skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The Railway Clearing House’s Junction Diagrams are on Wikimedia Commons, and truly beautiful cartography:

https://commons.m.wikimedia.org/wiki/Category:Railways_Junct...
Thank you very much, love this comment. Watching Marc right now!
This is not about innovation, this is about standards.
Like Objective-C instead of C++, Metal instead of Vulkan, Lightning instead of USB-C, and countless proprietary stuff they use to lock down their users and devs inside of their closed garden.

This is wrong and detrimental to the whole industry, including users.

Apple would have created a shitty internet if they were in charge at the time.

To be honest, Microsoft did pretty nasty things during their era, but I think that Apple would have been so much worse.
How likely do you think this is to make a significant dent in, say, the next 18 months?

> Server-side systems and thin clients are almost bullet proof.

Thin clients, maybe. Service-side systems, not so much.

I remember multiple pre-auth code exec bugs in VPN concentrators and other Internet-facing security appliances this year alone.

I really want to believe that better security practices can save us all, but somehow I've lost hope during the last 10 to 12 months...
Not just CS books, but unglue.it offers various books, e.g.

* Paolo Bory: The Internet Myth
https://unglue.it/work/442013/

* The Digital Public Domain: Foundations for an Open Culture
https://unglue.it/work/136338/

* Francis daCosta: Rethinking the Internet of Things (APress)
https://unglue.it/work/310550/

* Shotts: The Linux Command Line (No Starch Press)
https://unglue.it/work/136224/

* Fogel: Producing Open Source Software
UT: How to Run a Successful Free Software Project
https://unglue.it/work/135870/

* Ryder: Unix as IDE
https://unglue.it/work/194054/

More at e.g.

* https://unglue.it/free/kw.Computers%20/%20Programming/
I think the over double price tag (compared to the other model) should show how much the US has benefited from globalization (at other’s expense). Most consumers prefer cheaper things. What Purism is doing is very noble, but it’s not going to move any mountains. We need governmental regulation for that.
What's troubling to me is that people like you act like some kind of saviour for women yet you don't appear to have ever spoken to or really, really listened to one of them.

I don't presume to know what any individual's aspirations are, but I do know that a species doesn't survive if its members don't want to reproduce. I also know that women's happiness has only declined over the past several decades despite what we are told are great strides towards women's liberties and opportunities. The women around me are under incredible stress due to the opposing pressures of a society that wants them to work and "be strong" and their own biological clock telling them to reproduce before it's too late. Just look at the statistics on anti-depressant and other drug use amongst women. You'd have to be crazy to think this is healthy.

You cry misogyny but it's you who is killing them. This isn't what women want. They don't want to go to work. Who the hell would?
This is really really impressive. I remember being blown away a few years ago watching one of these things jump over some obstacles while plugged into a wall for power. Remarkable progress.
The scientist saw BS, he called BS, and then 20 years later, the field he criticized turned out to be mostly BS.

If you're offended by the audacity of scientists criticizing pseudoscience, you may want to read about the concept of "polemics". It's an acceptable, longstanding form of rhetoric for when a respected figure publicly disagrees with a direction of another group of people.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Polemic

Incidentally, the author even noted his article was a polemic in the original abstract https://arxiv.org/abs/physics/0102051
> It won't because for non-techies it's just a random video without any significance.

What a bizarre thing to say. Surely "non-techies" are able to extract some value from the video.

> I tried showing it to my girlfriend twice and she was extremely unimpressed and uninterested.

Oh, well, if your girlfriend was unimpressed and uninterested, we'll just extrapolate from that and presume the same for everyone else (at least everyone else's girlfriend).
I'm sorry for their demise, but I'm kind of a fan of this 'feature' of Google Maps. Before covid, I spent 2 years on a motorbike (scooter) going all over Vietnam, Cambodia and Laos. I had some epic epic adventures into some deeply remote areas that I wouldn't have been able to find at all without the "help" of Google Maps giving me bad directions.

One of which was following what looked like a normal road out of town and ended up being a full day of crossing a mountain range, in the middle of nowhere, on a path where I had to push the motorbike up the hill for parts of it and cross a river half way through. Exhausting day, but amazing none the less.
https://puri.sm/posts/mobile-desktop-convergence/
Some countries will require proof of vaccination or an isolation period, especially if the mutation(s) of coronavirus is more contagious and/or more deadly. That will make frequent travelers try to get vaccinations sooner. These two things in tandem will make news, making it even more common. This, combined with many people feeling pent up travel energy, will result in more than average international travel in the second half of 2021
I was wondering the same - I was a concert once, and was putting in earplugs - when I noticed one ear wasn't affected as much as the other when I put the earplugs in.

Testing showed I had some hearing loss - but not a lot. I ended up getting more tests. They played a series of words into my "good" ear and I had to repeat them: "duck"... "duck". "concrete" .... "concrete"... it was pretty funny.

Then they did the same thing in my other ear: "schmwaaa" ... "Smchmwaa?"... "Grunnnngch"... "wtf?!". Turned out I had an accoustic neuroma - a tumor on the auditory nerve. Got it cut out with some neurosurgery, but now am 100% deaf in one ear with shitty tinnitus.

Hearing loss is pretty common so I don't want to scare-monger - but, OP - follow up on the tests!
> After iPhones are not supported anymore they turn into bricks.

Where on Earth do you get that from? My iPhone 3GS could still connect to the App Store after 7 years. My wife’s iPhone 6 from 2014 just got a patch in November.

Look, I’m not going to assume bad faith, maybe you really believe this or thought it seemed true to you. When your preconceptions turn out to be this dramatically contrary to the actual facts, I seriously suggest you take a look at what it is about those preconceptions that is leading you so far away from reality.

I see comments like this all the time. Apple devices have built in redundancy, yet in fact they have industry leading device support and lifetimes. Apple is an arch polluter, yet over here in reality they have the highest environmental rating from Greenpeace of any major smartphone vendor. Where do people like you get this stuff, and why? What is it that’s motivating you to say these things that are so clearly wrong and we easily disproved?
I am looking for a contact at Orange France to fix my ADSL line
It is now more than 3 weeks that the consumer service of Orange (help line: 3900) is fooling me with stupid excuses. The story is incredible. I can give more details.
They know that there is an issue with the DSL line. So if by any luck, here on HN someone has a good contact at Orange (not someone useless from the help line), I would really appreciate. Thank you!
Hopefully is back to normal around July.. will have near a month of PTO to use..
> as a result, seeing how eliminating state is far from the only way to tame it.

I agree! Elimination is but an extreme form of control :)

I have strong hopes that logic programming will provide the next generation of formal tools for controlling (rather than eliminating) state. My ideal paradigm would be "logical shell, functional core" (swapping out "imperative shell"). But logical methods are (a) unknown, (b) niche, and (c) overshadowed by the barest treatment students receive of Prolog, so there's still a long way to go here.

(FWIW, I think of things like LVars, CRDTs, and distributed protocols more broadly as having a fundamentally logical flavor. See the recent CALM Theorem for more on that.)

(EDIT: Here's a very recent comment I made where I dig a bit more into those logical items. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25567740)
Truck driver here, with Type 2 diabetes; metformin pills, no insulin. Trulicity recently because of high blood glucose; also acts as an appetite suppressant for some people.

Most truck drivers in the US take a physical and get a two year medical card. Diabetics that demonstrate blood glucose control get one year.

At my last physical my blood glucose was way out of control (my bad), and they gave me a three month card and "come back way better than this in three months."

I then ate mostly meat, cheese, plain greek yogurt, and protein bars (17g carbs) and protein shakes (5g). Pre-sliced apples and frozen vegetables. Minimal cheating, confessed in my diary. Most of my shopping is Walmart, because you can park a truck up in there.

In regular consultation with a nutritionist in my doctor's office (I send her my weekly carb and blood glucose diary), I generally eat anywhere from 40 to 80 grams of carbs, according to labels, or Wolfram Alpha when needed. Occasionally low hundreds.

https://www.wolframalpha.com/input/?i=nutrition

Not quite keto, but low and mostly disciplined. Minimal exercise.

My glucose readings went from high 300s (like I said, out of control) to 90s and low hundreds. My nutritionist saw a few low 80s in my diary and warned me that 80 is moving into "low blood glucose."

Aaannd ... I've lost 30 pounds; 220 to 190, at 5'11". That was an absolute and unanticipated side effect.

The other main diabetic measure is A1C, which requires a blood draw. Last recent physical was 14, double what's reasonable. It's a 3 month average, so it won't be where I want it to be after 3 months, but I expect enough improvement to regain my one year medical card.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Glycated_hemoglobin

All this (and the "minimal exercise" comment) to say "low carbs good, added sugar and processed grain really bad."

As a trucker, almost everything I eat comes in a package, and is cooked in my microwave or eaten directly out of my little refrigerator. I read the labels, and put it back if there's added sugar, or enough carbs that that one meal would dominate my carb budget. I eat oatmeal (with water, not milk, my preference) almost every morning, steel cut and out of the round cardboard container, not flavored floor sweepings in envelopes.

Read the labels. And if you're diabetic, stick your fingers every day, even if you don't use insulin. If you don't read your blood glucose regularly, you could be lying to yourself.

Anecdote of one.
If someone with the resources to hunt me with a robot wants me dead I’m sure they could also afford some terrifying merc to do it too.
I honestly find it difficult to keep track of these names and their double meanings. It doesn't come across instantly as an acronym it just looks like a company name being yelled.

If it were an acronym I'd expect full stops between each letter. I find the long names far more descriptive and useful I can read that and go yep...topic has no interest to me. CIDER doesn't have the same effect. This ain't just this app that's done it. Another app I had a similar mental struggle associating was slack. Literally can't get into my head what the term slack has to do with a messaging app.its been too long associated in my head as a negative term for being lazy.

I come from a work history in construction. Things are called what they are and namings generally pretty basic. I don't find dealing with the naming in tech anywhere near as easy. It's a bit of a barrier to learning for me tbh.
The sawtooth is called a "chevron" and is designed to reduce engine noise to meet FAA standards.
> Venezuela

Specifically voiced support for the pro-democratic opposition leader that arguably won the election.

> the Middle East

Supported democratic reforms in Egypt against a long time pro-US dictator in Mubarak. Supported Syria's right to self-determination to the point of fighting with FSA for years.

> Bolivia

Bolivia is an interesting case, the opposition claimed fraud but i've seen no evidence of it. A black eye for sure to come down against the results of their election without proof.
Mostly agree but highly doubt if China would change the worker rights laws. Actually they do not need change since they already got a good one (including 40 hour work week and overtime pay), but it's rarely enforced by local governments.
Careful. Did they play CoD because they support military action or the other way around?
They do have a product you can buy — Spot (the dog).
> But they don't have a product.

The yellow robot, Spot, is available for purchase.
Thanks for joining me on whatever list we are now on :)
Coverage of “wooden satellites” misses the point
Human augmentation such as exoskeletons will likely find broad commercial appeal as well.

https://www.army-technology.com/features/us-army-exoskeleton...
A perfect puppet is a necessary but insufficient condition for creating the magical robots we were promised as kids. So it's progress.
It happened to me in Spain. I was driving back to the house we rented and ended up in the middle of a plowed field. Greeted by a cow and its bemused owner.
It took me some exercise to turn back, my nightmare was to have a puncture.

So yeah, when the road does not seem right follow your gut feelings.
The key quote:

"The tribalistic sociology that has led to a large group of people calling themselves “string theorists” when what they do has nothing to do with string theory is also something I would have thought impossible."

It's my personal bias but I see every group this way.

As someone intrigued by 'cults' early in life, I've come to see that all groups exhibit quite a lot of in/out group behaviour, the weird things is when it happens among those most socially unaware people (often science) - combined with a highly objective discipline (again science) ... people are just unwilling to accept that social artifacts can dominate their sphere.

Now, the existential issue of the fact that their 'entire worldview' and 'life-long work' is tied up in something, delusions can become very strongly internalized.

String theory is at least as interesting for the 'sociology' part as it is the 'string' part.

String theory, and the 'reproducability problem' has kind of shaken my faith in science. I grew up really 'believing' in Science, I view it much more differently these days - including those who have this unassailable faith in it as likely being a little deluded themselves.
> 1/4 of all small businesses are dead.

Do you have a source for that? I mean you might be right, but I haven't heard anything like that. Also pretty much every restaurant I went to before (non-chain) and after the pandemic are open today. I know of 1 that closed permanently, with 100s of others that I frequent. Some are even expanding.
Generally there's an outside source of funding that's not part of the field. Thus top scientists find themselves becoming "rainmakers" rather than doing research. You tell your staff to wear their white coats and glasses, lead a tour around the facility, point out how big the machines are, etc.
This was my first thought as well. Watching them dance, I was thinking, non-jokingly “if they can do this now, what happens when these robots are dancing faster than the human eye can see?”
Show HN: A list of historical places of the Cold War to worth a visit
> Blood lead level measured at age 11 years.

The harm by lead occurs in the first 3 years of life. High blood lead in early childhood is not detected later in childhood [0]. The New Zealand study uses blood tests performed ten years too late. This flaw makes the study almost useless.

Additionally, only 30 of the children in the study had low blood lead, <5 ug/dL. This is because the blood was collected in the 1980s and New Zealand only banned leaded gasoline in 1996. Look at Figure 1 in [1], and notice that at 5ug/dL, the damage is already done.

[0] Caito, S., & Aschner, M. (2017). Developmental Neurotoxicity of Lead. Neurotoxicity of Metals, 3–12. doi:10.1007/978-3-319-60189-2_1

[1] Nevin, R. (2000). How Lead Exposure Relates to Temporal Changes in IQ, Violent Crime, and Unwed Pregnancy. Environmental Research, 83(1), 1–22. doi:10.1006/enrs.1999.4045
Right, I know they run it in Singapore, but it's a product the way Juicero is a product: it's kinda useless.
I think you’re right but for the opposite reason.

Tesla have shown very little inclination to design cars suitable for European roads (e.g. small-medium sized hatchbacks). B-segment car buyers in Europe will opt for an ID3.

For motorway mile-munchers Tesla still have the advantage of their super-charging network to set them apart.
It also occurs to me that targeting someone like Apple also makes smaller players rethink their operations too.
highly surgical strikes such as selecting one individual primary target in a room full of collateral, secondary targets
Hmm. The way I see benchwork scientists being 'productive' is an endless slog - your cultures grow at their own schedule, and don't respect the boundaries of the work-life balance. Of course, this isn't true for everybody, but was one of the reasons pushing me away from benchwork towards bioinformatics. Our work also tends to be much more insular, gnawing away for years on our own little piece of the problem. I suppose I'm personally at a fairly "creative" point in my career - I have absolute free reign in my study, and my PI encourages it.
If one could make such a battery small enough for this drone, I expect you would need all its power to keep the salt molten.
Why not just ban outsourcing to countries with poor labor laws? The commonly stated purpose of the U.S. outsourcing to China was to 1. help lift it out of poverty and 2. bring it democracy through capitalism.

Goal #1 has been largely achieved and Goal #2 has been an epic failure. The U.S. should completely phase out outsourcing to China over the next decade. This would drive a huge acceleration of automated manufacturing in the U.S. which is the future anyway.

Companies like Apple could move all manufacturing to the U.S. over a decade if they wanted to. They have the money and the technology. But they're currently addicted to cheap (and unethical) labor. They're unlikely quit on their own, as long as U.S. law enables their addiction.
Yeah, you can achieve the same educational aims with one of the thousands of crackmes out there. It’s pretty sketchy to demo cracking for pay software in a public place like this. Maybe that was old content and they forgot about it, but still, it does shed some light on it. Cybersecurity content in general, and especially that focused on tools and techniques, should be presented with at least some moral and ethical concern.
I switched over from a hacked together bbPress site for MaraDNS support to using GitHub discussions (which I also link to for blog comments). It’s one less site for me to maintain.
Train crashes have plentiful ignition sources as metal scrapes across metal. Oddly enough it’s surprisingly common for train crashes to result in fires ex: https://youtu.be/vww5V-xmtzs or https://baltimore.cbslocal.com/2016/07/06/recent-derailments... or the original disaster I mentioned.

At which point those secondary fires can easily ignite the literal pools on LNG being described.
I can no longer delete my comment, but since you edited your original I'll edit my prior comment to [deleted].
I can imagine one of these hopping out the back of the self driving Amazon van to drop my parcel off when the price makes sense.
"No matter how well-founded the idea that string theory is a dead end, this isn't likely to improve things. "

If string theory is in fact a flub - and the field can't take a basic article of this 'tone' without flinching - the science has a problem.
Still raw from a gaming platform we built for progress/matchup on App Engine (GAE) early on in 2011 for a popular racing matchup game. We chose App Engine due to flexibility, scaling and price.

One day Google increased prices and our costs went up x5-x10 on AppEngine [1][2]. We then had to move to AWS over the next few weeks early on in launch. It caused push back on other projects and was generally a bad time that wasn't necessary.

That isn't the way to build trust and we have used AWS and now Azure more than Google Cloud for this reason in the decade since.

Google has great tools, but you simply cannot do shock pricing on the cloud, it is the biggest fear of everyone that uses the cloud or has to recommend it. Google made us look bad by choosing them over AWS, later we also use Azure.

We like to build our systems for horizontal scaling, on cheaper machines, we weren't even doing much but it was suddenly out of budget and left everyone feeling burned by Google. I love Google and their tools, but they have to be careful with the rug pulling and knee capping people that choose large projects to develop on their products and platforms.

Don't make people look bad for choosing your product and especially don't surprise people with pricing or dropping products. If it was a better planned price increase we could have taken time to move off more slowly or even optimized to run on it, but since it was so sudden it was shocking. Since that moment they have lost lots of projects to Google Cloud that would have gone there.

We literally never expected it because AWS was a force, Azure was still new, and we thought Google would be price competitive to AWS and Azure while looking to gain customers trust as cloud products were something that didn't seem like you'd want to do any drastic changes to customers as they can be long term customers if things go well.

[1] https://www.theregister.com/2011/09/02/google_app_engine_use...

[2] https://www.infoq.com/news/2011/09/app-engine-price-hike/
Thanks, hadn't read that before, and now I know more than I did. That's a kinda heavy article to read esp. considering what we might be doing that'll have unknown effects in 20 years
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