skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
At least where I live, the 150 minutes before time is a side effect of Covid. A lot of airport staff were let go and restaffing with security clearances takes a while.

This summer was exceptional, it will go back to normal like 60 minutes for domestic travel and maybe 90 minutes for international travel.

Break even, time wise, here is around 500 km and then train is the better choice.
But there are a lot of destinations that can only be served realistically by airplanes and that is not likely to change much during my life time.
Do any of you use emacs org mode/org-roam and share todo's/tasks with other people, e.g. in the family?

If so, how do you do it?
Not everyone starts out with this in mind though.

Many legacy codebase don't have an easy way to add schema and make code changes so you end up maintaining a separate file to avoid making changes in the codebase.
An advantage with the traditional box characters is that you get consistent 0.5 character margins and paddings.

In the example, there's obligatory 1 character vertical margin and horizontal padding (or vice versa). If you want consistence, you have to add one character of vertical padding and horizontal margin, or if you allow "rounded" (missing) corners, I suppose you could have margin in all directions and no padding.
Driver liability should never be lost. Trusting a marketing campaign to not kill someone is a (bad) choice, that that user must be liable for. They are still driving the car; recklessly. It's their job to be in control of these megajoules.

Conventionally, drivers are liable on the physics level... because they have skin in the game. When I pass another car on a 2 lane road at 100mph+ relative velocity, we both (conventionally) have a strong incentive to not mess up.

That's a feature. Same goes (unfortunately) for people who make life or death decisions based on marketing campaigns.

All that said while skipping over the elephant, which is that they do not work; for fundamental reasons:
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33221575
> ended up having to pay $5k.

Still outrageous. In Spain you pay 300 euro a month and in Lithuania it’s like 50 per month. So what you paid buys years of insurance on its own.
So that's why it always looked so weird in my case, with all asterisks but one being colored white like normal text. Apparently this feature doesn't always work as intended.

At least there's another plugin which replaces the asterisks with a single symbol per heading.
Including "how many" triggers an instant answer for sure.

Instant answer crawler tries to answer that question by parsing some site, fails in an unexpected way.

That'd be my theory.
Ugh. That happened to me when I dated a Chinese girl. She poisoned us both. I was too young and callow to put my foot down.
I lìve in Europe and I have traveled maybe 10 times in my life travelling between euro countries. It's nice for city trips, but it's way more expensive than by car. And once you need to be outside of a city a train is not very convenient.
Some back story and previous discussion https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32536808
It's great to have people comment on their own post to explain the motivation behind.
Thanks for trying it out!

The frontend is built with Svelte. This was my first time using the framework and I found their website super helpful: https://svelte.dev/docs

Used Mapbox API and geolib (https://github.com/manuelbieh/geolib/) for building routes and for other geospatial tasks.

"Talkie" was built with simple-peer (https://github.com/feross/simple-peer) and WebRTC. Great tutorial can be found on MDN: https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/Guide/API/WebRT...

On the backend I use Vercel's serverless functions which are mostly acting as trivial proxies for various open API's.

Feel free to email me if you need more info.
I'm amazed at the specificity of some excuses.

I got "a road vehicle colliding with a bridge earlier on this train's journey", and (forgot the actual text) "a bicycle on the rail earlier on this train's journey".
The background here is that someone did a FOI request for the announcement audio, crowdsourced transcriptions, and various things have been built on top of it.

Related previous posts:

“Ambient Scotrail Beats – Relax to Scottish train announcements over low-fi beats” - from the original FIO requester, covers details of background and crowd sourcing:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32535491

“Hacking around with the ScotRail audio announcements” - this “datasette” from the creator of Datasette Simon Willison:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32536808

(Slight aside Datasette is an awesome tool for publishing and exploring these sort of datasets)
Ask HN: What does it means to be more curious?
"Be more curious" is one of the most common piece of advice given in engineering.

But what does that actually means ?
Curiosity is tied to an emotion. I don't have a problem learning things I'm genuinely interested in, because I won't struggle to dig in those things, I won't stop for as long as I feel that my understanding is wrong/incomplete, and once my curiosity is satisfied, I'll feel something satisfying which'll make it easy for my brain to remember what I've learned.

It's a process deeply tied with our emotions, which is I don't understand why people usually recommend to just "Ask (yourself) more questions" about a thing, or to "Try to be interested" into something, "Train yourself to be more curious" or other similar advices.

I can ask myself 1000 questions about fashion in the middle ages, but I'd likely forget 99% of what I've learned, because ultimately, I couldn't care less about this topic, and faking an interest in that wouldn't make me feel things.

There also doesn't seem to be a correlation between how curious someone think they are, and how curious they actually are.

So those of HN who genuinely "hacked" their curiosity, how did you do it ? How to be curious about the things I wish I was interested in ?
I’m interested to know how I might be twisting the data in my favour.

I’m totally okay with not debating it; we’re all allowed to make our own choices.
I don't think this filter works correctly since no record existed before that, so google still returns emojipedia result.

Check:

https://www.google.com/search?q=google%20before%3A1969-12-31

this one works:

https://www.google.com/search?q=google+before%3A2006-12-31
As someone who has made this trip countless times, London-Edinburgh is sluggish. The UK's only true high-speed network is the Eurostar from London ('HS1'), under the channel.

Paris-Marseilles in 3.5 hours is a better comparator.
Effective Activist (2018) [pdf]
Warpd: A modal keyboard-driven virtual pointer
There are a lot of things here that I don't understand:

- The issues around semiconductor manufacturing.

- How Chinese politics work.

- How the big Chinese manufacturing hubs like Shenzhen work. The exports are spectacular, so I suspect they're incubating capitalists.

But what I do know is China is ~1 billion people, is moving in to being a country with some savings and is really getting the hang of high technology (eg, Huawei is the cutting edge of telecoms and it is going to shock everyone in a decade that they are at the cutting edge of nuclear tech as their reactor program keeps chugging along).

If they are seriously challenged to a tech war, we are relying on the Chinese government to defeat the Chinese people. It isn't possible to intellectually starve out a country that big, especially not in the age of the internet. They can achieve miracles in 20 years.
GPUs are all about array processing.

I wonder if APL-like languages (or their variants with more verbose syntax, like numpy) make any inroads in that space.
Can you give me five examples of someone losing their livelihood (homeless, still has no income, etc.) that were plausibly not justified? Bonus points if they are not a celebrity accused of sexual misconduct.
I want to use the web and do a lot of other things on my computer.
I don't want to have to avoid a lot of things just because people tend to make abusive software.

> Others (both users and website creators) are free to make their own decisions.

I don't know how much of a free decision it is when the user can't know or control what the code is doing.
Which in turn need that Linuxes that they support also support io_uring. This world turns slowly.
High recommend the Digikey tutorial for KiCad as well: https://m.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLEBQazB0HUyR24ckSZ5u05T...
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Miss one flight and you won’t bet on this again; because unlike trains you’ll be waiting 6-12 hours (or longer) for a re-booked flight.
I'm curious if we can weaponize this to take down google. lol.

Not that we should... but curiosity does lead to some interesting finds sometimes.
it's sad that in your eyes federated is tied to techie.
Think, most browsers limit number of peers to 256. Not sure what happens after exceeding the limit. Never tested, honestly.

Having 256 people on a call must be a crazy experience, but the app only connects you to other drivers in vicinity, the radius is about 100 km.
Some of the photos are not taken from the road, which I love, but they all come from the same API.
A startup I worked for in Ontario was very particular about not letting us be called Software Engineers in any company communication unless we held an Eng degree. I wonder if the sentiment has changed since then (5 years ago)
Depends. Certain varieties like penny bun can taste superb, and in most areas you're extremely unlikely to confuse them with anything poisonous or even inedible.
it seems like we are stuck with UTF-16-alikes until we manage to get rid of JavaScript, Java, and Windows
I don't think the problems with German rail apply universally. The prevalence of low-speed tracks and frequency of delays comes from a period of missing reinvestment following the (semi-)privatization of Deutsche Bahn. Not every network will have this issue.
The wikipedia article seems to suggests that gamma ray bursts are actually believed to occur in beams of 5-20 degrees in width.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gamma-ray_burst#Energetics_and...
Currently there is no accessible way to reset. You can try run "reset()" from the console though.
> a rail station has quite a limited capacity

most new&large airports are far outside of cities (example: Munich, Frankfurt, Berlin, ...) because of the enormous space needed and environmental problems is creates. Nearer airports will close operating at 10pm, whereas train stations will operate 24h no problem.

Large projects for new train stations/systems in major cities (Hamburg-Altona, Stuttgart, ...) take a long time, but they exist. Large new airport projects near (!) major cities here in Germany don't exist.

> Most of the German trains are slower than 300kph most of the time.

That's because Germany has dense population regions and there always will be stops in cities and a lot of passengers. It's an optimization question. Being able to run a train system with max 300kmph is much more expensive than at 250kmph and the advantages are not that huge.

> They are also often crowded, delayed or outright cancelled. They are also quite expensive, compared to planes.

Planes are always crowded with a tiny personal space, difficult to board/leave, difficult to work in, difficult to reach, subject to a complex passage on an airport with all its rules&regulations, longer upfront booking, ...

For example when I want to travel from Hamburg to Düsseldorf (400km) on wednesday morning, the price is around 35 Euros incl. local public transport tickets with my Bahncard 50 which I got from the company. There is no flight like that.

Hamburg/Munich: >600km. Already too long for a business trip by train. Cost 60€ with Bahncard 50 incl. local public transport tickets. Time: 6:30 center to center. Flight: much more expensive, unreliable (I remember been waiting on friday evening two hours on the runway for the start), Munich airport is 40km outside, the Munich airport has long transit times. Time from city center to city center by flight is around four hours. The travel costs about three times as much.

> Most of the German trains are slower than 300kph most of the time. They are also often crowded, delayed or outright cancelled. They are also quite expensive, compared to planes.

For certain longer trips, but if I want from Hamburg to Berlin, Frankfurt, ... I take the train.

> especially if it's inside the city

That's great: with an ICE I want to reach the city center and not some airport 40km outside (like in Munich). I want to be in a big hub where all the local transports are reachable.

High-Speed trains here are connecting centers of a large local public transport system: local trains, underground trains, busses, ferries, ... When I travel by train between Hamburg and another major city, the tickets for much of the local transport systems for the start end destination cities are already included.
I couldn't agree more. Most of the members of the team here will most likely vest as well, and the way employee performance can affect vesting is very much a relevant question to them.

To go back one step, saying a manager must decide alone otherwise it's an escape from responsibility is quite a bizarre claim to make. Making a decision without consulting your team, when your goal is to establish trust, will 100% backfire. It will come back to haunt you EVEN if people agreed with the decision, simply because that decision was taken arbitrarily. That such important decisions could be arbitrary, without meaningful involvement of the team, signals to the team that they are all at the mercy of such future arbitrary decisions. Finally, consulting the team does not mean that the decision is carried by everyone. A consensus should be sought, and the founder would be foolish to make such a decision against his team, but ultimately, the founder is in charge of the final decision and will bear the responsibility for it.
My guess: when you search, google fires up several background processes/threads for that query.

Not only search, but also for a quick answers, maps, ads. These services might be slower than the search query or a max response time, in which case they get ignored.

When the search query finished, they might wait a few milliseconds for the other services, if it’s still under the target response time. After that google will render the results with all info that completed.

My guess is that one of these services crashes, most likely the main search one. This way you can wait forever for it to finish.

So it’s probably a bug in the way it’s yielding/waiting for the spawned processes.

Other option is that for certain processes they don’t spawn a background process, because it’s faster to run locally/direct/in-memory, because the data is quite small and just rums on every node.
they’d start this after spawning the other processes, so if this service returns an error, it might screw up the yielding/waiting/collecting, although I’d expect an exception/error page instead of the indefinite waiting that’s happening
Backer?
Startpage, which uses Google's search API, returns no results for this query [1], so it may not be an issue relating to Instant Answers.

[1]: https://www.startpage.com/sp/search?query=how+many+emojis+on...
Bread in the past contained stones and sand. As a result most people in the past had very poor teeth. The diet people had in the past lacked a lot of ingredients. As a result most people developed poorly.
Processed food is not necessary bad. Its probably better than its ancient alternatives.
There is at least one Australian sparkling that has a beer-bottle-top style seal.
One reason a lot of wine bottles have plastic stoppers or screw tops is that cork tree habitats in Portugal have been shrinking. Also cork trees are slow to grow so it's hard to ramp up production quickly. And using cork for one time use packaging (wine bottle stoppers) is maybe not the most sustainable use of the material.
It should also leave every 20 mins with no late penalty (lots of spare capacity) so that you don't have to get there early just in case. That "buffer" standing around is also a waste of time. We invent a way to get there super fast and then we have to optimise it to the point where we have to get there an hour early to make it work reliably.. because a traffic jam or security delay can destroy everything.
> I’ve never heard of a company actually using it

Depending on your definition of "company" and "actually using it", https://oven.sh might qualify?
Also check out Smithy from AWS (https://github.com/awslabs/smithy), the code it generates is much better. It's influenced by the new AWS SDKs so it has generator support for Rust.
It's easier to just eat your competition's babies. That's the adaptation that evolved when scientists ran the limited-resources experiment with insects.
Good point. The same kinds of technologies that allow us to make use of the travel time allow us to not travel at all.. two prong strategy
Most if not all of the features you listed are also possible with Markdown (though unfortunately different tools & parsers slightly disagree on the syntax).
What sets org-mode apart is the interactivity: time tracking, code execution right in the file etc. Though of course if you're already an Emacs user the choice is still pretty clear.

Right now I'm trying out Obsidian, with a plugin it has kanban boards using Markdown in the background. Which is the one kind of feature I've missed for a long time: actual 2d representation of content instead of keeping it limited to linear text files, sometimes vertical lists just aren't quite enough.
We had this middle ground of returning html fragments and updating subsections of the page. For posting a comment, for example.

There were plenty of sites doing that in the mid 2000s.
Getting the following now:

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Please try again later.
But the flip side is train travel is often 10 or 20 times more expensive than flying, so only worth doing if you can expense it IMO (or you get some huge off-peak super saver special one-time discount or whatever)

The standard off-peak walk-up fare (i.e. the maximum you will ever pay) between London-Edinburgh is £82, and the peak-time fare is £176. Cheaper if you book a couple of weeks in advance.

It can cost less than this to fly sometimes, but in practice not by that much unless you’re doing awkwardly-timed no-baggage Ryanair flights from Stanstead or whatever.

I have done that trip hundreds of times over the years and I think I’ve only ever flown when engineering works made it in feasible to take the train. Usually it’s no competition.
Amtrak is you just walk on, unless they've changed it since last year. One time the conductor even let me bring a bicycle on against the rules.
Is the US Federal Government a democracy if the will of the people and political decisions negatively correlate?

https://www.bbc.com/news/blogs-echochambers-27074746
The original Apple Card:

https://aresluna.org/attached/computerhistory/ads/internatio...

*note: you must be a homeowner to finance a Macintosh.

(fine print at bottom of page)
Not quite. Initially, it gets general direction, say the West Coast. Then, depending on vehicle choice, it has a list of preferred waypoint categories. After arriving to a waypoint it makes a decision where to go next.

For example, if you picked a camper van, your next stop may be a gas station (for snacks), after that it may decide to head for an RV-park, then for some natural attraction and so on.
Afaik the goal was perfect laps to beat humans. I could never find information of what happens when it has to account for other drivers.
Has common usage subsumed any geography-based xenophobia into the word “racism”?

(Not that any xenophobia is particularly better than any other, but it’s difficult to talk to people when they use broader meanings for words you thought meant very specific thing. See also terrorism vs insurgency, genocide vs occupation, etc.)
Not sure why I got downvoted but whatever
It doesn’t matter what the app intends to do. You should not under any circumstances identify mushrooms without loudly and clearly spelling out specific dangers.
Must be :(
The answer is very simple actually. Railroad is a cheap and primitive tech and doesn't support anything high speed. Several advancements are pushing track quality toward faster speed and toward the point of convergence where it will cease to be cheap.
The latest rounds of sanctions seems to have been extended to protect in particular Qualcomm and Micron.

Qualcomm by preventing Chinese fabless design houses such as unisoc in creating high end arm socs for mobile phones. And Micron by targeting YMTC.
According to this https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32393051 , a couple years ago people were getting the "We're sorry but it appears that there has been an internal server error while processing your request. Our engineers have been notified and are working to resolve the issue." and it was because of a fireball?
While a TCP socket needs to be created with specific flags to enable multipath, there is a tool that wraps existing applications and “upgrades” the socket calls on the fly: https://manpages.ubuntu.com/manpages/jammy/man8/mptcpize.8.h...