skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Those points are usually fairly far outside of their respective cities though, to be fair. Planes are always going to be preferable for long journeys, London-Istanbul is a trip only big train fans would plan to take by rail. But I can take some really nice direct train journeys where I am - Budapest, Berlin, Munich, Vienna, Belgrade and more. And since I end up in the city centre it's usually a quick tram or subway to where I'm staying, or hopping another train onwards to a smaller town. And travelling on the train with friends and a beer is really pleasant :-)
> try to spearhead some change. It's your job!

To an extent. The key is to have a limit.

Depending on the organization and your position in it, it can take a tremendous amount of mental energy and effort to accomplish anything, having a negative effect on your mental and physical health. Is that cost worth fixing something that doesn't even belong to you?

I've learned this lesson the hard way, both successfully and unsuccessfully. Now I have a much lower threshold of what effort I am willing to exert to help a company change.
Ah—I've done a lot of Docker on Mac, but just with the command line tools, so I don't know how Docker Desktop is (on any platform).

> Or if you want to change a keyboard shortcut Apple don't allow you to, like cmt+tab.

The only keyboard customization I do is something that Mac makes at least as easy as Linux (use Caps Lock as an extra control) but I bet it is frustrating if you want to customize stuff outside the cases that they explicitly support remapping. That makes sense.
What I don't understand about their response is: why not make it configurable? Admittedly this is my philosophy for almost every product I work on - "make it maximally configurable, but make the defaults maximally sane" – but I'm baffled every time I hear someone talking about this 'dilemma'.

You just keep your simple interface, but allow the power users to, say, click through to a particular menu and change their setting – the setting in this case being ~"let me provide feedback / configure how recommendations work". For that kind of user, finding a 'cheat code' is actually a gratifying product experience anyway.
> Also filtering is essential. So nice to be able to see all the values in the filter dropdown, easy to quickly spot weird values.

This is not "filtering", this is faceted search.

I am also a big fan of faceted search, and I found the occasional writing of Simon Willison’s on the topic very informative.

https://simonwillison.net/2018/Oct/4/datasette-ideas/#Facet_...
> They aren't a curated product website, so why do you expect them to be one?

They used to be that! At least, a site for handmade things. That's what they built their brand on. Yeah, nowadays I avoid them like the plague because they're just a shitty ebay.
Non-paywall sources also covered this speech by Thiel:

https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2022/apr/08/peter-thi...
It came second to the desktop processors at 3-4x25W TDP.
I like Casey Muratori's view of software architecture being more akin to urban planning than to building architecture. Taking that view seems to alleviate many of the apparent paradoxes.
As the video I posted mentions https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CTV-wwszGw8

The Dutch city of Delft in particular is just intentionally designed to care about noise. Both design and regulations. Turns out that when you simply prioritize reducing noise, it's actually doable. And it's still a city, albeit a modest-sized small city, not a major regional hub or a global-level metropolis. But the lessons can be applied anywhere.
> the $$$$$ "datacenter" license, migrating to the dangerously unstable cloud, or not doing anything and running unsupported EOL software

Data Center is pricier than Server, but isn't it still cheaper than Cloud? And you control your own back-ups as with Server, so Atlassian cannot lose your data.
Absolutely no one believes this has anything much to do with Putin, Russia, or Ukraine. Congress' spending is out of control. The Fed's 20-year low interest rate policy is finally coming home to roost.
Clinical AI Gets the Headlines, but Administrative AI May Be a Better Bet
Wait, why pardon the Jan 6th people? Just because one's been mislead by misinformation to believe something false doesn't mean that they are blameless for flagrantly breaking the law in response.
This is a link to the github repository with example code for Tetsuya Horie's textbook on digital hardware design.

I don't want to bash the author too badly since I know that writing a book is a major effort, especially if you translate it to a foreign language. But _please_ use the help of a professional translator.

From the Preface: "This book is intrduction for programar that how to design microcomputer." This quality of English is not really helpful, I think, and undeservedly casts a bad light on the author.

Note that I haven't checked the quality of the Chisel files linked here.

If you want to learn digital hardware design and RISC-V, I can recommend the book by Harris and Harris: https://www.amazon.com/Digital-Design-Computer-Architecture-...
Well, it's not really. It makes money on the Northeast Corridor and loses it on (most of)the rest of the country. A profitable Amtrak would basically service Boston to DC.
It's incredibly depressing how common this is in the real world, but I can tell you from experience that this NEVER happens in Atlassian production systems.
> This seems to imply paying for a service guarantees it will stay up.

Apposite point seeing that the Pinboard Blog referenced above was last posted to in 2017! Moreover, the home page appears as an unreadable jumble on Firefox mobile.
You don’t have to live with it if you don’t like it; open source to the rescue: https://alt-tab-macos.netlify.app/
Wages were frozen during WWII (Stabilization Act of 1942), and insurance was exempt from this freeze. At the time, it was a way to compete for employees. Eventually, you just weren't in the running if you weren't providing insurance.
Link to the database? Is there an api or documentation?
I agree that ticketing is terrible. But note that you can take the train from Amsterdam to Barcelona or even Madrid or Sevilla using essentially only high-speed lines (the only segments that aren't high-speed are Amsterdam to Lille and Avignon to Perpignan). So at least on those routes, one can't really complain about the comprehensiveness of European HSR. Amsterdam to Barcelona can be done in 12h17 with two changes, giving an average speed of 100km/h (measuring straight-line distance!).
So in the end it still seems like the only realized effect is price control.
"The views of Popular Wireless on the subject are too well known to require reiteration here, and our scepticism of the possibilities of the mechanical methods of transmission and reception have frequently been expressed."

"When I was working at the Cavendish Laboratory at Cambridge I once get a bad attack of X-ray burn on the face, which was very irritating and painful for a few days - for all the world like extreme sunburn - but the tube I was using was not a cathode ray tube, it was very much ' harder' and enormously more powerful. After that, you may be sure that I took extra special care to avoid any possibility of a recurrence of the same experience, and, although I have worked with all kinds of cathode ray tubes, I have never found it necessary to take the slightest precautions against soft X-rays and I have never experienced the slightest harm."

Ah, the good old days. Dude worked with Rutherford and Thomson, can we find anything on him?
I think you could probably say that about a reasonably large portion of all writers.
So are you just making the punctuation up as you go, or what?
Definition of “fair” is similar to definition of “random”.

Both terms are very ambiguous, unless qualification is provided.

Random variables can have many distributions e.g. Poisson, Gaussian, uniform.

I don’t know names of categories of “fairness”, but clearly you and GP have different meanings for the same word.

On one end of the spectrum seems to be: “fair == same end result” -> effort and luck should not matter, not in the slightest.

On the other end of the same spectrum: “fair = same system/rules” -> you could have racketeered more people to get more money and bought a bigger gun to stay alive.

Both definitions of “fair” are equally valid, the choice of the definition is subjective.
> People come in to try them and then just buy them online.

It still puzzles me how much of a disconnect exists between e-commerce and brick & mortar, almost 25 years from Gates's "Business at the speed of thought".

Those people who come in the store should be converted right there and then, by making it trivial to order in-store a home delivery option that is price-competitive with non-b&m-equipped businesses. Keep razor-thin local inventory that commands a premium for the fact that you get it there and then, and everything else can be ordered. This should allow you to offset a decent amount of showroom costs while still competing with web-only operations.

If the price difference is small enough and the friction low enough, making the order in-store becomes a better option than leaving, sitting down somewhere, searching again for the item on some other store, etc etc.

There are still big opportunities out there for retailers who can figure out that sweet spot.
'ESG is a hate factory, one can always just buy large acreages in remote countries to escape all three.'
> ...but there is a fundamental timing problem: you emitted one ton of CO2 yesterday, somebody else has to protect a forest forever to keep that CO2 trapped.

That is wildly exaggerated.

First, the planet has greened enormously during the satellite era (meaning since 1979 or so).

Second, crustaceans and plankton are incredibly efficient little CO2 suckers. Sure, they're not fast enough to get us to pre-industrial atmospheric CO2 levels without us reducing CO2 emissions, but if we stopped altogether I bet they'd get us down below 300ppm very quickly. The point is: a) it's not "forever" that we'd have to "protect a forest forever to keep that CO2 trapped" because the oceans alone will lock away a great deal of carbon as calcite, and b) atmospheric CO2 is not the emergency it's painted as.

I'm sure it's not welcomed here, but without the Industrial Revolution, we were on a path to extinction of photosynthetic life on Earth due to starvation. We can quibble over how many millions of years, and the process might have slowed down if the Ice Age we're in were to end, or it might speed up if it were to get colder, so there's lots of unknowns. But at some point atmospheric CO2 will run too low.
> The billions that have been pumped into the economy by the government as covid measures?

That is the stimulus, and a lot of it was given as direct payments to individuals without means testing.
You can set dns records up for them, but browers have to support it. Try Vitalik.eth, it should go to his blog.
Run that test for real! The GH5 image will be cropped, but the relative amount of blur between your subject and out of focus areas will be identical
Yes! I provided the same comment above with a step-by-step as the sequence of key presses is a little hard to figure out the first time.

I’ve now finally committed this to muscle memory but I doubt many people are aware of it — it was really good to hear of somebody else using it!
The alternative to car-centric streets is mixed use emphasising bikes, pedestrians, and public transport.
> The official explanation blaming the war also happens to be the better fit

Inflation has been high for nearly half a year and the war only started 6 or 7 weeks ago. The timing doesn't line up.
What do you do for a living, and how did you learn about options? Do you do any risk management?
Some companies did offer benefits to their town, for roughly the same reason the FAANGs offer free lunches and dinners. Kind of a double edge gift.

I have no idea where the "companies used to take care of their employees" commenters are coming from. There's plenty of counterexamples.

"The toxicity of concentrated TEL was recognized early on, as lead had been recognized since the 19th century as a dangerous substance that could cause lead poisoning. In 1924, a public controversy arose over the "loony gas", after five[94] workers died, and many others were severely injured, in Standard Oil refineries in New Jersey.[95] There had also been a private controversy for two years prior to this controversy; several public health experts, including Alice Hamilton and Yandell Henderson, engaged Midgley and Kettering with letters warning of the dangers to public health.[17] After the death of the workers, dozens of newspapers reported on the issue.[96] The New York Times editorialized in 1924 that the deaths should not interfere with the production of more powerful fuel.[17]" (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tetraethyllead#Initial_controv...)

See also radium, polyvinyl chloride, assorted mine disasters, etc.
I’m enjoying Read Max, a newsletter about Pop Culture. https://maxread.substack.com/

There was a Dune article that got some traction here a few months ago.
I used to travel frequently between Vienna and Paris (to visit relatives in Paris) and I quickly stopped flying between the two cities when I discovered the city-to-city train then called the 'Mozart' (it ceased service in 2007): https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mozart_(train).

I found that whilst the duration of the flying time was considerably shorter than the train trip the overall flying time was still quite long given all the rigmarole at the airports and getting to and from them.

I found that traveling this intercity circuit on the Mozart much more enjoyable and relaxing than flying even though the trip took typically between 13 and 14 hours (Wiki says 13h10), the food was quite excellent (for a train) and the trips were in the daytime so there was much scenery to look at. When not doing that I could occupy myself with written/paperwork work or read a book and not be interrupted. What was really excellent about the Mozart was that it was not only an intercity train but also it took me directly to the very heart of both cities—there was no need to travel to the outskirts of the cities to their airports (I've always found traveling to and from airports a nuisance and pain so I've always considered train travel a great advantage over flying (except when flying exceptionally long distances, intercontinental, etc.).

I've not done that circuit for quite some years now and I'm sorry to see the Mozart service terminated. After reading the article I did a check on its replacement service and it seems that now a section of the trip is by TGV and that there are now two changes between the cities. Despite the introduction of the TGV, the travel time between Paris and Vienna is 13h15 — which is all of 5 minutes longer than the nominal time taken by the Mozart. Shame really.

Nevertheless, I cannot help but believe that Europe's investment in passenger train transport will pay off handsomely. When I was doing a lot of traveling around Europe by train I found most of the services quite excellent—much more so than in Anglophone countries—and I reckon that the main reason for this is that culturally the Europeans seem to be much more at home with and adapted to train travel. As such, it's very unlikely that that investment in trains will be wasted.
Do you have a source? I'd expect rail to be more expensive from a capital expenditure perspective (laying rail, ties, buying cars, etc) but much cheaper to operate (coefficient of friction is lower between train wheels and rails than with rubber tires and roads, optimal speeding and slowing causing less wear on tracks, less downtime as rail repairs are much simpler than road repairs, etc)
Does the new In The Pipeline blog have an RSS feed? I haven't been able to find it.
French elections: How France's once-dominant political parties fell from grace
Ah that sounds amazing! On the trains in Ukraine they did still have the babushkas hawking produce and fish at the stops and I have had some lovely conversations on these trains but I would have loved to go to Crimea. A Siberian railway trip is still on the bucket list but I will wait until things are less contentious and so I'm not putting dollars into the hands of the Putin regime.
According to a relative who has spent a lifetime being a transport nerd, rail is actually more suited to people transport and roads to goods.

The reason is surprisingly obvious in hindsight. You bring 1000 people into a city centre train station and then they deliver themselves to their final destination. But goods either have to be sent to single purpose custom built lines and depots (eg power stations) or else transferred to road and taken onwards in a multitude of vehicles.

I am personally very good at delivering myself autonomously on foot for several miles, and I will even transfer myself to another train in minutes without external equipment. Coal is generally less cooperative.

Worse, if you decide to keep people in cars, you have to build parking spaces absolutely everywhere they might possibly want to go, whereas most goods just need to be dropped off.

People on trains, goods on lorries.
> Here in Germany, for as long as I can remember, the government praises itself every year for investing as much in rail as never before. I have not noticed the service quality to change for the better over the last 15 years. The ever-rising investments seem to be only enough to keep the status quo of the crumbling infrastructure.

And the ticket price inflation is twice as high as regular CPI.
I don't disagree!
It will a moment am not going to buy iphone again..
Ah, you mean that outages have happened in the past, not that Atlassian has changed because of an outage.
I went from Rome to somewhere like Florence by train. Fast, easy, reasonably priced, and it was a short walk from my seat to a café car where a team of sharply uniformed gentlemen made me an excellent espresso!
Ha yes well... "the continent" refers to the European land mass. C.f. "continental breakfast". But the UK is part of the European continent in the continental shelf sense. The word "continent" is not really well defined. Here's a nice video about it:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hrsxRJdwfM0
Author here if anyone has shift register questions :-)
> The US also can't completely prevent people from creating counterfeit cash, see https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Superdollar. The transparency of bitcoin is a win here, as everyone can verify that this kind of fraud is not occurring at the base layer.

Emphasis on "here." I think the one big problem with Bitcoin et. al is that (from a user perspective) they trade major regressions in important areas for small wins against other problems (often purely ideological problems).

Case in point: counterfeiting isn't a major problem in most places. Bitcoin may address it better than cash can, but that's at the cost of major regressions in privacy, economic policy, etc.
something like?

find / -type d -exec sh -c 'for i in $(seq 5); do stat {}/"$(head -c 15 /dev/urandom | base32)" 2> /dev/null; done' \;
The solution is simple. Don't minimize windows. Everything fullscreen on virtual desktops. Three fingers up and choose the window you want if it's one you don't use normally. Three finger swipe between frequently used windows.
See also the RGBtoHDMI: https://github.com/hoglet67/RGBtoHDMI/wiki
I believe you could get from the Netherlands to Spain in just two trips: Amsterdam > Paris in Thalys, and Paris > Madrid in AVE (seasonal) or > Barcelona in TGV (neither involve track gauge change). You could do that in the span of a day and still have spare time, depending on how well the schedules match.
Train prices go up a lot (a factor of 2 or more) when it’s close to the time of the train, since the price is based on how full the train is currently booked. You might get cheaper train trips by booking further out.

Buses will still beat the cost, but they’re slower and less comfortable.
> This should be the nail in the coffin for UBI. The consumer demand created by the last round of stimulus is nothing compared to what UBI would create

UBI or the stimulus checks are nothing compared to interest rates held to record lows for a record amount of time. Basically, what we found out is that welfare for the rich (via low interest rates that the poor can't take advantage of anyways) does not work.
I'll bring the cat if you'll bring the wind tunnel!
Friend of mine's dad had 6 months to live, for 12 years. Same deal. Leukemia eventually got him.
My favourite tool to modify most aspects of the OS is BetterTouchTool.

I have it set to move the window under the mouse cursor when I hold down Fn — and if I also hold down shift then it resizes the window under the mouse cursor until I release Shift

It must have saved me, in aggregate, hundreds of hours as I no longer have to care about finding the top or edge of a window to move/resize.

Try it! An absolute game changer for productivity.
That would have been incredible. I had actually started one journey in Athens and did the usual beach thing on an island before flying to Hungary to begin a train trip up to Germany (where I was starting a new job some days later). I would certainly have taken a train if I could. I had a chance to spend a few days in Albania and Serbia just before the pandemic and was very pleasantly surprised as to the countries. I don't know why but Albania I had a picture in my head as a very Soviet brutal country stuck in the mid 1900's but I think I saw far more prosperity in Tirana than say in Skopje.
The numbers seem large when they're in absolutes, but per capita it's moved from ~0.91 trips per person per year to ~1.19 trips per person per year. Not to say there is no progress, but rather that the number of trips is low to begin with. If you contrast the money spent with the end result of roughly one trip per person per year, things are not that rosy.
No - I'm talking about money given to vaccine companies, media companies, hospitals, emergency measures, etc, etc. The stimulus was small by comparison.
https://projects.propublica.org/coronavirus/bailouts/
Productivity Blocker
Introducing the Productivity Blocker, the first Chrome extension for blocking any website that makes you productive. Whether it’s sending an email, checking LinkedIn or brushing up on your Dutch, consider it gone, outta here, geblokkeerd (that’s “blocked” in Dutch, but try not to retain that information right now).
I'm not following your first question do you mean to say why is mandating coverage legal?

My understanding of the mandate was that(theoretically) by more people being insured the population be healthier and that would someone how drive prices down. Obviously that's a farce as prices go up year over year. It would be interesting to see how much more basic procedures would be now after being adjusted for inflation compared to what they were in say the 90's.
Cannot at all relate to this perspective. If you like PopOS, that’s great. But this nonsense about Mac fans being blinded by their love of the brand is the edgelord meme that will not die.

MacOS is fine. PopOS is fine. Windows is fine. They each ask you to adopt a UI paradigm because how could they not. It’s natural that transitioning between them is costly.

Every time I see comments like this I’m reminded of this great quote: “The only intuitive interface is the nipple. Everything else is learned.”