skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I'll note that the actual title is (now?) "The Political Myth of the Driverless Tube Train" not merely "The Myth of the Driverless Tube Train"

And I'm sure that as a claim about politics "myth" may feel about right, but it clearly doesn't work as a technical claim and the article seems to hedge about whether that's what it wants to say.

It pokes Boris, former mayor (a role for which I felt he was well suited) and present Prime Minister (a role in which he's incapable) which is politics, but then it also talks about Grades of Automation, rolling stock upgrades, signalling, and Platform Edge Doors, which are technology not politics.

The sort of contradictions shown are effective for making Boris look foolish (compare Thatcher's pun "You Turn if you want to. The Lady's Not For Turning" to Boris having difficulty remembering what he answered on the same question yesterday...) but they have the reverse effect on matters of fact.

For example, we're reminded repeatedly that the London Underground is very old. But then we're also told, for a different reason, that the Docklands Light Railway is old too. A GoA 3 system, right there in London, operating very safely for decades. Complexity, we're told, is the enemy of automation, but the DLR has only become more complex, adding more branches, longer trains, newer service patterns.

Of course automation of the London Underground is also very old, it had one of the first GoA 2 automated railways in the world. When I was a child the Tube still had guards. If you're a New Yorker this probably seems unremarkable, but that guard is completely unnecessary in ordinary service there's barely enough work for a driver, let alone also needing a guard, and this role was abolished in the London Underground last century.

Safety considerations will make GoA 4 operation of the Deep Tube very difficult to deliver cost effectively in my lifetime. But in practice the objections to automation aren't about some hypothetical unsafe GoA 4 proposal, they're mostly about trying to ensure the RMT retains power in the capital by delaying real, practical projects that would mean London doesn't need so many of their extremely well compensated members.

Turnham Green is a particular red herring. If you've used Turnham Green you may not even be aware that Picadilly trains stop there, because in practice for most purposes they don't. They pass through but most don't stop. A future upgrade might make it practical to have all Picadilly trains once again stop at Turnham Green some day. Or not. Hardly the sort of show-stopper it's presented as in this piece.

In other places where there could be a clash, Selective Door Operation might resolve it. SDO is already used extensively on the London Underground for S-stock.
Smart devices get pandemic boost in U.S. households -Deloitte survey
Notes from Puzzle Palace: What does it take to build a museum?
Hacker Known as Max Is 55-Year-Old Woman from Russia, U.S. Says
Understandable from this point of view -- with Internet being a shared resource -- but a strange concession nevertheless. Every participant of the Internet would end up blocking Russia to reduce the chance of some Russian official doing something stupid, hoping that they see website/email/torrents inaccessible and go bother someone else.

Oh well, that's what politics and power games are all about.
Seeing how many blog posts this person published advocating different techniques along this journey, my main take away is that people should invest advice from blog posts extremely critically, if at all.
> What are the citizens of your modern distributed platform society going to live off?

Hook up a subsea cable and plenty could make a living just fine. Starlink itself might just be enough.

The only actual bandwidth needs I ever have is for conference calls, my actual "work" can survive off dialup speeds for the occasional SO search.

Other than that setting up a port for sailors would probably bring in some retail cash, marinas around the world often cost a pretty penny to moor in.
How many are RCEs though?

There was the bluetooth thing but patches for that were available instantly.
>Further: they were able to abuse MIME encoding to get multiple guesses per email.

The paper did not provide any example of an email client where this would work. I have as of yet not been able to reproduce this. Since there would be no practical reason for such behaviour the assertion requires some sort of proof.
>Every physical store is a monopoly in their own space.

This comparison is disingenuous. There aren't only two big physical stores (and maybe a handful small stores hardly no one knows about) in the entire world. If 99% of all physical stores were a Walmart or Costco you could compare but luckily this isn't so.

>The fact that Apple gate-keeps their store is also a major selling point of the iPhone.

That is beside the point. Just because something is a feature you (or most) like doesn't mean it is legal or not, monopoly or not. I'm not going to discuss if it is a good or bad feature because it would be off-topic.

>Monopolistic is when Google won't allow your Travel Planner to enter their search index, or deranks it in favour of their alternative.

Consider this: You have 100.000 result on Travel planners today with your site being number 3 and tomorrow you also have 100.000 results with your site being number 3 but now there's a big box above all the results that tells you what you were looking for (and the data might even come from your site). This is way worse than being de-ranked. That's not fair competition.

Another example:
You have one of many Fitness Apps for iOS. For years Apple can see data on just what people search for, install, etc. and then one day they use all this data to create their own fitness app. Quickly your app would be irrelevant. Add to that that we have proof that Apple abuse their position by offering to buy a successful app and if refused they harass the publisher in different ways and create their own.
It appears that some people were distributing modified copies of the game or selling access to it as a driving simulator. In that case I agree that it's copyright infringement, in the same way that distributing modified copies of Photoshop or selling access to it as a cloud service would infringe on Adobe's copyright.

But that's different from using the game to generate data and only sharing that data (or using Photoshop to draw a picture) since there cannot be copyright infringement without copying.

Since LLwN requires the users themselves to obtain access to the content they want to study, there's no copying happening beyond what the user has the license to do, and hence no copyright infringement.
The Benq Wit lamp has been great for me:

https://www.benq.eu/en-uk/lamps/desklamp/wit.html

I also changed up my desk for a sit-stand one with much larger surface area. The other changes were a monitor arm ( https://www.bachmann.com/en/products/monitor-arms/zg1-monito... ) and a Hag Capisco chair.

The end result has been a massive improvement in comfort and posture.
This analogy seems way off to me. It completely misses the fact that Google is doing what it's supposed to do which is giving the user the information they're looking for.

I don't think cutting power is giving the customer (restaurants) or users (not clear in the analogy) what they want.

It's true that with flight search, competitor results are de-emphasized, but as far as I'm concerned Google could even drop them entirely, showing only their internal results if they want to. It's answering the user query, and if the user is unsatisfied they can trivially switch to another source of information.

To make a better analogy, consider that flight search is a specialized version of what Google does more generally. So:

Electric company "EC" wants to start providing DC current to interested customers, so they show the option prominently in their communications with their customers.

This is a tragedy for the existing DC industry because "EC" has the best reputation (highest reliability) in the general electricity industry so most people will first consider them for a DC contract even if they're not necessarily the best for DC power. Still, unhappy customers can easily switch to another DC provider.
Nice! This sounds awesome, definitely going checking this out. A topic I want to dive in for a long time, but I did not know where to start.

I especially like the sound of it being practical and centered around creating a product. Thanks :)
The other issues with channels is that only the entry and exit transactions are validated - every transaction in the channel is not secured by any network.

Meaning you can open a channel, but if you want to sell real-world goods in exchange for anything that happens in that channel, then you'd better trust the other parties in the channel to close it properly.

tldr; Lightning is indeed super fast, but it's not as secure.
Inflation/Rate Hike Probabilities Were Never High to Begin With
From their website (https://iho.int/): "IHO works to ensure that all the world's seas, oceans and navigable waters are surveyed and charted, thereby supporting safety of navigation and the protection of the marine environment. It coordinates the activities of national hydrographic offices and sets standards in order to promote uniformity in nautical charts and documents. It issues survey best practices and provides guidelines to maximize the use of hydrographic information."

Lest you think this merely a paper-shuffling exercise, if there's a shipping accident, a huge amount of legal liability rides on the accuracy and up-to-date information in the charts. What these guys do underpins a huge amount of maritime law and international shipping. Definitely one of the really important, useful international orgs.
Sounds overly negative to me. With those interest rates, we should really invest into any useful infrastructure project, especially when there are wins for or at least no cost to the environment. Let's generate some sustainable economic growth. We can solve the problems step by step. Starting at least brings us closer to a solution.
Websites you should visit when you are not coding
I guess they expect to get caught, and make headlines as well? Otherwise, why make a website and YouTube stream?

So the meta-game is, they're expecting to get caught and that there'll be headlines about them trying to game the system to elevate news about climate change, and those articles will inevitably also talk about the need to pay attention to climate change.
I'm not sure if this trait is gained through education, or mostly innate. Maturation as a critical thinker(and listener) takes a great deal of education.
> Surprise for you, Chinese factory can't run with near zero margins.

I am aware of that. But when they can "outsource" most R&D (read: copy or steal IP) a lot of businesses have a very hard time competing against those margins.

For example, when all the costs you make is plastics (raw materials), amortisation on your machines, wages and electricity, and some Ali-express fees, you can compete with a company like Lego easily. Because Lego has those same costs, but also marketing, R&D, legal, QA, distribution and so on.

I'm not saying that any of those are "wrong" per sé. Maybe Lego is in the wrong business or on a dead end, and maybe that is not bad: IDK. But I do see why many companies are pulling out of this race-to-the-bottom and either becoming "almost entirely marketing" (Nike, Adidas, etc.) or pivoting to niches with other easier to defend moats, like Philips.
> 2. Paragraph 1 shall not apply to announcements made by the broadcaster in connection with its own programmes and ancillary products directly derived from those programmes, sponsorship announcements and product placements.

That's the workaround used to put more then 20%
Tube is in the title, not subway. I think the author is talking about London’s system.
I am not suggesting that email clients should entirely depend on OpenPGP email inherent resistance to oracle attacks, only pointing out that it exists. Presumably the Enigma operators were not putting their decrypted messages in envelopes before sending them off to their enemies. Efail was primarily a straight up plain text leak.

Plain text attacks come in distinct categories. The block ciphers used in OpenPGP are generally considered to be immune to the sort of plain text attacks used against Enigma.
I’m also a Fastmail user (for the past 5 years or so), but I’m considering switching to iCloud, given the announcement it’ll start supporting custom domains. Fastmail is pricey ($50/month for the non-lite tier), whereas iCloud is $1/month for 50 GB.
Railway-Oriented Programming in Java
On your last point: Yes, there is naive excitement around ideas. And it's easy to dismiss it. But then again: What is certain anyway? What would get started if you didn't systematically and naively dismissed risks?
Ah, you’re right, I didn’t mean incremental, I meant like time machine where you keep a history of the increments.
Show HN: Keepsake, curate and send meaningful letters with audio and video
Many video players were still using flash. VKontakte still had its flash app/game platform going strong, though you did have the option of using an iframe that loaded a web app from your server instead. Flash support was only discontinued there around several years ago.
Point 3 there is enough to keep quite a few diplomats busy.

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

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

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

...and that's before even getting into maritime boundary/exclusive economic zone disputes.
> As Vivaldi Mail supports IMAP and POP3

And there was me hoping for Exchange-Sync support for Microsoft 365 email integration, to release the local reliance on Outlook 365 which gets worse with every revision :(
There aren't, although I guess in a crowded DLR train you might not realise.

A DLR train won't go anywhere until the operator closes the doors, which they can do from any set of doors on the train.

Because the DLR is GoA 3 there doesn't need to be a plan for how central operations can co-ordinate rescue of a failed train without somebody at the scene, there will be an attendant, who is trained to drive the train, onboard somewhere.
Just to clarify in case someone's wondering, a browser named Opera still exists and gets updated now, but neither the people behind it nor the underlying technology are the same as in the old Opera this post is referring to.

As an old-time classic Opera user since version 5 or so, I do use the current Opera because I find it somewhat better than Chrome (it has more built-in stuff, including mouse gestures, Whatsapp/Telegram support, etc. I hate the barebones browser+extensions model) but unfortunately it's miles behind the old Opera experience.

I have also tried Vivaldi, and while it's a worthy effort, I'm sure many people will love it and I recommend trying it, it's missing one of the Opera characteristics I valued the most: Opera had practically zero UI lag/latency, whereas Vivaldi is rather slow, as the parent post says.
It's great there are alternative browsers but being closed source and requiring a phone number is worse than Chrome.
My child came home from kindergarten this year and told me that there were five oceans. I only knew four. I quickly pulled up Wikipedia and confirmed that the Southern Ocean was a thing.

That was the first case of something my child learning contradicting my own outdated education. I'm sure there will be plenty more to come.
You can always get your own domain and only give out email addresses from that.
But my prediction is that Fastmail will outlast GMail.
@polynomial - You have to use the state API on the generated terraform. This means that you need to understand the structure of the generated terraform, and are dealing with generated .json files that require introspection to determine what terraform resource ids are prior to managing their state. It is possible to do, but if you're writing code, you don't want to have to worry about the generated json.
That is unfortunately correct, I'm curious what other solutions to usual problems bitcoin can provide, as it stands now the volatility/transaction costs/speed/immutability of transactions are going to be felt badly.
Very interesting project on RTOS and hopefully this can support the new RISC-V based ESP32-C3 MCU [1].

I wonder if the performance can significantly be improved if this is ported to Terra language, a system programming language meta-programmed in Lua [2]. It's going to stable 1.0 version real soon.

[1]https://www.espressif.com/en/news/ESP32_C3

[2]https://terralang.org/
Hi HN!

Kenzo here, and I've just launched Keepsake - a platform purpose-built for sending meaningful letters.
(also on Product Hunt - https://www.producthunt.com/posts/keepsake-3)

Keepsake was initially just a side project and was something I made to learn a new programming language. But since I've launched the MVP of Keepsake to my friends and family last August 2020, Keepsake has gotten over 300 users and 500+ letters with around 400 of them already delivered. I got a lot of encouraging feedback in the process, and now I'm very excited to share the improved version with a larger audience!

It features 2 main products: Personal and Capsule.

With Personal, think of it as your own virtual envelope for your letters. You'll be getting your own Keepsake link which you can share with anyone (or yourself) to write you letters. Think FutureMe but with audio & video + ask.fm/CuriousCat but intended for meaningful letters instead of creepy questions.

With Capsule, you can create a customizable time capsule of letters for anyone or anything. Perfect as a gift or memento for any kind of event - birthdays, graduations, weddings, employee promotion/recognition, etc. Similar to Personal, a Capsule will generate a unique link which you can share with your letter writers. Think GroupGreeting or Kudoboard but with a greater focus on privacy.

There are also Public Letters and Capsules which you can read on Keepsake, so feel free to explore the platform!

I'm always open to feedback (as it also may have some bugs here and there), so feel free to reach out to me. I hope you enjoy using Keepsake as much as I did making it!
A lot of people have already commented on the part of not speaking being virtually useless at the beginning. I tend to agree with the criticisms listed there, but I submit another reason: muscle memory.

Practicing making the sounds of the target language as soon as possible with the correction of a native speaker, in my opinion, is absolutely essential. For many languages, there are unique sounds that are just close enough to one’s primary language, that our muscle memory causes us to make the familiar, incorrect sound instead of the proper one. Because it’s more a matter of physical exercise alongside the rewiring of our brains to recognise said phonemes, the more time spent working on it, the better on the path to fluency.

Having said all that, everyone’s language acquisition ability and language goals will be different, so I can see where this piece of advice does not have universal application.
The last metro crash in Paris, quite a few years back, was due to the driver overspeeding in a curve for some reason.
I did get a Rolex ad on that page with a nice photo of the ocean, so I have that going for me ...
That was the impetus for my sharing this story :)
How real time do you need to be? some real time is you need to react within milliseconds or bad things happen, humans will notice if there is 10ms lag in real time audio. Some real time is you need to react within seconds. A machine might need several tens of seconds to get up to speed, so controlling the motor only needs to update a once a second or so for the speed to remain within tolerance. And everything in between.

Depending on where you are on the need for control different technologies can work for you.
So they built a click fraud farm? The advertisers they're defrauding could probably sue them.
But I think that in Australia, it's usually shown touching the whole extent of the mainland's southern coast? By NG definition, that would be incorrect as the "edges" of the ocean at defined as being at 60 degrees South, far away from Australia.
I think it goes back much further than that. Humans generally don’t like to hear that they’re wrong. It triggers the fight or flight response. This psychological phenomenon gets triggered easily, with many false alarms.

To someone who likes Walmart, the statement “I prefer Target to Walmart” triggers that part of human psychology, even though it shouldn’t.

You see it everywhere, in every subject, in any time period you choose to observe.

Edit: Charlie Munger understands this well and counteracts it by actively seeking to destroy his own opinions.
You're missing the obvious solution of nuclear trains. I think it's self-evident that these would have no drawbacks. In the unlikely event of a disaster all you'd need to do is seal the tunnel and dig a new one.
Right, this sort of thing is difficult because it's not evidence based. It's entirely subjective and anecdotal as compared to your past experiences in Australia, or mine in my own home country.

You come from a country where trains are ALWAYS VERY LATE, Germany is efficient because the trains are just a little late.

OR

You come from a country where the trains are ALWAYS ON TIME, Germany is inefficient because the trains are just a little late.

What I do think is interesting is that people think German's are efficient. Where does that come from? That's what the article is about.
it's amazing what people will do to avoid reading a novel
More like $5/month. Or $50/year
very nice! congrats

i have built a similiar thing in the past, called Dialogflow Gateway (https://dialogflow.cloud.ushakov.co), which connects Dialogflow to Web and E-Mail protocols, also open-source

check out my gh profile: https://github.com/mishushakov

i’d be very happy to hear from you, if you’re interested in joining forces/collaborating :)
Proprietary with exports to markdown, PDF, RTF, plain text, etc.
It seems clearly implied that this quick-moving CEO is demanding a US product launch without giving Suresh the time and budget to do it properly, so priority changes from doing the job of a "head of sales and marketing" to not being blamed for taking a risk.
Very happy customer of kolabnow

Checked out both protonmail & fastmail among others, ended up selecting kolabnow, no regrets.
Same. Huge fan of Opera 12, I was active in their community sites and reported bugs when possible. I'm glad to see them all coming back.

I'm skeptical of trusting Vivaldi Sync with my passwords, so that's turned off, but I use Vivaldi on my Linux desktop and Android phone, syncing bookmarks, notes, speed dials. Works great!

It's also hackable in the sense that the browser chrome uses plain old HTML/JS/CSS, so you could literally dive into `/opt/vivaldi/resources/vivaldi/style/common.css` and change the way the browser looks (may have to re-patch after every browser update).
I've been using Thunderbird at every Microsoft infested company I've been at for approaching ten years now. It works fine for email, address book and accepting invitations etc. The only thing I have to use the (awful) web interface for is making appointments, but I rarely have to do that. There may be a way to make it work but I haven't bothered to look.
Post-release monitoring and metrics is definitely an area of big interest for us as well! We’re excited to flesh out that part of the platform. Also the idea of release-to-release intelligence, so your team can see how things track over time and make sure your release practice and performance trend in a good direction.

Do reach out so we can get you set up with access :)
Remember that these are all public records which the authorities can monitor. If a blacklisted address transfers to another exchange, it’s not like the subsequent activity disappears from view - it just means that they look at the transaction chain on Ethereum, and add another money laundering charge to the tally.