skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
@deltaonefour - no you don't understand. The article isn't trying to sell you anything. I'm not trying to sell you anything. The article is literally just a nice short explanation of a relatively obscure (but apparently popular) topic - why the BART chose a specific gauge. It's not saying BART is faster, higher capacity, cheaper, cleaner, more modern or in any way better than anything else in the rest of the world. It's just about the gauge, nothing more. There's no need to get so upset about this.
(I'm a German living in Switzerland)

All your questions can be answered with "Switzerland has a functioning railroad" (for public transport).

Compare the modal share between Zurich and Frankfurt [0]. 44% of travelers in the Frankfurt area use a private motor vehicle, whereas only 21% do in Zurich.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Modal_share#Metropolitan_areas...
Cool. Anyone know how this relates/compares to Paperless-NG?
This is a delay or added latency, not hysteresis.
I really like their font on my MacBook.

The other one I use on my desktop is the Dejavu sans mono nerdfont or whatever it is called, it's the nicest looking "normal" font I've found that I like on 1440p on Linux.
You mean Musk agreed to buy Twitter contingent on financing and now is trying to torpedo his own financing after he himself agreed to the sale? There's a lot of talk of fraud in the comments here, but to me _that_ sounds like fraud on Musk's part.

In any case, I guess we'll have to see if Musk's financing really gets pulled and if that really means Musk is off the hook.
No, Canadians do not see Crown Land as owned by the Canadian Monarchy, they see Crown Land and owned and controlled by the government as a public asset.

Canadians see the Canadian Royal Family as nothing more than a figurehead of the state.

I am a Canadian and I have studied British and North American History extensively.
> the use of the broad gauge “goes back to when BART was planned to go across the lower deck of the Golden Gate Bridge,” he told BART recently.

The Golden Gate Bridge has a lower deck?

edit: Looks like it was only planned but never came to together
https://www.sfgate.com/bayarea/article/Golden-Gate-Bridge-lo...
Someone should start a SAAS business that generates pricing pages, with automatic customer price optimization.
https://www.integral-calculator.com/
I don't know how the legal system works,
but his argument sounds valid to me.

“My offer was based on Twitter's SEC filings being accurate,”

Willfully filing fraudulent SEC filing is a crime - and if Twitter has been engaging in criminal behavior to artificially increase their value - I would think Musk has a good case.
Could you please have this sentence make you breathe manually?
Cisco may have been slow to take advantage of the commoditization of these switch chips, for obvious reasons: it was in large part their market that was being commoditized.

I would argue this is even more pronounced on the lower end now, with I think mostly Marvell and Realtek chips.
It's a ballpark from 2 million people exposed to an extra dose of about 1 mSv.
Deutsche Telekom [0]:
"In den DE-Versionen Daten-Speicherung der Kundendaten ausschließlich in sicheren Rechenzentren in Deutschland mit der Zugangskontrolle durch den unabhängigen Datentreuhändern T-Systems"

This sounds as if Microsoft would not have access to data, which is managed by T-Systems independently. But there might of course be something in the fine print.

My browser is set to prefer English, cookie banners etc. are working, but the rest of the site won't switch, cannot find a button to manually switch either.

[0] https://geschaeftskunden.telekom.de/digitale-loesungen/softw...
They should formalize this. They have to work on the 4th of July, I don't actually see a problem with making it easier for them to be closer to the kids/spouse that day.
Stylish has clearly taken priority over functional in mainstream tech design.

I just got a new Android phone that iterated 1 version in the operating system and product. The old phone had a persistent triangle symbol to press for "back". Now that symbol is gone and I'm supposed to swipe from the edge of the screen for the same "back" function. Except, lots of apps use a similar motion for other functions, including Firefox for closing tabs. So, now I'm constantly swiping a few milimeters too close to the screen edge and going "back" when I want to close a tab, with few clear visual clues as to what is going wrong. This is just 1 of many UI fails on the new phone, very frustrating for me and I would guess extremely and unnecessarily confusing for "normal" people.
Golden Gate Bridge lower deck? All the times it almost happened
Radiolab had an episode interviewing Margaret Howe, which was very informative if my memory serves.

https://radiolab.org/episodes/hello-podmash
My wild guess: 8GB soldered on the board plus a single DIMM slot for expansion with 8, 16, 32GB modules
I'm not defending Apple, but tech-oriented users have always been pushing for more features.

The question is should there be a middle ground between keeping the product trivially simple, or cramming an increasing amount of features to satisfy power users. Either extreme works well for a specific subset of Apple's user base; a middle ground is more prone to leaving everybody confused and/or unsatisfied.

I have zero UI design experience so can't really chime in. Maybe a toggle option inside a menu that swaps app modes? Leave it off and you have a very basic Notes app; toggle it and you get all the bells and whistles, tags, folders, parsing... But this totally causes the problem you describe in your last paragraph.
Imagine all the cities of the world having huge underground networks for transporting goods; the arteries of capitalism.
Ask HN: Are Former Uber Employees Still Considered “Tarnished?”
Recently received an offer that has a reputation not to dissimilar from Uber during the Kalanick days. When the very public accounts of the terrible culture started to come out, I remember hearing/reading about the damage to existing employees should they decide to go work elsewhere.

Is this still the case for Uber employees? Ultimately, I'm trying to decide what the long-term costs will be if I decide to take this mediocre offer now vs. start interviewing at more reputable companies (weighing the bird in the hand is worth 2 more in the bush yada yada...)
Do I understand correctly that you're claiming it's "at least exponentially unlikely" (so to speak) for a fully-deterministic-since-the-Big-Bang model to result in a superdeterministic world? Or to rephrase, something along the lines of: "a vanishingly small set of evolution trajectories from a fully-deterministic-since-the-Big-Bang would result in a superdeterministic world that would explain ours"?
> Willfully filing fraudulent SEC filing is a crime - and if Twitter has been engaging in criminal behavior to artificially increase their value - I would think Musk has a good case.

Ignoring whether this is a legitimate reason to back out of the agreement, Musk hasn't shown that Twitter has been filing fraudulent SEC filings so what does it matter anyway?
That's fair especially now.
For those who prefer text: https://bun.sh/
It's not about the technical details, it's about the fact that before you'd ever have a chance to present such an argument, you already are liable for a fine And jailtime (30 days).

It doesn't matter what might end up happening later, the upfront cost of recording is now very real and there is a chance to get starved out of money to even try to take such an item to court.

The tech might be undeniable, but it doesn't matter if there is a buffer in front of the system that would accept such tech as evidence, and said buffer could delay your chance to succeed by months if not years.

It doesn't really matter how good the tech is if the system where it would help can stall out the situation beyond your means to live.
It's not that someone has a drug problem or is homeless, but that they act with disregard for others.
From the seller’s perspective? Because they own a thing which is worth less to them than the buyer promised for it. Therefore they can profit greatly from the deal.

This is not the story of some happless kid swindled by a brown ice cream vendor. This is a sophisticated business person who has, prior to signing a legally enforceable contract to buy the brown icecream as-is, talked publicly about how the ice cream is just brown and not chocolate.

Why did the buyer made that contract to be written and then signed it? The potential buyer of the brown ice cream was not taken seriously initially. Everyone, including the seller, assumed that he is going to flake out and not go through with the transaction. The buyer has seen that he is not taken seriously, but he really really wanted to own the brown ice cream at that time. So the two parties willingly went into a written agreement that the buyer is going to pay a lot of money for the brown ice cream. Since the seller had concerns about the flakyness of the buyer, they both instructed their lawyers to write the contract as ironclad as possible. And what gives teeth to contracts like that, is that they can be enforced through the court system.
Even if that is the case, it is between Musk and the lender(s). None of twitter's business, not twitter's problem (directly).

If one or more of the lenders did back out it might not look good for then as a reliable partner for future deals (not just with musk) - would they take that reputational risk? Especially right now when Musk is taking any flack as someone who doesn't keep their word.
Twilight of the Libraries: What Gets Lost When Books Go Off-Site and Online
It has become much more socially acceptable to communicate ones emotions in the last few decades. This, added to the fact that female authors have tended to communicate differently (and I see no attempt to control for that in my admittedly quick scan of the write-up) makes me think that they may just be detecting a cultural trend in favour of honest emotional self-expression.
We are very likely in a recession right now. Q1 real GDP growth was negative. Q2 advance estimate comes out in 3 weeks.
Except cops aren't your Average Joe, they need to obey the local laws regarding a police force operations and without a lot of laws (or a suitable hand-waving) can't do anything more than an American tourist in the destination country.
Again, my larger point about references stands. You have a counter-prevailing narrative. If you want to be a truthsayer, come bearing unimpeachable references for your data.
I use it together with my Nextcloud.
There is a workflow integration so that it all works automatically for uploads in specific folder (for me).
Example: I have a folder for invoices where I upload scans of important ones and all if them get automatically OCRed.

https://apps.nextcloud.com/apps/workflow_ocr
I like your perspective. It reinforces and states more bluntly what were my thoughts on this topic.

But the app is partly a social commenting app, with reddit style comments.
And for some other features, there are some one-on-one communications that need to happen. For now, those conversations happen out of band ( discord, ... ).
Users that are out of the loop just miss out and even users that are in the discord room keep asking for in-app messages regularly.
That's why now, it's on the todo list.
I did a bit of the last AoC in BQN. I really liked the language but got stuck a bit when it came to the more tricky loops where you had to do some reassignment if I remember correctly... I should go back and finish the rest of it. Saw there were a few others that had solutions I could take inspiration and learn from.
> the culture feels very transactional

Work should be transactional. It is a transaction. Labor is exchanged for money.

Full remote frees us from all the bullshit and let's us focus on just doing the work we're getting paid for. "Deep culture" = bad work/life balance.
There is a pratically unlimited quantity if cost is no object. But for cost to be no object, breeder reactors are needed. For burner reactors, fuel cost will begin to be seriously affected rather quickly if we try to supply a 100% nuclear world economy with only terrestrial U sources. That economy would go through in excess of 1 million tonnes of natural uranium per year to supply the current world average primary energy demand of 18 TW (about 6000 3 MW(th) reactors.) This could exhaust known terrestrial uranium resources (not proven reserves) in less than a decade.

Breeders, as I said, would greatly extend the terrestrial U resource, both by getting 100x as much energy per unit of natural uranium, and by allowing resources 100x as dilute to be economically exploited.
I would love to see some crowd-sourced "clinical trials" of supplements, done in the right way. I'm getting tired of the pattern supplement works -> person posts raving review -> supplement stops working after 2 weeks -> person doesn't take down review.
I don't get this mentality. I don't get why people think living through an experience makes them such an expert that any outside opinion is immediately offensive.

An outsider can always offer a new perspective and they could be more knowledgeable than the person who went through the experience.
I definitely need something like this. My brain seems to insta-delete all Regex knowledge after 1 week.

However, why do I need to sign up to test it. I'm guessing there is some paywall after. This feels like that github co-pilot rugpull.
It is great to see that there is still progress. Coming from Ruby, Crystal really excites me as a complimentary language.

Even though I am not in the target group, I believe that the progress on Windows support is an important step to further the language by widening the user base.
Too nonsensical to even consider.

The English indicator drops from 1914 to 1960. WW1? Great depression? WW2? Nah, that doesn't depress us. Cold war, nuclear threat? Life's great! 1980, the advent of word processors, more personal, psychological literature, and a linguistic style closer to the present? Now we're depressed!

It's beyond me how you can publish findings which are based on correlations with correlations, and validations which took place 100 year later, when other explanations aren't even mentioned.
It's unlikely you'd max out the bandwidth running a bouncer alone on an instance though, right?
semper ubi sub ubi
Surprising dust strike on Webb telescope has scientists on alert
> Even during the most extreme AWS events, my EC2 instances running dedicated servers kept seeing Internet traffic.

You were just lucky enough not to have been affected by AWS outages, but many others were.

You can get a lot of resilience to failure on AWS, but simply spinning up a dedicated EC2 instance is not nearly enough.
The sticking point is that he put an offer in when the company was worth twice what it is today, so now he’ll try anything to wriggle out of his commitment
Yes I was shocked at this too. Even the flagship Madrid Barcelona line only has 1 train per hour.

This seems ridiculously low given HS2 in the UK is planned to have 18tph on the core line (to various destinations, but still).

To make matters worse the spainish high speed lines have mandatory reservations so once the train has sold out you are not allowed to board - unlike the UK where you can still board but may have to stand for some of the journey - which is not ideal but at least you don't have to stand around for another hour waiting for the next train anyway.
Thank you for saying this. While I do agree with the parent that in the the end it was my decision to go this route, the situation was much more complicated, and I absolutely wouldn’t get a quick response from them.

Having said that, I wasn’t insulted by the parent, and they made a good point: my decision was based on pragmatism, and in the case of Twitter, this was much less likely to be the case. Since I decided to share my story in light of this whole Twitter debacle, the parent was right to point out that the comparison isn’t entirely correct, even more so when it’s about dozens of billions. The rules of the games are different there.
>Use Wayland for GUI apps. Use more cli applications.

How about "the OS display server, composer and GUI and should be well interested in the OS and perfectly usable out fo the box for all use cases".

My free time is precious and I don't want to play sysadmin on my home computer with Wayland and X11.

Windows and MacOS have their display servers figured out for decades, so the user doesn't have to think about what a display server is, while Linux is still juggling 2 different ones both with their pros and cons depending on your apps and hardware, one or the other might or or it might not.

I work in cybersecurity so everyone in the company is fluent in Linux which we use on a daily basis in various flavors both CLI and a few DEs, yet nearly all of use either Windows or Mac or both at home. Have a guess why that is.
I guess if public investors 100% believed Musk would pay, the stock should sit at $44 billion. I guess if Musk is forced to close or to pay equivalent damages, the value will jump back to that in the end.
Will using `/away` on irssi in tmux prevent join/quit cycling when the laptop goes to sleep? I got banned from a popular channel recently for that. I had irssi open and I myself fell asleep without quitting.
It’s a good thing that was invented by a comedian and not an economist (easier to refute it that way).

> “’Trickle down’ has been a characterization and rejection of what somebody else supposedly believed.” But “no recognized economist of any school of thought has ever had any such theory or made any such proposal. It is a straw man. It cannot be found in even the most voluminous and learned histories of economic theories.”
To me, it seems consistent with the definition/origin of the word, ie lagging behind

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hysteresis#Etymology_and_his...

Maybe you are deriving your sense of the word from examples in physics and engineering where hysteresis is referred to that do not look quite like the situation described in UIs here?
Hence I mentioned sighting rate limit seems like they wanted something as scape goat from the start.

Besides, I don't think it's even possible to have something at Twitter scale without some immutable rate limits for security & reliability.

I mean Musk shouldn't go all

SELECT * FROM users;
Yes, the problem is that initial honeymoon period of supplements is causing a lot of noise on forums, and therefore supplements are generally less useful than most people think (compared to good nutrition from normal foods).
Actually, not just GTK on Linux. You can use Qt or even plan Xlib frontends as well.
It's not the argument you were making, but it's a point your argument is compelled to address. Yes, any system of sufficient scale carries risks. In the case of breeder reactors, one of those risks is the possibility of something approaching an actual nuclear explosion, with fast neutron physics similar to what happens in actual fission bombs, not pitiful low yield moderated explosions as happened in Chernobyl.
> https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8325314/?report...

Beware, there's no assurance it was written with Emacs.
I am actually working on this very problem and trying to make book discovery magical and more of an experience, we just turned 14 months old and slowly working toward more unique approaches -> https://shepherd.com/

For now, you can look for books based on Wikipedia topic (I analyze them using NLP/ML to find connections), or via another favorite book or author. At the heart of everything is 5,000+ authors who recommend their favorite books around a topic, theme, or mood.
Well, there's a reason they named it the Docklands Light Railway!

(Large stretches of the original network built in the 1980s ran on elevated track, supported on pylons over ground that's a mixture of chalk and clay and tends to waterlog. Heavy rail can be built over and under that part of the Thames, but it has its own special challenges and the DLR was built as the cheapest way of getting commuters in and out of the Canary Wharf office towers, from Tower Gateway and the actual London Underground network to the west. Then from the 1990s onwards mission creep set in ...)
When I was a kid, we used to rid maybe 6 kids in the back of a pickup truck flat bed.

where i live, because of paucity of transportation means, it is not uncommon to have the back door of a car straight open and 3 kids sit there, dangling their feet. that is considered very normal in these parts of the world.
The point of a poison pill isn't to prevent a takeover, it's to prevent a _hostile_ takeover. It's standard practice and once you've ensured the takeover will be fair to all shareholders, as is your duty as the board, there's no more need for it.
That's a great initiative, but I expect the maintainers who are interested to be the ones who've already turned on (some lesser form of) 2FA voluntarily.

Anyone who is turning on 2FA because of this requirement is going to select the most frictionless method of complying with the mandate. Which will not be a hardware key.
if the big 5 publishers and others would complain it would prob help.

At some point its about the amount of damages and if they can make a statement. Things move slow so it could be coming...
At one point I did, until I fell off the cliff, and it took me over 2 years to recover to a functional level. Now 10 years later I still feel it is something I have gone through and it affects my energy balance.

So yeah, just ... don't.
Non-hiDPI display in 2022 is a non-starter. There’s simply not enough pixels to display text correctly with full hd.
Kinda wish there was a pricing model along the lines of "top-up with $X of credit that is guaranteed not to remain valid for 5+ years, and charge it $100 for the first message, and $0.10/message thereafter for the next month, with the ability to send a predetermined test to the company server at a cost of $1/test", or something like that. Surely this kind of a model must be viable at some price point?
Apart from being an early documented example of an cuckold or swinging relationship, what else is interesting?
> This guarantees coordinated deliveries to sales outlets and end consumers, rather than each supplier delivering their goods individually.

It's worth noting that most companies delivering pallets don't typically deliver their goods by themselves - usually for palletised goods there is a "pallet network" where the pallets are transferred to a central hub and then consolidated onto a mixed multi-customer load to go to a particular territory. In the UK these pallet networks are usually membership organisations formed by various regional transport operators (see Pallex as an example). As a member you will typically pick up any goods from companies in your local area that want nationwide delivery, deliver those goods to the central hub, and then in return are given a mixed-load of goods to be delivered back to your postcode area. The bigger scale a single network has the cheaper deliveries are (because they will therefore be picking up and delivering the same volume to a smaller territory, so the 'inter-drop distance' is smaller).

Similarly there are van networks, where if you want to deliver something by van from the south of the country to the north of the country, you can give this to a third party logistics provider who will then consolidate your goods with other providers at a hub, place a mixed lorry-load of goods up to the north of the country, and will then organise a mixed-customer van route from the hub.

This effectively seems like a pallet network without the central hub. A great idea - but the idea that all suppliers deliver their goods individually is inaccurate.