skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Not going to deny it’s less easy that it used to be but SNCF desesperately needs to extract some values from their business customers. Apart from a couple of lines of which Paris-Marseille isn’t they are always losing money on trip.

Also if you struggle with SNCF Connect which is terrible my advise is to use Trainline instead. It’s not as good as it used to be when the French part was still CaptainTrain but it’s miles better than the SNCF app.
Super misleading title.

The same story was posted and flagged yesterday.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31994390
Microservices are a heavy handed way to draw boundaries around your software so that bad technical decisions don't bleed across different teams. Obviously there is some benefit to that but there is also a massive tradeoff - especially for certain types of software like complex UIs.

> With a monolith, dependency updates, especially breaking ones, often mean either all development stops for a "code freeze" so the update can happen, or you have a team responsible for doing the update and they are trying to update code faster than other devs add new code.

In all my years I've never seen a code freeze due to a dependency update. Maybe the project you were working was poorly engineered?

> The result of this is that updates get pushed back to the last minute, or are never just done. I've seen old (ancient) versions of OpenSSL checked into codebases way too often.

There should be nothing stopping you from running multiple versions of a dependency within a single monolothic project.

> With microservices, you can have a team that isn't as busy take a sprint to update their codebase, carefully document best practices for fixing breaking changes, document best practices for testing the changes, and then spread the learning out to other teams, who can then update as they have time or based on importance / exposure of their maintained services.

Gradual adoption of new dependencies has nothing to do with microservices.
Genuinely curious about the downvotes
My model is that changing clouds has a taxi-like fee structure: there's a base cost and a percentage cost. Larger firms can just swallow the base cost. Your model seems to be that the percentage cost goes up as the firm gets larger, which I don't think is correct.
For comparison, 2000 SP Power3 375 MHz in Oak Ridge National Laboratory did the same order of magnitude GFlops as iPhones with A14 chip can do.
/u/ufuk has already pointed how this comparison is flawed, but even if it were not - now do the same comparison of how much other companies donate to OSS projects.
I thought it was just the guy who had been gassed in the war, and then the narrator. But I remember Paul Theroux, in one of the railroad books, finding all the drinking in The Thin Man distracting.
If you were driving a car that was plowing into a crowd of people, who you try to steer it towards the less crowded area that is still hitting people? Or just merrily let the car plow through the thickest part of the crowd? I find it hard to believe you wouldn't make the active choice to steer it away.
Avalon is an amazing board game. It's like a version of Mafia that involves a lot more deduction, and players get to stay in the game until the very end.

Highly recommend everyone give it a try!
It's a particular scheme of hybrid where the engine is not connected to the wheels but a generator. I don't think any of these are made in Germany, at least in the form of a car. This is popular on heavy trucks and some Japanese micro-cars. Normally a hybrid runs its engine just like a regular car and supplements it with an electric motor when possible.
"Being lazy about design", as if the point of this model refresh isn't:

1. an upgrade path for those in the Business Leasing program who are due a replacement for their existing MBP13-with-touchbar, that is careful to not break their use-cases;

2. to use up an existing stock of parts. (See also: most of the reason the iPod Touch existed for so long.) Any touchbars they already cranked out ideally have to go into something, rather than just being left in a warehouse to depreciate.

3. to relieve demand pressure on their limited supply of newer-model parts (which could be fairly important in the middle of a global tech-supply-chain crunch.)

Points 2+3 could theoretically be called "lazy" (or perhaps "selfish") on Apple's part — but there's little real downside for anyone here, since, per point 1, most of the expected consumers of this hardware are business customers doing bulk buys/leases, who don't care about having the "newest and sexiest" designs anyway; and releasing a "retread" model for those customers "frees up" the logistical resources to get new laptops to the customers that do care about those things.

Home users are expected to just get an Air; "individual professionals" are expected to get the MBP14/16. It's only corporate buyers that requirements-checkbox themselves into buying MBPs rather than Airs, but then also economize themselves into the cheapest possible MBPs.
I love Food Chain Magnate.

So strategic, competitive, and brutal.
They should give you a list and the toggle should give you the option "SECURE" or "INSECURE" because that's basically what this is.
Secret Hitler. Kind of like a formalized game of mafia
Everyone is secretly assigned a faction: liberals or fascists and one person is hitler. Liberals have to work together to try and find out who the fascists are and win if they vote out hitler.
Atmel AVR Instruction Set
Dystopian “Predictive Policing” Program
> Nothing stops Apple from offering e2ee backups

The US Government pressured them to drop a plan for fully encrypted cloud backups.

>Apple dropped plan for encrypting backups after the FBI complained

https://www.reuters.com/article/us-apple-fbi-icloud-exclusiv...

If you want a fully encrypted backup of your device, you have to make it to your local Mac or Windows computer.
Thermal issues also mentioned in this thread should be factored in too.

I personally ended up going for the pro over waiting for m2 air because of active cooling and multiple display support
Bughouse chess
I think those had 4GB and complaints about not enough memory. 14 years later, we have 8 GB and complaints about not enough memory.
If it's just one downvote, it could be accidental, otherwise my guess would be people who don't like those types of organization or ideas.
I thought the PRU was only available on their ARM A-series SoCs? I'm more referring to a bare metal microcontroller class part.
> AES-256 is doomed to fail, but we have made the chance of failure miniscule

That doesn't make sense. AES makes the cost and time length of a successful attack too expensive to be worth attempting. It's very successful in that regard and might stay that way forever.

> But could we engineer one that has a 99.99999% chance not to fail after 1 year?

Do you see a way of doing that?
Good thing it's a good map for other reasons, then.
Betrayal is a really great game. You have so little agency but it’s still fun to go through the motions of the early game. The late game is total bullshit but that’s all part of it. Kind of like Mario party.
I have a base M1 MBA, I've been running k8s clusters, building stuff with elixir, python and go, doing web dev, all without any issues at all
Not the parent poster, but I think there is an important distinction between information density and information relevancy. Google is information dense (compared to this), but not all of it is relevant. This search engine aims for higher relevancy, but the density suffers from the stylistic choices of the creators.
Yep, if you lived til 16 you could easily and not surprisingly live to 60, after that it goes down hill pretty fast for most people without modern medicine...They didn't have a lot of retirement plans back then unless you were lucky enough to have some kids that wanted to keep grandpa around.
Being Russian, I really wouldn't recommend moving to Russia.

Yes, if you're a foreigner you won't be conscripted, but the economy has been severely destabilized. We might actually be in for 1990's scale social upheaval, which you do NOT want to be a part of. Quality of life is probably going to tank because everything used to be imported, and now prices are rising. You'll still experience the banking sanctions and no access to freelancing. Nobody really speaks any foreign languages, not even English (St Petersburg being the only exception).

You could also want to consider the opportunity cost, because years spent in Russia are years you won't be able to invest into getting a citizenship somewhere respectable.

On the plus side, IT salaries are rising. I'm not sure see if this rise will actually be worth staying in Russia, if it will even keep pace with inflation, and if an Iranian dev would be able to get hired (because, of course, the working language everywhere is Russian).
>> if it does more harm than good, you are guilty of not choosing action.

True. Yet some large subset of people seem to highly value plausible deniability in their own head - they fear more having to think about the one person they kill by pulling the lever vs. just feeling like they can ignore the 5 dead because they did nothing, expecting that they can say that they had nothing to do with it.

Also seems like they can't recognize the inherent limitations of the situation -someone's already dead,you're just trying to make a least-worst choice,and I've seen many who fail to recognize such situations and just think that a good option must be available when it isn't, and that delusion ends up causing the worst outcome.
I've listened to this book. Short read, great book. Makes you think about how disasters can affect people for good or bad.
I would snark that 2xl and 3xl would be considered regular sizes in the US, and enormous sizes in the rest of the world.
Okay, I have two computers on my LAN right now, one running OpenSUSE with KDE and Pulseaudio, the other with Debian and Pulseaudio. I want to send my audio from the OpenSUSE computer to the Debian computer. What do I drag, and to where? There's nothing dragable in my systray that even mentions the Debian computer.

I'm quite sure this process starts with me writing some config files on both of these computers. That's how it worked every other time I've tried these sort of things with Pulseaudio. These sort of tricks are possible for techies to do with Pulseaudio, but for the proverbial grandmother user they may as well not exist because the system as a whole certainly isn't going to make it easy.
You should try Nim, it's Python like but compiled so it's as far as C. These days if I want to script something (and don't need Python specific libraries like pandas) I use Nim.
You don't even need JS in a PDF. PostScript remains a Turing Complete language on its own.
Right now we're primarily focused on building a search tool that developers love. Would love to chat more about your experience - shoot us an email at founders@sayhello.so
There have been a number of release blockers recently, and growing even as others fixed:

https://mail.python.org/archives/list/python-dev@python.org/...

Folks not desperate for the improvements might want before jumping in.
We're talking about cats here and ecology not human politics.

You're mistaking natural movements of species into new ecological systems with humans literally transplanting cats across the globe.

It's a fact that on some islands we settled, when we brought cats with us, those cats literally drove entire species of birds native to that island into extinction. The cats didn't walk across water or build ships to get there. They were brought there by humans and did what cats do.

This conversation is starting to get a bit absurd.
i've started telling the horde of recruiters exactly why i don't want to take a side job studying for their interviews for a slight chance to work somewhere that is reportedly bad to work at - maybe if enough people say something to enough of them they'll trickle it upwards.

that's a good pipe dream, but one can hope.
I have a flight to Germany schedule in October (from the US), and I am terrified of what the situation will be like by then.
Coup or Smash Up
Apple doesn’t have to literally have an army and a bureacracy to rival a government. They just need enough flex. And they do!
It wasn’t complex so much as a slog to me. I had to give up eventually. It was just so tedious to set up each map. God forbid you don’t win the map. The actual gameplay was good.
It is true. What your imaginary businessperson is saying is also true.

It's bullshit jobs all the way down.
In unranked order:

– Friedrich: https://boardgamegeek.com/boardgame/12891/friedrich

– Small World: https://boardgamegeek.com/boardgame/40692/small-world

– Through the Ages (admittedly I only played the digital version; if the bookkeeping is annoying physically, then I retract this one): https://boardgamegeek.com/boardgame/182028/through-ages-new-...

– Battlestar Galactica (I know, big franchise-themed games tend to suck terribly, but this one is really good!): https://boardgamegeek.com/boardgame/37111/battlestar-galacti...

– Back an age ago when I was a student with infinite time, Diplomacy (not any more though, it's not as if whole days are free to give up to a single round of a board game): https://boardgamegeek.com/boardgame/483/diplomacy

– Race for the Galaxy: https://boardgamegeek.com/boardgame/28143/race-galaxy

– Twilight Struggle: https://boardgamegeek.com/boardgame/12333/twilight-struggle
El Grande
More importantly, the second amendment will not protect you from police. Many legally carrying innocent people have been shot and killed by the police, and there are very few cases of people defending themselves from a police officer and not going to jail
Eh, my aesthetic sensibilities are kind of offended by 3 of the 4 apparel options. But maybe I am not the target audience.

Will probably buy one anyway just to support such a great organization.
I find it too distracting. When I have multiple screens I spend way too much time thinking about what I should put on which screen.
I think we consume 10-20 times as much sugar as people even 100 years ago. It's pretty crazy, although white bread isn't great for your teeth either since it's only one step away from sugar.
Absolutely this. While of course there are true bullshitters out there, HN's consistent snarky dismissal of any possible value to non-technical business processes, while simultaneously getting self righteous about management's lack of understanding of engineering practice, is kind of embarrassingly un-self-aware. The fact that other fields in the business have their own jargon does not change that fact.

It also sounds like OP is just not the actual audience for the meetings they're in. Either someone at their company needs to rethink how wide such meetings need to be, or OP needs to figure out what parts of it are actually relevant to their role, and not worry too much about the rest.

(I am a SWE btw)
I found scythe converged too quickly to some relatively solitary dominant strategies
PostScript the "graphics language" that PDF was built around is a Turing Complete language.
Windows Terminal 1.15 Release – Marks, marks, marks
Bughouse chess

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

https://boardgamegeek.com/boardgame/14188/bughouse-chess
Ask HN: For one-way publishing websites, are JavaScript UI frameworks helpful?
Say you're building a web SITE (not a web APPLICATION).

This is a site that simply publishes content. There's no elaborate functionality or interactivity, other than a few web forms. The use cases is "click a link, view a page, click another link, view another page, etc."

Can a full JavaScript UI framework like React or Svelte provide value here? Are they worth the trouble over simple server-side templating/rendering of HTML (SSR)? Why or why not?
It isn't my favorite but if you have the players (you really need 8), Captain Sonar is a lot of fun.

https://boardgamegeek.com/boardgame/171131/captain-sonar
NOTE: The original article title, Florida Parents Partner with IJ to Shut Down Dystopian “Predictive Policing” Program is too long to submit. I took a substring, please adjust as appropriate.
Why Uruguay's Schoolchildren Are Doing So Well in the Pandemic (2021)
I enjoy crunchier board games, but the fun from games usually comes from playing them with others and most of the people I know don't enjoy games that take a non-negligible time to set up and explain the rules.

When playing with others, I'll grab games like
Tsuro - https://boardgamegeek.com/boardgame/16992/tsuro - put down a tile, move tokens along the path, try to stay on the board the longest
Skull - https://boardgamegeek.com/boardgame/92415/skull - a bluffing game where you can see the moment people grok the need to lie to win
Monopoly Deal - https://smile.amazon.com/Hasbro-B0965-Monopoly-Deal-Card/dp/... - A questionable quality board game turned into a great pub card game

I have Long Shot - https://www.perplext.com/long-shot-the-dice-game - on backorder at the moment, but it seems like a simple roll & write game that people can quickly pick up.

I'm solo playing Bruxelles 1897 - https://boardgamegeek.com/boardgame/275913/bruxelles-1897 - before asking my partner to try it. The rules are dense and it seems hard to explain the phases at the moment.

If you are looking for tons of board game reviews, https://www.shutupandsitdown.com/ and their youtube channel do a great job IMO of covering a wide range of game types.
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31995276
Samurai Swords (aka Shogun) by Milton Bradley. It's a Risk like game, but way better balanced, where troop strength is limited to territory held, units are bought (you have cheap, but weak units, or strong, but expensive units) and turn order is randomized each round (although one can bid for turn placement). And there are two variations, the short game (first one to 35 territories wins) or the long game (first to hold 35 territories through a complete round wins) which can change the strategies used in the end-game.
A game to get fewer people traveling by car (2021)
wow what a track record that investment firm has, jfrog lol
You do realize I compared market cap to networth? And networth is not money?

Most of an individuals networth is likely tied up in their primary residence and highly illiquid.

If you want, you can repeat my math comparing personal income to corporate income. The difference you will find out is not substantial.
you.com is a lot more informationally dense, feels quicker to find the right answer, and I rarely have to open a new tab because of the (open side panel) button. Beyond programming, it doesn't seem like I can use hello.so on a regular basis for normal searches compared to Google and you.com.
Don't masticate with your mouth open
And the rest of the in-flight crew has to deal with rude, obnoxious, and sometimes aggressive assholes. It's not a job I would ever take nor recommend.
I really enjoy the original Betrayal as well.

I just wish there were a set of scenarios included that worked for two players: some vs-environment scenarios, some vs-each-other scenarios, and some where it's not immediately disclosed whether you're competing or cooperating.

Dixit is great, highly recommended.
At FB we introduced service boundaries for technical reasons, like needing a different SKU.

Everything that could go into the giant, well-maintained repo/monolith did, because distributed systems problems start at “the hardest fucking thing ever” and go up from there.
You usually need more tricks for fast code. Bubble sort is easy to program (it' my default when I have to sort manually, and the data is has only like 10 items)

There are a few much better options like mergesort or quicksort, but they have their tricks.

But to sort real data really fast, you should use something like timsort, that detects if the data is just the union of two (or a few) sorted parts, so it's faster in many cases where the usual sorting methods don't detect the sorted initial parts. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Timsort

Are you sorting integers? Strings? Ascii-only strings? Perhaps the code should detect some of them and run an specialized version.
It happens. From https://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2019/05/the-tro... :

> Year after year, Lund had performed certain procedures at extraordinarily high rates. Whereas a typical dentist might perform root canals on previously crowned teeth in only 3 to 7 percent of cases, Lund was performing them in 90 percent of cases. As Zeidler later alleged in court documents, Lund had performed invasive, costly, and seemingly unnecessary procedures on dozens and dozens of patients, some of whom he had been seeing for decades. Terry Mitchell and Joyce Cordi were far from alone. In fact, they had not even endured the worst of it.
I don't get what you mean. That ecosystem is still alive, though. It's easy to miss because lives in the shadow of another parallel ecosystem, but it's still there, and it still roughly functions the same.

Web 1.0 was and still is a fringe project by and for oddballs. Just like most people in the '90s didn't know how to get on the web, most people today can't find their way past google and social media. In that regard, it's very much still the same.
Wouldn't the mouthwash need abrasive particles as well? Part of why Listerine doesn't replace brushing and flossing is because it has a much smaller mechanical component in the washing process. The physical rubbing of bristles and wire through and around the teeth creates the physical abrasion that is necessary to remove large films of plaque.

I imagine without any sort of abrasive, the liquid would need to be dangerously strong to remove tougher plaque.
Well there's two problems, first is journals refusing to publish anything that conflicts with previous publications (a despicable practice that goes against the most fundamental principles of science that include curiosity and the willingness to be wrong and change, see also [1]), second is a reasonable expectation to get a response from the original authors when asked about a failure to replicate (even in the mode of "you're stupid and did it wrong").

[1]: The importance of stupidity in scientific research | https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31977918
Sure, but unless someone's taken the time to do the studies, anecdotes are the best data we have. And I'm not entirely dismissive of personal feelings either, when they're formed as the result of years of experience exploring different techniques. Especially because I tend to feel there's more to software development than just "engineering", and there's a creative side to it that's never going to be completely reducible to whether technique A is measurably better than technique B. Certainly in a tech lead type role, being aware of how those in your team enjoy working individually while still sticking to basic principles and guidelines that allow the team as a whole to produce quality code in a timely fashion is one of hardest balancing acts to get right.
Misses a lot of context. Where is your target group? This is where you go.
Captain Sonar! It’s a 4v4 game reminiscent of battleship but you can move around and it’s played in real time. You can make moves as often as you want but do so by announcing them. The opposing team has a person whose sole job is to listen and use your revealed moves to deduce your location. Hectic as all hell.

Other than that Twilight Struggle for 1:1. Hopeful that ISS Vanguard will prove to be amazing.
It also means they don't have to deal with the problem of having shit tons of fingerprint data. Depending on the laws around who was responsible for it, that could be quite a hassle.