skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The timetables bit is key here.

the reason a lot of services failed so horribly in 2018/2019 was because as OP pointed out, greyling fucked up the timetabling.

Not only that, they decided to pick a fight with the unions on southern rail, which turned out to end in a messy stalemate.

https://www.londonreconnections.com/ has some good references.
TGA probe into Guillain-Barre Syndrome diagnoses in 8 patients after AstraZeneca
That's a common idiom if the number of threads is dynamic.
Architectural licenses are often secret deals, with the licensee being anonymous in many cases. As they are handed out fairly rarely, I personally find them fairly interesting to follow along.
Actually they are because unlike shareholders who cares more about dividends then efficiency and service levels the government have stakeholders who care about efficiency and service levels.
Perhaps, but:

> The government says the new system should look more like Transport for London, with multiple operators under one brand, offering greater accountability when things go wrong.

If it introduces more accountability, it's basically doing it's job. Multiyear contracts do not mean no accountability. I'm not a regular passenger but my understanding is that reliability of current service is generally poor with little to no recourse.
Ask HN: How to get a mid to senior front end position?
I have been working as a frontend dev for the past 6 year, but in react.js I am relatively new and worked on only a handful of small react and react native projects.

I have been freelancing from the past 1 and a half year, but now want to switch to a full time job. I am looking for a mid to senior level frontend position but they all demand extensive experience in react and its ecosystem.

The question is how can I secure such jobs when I don't have a history of working on mid to large scale react projects? I was thinking of building some side projects but the interviewers demand experience with real industry projects. Has anyone gone through similar experience who can guide me.
As I said below.... double entendres, very common in Britain, appear to cause those in the West Coast US to panic for fear of being perceived sexist. In Britain (home of the panto [1]), we just smile childishly...... and maybe add a 'fnarr fnarr' for good measure.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pantomime#Performance_conventi...
If that was the claim, then why consider African hospitals instead of any hospital?
And there’s the rub. Is that network rail’s problem, or the operator’s? Network rails’s rails... operator’s train wheels, leaves in the middle. The leaves are undefined, and are therefore probably nobody’s problem but the passengers’.
> "The truth is, I lack some of the skills that make an ideal manager. I'm more interested in analysing organizational and market principles, and leveraging these theories to further reduce management work, rather than actually managing people," Mr Zhang wrote in a message on the company's website. "Similarly, I'm not very social, preferring solitary activities like being online, reading, listening to music, and contemplating what may be possible," he added.

This fits the description of a Fierce Nerd as defined by Paul Graham. Little wonder he navigated the company to such great success.

[0]http://paulgraham.com/fn.html
Accompagnement de startups: influence de la sélection
FWIW, I did a lot of C++ in the 1990s, then went to Java/Go for about 15 years. I had to come back to C++ briefly about 5 years ago. cppreference was a total godsend!
@modeless is correct. I used the Godot engine [0].

Out of the box, it allows you to export to Windows, Mac OS, Linux and web (HTML5 with WebAssemply, IIRC).

It also allows exporting to Android and iOS if you have the correct SDKs. (I don't have a mac, so I can't make a iOS build)

Some people also managed to export to consoles. But they don't share that integration because it would make them break the NDA.

[0] https://godotengine.org/
I just built a Kyria! Wonderful device.
I've never actually used Knockout but I guess it looks vaguely similar.

s2 has the advantage of being much smaller (a little over 2kb compressed), and faster on benchmarks[0] and probably real world performance. The API tries to get out of your way as much as possible. The dependency tracking is seamless by using Proxy.get trap. There's no forced separation of models or views, it's all data.

I wrote it because I had to make a complex UI with streaming WebSocket data work smoothly.

[0] https://krausest.github.io/js-framework-benchmark/current.ht...
> The privatization of public infrastructure (ex: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Privatisation_of_British_Rail) was a crime

From that same Wikipedia article:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:GBR_rail_passengers_by_ye...

So, during the 1948-1995 nationalized period, train ridership was in almost constant decline, and from the 1995 privatization, train ridership started a steady and steep increase.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Impact_of_the_privatisation_of...
Thank you for your feedback.

I'll take it into account in further improvements.
Education and healthcare also have network effects. If people near you are ill then you're likely to also become ill. If people around you think taxation is theft and coercion then they can band together and elect people with similar brain worms into government.
The problem (atleast in slovenia) is, that you don't get back the amount that you paid in. Eg. you work 40 years, and expect 20 years on pensions (made up numbers, just an example).

If you get an average paycheck, pay 25% of it into the pension for 40 years, you expect to get approximately 50% of the average paycheck at the time of retirement. Well.. you don't (atleast not here). This also presumes, that there are 2x as many workers that pay into the fund, as there are retirees taking out of the fund... which sadly is not the case anymore, and the situation will get worse and worse.

Also, due to many laws and changes, every few years, you get average-paid people retired in eg. 1991 that receive more than the average paycheck in retirement, and newly retired people getting 400eur of retirement (=not enough to survive).
So much for RISC-V then.
That's actually what pattern_tap's tap macro expands into :) See: https://github.com/mgwidmann/elixir-pattern_tap/blob/master/...
Thanks for planting the image in my head of an evil empire behind a Geocities site.

Just a small thing to add: you can be highly intelligent and still gullible or conformist. A lot of the evils in the world are also caused by those: naivité and peer pressure.
It's a well-written article that addressed all my questions without wasting any time.

It's pretty cool that they managed to make a good, cheap and profitable electric car without building megafactories and redoing everything from scratch.
The 'vertical integration vs. outsourcing' seems to be largely a fashion thing. When giant vertically integrated conglomerates are the status quo, you have the self-appointed thought leaders writing business books and speaking at expensive dinners arguing for outsourcing and focusing on core competences. Then as the tides turn and 'outsource everything' becomes the norm, the next generation of self-appointed business thought leaders argue for vertical integration. ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
The end of the rail franchise system is not new news.

The franchise agreements were effectively terminated in March 2020 when the government bailed out operators due to Covid.

By July, the ONS announced that rail operators were now considered part of the public sector for statistics purposes, signalling that they had effectively been nationalised:

https://www.ons.gov.uk/news/news/theonsclassifiestrainoperat...

In September 2020 the government announced that franchises would be not return:

https://www.theguardian.com/business/2020/sep/21/uk-covid-19...

What’s new with this announcement is that the functions of several organisations (Network Rail, ATOC/National Rail, etc) will be merged together into a single new entity.
> the true canary is stored somewhere else in memory

Specifically, on x86-64 Linux it's stored at fs:0x28.
You can't demand more when plenty of others will do it for far cheaper.
In my mind this isn't about safety scissors at all. I hate languages that in any way limit the kind of code I want to write, which is why I write C++ for the most part, but that's another rant for another day.

If you dont want full control like in C++, a language would be nice that has one specific style, one specific way to do things, and so on. Go(lang) is quite close to this, in my experience. You can't do thread safety wrong, because there's only really one way, and so on.

I would love a language with

1. Explicit nullable types (not like Java's "anything can be null" design), so everything is a non-nullable reference type unless its "optional<T>" for example. I strongly support the idea of a nullable type only being used where it being null carries information.

2. Strong typing - like, tungsten strong. Implicit conversions need to be compiler errors, no implicit constructors, etc. with simple explicit casting

3. One style - and it better not be Java-like forced-OOP.

4. Full and clear memory control, RAII support, no gc. I need my RAM for other stuff.

I'm not sure if there's a language like that out there. I don't care for library support, I just want a fun language.
I think that's the 24th of May, not May in 2024. They were talking about when you can place reservations and the details of each trim level.
Thank you for your feedback.

I know of that optimal strategy. And it's something I'll try "to fix" in a future version.
Earlier iterations of this were used successfully as part of a water quality monitoring in Tanzania:

https://www.waterscope.org/about-us/

Richard Bowman (previously Cambridge uni, now Bath) was the main driver of these microscopes and is a great, highly intelligent person. Many other people have contributed to the project in small and large ways over the years.

Some other links:

https://3dprint.com/165457/openflexure-3d-printed-microscope...

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7249832/
Not having some instructions be a noisy neighbor is a good idea. But it seems wasteful to cap 128 cores at the power output possible if all cores have that output (if that's what it is).

Assuming the default mode of operation is having just a few cores operating at 100% with the majority running at 0%, it's wasteful to not let those active cores run as fast as possible.
As a prime example of this, I'd point to the horrifying source for VVVVVV, a darling indie game of its time:

https://github.com/TerryCavanagh/vvvvvv (my favorite piece: https://github.com/TerryCavanagh/VVVVVV/blob/master/desktop_...)

(There was also discussion about it on HN before as well, if one is interested: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22011358)

That said, refactoring for later gains might be wasted time if you have only a certain amount of scope planned for the rest of time, counter to the typical heuristic.
> Unfortunately you can't run them in place, because the compiler backing it is too old.

Are you sure you've not changed the dropdown? I just made some changes to the example, hit "run this code", hit "run", and the output updated accordingly.
Tracks are certainly very valuable infrastructure, it's just hard to monetize (and very expensive to build, as you say). So in a way it makes sense for the government to handle it.
Oh it does? I try Matrix on a yearly basis with all the bridges and I didn't see it last year. I'm giving it another try in the next month or so. Last time the bridges weren't stable enough yet. I didn't notice this feature that time. Thanks for pointing it out!

I'd prefer a light desktop client though. I didn't spend much time with the web version, perhaps this is why I missed it. But I will definitely give it a try!

By the way I understand the focus on consumer usability, as it's needed for wider adoption. I'd really love for matrix to become mainstream.
Maybe risc-v will take current place of arm with arm taking over x86's segment of the market?
Risc-v being open would be a real boon for low cost embedded chips
I didn't renew mine either. My two main reasons are the mess they caused a few weeks ago and how bad the search is.
HEY has a great feature that lets you merge multiple threads under one name, but they do not have a higher weight over any other email subject or body.
I've found myself lost in a long list of non-relevant emails when searching for a merge thread name, having to scroll email after email; how can they not give a higher weight to a custom string that I chose? All of this on a less than one-year-old archive, I don't know how this system can work overtime.
> significant organisations in finance/wealth management (our general area)

I can have some sympathy to support IE for some cash-strapped local government department struggling to keep their old systems running with duck tape and prayers. "Finance/wealth management" is exactly where that sympathy stops.
> It turns out rail signals were controlled by buried cables without adequate insulation, so when it was wet they literally stopped working

More than that: buried cables without adequate insulation and nobody knew where they were buried.

Railtrack (the unlamented privatised company that originally took on the railway infrastructure) threw out the engineering diagrams. So when the time came to dig up the Great Western Main Line out of London for electrification, signalling failures were a routine occurrence because someone had put an excavator through a signalling cable... again.
Helmut Oberlander, a member of the Einsatzgruppen death squads of Nazi Germany
Helmut Oberlander (born 15 February 1924) is a former naturalized Canadian citizen who was a member of the Einsatzgruppen death squads of Nazi Germany in the occupied Soviet Union during World War II. Oberlander is on the Simon Wiesenthal Center's list of most wanted Nazi war criminals. Beginning in 1994, the Government of Canada made several attempts to revoke Oberlander's citizenship, on the basis of his having withheld or misrepresented his involvement with Nazi war crimes.

In 2017, after the fourth attempt by the government to strip him of his citizenship, he lost his appeal, as the Federal Court of Canada found this revocation 'reasonable,' and in 2019 the Federal Court of Appeal unanimously dismissed his motion to have his case re-opened. On December 5, 2019, the Supreme Court of Canada declined to hear Oberlander's appeal, clearing the way for his deportation. In early 2020, however, Oberlander was still in Canada and had in fact filed a new appeal against his planned deportation. He later lost his appeal, which had him to face a deportation hearing. On or about March 19, 2021, the lawyer representing Oberlander filed a motion for a permanent stay of proceedings against his client. The motion was denied by judge Denis Gascon who ruled that a permanent stay of immigration proceedings would be "premature" and called for an administrative review by the Immigration Department of the Immigration and Refugee Board of Canada.
Can it factor 15?
>Microsoft in particular is a big addition to the customer list,

Google are working on their own ARM Server Chip. And we finally have ( some sort of ) confirmation Microsoft will be using Ampere.

At least Ampere will have fixed their Go to Market problem where no hyperscaler were committed to buying ARM instead of building their own. Along with Tencent Cloud which is a big surprise.

Which got me to question why Marvell lost the battle to Ampere.
Not sure how it is in Germany, but in The Netherlands these 'legal' substances are being sold online and delivered via regular mail. They are not illegal because the law doesn't forbid selling them, but they will eventually do that (Like NL is working on making 3MMC illegal). This is mostly a cat and mouse game with the law and drugs.
I’m not. I have a choice on the WCML of multiple different providers. Manchester to London walk up far for almost any time can be £300 return for the fast train arriving in london before lunch and getting home before 9pm, or £50 for a slower train with a change.

Same with crewe-Manchester, Birmingham-london, Edinburgh-london etc.

Quite happy with the competition and no government interference.
I also have the three pedals! I couldn't get used to use them regularly as much as I wanted and I some point I simply stopped.

My mapping was/is ESC, Ctrl and Shift. Never thought of using a FnSwitch, that's actually a great idea
The only companies I can think of that could really make it would probably be Apple (because they have an iron grip over that platform) or Intel (because they actually have good software unlike almost all of their competitors, which could make the migration easier) - Apple are happy with ARM and Intel are probably terrified after what happened with Itanium. Any move to RISC-V will probably either happen in China or incrementally.
Cheap, certainly. Also slow, and comfortable's in the eye of the beholder (I can't read in a road vehicle, so not for me). The Paddington services are much better these days, and there's also the excellent (new) Marylebone service. I live just outside Oxford and wouldn't dream of getting the bus.
In interesting article. Personally I use Ungoogled Chromium on my Mac occasionally, for things Firefox doesn't do well, but mostly I use Firefox and Safari.

In that article there's something I disagree with having tried:

> Most of the functionality of the patches are either in the best case minimally beneficial or can be reproduced with either a setting, a flag, or a switch,

Some years ago, on Linux, I tried finding all the command line flags necessary to use Chrome without having it talk back to Google. Unfortunately despite hunting for every option I could find (and there are a surprisingly large number of undocumented options), including with "strings", nothing I tried completely suppressed traffic to Google while using Chrome on sites not connected with Google.

My motivation at the time was to run my own local applications using Chrome as the UI, the way Electron is used now. It didn't work out because I failed to find a way to confidently suppress traffic to Google.

That experience is why I run Ungoogled Chromium now when I need Chrome functionality.
> Saving/Investing has become harder as time goes on. I heard about how my grand parents' parents

Yeah that’s for sure. All these stories about people who were cashiers or factory workers and who bought their houses… Not happening anymore.

You can invest in index funds and it seems to be the only way to keep up, unless you know what you’re doing and can pick stocks (you and 99.99% of the people on the planet can’t)
There's a law giving HRT the right to handle rail operations in the Helsinki metropolitan area. In the rest of the country VR has a monopoly, and sadly seems completely uninterested in developing commuter rail services in other metropolitan areas. As a result, there are efforts to amend the law to allow other regional authorities the same kind of rights HRT has. We'll see what happens.
How has it suffered exactly? Current videos seem just like those from years ago to me, although he now covers even more topics in the "Adventures of a small Apple repair shop"
Trying to restrict updates is in effect trying to prevent the original developer changing the behaviour of an app after installation.

Thats very hard to do, since in the extreme case the developer could code in a change of behaviour after a certain date/time, or depending on a response from a server on the internet.
CPU design isn't like software. A microarchitecture is some you design rather than adding features in a software-like manner, there is an enormous scope for design choices within a given ISA.

And using a custom uarch is also a statement to your customers, shareholders, competitors etc. that you mean business rather than just going the well-trodden path with ARM cores.
Humans have this amazing tendency to wait until the last minute to implement much more constraining solutions at the last minute than what would have been necessary if we did it in time. To wit: climate change. We’ve known about it for 40–50 years but only now are we seriously considering what we can start doing so that in ten years we actually start doing it, right before all hell breaks loose.
WE ARE IN THE PHASE OF STATE CAPITALISM!

The government has announced the biggest shake-up in the UK's railways since privatisation in the mid-1990s.

It will see the creation of a new state-owned body, Great British Railways (GBR), which will set timetables and prices, sell tickets in England and manage rail infrastructure.

Transport Secretary Grant Shapps said it aimed to offer more punctual services and cheaper tickets.

But private operators will still be contracted to run most trains.

Next month, flexible season tickets will be available for some people who commute two or three times a week.
This would appear to be the research and paper behind the MUM annuncement at Google I/O. https://blog.google/products/search/introducing-mum/

It's impressive research work. However, we can expect implemetation on Google will, intentionally or not, lead to more of keeping us on their property.

Google Search will become even less so a way of navigating and discovering on the open web. Is their dream, and was it always about AI? One Brain to Rule them All.
There is no way the Treasury has agreed to renationalisation in order to put the fares down. Expect them to go up, if anything.
Thank you for your feedback.

I'm currently trying to figure a way to make the "post battle" smoother.

Inside the dungeon, I'm planning on adding "events". To mix it up a bit from battles. But I want it to continue linear and simple. The game is, in fact, a "boss rush game" with a "dungeon crawler" look.
You're saying there's clearly plenty of competition when a flight from London to New York can be had for the price of a fairly normal rail ticket from London to Manchester?

Those £50 tickets are about market segmentation - separating the customers who have time flexibility or are willing to suffer from those who don't or aren't.
Your waitinglist link is giving a server error
https://www.theguardian.com/business/2021/may/19/uk-rail-ove...
Aren't those postage stamp size? And normal people are much more likely to already have a bunch of 16:9 displays and about 0 4:3.
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£100 a month not bad. My season ticket used to cost £4400, for a 25 minute ride to London waterloo, and tube to Hammersmith. Still cheaper than £28 for the day!
I know nothing about Slovenia, but my hypothesis is that this is (kind of) by design. Those with good incomes subsidize those with low incomes, and everyone subsidizes those with no income.

The only way to 'earn more' is through a positive return on investment, but pension schemes necessarily must err on the 'safe side'. And currently 'safe' interest rates are negative.
The poor people's 25% isn't seldom a small small small small fraction of a more wealthy person's 25%.

Low wage workers here (also Europe) can barely save any money (if at all), and have something like at least a 10x increase in disposable income after living expenses from moving in with someone, or getting a well paying senior dev job.

It's not always an individual's actions having this effect, and if you decide to punish or reward based on it you are not rewarding based on morally reasonable metrics.
TSMC Claims Breakthrough on 1nm Chip Production
Hahahahaha

Oh wait you’re serious. Let me laugh even harder.

Efficiency leads to profits and thus dividends. The government cares more about politics than efficiency. Look the the problems southern have had because the government insisted on getting rid of guards - they effectively nationalised southern (GTR) years ago because they refused to let the private sector run it how they wanted.

Compare with chiltern who converted the Chiltern line from a service about to shut down under the government in the 80s to a leading toc massively increasing service and options
"Money laundering"