skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
A tardigrade must first complete cryptobiosis, otherwise they are fragile[1]. Given that it takes time to enter cryptobiosis (maybe 1 hour), it is unlikely that any active tardigrade would survive a meteor impact.

Suppose a tardigrade was in complete cryptobiosis and survived a journey to the surface of Mars. Conditions would need to be favorable if it were to ever regain an active metabolic state.

[1]https://www.quora.com/What-does-it-take-to-kill-a-waterbear-...
Yet if the person who sold you a bicycle decided to take it back, it would still be theft, even if they left in its place the exact cash amount you paid for it.

What other items should corporations be able to confiscate (with a refund!) without your consent? Everything they sold you? If so, what would you have left?
Chinese woman charged with illegally entering Mar-a-Lago with malware
Or any excuse a Member State wants to justify their “temporary” checkpoint.

Don’t worry, MEPs won’t do anything more than talk about it.

https://ec.europa.eu/home-affairs/what-we-do/policies/border...
Lina Khan: ‘This isn’t just about antitrust. It’s about values’
I have no idea, but do newspaper/radio restaurant reviewers pay for meals? I'm not sure how that would be different other than the automation piece?
> > a private room, bathroom, and shower

> What trains have you found that offer this? As an American unaccustomed to such trains, I'd be super interested to try them.

Just FYI, we have those in America on Amtrak long-distance trains; the Bedroom and Bedroom Suite (on both Viewliners and Superliners) have these features, as does the Accessible Bedroom on Viewliners. Roomettes don't have the shower (or the bathroom, on Superliners.)
wow, impressive! how about symmetric aggregates (e.g. being able to do correct summation/aggregation on numeric values despite a one_to_many join)?
Sleeper trains are doing fine in Central and Eastern Europe, despite having to contend with some long running times. Sweden is trying to revive them through Denmark, which hasn't hosted night trains since 2014 [1].

There's two viable, existing routes for trains between the Central Sweden and Northern Germany. One's through the Fehmarn Belt rail ferry, and another is the long way through Jutland. Both ways take a long time compared to the distance covered. Stockholm is already ~5 hours by fast train from Copenhagen -- this segment of the journey stays the same. It's after that things get complicated and slow. Operational issues remain with changing voltages and train protection systems (ETCS Level 2 will be built out in a few years), or with the ferry.

A Fehmarn Belt fixed link would be a boon for such a service, like the article says. But it remains to be seen whether that will be built.

[1] https://back-on-track.eu/night-trains-to-europe-new-opportun...
Seconded, it's a very well curated and updated site.
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What does "US Patent #14/205-314" mean?

Is that a new patent-number style? Because it does not look like a normal patent number.
bahn.de used to be my go-to place (even for trains inside Italy) but these days https://www.thetrainline.com/ is the best for finding good train connections across Europe.

https://www.rome2rio.com/ can come in handy as well.
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I’d argue it has more to do with science-focused education. It’s healthy to distrust power, and for all you know HN people are much more distrusting of the government than most, not merely in words but also in action.

Science based education also improves attitudes and usage of condoms and contraceptives, and I’d argue the primary mechanism is countering bad ideas and the promotion of good ones.
> at least with the free tools available today.

This problem is potentially solvable by creating better tools that allow people to have control over their data and still gain the benefits and convenience of the closed functionality on offer today.

Or perhaps the solution, at least in some cases, is at the protocol / standards level -- email is my favorite example of this.

The question is, in the general case, whether development of the tools that are designed to give users all of the power can keep up with that of closed tools managed by for-profit companies? It seems difficult to compete with products that are produced by the likes of FAANG.

Important clarification: this is not about profit vs not-for-profit. It's about control, flexibility, and lock-in.
It doesn't have to be news to be worth posting.
Warsaw on a warm summer evening. The sun is setting and there is a beautiful sky above the equally beautiful city. You relax into you sleeper cabin, and gaze out of the window waiting for the train to depart. 'Such a friendly city. Beautiful country.' you think to yourself. The train pulls out of the station. You watch the countryside pass as the night turns dark. You go to sleep.

-

You wake up at Gare du Nord. At least you think it's Gare du Nord. This can't be Paris, surely?! You think to yourself. You quickly leave the train to try and find out what horrendous 3rd world shithole your wrong train has taken you to... You immediately step in dog shit. You try to hop on one foot and clean it off. An tour group barge past you and knocks you over. A commuter flicks his cigarette toward the floor, hitting you in the face. He doesn't see you. Or maybe he just doesn't care. You can't tell. 'I need to get back to civilisation' you think to yourself as you get up and dust yourself off. You go to grab you suitcase. It's not there. It's in the hand of a Romanian running off down the platform. Welcome to Paris.
Great article! She is indeed a hero (or heroine, if you prefer).
> Is this something we need to petition congress to fix? Do CBP agents have the right to search the electronic devices of US citizens without a search warrant or not?

IIRC, if you're a citizen, they have the power to seize your devices (and anything else you have, for that matter) and temporarily delay/detain you, but not to force you to unlock anything. They can't deny you entry.

If you're not a citizen, then they can deny you entry. So you might have to choose to unlock your devices for them to return home to the US or avoid having your travel plans ruined.

https://www.aclu.org/blog/privacy-technology/privacy-borders...
You can't run EC2 instances outside of a VPC if you have a new account. If you have a very old account you still can and every now and then they announce a new feature that works with them.
You’re conflating profitability, growth, sustainability etc. you’re also conflating what is bad for Uber vs what is bad for drivers

It is sustainable to do that if by sustainable you mean have a profitable long term business that is cash flow positive

It would likely massively hurt share prices because you’re trading growth for profitability
The Serbia to Croatia overnight train was fun, clean, vintage and reasonably priced. One to try?
When did he file a case? It's not mentioned in the blog.
My Gmail is free, too...

On GSuite (non-free version of Gmail) I don't see the ads either and it is supposed to be like that (after all, it's paid)
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I'm still curious if it's possible to have test interviews to gauge required levels. pm me if you know more.
I took a first-class sleeper train from Budapest to Amsterdam 20 years ago and loved every second of it. It's saddened me that it's become too expensive: something I afforded as a recent graduate at short notice now requires you to either to shell out a lot of cash or book far ahead, like a tourist? At least, Austria still offers affordable sleepers. The sound of the train lulling you to sleep is a wonderful thing.
It’s good he has the ACLU on his side and is working with them, they are the one non-profit org I actually donate to every month.
Because emitting less is an order of magnitude cheaper then sequestration, and there's only so much economic/political capital that we can marshal for this problem.

Optimize the critical path. When your patient is bleeding from a severed arm, don't waste time with slapping a bandaid on their little toe.
The Machine Stops (1909) [pdf]
Agreed, making the plans hard to modify definitely makes sense, but then I feel like I need another abstraction on top of Stripe. Have you come across any good ways for handling this?
> It is in that spirit that I have filed a civil rights complaint with the help of the ACLU against CBP for unlawfully detaining me and violating my constitutional rights.
Although I see your point - you can't quickly change between App A and a specific window of App B.
Richard Hudson, Ian Lance Taylor, David Chase, Austin Clements. The team is incredibly skilled.

And of course Pike, Griesmer & Cox.

I think that they are well aware of the trade-offs they make. And I also think that it is quite arrogant to say otherwise just because your tastes are different.

Go ahead, please write the go haters' handbook. Or write rants saying 'go is obsolete'. And the future will say who has a viable legacy.
Don't get me wrong -- I'm a big fan of DDG. It is my default search engine everywhere, and I go so far as to actively delete Google wherever I can.

But no, it's not the same. DDG uses Google on the backend, to populate their data. And that means there is a time delay between when Google gets the data and when DDG gets the data.

And sometimes you do want the personalization that Google brings to the table, to help you find the answers you're looking for faster. Precisely because DDG doesn't have much information about you, that means their search function won't be able to be as personalized.

DDG is fine as a primary default search engine, but as it stands, you still need to have Google around to provide the data and to provide a backup search engine in case DDG doesn't cut the mustard.
Found the link someone else posted: https://www.aclunc.org/news/aclu-files-complaint-department-...
When Socialism Was Tried in America–and Was a Smashing Success
That must have been some time ago, since Slovenia joined the Schengen area in 2003 (implemented 2007).
A constitutional right that by basic geography does not apply to ~80 % of the population seems rather moronic.
Direct link: https://blog.ycombinator.com/peter-reinhardt-on-finding-prod...
I've never heard the expression "for a shallow moat around an ugly castle" before but it's a wonderful picture to paint for just this kind of situation. I'm excited to start incorporating it into my conversations.
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I initially found the touch bar to be a bit gimmicky on the 2016 MacBook Pro. It was a little buggy and worked inconsistently.

But fast forward several years later to the 2018 model, and I've come to really appreciate it.

Even as a heavy user of keyboard shortcuts, I rarely, if ever, use function keys.

The only regular usage that comes to mind is editing markup in the Chrome dev tools (F2 shortcut). And I rarely used the Escape key. After remapping caps lock to control, and then using control+[ for escape, you're free to use Vim, Emacs, etc. without getting carpal tunnel. I cannot fathom people actually hitting escape on a regular basis when using Vim; that seems like ergonomic egregiousness :-).

In some ways, I find the touch bar to be _more_ efficient than dedicated function keys. Changing the brightness and volume, for example, require only a single motion--tap and move the slider to the desired setting (no need to tap first, and then slide). So instead of repeatedly tapping a dedicated key, you can immediately dial-in the desired setting.

Also, I've found when watching videos or music, having a large slider on the touch bar to adjust the video position is pretty nice. Very easy to jump around.

And context-sensitive shortcuts are generally well-designed. Some things I've found useful on the touch bar include screenshots--a visual representation of the various options are shown on the screen (current window/full-screen/or region), along with options for where to save the screenshot.

Other useful features include tab-preview and switching in Safari, word suggestions as you're typing, and type to Siri (e.g. once enabled, you can tap the Siri icon and say "remind me to do X in Y hours"). Not to mention other useful tidbits like emojis when using iMessage.

I can see how people might dismiss the touch bar without having explored its capabilities--but there's no denying the innovation behind context-sensitive dynamic keys. Overall, I'm a big fan.

On Linux (specifically gnome), the situation is a bit different as function keys tend to be more prevalent.
Do you have an idea of what you would like to build?
Slighly off topic, but UV visibility is important in other species. See this link for photos of flowers showing how they appear to bees or birds.

The CIE charts don’t really consider how to interpret or recolor data outside the color space, for example the UV reflection from flowers or astronomy photos in the UV/X-ray spectrum.

http://www.naturfotograf.com/UV_flowers_list.html#top/
This is a great idea. I wish we had something like this in the states.
The whole point was that the jobs would disappear -- if Uber and Lyft back out of smaller cities to be profitable, all of those jobs are gone, which is exactly the point of the person you replied to.

Most of those gig jobs would start disappearing
It should also be noted that Elbakyan has suffered personally from her enormous contribution to science: she is currently living in fear of extradition to the United States, where scientific publishers have obtained several multi-million dollar judgments against her [Wikipedia].
I believe it gives them a reason to conduct a search, but that still should not include compelling someone to disclose a password, which should be protected by the fifth amendment against self-incrimination.
Indeed, they can not "force" you to unlock the device, however they can deny you entry to the country unless you open the device (although it seems this has not been thoroughly tested in the courts).
Show HN: Google vs. AWS – speech to text comparison (they both kind of suck)
In the HD movie torrent community – people sharing full Blu-ray images – a person’s collection can run into the many terabytes. My own collection amounts to 8TB and is only content I have watched personally and am interested in, while torrent communities greatly benefit from obsessive hoarders who download and seed content beyond their personal interests. There is no economical solution to back up that much data on the cloud, and bitrot does set in.
Crippled by extant, available code which is shipping in millions of devices?

Is it perfect? Hell no. But it's a bit drastic to throw out an entire catalog of the most battle-tested HDL code in the world, isn't it?
The issue was never about trusting the government though, that's the problem. People who believe in anti-vaxx theories for example I bet would be more than happy to trust any number of government agencies that align with their beliefs. It's not that they don't trust the government, it's that they have an irrational breakdown of logical examination.

For example, it's not a conspiracy at all to say that the government tracks people. It would be a conspiracy to say that you, yourself are being gang stalked without a rational basis for why the government would take immense interest in someone that's done absolutely nothing to potentially earn their ire.

In that sense, the anti-vaxx movement is rooted in a belief mindset much like gang stalking rather than any sort of rational empirical observations. The government had zero interest in using vaccines as a way of ensuring conformity, much less using it to target or poison individuals. It's the same cognitive dissonance that occurs when say, the NRA says that guns are for the sake of stopping tyranny while also supporting the police which function as the long arm of the government.
I wholeheartedly agree! Violin plots are a great way to get a dense appreciation for a distribution. Multi-modal distributions are completely masked by mean, even median+std.
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What about bold, italic, etc?
You do realize that Amtrak long distance routes offer such accommodations?

I mean yeah, the trains themselves are slow as shit and might not go where you want, but superliners and viewliners have some interesting accommodations.
From what I've seen at other on-demand co's, the three most likely culprits are:

1- User acquisition costs (discounts, marketing, etc - for both sides of the platform). this gets more expensive in the face of competition, and there's some hope that if you can "win" the market then eventually these costs will be reduced sharply.

2- Money as a band-aid for reliability/support issues. Frequently, an Uber driver refuses to take me on a long trip (SF to Mountain View, for example), makes me get out of the car, then marks me as a no-show or that I canceled the ride. Fortunately, my rider score is high enough that I just fill out the form describing what happened, and Uber (usually almost instantly) refunds the fee and sometimes also gives me a make-up $5 credit to apologize. With food delivery options, a non-trivial fraction of the time, the wrong order arrives, and similarly any complaint to support usually results in an immediate refund + credit.
Without an easy, scalable way for the support team to audit what really happened on the ground, chances are they are not penalizing the driver / restaurant for these incidents unless there is a clear pattern in the data with a particular provider. So this is just loss for the platform. With very small margins it takes a surprisingly low percentage of such cases to really eat away your unit model.

3- Subsidizing low-utilization markets. Markets with a much higher density of supply/demand will be more efficient and profitable; newer markets will often need subsidies to get over the cold start problem (eg when uber launches a new city, you're gonna need to pay some drivers to sit idling on the road, or else someone opening the app won't see a driver; you might also discount rides even more heavily to get past this phase quicker). Compared to the other two factors, this is probably the best-case scenario for why a company might be bleeding money, and why you sometimes hear people say "Uber is profitable in XYZ cities", but it's hard to say from the outside if this is actually what's happening or if there's something more fundamentally wrong.
An important difference between vaccination and your examples is that vaccination definitely impacts more than just the person being vaccinated, it can have life or death implications for other people. That makes involving the state a lot more plausible.
The Warsaw to Paris trip on this train takes almost 21 hours... It's just a regular train, not particularly high-speed. There are a faster options available (down to 16 hours), but they require multiple layovers so I wouldn't say they're viable in practice. Overall, Europe is mostly dominated by cheap airlines, esp. in the Eastern part.
I'm not involved in research, but recall that ethics review specifically looks for beneficence towards participants, the notion that participants themselves have risk minimized, and that one cannot pursue information to their detriment.
Here's the thing:

If it was a legitimate search with real public security purpose, there is no excuse for letting him go without completing the search.

If it was not a legitimate search with real public purpose, there is no excuse for the threats or retaliation.

Irrespective of the legitimacy of the search, the behavior here is unjustifiable.
It's also unconstitutional, which people have been saying about the Patriot act for the last nearly two decades (Jesus how time flies) to no avail.
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> however they can deny you entry to the country unless you open the device

I think that's only true for noncitizens, they're required to let citizens in. Sorry, I think I was in the middle of updating my post as you replied.
lyft is not supply constrained. I can get picked up right now in two minutes. they will pay the new drivers less.
> By contrast, the Saudis are way the hell over in Saudi Arabia, have very little power over Americans in America, and don't care what Americans in America do.

I dont believe this is true, the Saudi's very much care about Americans in America. See their extensive lobbying efforts to effect American policy, and the possible hacking of Jeff Bezos (no way to know if this is real or not). I also think its somewhat of a red harring to say, "since country X doesnt care about us, we're safe from all countries." The difference between a foreign country and my own government is that in some respect I have the ability to change my own countries policy, I can vote people out of office and email my senators (who are supposed to have my well being in mind when making laws), however I have no control whatsoever over a foreign governments decision making and they probably dont care about my well being.
Evernote and most note-taking or knowledge repository solutions are pretty solved problems for those willing to do a bit of self-hosting. Personally, I host a Tiddlywiki server on a cheap VPS I own that runs other things. A cron job regularly backs up the entire TiddlyWiki to a git repo, and the contents of the repo to cloud storage. TiddlyWiki is responsive and works fine on mobile, and I am assured that all my data is backed up and private.
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This seems like poor planning, I would have recommended to verify licenses for all required technology were available before investing time.
Yeah, you’re right, I wasn’t my usual self. I’d edit it to soften my words, but then your comment will lose its value and I’d rather not do that to you.

If I could point out one thing that separates our accounts, I don’t use this account to recruit or advertise. I have an email address in my profile because I mostly like talking to interesting people about interesting things. That’s not an excuse for my reply - my reply was complete bullshit. But, my reply might have been a little closer to my usual self if I used this account for something else.

Thanks for your comment. You’re right about me. I was wrong.
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User acquisition cost doesn't fully go away, just becomes user engagement cost. Uber does a ton of promotions to keep customers tied in. Amazon Prime user enagement cost is all of the video streaming business and a bunch of other benefits just focused on delivering value to Prime.
A tip of my hat to the guy for not relenting and unlocking his devices under threats of violence and staying silent! Well done!
> a way you see in dictorial countries.

It's not easy to relocate to another country. It's trivial to switch to using some other tech product.

and corporations don't pretend or even have to pretend they are some sort of republics.
I've been a paying user of Evernote for years and love it. Use it daily.
Agreed. An insightful look into how company politics, culture, and processes can derail a big project. Very interesting to see a post mortem in the gaming industry.
I know it's not specific to Stripe, but it seems there are products out there like ChargeBee that cover a lot of the use case.
Going on a trip in the short term and just got a phone with facial recognition unlock. I think it's important to turn this feature off before returning to the US as it could easily be misused in this exact situation.