skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The US has one of the best and most comprehensive railways on earth. The problem is that its a freight railway that passenger trains have to work around. In southern california the metrolink regional railways link the entire region, but take second fiddle to freight rail which kneecaps their utility unless you are working 9-5 in downtown LA. The entire network is tailored for that commute because thats the best they could do with the freight rail schedule. We need grade separation between freight and passenger trains before any regional or national network will ever improve, and amtrak and other agencies like metrolink have no money allocated for this.
I'm working with a 12k-line YML file with lots of sub-trees right now, and let me tell you, it's a gigantic pain in the butt.

If it were JSON, I could navigate within a subtree by selecting & searching the text between the `{}` delimiters. But instead, I have to gently scroll downwards, keeping a careful eye on the indentation, to see whether I've moved into the adjacent subtree.
Fast freight --- say, a unit train of coal or clinker at 110 * 200 tonne cars --- has kinetic energy at the square of speed, posing increased risks to the freight service itself, any shared-road or adjacent-road traffic, level crossings, and structures, property, or natural features boardering tracks, as well as wear and tear on track and rolling stock. These are part of those safety standards you note, among other factors.

High-speed rail demands fully separated rights of way for reasons of route and destination, safety, predictable scheduling, minimum turning radius, and more. Unfortunately in a world of strong land-property rights and interests, this makes it extraordinarily politically vulnerable.

A few years ago I realised that virtually every successful large-scale rail system (both high-speed and earlier "conventional" services) emerged in a largely uncontested land-rights regime. For the 19th century US and British systems, a pre-industrial or pioneer domain in which land owners were few, poor, or both. On completion, the US transcontinental railroad was seen as a boondoggle "road to nowhere", though various "wheres" began springing up along its route nearly immediately.

(Famously, Denver, Colorado, saw a 10x population growth in the decade after a spur line was built to the transcontinental route.)

For Japan and Europe, planning for high-speed fail began following the physical and economic devastation of WWII. Landholders couldn't put up much of a fight.

China's HSR growth resembles that of frontier America and early-industrial Britain, benefitting by a different land-ownership regime.

The most pernicious obstacle to California high-speed rail is Atherton.
How do you know it's not using open wifi networks?
Ukraine IT Outsourcing – Cost and Quality in What Matters Most
Or maybe your addressable market is saturated....
I'm not sure where I first heard this, but I feel it, even as I think about writing more: "everyone loves having written a book, not so much writing a book."
I don't disagree with anything you've said, but what happens when you apply that reasoning to a whole country? "Well, if you stopped being a shitty citizen, you could get the good train tickets." In the average case, Chinese citizens with low social scores actually are antisocial assholes, not dissidents trying to overthrow a corrupt government. So is Chinese social scoring not actually a bad idea?

It's like... If anyone's been to Disney World, they're familiar with what an all-encompassing experience that is. Now imagine Disney World ran 75% of Florida. And could bar you from the premises for violating its rules...
Developers Try Again to Upstream Motorola 68000 Series Support in LLVM
A big problem of this was positioning of customer reviews over things like Consumer Reports or other publications that have to maintain a long-running reputation (the random reviewer who gives 5 stars doesn't). Reviews became what people trusted, then those were manipulated or paid for, but nothing has filled the trustworthy vacuum because of that just yet.

(Consumer Reports is still there of course, just not as popular of a source as reviews for some reason)
> nurse, pharmacist, physical therapist, etc. are 3 year apprenticeships in Germany

I wasn't aware of that, thank you. This seems like an amazingly better way of doing things.
This thread isn't about what may usually happen, but rather about the potential damage of an outlier, such as auto-captioning a slur in a the speech of a foreign official with a heavy accent.
Of course Epic was being dishonest. This is about the court of public opinion - there’s very little chance of
winning this lawsuit, but it draws attention of lawmakers and lobbyists to either change the laws or get the DOJ or EU to take another look at this.

That said, I think most people are going to be disappointed regardless the outcome.

Markets aren’t created by god, they’re created by customers.

If you want to force the creation of an App Store market, one that customers aren’t actually asking for, it will need to be government-mandated.

If you think the EU or US knows how to create a utility market of app stores without completely fucking up competition, security, consumer experience, and enshrining Android and IOS as the “government sanctioned platforms” for 50 years, you are placing far too much faith in the power of regulation. It takes years to decades to get this right - no one has the answers, and governments aren’t great with uncertainty (see how policy and science mix!).

Laws move very slowly, especially with partisan gridlock. Do we really think these platforms have a 50 year lifespan? If not, it’s probably not worth regulating.

Be careful what you wish for.
They lost me at "Foucault raises the issue".
One more option that was at least available on older Kindles

- You can buy the device for $X “with special offers” today, then hack it and remove the "special offers".

I don't know how prevalent this is, but wonder if it's a consideration in deciding on the "money to disable ads" strategy.
I'm glad I'm not the only one with this confusion, my friends mock me relentlessly based on past discussions we've had.

Since on some designs the smaller button cannot be pressed separately and therefore corresponds to a big flush, since both parts of the button are depressed at once; it stands to reason small will always be bigger flush, which I rationalise as urination being the more common operation and therefore deserving the larger button in order for the user to press more easily. However it's actually the case that big is usually the larger flush, which suggests there's some magic button size ratio at which their meaning crosses over.

I think this goes to show how difficult UX is.
went for a Sony instead. They haven't done anything stupid like this yet

True, not like this. But they've done worse things: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sony_rootkit

After all, most people don't even know what a rootkit is, so why should they care about it?
Which crime has he admitted to specifically?
> the judge pointed out that the 30 percent rate that Apple collects is the "industry rate" collected by PlayStation, Xbox, Nintendo, Amazon, Walmart, Best Buy, Google, and more. "It's all 30 percent and you just want to gloss over it," the judge said to Epic's lawyers.

Justifying lax antitrust with the fact that other, similar market-power abuses, have also been permitted in the current lax antitrust atmosphere... as close to circular logic as it gets.
Glad you asked that question, I was wondering the same - and good answers.

I guess this is all in the pursuit of reducing link time, but a clean build will write the whole binary from scratch in a more compressed way?
There's no standard afaik, every manufacturer is free to implement it as they see fit.

I guess you could read the manual, print out the method of operation and put it on the wall/door/wherever.
Found an interesting paper on this!

https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/pdf/10.1080/00437956.2007.11...

"The morphology of English words like dependence, linguistics, and news suggests that English has an /-s/ suffix forming certain kinds of abstract nouns not used as plurals. While dependence and dependents are homophones, the former takes singular verb agreement, as do linguistics and news, and the latter takes plural. We argue that English has a highly productive derivational suffix /-s/ that creates abstract nouns from adjectives, dependence from dependent + /-s/, linguistics from linguistic + /-s/, and news from new + /-s/. While this suffix originated in the Latin present participle, the sources of a modern /-s/ came into English through extensive borrowing from Latin and French as well as through loan translation and borrowing of Greek words, but then it combined with existing English /-s/ that marked plural or genitive. Orthographic, phonological, morphological, and semantic evidence suggests that this modern /-s/ arose from several distinct sources that came together as a single suffix in the early 171h century."
"Distributed CDN" sells ipfs a bit short. It has properties of a distributed CDN but usually people think of a CDN as not a good fit to store the primary assets, but ipfs can have pretty good persistence and reliability guarantees if setup accordingly.

Usually a project like Nixos would not use the simple standard ipfs daemon but something like cluster.ipfs.io and i think i have also seen ipfs servers on top minio or s3 for storing the data. So the actual databits durability and reliability can be the same or better than the s3 comparison with ipfs.

A discussion like this is best split up into the api and storage system parts:
so S3 becomes the S3 Rest API and an S3 object store and IPFS becomes the IPFS access protocol (and IPFS gateway REST api) and whatever IPFS storage system a projects choses to use.

The cool thing about IPFS for package managers lies more in the protocol and architecture part than the low level data storage.

- content addressable storage as core design principle solves a lot of problems that need to be manually build on top of s3 anyways if you want to build a CDN or Package manager directly on S3, but in a standard and documented way . I would argue even without the p2p distributed part of ipfs, it would be a great fit for a content addressable storage system.

- "discovery": finding packages across different servers, this is such a game changer. Traditionally you would have 1 or 2 repositories configured and packages are fetched from those, if these servers do not have the right package or versions or are offline you are screwed (having to manually find alternative mirrors or finding copies of the package elsewhere). In ipfs, if your peers don't have a file, it can just ask the network for available "mirrors" and even users who have a copy and contribute to the network can provide you their copy automatically.
There's a commercial entity behind this, called Commonwealth Fusion [1] created by members of the MIT Plasma Science and Fusion Center (PSFC) [2], which looks like it has received $199MM in total funding to date via a Series A [3].

[1] https://cfs.energy/

[2] https://www.psfc.mit.edu/sparc/greenwald

[3] https://www.crunchbase.com/organization/commonwealth-fusion-...
I remember reading a story about a Black man attending KKK rallies to understand their argument and successfully convince some of them to leave the group. I think it was Daryl Davis: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Daryl_Davis

Nowadays this would be very difficult because the mere fact of being around "bad" people ("bad" depends on the context and might be something relatively innocent) would also brand you as "bad" regardless of any good intentions you might have.

What ends up happening is that "bad" people are stuck in their own echo-chamber surrounded by like-minded people and anyone outside of the group wouldn't dare to engage with them (and provide counter-arguments) because of consequences for their own career & social circle (as their own friends would distance themselves from him for the same reasons).
Terratag released to open ource by env0
Terratag is a CLI tool that enables users of Terraform to automatically create and maintain tags across their entire set of AWS, Azure, and GCP resources.
https://youtu.be/pI-iJcC9JUc
There's disagreement, but evidence was asked for, not consensus.
For more info on the history and the current status of the backend, see this talk by Min: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-6zXXPRl-QI

Slides can be found here: http://m68k.info/assets/LLVM-Backend-for-M68k-Overview-and-S...

Bountysource campaign is here: https://www.bountysource.com/issues/90829856-llvm-complete-t...

Preliminary Rust backend (not yet functional) can be found here: https://github.com/glaubitz/rust/tree/m68k-linux

We're always looking for contributors :-).
> For our program to have taken "several seconds, at a minimum" to run would have been a failure case, so there would have been no value in benchmarking that, let alone optimizing for it. I expect the use cases are the same for this project, which is supposed to be processing untrusted scriptlets that need to finish in the smallest amount of wall clock time possible.

If the goal is to compare to NodeJS and Deno, which are largely used to write long-lived servers, then I disagree entirely.

Even if the main use case for Elsa were to build Lambda-esque services, I would again disagree. Services like that gain significant benefit from reusing a single instance of the program, rather than creating it from scratch over and over again. Even without a JIT, parsing the program over and over is a waste of time, and reusing an instance allows you to amortize that cost (and the cost of JIT) across a number of uses, rather than paying that price every time.

The benchmarks provided are extremely short, such as the one-liner benchmark I mentioned before, so for all we know, QuickJS is slower at parsing JavaScript than V8 is, and it would be slower at running "real" programs than V8, even though V8 has a JIT to deal with. This is without mentioning that V8 has a JIT-less mode, which the benchmarks aren't comparing against, even though it might be more comparable.

The only use case for an 8 millisecond benchmark with startup penalty every time is interactive CLI tools, as you alluded to, and this is far from the expected use case I see described in the project.

But even then... the benchmarks showed that the startup time and total performance for V8 were comparable on the human scale. The difference between 8 milliseconds and 36 milliseconds is completely irrelevant to humans. It isn't like V8 is taking 10 seconds to initialize or something. V8 is just running slower for a short period of time as it learns about what it is executing. If the CLI tool were doing more than a non-trivial amount of work, the V8 JIT would begin to accelerate past QuickJS.

So, the benchmarks are irrelevant for the CLI use case, and irrelevant for seemingly every use case that has been presented. If the benchmarks were showing that V8 could not complete these tasks in a reasonable amount of time, then they might be showing something useful.

These benchmarks are measuring the use case of interactive CLI tools that are written in a single line of JavaScript... which is a very specific use case that I don't believe is intended to be the target market of the project.

I appreciate your anecdote, but this isn't my first time thinking about benchmarks, and these benchmarks seem pretty seriously flawed to me. This is why I made my first comment, and your comment has done nothing to negate any of the reasoning that went into my first comment.
The Mallard record was a bit of a stretch. One way, down a hill, not in service but testing new brakes. It needed repairs after that. The previous record was 1.5 mph slower.

At least it didn't have the wheel slip that the 4-4-4-4 PRR train had or that poppet valve problem.

Size was also very different, like comparing a 737 to a 747.

Beautiful that the Mallard was, the U.S. trains had something to them and the expanse of the U.S. gave opportunities that were not possible in the UK for some truly fast trains. The mountain ranges of the US are vast compared to the mere hills of the UK, if you wanted a downhill run for top speed then the U.S. should have had options. But planes came along.
? huh? We’re literally talking about Microsoft here.

Of all people, Microsoft could do it. They have before. A Windows X with a appstore only would be a trivial variant for them.

Either way, it’s irrelevant to the parent comment: if you agree to the terms, they willfully defy them... well, you’re violating your commercial agreement.

What next, I sue amazon for discontinuing my AWS services when I start running spambots on it or some other willfull violation of their avceptable use policy [1]?

Its ridiculous.

The only ones winning here are lawyers.

[1] - yes, they do have one, and you will get suspended if you violate it. https://aws.amazon.com/aup/
>If your question is "what options are allowed in rc.conf and what is the syntax?" then your answer is not found in the manual page for rc...

... which is why you would look at the rc.conf man page for that:

* https://man.openbsd.org/rc.conf
Sorry, if there’s no long lived immunity, there also can’t be a vaccine.
I agree - a fantastic book! I have written a longish summary/review of it, including the reasons why I liked it so much:

https://henrikwarne.com/2019/07/27/book-review-designing-dat...
Gmail Is the Best Now
For some reason my company blocks everything to with looking up IP addresses or finding them through 3rd party services, but i needed my ip to be able to email my personal account from my work account (don't ask)
Here's the thing- the entire gmail domain is unblocked on out network. I just used the "Recent activity button" and bam all the ip's i need are right there - including company ones i'm sure i wasn't supposed to find
My favorite line in the post, and one that inspires my own efforts lately:

> How to be a 10x engineer: help ten other engineers be twice as good. Producing high-quality educational materials enables you to be a 300x engineer.
Carrier appstores aside, you could download apps directly from Google or any other website on any Symbian phone.
> the Trump administration’s embrace of white supremacy

"embrace" by the definition "openly supporting white supremacy"? Or "dared to suggest there where two sides at fault in Charlottesville"?
It is quite cool but for me it wont work without javascript on firefox
Climeworks permanently removes carbon dioxide from the air
note that this is a landing page for marketing a (small) tech trends consultancy. it couches itself as counterintuitive new information on a hot-button topic that you can share with friends to be the in-the-know cool kid on the block for 10 minutes, to drive clicks, likely more as a branding and awareness campaign than a top-of-funnel source.

it's not well researched because it doesn't need to be, but it grazes past just-interesting-enough ideas to be plausible to a large percentage of visitors. just enough effort went into it to be effective, but no more (which is the right balance to hit).

as a piece of marketing, i'd give them a thumbs up. as a piece of social media fodder (ironically), claws up! as elucidating content, thumbs down.
Is it discontinued yet?
Are both conventions actually being used? Could anyone link to an example of a small button being used for more water?
Amnesty is not an NGO, it is an organization with links to terrosits.

https://www.opindia.com/2019/09/the-life-and-crimes-of-amnes...

Edit: Add other sources:

https://twitter.com/ARanganathan72/status/117000966338502656...

https://twitter.com/ARanganathan72/status/131096945905453875...
I realized that I can't actually say ANYTHING interesting on this platform without offending someone.

The only thing worse than people who are offended by everything is having to be afraid of offending over-sensitive people.

There's a lot of variety in my crowd

Which is a good thing. It's how it always was. You surrounded yourself with lots of different people with varying opinions. It's how you learned things. It was called being an adult.

Ruth Bader Ginsburg and Antonin Scolia were polar opposites on the issues. But they were also very good friends. Because they were adults. They weren't children who had to surround themselves with familiar things that reinforce their own views of the world.

I remember in college, we were encouraged to seek out differing opinions. I remember a guy who once chastised me for not seeking a broad enough range of opinions. He said, "What's wrong with you? Don't you want to be challenged?" My understanding is that sort of thing would never happen on a college campus today.

Be who you are. If people can't respect you for having a different opinion, they're not adults, and they're certainly not "friends," Facebook or otherwise.
I think you ou’d be surprised how many people can’t balance a checkbook. And how many people are taken in by straightforwardly bad decisions (excessive use of credit etc).
That class was called Home Economics.
Did ESXi on Raspi ever materialize? I remember seeing rumors about it being in the works last year.
Is Peloton a Good Business: An In-Depth Analysis
Exactly!, our down stairs Samsung's TV UI looks like it was designed by a group of toddlers who over dosed on E supplements and decided to use all the crayons in the box
Hm. Speaking of, is there any way to deactivate a FB profile but stay on messenger? I have no interest in a fb profile but I'm connecting with all my friends and family on Messenger
not an option for some recent samsung TVs - if you don't connect the TV to a WiFi AP, the TV "grows up" and will try and connect to any open WiFi APs itself.

see https://www.reddit.com/r/privacy/comments/bpr6xs/if_you_choo...
I've worked on renovating an office building, they had single flush toilets made in West Germany, so they were at least 25 years old at the time.

Didn't look like anyone cleaned them, ever. But they worked perfectly heh
This is so true. I'm happy to have finally escaped the poverty trap, but I worry one day I'll lose it all over medical issues since I'm in the USA.
Even if you earned $0 from your book, I'd say being able to tell people you wrote a book at interviews and on your resume, and even at parties, would make it worth it.

And you'd be able to call yourself an author, how cool is that?
A Half-Dozen Raspberry Pis Help Keep This Maine Oyster Farm Afloat
I love the weave. Great for focusing the projector.
I've met marketers and product people of both kinds. The cynical ones seemed to half hate their jobs, and justify the SOP clickbait as keeping up with the negative sum game they have to play. The less cynical ones seemed to be kind of detached from externalities, and described their marketing copy as "standard marketing puffery" to justify it to legal.
Responses to your insightful post demonstrate why we'll never achieve Roddenberry's dream of a post-scarcity economy. Because in my day I walked 100 miles in the snow so I could get to school to study and become an engineer to pay the bills.
> PirvacyWall seems to be using the Bing API like DDG, so I just don't see how they'd be about to outspend DDG so easily.

They probably are private-equity/venture-funded and are a bet on trying to capture some of the market which they can monetize for more than they spent on the auction.

e: well they appear to be a class B corp, so actually perhaps not
Does this even work for most clients, e.g. gmail and outlook? My understanding is gmail preloads the images (aka pixels) to their server before you even open. And outlook will cache the image after the first open so it won't fire back to the server after that.
I'm pretty sure that any company that mandates Mcafee will not look kindly to their employees disassembling laptops either.
I've also found some physical books nicer for reference then their digital versions.
People used to move from a small village to the big city for anomity and freedom. It would seem to me the loose inference to suggest who I am or what I do similar being mired by bad gossip from villagers.