skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
High speed train works well in France (and it's just 300km/h) because the country is small. Australia is huge. And so is the US.

This would make sense along coasts though but you wouldn't be able to cross the country from sea to sea in a few hours of course.

What's good with trains is that you can hop in at the very last moment (when the bell rings, happened to me a couple times) and the train stops in the center of cities, instead of the suburbs. This is the main reason why high speed train in France can compete with airplanes when crossing the country.
By plane I must first reach the airport (30 mins), have some time ahead before embarking (30 mins), the flight is 1 hour long but the time to actually take off and pick back your luggages it's almost 2 hours long, and then you have to reach the center of your destination city (30 mins). By my generous estimates, it takes 3h30 to travel by plane North/South in France vs 4 hours by train.

And because currently not every railroad segment can support high speed trains going at full velocity (but work is in progress) it could take 3 hours. 300 km/h

Also note that Amdahl's law [1] applies in this context (there are diminishing returns in optimizing the speed of only one segment of the full path) and travelling the last kilometers accounts for a significant portion of the travel time.

For instance the TGV has to slow down when entering cities (because of the noise) and at some point in the development of the high speed rail network, it might become more interesting to dig long tunnels under cities for these trains rather than increasing the train's maximum speed.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Amdahl%27s_law
Hardening the Internet: Adopting DNS-over-HTTPS as a Standard
I'm in favor of the chosen syntax, but I was unaware of the poll, so I'm not sure that's a good representation of Rust users.
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Several 3 months stints are a problem. One, bookended by reasonable work, is a filter. If a company is overly concerned with one, they just want a skill hire, which may or may not be your target.

You can describe the stint in several ways, such as "the strategic direction the consultancy took was away from software and into project management early in the project cycle. My personal strengths lie in..." or some such.
The DoJ at the time explicitly denied Assange being under sealed indictment, which, if he was, it should not have.

(In general, the US government is not supposed to explicitly lie to the American people, hence the "I can neither confirm nor deny" line that comes up when an issue is classified; you can't say P, because you can't reveal classified information, but you also can't say not-P because you aren't allowed to lie in an official capacity.)
> I don’t see any reasons why would anyone install a terminal emulator built on top of a web browser,

It's honestly been the least problematic option I've found on Windows. Everything else I've tried has had some issue somewhere, or some oddness with tmux. But I can't see why you'd bother with it on Linux or a OS X, both of which have great options.

> with the recent news in the Windows world

Cause for optimism, but Windows Terminal isn't really ready yet.
Given this philosophy, I felt bad about allowing a tour company to plan my South American trip rather than booking dozens of transfers myself

If you're very lucky you can wind up with the best of both worlds.

I've been on an organized three week trip to Peru, which was nothing short of mind blowing.

The thing is that my sister in law is Peruvian, owns a house in Lima, worked at the presidents palace (which we were able to visit on short notice) and has a lot of friends and family around the country.

So while she had some of things organized (you partially must. You can't spontaneously visit Machu Pichu [which was a bit of a disappointment, but I digress]). But she had those parts, which needed to be pre-planned organized by local travel agents and tour operators. Obviously, knowing the language, the people and the place was extremely valuable for that.

So, despite that it was essentially a "package tour" it felt like totally individualized travel.

While some of the elements certainly can be booked as part of a packaged tour I don't think it could have been done with such quality and insight without the local knowledge.

Another thing, which I found can be immensly valuable is hiring a local guide. A guide and car in Siem Reap (Cambodia) hit me with about 30$ a day (& tip). Sure, you can visit Angkor Wat by booking a tuk tuk, buy a guide book and head off on you own. But you'll have to make sense of a temple installation scattered around 400 km/2 on your own.

Having a guide on my side opens doors to places, which I would never have been able to do on my own. Let alone of getting all the background on country, poeple and (yes) politics.
Incidentally, Cassandra is called like that because she kills the /Oracle/...
Ok, found at least one actual case of deporting:

https://www.moroccoworldnews.com/2019/01/262482/denmark-depo...

https://da.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sam_Mansour#Udsendelse_af_Danm...
Also living in Belgium and I have a Telenet internet subscription, but without a the cable-TV option. I don't watch any traditional TV, but if I want to legally see GoT, I would have no other option than to take the normal TV subscription just to be able to take the "extra shows & movies" option. I stream everything and have no problem paying for streaming services, but that I will not do.

An HBO streaming service is on my wish-list since they consistently offer quality content. However, this is not easily possible, torrenting is quicker and more practical - so yeah...
This is indeed the law, but how the courts interpret it is irrelevant for most startups, as "public recognition within the affected trade circles" is a very hard to pinpoint term and usually reserved for industry/category leading products such as "Tempo" or "Haribo Goldbären".

You might try to go this route via a court-case, while the chances in our case with prior use and trade show appearance was evident were rated as very bad by our lawyers, but again, this is usually out of scope for the resource options of a startup/small business.
That would require transmitters placed across the whole nation though, right?
Iron grip is the mother of death.
yes but happens a lot - if you dont change it, it won't break (expept it will, every time because the reason you don't change it is because it is crap in the first place)
Not really, as many people are tied to school summer break schedules, especially families.
I'd prefer longer compile times over runtime issues: Smart pointers are cheap, and easy to use now. C++ compile times are largely due to the absolutely ridiculous import system C++ forces you to use. Precompiled headers can eliminate a huge amount of C++ compilation time.

The obvious solution is to avoid C++ when making new codebase, but that's easier said than done.
> States will prefer the former to the latter and firms will provide, at which point I don't think that the definition of safety-from is necessary.

I do believe that, at some point, people will as well. If other options prove too expensive or too inefficient, it's not just states that will prefer near complete mass surveillance.
General idea is to make MVP webapp and then give free user accounts till you get traction.
On a phone licensing the Play Store sure. But on a Huawei phone free of those restrictions they can make it use any store they want without any special restrictions. Of course, it becomes a question what that means for security, but still.
That's because these guides are specifically designed to help someone pass an interview. What you're describing is the experience that one would get from taking an online data science course.
I wonder at what point it makes sense for Samsung, HP, Huawei, LG etc. to get together to make another OS... they sell a lot of phones across the globe.

Hell, even include Microsoft in there too.
I think that article is taking the wrong approach. If Huawei doesn't have a US presence, which they won't after this, and if they really are an arm of the Chinese espionage complex then what's to stop them from just downloading ASOP source and doing whatever they like with it, based on ARM's reaction is unlikely other western countries are gonna allow Huawei much longer so it really only has access to the Chinese market where it's protected. Now it's role will be more FBI vs CIA.
It is really impossible to say. There are just too many variables to consider here. For example:

Some CrossFit gyms have more offerings than just the traditional WoDs. E.g.: your friend might have be mixing mobility training, strength, cardio workouts.

Also, your friend might have latent injuries or have to stop for a week or so due pain/soreness. It is just you are not aware of those.

Some people are anatomically more fit for certain exercises than others. I'll skip any days with dead lifts because it is an exercise I cannot compromise proper form. So, I protect myself even if for many CF coaches it is just temporary weakness I could improve.
Currently on mobile so I can’t link it myself, but there is a Joe Rogan episode about this very much worth listening. People aside, there is so mich waste up there as well as corpses.
What would you expect to be achieved by banning it? Intelligence services will continue with it, which is my major concern over its current use.
Intel Exec Discloses More Project Athena Strategy in Forthcoming Computex Unveil
ColorForth is light-years apart from everything.
"This week's net.wars, "Name change", discusses DNS-over-HTTPS, an arriving protocol that will fix some things and break others, including some of the UK's filtering system, as discussed at this week's ISPA UK conference."

-- Wendy M. Grossman @wendyg@mastodon.xyz
https://mastodon.xyz/@wendyg/102150713765391231
GNU Binutils Begins Landing EBPF Support
Selling point ;) If you get starlink even the starlink website would load quickly!
> In a personal sense it doesn't affect me

> I'm a huge mess

> I feel I'm just wasting

> doesn't feel like I'm doing anything with my career

Sounds like it does affect you in every sense.

You should probably try to adjust that, before you burnout not just for that specific job but your carrer in general
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> "Materials known as superconductors transmit electrical energy with 100% efficiency."

What is the level of (in)efficieny for say power lines? And power cords, etc around the office/house?

That is, of the electricity produced, how much is lost due to how it's transported? Does decentralizing production (e.g., solar panels on your own roof) help in any way?
That's a weird way to write kilometres per hour.
Samsung's Latest Deepfake AI Creates Talking Avatars from Still Photos
Inside Huawei
The leap in recent years isn't really in sensor tech so much as in phone manufacturers racing to get the best cameras by increasing the sensor size. E.g. the iPhone5/6 had an image sensor around 15sq mm, and the iPhone XS has a 25sq mm one. This one is over 40sq mm (1/1.7").
The nokia 1020 has a 2/3" sensor (same as the larger compact cameras) which is 58sq mm(!).

So while there is are small incremental improvements in sensor tech (quantum efficiency, etc), the big development in quality is pure physics. The phones takes as good pictures as compact digitals, because they are now using the same size tech.

Also the picture quality isn't just dependent on the sensor. Better processors can help with autofocus, noise reduction etc, and that obviously helps the end result.

This however will lead to a problem with physics: you can't grow much beyond where it is now, without making the phone much thicker to accomodate a bigger lens, at least not without using exotic thech such as diffractive optics etc. So don't expect the massive gains in image quality over the next 3 years, as in the past 3.
I have seen kmph used a lot
So that is a great bait and catch strategy. Start open source and after market dominance move over to closed source.

We need anti monopoly measures to prevent this kind of thing.
> By plane I must first reach the airport (30 mins), have some time ahead before embarking (30 mins), the flight is 1 hour long but the time to actually take off and pick back your luggages it's almost 2 hours long, and then you have to reach the center of your destination city (30 mins). By my generous estimates, it takes 3h30 to travel by plane North/South in France vs 4 hours

And then there is the inevitable delays before the plane will be allowed to take off and if you're lucky the same before you're allowed to land.

And in NL, if you land on Schiphol if you're particularly unlucky they will land the plane on the 5th strip which is more accurately located in Haarlem and it takes about 15 minutes to taxi to the gate.
I’ve ridden on the Changsha Maglev, China’s first indigenous maglev and I was thoroughly unimpressed. The ride was rough and quite slow, nothing like their High Speed Rail which is world leading. I’m surprised they’d be able to develop world leading technology so quickly. But then again for areas of strategic interest we’ve seen China make similar bounds before.
Makes me wonder how their Made in China 2025 efforts in CPU design/production is fairing...
Yet another kindle vs. paper books post
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> I am writing a forth in q now.

For some practical reason or just as an exercise?
Either "kph" or "kmph" is a casual, sloppy, but common way, along with abbreviations like "gms" (grams) or "mts" (metres). None of these are unusual in the UK.

The correct way is km/h, or (occasionally, for mathematicians or scientists) km·h⁻¹ or km h⁻¹.
But isn't that down to Deutsche Bahn having lots problems with funding, industrial action etc?
I fear that is for just Schlenz's one page review, that I fully typed in above.
Do you think this is why developers need to be made aware of user journeys? In my experience, just spending some time on thinking through the user journeys has done wonders to my understanding of features.

Edit : The article doesn't mention anything about user journeys. Hence the thought :-)
Researchers study how augmented reality affects our behavior
And the answer is....???
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Most torrents with low seeder counts aren't viable for livestreaming, the speeds are too often much too low.
Those who are privacy conscious prefer to be spied upon by TLAs and surveillance corporations?

To clarify I'm not in favour of one type or another, but it's unlikely China can have any influence over my life.
Humans - Racing to the top, while we drift mindlessly off to the bottom. This is the photo that should appear on the gravestone of the species.
From the definition of the backward compatibility you get "old features still work while the new features that do the same thing work too".
And Spain with the AVE and Talgos
IBM Plans to Commercialize 58-Qubit Quantum Computer
Your sentiment is popular this days with the big propaganda we see but is there any hint that what you say is true, maybe they stole it from other company or maybe in a country with such a large population you will have a large number of smart people.
Not exactly a ringing endorsement of crowd funding from the consumers perspective. It’s already 5 years late.
Relevant, although not exactly the same tech. I believe they lost the subsequent lawsuits even, because, China doesn't really care about IP theft:

http://fortune.com/2013/04/15/did-china-steal-japans-high-sp...
Very interesting. So if this lawyer is right about the US, we need a new open source license that is explicitly designed to be not contract-like, to defend against Trump?
Designing the SKA Supercomputer Platform
Creationist rubbish wrapped in lots of waffling.
Well, now you have cameras that can basically shoot in the dark, seeing stuff you can't with your own eyes - Sony A7S II
I wouldn't buy a Huawei phone, horrible service
That's because DB is really bad. Everyone in Europe knows how bad DB is. It has nothing to do with high speed trains.
Clearly you have never hitchhiked across a continent.

Tourism is a plague but travel will always be a significant human experience.
I fully agree with your sentiment but I don't agree with a ban. Prohibition doesn't work. You should be able to use it but the legal risks and liability you open yourself up to by using it should be strong enough to deter its use except when there truly is no substitute. Asbestos comes to mind as an example. People (often on HN) often run in circles and scream about the sky falling because "OMG it's not banned" but the reality is that the court of public opinion has basically ruled it is not ok to use. That's how I want to see facial recognition tech and other tech that enables corporations and governments to stalk people at scale treated
> And, preposterously, America has given political asylum to German home-schoolers a few years ago.

Why preposterously?
"kph" makes no sense - kilos per hour?
Offical SI notation is km/h, and IMO that's what should be used.
Well, in my experience a lot of developers do generally see the world in terms of opportunities to develop new software.

Edit: I don't think is a bad thing and I am prone to it myself !
I think the brain drain from HK to China is much more prevalent than people know these past five years. China have been doing various "assimilation" techniques since the Qin Dynasty. I feel like China has been pretty aggressive with their "wash generation" (direct translation). Bathe the citizens in decent wealth and comfort while increasing the immigration rate from Mainlad China. Look at the new train and bridge to Shen Zhen that's part of the new government intiative to make Shen Zhen the world SV. There's new entrepreneur/startup incubator thats less than a hour travel from HK. This incubator is expected to provide tax break, living and office space, and small stipend to live for any young entrepreneur and HK citizens are qualified to apply. For the better or the worse, it's only a matter of a couple decades where HK today will cease to exist at this rate.
It's a planet.

( https://starcraft.fandom.com/wiki/Char )
Also it doesn't really matter since the implementation is close to 20 years old, which means the patents should have expired anyway.
How did you get together to build this community?
A wild idea I had never even thought of, X-rays are of high enough frequncy that they can penetrate the plasmasheath of high velocity vehicles. Seemingly this is for hypersonic transport, and rentry vehicles, my mind is quite boggled.
I always wondered about this as well. It seems like a nobrainer especially in SE Australia. Adelaide, Melbourne, Sydney, up to Brisbaine. Although 600km/h would probably be unnecessarily fast and not economically viable on these routes, a normal 300+ HSR would surely provide huge benefits.
> which gives 1 Gb/s per 125 simultaneous users in this high-density area. That's not great, but it's also not awful.

thats per satellite... wouldnt you, in theory, have access to multiple satellites? i though the theory was overlap, etc...
There have been numerous issues where corpora of peoples faces have been insufficiently stocked with a particular racial group, in such cases people's faces might not register as faces and therefore be shut out of whatever the facial recognition is supposed to implement.

For example facial recognition at a high priced building, suddenly non-white people can't get in because you did not show a real face at the scanner. Sorry, it's a bug not a feature.

The same problem would of course apply to anyone with facial deformities etc.

The problem would be essentially of two forms - Automatic exclusion from a group by facial feature, or automatic inclusion in a group by facial feature.

Think of the automatic inclusion as advanced phrenology or other sort of woo, in this scenario company X sells the idea that they will have facial recognition of 'criminal types' based on whatever research they can pull out that criminals often correspond in appearance. Then they fill that corpus up with criminals which then is a nice self-selecting system of find the black/hispanic person and deny them the job, loan etc. because of likelihood for crime past the threshold set.

the reason why this would happen is the same reason why banks used to deny loans to people in certain zip codes, because by doing so they could be racially profiling and excluding but pretend not to do so.
Sometimes you have to trade up some part of the experience to be able to enjoy it. I travel by cruise (and trains) a lot, but I do mostly on small ships and off season. It's cheaper and I get to avoid the masses. It's very enjoyable and has its own perks.

I spent a month in Japan a few years ago, at the beginning of the year instead of the Golden Week when everybody goes and visited all over the place. No queues, no massive amounts of people (well, Tokyo is Tokyo), no stress. Sure, I missed the famous cherry blossoms, but to be able to visit e.g. Himeji castle and be in a room almost by myself contemplating was worth it. Had many experiences like this everywhere. I really enjoyed that trip and left feeling that Japan was even better than I imagined.
France is a lost cause when it comes to software engineering or even creative jobs like design.

Salaries are low (I made the same money in London as a junior that I would in Paris as a senior), bureaucracy and bullshit jobs are rampant - in fact, engineers aren’t really a prestigious position and some paper-pushing idiot delivering zero net value (besides creating work for other paper-pushers) will end up getting more money and recognition - the entire working culture is based on bullshit jobs, much more so than other countries and there’s always this mindset of “us versus them” and being at odds with management, something that ultimately leads to disaster especially in IT (I can’t imagine working if I had to be in conflict with my line manager who’s also a senior developer and gives me invaluable advice). Finally IT is considered as some kind of rocket science or black magic where they require 5+ years of higher education for anything even remotely related to IT (tech support, etc) which means getting into the industry is very hard unless you are ready for 5 years of misery before being able to get your dream job.
As ever Scott Manley made me do it:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e4nXU1xF_Tg
This is a meaningless statement without a threat profile.

Sure if everyone lives in a police state under the thumb of the government you're safer from petty crime but you're a heck of a lot less safe from government abuse.
It is one of the great wonders of the natural world, and it is a place that many people hold to be very special. It is, in a way, an almost "sacred" place, in a weird secular sense. It is not just any other mountain. There's a reason people are queueing up to see the summit.

Maybe I'm a crazy person, but I think that we have a moral obligation to protect the great natural wonders of the world. You can visit them, sure, but only if you do so in a responsible way that ensures their preservation. I do not see how that's possible with Everest any more. History has shown that there is no way to guarantee that you will not be forced (by circumstance alone) to leave trash on the mountain. That trash, by the way, will become essentially unrecoverable: it will likely be there for decades or centuries.

Same thing with your human body: if you want to risk your life, that's fine. If you want to drag others into your idiotic quest to pretend to be Edmund Hillary, that is also fine (as long as they do so full consent and knowing the risks). What is not fine is that if you do die, your body will be essentially unrecoverable, and it will also litter the mountain for decades or centuries.

If you care AT ALL about preserving Everest (and I suspect most people do), I claim there's no morally permissible way to climb this mountain. Leave it alone. Go climb something where you can make sure you can take your refuse with you, and where your dead corpse can be recovered.