skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
UK trains are really variable.

If you're going from most major cities to London you get a newish train, on a fastish route. If you're going between major hubs you're probably going to have a nice experience.

But the local trains, the short trip commuter trains, can be very old and very very busy. People pay huge amounts of money to be crammed into old, slow, smelly, trains and there's not enough seating so they have to stand.

The carriage supply operates on a "trickle down" model. The new trains get used for London and those routes. The trains that are replaced by the new trains get sent to the South East and South West, who send their old trains to the Midlands, who send their old trains to the North, who send their old trains to Wales. Some of the carriages are really rough.
> Would love to hear other views.

Views heard: [downvote]
I have issue with both the restrictions AND the cut.

Arguments are made along the lines of "don't like the app store? make a web app"... but because of the restrictions, you are limited to a second-rate Webkit base web browser with limitations on bluetooth, game controller support, etc.

Not only are the profiting an obscene amount for services available elsewhere (And arguably better services across the board for stuff like payment options, ad options, browser options, email client options, etc) but they are doing so BECAUSE the better options are restricted or limited on their platform.

This would be like if Microsoft not only forced you to have IE6 installed... but then forced you to have other browsers simply be an IE6 reskin, forced other companies to not advertise about alternatives and then took a 30% cut of all things installed on Windows.

The level of profit goes beyond simply making 30%... it's making 30% after limiting viable options and then saying "we offer this stuff because it's better than the alternative".
I didn’t police anyone’s thoughts I highlighted the stupidity of offending 50 percent of the population in your opening lines. I don’t care which side your on, it’s a poor way to get people to listen. I welcome his tactic as and believe it totally distracts from a important conversation.
> A question that arises out of this is, should the 90% use cases be handled by a small, simple tool, or by the tip of the iceberg of a large, complex tool such as curl?

But nobody is forced to use curl? People use it because it’s convenient, shoot them selves in the foot and then lash out at the author the tool for their own choices. Where’s the fault?
Gotta disagree. I don't care about the cut, the problem is the fact that you can't install whatever you want.
Laziness is pretty good reason to continue to use select. It's a convenient interface for simple tasks. The very nature of fire a set of fds and get a result beats (e)poll/kqueue/fd-registering based API in UX regard. It's sad there is no alternative with same simple interface and without FD_SETSIZE shortcoming.

Edit: I'm biased by Python which has `select.poll` with API similar to epoll and it's really hard to use it instead of select.
Blurring does little to hide identity, as-is the difference to find that Twitter profile without even needing any tools is literally Googling "<word> <word> <word> <word> twitter" instead of "username twitter". Doesn't hurt the profile pic is included either.

Simply filling the space with a solid color is not only easier but infinitely stronger.
I personally like where macOS is going: immutable base OS tree, accessing user content folders requiring per-application approval (wish I could also just grant per-application read or write access). I am personally a power-user of macOS, compiling a lot of software myself or via macports, and as long as these tools work without requiring root access, narrowing down what any process can do to the bare minimum has my approval. In fact installing software for single account use shouldn't ever have to require elevated privileges at all. Even the model of .app bundles is user friendly in that regard in that any user can install apps under ~/Library instead of installing them system-wide. I'm attempting to do the same on any and all Linux servers I run, using systemd's + selinux's isolation features to constrain any long-running processes as much as possible.

Windows ecosystem is much worse, terribly so: a lot of existing and new installers still require running with elevated privileges for no good reason, oftentimes simply because of the installer framework used, despite being signed by whoever or not, and I keep seeing the UAC prompt way more often than I should. I tend to not use software requiring elevated privileges to install at all --- for example, nearly all "top" vendors of commerical-grade PDF editing software just recently have not gotten my business, simply because their installers --- executed in a VM to test the software --- all required elevated privileges, were very invasive to boot and didn't uninstall cleanly. I also enabled Controlled Folder Access on all my personal data directories -- o boy, you wouldn't believe where shitty software wants to put its hands.

As far as I am concerned, most vendored software of Windows is malware by behaviour, to some degree. It wants to run unconstrained and infests the user profile almost irrecoverably save a fresh install. I recommend all users of Windows enable controlled folder access on any volumes / folders that old personal data...
except that, this being the Internet, the observation is not in fact correct.

(I think we've all been "guilty" of this at one point or another)
Don't you know, we're supposed to martyr ourselves for humanity. Profits bad.
The comparison matrix is basically infinite in size when you want to compare last-gen vs newest-gen across several manufacturers, for example.
>Today's average smartphone is a more general computing device than the PC 20 years ago

I have trouble seeing that. 20 years ago, you even had a choice of operating systems and could execute arbitrary code on a PC so it's hard to see that PC as less general purpose than a smartphone which is generally designed to use only an OS and apps allowed by the app store maintainer.
I got some Glerup slippers and they are what I've been wanting all my life. Extremely warm and comfortable, wool means they never stink, and very stylish. I wore them every day throughout the winter.

My girlfriend also just got an inflatable stand-up paddle board (Roc, ~$400) and it's pretty fun. Don't know that I'd recommend this brand in particular but inflatable stand up paddleboards are pretty cool for a water conveyance that fits in your car and work great on lakes.
Even easier: pick up an introductory Greek or Latin textbook. I didn't know English grammar until I bought a Greek book and worked through it on my own.
Wow I’m tempted to order one. It almost looks like a gimmic but it would be cool to get the counter space back from the coffee maker.

How do you heat the water though? Does it taste like cold brew?
I think something like 15% default and 5% for small companies would be much better for the services they provide.

App Store compared to Play Store regarding discovering apps is still much worse in my opinion.

I think it’s one of the biggest gripes I have after I switched to iPhone.
There are three legs to the problem, 1) 30%, 2) TOS 3) Monopoly on app distribution to IOS

If any of those pillars fall I think Apple is off the hook here.
In 99.99% of cases it is a CLI tool to make HTTP requests.

The people saying they could rewrite it are really saying "I could rewrite Curl (using an an existing HTTP library) so that 99.99% of the use cases work" which is probably true.
What is RISC-V? It's an ISA not a microarchitecture. If you can make x86 fast you can make RISC-V fast
Anarchy doesn’t preclude the use of contracts.
>i made damn sure i double checked with them before i actually did anything.

Ahh well, most non-native speakers would be concerned about their English proficiency level. For some that would be a quality worth mentioning in the hiring process.

My experience would that most people will shut off and don't ask for clarification but try and fill the gaps. It's a rather common issue.
Drinking any amount of alcohol causes damage to the brain, study finds
We're looking for a word that is:

- highly industry-specific

- has two contradictory definitions in some dictionary

- possibly identifying a multinational company
OK, fair enough. That doesn't speak to motive or intent. From the filing[0]:

MUNCHEL and Eisenhart made no secret of their intentions in
traveling to Washington: they told a reporter for The Sunday
Times that they made the trip because they “wanted to show
that we’re willing to rise up, band together[,] and fight if necessary.
Same as our forefathers, who established this country in 1776.”

Notably, MUNCHEL told the Times reporter that he had left
his guns in Tennessee because of the “strict” guns laws
in Washington—the implication being that MUNCHEL would have been
armed with a firearm had Washington’s gun laws not been in place. And,
as described below, there is evidence that MUNCHEL and
Eisenhart were armed with firearms when they came
to Washington for the rally.

[0]https://storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.uscourts.tnmd.85...

So they were not simply protestors operating on the spur of the moment without a plan.

And that still leaves all of the planning done on social media, and the communications captured by the government. To claim that no one at the Capitol that day went there with the intent to disrupt the certification of the election of Joe Biden would be incorrect.
The scope of the physics engine matters. Every indie dev who’s written a well-made 2D platformer has written their own physics code (you can’t just get the snappiness of platformers with plugging in a general-purpose physics engine.) You can say it’s just fake “pseudo”-physics, but it’s still legitimate to me.

On the other hand, if you’re going on a journey to write a general-purpose rigid body physics engine like PhysX for your games (without using any middleware), it’s a lot harder but still doable. For example, Overwatch has its own specialized physics engine (although probably possible because Erin Catto is there...) Roblox also has its own physics engine, and their GDC talks about it are pretty interesting.
> "Black Swan" was in use before Taleb's book

In fact he likely used the term for his title because it's a well-known metaphor.
One way to look at it is that "elsewhere" is a protest pen, just like in the physical world where there is a plan to host this year's G7 protests in Plymouth, 76 miles away from the G7 venue [1].

[1] https://www.plymouthherald.co.uk/news/plymouth-news/mp-fears...
I like the Aeropress, but when making coffee for two, I use a Chemex jug, and Wilfa Svart grinder. Would recommend, gets used most days.
I thought it was September 2021, but it is a good development anyway.

Detail question: I use Internet Eplorer to create some form of authentication cookie for accessing SharePoint via WebDAV.

I know that using SharePoint was my first mistake, but has anyone info how I can authenticate my WebDAV network drives without using Internet Explorer?
Well I wasn't referring to the poor specifically. [We can't afford to live anymore](https://aninjusticemag.com/we-cant-afford-to-live-anymore-an...) and there are [good reasons](https://time.com/5888024/50-trillion-income-inequality-ameri...) for that. If you have zero savings by working three honest jobs and is otherwise left to die, you are if not a slave then at least a serf.
You'd be surprised at what you can accomplish with a couple hundred dollar plan achromat objective. (Though OpenFlexure's design complicates the use of immersion oil...)
I’m not sure what your point is. Case details are fuzzy right now, but wasn’t Microsoft accused of anti competition practices. Things like blocking browsers or apps that competed with their apps. They had a solid lock on the desktop operating system and were actively hurting competition

Apple is not competing against Epic games here. They aren’t blocking them to force users to buy their Apple version of whatever. And the Epic games can run on tons of popular platforms.

This is really just about payment transactions? So I don’t see a comparison in any way with the facts of the Microsoft case. Other than two big companies asserting greedy rules on their platform. Is that enough for anti-trust? I can’t argue that case in a post
I'm sure you've seen that cartoon with all the things that people want to do and then the punchline "what if it's a big hoax and we create a better world for nothing?"

That's the rub isn't it? It's why things like "just suck CO2 out of the air" don't fly. The root cause is "make the world better." Stop climate change is a means to that.

Personally I think the best way to stop climate change is to get everyone's version of "make the world better" be something that stops climate change. Right now the laundry list is only hitting the buttons for a limited number of people but I don't believe that's inherent to the problem. I think the right solutions - and it's totally possible there aren't universally appealing solutions - could appeal to anyone.
Servo is not done.
We don't need Bari Weiss lecturing us about anything, especially crypto currency. I have more faith in random screenshots on twitter. https://twitter.com/therealmrcrypto/status/13950647732309237...
I'm buying more crypto, but not BTC because it's too expensive to transfer and it takes too long.
This probably should be rewritten as "Native language speakers are the world's worst communicators".
American Airlines' largest regional carrier gets FAA warning
I understood they were blaming the word. Words don't appear out of nowhere. The word was written by the sender, the implication is the sender's choice of words caused the problem which could have been avoided by using a different word.

I disagree with this premise and believe the problem could have been avoided had the receiver taken the self responsibility to make sure they fully understood the message before acting upon it and if they had doubts, such as when they found two contradictory meanings, should have just simply asked for clarification.

If you don't understand something, it's on you. I've been misunderstood, i've misunderstood other people and the easiest thing anyone can do in that situation is say:

'sorry i didn't quite get that' or 'sorry could you explain what you mean'

or something along those lines.
Why do people continue to take what Facebook says at face value? They've proven over and over again that they can't be trusted.
An Italian friend of mine, when struggling to find the word for a Satellite Dish, called it a parabola. I was very impressed.
Building Trust: Actions to Respond to the Report on Human Radiation Experiments [pdf]
Its not that they are making a profit is that users have no choice, and no choice but to give them 15-30% for no value add (arguable). It's a racket.
Hah true :), but goodreads is my competition so i was extra curious!
To be more precise on one bit, you can't get fd=1026 without having had at least 1027 open at some point in the past. You can subsequently close a bunch of them in the middle.

A compatibility hack for some applications reliant on badly-done select() might be to set RLIMIT_NOFILE to FD_SETSIZE.
Lipstick sales just jumped more than 80%
I know it's doable and we did it (we have deployment scripts for everything); it's just so much work for stuff that everyone already has while it doesn't really needs to be. I wish there was a service for this that takes away all this work of 'definitely doable' to 'one click'.
What languages do you speak? I speak Spanish and have been learning Polish for a few years because my wife's family immigrated from there, and many are still in Poland, with some only speaking Polish... can't have the in-laws talking trash without me knowing :)

Spanish is generally straightforward and consistent, though the huge number of dialects can be a challenge for practical communication.

Polish is a goddamn nightmare. I thought English was bad, but hoo-boy, Polish haunts my dreams. To say it is needlessly complex is an understatement. You have to change the endings of adjectives/nouns to match the context, so you end up with a ridiculous number of forms of each word.

"Dog" is pies (pronounced pee-yes, sorta). Unless you use it in the sentence "I have a dog," in which case it is psa (puh-sah, again, sorta... I don't even know how to type out some of the sounds phonetically). If you say "Cooper is my dog" then it's psem.

Depending on who you ask, there's somewhere between twelve and twenty ways to say the word two in Polish (and just to be clear, most of these counts don't include things like both, pair, etc. - just literally the word two).

Then there's the specificity of the verbs of movement. Oh my dear lord - the verbs of movement.

You see, you can never say that you went somewhere or that you're going somewhere. You must specify how. Always. You cannot go to Poland, you must fly to Poland. And every verb of movement has at least two, usually three forms. To fly is latac or leciec or poleciec, depending on whether you flew once, you flew regularly, or you were flying when something happened. The last one is a situation in English that we'd just handle with a form of "to be" and a gerund - "I was flying when..." In Polish, you have to memorize a specific version of each verb for that form.

Add to that the fact that my Polish teacher's explanation for many things is "there's no rule, you just have to learn what sounds right." In one case, if you have a masculine noun you must either add an a or a u on the end. There is no rule for which.

It's like they designed the whole thing just to be a nightmare for any non-native speaker trying to learn it.
I don't have it readily available, but I'll dig around and see if I can find what we covered in class. IIRC it was primarily focused on teenagers in the United States.
Researching, travelling to and from the mountain, buying and maintaining equipment, and getting training for mountain climbing all cost time and money. Techbros have at least the latter in great abundance.
its early and the caffeine hasn't set in (still hasn't). I guess this is a better comment if I read it with a sarcastic twist?
There's clearly merit to both arguments.

Is Apple making a fortune by not having a competitive marketplace for software on iOS? Of course they are.

The hardest aspect of this to defend, and it's obviously not a use case that Epic are going to push because it hurts their potential to profit from this, is blocking services like xCloud and Stadia. Those services aren't downloading software to the user's device, and much like Netflix, the user is accessing a content catalogue administered and provided elsewhere.

Epic doesn't want democracy on Android and iOS, it wants its own store on both devices so it has a competitive advantage over both companies everywhere (if I can buy an app or a game from Epic rather than Apple, and know I can take that purchase with me to other platforms like Windows/Playstation or even if I switch phone eco-systems, that's what I'm going to do as a consumer).

A ruling in Epic's favour would almost certainly get the Epic store onto games consoles, too.

Essentially it does boil down to greedy corporation vs. greedy corporation. Part of me hopes that Epic wins both cases if only to force Google and Apple to separate their income streams from the security model, but Apple's not wrong here. Most users wouldn't understand any of what I've just said and won't take the time to learn so they are a danger to themselves. You would also be trusting Epic to curate content to the extent that Apple does when they have no financial incentive to do so, which is IMHO why the Play Store is so full of garbage.
A tried and true management system: To appear effective, centralize things that are distributed, and distribute things that are centralized. You can claim benefits either way. And in a few years, put it all back again and claim more benefits.
It’s clearly putting the fault at the native english speaker, per the title.

In an age of trigger culture and micro aggressions this article is a prejudicial sucker punch to native speakers of English.
Indeed, I am currently doing so.
In one episode of Black Books, main character Manny finds out he can play piano. Other character Bernard wants to use it to impress a woman, so he forces Manny to hide inside the piano and play using spoons. Manny does it but later refuses to do it again. To convince him to do it one more time, Bernard offers him one whole week of vacation. Manny looks at Bernard, then extend his arms forwards, palms open up, and says: "spoon me".

In my native language we use declension everywhere. I could awkwardly say the same in my language, something like "olyžicujte ma" (o=equip/cover, lyžica=spoon, ujte=keep doing something, me=ma) - it is technically correct, but english didn't need to change any of those words, it just worked. English can convey the same meaning without unnecessary complexity.

I like this simplicity in language, it feels somehow superior. Simpler is better.
85” Sony TV
I have the Anova and it's a pain due to very flaky bluetooth support. As in, I have umpteen working bluetooth gadgets in the house that all work, but I couldn't get the Anova to work after two replacements.

If I didn't pay so much extra for the bluetooth it wouldn't bother me, since it works fine without it. But I prefer the Instant Pot sous vide, my daily driver, which doesn't attempt bluetooth.
My mountainbike (cube reaction pro)
But iPhones have a much higher install base and have less malware than OSX or windows.

Obviously the reason is because it’s locked down- but it belies the point a little to say that something has a large install base therefore it’s attacked more therefor it’s insecure. The opposite should be true but we take it for a given that it can’t be- when we have evidence to the contrary in other areas.
I want to know how much money will be spent painting fucking Union Jacks on all the trains.
When English is your second or third language in the beginning the difficult bits are the pronunciation, and then all the cultural differences. For example, university debt or debt in general is just not a topic in most of EU for those under-25. Hospital runs or calling an ambulance are also a no-brainer because that's free.

One of the major shocks for me was when I heard the story of someone who broke a leg, and stopped a friend from calling an ambulance because it'd be too expensive and instead called a taxi to get to the hospital. A combination of me being younger and naive, and not knowing the US so well back then, so I literally thought they were joking while they were telling it.
Ford has an agreement with Electrify America (built by VW using diesel-gate penalty funds [0]). By most accounts I've read, using it is relatively frictionless with the FordPass app [1]. The annoying part seems to be finding a station that has the right plug.

[0] https://www.cnbc.com/2019/05/10/vws-2-billion-penalty-for-di...

[1] https://owner.ford.com/fordpass/fordpass-electric-vehicle-fe...
The article specifically says that native english speakers are to blame, not the word.

> When such misunderstandings happen, it’s usually the native speakers who are to blame. Ironically, they are worse at delivering their message than people who speak English as a second or third language, according to Chong.
...but, why?
In most states it's illegal
I built one a few months ago for our middle school science lab. It's relatively mature-- a decent mechanical system for the optics, with an OK (simple) optical design, and great build instructions.

The places where it's lacking: the electrical parts for motor drivers are clunky and annoying to build. The software could be a little better. And the transmissive microscopy setup is a bit dodgy.