skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This is happening in France, too. I'm not too optimistic on how this will turn out.

What we've seen here is TrenItalia starting to serve one line, Paris-Lyon (and then on to Milan). The issue is that this is, by far, the most profitable train line in France.

If competitors only get in on the profitable lines and leave the others to the national company, it will probably not end well. Because it's my understanding that profitable lines used to somewhat compensate for the others, SNCF was able to provide a somewhat dense service. If this goes away, they'll either have to reduce (or even stop!) the less profitable service, or the State will have to step in with even more subsidies for those lines.

There's a lot of talk in France around "public service" and I think that things like good rail service, especially in the era of "climate emergency" is important for a State to have. Instead, we're now getting new bus routes - yay diesel!
If these “wedge issues” are manufactured and inconsequential, I’m sure democrats would be happy to go along with the republican positions on abortion, etc., these issues so we can focus on the important economic issues, right?

> Case in point- gun laws, abortions, gay marriage are simply not a focus of right wing parties in India.

I said social and cultural issues are important to people—the specific social and cultural issues that cause disagreement obviously different between countries. Guns are a flashpoint in America because there are lots of people like my wife whose family history involves guns. Her ancestors fought in the American revolution and used guns to secure independence. They used guns when crossing the continent to settle the frontier. They used guns to protect themselves and hunt long before there was police officers and grocery stores anywhere nearby. All of this stuff is part of their cultural identity.

Obviously that specific issue isn’t relevant in India because it’s been fully settled for thousands of years. But the conflict between Hindus and Muslims similarly involves cultural identity.

> Instead the wedge issue they have nurtured and developed is the hatred of muslims and Christians.

So your example of how cultural and social issues aren’t important to people is to point out the conflict between Hindus and Muslims? Don’t you see how that parallels the conflicts in America between Christians and secularists?

And if you think religion is an inconsequential “wedge issue”—I’m sure those Muslims and Christians will be willing to conform to what the Hindus want, right?

> I am not sure what the significance of Bangladesh 's creation is in this context. The primary reason for independence was Pakistani governments failure to cede power to the east Pakistanis who had won the elections.

Yeah but why did they do that? It was because East Pakistan was a different cultural and ethnic group (Bengali) than west Pakistan. Bangladeshi nationalism was sparked by the language movement, where Bengalis began to think of themselves as a distinct people with a different culture and language.
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> That is also when Google Translate became available on virtually all smartphones, so you could say that 2011 was the year that humanity rebuilt the Tower of Babel.

10 years later, Google Translate is still not dependable in real world colloquial usage ( I moved abroad ). It works for simple things, but the risk of miscommunication is way too high. I’ve learned ( been trained) to restructure my sentences in less idiomatic ways to get Google to make sense, but it’s still a dice roll . There are certain ideas that are practically unreachable. Knowing the local language grammar a bit, you rely on Google translate for bits and pieces, then compose sentences / ideas / communication yourself.
The C compiler for the Pebble was GCC for ARM.
I shot Tesla's viral Gigafactory video with my FPV drone
I agree with you. And yes I could and probably am manipulated to an extent.

But... I have noticed this before 2016. Years before.

Example of bad American institutions: physical therapy, high schools, colleges for physical therapists. Food. Look at how horrible people eat in America. You'd expect the best country in the world to have a little bit more education when it comes to their bodies and the filth (food, pollution, information) they put into them. Not to mention how horribly ignorant people are about their physical health. These are the ones I have noticed.

I can't comment on the others.
except windows is still king because the preview shows the instance instead of an application
They also only get paid for when the door is closed to open, I think. There are a bunch of weird labor rules in the airline industry.
In the case of a genuine outbreak there has indeed been real lockdowns:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2019_Samoa_measles_outbreak

"The one big difference is that an infection seems to convey pretty much lifelong protection."

From Measles? Because COVID-19 infection certainly does not confer lifelong protection! That's real east to look up!
>> When you start a business there’s an expectation that you’re probably not taking a paycheck from it for a few years while you try to attract customers to provide steady cash flow.

>> While doing this, you somehow have to find a way to hire people to help you grow.

Where is that expectation coming from? It's fine if it's a side business you're looking to bootstrap or something, or if you have enough seed funding (which can be in the form of your own savings if you're okay risking that) to be revenue negative for a time, but if you have enough funding or revenue to consider hiring people, the first person you should be hiring is yourself.

>> If it doesn’t work out, the business owner loses everything most likely and will probably be on the hook for the space they were leasing.

This is why you create a -business-. A legal entity separate from yourself. An LLC at the minimum. So that your personal liability is (wait for it) limited. If you're doing a sole proprietorship or something, where you'd be on the hook for everything, WTF are you doing hiring people and signing leases?
Who would trust Google with their infrastructure these days anyway? Personally I do need to work with Google services occasionally but always experience default anxiety about it.
> Why should I shoulder the responsibility for people's poor life choices.

You do know how private insurance works right?

Someone makes an insurance company. Then they sit down and figure out the probabilities of things happening to people. They then put a price to join the group. They then divvy up that money to people in the group that have had things happen to them.

With insurance you will always be paying for other peoples "poor life choices"... that's the way it works. Maybe one day it will be your poor life choice (or accident.)

Having state healthcare by default does not necessarily mean a ban on private healthcare. Both can coexist.
Not really the point of this post I'm aware, but "Downtify"

https://github.com/Igglybuff/awesome-piracy#spotify
Upon further reflection, I realize that there are many "true believers" of one sort or another who aren't trolling but whose minds are completely closed and aren't looking for good faith dialogue but to proselytize their belief or attack those of their opponents.
Double dare you to use and rely on that
I have a regular size iPhone13Pro (which I really only bought for the depth camera), but I regularly leave it at home and just carry my iPod Touch, which is a much more svelte size, and does almost everything I need from a phone (so long as I can get wifi or tethered cellular wifi connection for it).
That's $10K per foot of track, there's no way that is dominated by parts or the actual installation labor.

In other news, one of the maintenance roads for the Golden Gate Bridge was recently completed. Adjusted for inflation, it cost more and took

longer than the bridge itself. If I remember right, one of the bus stops in SF also cost more than the Golden Gate Bridge.
Meanwhile, people have been waiting since at least 2013 for Atlassian to deliver a way to automate backups for their Cloud offerings: https://jira.atlassian.com/browse/CLOUD-6498

And there's still very little movement:
https://community.atlassian.com/t5/Backup-Restore-articles/E...

But don't worry! It's in the Cloud! It's all fine!
Just means u r not adoptable
I’ve been using Macs since 2008. I’ve always dragged folders to move them. I wasn’t even aware there was a keystroke for cut and paste.
Often a competitor entering the market increases the overall market for everyone. Pebble definitely could have survived as the high-battery life minimal alternative to the Apple watch and obviously be well ahead of whatever was going on with Android watches.
I don’t think that ethnicity will be a factor. It will be an economic breakdown and then a fight to control natural resources and trade routes.
> Let's say you made the mess the next day, and the next, and the one after... and each day you pay someone to clean it up. You're not off the hook. Somewhat like the broken window fallacy, you're still creating a net loss to society. Unless you think those cleaners have nothing better to do with their lives than labour cleaning up your mess.

We do pay people to clean up our messes. There's entire industries of janitors, street sweepers, repairmen and garbage disposal. Which provides additional jobs, increases time for everyone else to do other things and increases the economic pie. Do carbon offsets work differently?

> it does not impact the Kantian moral argument

Do we care about some moral argument, or do we care about mitigating climate change?
EU membership is more fluid than US membership. and i’m not an expert on it, but my understanding of its origins is as an economic partnership first (promote a unified currency and compatible border regulations between member states). AFAIK the EU can’t declare war and has more limited funding/taxation options (e.g. rather than an individual income tax, the closest it can accomplish is a tax applied at the level of the member nation, and limited to 1.4% of GNP). that said, the US as a federal institution also started small and gained greater powers over time, so maybe this won’t be as significant as i assumed.

as for litigation, i thought it was the individual member states that were suing Big Tech. i thought the only role the EU itself played here was that of explicitly stating the conditions under which members can do such things.
A sad example of a Sun acquisition that went nowhere was Lighthouse Design (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lighthouse_Design), a software company that specialized in productivity software for NeXTSTEP. One of the company's most famous products was Concurrence, a presentation tool that Steve Jobs used and influenced the design of Apple Keynote. In an alternative timeline, Lighthouse Design could have been the premier developer for Mac OS X.

Sun bought Lighthouse Design at a time when it invested in NeXT's OpenStep API; in fact, there was a port of OpenStep to Solaris. However, Java ended up taking off around 1995-96, and Sun's strategy changed from supporting OpenStep to promoting Java. Lighthouse Design's software didn't fit in this strategy, and sadly the software has been abandoned, even though Sun was in a great position to polish and update the software when Mac OS X was released.

I understand why Lighthouse Design was sold, though. Before Apple bought NeXT at the end of 1996, the future for NeXT-based software companies appeared bleak, and these companies faced the challenging prospects of (1) porting their software, implemented using NeXT's then state-of-the-art APIs and tools, to platforms that were more commercially viable yet lacked such tooling, and (2) competing with the 800-pound gorilla that is Microsoft; WordPerfect, Lotus, and Claris tried but to no avail; how was Lighthouse Design going to compete against Microsoft? Being a productivity software company was tough in the 1990s; if you targeted mainstream platforms (Mac and Windows) then you had to compete against Microsoft, and if you targeted non-mainstream platforms (OS/2, NeXTSTEP, BeOS), then while you're shielded from competing against Microsoft Office, you're gambling on the success of these platforms (and had these platforms became commercially widespread, Microsoft would have just ported Office to them, anyway).
The law, or the sign, or the tax holiday? ;)

There are most definitely still traces of it in the ILCS. I haven't found the sign part yet.
*For Google Cloud customers. Not exactly "free" when you are required to pay into the ecosystem.
I wish there was a "good faith" up arrow.
Exactly.

Any product you produce must include full source code, at which point anyone can legally post all your code on the internet.

So - very difficult to build a commercial software product with it.
The director of the NTIA $70B broadband expansion program is taking questions wednesday in a fireside chat.

https://discuss.broadband.money/c/broadband-grant-events/ala...
I was interested but I took a look at the documentation, and it seems like VST plugins using this can only be compiled for Mac right now. Is that right? It doesn't seem very useful for building plugins if that's the case.
I don’t see how “Protecting topsoil from erosion” is not obviously in direct support to the “environmental factors” claim above.
((GNU Screen+dvtm) or tmux) + vim + ssh
Because, basically, I don’t think in terms of switching windows, I think in terms of switching tasks/apps and some apps/tasks happen to have a bunch of windows.
Is it just me, or are all of the listed bad faith communication mannerisms rife in government and the legal profession? I no longer trust the rule of law, because everyone involved acts in bad faith. From police, lawyers, politicians, bureaucrats… my experience has shown that are all untrustworthy in anything they say. The fish rots from the head.
Technology and people are even broader categories than a particular economic system. One could also point out population growth over the same time period. Or the scientific revolution that made the industrial one possible, which allowed us to feed billions more people and everything that comes with.
> no one is paying for those pilot projects.

i would assume offsets have to be purchased continuously - that is, you cannot purchase an offset once and be done with it forever.

I also assume that there's limited offsets that could be purchased, and it's not growing unless money is put into making more offsets possible (e.g., enlarging a rain forest, not merely protecting it).

This means every year, there would be more competition to purchase offsets from all participants, raising the price of offset. Eventually, the price would be high enough that it's more profitable just save emissions yourself - e.g, those pilot projects.

But if you predict this, you would start doing those pilot projects sooner, and beat your competition!

So why isn't this true today? The assumptions i made must be wrong - so which assumption is wrong?
I’m not a business. I don’t send mass emails. I never have.
Cmd-Left and Cmd-Right go to start and end of line.

Similarly for Up and Down for start and end of document.

I've always found that pretty intuitive.

I haven't personally used a Mac keyboard with Home or End keys in a very very long time.

https://support.apple.com/en-us/HT201236
> having kids outside of marriage is "morally acceptable"

> divorce is acceptable

is not evidence for

> views the "traditional family" with extreme suspicion

68% of democrats find embryonic stem cell research morally acceptable...clearly they view "traditional procreation" with extreme suspicion!
This initially bothered me too.

The macOS equivalents are command+left-arrow and command+right-arrow. I find them even easier to invoke than home/end.
That's great, and I am sure it is cool, but I don't trust Google to keep products maintained any more.

I won't be trying it out.
The owners assets.
yeah - I am sure you are right - this one thing was a reason matrix was not working for me - and someone in the chat did help me figure that out by running netstat I think.

This was part of the clunky / multiple tutorial thing - I think to get it up and running I had 150 tabs open - 30 tabs for different "how to's" for nginx and certbot, 50 tabs open for postgres, 50 tabs open for ufw and iptables - 20 tabs with stack overflows and such on minor things. (This may be a slight exageration but not far off I'm thinking)

I think I was using 4 different matrix tutorials from different places to do the different things. So having non-default things happening and conflicts and all that - no surprise.

Some were tutorials for ubuntu or other OS's, many were made for Deb 9 or 10 - but that's just what I needed to get through all the hoops.

I'm considering exporting a list of the history / bookmarks I've gone through this last couple of installs to show the madness.

I've also (pretty sure) saved all the command line stuff from putty - obviously there are many mistakes, and not every command will be exported - but it's a rough guide to get started )and easier to search for commands in there like how to stop / restart synapse - which varies depending on OS and such I think - and this is without the maintain things, the mojinor thing, the sticker picker and other addins (yet) that should be a thing.

not doing the ngninx and certbot stuff in the right order led me to days of troubleshooting only to finally give up and use a completely different domain name in order to get it working for the element part - haha - good times.

I've learned a lot about little things, but still feel all the moving parts are clunky - and it's not matrix per se - but dang it's not a one-click install and config everything like a softalicious doing wordpress either.. of course it's better (postgres va mysql) - and nginx vs apache and all that.
About 9 years ago, and the people advising me were working off information older than that I'm sure.
"It needs to be determined whether such protection against severe disease at reinfection lasts for a longer period, analogous to the immunity that develops against other seasonal “common-cold” coronaviruses,4 which elicit short-term immunity against mild reinfection but longer-term immunity against more severe illness with reinfection. If this were the case with SARS-CoV-2, the virus (or at least the variants studied to date) could adopt a more benign pattern of infection when it becomes endemic."

You gotta do better than this, the source your cite doesn't support your point at all.. this study completely excludes vaccinated people and you are using it to say "infection is much more protective than vaccination". What are you doing here?
> Most employers did it for decades before they were legally required to.

They also had pension plans, but these days, those are rare outside of government jobs. I wouldn't be surprised if companies clawed them back as the threat from unions dwindled.
If there are lots of long argument names and many of them are freqently used, there is not much point for shorthands though. Better to treat single-letter "shorthands" as their canonical names in that case (e.g. compilers). Of course you can still argue that all of them should have two hyphens.
I mostly agree, but I’m also comfortable using “panic” in an HTTP server to throw 500’s.
When google announces a new product, the first thing I think about is always when that product will be shut down.
Did the German court include funding nuclear power?
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No, not these days (70% go to private training schools and take out massive student loans). Also, most military pilots are white males (86.7%), although that I'm assuming straight (gender identity isn't in the data I can google).
When I was 5 in Bulgaria when it was part of the Soviet Bloc and my parents would just drop me off at the kindergarten in the morning and then I would leave and walk on my own to a painting class at 2-3 kilometers alone crossing busy roads without traffic lights, then walk to the park and play and then go home when it got dark. Kids my age was staying home alone all day. Girls were taught to cook at very early age. Also, my father would just send me to the store to buy him beer, cigaretters - it wasn't a problem at the time. During the Communist regime, the country was pretty safe. Crime rates were low, no abductions, theft was almost non-exstent. Nowadays in the same city - it's a totally different picture!

Anyway, overprotecting kids does not do them a favor! I highly recommend Free-Range Kids [0]!

[0]: https://www.freerangekids.com/
> bought an iPhone mini.

That's funny, I was one of those people, bought one, and now I see them everywhere. I chat with coworkers and random people about it and we're all in the same boat. Always wanted a mini phone, bought it as soon as they made it. I find it hard to believe that they're not selling any of them because of how often I meet enthusiastic users of them.
Man, it's almost like we just need some sort of mandatory group that everyone falls into, and then has to pay into. But, we could also provide some tax break, refund, or otherwise just not collect the fee, from, those who couldn't afford it.

If only someone had some sort of working template on how this could be done in a cost effective way. I'm sure everyone, regardless of where they fall on the political spectrum, would rally round such an obvious net good in that case.

(I know that bit of sarcasm is a bit of a tangent, it just feels like this whole subthread is missing the obvious)
Hydrogen fuel cells and batteries are roughly comparable technologies.

The main difference is that you can use the power grid to "charge" the fuel cell while it's in motion. You simply generate hydrogen at its destination, then rapidly pump the hydrogen into tanks when it stops.

So, the higher the duty cycle of the vehicle, the more sense hydrogen makes. Also, hydrogen has higher energy density (volume and weight per unit energy are both lower).

For those two reasons, I'd guess long haul, heavy use lines would be the first use case for hydrogen, and that batteries won't ever be particularly competitive for those use cases.
Its really interesting the action of scanning the tube seems to happen at 90° to what we normally consider the way an image is composed. The system has the lines go from top to bottom and then moves towards the left of the screen.
But that's an inherent problem with a non-transactional file system.

If you remove .gitignore 1 microsecond before git open()s it, it's gone.

If you remove .gitignore 1 microsecond after git open()s it (even before it has a chance to read it), unix file system semantics mean you still get the contents.

There is always a race condition, you can play with the specifics, but cannot avoid it when multiple files referring to each other are edited independently.