skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
GPS would, in fact, work totally fine if the effects of general relativity were exactly zero. The software does, however, need to apply adjustments to account for effects of GR, in order to produce precisely accurate results.

A particle accelerator is a tool used for conducting science experiments. That they work, for that purpose, is purely a product of engineering.

At issue is not "whether science works". It is, rather, what percentage of published papers in science journals are crap, and advance the field not at all. The people in the best position to know say they are appalled at how many are.

Would they all say 80%+? Obviously not. Do any? Absolutely.
I am also confused on that and I am fine with writing things down. What are we trying to solve here? Half the key phrase in one place, half in another if we want extra security.
If you are an avid reader with and e-reader you sort of start to hate pdf and it feels annoying if you follow some links to an ebook and you get… a pdf.

Still, for the tablet readers of course it could be a nice extra option, I agree. It takes some effort though.
Handshake – Decentralized naming and certificate authority
This is what I wish th EU did. Instead of grand posturing and spending billions of EUR on moonshot projects and unaccountable policy projects, I wish they brought all EU nations together and spend the billions needed to do two things that I think would have quite the effect.

1. Build out a robust and modern electric grid that spans EU without country wise policy restrictions, allowing distributed domestic generation of power such as solar roofs, windmills in farms etc, while the existing nuclear reactors supply base load power. Any new renewable energy project should simply be plugged and play.

2. Build out a similar high speed rail network that doesn't have country wise signalling/power/track changes such that one does not have to worry about "connecting" Dutch, French, German, Swiss and Italian trains on a trip across.. Instead a singular train operator being able to run a train that seamlessly runs all the way through without changes. Also, while at it, make the train operators compete on EUR/KM of operation so that the costs become competitive with intra-EU flights.

We are missing leaders with long term thinking. Every politician I hear keeps trying to say what their voters want to hear for the immediate term and get elected to office.
> You're looking at the cheapest possible fare - a loss leader - that few people actually pay. And those that do pay it end up paying significantly more in ancillary fees.

Not at all. My parents visited and they didn't bring a bag. Just because Ryanair pressure you into paying more, doesn't mean that you have to. When I went home I took one carry on bag between my wife and I, so I payed the extra £20, still WAY cheaper. It's a fair comparison

EDIT: I can't reply because rate limited (as always). Fuck HN.

You can't seriously compare flying on Ryanair with just a carry-on rucksack to swimming the English channel. That's absurd. And even with the added baggage it is still way cheaper.

You can still bring a carry-on rucksack on your Ryanair flight for that base price, and many people do. You get one carry-on for free, and have to pay for the additional carry-on and/or a checked bag. A carry-on rucksack is easily enough for a weekend visit, or even a week if you stretch it. Why are you treating it like some kind of insane thing to do?

> How much time and money did you pay to get to and from the airport? How early do you need to be at the airport for check-in/boarding? How long does it take to get out of the plane and out on the street?

2 hours for check-in, and maybe an hour to get out. It doesn't cost anything to get to and from the airport for me. So sure that's a reasonable amount of time, but in the end it's still way cheaper, and I'd arrive at the HBF in advance anyway.

The point is that Hamburg -> Munich should be cheaper than London -> Hamburg
Do you mind sharing some of the issues that you are having with ROS2? I'm also using it and i find it quite straight forward.
I wouldn't hire you for a leadership role then, but it wouldn't stop me from hiring you. It is damn hard to find someone capable to delve deep into technology like that without hand-holding, and walk away with a working command of such obscure knowledge. People like that can be taught and trained to work on whatever project I am working on.

So with a gap working as a classical musician it might mean starting effectively as a (paid) intern, but it would still get your foot in the door.

I don't claim to be representative of all, or even most hiring managers though.
I always try to separate my data by importance.

I.e. photos and important documents are only about 50GB so very easy to keep. This would be the things that I wanted my family to keep, If I died.

Then theres random projects and files that I keep in yearly archives, just to look and remember what I was up to x years ago. That's also not huge amounts of data (1-2 GB per year).

And then theres data which I didn't create. E.g. movies, game installer,... Where a loss wouldn't really be a big problem.
Anything from Nebula: https://nebula.app/

They all have corresponding YouTube channels (including many already listed in other comments)
Latitiude AND weather. December 2020 Stockholm had 4 hours of sun for the entire month.
It actually is. Some states are far worse than others. In my state, a learning permit can be obtained at the age of 15. Not exactly a good age for handling grave responsibility.
Backreaction by Sabine Hossefelder.

3Blue1Brown

Stand-up Maths by Math Parker.
> “Nah, it’s just weird, maybe… But I look forward to when me and the family can go to a King Willie parade and enjoy ourselves and the music, you know, like we do in Armagh on St Patrick’s Day. Is that crazy?”

Still largely can't do this, even in 2022, without the rather serious risk of severe injury or worse.
Ok, then you must know some others. Ask them. I'll wait.
> request a transaction for a different merchant?

To be able to pull this off:

1. You need to register yourself as a merchant at an acquirer bank. Either directly or through intermediaries such as Stripe/Square etc.,

2. Go through reasonably stringent KYB (Know Your Business) process.

3. Do a few legitimate transactions so that everyone in the payment processing chain (acquiring bank, payment gateway etc., issuing bank, network (Visa/MasterCard)) begins to trust you.

4. Reconfigure the kiosk to use the above merchant account.

5. Pull out money from the acquiring bank before enough customers raise a charge-back and your your account is marked as fraudulent by someone/everyone in the payment processing chain.

These fly-by-night merchants are indeed created; especially at marketplaces such as EBay, Amazon. But to do it at a physical kiosk such as McDonalds' seems like a low ROI to me.
Some are also geoblocked. I couldn't watch any of the Kieslowski films I tried.
Reducing latency. Or any sort of optimization for that matter. It’s usually a slow methodical process, but every once in a while you look at the right trace and instantly know what the problem is and how to fix it.
Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory (LLNL) : https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lawrence_Livermore_National_...
Full trains are not the most pleasant user experience. But from a business point of view, why wouldn't DB optimize the load and instead run half-empty trains?
It doesn't matter what you or your family did, it matters what folks do on average.

It's possible to swim the english channel free of charge, but that doesn't make $0 a fair comparison against the train. You don't benchmark Costco by the price of its rotisserie chicken.

Ryanair isn't flying planes just for you, they're flying them for average customers, so it makes sense to compare average fares. What if there's only two $15 tickets made available per flight? The problem is you don't know how many they're making available at a given price point or how they're distributed - it's a trade secret. That doesn't make cherry-picking the lowest possible value a fair comparison point.
This argument makes no sense, do you have number?
The French reactors are shut down in summer because there is less electricity demand and you have an abundance of solar power. Under European market law, you are obliged to buy renewable energy if it is available.

So I don't get how Germany would need to burn coal/gas for the french. If I look here, only 2% are imported from Germany https://app.electricitymaps.com/zone/FR?utm_source=electrici...

The real problem is going to be this winter, where EDF needs to repair its nuclear reactors before the start of winter, in order to provide electricity for France and Germany. And that situation is pretty much due to the lack of vision of Germany and Merkel.
I was really excited for Blazor, until I tried developing for it. The DX is not really there yet and in the mean time I stumbled up HTMX (https://htmx.org/) and now I'm having an even harder time being excited for Blazor. And don't get me started on Blazor Server vs Blazor WASM...

The thing is, Blazor will become the lingua franca of (web) UI development for bigcorps, so I just need to suck it up and learn it (I'm a .NET consultant geared towards finance & insurance)
This isn't an optimisation, they aren't doing this intentionally, the network is overwhelmed
I believe that governments should outlaw this because it inherently frustrates access by persons of lower socioeconomic status. "Multiple user login using one device" - one device might be shared by an entire extended family. "New Device and location" - the person does not own any device, but can sometimes use the Internet from a public library, social service facility, home of a friend or relative, etc. See also https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29397461
Many airlines reuse your booking reference number too
Korea hardly had any nationalist armed resistance by the 1930s. The nationalists camp had either turned to peaceful resistance a la Ghandi (Cho Man-sik), exile (Syngam Rhee) or collaboration (Lee Kwang-su, Ch'oe Nam-Seon and so many others).

Kim Il Sung participated in two attacks on the Japanese in the Korean Peninsula confirmed by modern historians (at Hyesan and Pochonbo, the latter of which may have been led by someone else) and other attacks in collaboration with the Chinese communists (see book above for details).

For those wondering why Korean nationalists would have become collaborators: they thought colonozation by an Asian race was less likely to erase Korean culture than colonization from a white race (as the nationalists believed a Japanese defeat in the pacific war would lead to Western colonization of East Asia)
There's maybe some connection: Due to the 9-Euro-Ticket there were (in my experience) often delays in regional trains (mostly due to trains being too full). Regional trains share the infrastructure with high-speed trains. So I would find it believable that they influence each other.

But yeah, it wasn't great beforehand, the trend was already there and it's not the 9-Euro-Tickets fault, IMO.

> I think the core problem is huge and extremely traditional management.

IMO a big part is also the neglected infrastructure. Many trains are new and old rolling stock is being upgraded, station buildings are being renovated, but the tracks and the signaling is often very old. There is just so much you can do when your (station) signaling still uses relays from the 60s.
"Leave" is a word for holiday/vacation in UK English. So you'd have a yearly allocation of (say) 25 days of leave/holiday/vacation that is consumed through the year (by going on holiday), then on or shortly after New Year it would be "reset" back to 25.
> and because there Irish state is incapable of doing this.

The Irish state isn't responsible for NI.

At one point the Irish government actually considered militarily intervening in NI, but the British would have seen that as an honest to God act of war.
Interesting, it confirms what I've suspected for a while: that by using Python and not C++ for "general text mashing" tasks I'm not losing that much performance. Like, 2x, 5x, perhaps 10x. But not 100x.
Yes - he's drawn based on a specific kind of tank engine from the London, Brighton and South Coast Railway (E2 class). There's not a huge similarity with the engine in the photo except that they're both small and painted in a similar shade of blue.

Thomas's prototype causes problems for preserved railway lines in the UK, incidentally. 'Day Out With Thomas' events (where an engine 'dresses' as Thomas to run trains) are very popular, but there are actually zero preserved E2s, so they all look a bit wrong. If Rev Awdry had picked something more common (like a Jinty[0], say) to base Thomas on, there would be loads of nearly exact copies to go around...

[0]: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/LMS_Fowler_Class_3F
Not only Germany according to that map [1], other countries like Spain and UK which rely mostly on natural gas also cover for France power these days. Your point about Germany is still valid though.

[1] : https://app.electricitymaps.com/map?utm_source=electricityma...
Sadly understanding of how the human brain works is more limited than you might imagine. That is mainly because the brain offers no easy way to see what is going on inside.

AI uses techniques which might imitate what the brain does, but no one is really sure.
I shed no tear for dictatorships.
In "Ender's Game", Scott Card uses his smart children to echo the same sentiment: treat children as if they were miniature human beings!
I just read The Goal, and that video has translated one of the lessons from that book, which is about industrial parts manufacturing, into the Agile software dev world.

Good book, and good video.
Which APIs were those?
Didi's $1.2B Penalty and the Global 5% Upper Bound
Isn’t that lobby a remanent of the large East German coal industry? I’m thinking of eg. Lusatia’s coal belt.
Yes, that's totally normal. Having the copyright is what gives them the ability to release it under an open source license.
If she has boundary issues, she may not stop until she suffers from a firm response. It may also be why she has the strange hobby of approaching and interrogating someone else's children (she may feel 'safer' with them since a polite kid rarely sent her to mind own business).
The Soviet Red Army "liberated" northern Korea in August 1945, just as it "liberated" half of Germany at the end of WW2. Calling the influence of the Soviet Union in vulnerable parts of the world "fashion" is mindbogglingly dumb.
Glad I live in Italy and I just need windows.
IKEA’s virtual design tool deletes your furniture and replaces it with IKEA’s
Just scanned 1.0.1 - 26 vulns dating back to 2018.

That’s down from 35 when I raised the issue 2 years ago!

How would you like me to let you know about these?
My understanding is that the Texas grid issues are largely due to increased population and lack of a capacity market. Texas has been hitting record high demand again and again in the past few years. Aggregate demand went above ERCOT's worst case projections during the recent heat wave.
What would you consider a fair comparison?
Oh, i and all my friends often go no-bag. I have clothing in four different countries. My mother has a wardrobe of things at my place and my sisters. She flies with nothing, too.
>If I were a city kid, I’d probably should not be doing that given the danger of kid-related crimes which are commonly prevalent in urban settings (not only by frequency, but by density).

I was a city kid and I rode my bike all over the place, played with other kids without adult supervision, rode the subway by myself, took myself (whether walking, biking or subway) to various activities all while around the same age.

And by the way, NYC was a tough place back then (mid 1970s) and we were generally just fine. None of my friends/schoolmates were kidnapped, tortured or killed.

And cities (especially NYC) is much, much safer now than it was back then.

I think you have some misconceptions about cities friend. I invite you to come visit us. It's really a wonderful place and not just to visit. Growing up in NYC was a great experience!
If you have an old machine you can use as a NAS and run raidz2, disks are $7.50/TB or less: https://diskprices.com/

Screen captures also compress much better than live action since most frames are duplicates of their predecessor. So a cheap NAS can run for years before you start thinking of deleting VODs.
You mean the mainstream economists who claimed until a few months back that inflation is transitionary?
I was expecting some new ideas and didn't find it after I reached end of the essay. So basically, build an mvp that people want and then get feedback from the market. This has been repeated a million times. Nothing new here.
I've tried to trim out the most common duplicates before posting.

making stuff/testing/tearing down

https://www.youtube.com/c/frankhowarth
https://www.youtube.com/c/MarcoReps
https://www.youtube.com/c/FireballTool
https://www.youtube.com/c/RoseAnvil
https://www.youtube.com/c/arduinoversusevil2025
https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCAL3JXZSzSm8AlZyD3nQdBA

music

https://www.youtube.com/c/AdamNeely
https://www.youtube.com/c/12tonevideos
https://www.youtube.com/c/8bitMusicTheory

food and drink

https://www.youtube.com/c/JKenjiLopezAlt
https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCMb0O2CdPBNi-QqPk5T3gsQ
https://www.youtube.com/c/TheEducatedBarfly

misc/niche

https://www.youtube.com/c/AGADMATOR
https://www.youtube.com/c/NickSibicky
https://www.youtube.com/c/Drugslab
https://www.youtube.com/c/GreatArtExplained
Efficiency isn't the goal here. Energy density & re-using existing infrastructure are the points.
> There is just so much you can do when your (station) signaling still uses relays from the 60s.

That's modern. About a quarter of the network still uses purely mechanical signalling and switch operations - that technology is literally and in every sense from the era of the German Kaiser Reich days.
I think this would have some significant unintended side effects. For example, is there any real difference in creating an index of millions of pictures and using ML to combine them into a new picture to creating an index of millions of websites and using ML to combine them in to a search results page?

Without being very careful about how you regulate the use of 'public data' you could end up accidentally killing the internet.
how about we don't turn HN into reddit or twitter and try to be a bit more rational when discussing Elon Musk?

Elon Musk took the risks, educated risks in his own mind, and he deserves to be rewarded for them when those risks paid off and improved the whole field as a result... as much as he deserved to derided when those risks fail to pay off also.

To use his talented scientist and engineers or money or whatever, as an excuse is senseless, since the incumbents and contemporaries, all had far more talented personnel and money, but could not achieve what he did simply because they were risk averse, and the whole industry suffered as a result.

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one of the biggest problems is that we tried to net-off all the good and bad deeds of a person and try to find the balancing amount, and judge a person based on that, like as if people were a book of accounts and not a living breathing complicated organism.

The problem is, people and their legacies are not, as much as religious texts would lead us to believe, the sum of all our accomplishments. You needs to judge each action on its own merits; you can't put them on a weighing scale and put them in a ranking, and what not.

Elon Musk exists, and his accomplishments exists and you can't poo-poo them just because you don't like them. Separately and concurrently, his sins also exist, and you can't eh-eh them just because you like him.
Yeah, it currently sucks, but at least there's an hourly connection from my hill-billy village to the capital (with 2x changing trains), and it seems now that getting rid of such 'non-profitable' connections is off the table for the foreseeable future. There's a lot construction work going on in the last months which is really inconvenient for travellers, but at least it shows that the Bahn is investing again in their infrastructure.

I've been travelling by train between my home village and the capital for the last 20 years or so, and in general things have gotten better. More modern trains with air conditioning even far away from the big intercity connections, prices for frequent travellers are reasonable (with Bahncard 50), on average few delays (at least on my connection - the last few months have been pretty rough though).

If anything, comfort on the ICE connections is regressing, I'm not a fan of the new ICE4, it feels much more cramped than the old ICE3. A few more highspeed tracks in East Germany would also be nice.
The biggest difference is, atleast for me personally, I know how to make sure I don't die on the highway... I don't drink, I don't drive recklessly, I keep my car maintained, and I pay attention to my surroundings. So I feel my odds of not being a statistic are pretty good.

I have almost no real way not to end up a BART statistic.
.NET core can run on any platform it wants, but as long as it's from Microsoft, the company as we know it, I won't even write "Hello, World!" with it.

A language can't be the fastest at everything in today's mature language ecosystem. OTOH, Debian's "Programming Language Games" benchmarks shows it's on par with Java (which is not slow in any means), and not as fast as you claim [0].

In the page I shared, some C# benchmarks are impressively fast, because they are written with explicit hand crafted SSE3/AVX vectors, which a run of the mill programmer won't want to touch (for most of the time, anyway).

Comparing .NET Core, which is a hybrid JIT language with purely interpreted ones like NodeJS and Python also makes no sense at all, considering Python Compiler does not do any optimizations whatsoever, and is still confined to a single core per process unless you pull some tricks.

Choosing horses for courses is fine, and we all shall do it, but claiming a language as winner over a single benchmark suite, including the one I referenced is wrong.

Choose what works best for you.

[0]: https://benchmarksgame-team.pages.debian.net/benchmarksgame/...
I'm not entitled to a best-in-class IDE experience, I'm just happy using one of the dozens of equivalent languages that do have them with an open community.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dublin_and_Monaghan_bombings
Is this a step towards making AWS console plug-ins? That would be really handy.
Don't be so sure of that.
If your PIN just happens to start with 00, it is fairly trivial to jury-rig a common 4-digit hacking device to crack your 6-digit PIN.
Unfortunately for the idealists among us, life is full of trade-offs.
> This seems more like Yet Another Medium Article shooting fish in a barrel by describing problems with the JS ecosystem rather than an actual case for C# and .NET.

It's the very definition of blog spam.
How much time and money did you pay to get to and from the airport? How early do you need to be at the airport for check-in/boarding? How long does it take to get out of the plane and out on the street?

There is no such thing as "one-hour flights".
> The IRA were terrorists.

Seconded.

To see such a plainly factual statement being down voted on HN is deeply worrying.......

I suspect the Americans doing the down voting have never been cought up in a terrorist attack and are happy being keyboard warriors about something they know so little.

Thank fuck for the peace process and the hard work that has gone into it.
Who are funded by DOE.

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

Who are in charge of nukes.