is confusing A/B testing with feature flags, which can be used for A/B tests but also for roll-outs.
The new mDNS discovery mechanism works much better for me than the old one. I had two speakers that would constantly require reboots to be discovered with the old version but now they are 100% available.
Well that's the problem, it isn't, its a pseudo csv. A simple csv can be done with {awk -F ,} you only have a certain amount of fields separated by ",". field N is ".+". This means you don't need a parser, but it also means the format is variable depending on the headers. but you also can create a simple BRE regex, thus having pretty good performance.
This seems like extraordinarily weak writing with very little backings or substantial evidence to the claims. That in itself would be fine - if presented as opinion - but this has an air of a historical biography of the actual lineage of the term. This is anything but.
The same government which has declared "Asian grooming gangs" to be a 'racist' term for gangs of Pakistani immigrants who committed hundreds of sex crimes against young girls? It's certainly a possibility.

[1] https://www.thetimes.com/uk/crime/article/islamophobia-racis...
People call it "homelab" or "data hoarding" these days, but yes, the easy access to hours and hours of movies and music was "solved" for the average person by the content streaming sites, so there's not as much a drive as there used to be for it.

Heheheh, drive.
The delta does not matter to the consumer. They might pay <5% more, hardly a dent in demand would follow. The producer has a small profit margin so it does matter for them, since production and logistics cost a lot.
Even more problematic are the invisible hordes of risk averse middle managers.
It’s relatively easy to justify supporting only one or two major versions back if you’re writing an iOS app. There are stats out there on how many active devices are on what version, it’s pretty striking. Especially compared to Android.
Wherever they teach product management and design this saga will be a case study.
Right on! You're not even covering the half of it. Incumbent dinosaur ISPs will fight this kicking and screaming, but after they have their tantrums they will embrace it because it keeps new competition out of the market. This general pattern of "unfunded mandates" creates time bombs that become entrenched and impossible to fix (look at the catastrophe of the healthcare industry)

If you want to actually screw big cable (and you should), support the direct action of municipal fiber. The funds for the build out don't even need to come from the general tax fund - with the popularity of such services in 2025, municipal bonds are more than sufficient.
Through an audio jack.
Another option, "I'm already doing A/B testing, trust me."
>Engineers are in a better position to understand what the customer wants and needs.

This is one of the key competencies of UX professionals, specifically UX researchers.
1) make blog

2) make moo card

3) profit
> If we forbid words that offend someone, somewhere, we would be left with no language.

And yet, according to you, we've banned all sorts of words based on offense and society is still standing.

I think it's interesting that you're simultaneously insisting that there is no conspiracy, and yet you're describing something that is demonstrably not true, and not out in the open. There has been no elimination of white families from the mainstream. The overwhelming majority of all positions of power globally are held by white people. Where is the real-world harm? Overzealous models? A commercial with a lesbian couple in it? What you don't realize is that you've recreated so-called "woke panic" -- you're just doing a right wing version of it whatever your stated beliefs.

And your last graf displays this really well:

> I despise Trump, Musk, MAGA, and conservatism in general. Gamergate was largely a bunch of incels attacking any women who dared to be in gaming or game journalism. Yet I have the awareness of the world enough to see that the "woke" nonsense, particularly woke racism/sexism, has been massively destructive to progressivism and leftist causes. It's literally why the world is going to have four dangerous years of Trump.

You're blaming Kamala Harris' disastrous campaign on woke. Why did her campaign start so late? Why wasn't she nominated to that position in the primary? Because the Democratic party chose to elevate the feelings of Joseph Biden, a literal segregationist and misogynist, over even winning elections. They had no chance at all once they did that. But you can't even look at reality as it is because you're fixated on your imaginary witch hunt. I can't help you with that.
New fossil fuel plants should be outlawed everywhere
> Engineers are in a better position to understand what the customer wants and needs. Salespeople are there to sell their product, and fundamentally don't need to understand what the customer wants, or needs.

Why do you say that? My gut reaction is that the opposite is true. Salespeople must understand their customers' wants and needs in order to effectively sell! Engineers are generally a step or two removed from the customers. This may be an unpopular take on HN but I'd wager the people who spend time directly with the customers have a better chance at understanding what they want. Taken a step further, customer support probably has the best understanding of their markets' needs!
If someone makes a racist or homophobic statement and is confronted about it, there is a good chance that he will perceive it as aggressive. Even if the confrontation is controlled.
Historically sexual offences in the US, the UK, Australia, and elsewhere have been both under reported and under investigated.

There's a potentially misleading graphic mid article: The proportion of violent and sexual offences solved has almost halved since 2017 that shows a change in "percentage of cases with an outcome" from 20% to a bit over 10%.

It's probable (but not clarified) that a good part of that percentage change is due to an increase in reporting of sexual offences.

It should go without saying that this is a sorry state of affairs, it should also be emphasized that this isn't neccessarily evidence of a sudden and sharp decline in the already low rate of convictions.
> It is perfectly possible to supply 1000Mbps symmetrical fiber service to end users for $20/mo because numerous self-sufficient non-profit municipal broadband organizations in the United States are doing just that.

Probably depends on a lot of things, but my local municipal broadband is an open provider model, my provider charges $95/month and the municipal network takes $59 of that (as of Jan 1 2023). The municipal network doesn't provide IP transit, just gets my bits to my ISP's office. Where in the US is it $20/month?

> This is 2.5% the capacity for 75% the money. If ISPs can't figure out how to do that profitably, they deserve to fail.

Most of the actual cost is maintaining a line to customer premises. My municipality charges ISPs $49/month for 100m and $59/month for 1G, although there's not a real difference in operating costs; either the fiber is up or it's down, and the truck roll to fix an issue is the same. There's maybe an argument that a 100m customer can't/won't cause congestion on the municipal network because (as implemented on my local network), the biggest oversubscription is 48 customers on a 10G uplink. A 25mbps plan would have the same basic costs for my municipality as a 100m plan, although it might actually be trickier because they couldn't just use an ethernet speed setting somewhere in the path to limit speed.

I suspect incumbent broadband providers have some cost advantages over my municipal system, because incumbents have better take ratios, but I honestly doubt they can actually cover costs of just providing a line with service to a home in their territory for $15/month or $20/month.
But investment banks, including JPM, don’t exactly pay the biggest bucks for SWE aside from a few specialized roles.

The only SWE jobs in finance that really match or exceed FAANG and other top (or even mid tier) tech companies are a very select few elite hedge funds and trading shops.
Seriously. EU rail is great! Show up 15 minutes before my train leaves, sit on my phone (albeit often without reception) and pass the time sitting at a comfy table.

I took a first class trip in Italy recently. Food was fine and it's Italy, but those seats were very comfortable!
Doug Hofstader in https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Metamagical_Themas has a good essay on non-sexist language crica 1980 and how there was a very good case that English needed a gender-indeterminant pronoun for routine use where you did not know (or care) what the gender of a person who, say, was subject to a contract, was.

Even though there was a precisionist case for it, people interested in language reform thought it was a complete non-starter and instead focused on other sorts of reforms.

Then 10 years ago thoughtless people who thought it was OK to mislabel people with terms like "latinx" and "cisgender" suddenly thought they could engineer language (which we share) without anyone's consent and in a culture of bad faith of course you get some jackass like Musk say his pronouns are "prosecute/Fauci" because it is all in bad faith.
I think his point is that he can likely find a job elsewhere even after this.

That he receive a golden parachute is cringe worthy.
> we're poorer mentally and socially.

Do you actually think that there was less mental illness in the past? Because I find that extremely unlikely. My parents' (gen X) generation is LOUSY with depressed, anxious people who don't believe in medication, therapy, or really even the existence of many forms of mental illness.

They had more serious problems to contend with - political instability, unemployment, etc., etc. and so they bottled their feelings up and did the needful.

Human beings are evolved to survive on the edge, in situations where our performance is the difference between their families' survival or starvation. Even 50 years ago, food was more expensive and work was harder on our bodies and minds - people getting depressed about writing code, frequently at less than 40hr weeks, have nothing on office workers of the 70s.

Calories and entertainment keep getting cheaper, which means anxiety and depression keep getting more maladaptive.
This isn't really true in general, especially not nowadays. Plenty of synthesizers are not designed to sound like another instrument.