skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It's fair. NYC is 8.8 million, bay area is 7 million. Tokyo is about double that.

Not being negative. Being realistic. It's unfortunate that being realistic often is negative. Transit here is garbage. You either luck out and live and work near transit or you're like most people and have to drive.

A couple million in energy savings doesn't mean anything compared to the amount wasted by cars.
>I felt like I was in conversation with the artists.

I work with college kids. They don't understand the absolute obsession a lot of old people have with The Dark Side of the Moon. For the longest time I couldn't figure out why. It's like the perfect album.

And that's what finally dawned on me. It's the perfect album. The songs are really good individually, but the album is a masterpiece when played how it was originally meant to be played. The pauses and the transitions and the background noise of the player all brilliantly factor into the album.

And the 20 year olds I interact with mostly listen to individual songs instead of albums.

It's such a subtle difference that most people don't even recognize it.
Pretty telling that he immediately hired a private security detail.

I'm not a weirdo who idolizes Fauci. But he was a nameless bureaucrat that was drafted into a hard position in a time of crisis and more or less tried to do his job earnestly with what he had at the time.

I miss the America where civil servants (good or bad) could retire with a bit of dignity instead of a target on their back.
The one thing we know is that voters are transactional.

Eggs, Chicken, Beef, and Rent will either stay horrible or get worse and with so many Federal jobs being wiped out, unemployment will go up.

They needed to get past the mid-terms to do the most damage, but they are not heading in that direction.

And if he tries to use the military on U.S. citizens, we should expect a serious push back. Our military is drilled with "all enemies foreign and domestic".
If it's not magic why isn't it being done? That's the point. This news is rather pathetic strictly because a better scenario is NOT magic.
Couple thoughts:

1/ if the company can’t meet the regulations, it can’t exist.

2/ if there is wiggle room of “as long as you tried your best, then it’s ok”, then requesting gps location, nearby wifi nodes, and banning traffic from data centers, then that would be better.
https://www.reddit.com/r/LocalLLaMA/comments/1hrnvjo/deepsee...

https://chat.deepseek.com
Item sorters are great for storage, but don't help with the mess of items that end up in your inventory if you're exploring, or building. And while shulker boxes help a little, a) they're an end-game item and b) they are a pain to use if you're switching items often (place down shulker box, swap your inventory items with those in the box, mine the box, every time you need an item that's not in your inventory).
How is the work of copying an editor config/plugin folder with a script every two weeks for six months worse than using the bad suboptimal defaults every day?

> every step you take away from the mainstream has a cost

Customizing neovim is mainstream
Thank you for sharing this. This is what I have been looking for.

Tangental but related, but I think I read somewhere on YN that Canada was proposing a law that would legally require people with ADHD to be medicated if they wanted to obtain a driver's license. Not sure what, if anything, ever became of that idea, but it's interesting nonetheless.
Most city police and sheriffs officers have jurisdiction anywhere in their state, AFAIK. They typically stay in their area, but if they’re pursuing a suspect they don’t break off if they cross the city limits.
I echo this sentiment. Also, a long time rubyist. I pretty much go between neovim or Sublime everything else has felt off for Ruby development. I use vintage (vim) mode for Sublime and it’s the sweet spot. I get all the motions, but also some -non vim actions that I appreciate. This might feel like uncanny valley, but it works.
We are very far from that. I'll think about it when OpenAI have the best Chat app. Nowadays many indie developers create better interfaces in a weekend. What AI are the web engineers there using?
I disagree for two reasons:

- job hoppers do not realize how often they are discarded for being that. where I work this is the FIRST and most important part of the CV review. job hopper CVs are immediately thrown out (and trust me, you want to work where I work). I have numerous colleagues that work elsewhere and all but one have exact same thing going on. no one in their right mind is going to invest into someone who will obviously leave in a couple of years.

- if you are at the right place and are valuable you will get paid accordingly. it is just that this notion of “I must hop to boost my earnings” is so pervasive in our industry that people seldom just hit up their managers etc for adjustment to compensation. no sane company is going to let go an employee who is valuable to them
It's an infamous quote: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/May_you_live_in_interesting_ti... and likely GP means it due to the yolo attitude of many ruby projects
If they are a sworn law enforcement officer they probably could, but probably wouldn’t.
Usually tiny things like typo fixes on web pages or in my documentation.

Occasionally I'll ship feature changes to my JavaScript apps, usually copy and pasted over from Claude.
The big difference IMO between modding Factorio and KSP is that Factorio has achievements (and modding the game disables them).
This. I've also worked at several places that had their own in-house systems that acted like the equivalent of a smart thermostat, spinning up/scaling down resources across massive deployments targeting AWS, Azure, etc. to hit target monthly goals.

Try to do some preliminary research in the area to see if your script is sufficiently niche from the established players in the area of cloud optimization.
19 million annually. I don't think the juice is worth the squeeze here. They should focus on making Caltrain run reliably timely, and safely for the passengers.

Once we get the ridership numbers up we can easily make up for the electricity efficiency.
Agreed. Caltrain stops are… definitely not that. The SF stations are somewhat out of the way (although the planned extension would bring it all the way to the transit center). I do see a lot more residential units coming up near transit nodes, although its not nearly enough! The San Jose Caltrain is a prime exhibition of what you said: surrounded by parking lots and it feels quite deserted and creepy instead of being a bustling, thriving commercial area (although a few blocks near there is a nice commercial area with a brewery and many eateries, including a whole foods).
They should let me do that, then. Last I checked, they'll only sell me a bundle with a music streaming service I don't want.
the easiest way to see a subpixel is to put a drop of water on the display. you probably get 100x magnification this way :)
1/ block data center connections / require users to connect via a residential IP, not cell phone.

2/ request GPS location from the device.

3/ request WiFi location from the device.

4/ require billing address to be out of state. (States collect sales tax based on billing address, not where the service or product is bought. So I think this is fair.)
You can basically hover by combining elytra with a Slow Falling potion.
Logged in I am wildly mistargeted. When I go anonymous via private browsing, the YT ads are soft core porn. Is Google having trouble with inventory or ???
Open WebUI does offer an API, but I have it disabled for PolyChat.
Switching equipment for anything over gigabit remains triple or more the price here in Australia, so these standards might be great but even the 2.5gb port on my desktop is useless to me so any more than that just gets further from helpful at a consumer level. Never mind I can’t even get internet at over 100mbps…

Meanwhile for data centre usage, what is the attraction for faster copper vs fibre interconnects?
Thanks for your comment! Medical chronologies are already very common across personal injury law and other legal practice types. The problem is that paralegals are spending days, if not weeks, combing through thousands of medical records and entering them into an Excel spreadsheet. This automates most of that task.
Yup not to mention that the fumes from diesel engines got into the cars so you tended to avoid the ones close to the engine. Its a HUGE qol improvement!
Crypto will not be ready for mainstream until effective game-theoretic countermeasures for this kind of thing are built into the protocols.
Yes, we are not using the dreaded RAG to accomplish this task, although we do have it available if a customer wants to chat with their case documents.
Caltrain runs reliably and safely for me, can you elaborate?
> What is happening in your state, Illinois?

Liberalism without the uptight New England financial discipline that makes it workable.
Yes that is the one.
Lots of people probably log out to look at things they don't want in their history/affecting the recommendation algorithms, etc skewing the algorithm for people who are not logged in.
I've added a "Thinking...." which sends server side events to keep the cxn open. Would love to hear if o1 models now work for anyone who they were broken for.
https://www.merklemap.com/search?query=coinbase.com&page=0&t...

There’s indeed a lot of them :)
It solves the very limited problem of bike-shedding envelope shapes for request/reply protocols, which I think was all they meant to say.

At its core, JSON-RPC boils down to "use `id` and `method` and work the rest out", which is acceptably minimal but does leave you with a lot of other issues to deal with.
Yeah the first will be the scammers with a highly targeted ad buy, and who can even tell the difference between ads and search results these days?
My "favorite" story: BART Withholding Surveillance Videos Of Crime To Avoid 'Stereotypes' <https://sanfrancisco.cbslocal.com/2017/07/09/bart-withholdin...>
> There are no advantages. I have yet to see something that a person with ADHD can do that a person without ADHD cannot do that can be solely attributed to ADHD and no other factors.

Oh, there are lots of benefits. ADHD people tend to be able to react quicker & think more clearly during emergencies. They tend to be better able to find connections between disparate ideas. That's just a couple. For obvious reasons, the disadvantages tend to overshadow the advantages, but everything is a trade-off. It's not 100% negative. A lot of learning to live with ADHD is learning to create contexts that play to your strengths and mitigate your weaknesses. It's harder to create those contexts than if your mind more adequately meets society's expectations, but it can be done.

> If a person with ADHD kills another person in a vehicular accident, should they be automatically free of punishment because it's not their fault?

Okay, that is really, really not where I was going with this.

> Their inability to adapt to the environment around them was not their fault, but as evolution shows us -- too bad.

Ah, but we've reached a point where predominantly we adapt our environment to us rather than adapt to our environment. Those roads these cars drive on didn't come from nature.

> The universe owes no one anything.

I think I've completely failed to communicate my point to you. I don't know how to correct it beyond saying this is not at all what I was trying to say.
Considering the anti transit attitude of most suburban dwelling Americans I am personally glad they are touting this.
Totally agree, though SF is closer to overall NYC density than you'd expect (NYC 29k, SF 18k ppl/sq mi; Manhattan is 73k).

I think the Bay Area suburbs are also egregious - e.g. North Berkeley BART station is surrounded by single family homes, even though it's 25min from downtown SF by train.
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Well, I assumed that your critique of “American values” meant that you had some other model of values in mind that would be superior. I guess not?
Not being familiar with the field, what counts as modern robotics?

Performing a quick survey of available recent papers in the field, came back with these summary works:

Robotics and Industry 4.0, https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Sudeep-Tanwar/publicati...

Elements of Robotics (book), https://library.oapen.org/bitstream/handle/20.500.12657/2782...

Modern Robotics (limited pages), https://www.google.com/books/edition/Modern_Robotics/5NzFDgA...

Looks like:

- Industrial for heavy lifting and dangerous tasks beyond human standards (welding, heat, radiation)
- Autonomous vehicles for manufacturing, mining, agriculture, logistics, transport
- Quad- and octa- rotors as well as swarms of such (similar tasks as autonomous vehicles)
- Health care with repetitive chemical mixing where human error can make a dangerous batch
- Food packaging for sanitation and highly repetitive tasks prone to error, stress, and accidents.
- Mining for areas where human interaction is dangerous or prohibitive (depth)
- Military for attacks, surveillance, EM warfare, and long term loitering / denial.
- Supermarkets and malls for restocking, cleaning, and shopping assistance.
- Warehouses and factories for moving and selecting parts
- Toys and educational consumer purchases
- Home cleaning and maintenance (most of what "robot" brings back on shopping, other than toys)
- Automated cooking for condition specific foods (rice, difficult indian meals)
I mostly work with mobile robotics, and using Windows sounds like an absolute craziness to me. The main PC runs some sort of Linux, often with disk in read-only mode.

I've heard this is not the case in all industries, and that many industrial projects (as in factory automation) use Windows, however crazy it may sound. But I don't have a first-hand knowledge of this.

All software I've worked with was built from scratch. We've used plenty of libraries, but this was all generic stuff, all the "comprehensive ecosystem and foundation" was our own. But compared to the actual business logic, that foundation is pretty simple - you need math libraries, some sort of RPC, logging, process management, replay/sim. This does not include device drivers - there is a very good chance you'll need to write them scratch anyway. And none of this is even close in complexity to things like path optimizer.
You can generally choose what kind of power generation mix you want from a utility. eg I am on a 100% renewable plan.
Paras - this friggin awesome! As a 2x yc founder, who has chewed her share of glass trying to make something(s) people want, your bootstrapped story is inspiration for so many of us fellow founders. Congrats!
This is correct. Also, when a law firm client goes under contract with a firm, they often sign HIPAA-compliant medical-release documentation.

Some software providers in the AI medical space are conservative here and have customers sign a BAA directly on signup.
> Do you think if they were more specific it could have helped?

To be honest I think it was just a "bad vibe" or whatever you want to call it, and/or didn't meet an exactly pre-defined approach they wanted during the "systems design" interview which was quite badly done IMHO, and felt like stumbling around trying to find the answer he was looking for while he was going out of the way to drip-feed me information.

But who knows...

But yes, I agree with you: it's non-actionable feedback. And also came across as quite personal (that is: the difference with "you're a bad coder" vs. "this is bad code").
Simple. Most people don’t want it.
> Under his leadership, the company has sold more than seven million hardware wallets worldwide, maintaining a perfect security record with no successful breaches of their devices.

yeah uhhhhhh, what about all of their newsletter subs and device sales shipping data though?

I wonder if he got one of the threatening ransom letters in the mail and didn't pay because they said it was a scam?

https://www.bitdefender.com/en-au/blog/hotforsecurity/hacker...

https://old.reddit.com/r/ledgerwalletleak/
Almost all murderers are men, therefore if you see a man he’s probably a murderer.

It’s not an indicator.
The article says this version sends it back out on the same power lines, either used by other trains or pushed back into the grid. Seems like a perfect job for supercapacitors, although I have no idea about the feasibility of that solution. I imagine that batteries having huge input/output cycles like that wouldn't be healthy for them. Again, pulled from my imagination because I don't really know much about battery wear/use.
Sure, by what I wrote above I meant more of a "Fenwick's paper" than "Fenwick's work" :)

That said, as far as I remember, I did not know about Ryabko. So while it might have been a misatribution, it's far from a clear one.

Did he publish it btw.? If so, do you have a reference?
it's usually windows defender and virus scanning that causes these massive slowdowns.
Pros and cons of greater pay transparency
Massachusetts has a state level Transit Police, at least.
It doesn't really seem like an either or type of situation.

My understanding is the electricity efficiency is really just a nice bonus (or perhaps justification) for making improvements that would also increase ridership.

I'm only loosely aware of the Electric Fleet, but my understanding is they add capacity that was desperately needed.
http://archive.today/cFSMD
Completely agree!

The hard parts seems to be figuring out (1) how to cut red tape for only certain projects and (2) figuring out what red tape to keep.

Chesterton's fence and all that.
At least it's a win for air quality for the people that live near the tracks. You could smell and taste the old diesels, was pretty annoying.
Shanghai mulls plan to bypass Great Firewall to woo more foreign investment
It's a productivity AI agent meant for workers who were already dealing with medical records and creating medical chronologies manually, primarily in the legal space.
Yep, I used to advocate against using adblock on youtube. Seriously. My original logic may not have been sound (ads support the platform, indirectly the creator[0]), but I would absolutely never make that argument today. The decline in user experience has made unhinged ads being shoved in your face intolerable for me.

[0] sure this still applies, but sponsors and Patreons exist at a far higher rate than in 2015 when I first thought this, and it's on Google/youtube to figure out their monetization policy, not me.
> If you can't independently and proactively take action to improve things for your customers without gaining some "minimum amount of glory", you are working in a dysfunctional organization. I recommend not working there. Or I recommend cynically gaming the system.

All large companies are dysfunctional. If you want to maximize your compensation, you play the game. The top end of enterprise dev is around the entry level of BigTech.

While at 50 I don’t want to play that game (been there done that), I would definitely give someone younger the same advice as the author.
I was kind of hoping to read that investors were the AI. No, instead it is people investing in an AI company. The AI company's founders allegedly committed fraud to bilk investors. Ho hum, I hope justice is done but pretty dull.
No, everything is human-monitored. There is a startup working on AI arbitration though - https://judgeai.space/
Corps don't want to have to release the source code for their internal forks. They could also potentially be sued for everything they link using it because the linked binaries could be "derivative works" according to a judge who doesn't know anything.
Charcoal is just as goodias coal in general. Depending onethe grade of coal it might even be better. Coal is less effort though as you dig it up in quanitiy as opposed to needing trees in the first place (these run out all the time) them the effort to cut and process them.
I am a paying user of Google Workspace, and also run a charity that is a user of Google Workspace with thousands of accounts. The account they were trying to phish was a paid Google Workspace email.
How do you get the choir to sing? You preach to the choir.

When the needle is moving in the right direction, publicize that so everyone knows about it. That public info makes it harder if someone then comes around and suggests undoing/defunding or any other type of thing that stop the needle or make the needle move in the opposite direction. Keeping the info quiet makes yanking the plug very easy
Some great stuff here's my thoughts on 3 of the 16 points

>Choose happiness

This one stuck out to me because recently I've been struggling with some stuff but making sure I had some routines that made me happy (having food at consistent times, a little morning routine with a walk/yoga) has made me more composed and lets me go after things.

>It’s not how many projects you start; it’s how many you finish.

Juggling a few too many open projects right now. Some of them that would be quite cool to show off are just stuck because I don't find the time and they aren't in a presentable state yet.

>Look for the positive opportunities

Surprisingly enough this is about how he got together with his wife even though it's in the career-focused segment. The story is sweet though and repeats the oft-repeated advice of making up after arguments.
Why? We are just another AI agent trying to help humans automate tedious work.
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After I got Google Glass in 2013 as one of 8,000 "Explorers" I was given a support telephone number that was always quickly answered by a Google employee knowledgeable about Glass.
Similar markets, yes.
I also thought the Oppenheimer movie was stupid
It's not the electric motor torque that makes the difference. Caltrain used to use traditional locomotives, you'd have a single F40PH or MP36PH at one end pulling a bunch of unpowered carriages. Those locomotives were diesel-electric though, that is the diesel is only there to act as a generator while the traction motors are electric.

The Stadler KISS units are so much faster because they're EMU's (Electric Multiple Units), that is most of the wheels in a 7-car consist are powered with their own traction motors. An F40PH makes 3000 hp (2200 kW) while a Caltrain 7-car KISS consist can put out 9400 hp (7000 kW) continuous and about 50% more than that in short duration overload mode for starting. That's the reason it accelerates so much faster.

Traditional locomotive trains are completely obsolete in any sort of commuter service with frequent stops, there's just no way for them to keep up with EMU's or even DMU's. You can't solve it by just putting bigger engines on the locomotives, you wouldn't have enough weight on the wheels to make sufficient tractive effort.
It finds details that are hard for humans to see. It won't get fatigued when looking through thousands of records and stays consistent.
Thank You I was thinking of JSC and Bun as well. Was half expecting JSC since that combination seems to work well.
Some people take your word for it, but some people just have to touch the stove to learn that it is hot.
It's all about costs vs tradeoffs. Ethernet was the lower cost alternative to fibre for most of the internets history.
Someone tried something very similar on me last month to steal my google account. Honestly, I almost fell for it. The giveaway was how desperate the caller was for me to complete the last step
ChatGPT or Claude can't review thousands of medical records at once.
There’s also OrbitDB https://github.com/orbitdb/orbitdb which to my understanding has been a pioneer for p2p logs, databases and CRDTs.
Both speed and frequency are significantly up, and I’ve heard ridership is as well. Also, noise and pollution are substantially down. A huge win all around.
The Myth of a Loneliness Epidemic