skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Every single line extension, station change, is an entire political battle and story.

Yep. A legendary one in my old stomping grounds of Gifu is that there is a shinkansen station in Gifu-Hashima, and not in places that would be far more convenient to have a station (e.g. Ogaki or Gifu City), because a politician local to there was able to decisively dictate the routing and, prior to the route being publicly known, acquired some real estate which was presently undistinguished but would have been extremely valuable if it were right next to a shinkansen station.

(Interested individuals can Google the names if they want them.)

A happier one which I use a lot in explaining why I love Japan: JR refused to close a particular station over one passenger. They ran one train there to pick her up and another train there to send her back every day for +/- a decade, until she graduated, because someone at JR thought that JR must convey a child to their school.

(There are a few more anecdotes about that theme I am aware of, some reported to the press and some of which I know of through other ways, and in this I am in utter agreement with my rail buff friends that the railways see themselves as servants of the public trust in addition to capitalists.)
Circle lines are unpopular nowadays because of poor resilience, just as lines with many branches are falling out of fashion (particularly as integrated ticketing reduces the advantages they once had) - indeed it's not so long ago that London deliberately "unwound" its circle line.

Although the Yamanote line is a circle, it's very much an off-centre one that swings out through the suburbs on one side and not the other. And it's worth noting that Japan is pretty far behind in terms of integrated ticketing for occasional journeys (although commuter passes are integrated between different companies).
not to rain on the parade, but this has already been posted https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30234444

ah screw it. these guys suck, keep ripping on 'em.
Facebook and Twitter ban for political reasons, which is entirely different than banning spam.

Banning spam is a strawman in this discussion. I don't think there is constructive discussion on that basis.

Free speech protects good faith debates.
> There’s a very different case history for “freedom of the press” than “freedom of speech.” Legally, they’re different.

That is true.

> “Freedom of the press” has focused on the need for an informed public and institutional autonomy of the press. It is a public, not private, right.

But that's wildly wrong.

https://www2.law.ucla.edu/volokh/press.pdf

> Blackstone, for instance, wrote in 1769 that “[e]very freeman has an undoubted right to lay what sentiments he pleases before the public: to forbid this, is to destroy the freedom of the press.” Jean-Louis de Lolme, an author widely cited by 1780s American writers, likewise wrote in his chapter on “Liberty of the Press” that “[e]very subject in England has not only a right to present petitions, to the King, or the Houses of Parliament; but he has a right also to lay his complaints and observations before the Public, by the means of an open press.”

> State supreme courts in 1788 and 1791 similarly described the liberty of the press as “permitting every man to publish his opinions,” and as meaning that “the citizen has a right to publish his sentiments upon all political, as well as moral and literary subjects.”

> Several early state constitutions echoed this as well, providing that “[e]very citizen may freely speak, write and print on any subject, being responsible for the abuse of that liberty.”

The difference between freedom of speech and freedom of the press is that the press involves mass production, making it easy to communicate a message to large numbers of people at low cost. When people rephrase "freedom of speech" and "freedom of the press" as "the freedom to speak, write, and print on any subject", the freedoms to speak and write come from the freedom of speech, and the freedom to print (or publish) comes from the freedom of the press.
They can simply exchange the data server side, no?
> sure, obnoxious coworkers suck, but the 'oh noes, my concentration/flow' argument has been done to death imo.

But why do such people say such silly things if it's not true?

Do I think it's 100% true?

No, but it feels that way for them.

I f*king hate useless meetings where my time is wasted.
I had a coleague express the same thing about a topic.

Business replied "well, we only had 4 meetings and at least 2 were really required so it was not excessive".

So who was right?

Everybody was right, business did not feel it was excessivez the developers felt it was excessive.

WFH works, 2 years of pandemic proved it does.
Some people like it and some people don't, it's not about arguments but about preferences.
On a side note. You have the most interesting about section I've ever seen on HN.
As an european I say go ahead, this would only make room for european alternatives which would probably only be good for everyone.

I really hope that the EU doesn't care about these imo empty threats.
"I think that for platforms like Twitter and Facebook, perhaps it may make more sense to end up a situation more like newspapers, where you have more reputable papers like the NYT, WaPo, and WSJ that have stricter rules, and then you also have the National Enquirer or other random outlets that have little to no standards."

Don't forget, media outlets can get the pants sued off of them for knowlingly publishing false and defamatory information. I think we're well past the point of websites being held liable for the content they host, user generated or not, and make public/promote algorithmically.
Russian OS “Phantom” is ready for use in pilot projects
One American Hacker Suddenly Took Down North Korea’s Internet–All of It
Adding to that, it helps to think about how the types of accident are dramatically different.

1. In a regular car, most accidents are at relatively low speed, and in those at high speed are generally front collisions (for at least one of the cars), so cars are designed in a way that the front and back are crumple zones to absorb the shock and limit energy transfer to the passengers. So after protecting passengers from flying out of (or within) the car with the belt, airbags are there to prevent whiplash from front/rear hits.

2. In a racing car, impacts are usually at high speed, and in basically any direction. Accelerations and decelerations will be significantly more brutal, and particularly for rally cars, vehicle rollover is really common. Hence the rigid cage + harness to reduce direct damage to the driver in those events. But even so, since the helmet's weight and the rigidity of the vehicle can make whiplash and basilar skull fractures, there are also helmet restraints (like HANS[0]) to reduce this risk.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/HANS_device
> According to standard economic theory, shortages only happen when pricing mechanisms fail.

No, not it isn't. That assertion is fundamentally wrong at many levels. It seems you're confusing the intro to economics definition of equilibrium between supply and demand with your own definition of shortage. However, in the process you're making the mistake of believing somehow that pricing out demand from the market and being unable to scale up production to meet demand does not involve any shortages of any kind.

Think about it for a second: I'd suddenly food prices skyrocketed to the point a single 1kg bag of rice sold for over €100, and most of the world was thus unable to buy food for being priced out of the market, would that represent a shortage even if some people could still afford it?
Didn't jewish minority suffer because of too much of free speech in Germany at some point?

What about too much of free speech Hutu enjoyed in Rwanda at some point?
Interesting, firefox says "gah, your tab just crashed".
And hope they weren't bluffing (not from the slightest worry over the absence of these services, which would be a boon, rather their continuance despite being called and need to waste time regulating them.)
I feel like you might be unfairly judging the book by its cover (or title?). I'd be happy to be proven wrong if you can cite some examples of what you claim. I'd like myself to cite some passages where manipulation is explicitly frowned upon:

> Of course flattery seldom works with discerning people. It is shallow, selfish and insincere. It ought to fail and it usually does.

> Looking at the other person’s point of view and arousing in him an eager want for something is not to be construed as manipulating that person so that he will do something that is only for your benefit and his detriment. Each party should gain from the negotiation.

> The difference between appreciation and flattery? That is simple. One is sincere and the other insincere. One comes from the heart out; the other from the teeth out. One is unselfish; the other selfish. One is universally admired; the other universally condemned.

> If we merely try to impress people and get people interested in us, we will never have many true, sincere friends. Friends, real friends, are not made that way.

> If we are so contemptibly selfish that we can’t radiate a little happiness and pass on a bit of honest appreciation without trying to get something out of the other person in return - if our souls are no bigger than sour crab apples, we shall meet with the failure we so richly deserve.

> So let’s obey the Golden Rule, and give unto others what we would have others give unto us, How? When? Where? The answer is: All the time, everywhere.

> Be honest, Look for areas where you can admit error and
say so. Apologize for your mistakes.

> Promise to think over your opponents’ ideas and study
them carefully. And mean it. Your opponents may be right.

etc.
I'm not sure why miniconda would break your existing python setup? It installs all packages in a separate environment, that's its main purpose.

I don't know why Conda / CadQuery dependencies are so big, but I have more than enough space for them.

Python is far from my favorite language, both in terms of coding and setting it up, but we're not exactly swimming in open source programmable[1] CAD solutions. There's OpenSCAD which is more limited, there's JSCAD that I haven't tried, and... that's pretty much it? CadQuery seems to be the most mature option from my limited experience, despite the annoyance with conda.

[1] I'm aware that some visual CAD apps like FreeCAD have some scripting / plugin support, but it's not the same when this coding isn't the primary building interface, and those apps all have their own (significant) issues anyway.
Once I got over his… interesting… affect, I found this to be a pretty enjoyable watch. Certainly there’s not much technical merit to the ideas, and I definitely wouldn’t want to start a company with him or invest in him as a leader, but it was entertaining and at least a little thought-provoking about the future of media technology. I have a relatively high tolerance for bullshit though, so I can see how this could be unwatchable for many.

So, this is a great example
of the ideas discussed in the article. Entertaining, a little woo-woo, preying on optimism, and ultimately, probably entirely inconsequential.

Your book looks interesting, too. I’ll check it out.
Is it even a threat, if no one is afraid?
For the record - I don't have and never have had a FB account, but - do "ordinary people" (who are a vast majority of users) really hate Facebook? I feel like it's bit of a echo chamber and most people don't really care.
Scout Mindset by Julia Galef.

It is a light read so I recommend it widely. It is about the general topic of making good decisions and having correct opinions which is helpful to all of us.

Caveat: I expect many HN readers to be familiar with LessWrong, SlateStarCodex, and the rationality community in general. In this case, there is probably nothing new in the book for you.
It seems that the default desktop file managers haven't received a lot of developer love in the past two decades either.

Android has good third party file managers though, like Solid Explorer.
It's also a testament to how "endless growth" has become an unquestioned, but ever more stupid 'goal'.

If you can innovate at a certain scale, stay successful within x standard deviations year over year, paying dividends and making profits...why MUST it always end up being underpinned by 'the market' demanding endless scaling.

If what you want is to expand horizontally or the so-called pie gets bigger and more to gain? Fine. But that, as the end all and be all itself, is growing quite daft.

It's goddamn inane.
I'm single unmarried and no kids. At the start of the pandemic I preferred working from home because it gave me flexibility to work on my part-time schoolwork and no more commuting to work.

However, my mom lives with me and recently she has been suffering from various health problems and I don't see myself going back to the office even now that I'm done with my schoolwork.

Stay healthy everyone.
I had UHK and build Ergodox EZ since I wanted to try thumb clusters and vertically staggered layout. Honestly after UHK the Ergodox was too big. I am not able to reach most keys without pulling my hand. Even from 6 thumb cluster keys I was using only 2. Though I liked thumb clusters and vertically staggered layout hence switched to custom built Kyria split keyboard instead.
If your annoying in-law threatens to move out of the house, bet that he won't.

In either case it's a win.
Probably very favorably. I’ve never used that particular SSD, but if you have one you could measure the latency and IOPS under a similar work load and find out for sure.
I believe yes, they really do. From what I can tell they may have even before us nerds even realised what was going on, because they understood intuitively that their emotions and attention were being gamed
A perfectly fine argument about the utility of schooling, but one which would also imply lockdown-related schooling losses are detrimental. Pandemic kids should be two years less able to play the game of life. That sounds bad!
I think it matters, at least a little? In Sweden many are worried about the cloud act and the government often requires its contractors to but use e.g. aws

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/CLOUD_Act
SnagIT as a tool for creating screenshots and shot screencasts. It is just a shake there there is no Linux version jet :(
> it also shouldn't matter very much.

There is usually a point at which you need to take your model out of the CAD out of the CAD tool.

For example to 3D print or to render.

And at that point, fine control on the meshing is rather important.

Sure, if you have a manufacturing tool that can directly handle NURBS, great.

That's certainly not the majority of the the hobbyist / prosumer market.

And the actual pros ... they don't use stuff like Cadquery, they use solidworks and the like.

So, yes: proper conversion to a polygonal mesh with fine control matters a great deal.
The Palgraves Golden Treasury.
> Banning spam is a strawman in this discussion. I don't think there is constructive discussion on that basis.

It's not a strawman, as many people assert that platforms should just let anything not-illegal stay up. You may not believe this, but there are others who I've seen assert it.

> Facebook and Twitter ban for political reasons, which is entirely different than banning spam.

It's not the same, but the issue is that once you're past the border of "we'll only ban illegal stuff", you're now in the realm of much more subjective decisionmaking. In practice, many forms of speech could be classified as both political, and harassment/bullying/other bad stuff, which is what usually happens with Facebook.

In their case, they don't want to get into the political sphere, but they do want to bad blatant misinformation, and in practice that does overlap with politics.
Don't know why you're downvoted; pie charts are exclusively used for obfuscating data for clients in a pretty way.

No sane person who cares about data-driven decisions uses piecharts.
https://www.jreast.co.jp/e/environment/pdf_2017/p129-131.pdf At least if you look at this flowchart on the second page of JR East what I see is "all the debt was placed into the JNR settlement program, then a small fraction of it was taken on by the privatized structures, roughly half of that foisted onto the public, another half covered by sales of land and the share sales."

I don't believe that the point of train lines is to be profitable (just like it's not the point of parks to be profitable, or roads etc), so "wow look at the tax burden" is ... fine for me. Public good, etc. The part I find objectionable is that there were a bunch of assets owned by the public that were transferred to private ownership!

Maybe stuff needs to be broken up, maybe you do need to pay people a lot of money to come work on these hard problems, and privatization is one way of tackling this. But permanent ownership transfer of goods instead of, I don't know, just getting over it and paying public servants good money to do a good job, does leave a bad taste in my mouth.

EDIT: I do think you're right about the contents of the debt though, at least that PDF seems to imply the debt is not from Shinkansen construction.
I feel the same way - he acts in desperation, which is quite the opposite of the public image he's been trying to build, and which gave him a big following.
I don't think the author of this article understands how change happens. Gates and Lewinskis talks (and others) are given as examples of talks that changed nothing, but they were both extra impetus to shifts that were already happening. Meanwhile countervailing forces push the opposite way. Like rowing against the tide, change does happen but effects can be subtle or take a long time. E.g. Maybe without that Gates talk, some butterfly effect would have meant we waited another six months for covid vaccines. Without the Lewinski talk, maybe some slightly different shift of public mood would have seen Weinstein aquited.
Yea they have to work like normal people.
Software engineers live in fucking la la land.

Teachers can't even bring their dog to work! How can anyone deal with that.
The rise and success of "TED talks" as a non-American struck me as the epitome of the American "post-empire" mindset - rich and successful people cheering on even richer and more successful people for spouting ideas that only bored, rich, successful people could come up with trying to keep themselves entertained and relevant.

Because most TED talks were like "hey, we don't really know what's beyond a black hole, but what if we could jump through a black hole, learn from the advanced civilisations we find there, bring back this new knowledge, and fix all our problems??"...and the audience going "Whooaaaaa this is an awesome idea nobody has ever formulated before!"

All I know is the next Wozniak, the next Gates, or even the next Zuckerberg won't be at any TED talk, be it as a speaker or in the audience.
Generating functions are often treated as purely formal objects. You only have to worry about convergence if you need to evaluate them at some complex number: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Formal_power_series

Are you trying to use complex analysis to study fast-growing sequences?
Drawing or doodling to be more precise. I was never good at arts and crafts classes in school but I love to draw on paper. My favorite combo is pencil+markers.
I am confident we could devise a system to keep children safe and nurtured during the workday which does not also strip them of dignity and brutalize them with busywork.
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- Joined AT&T just as the iPhone launched. Helped build out their network and security systems (Sr. Security Architect) under crazy pressure as the iPhone launched to keep up with demand of all the new users and technologies.
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Before that:
Most of the 90s - built out a consulting company providing security and networking services to Canadian companies. Ran an ISP (near Chicago).

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"I think" sums it up nicely. It's not a fact, its your opinion.

Maybe it was actually designed stupidly, or maybe someone just made a different choice given a different set of circumstances.
From my experience most people in the EU absolutely do hate Facebook and Instagram, but keep using them because that's what their friends are using for messaging and social media. Quite a catch-22.
Zoom out a little. Code can work perfectly fine technically yet have far-flung consequences in terms of business cases, human workflows, etc, etc.

So it's not as easy as saying "there's always a good reason" or "there's never a good reason". Make a fair effort at uncovering the reason and then it's a judgment call with insufficient data.
Eh, "questionable and controversial" is a really light-weight way of putting his COVID shows--and his shows focusing, increasingly, on other pseudo-science bullshit. The guy has gone completely mental.
Ten Years of ThinkPadding
ThinkPad fan reflecting on a decade of his loyalty to the brand
> It's hard to get people to own a problem space fully

At least in my experience this is because a manager doesn't want to give their reports full ownership over something. That is, responsibility for the outcome and (much more importantly) decision making authority for how they deliver results.

Managers (almost) always want people to take responsibility, but don't want to give up authority.
That sounds intriguing. Any specific recommendations?
is it possible that if they go through with it, it might open up the entire continent to an alternate / competitor, which can then threaten them globally ?

thinking a bit more, it seems that there might be a fine acceptable line of action between the scylla of share everything (which mean no privacy) and charybdis of share nothing (which means no internet), and it might (unfortunately !) be upto the politicians to draw it...