skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I like it because they go one step further than other science outreach channels, and they don’t renounce on accuracy while simplifying obviously complex physics topics.
don't have to sell tickets at all

The infrastructure for selling tickets is already in place, the marginal cost of selling one extra ticket type is essentially zero,

don't have to check tickets in trains and reduce costs

Assuming you have to have at least one person working on the train anyway, for safety reasons if nothing else, having them also check tickets doesn't cost extra.
Invade bavaria instead. As "thank you" for their threat of blocking the ticket :)
Are there cross country but regional rail lines?
Have you read the article? Because what was proposed back then is not what NGINX is doing.
Oh please. I'm living on the other side of the planet in a city that can't be any farther from New York in just about every way, and can relate to everything I'm reading here.
The emissions occur during production. Concrete itself doesn't emit CO2, it's the cement being made from limestone that generates emissions.
This is the great thing about remote working. When I worked in the office I felt like I needed to be seen working, even if I really wasn’t because, let’s face it, programming often requires time not working to allow your subconscious to figure out the solution to the problem you are working on. So I would have my butt in the seat, but wasn’t actually doing anything. Now with remote work I can go for a walk, do the dishes, etc. while my mind is working through things. I get just as much actual work done (if not more), but I no longer need to pretend to be doing something for appearance sake.
>> For SIMD, this is a complicated mess for the compiler to unravel

this is trivially vectorizable for simd, would fit nicely in a vliw packet too. The only issue is if there was a runtime memory stall with any access, then the entire pipeline would stall.

with predication, modern simd even parallelize if conditions like below.

int[] x, y, z;
int[] p, d, q;

for (int i = 0; i < size; ++i) {
p[i] = x[i] / z[i];
d[i] = z[i] * x[i];
if(i>n) {
q[i] = y[i] + z[i] ;
} else {
q[i] = y[i];
}
}
I installed the extension and it works great, but I think I'll leave it disabled for HN ;)
This ticket only applies to regional trains. Regional trains usually have a staff of 1 (sitting in the locomotive, driving the train). Tickets are checked by random patrols, which don’t actually cost that much (in each given train at a given time you’ll have a chance of encountering them every few weeks at most).
launchpad pro? it’s small and quitet, too!
Ukrainian Anti-Tank eBikes
Judge orders trial in Tesla autopilot manslaughter case
Civil asset forfeiture laws are just begging to be abused. While I understand the original intent, there needs to be greater consequences to those abusing it.

edit I'm not sure of the best way to improve or change this, so would love to hear from others on the best way to make that change possible.
A legal position is any position reachable from the starting position by a valid game of chess, i.e. a sequence of legal moves.

Thus there are no such positions. Every legal position can be arrived at by playing a legal move from another legal position. That includes the starting position, since Nf3 Nf6 Ng1 Ng8 cycles back to it.
Recessions only seem short if the KPI is stock market indices. It's easier for the Fed and Treasury to prop up financial markets than it is to pass bills that help Main St recover.
The German government did that to compensate for rising gasoline prices. While I think that is in general appreciated by the public, I am not quite sure how many people aged 45 above will use this ticket. They trains will be super crowded this summer and people will just prefer to use their car instead.
The front end is nice. Is that all written by you?
Absolutetly not since the fuel (human food) is horribly CO2 intensive to produce.
Most trains still need conductors even if they're not checking tickets. Having them check tickets when they're already there won't cost anything extra.
SQLite does support multiple writers, they take turns:

> SQLite only supports one writer at a time per database file. But in most cases, a write transaction only takes milliseconds and so multiple writers can simply take turns. SQLite will handle more write concurrency than many people suspect. Nevertheless, client/server database systems, because they have a long-running server process at hand to coordinate access, can usually handle far more write concurrency than SQLite ever will.

Source: https://www.sqlite.org/whentouse.html#:~:text=multiple%20wri...
In berlin neither the Sbahn nor the Ubahn has first class. The express trains (RE7, RB14, FEX) to the airport don't either as far as I remember and I don't see one when I check[0]. Similar for many other cities I believe, so I'd wager most travelers the 9e ticket is covering will be on vehicles that don't have first class anyway.

0. https://flughafenexpress.deutschebahn.com/fex-en/Tickets-and...
Yeah, UKs train tickets are ridiculous if you compare it to rest of Europe.

And that's not even case of UK just being generally more expensive, e.g. cheapest StAlbans - London (~25 km) yearly pass costs around £4k. About a 1000 pounds more than Switzerland GA travelcard which covers basically any form of public transport in Switzerland.
Isn't the taxpayer paying the shortfall, rather than the "railway operators"?
Out of curiosity, for people who live in small towns/villages in Germany, how much driving is expected on a typical day? Most Americans commute about half an hour, twice a day, right?
> They had also traditionally been a different plastic which sometimes was an issue.

In Poland we set the caps aside then dump into dedicated containers, set up by charity organizations. This specific plastic is supposedly valuable enough to warrant separate recycling logistics.
Your math is off by 50%.

A gallon is 3.785 litres, and the euro is roughly $1.05.

So 2 euros per litre = one gallon costs $8.
It is already at tipping point of fullness without this
me too, but instead of meetings it's about energy. I can sit 18 hours on the computer if I have to, but rarely can I code for 18 hours. (sometimes I can but usually it's something very exciting and non-work related)
> Pollution limits aren't authoritarianism. Toxic fumes and noise are both significant and harmful externalities, and the "free market" is really bad at curtailing externalities like these.

Woah now, why is there anymore “toxic fumes” than any typical exhaust? Are you confused and think the louder the exhaust the dirtier the exhaust? While this can certainly be true, the muffler has nothing to do with emissions. That’s the catalytic converter. A loud exhaust simply removes some sound baffles so the air moving has less restriction. It should not pollute more if they’ve not modified the catalytic converter.
http://www.chrissawyergames.com/faq3.htm

His site's still up!

> What language was RollerCoaster Tycoon programmed in?

> It's 99% written in x86 assembler/machine code (yes, really!), with a small amount of C code used to interface to MS Windows and DirectX.
how so.?
I think this is the argument of whether to graze like a cow (working 2-4 hours 6 days a week) or work like a lion (working 9-10 hours 4 days a week). Neither is better in every case so it largely depends on what kind of work you're doing.

If you're answering emails and having meetings where everyone has to sync up during the day - I'd opt for the first one.
If you're developing or coding where the time of day is irrelevant - I'd go for the second.
> Assuming you have to have at least one person working on the train anyway, for safety reasons if nothing else, having them also check tickets doesn't cost extra.

That’s actually wrong, regional trains (where this ticket applies) usually have only the Lokführer driving the train, but no additional staff. Checking tickets is done purely by patrols checking trains randomly.
It's not different in Germany outside of theses three months. A day ticket in most cities cost 5-10€. That's why this ticket will be so appealing, 2-4 trips are enough to make it worth for the whole month.
Eigr: Stateful Serverless in the Beam
I have done both and IMHO a Wednesday off where you can totally disconnect is worth more for mental well-being than shaving some time off everyday but otherwise doing 5 days a week.
Huh, I haven’t looked at khan academy in years. They have a giant funding request box up now. I thought Bill Gates used to help fund khan academy. Am I remembering wrong, or did that end?
I feel there needs to be a suite of these local tools, each with a service independent local storage format, e.g a list of Band wikidata IDs in this case.

It's annoying that everyone is trying to own my data for their own benefit.
Context Switching as a Developer
It is still a good question, because there are often special conditions to these kinds of offer.

For example, in Paris, some "all zones" tickets are only available to residents (pass Navigo). The Japanese "Japan Rail Pass" is only available to tourists, and the "Interrail" pass is complicated: you have to reside in Europe but you can only use it in your own country for a single round trip.
I never miss a week. It's great. I wish they would sell a Penrose diagram shirt.
What is the point in linking this? Imagine the mess that comment threads would be if everyone who made similar comments about something did this.
Yes, anyone can purchase it.

However, contrary to what is said multiple times in this thread, it is NOT transferable. You have to put your name on it and have some form of ID with you.

https://www.rnd.de/politik/9-euro-ticket-ab-wann-erhaeltlich...

Google Translate: https://www-rnd-de.translate.goog/politik/9-euro-ticket-ab-w...
There is a company named WorldSpan in Atlanta that wrote all of Delta’s flight reservation software in Assembly.
Please allow order from Australia.
Great, please detect and automatically fine unnecessary horn use too
Like 10 years ago, but I still see the same exact trains going through the same routes, so it's hard to imagine much has changed since then. Maybe they hired some security, but I doubt the bedbugs would care.
Pretty odd to do this right after Beijing gives some concessions to Ottawa, according to the article. Doesn't really make sense to give up a big negotiation point for... less than nothing?

Smart move would have been to wait until the next big political kerfuffle, or better yet to use the possibility of continued concessions to negotiate better agreements in the future.

So even the politics doesn't make sense from an Ottawa perspective. Maybe there are some pressing technical reasons for doings so? which no one is willing to apparently share on the record either.
(Vale Lang) Generational References
It is just an attempt to shortly evaluate the experience listed on paper. Thinking is only one aspect of programming.

Are open form questions for which the candidate can give an honest answer or that start a discussion better, or do you find them similar to a simple coding problem? What if during discussion I probe for more details about one particular thing?

Just to be clear, I agree that coding questions can be ridiculous. These do appear in some interviews. Questions related to quicksort, radix sort, counting sort, heaps, Dijkstra, 0-1 bfs, dfs, iterative deepening, prime testing or integer factoring, or convoluted problems of counting the many ways of tiling a n x m grid with 2x1 and 1x1 tiles, can all be found in the wild.

My buses problem is completely different and simpler.
Phones and laptops are replacing good old fashioned desktops. The demand for efficiency and battery life is only going to grow. Even in server rooms, efficiency matters, they are a huge power draw.

I think Apple is in a great position to ride this wave as they are already surfing it. Even down to the languages they use avoiding GC which reduces memory requirements which in turn produces better battery life.

I can't predict the negative outcomes for intel.
Who-hoo, let's all go to the summer long super-spreader event.
The madness of reduced medical diagnostics
But those decisions are done in a fairly isolated fashion, i.e. you don't know what your neighbor is doing.
Yes it is extremely expensive. However I don't think most people who have a car will use it. The trains will be extremely crowded and to get to any notable destination you will probably have to change a couple of times. I think people will just prefer using their car instead of having to stand in crowded trains for hours.
3 days is long enough to go somewhere
I started off really liking Kurzgesagt but got tired with how often they started with conclusions and then constructed narratives to justify it, rather than starting with observations. It's just the wrong way to think and present things.
Dude, change job. You can absolutely find a software job where they let you work later in the day.
If there's such an uptick in demand it would show that price was what kept people from using public transport. In that case I'm sure there will be a lot of pressure to make travel more affordable.

So far, many claimed that a lack of availability was the reason public transport wasn't used more. I guess the next three months are a good way to validate that.
My crystal ball is broken. I think there is a good chance that what you say will happen. But collecting the data in this nation-wide experiment is already quite useful when deciding on future policy. Until now it was always "we believe" or "this doesn't fit our agenda" or "this is socialism". Plus, if it is sufficiently popular and if the obstacles can be identified and overcome, then why not? If the new administration wants to reconnect with the people then employing some positive populism is quite nice.

//edit: As I said, I didn't mind paying for the mandatory students ticket (most universities have that), even when I eventually stopped using. I'm in the "make public transportation free" camp, and think this is a good step in that direction; even if we end up with "affordable for all" instead of "free". But as I said, that's opinion, not knowledge.
At least in Berlin, they tried to introduce a free ticket. It failed due to organizational reasons: https://www.berliner-zeitung.de/open-mind/scheitert-jetzt-au...
It's not uncommon to split front end and back end logic into modules. I've seen lots of projects where the business logic is even shared between a suite of applications.

But it's very unusual to split it over an RPC/IPC boundary - it's usually just linked in.

Xi had specific design goals of allowing multiple independently developed front ends. There are use-cases for this type of development but it's largely not worth the effort (YAGNI).

The typical application architecture is going to depend on your use-cases. I.e a db app is going structured different from a game or a CAD program.
I know you're not to supposed to listen to advice on the Internet, but perhaps improving/changing your sleeping habits if you want to stay in your job?

If Saturday is the one day you are getting good sleep, then there is some improvement to be done. Perhaps reading a book before bed, and trying to go to bed early, can create a new sleep routing for your sleep hygiene? Worth a try! Hope you feel less tired!
> #000 on #fff won't burn out your retinas. :)

There’s a massive difference between the contrast of that outdoors on a shitty panel (where you’re lucky to get 5:1 contrast) and indoors in a light-controlled environment (where 200:1 contrast is easily reached).

And yes, that 200:1 contrast can get painful, especially if you’ve got astigmatism.
It just shouldn't exist. A judge can impose such penalties upon conviction, but there shouldn't be a way for police to seize assets like this themselves.
> Finally, I'm excited for a future where more cars, trucks, and buses are electric. It will certainly make cities more quiet and livable.

What makes you think electric cars are not going to be modified? Have you ever unwound an electric motor to increase its performance and heard the noise it makes? It’s much louder. Have you heard the electric drag cars? They are also not very quiet.
Every router is technically capable of doing this.

It's just firewall rules and pcap.

Not sure this is front-page worthy.
I don't know how your windows are made, but you can't really use glass to gauge the sound level of noise. If it is in anyway loose, it acts like a very rigid speaker diaphragm. It moves back and forth with any sound, since glass basically doesn't flex. What you're actually measuring is your own ability to perceive its movement.

As far as fining motorists for horn usage, if it works like everywhere else in the US there is no way they could ever actually make good on the fines. As long even a small percentage of people requested a court hearing (doesn't matter if it is a jury trial or something else) the police officer would basically spend 1 day writing fines, the remaining days in the year just sitting in court.

I'm unsure though, maybe NYC has a provision allowing it to issue fines you can't contest.
Credit cards aren't regular in Europe. They accept Maestro debit cards though, which almost everyone has, and cash.
VS automatically creates a To Do list window with all your TODO and similar comments. If you don't want to go as far as making it a git hook or built into your CI, you can use something like this: https://marketplace.visualstudio.com/items?itemName=MattLace...
Also it is completely useless for people living on the countryside. The nearest train station is a 20 minute drive away from where I live, so this does nothing for me.

Still better than nothing, I guess.
Much of SF is annoyingly loud, but much of it isn’t. The Outer Richmond can be super peaceful, so can parts of Noe Valley, and in Diamond Heights I could hardly believe I was in a city. Just to name a few places I know; there are plenty more. The noisiest place I lived there was 19th and Mission but even then, you couldn’t hear the highway.

If you hate noise at night but want to be in San Francisco it’s totally doable, but you might not have a neighborhood bar or a walkable BART station.

Venice is of course a special case: banning cars and motorcycles can get you a special kind of quiet. But aren’t the crowds of tourists annoying?
It's like a miniatured and electrified implementation of "Nikes on Bikes".

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

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dykes_on_Bikes
> I have no idea if that would work for inter-city transport

With inner-city transport, while free would undoubtedly have some marginal impact (and more over time as residential and commute patterns shift) there probably wouldn't be large shifts in use.

I suspect for inter-city, you would actually see significantly increased usage, which could outweigh all the benefits cited.
Still plenty of diesel run train engines in Germany.

Also coal is still being burnt. So I don't think it is mostly renewable.
Canada to ban China's Huawei and ZTE from its 5G networks
I can’t, as then I’d have to re-calibrate it again. But you can easily just increase the contrast setting on your monitor and leave sensible defaults for the rest of us :)
Kurzgesagt has acknowledged this was a problem with some of their earlier videos, but they're trying to do better with presenting any uncertainty around the topics they cover from now on.
Sorry, didn't mean to imply that. Its the best of the worst. You just lower the threshold to hit the volumes / default rate you're comfortable with to make a profit. Subprime is anything lower than 670, so you don't need to go so low.
Not German, I live in a Swiss village and drive zero km a day. But I spend almost an hour/leg in public transport traveling door-to-door to the office when I go there (well, before covid much more often). I can also work in the train most of the time - 45 minutes of said hour - so that it counts as work time too. So, no reason to drive at all. I only take the car at weekends for doing shopping or doing some visits, even then not always.
> Credit cards aren't regular in Europe.

Pretty sure it's just Germany being pig-headed about it for some reason. Everywhere else in Europe is perfectly happy to accept a credit card. I do 99.999% of all my spending on a credit card, like most millennial people or younger, and the only people in the developed world who this is a problem for is the Germans.
They probably thought the dial paint would fluoresce brightly when exposed to radiation, like some florescent substances glow when exposed to UV. Would it work for alpha or gamma radiation? ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

Whatever the case, sure, it's certainly not a reliable safety test. But it was wise to keep this thing away from people. RTG's do have highly dangerous materials like polonium or strontium and there have been accidents.
Ticket checks are incredibly rare in most cities already, Germans tend to buy tickets because it's illegal not to, not because it's more economical given the fine you pay without one.

And selling tickets will be an extremely minor overhead, probably <5% including re-programming machines.
Ebbsfleet International - London possibly beats that in cost per mile. £5272 or £6056 with London travelcard for about 20 miles / 32km.
yes. people don't realize this, but IT'S OKAY to take a break... in my last office, besides dragging feet to get coffee it seemed people wouldn't even go stretch for 10 seconds. they even bought a brand new PS5 and NEVER even played for months and months (and it probably still accumulates dust over there...)

it seemed inhumane - and crazy nobody told them it wasn't okay or anything... I like getting some sun, let the blood flow, things like that. it's not only okay, it's highly recommended - even necessary.
This comment reminds me of this part of a speech[0] from a nigerian writer:

I must say that before I went to the U.S., I didn't consciously identify as African. But in the U.S., whenever Africa came up, people turned to me. Never mind that I knew nothing about places like Namibia. But I did come to embrace this new identity, and in many ways I think of myself now as African. Although I still get quite irritable when Africa is referred to as a country, the most recent example being my otherwise wonderful flight from Lagos two days ago, in which there was an announcement on the Virgin flight about the charity work in "India, Africa and other countries."

[0] https://www.ted.com/talks/chimamanda_ngozi_adichie_the_dange...
Has anyone seen stats on what fraction of their source material for the recycled plastic is post-consumer waste vs manufacturing waste?
CT scans show the design evolution of the iPod
I wish they would restore stopover functionality on the international booking site (https://www.international-bahn.de/). I remember back when you could book a London to Berlin fare (for example) with Eurostar included, with stopovers up to 48 hours along the way. Amazing value for tourists - often you could visit multiple Belgian/German cities for not much more than what the Eurostar fare would cost alone.

The standard bahn.de site still allows stopovers, but since the pandemic you can no longer book Eurostar segments through it. Sad face.
Funnily enough Im more the opposite. Give me 10 hour days for 3 days a week and I'd jump at the chance. An extra 2 hours at the end of the day isnt much to get used to, but being able to spend more full days not working than working would mean a lot to me.

That vs the proposed 6-hour 4-day week some people mentioned in this thread, it'd be very happy with either obviously, but I still think I'd go for 3 days if I had to choose.
A great video on the subject: Civil Forfeiture: Last Week Tonight with John Oliver

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3kEpZWGgJks
It’s always the same story Mark. Sorry not sorry and the cycle continues.

Happens when you surround yourself with sycophants and can’t see it.
In both of these cases, the energy per person-kilometer of transportation is orders of magnitudes lower than with an ICE car. So the energy usage would still go down