skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
What does "requiring an opportunity to review" mean? :o

Does the process include a review by the state or not? If yes it's mandatory, right? Not an "opportunity", and it's not just a "movie review" review, right? So it means state needs to approve it, no?

So shouldn't this be phrased as "include government permit here (whether it's applicable for you, see how your state reacted to Executive Order 12372)"?
I would be shocked if the airplane has use for water in the same order of magnitude as the combusted fuel multiplier.

Jet-A has around 43 MJ per kg. An A320 burns around 2.5 tons of fuel per hour. Hydrogen is about 3x as dense on an energy basis, so call it 0.8 tons of hydrogen per hour. Hydrogen combustion to water has a mass ratio of around 9:1, meaning an A320 would be creating over 7 tons of water (~1500 gallons) per hour of cruise flight. The potable water tanks on an A320 are around 50 gallons or around 2 minutes of cruise flight (that’s potable water tanks only). It’s a different order of magnitude.
Exactly. A sausage has two ends, the beginning end and the end end, and so shall the week
Mark Russinovich, Azure CTO: use Rust instead of C and C++
This part at the end of the article is probably the real true nugget in here:

> But implicit in that risk, Mr. Nayyar points out, is a lot of downside. Many executives thought, “but didn’t say out loud, that if demand disappeared or changed course – sometimes even slightly changed course – those people we brought on, it might not make sense to have them around any more. … You’re just a number on the page; whatever happens, happens.”

I have no doubt that a lot of tech companies, including Canadian startups like Shopify, hired like mad during the pandemic boom knowing full-well that they would end up laying off a bunch of those new hires once things got "normal" again.

A lesson to be learned for anyone taking a job in a fast-growing company is to really think about the value that your specific job brings to the company.

What is your direct contribution to the bottom line? Work this math into whatever official comms you get from your employer when trying to think about what your actual job security looks like.

That and be prepared for layoffs. Have a couple of months of runway put aside somewhere and don't touch it. Because I think these cycles of boom-then-bust for growth are only going to get more frequent.
> The UK has a hybrid model which is also in use in countries like Germany, which means that seat reservations can be made on many trains but aren’t compulsory.

> This optional seat reservation system is so much better as it means that trains can technically never sell out and you can always hop on board of a certain service.

The UK system is starting to move away from this "get up and go" model, unfortunately.

A number of train operators are now setting the "Reservations are mandatory" flag on their services in the timetable data, which means that online journey planners cannot sell walk-up tickets if there is not seat reservation availability (or indeed, if reservations have not yet opened which is increasingly the case for west-coast services until very close to the travel date), even if it would be possible to buy that same ticket from a machine at the station or in-person at a ticket office and it would be perfectly valid for said service.

It ends up with really poor UX.
It's not obvious why a new system is needed. UTC, TAI, or unix-time are sufficient.

The primary defect I see in the SIT proposal is that it isn't obviously based on the SI, but rather tied to the Earth. Defining a new unit that is 86.4 seconds long feels troublesome for everyone.
This is along the same general idea as the Persian/Farsi day names, you've got Jummah which is the western Friday (Islamic day of rest), then the rest of the days are named shanbe, yakshanbe, doshanbe, sehshanbe, and so on.

shanbe = day (first day of the week after Jummah)

yak = one

do = two

seh = three

Literally just day one, day two, day three.

You count upwards in day number until you reach six, then it's Jummah again and it resets.

The city of Dushanbe, Tajikistan being part of the historical extent of the Persian empire and language is literally just named second day.
Your numbers are a bit off, it's sort of safe to assume that maybe half of terminals are operational - not 100%.

> some commercial / military contracts in the mix

T-Mobile is a massive $$$ for them.

I would assume the availability of worldwide, omnipresent, inexpensive low speed broadband is going to open new use-cases (and thus revenue streams), that we're not even aware of. It's going to be exciting.
pdf: https://fabiensanglard.net/cpsb/sbook.pdf

Related post: https://fabiensanglard.net/ccps/index.html
Iran is a semi dictatorship. People have _some_ agency but not much.

The _election_ in which you can choose between 2 people who have already been filtered out by the regime is not really a democratic election.

As someone voted for Rouhani (and would do so again), in a democratic situation he would've been my last choice.
For real. I have a dozen style overrides for websites that are just variations of `max-width: none !important` to make them actually usable.
Agreed - 2022 XC90 with no issues
That’s the economic orthodoxy. The semiconductor industry has been deflationary since its inception and there’s been plenty of economic activity.
Richard Carrier is a crank who somehow got popular among New Atheists who didn’t know any better. His work enjoys no support in academia.
the maximum width for readability is in characters per line so it should be expressed in that
I know how you feel. There are definitely workplaces that attract naysayers and eventually the whole culture becomes one of naysaying. It becomes self-reinforcing because anyone that actually wants to improve things is in the minority, gets shut down by their coworkers and eventually gets frustrated and leaves.

You can't really do anything about it. In my experience that kind of culture comes from the top and at least where I am those people are part of the problem. Look for another job.
It's not just days, there is a whole time period of a bunch of years where its not fully clear if they did exist or where skipped. I just forgot when.
Absolutely, the only things that the documents prove are that Faucci was involved in using US funds to pay Chinese universities to perform gain of function research, and that he covered it up.

The most generous interpretation is more than grounds to charge him with treason.
It's a bit different though. I think the are reasons for 12 months, 7 days per week, 3 months quarters etc. My version keeps it all and avoids points in "disadvantages" section of the Wikipedia article.
Annual season ticket to London from Peterborough, at the edge of the commuter belt with relatively affordable housing is £9,500 (including Tube)

That's 20% of your after tax income if you're on more than double the median UK salary
Word Writer 4 and an Okidata Okimate 20 printer, here. Some years ago I wrote a quick-and-dirty program to convert the files to HTML [1]... only to be absolutely horrified at how awful my writing was as a teenager. ;)

[1] https://cafbit.com/post/migrating_legacy_documents_from_word...
We expect that our government 'for the people' will have our backs, and make sure people can afford homes.
Whatever Happened to the Starter Home?
Yes it's sometimes pretty bad. Just depends on the conditions at the time.

https://www.usatoday.com/story/travel/airline-news/2019/07/0...
Legit question. What is a weekend in the US? Is a weekend in the US Friday - Saturday?

Most places consider the week to end with Sunday and the weekend is usually considered to be from after work on Friday(or technically Saturday) until Monday starts.

But when an American says "right over the weekend", do they mean Sunday, since the US week starts on Sunday? Or does the week actually start on Monday as in most places?

I'm from this planet, and even I am confused with all of us, but especially with Americans.
No public transport system is great at rush hour. Still having used the 'subway' in both London and Tokyo at rush hour, I much prefer Tokyo.
Wonderful. My old license plate was awk sed.
If you use CV for autonomous driving you use object detectors, and any modern object detector uses a neural network as its backbone.
IANAL, but how are Instagram and WhatsApp allowed to operate in Iran? Do embargoes not apply to online services?

I'd love to see companies such as Google and Apple implement optional mesh networking as an over-the-air update to their phones in order to help people communicate during times like this.
I don't see why it would. Extra locks help paper over bugs you can't figure out. Unsafe would never do that.
This seems quite appropriate, actually...
Could you please stop posting unsubstantive and/or flamebait comments to Hacker News? You've been doing it repeatedly and that's not what this site is for.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
The system is called RARS, the quotas are set by the train operating companies and there's no transparency whatsoever as to how many tickets there are available per train service/journey segment at each price point (commercially sensitive). The most you'll get is a "there's 2 tickets left", I think for all n <= 9

Advance fare tiers are also not regulated by the Govt fares increase cap, so the operators can charge what they like.
And in that calender, February is the last month, which makes it the logical month for adjusting leap years.
For Windows, there is dngrep: http://dngrep.github.io
If you're that interested in quality posts, why are you focused on the front page at all? You need an alternative source of posts that's still powered by some user curation (aka upvotes) -- like twitter accounts that post stories as they start to rise. (https://twitter.com/betterhn50) etc That way you'll catch some of the quality posts that don't quite explode into front page territory but still might get 100 upvotes and have quality discussion.
I've posted this before: a monthly season ticket comparison from 2017 for UK and Continental Europe. The price differences between UK and other countries are stark:

- UK: Luton to London St. Pancras (35 miles) | Monthly season ticket cost: £387

- UK: Liverpool Lime Street to Manchester Piccadilly (32 miles) | Monthly season ticket cost: £292

- Germany: Dusseldorf to Cologne (28 miles) | Monthly season ticket cost: £85

- France: Mantes-la-Jolie to Paris (34 miles) | Monthly season ticket cost: £61

- Italy: Anzione to Rome (31 miles) | Monthly season ticket cost: £61

- Spain: Aranjuez to Madrid (31 miles) | Monthly season ticket cost: £75

Source is the TUC (2017): https://www.tuc.org.uk/news/uk-commuters-spend-6-times-much-...

> UK workers on average salaries will spend 14% of their income on a monthly season ticket from Luton to London (£387), or 11% from Liverpool to Manchester (£292).

> By contrast, similar commutes would cost passengers only 2% of their incomes in France, 3% in Germany and Italy, and 4% in Spain.
That's justifiable on the home screen, but the protection for the button on the notifications screen that I can only activate:

1. unlocking my phone

2. swiping down from the top

3. clicking on a small button in the bottom corner

not so much
Afghanistan is drowning in guns - I don't see a liberal democracy emerging there anytime this century (please let this be my "Dropbox is a weekend project" comment - I'd love to be wrong.)
No one said to let everyone have a free for all with a million different languages. Rewriting things creates its own set of bugs. Every time.
But the point of comparison most people are making isn't with the infamously public-transport-averse USA, it's with countries in Europe where rail travel is state run and heavily subsidised (and the house price savings from living further up the line are smaller)
Maybe. Maybe not. People do respond to their current situation. It is hard to predict with a dose of certainty that X would happen as people could very easily reverse the predicted trend.

It may not be THE problem, but dismissing it as just one of the culture wars items is in itself counter-productive ( if only, because perception is reality and people do vote based on their belief systems ).

I do not disagree with you on the clear focus of US on the true beneficiary of this system ( corporations ).
The idea was to build offshore wind farms, but there was a lot of complaining about "subsidies" from the right so the government effectively blocked them. Imagine if offshore wind had been being built by Germany (and all the other EU nations that fell for the same BS) at full speed since 2012.

We'd have a lot more cheaper power and a lot less Government subsidies.
Flying Saucer in the Logo of the Office of the Director of National Intelligence
In this case, I think all he wants is a working toolchain, so a version that's relatively recent will be fine, I'm sure.
Vices are becoming the default positions in secular societies unfortunately.
My response aimed at the claim of the headline being clickbait. The things you state may or may not be true but they do not invalidate the Bloomberg headline in any way.
The unsubstantiated claim is "writing must be financially incentivized". That's not my claim to substantiate.

If you think that claim is somehow self-evident, it may be worth considering your biases.
> "nah, we call them AM and PM"

Not a human-universal practice.
There is only haptic feedback if you hold it, not if you tap it.
>>Long term though any early issues with new technology tend to be optimized or solved as things evolve.

I'm absolutely, completely, utterly sure someone said this about the first fossil fuel technologies. "Oh, I'm sure this 'pollution' thing will be solved."
If resizing the browser is an acceptable solution then not setting the max-width already works. Setting the max-width only makes it worse for people who want the space to be filled regardless of their browser size.
Also, if there really is s scarcity of electricity, then every country subsidizing it won't help.

That said, to some extend it might just be more expensive LNG that dictates the price -- maybe there is sufficient electricity at a high price point.
Yes. We socialize over tea and coffee.
Higher paying than what? Than other places you can get jobs now?

The most conservative estimate I've seen shows that if the minimum wage had kept pace with inflation over the past 50 years, it would be over $21/hour now. The minimum wage.

From what I've seen, Dunkin and Amazon* pay a $15 minimum wage—which, yes, is better than many other places now, but not compared to what you could expect to get for similar jobs several decades ago (adjusted for inflation). And I haven't heard anything one way or the other about Dunkin, but Amazon is actively hostile to unions, which were the strong sword and shield of blue collar workers like them back when they could expect pensions and such—not at all coincidentally.

* For those actually designated employees; I'm given to understand that Amazon also does all sorts of shenanigans to designate various people who work for them as contractors of some type.
Simulation Games Might Be What the World Needs Now
Yep, and this makes it clear that they are NOT open Sunday because Saturday closes at 29 and there are no hours listed for Sunday.
Would you rather have a moon base or 10 probes exploring the rest of the solar system?
It’s just not a word in everyday speech.

A quart is the easy one. It’s just a slightly smaller version of a liter. And it’s not like the UK doesn’t use pints which are just half of a slightly larger quart.

I’m sure there’s lots of language including unrelated to measurement which differs across the Anglosphere.
And they'll force it upon us.
Let's think that happens.

Russia-Ukraine case made the whole world go crazy due to gas/oil and price increase in anything that touches fossil fuels.

Imagine what would happen globally by Iran settings mines in Straits of Hormuz or rain missiles on countries that are hosting US bases (Oil producers) in retaliation and pressuring global economy in order to maximize the effect of the war.

The maximum Israel can do is to slow down the progress of whatever Israil think Iran is doing, is to conduct sabotage missions in Iran, killing scientists, military commanders, cyberattacks or lobbying as much as possible in other countries for more sanctions etc and so far that has not been effective. In matter of fact, it has backfired.
“Weekend” in the US typically refers to Saturday / Sunday.

Monday through Friday is the workweek.
It was fine with me. Learned something.
It'll be interesting to see what happens to inventory-for-sale numbers. Presumably the market won't be flooded with forced sales and foreclosures like 2009. One also wonders if the big corporate investors who have been hoovering up properties will choose to wait for the market to bottom.
I loved the Pacers there was something so democratic and comfy about the version with the rows of seats on them with no headrests. Lovely train.
You must be trolling.

In London even during the rush hour you get a seat when you are disabled or pregnant.

In Tokyo you end up pregnant when you enter the train:

https://noisebreak.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/07/oshiya.jpg
Please refrain from making those misleading statements. One can easily prove you wrong by disabling constant hoisting and CSE and showing it significantly slows down practical code(JSON parsing, gzip). I actually worked on CSE today and had benchmarks differ by +/- 30% just from that. All on a new Alder Lake. Your post is wrong and misleading.
> the fact that in the UK you can buy a ticket at any station to go to any arbitrary station A from any arbitrary station B (notwithstanding the complexity of determining the best price).

Mostly true, but not universally so - try Denton -> Manchester Piccadilly ;)

</pedantry>
No it's not. Why does it matter if a 4 year old doesn't know what a vegetable is? 4 year old don't know what a bank is, or how many days are in a year, why does it matter? If the sample was only 7 year old kids i would agree, but this sample is irrelevant.
Starlink's prices now take into consideration the buying power of each country. For example, it costs ~$55 in Czechia and ~$41 in Hungary.
I thought it was his old man
Easy to solve: Thursday is the middle of the week, Wednesday is the middle of the workweek.
>Source: American Chemical Society

Yikes.

Meanwhile, nobody has been able to replicate those results in the 10+ years since then, I wonder why.

>As for "hookup culture" that sounds like something largely made up by conservative pundents and you are describing it as a real thing.

Many liberals don't think glorifying hedonism is a good thing. I guess I'm open to hear the argument though, so what is the advantage for society to promote hook-up culture? What good comes from that vs the alternative?
> "Abseil's Open Source Hashtables: 2 Years In"

URL seems to be https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JZE3_0qvrMg ?
Per-person statistics mean literally nothing when we're talking about a global problem that doesn't care about man-made boundaries.

edit: to elaborate, if I was allowed to immigrate to China I'd lower my per-capita emissions overnight and be a better citizen in the world. Or if Canada allowed mass immigration and tripled our population our per-capita would drop like a rock. Except I highly doubt it works that way and would solve climate change...
I hope to god noone does this.

You are flirting with having your entire google account disabled. As this may end up un-personing you, I would suggest strongly taking another route.
I'm pretty sure I've seen someone making Cocaine Turkey on the internet, NyQuil Chicken doesn't even surprise me at this point
>1. Train stations across the UK are gorgeous

Yes, strategically we basically stopped investing Rail Infrastructure in the late Victorian era. So yes, everythin is very picturesque.

>In my experience, looking up schedules, booking tickets, reserving seats and travelling by train was all as straightforward as can be.

You clearly haven't ever bought a ticket. £30 please, unless you want to travel after 10am, then it'll be 25, oh wait you want to go via Reading that'll be 40. Haha, you got through the barrier tapping your oyster card? That doesn't work out here!

>Avanti West Coast and LNER are the pick of the bunch in this regard as both offer quality hot meals and free-flowing drinks in first class, including beer, wine and strong alcohol.

Yes, when you buy a train ticket the cost of a 3 bed semi, they've got some margin. The idea of traveling first class is unheard off for brits.

>4. The UK has two great sleeper trains

The UK, a country where you could name about 30 destinations that would deserve decent sleeper routes, has two. This sums up the Caledonian sleeper:https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2022/jul/22/passenger-sp...

>5. Train travel in the UK can be expensive, but..

I live in a commuter town to London, I spend more on a single ticket to work than a months unlimited travel on German railways.

>7. Platforms are announced late

Specifically, they're announced far later than they need to be. If you see the 9:15 train to Maidenhead hasn't announced the platform yet, go have a look at the arrivals. Becuase there's almost certianly an arrival at 9:03 from Maidenhead on platform 4. Guess what.

>9. Railway employees are amazing

Yeah, brits actually know this. It's only politicians and millionaire corporate execs that don't.
Personally I find column-style layout to be more difficult on the web. Though probably just due to lack of familiarity.

As one example, the "Golf with your Friends" subreddit always throws me for a loop due to its use of columns. I have no idea how to read it!

https://old.reddit.com/r/GWYF/

Note this example will only work on a widescreen desktop browser.
>What's your solution?

I don't need solutions to problems I don't have.

If people find it hard to read long lines on my website they can make their browser window thinner. I don't feel compelled to impose my reading abilities (or lack thereof) on them.
I think the current estimate for the direct cost of reusing a Falcon 9 is at most $30m and potentially as low as $15m (there's a lot of fixed costs so getting a "true" price for this would be hard even if you had access to the same data SpaceX does).
That helps. I don't necessarily agree, but it's definitely interesting!
> IANAL, but how are Instagram and WhatsApp allowed to operate in Iran? Do embargoes not apply to online services?

That's a pretty good point, actually.

> I'd love to see companies such as Google and Apple implement optional mesh networking as an over-the-air update to their phones in order to help people communicate during times like this.

The tech isn't really there yet. It's both a hardware (BT doesn't reach far enough) and a software problem.

You don't just "casually" implement a global mesh-based network without a careful and quite explicit system design involving HW and SW in tandem.

Nevermind the largest problem: How do you prioritize traffic in a distributed, fair and and scalable way, on nodes that you can't trust, once the mesh network gets really popular?
You are right, a cloud storage would make things a tad saver. Personally, I made a point in not putting anything in the cloud, especially none of the big providers, since I value my privacy and just don't trust any o those companies.
Sorry, you're right, my bad. People are actually writing compound arithmetic assignment ops on volatiles, huh.