MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by Freak_NL | 2025-06-22 13:20:01+00:00
Yup. These two points are not an issue at all, and are in fact strengths for sleeper trains. Being able to redirect a sleeper train without any (or minimal) impact on its timetable is a big plus.

Usually they depart from the last boarding station around midnight, and the first disembarking station won't be hit until six in the morning. Some outliers exist, but the number of people getting on or off there is negligible. For most travellers you are in the train before 22:00, and won't leave before 6:00.

This ÖBB line is typical: https://www.nightjet.com/de/reiseziele/oesterreich/wien

Yes, you can get off in Nürnberg at 4:08. But almost no one does that. The train just happens to have a halt there¹, but 95% of the passengers get on in the Netherlands and the Ruhr Area, and won't get off until Austria (and vice versa).

1: I suspect mostly for rail topological reasons.
by perihelions | 2025-06-22 13:21:23+00:00
> "algebra (Taylor bought him the book, a gift Harry brought home to show off, and never forgot)"

If anyone was hooked by this tangent, this was[0] "Todhunter’s[1] Algebra" [2] (1858? 1870? 1871? 1889?) you can peruse for free at [2].

[0] https://www.readingsheffield.co.uk/harry-brearleys-reading-j...

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Isaac_Todhunter

[2] https://archive.org/details/algebraforuseofc00todhuoft
by stirfish | 2025-06-22 13:22:12+00:00
I had a note on there that said something to the effect of:

If you think you can hack this server, you probably can! Please don't. I've invited you into my home for tea; please don't break my dishes to show me why I should've kept them in a safe.

That was my attempt from changing the roi from "wouldn't it be fun to trash this stranger's secret clubhouse" to "oh cool, that stranger is letting me just wander around this secret clubhouse"
by samrus | 2025-06-22 13:22:24+00:00
globalism

the idea that forming a tight reciprocal network of economic dependency will prevent petty politics and align everyone towards cooperation, or starving.

it seemed like a good idea but now its seeming more and more like an economic version of bismarck's pre-WW1 "balance of power" strategy.

why did that fail to prevent WW1? my guess is that its an unstable equilibrium in the short term, a prisoners dilemma where, in the short term, one party can benefit more from betrayal than from cooperation.

why do humans tend to go for the short term gain of betrayal versus the long term gain of cooperation? idk, but it seems intrinsic to us because i think the "thrown out of eden" parable is folk wisdom about this same thing
by NalNezumi | 2025-06-22 13:23:16+00:00
One thing about this situation is that makes me reassess my impression of "deep state / military industrial complex".

Both Trump and Tulsi Gabbard (pre election) was running a "no war" platform with heavy connotation of "deep state" and wars only serving special interests (including Israel). My impression was that this outsider aspect really bought many libertarian and non-hawk republicans vote.

Hell, Gabbard was even branded Russian parrot after trying to talk to Assad, running as an independent after that. She even disagreed about this strike not even 3 months ago, 1 month ago and few days ago, with Trump.

But now they support it. They all just lied during election is the most probable reason but at least Gabbard have been saying same thing since 2016 election, 8 years, and all it took was Israel striking to go "aight let's go".

Is there just some information available to high official positions that makes you turn 180 on your opinion as soon as you get access to it, or what.
by inglor_cz | 2025-06-22 13:25:13+00:00
There is no version of Islam that would be "representative of Islam generally", this is a trivial observation that you are trying to use as a cudgel.

You are engaging in an elaborate No True Scotsman fallacy.

For me, if if walks like a duck and quacks like a duck, it is a duck, and I will consider the Islamic Republic of Iran to be Islamic. I don't particularly care about sectarian squabbles what is geniunely Islamic or not.
by Aachen | 2025-06-22 13:25:30+00:00
With intercontinental weapons and shipping, we're sorta all part of every region. In Zeeland I'm literally as far from New Zealand as humanly possible, but if another SARS pops up there or a war breaks out there, it's very likely to affect me in some way

So I guess we're on the same anti-war side, but for opposite reasons?
by PaulHoule | 2025-06-22 13:26:40+00:00
Yuck! Funny though I wrote a program for making red-cyan anaglyph stereograms using TkInter/Python. Stereograms work best when you can put important objects at the plane of the paper/screen and this is done by sliding the left and right images relative to each other.

Tk has no color management, unlike newer frameworks, which was good in this case because I asked for (255,0,0) and got (255,0,0). When I exported to JPEG and views on a web browser though I got something like (186, 16, 16) because on my wide gamut monitor the native primaries are more saturated than sRGB primaries so some white gets blended in to make them less saturated. Turns out in Windows, screenshots are in the color space of your monitor! It’s something you’d never notice unless you made stereograms because that little bit of green and blue goes to the wrong eye.
by sreekanth850 | 2025-06-22 13:27:05+00:00
Why do Al-quaeda organzied september 11 attacks? I can give countless example to show that they doesnt need a reason to attack. Its just religion that matters and their goal of global islamisation. Recently in pahalgam they killed 26 civllians by asking their religion and verifying it by asking them to pray.

You said israel regime as genocidal? What was the cause of all this issues? How many was killed in october attacks in israel? Why did they held hostages from different countries? So, yes i strongly believe that those terrorist doesnt need a reason to attack. Their goal is global islamisation. Khamenei had openly said that their number 1 enemy is America.
by hedora | 2025-06-22 13:27:48+00:00
That’s not really a trick. It’s how contract law has worked for years.

Of course, doing it without telling the new employer is a great way to get an offer rescinded.

Also, if you modify it after the other side signed, then you’ll want them to initial the changes.

If you modified it, then they signed without noticing the modifications, then I guess ask a lawyer.

I don’t see what outsourcing has to do with it. If they have power of attorney to an external HR firm, that seems like their problem. (I’ve never encountered a company dumb enough to do that though.)
by bookofjoe | 2025-06-22 13:29:42+00:00
Good news bad news: Good: It's on YouTube in its 2-hour 50-minute entirety, free. Bad: It's in French with French subtitles and a terribly low-res picture. Fun Fact: It's a made for TV (NBC) movie. Have at it: https://youtu.be/KMWo3hUNixc?si=eUAfihWua1eNltD6
by jm4 | 2025-06-22 13:29:51+00:00
That is pure fantasy. You don’t launch an unprovoked attack and simply go home without any consequences. What we and Israel have done to Iran in recent weeks is akin to 9/11 or Pearl Harbor. Furthermore, if we were legitimately without any other options it is because of our own failure to honor the deal we made in 2018.

You can be assured that there will be a response. What it will be and for how long I don’t know. What I do know is that diplomacy is completely off the table. It’s possible we are dealing with the consequences of this for decades.
by epolanski | 2025-06-22 13:30:12+00:00
Few problems with your statement are:

1) Israeli government willingly favored Hamas governing the Gaza strip and completely cut off the Palestinian authority

2) Israeli government ignored their own intelligence and even allowed money and weapons transfer from Qatar to Hamas

3) Israeli intelligence knew October 7 was gonna happen and did little to prevent it

4) While October 7 is one of the most despicable acts of crime and terror ever happened, it has not happened in a vacuum. It has happened by people who are literally living in the hell and open prison the Israelis have created for them
by stavros | 2025-06-22 13:30:23+00:00
Our government killed 50 people in a train accident because they couldn't be bothered to maintain the safety systems, then immediately ordered crews to the site to cover everything up with dirt so there would be no trace of fuel additives being illegally transported on a passenger train. The courts found no wrongdoing, and they're still in power.

Who's going to impeach them?
by PaulHoule | 2025-06-22 13:30:36+00:00
Microsoft seems to have given up on guidance for how to write desktop apps, Windows 8 had that Metro thing that got rejected by the world. I guess you could use Win32, WinForms, WPF or something else. The incoherence is second only to the Linux world, I remember how developers were crazy about theming in Win32 in the ‘95 age so something like Back Orifice or the app for your scanner looks atrocious. WPF added really great support for theming but at the point everybody was burned out in theming so it hardly ever got used.
by mrkeen | 2025-06-22 13:31:08+00:00
Read fiction for fun. You don't need to optimise your reading time to maximise learning.

Read a paragraph or a sentence. If you got it, move on, if you didn't, re-read it but sound it out in your head. If you still didn't get it, re-read it aloud. If you still didn't get it, get some more sleep and try again another time.
by evv | 2025-06-22 13:31:08+00:00
Developers are entitled to earn more money when they continue working. On the other hand, it is unfair how consumers have frequently needed to re-purchase products that they bought with the impression it would last a long time.

At least, the developer should specify how long the product will be supported for security and bug fixes.

A great solution, if you can pull it off: You continue maintaining the base product indefinitely, but "v2" features are disabled until the user pays more. And if you buy v2 in full you get the full feature set.
by bamboozled | 2025-06-22 13:31:58+00:00
The propaganda

What propaganda ? I’ve seen the footage of Iran firing flak cannons somewhere in the direction of f35s. Not a single Israeli plane has been lost…where is the lie ?

Iran has a population of 92mil and an economy vastly stronger than iraq 2003* why assume they want the current leadership to remain in charge? Why assume they wanted nukes ?

You mention China grinding down its enemy ? What about the fact the air force is actually performing real missions being and gaining real experience ? Is a few bunker busters going to grind down the USAF ?
by Gareth321 | 2025-06-22 13:32:04+00:00
> So signing treaties, negotiating, having mass inspections, economic cooperation -- this is nothing? As of 2015 the official policy of the US was reintegration of iran into the economic system; trump undid that briefly, but then adopted exactly the same policy until a month ago.

I was referring to this current round of sabre rattling, but if you're referring to the JCPOA, I should inform you that Iran agreed to monitoring and verification, not only under strictly restricted grounds. The deal did not give inspectors the right to freely roam. Access to military sites remained contentious and largely off limits. Iran never gave access to Parchin, for example. This meant Iran was free to continue their nuclear weapons development program - though of course in secret.

Further, the JCPOA unlocked $100B in frozen assets which the brutal dictator Ayatollah Khamenei immediately stole and used to cement his position of power. The JCPOA also lifted oil sanctions which further enriched Khamenei to the tune of $10-30B per year.

The JCPOA was commonly regarded as impotent and symbolic at best, and quite harmful at worst.

> Look at what Regan said about the USSR and vice versa, rhetoric much more extreme.

They both meant it. This is a crucial fact from the cold war. The world really was minutes away from nuclear war. I highly recommend reading the account of Stanislav Petrov [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stanislav_Petrov], a Russian lieutenant colonel, who in 1983 narrowly avoided nuclear war by heroically refusing to report an apparent missile launch by the U.S. During this period the U.S. formally developed the Mutually Assured Destruction doctrine which automated nuclear launches in the event that no one was left alive to retaliate.

You use an example of two deadly serious adversaries willing to destroy the world as an example of something we should not fear?
by palmfacehn | 2025-06-22 13:32:08+00:00
https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/us-preside...

>...decided on his own to strike without congress.

The US defense establishment has been looking to attack Iran for decades. "Decided on his own", seems inaccurate in this regard. The outrage over unauthorized uses of military force is largely performative partisan outrage. Although I would personally regard it as unconstitutional, it is the established norm for US Presidents to order airstrikes. There are very few politicians who have been consistent in their opposition to this.
by mythz | 2025-06-22 13:32:16+00:00
Many years ago when I heard Munich City was switching to Linux, I remember thinking it was a reckless decision that was doomed to fail, and turns out it eventually did as they announced in 2020 they were moving back to Windows.

Which is in stark contrast to now where it's now my favorite Desktop OS to use, effectively forced into it after switching away from Windows after 25 years after MS EOL'd Windows 10 and started infesting Windows 11 with ads/spyware. Had some issues at the start with Nvidia/Wayland, but that's now all fixed and Fedora has been a rock solid modern distro for use as my primary driver. Software compatibility turned out much better than I thought with all my daily apps being available for Linux thanks to Chromium/Electron, .NET SDK and JetBrains cross-platform tools. Steam compatibility was an expected surprise with most of my flagship titles working on Linux.

So after 1.5 years of leaving Windows I can't see myself going back, the disconnect of having a Desktop OS that works for you vs being hostage to an OS that Microsoft is using as a marketing channel for spyware and spamming their cloud services will only get worse over time.
by Zambyte | 2025-06-22 13:32:58+00:00
The time component has to factor in both the traffic while driving, and the extra time required to find available parking. I bought an electric scooter a few weeks ago, and I have come to realize that my travel time is pretty much purely a function of distance. I just roll up past traffic if there is any, lock up on any bolted down object, do my business, unlock, and roll out.

If anything, I feel like traveling at rush hour is actually strictly better for me. Cars being slow doesn't slow me down, but with the average speed being so much lower during rush hour, it seems like it makes it so if a driver hits me, it would be at a lower speed.
by hajile | 2025-06-22 13:33:52+00:00
Iran's current situation is because their dictator DOES have a position about nuclear energy and nukes.

Energy is fine, but nukes are haram. This is THE reason they haven't built any nukes the last 40+ years.

Changing a religious decree of that nature requires a very big excuse which has never existed. Israel and the US threatening Iran's existence and threatening to kill millions of Muslims is the ONE thing I can think of that would allow Khamenei an "out" to actually build a nuke.
by simonw | 2025-06-22 13:34:25+00:00
In my own career I've only ever seen it increase the cost of development.

The vast majority of A/B test results I've seen showed no significant win in one direction or the other, in which case why did we just add six weeks of delay and twice the development work to the feature?

Usually it was because the Highest Paid Person insisted on an A/B test because they weren't confident enough to move on without that safety blanket.

There are other, much cheaper things you can do to de-risk a new feature. Build a quick prototype and run a usability test with 2-3 participants - you get more information for a fraction of the time and cost of an A/B test.
by ChrisMarshallNY | 2025-06-22 13:34:42+00:00
That's an issue, regardless of the source of translation.

For my bulk translations, I have used Babbelon[0] for years. They do a great job. I wouldn't dream of replacing them entirely with ChatGPT.

What I would use ChatGPT for, is when I need to do a very minor change (like adding a simple prompt label to an app). Maybe just a few words.

Doing that through the translation service is crazy. They have a minimum price, and it can take a day or three to get the results. Since I work quickly, and most of my apps are free (for users; they usually cost me, quite a bit), changes can be a problem. Translations are a major "concrete galosh"[1].

With ChatGPT, I can ask, not only for a direct translation, but can also explain the context, so the translation is relevant to the implementation. That's a lot of work for bulk, but quite feasible for small "spot jobs."

As far as responding to reports of issues, that isn't always "black and white." For instance, I live in the US, and Spanish is basically a second US language. But it isn't just "Spanish." We have a dozen different variants, and proponents of each, can get very passionate about it.

For Spanish, I have learned to just use Castilian Spanish, most times. No one (except Spaniards) are completely happy, but it prevents too much bellyaching.

In some instances (like highly local sites), choosing a specific dialect may be advisable.

You verify by having a lot of friends, all over, who are true native speakers of languages. They usually aren't up for doing the translations, but are willing to vet the ones you do implement.

Localization is a huge topic, and maybe I'll write about it, sometime.

[0] https://www.ibabbleon.com

[1] https://littlegreenviper.com/concrete-galoshes/
by ant6n | 2025-06-22 13:35:00+00:00
> They should be competing with a daytime fare and giving you a bed…

That’s basically what we’re doing, since the capacity approaches that of day trains, the ticket costs should be similar.

> …in exchange for having the ability to run the train slow.

The railcars can go 200km/h. It’s not super high speed, but pretty competitive in Germany at least.
by epolanski | 2025-06-22 13:36:11+00:00
> There's so much wrong you crammed into just three points am at loss to even where should I start.

There's nothing wrong, what I wrote literally comes from official declassified documents and reports, you can read what insiders had to say.

Ukrainians didn't want them, feared their meltdown and their inability to even just maintain them. The rest of the world knew they were bound to end up in a rogue's actor hands very soon.

https://nsarchive.gwu.edu/sites/default/files/2024-01/slate....

https://www.belfercenter.org/publication/ukraine-illuminated...
by bshacklett | 2025-06-22 13:36:36+00:00
Unless your company forces you to use Windows, which is still much more common than many would like to admit. And yes, WSL exists, but in my experience, if a company is unwilling to allow macOS, there’s a good chance they either don’t allow enabling HyperV, or the security software they use is such garbage that it results in a HyperV enabled system being effectively unusable.
by somenameforme | 2025-06-22 13:36:50+00:00
The head of the UN, declared the invasion of Iraq illegal. [1] The US tried to pass a resolution legalizing the invasion of Iraq through the UN, but it failed. The entire "rules based order" is, I think, part of what caused the world to go to chaos. Because there were never any rules besides might makes right, just as always. But it was used as a pretext for hostile actions with relatively gullible populations.

Democracy doesn't really work when people think the US invaded Vietnam attacked they attacked us, that the US invaded Iraq because they have or are building WMD, that we invaded Libya to "liberate" it, and so on. And as for Iran, here's [2] a montage of Netanyahu claiming Iran will imminently have nuclear weapons, and so they should be invaded. The claims started 30 years ago and generally had a timeline of 1-3 years at most.

If the justifications for wars were more honest, even if that entails completely dropping the facade of morality, it'd have enabled populations within countries to have a better understanding of how the world "really" works, and also to make better decisions on the sorts of foreign policy views to support.

[1] - https://www.theguardian.com/world/2004/sep/16/iraq.iraq

[2] - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Mzmtdwsef8s
by netcan | 2025-06-22 13:38:06+00:00
>Why were the previous expansions out of Africa dead ends?

Richard Dawkins would say that descendants are common. Ancestors are rare. Most populations of all species leave little or no genetic trace.

The first human radiation was georgicus... 1.8mya. That is arguably the original homo species. Arguably pre-homo, if not for some long legged or large brained individuals in the tribe.

They may be ancestral to later Eurasian species of homo... even the erectus lineage as a whole. But likely not.... because ancestors are rare.

The recent/last great out of Africa population is one of those rare ancestor populations. Most lineages are dead ends.

We don't know much about them. We don't know which bones are theirs, or where they lived before dispersal. We don't know if they had been a distinct population for long... or a recent admixture homogenized before dispersal.
by bookofjoe | 2025-06-22 13:38:13+00:00
I'm not an IT person and I'd never heard of "Dhunki" until your comment.

Turns out it's on Prime Video:

https://www.amazon.com/gp/video/search?phrase=Dhunki&k=Dhunk...

https://www.amazon.com/gp/video/detail/B07WJ34ZC5/ref=atv_sr...

I'm watching it tonight! Thank you for the tip.
by Gareth321 | 2025-06-22 13:38:50+00:00
* "Israel must be wiped off the map." -Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini

* "Israel must be wiped off the map." -President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad

* "The Zionist regime will perish in the not-so-far future." -Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei

* "Our strategy is to erase Israel from the global political map." -General Hossein Salami

They have been clear and consistent in their intent. Whether it be rhetoric or their continued funding and training of various terrorist groups in the region and globally.

Lastly, I find the argument derisive and infantilising that they don't really mean "death" when they say "death to America/Israel/the West". We all understand what the word "death" means.
by hedora | 2025-06-22 13:39:54+00:00
The worst led bulbs I’ve ever seen were some overpriced name brand known for smart bulbs (probably philips). It physically hurt to be in the same room with them. My guess is that they forgot an IR or UV filter or something.

Hyperikon used to make great, somewhat cheap bulbs, but went under during the pandemic.

These days, I just get cheap 3000K, 90+CRI ones at the hardware store, and they’re fine.

Watch out for idiocy like “smart” bulbs though. For instance, they have ones that change color temp if you rapidly flip the light switch on and off and back on.

Also, make sure they are dimmer compatible. The ones that are not flicker badly (even at full brightness on our dimmers) and burn out after a few years.