skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> Roughly, if you have much more people than guns, these people, however brave, don't have any more guns to man, and making them fight with spears is pointless.

Russia's experience in WW2 is a counter-example: have a line of 5+ guys, the first guy gets the gun, and the entire group charge forward. When the front man is inevitably shot the second guy picks up the gun and the group continues forward.

Having more men allows one to wage a war of attrition.

* https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Attrition_warfare

Works best when one doesn't care about casualty numbers.
this is the most amazing piece of software I've seen in a while
I wish the UK would do something like this. Our rail prices are the stuff of nightmares.
In the US, I'm about 45 miles from the nearest large city where I worked (many days) fairly briefly. I'd be about $400-500/month for commuter rail, commuter rail parking, and in-city transit passes. But the reality is that I'd be something close to $40/day driving (plus any parking) even given that I owned the car anyway.

I always took the train unless I was doing something in the evening--in which case the train was a poor option in general. (Once you got out of commuting hours there were only a few trains for the rest of the night.)
> How about we get a single return fare (even restricting to realistic commutes, not whole country) down to €49 before we worry about multiple use!

Nah, we're just getting rid of return fares instead :-)
Looks more like ~20% post-ban.[1][2][3]

[1] https://chainbulletin.com/bitcoin-mining-map/

[2] https://www.cnbc.com/2022/05/18/china-is-second-biggest-bitc...

[3] https://worldcoin.org/articles/china-crypto-ban
Let's see if this will have a noticeable impact on university enrollments. Personally, I know a few people who re-enrolled after finishing university, including one person who even got a PhD, solely to get the ticket for their full-time job.

It would not surprise me if universities experience a significant drop in enrollment due to this issue, especially at larger universities. An article from 2019 estimates that at one university, up to 9k out of 36k students may enroll without any academic intention.
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35029186
Oh, here we go again. Yet another project that offers 0.0001% of the functionality of a Bloomberg Terminal(or one of it's genuine competitors) marketing itself with a clear comparison. I wish people would stop doing this, it just makes them look stupid in the eyes of anyone that has actually used one.
This wasn't run with a large enough sample size to be statistically valid.
Half-wave vs full-wave was a common error.
I just witnessed someone having a discussion about medical conditions... so yeah.

But in that sense, it's not more dangerous than misguided Internet for rooms forums, (which are regulated?)
As an outsider, I am now wondering about how cool would an APL variant be, where you composed new words based in a set of out of the box syllables! Haha
How do use the stock screener to, for example, screen for stocks that are under 200 million in market cap, have 20 million is revenue and gross margins of 20%? I couldn’t make sense of how the subcommand works.
I’m skeptical given that reducing your colleague’s cost from around 1000€/mo all-in (inc. parking) to 200€/mo wasn’t enough that a further reduction to 50€/mo will tip the scales.
The Cuis developers are working on a great introductory book that I’m working through:
https://cuis-smalltalk.github.io/TheCuisBook/
We still have massive subsidies for providing leased new cars, mostly selected from German car manufacturers, to employees (about 3 bn per year [1]).

Few people in the upper middle class and above will use public transport instead of their car, if it's provided by their employer.

The results from the 9€ Ticket also indicate that people aren't using their car that less often. They are just using the ticket to do additional journeys [2].

But I suppose that having this ticket available for longer than 3 months will motivate some households to get rid of/ not purchase a second car. Also, it will probably convince younger adults in metropolitan areas (like me) to not buy a car - or to delay it until it's needed for family reasons.

[1]: https://www.exberliner.com/politics/red-flag-why-we-should-b...
[2]: https://www.iamexpat.de/expat-info/german-expat-news/9-euro-...
Rust supports downcasting via the Any trait.
Slightly off topic but why did we end up with floats as the standard?

Surely some kind of fixed point format would be better for a lot of use cases?

I suppose at this point we're kind of locked in but it seems to me you could have instructions on the processor to do maths where a lower register is below the decimal point so an add would be

ADD {R1 R2 }{R3 R4}

You wouldn't need all new silicon for a FP unit. And these could be used for doing double width math aswell.
> AMD K6-2 processor (300 or 450 MHz)

In the early 2000s I worked for a streaming media company where most of the desktops were AMD K6-2 450s. Except mine, because I splashed out and bought a Duron 700 with 256MB of RAM which I soon upgraded to 512MB, and fitted an ATI Rage 128 Pro, with the thick purple dangly-dongle for AV connections, and a FireWire card for capturing DV. Quite the beast for running Adobe Premiere 4!
I used them for a TUI game. Could've used some Unicode characters too.
is squirrels

And frogs. They get into transformer boxes, junction boxes and apparently are highly conductive. I had to replace a half a mile of 4ot cable as a teen and the people I worked for were too cheap to rent a back-hoe. So I was the back-hoe.
Apart from the significant cost savings for people that use local public transport a lot the biggest benefit is probably that it removes a lot of the unnecessary complexity around buying tickets for many people. The German public transport network is divided into many small providers with different tickets and rules. This can make it rather confusing and annoying at times.
because some idioms, such as closures, make code much more short and reasonable and readable
That's actually a cool thing in my region (Aachen) that I didn't see before: you can get the yearly subscription, billed monthly, and cancelable monthly. If you have it for 2 years and 3 months, you'll end up paying 2 yearly amounts and the last 3 months are converted into a monthly subscription so you pay a bit more on the last installment (something like 5% more for each month that wasn't a full year). Why a monthly subscription exists and is purchasable, when you can also get the yearly straight away and see for how long you want it, I don't know, that's the only quirk really, otherwise this seems ideal/fair/flexible.

(All this goes out the window with the 50 euro flat fee monthly subscription of course; this thing was 90 euros a month and didn't even cover the state, let alone the country.)
> I'm talking about people who used cross-sex hormones and surgery to alter their bodies.

Then why on Earth did you cite the statistic of “10% of children”… 10% of children have not used cross-sex hormones or surgery to alter their body.
Wikipedia page for elephant bird: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Elephant_bird
I read the article far enough to confirm that it’s too biased to be taken seriously; I’m commenting more from the general high-level discussion of AI and labor.

The advances you mention wiping out software divisions: if you apply that to robotics, half of the workers in the world will be out of work.

This kind of thing is very far off, yes? (Which, in my opinion, makes your comment a tad bit nonsense in and of itself.)

I personally enjoy trying to get ChatGPT+ to try to write code for me. It’s really bad. It’s like a junior dev who can piece together puzzles you spend more time creating than it would take to do yourself. There’s really a paradigm shift between now and functional software-writing AI.

You’re implying technology will exist where it doesn’t currently exist, not that current tech will be rearranged. I feel you’re predicting the future in a almost-as-ridiculous way. I personally stick to the (perhaps oversimplified) notion that software will be the last industry to be replaced by AI.
That is an amazing resource!! Thanks for sharing!
i find this the most appealing aspect of the new ticket, that it competes with and underbids the local and regional monthly tickets. i expect in the long term many of these local offers will disappear or drastically be reduced in price.

i remember some time ago when i lived in NRW the monthly ticket for the city i was in was open to all of NRW on weekends which i thought was awesome. and now the whole country for the same price, that just adds so much more flexibility especially for those commuting across regional borders.
Germany is a small country, area-wise. You can reach large parts well with regional trains which are included in the ticket.
Chemical cosh? Come again? Not heard that term before.

Like drugging up old people on opiates or something?
It's pretty easy to find vendors if you go lurking web fora. I recommend the one that only operates over email.
Even with bin/cue format, last I tried, it didn't support audio tracks. See this forum thread that talks about it. https://misterfpga.org/viewtopic.php?t=2189

It might have changed but I haven't seen anything about that in the change log and the repo still says "Currently only data portion of CD is supported. "
Also in the news recently was a legal decision that was written using chatgpt.[1] That has the serious potential to change lives, if not end them.

[1] - https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2023/feb/03/colombia-...
It's not that impressive if you consider that the current government in Germany is driving a massive de-industrialization campaign. Destroying the own car industry fits well in the agenda.
> Should I have a leg up over everyone because I am good at what it tested?

Yes, that’s a feature not a bug. The SAT doesn’t test randomly. It is designed to test for specific subjects and knowledge in those subjects.

I’ve SAT is not fun but I think it’s purpose is to fairly test all takers and rank them to assist with allocating educational resources.

It’s such an odd question to ask “should I get a leg up because I got an A in chemistry and someone else got a C?” There are many reasons that make trades hard to get. But the idea is to compensate for them as best as possible and not dwell on the fact that any merit system will not be completely fair.
Report it to your bank, get an immediate reimbursement and smile knowing your evil bank lost a few bucks.
Why would it be desirable to have pensioners pay less and tourists pay more?

I imagine this model will attract quite a bit of additional tourists (without their annoying cars), which is a good thing (for most cities).
Ok, you better have a car then?
Whats the point of this comment? You're obviously an extreme outlier. Are you implying the 49€ ticket is bad because it isn't an improvement for every single citizen?
IIRC Intel consumer CPU target 5 years (or is it 3? Not sure and the info is not public) at 30% duty cycle.

Of course lots of CPU make it for longer, but 10 years is certainly not a design target.
My T430s is still going strong.
What's needed to close the loop are unit tests written by chatgpt.
There are unfortunately too many people in Germany, who will struggle even with 49€, though it is a huge improvement for many. I am thinking mostly about retired people with a small pension, which struggle to just pay for food towards the end of the month. For them, the 9€ ticket was a game-changer, I hope there will be some support programs to make the 49€ ticket available for all retired people. The fact, that it covers regional trains all over Germany means a lot for their mobility.
> Cord blood banking is a process of collecting potentially life-saving stem cells from the umbilical cord and placenta and storing them for future use. Stem cells are immature cells that can assume the form of other cells.

Didn’t known they used cord blood to get stem cells. Has any progress been made to what they can do with them? I’ve been hearing about stemcells for over 10 years now at least.
Longtime mailhog user here; this looks like a nice improvement for cold start developer environments! Another option in the same space (emphasis container size) is https://github.com/inbucket/inbucket
It include any trips using regional trains or city public transport (so, broadly, any train with an "R" or "S" in the name). That includes travel between cities, but it won't include the fast intercity trains (IC, ICE, EC) that most people use to travel longer distances.

So essentially you can get across most of Germany with this ticket, but for longer distances you'd probably be looking at a significantly longer and more complicated journey than if you just took a more direct intercity route.
> But the Deutschlandticket is not the end of the story: to make it still more attractive, German Rail is also planning to introduce more modern and faster trains. According to the Federal Ministry of Transport, this will create almost 20,000 new seats on long-distance services.

The mentioned trains are ICE long-distance trains. Exactly those that are not included in the ticket the article is about. It does not make sense to even mention them here, and is wrong to conclude that "it" gets more attractive.
> Im standing about 300km from the nearest passenger rail setvice

Well in germany if you stand in the center of it you're literally 300km away from almost every single train station of the country.

Trains work for dense countries, if you live in the middle of nowhere in Northern canada or some shit you're obviously not the target
Fair, but I think people are not good in looking at the big picture. The old price was in the ballpark of the costs people notice (gas). But the proof is in the pudding, so we will see.
I will buy this. Current ticket costs 165€ a month. My employer is forcing to come to the office 4 days a week. Living at the last train station I will get a seat in a train and can use my commute time as working time. By car it’s twice faster of course, but then commute time isn’t working time.
Feels like my entire life my "willpower" stat has been near zero. I find it so unbelievably difficult to do things I "have" to do. And yet for things that for some reason I have intrinsic motivation for, I will stay up past 4am without effort to do more of it. No, ritalin or whatever don't help, they just turn me into a zombie with a dry mouth and a headache.

I recently had to quit my job because I wasn't performing well. I could see the writing on the wall and decided to leave before getting fired. I just could never be assed to pick up the stupid tickets. I don't care about php, I don't care about their legacy codebase, I don't care about their bugs. Literally couldn't bring myself to do these tasks.
I can think of many valid reasons for not wanting to use Windows. Religion ain’t one of them.
New analysis of ancient human protein could unlock secrets of evolution
* It’s inefficient. Eligibility must only be confirmed once while ticket control happens often. Ticket control needs to be fast.
* Training all inspectors to verify student IDs is much more effort compared to training people at point of sale only.
* Many places also accept tickets with student badge instead of student IDs for verification.

This is probably also the reason we don’t get discounted 49€-tickets yet. They’re sold digitally so they can’t check the student ID at point of sale.

A digital student ID could improve this but implementing this internationally is hard.
Just wait until efforts to improve the accuracy and usefulness of LLMs by implementing conceptual understanding in the models rather than pure language construction, maybe including physical interactions with the world as part of the training process, trigger a legitimate debate as to whether these things are conscious. Now that will make justice to the real singularity.
> I even checked my electricity 'pen' reader on an HDMI at work to see if it was the reader. It's not the pen. It's my wires.

Ah… there it is. Stop using those; use an actual multimeter.

See, the problem with measuring voltage is that you really need two points of reference: you’re really measuring the voltage potential between two separate points.

When you say your HDMI is live, what does that mean? Relative to what? Are you talking about the grounded shielding, or one of other conductors?

This individual is waving around a no-contact A/C voltage detector. These can be useful indicators in the right hands, but they’re just estimation devices. They’re prone to false positives and negatives.

If you wave one near an HDMI or coax cable, there’s a good chance it’s going to beep and turn red.

That being said, if you see your lights getting brighter on the regular (rather than dimmer), your neutral is probably going bad, and that can be quite dangerous. Call your electric company and/or an electrician if you see that. It’s not going to stop your coax and HDMI from showing as live when you wave a death stick near it, though; they are live, at least from the perspective of a no-contact voltage tester.
It was a single person office that acted as a black box between traders. He had aBloomberg terminal to do it all.
I was expecting it to be like P5 but worse (why would you use Rust for that kind of coding?? do I actually care about memory safety in my sketches?) Shockingly the code looks totally reasonable! Im very impressed.

I guess there is a lot of copy happening under the hood (cf the source for Draw) but the result is a very straightforward syntax. I might give it a try instead of going back to P5.
At one point, I had a 90-minute one-way some-days commute. Even though that included an only few minute drive to the train station, that wasn't really sustainable long-term. It's just a big chunk out of your day even if driving was mostly a worse option.
Is dptfxtract still needed?

The thermald man page says this:

> In some newer platforms the auto creation of the config file is done by a companion tool "dptfxtract". This tool can be downloaded from "https://github.com/intel/dptfxtract". It is suggested as parts of the install process, run dptfxtract.

The dptfxtract gibthub project (https://github.com/intel/dptfxtract) says Intel discontinued the project.
Side note it’s xe or they or she rather than he. See https://xeiaso.net/pronouns
I use a 4k Windows machine for development, recently started using a Macbook Air 13" for browsing and also testing my own websites, it works great, not only for testing different screen sizes but also for getting some insight into what people using a different OS/Browser/Device feel when navigating my apps. I tried online device testing/simulation, but it's not the same as physically using the device yourself on a daily basis.
I guess it will have a small effect. There are more reasons for a „fake enrollment“ than just the ticket.

- child support money

- free public health insurance

- private insurance is often also related to „kids being in education“

Especially if the kid under 25 just wants to travel around, play fortnight at home or work on the next big thing.

My bachelor programme (maths + cs in a small German city) pretty much only exists due to that. Great student/tutor ratio because most only enroll for the student status (low fees, no public transport ticket).
We can conclude that people are bidding into the state's unwillingness to repossess real estate for the period they intend to hold themselves onto it. It's a sucker's game of hot potato where nobody is allowed to say just how fucking hot the potato is.
> That definition would apply to almost anything software produces

Not really. The reason software can be copyrighted at all is because the actual code (and resulting object code) is creative. Courts have named this threshold the "Structure, sequence and organization" of the work. ML models don't follow any creative SSO the way actual code does.

> Also the output of ML seems to belong to whoever pressed the generate button atm.

The output, it seems to me, is uncopyrightable. Copyright only cares about who provides the creativity for the work at issue, not who put in the effort to make it happen. You may own the copyright to your prompt, but the result is generated entirely by the AI and thus lacks human autorship.
I’m from US and periodically visit Netherlands for work; on my most recent trip, some local colleagues dropped me at the train station for the ride to AMS. They kindly asked me if I knew how to buy the tickets and were shocked when I said I just my OV card. Neither had one (which I thought was equally surprising).
Germany is only slightly larger than a circle with radius 300 km.
When VR gets good enough it arguably won't matter that the "person" on the other end isn't "real".

Even now, as long as there are no real-life consequences to your online interaction, it already doesn't matter.
"Supposedly" is false. The sun doesn't produce cosmic ray-power particles and soft errors aren't affected by sunspot activity. It is affected by altitude and space weather, but not solar activity.

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

I was in the audience of the talk. All devices should be required to use ECC because it's a security risk. Not as much as http:// era, but silent corruption across networks and systems is a thing.
Found it out myself, it is not needed by recent thermald. The ReadMe says this:

> Thermald version 2.0 and later has in built parser for thermal tables. So this utility is not required. Make sure that thermald "--adaptive" option is used.

https://github.com/intel/dptfxtract/blob/master/README.txt
The terminal solution is handy but sometimes it fails because you could end up with a sign in link or some type of link with a very long token that wraps to multiple lines making it impossible to click.

Rails also prints emails to the terminal and has a backend solution that doesn't really send emails out but I still prefer using MailCatcher to display them in a UI (it has both amd64 and arm64 Docker support[0], real-time updates and a ~25mb compressed Docker image).

[0]: https://hub.docker.com/r/schickling/mailcatcher/tags
My take is that in many, if not most, cases people choose based on convenience and practicality unless one option is simply unaffordable.

In Europe in general affordability of public transport is not the problem so I don't expect that decreasing prices will have a big effect on use.
I think it's disingenuous to compare an online store platform to a gun manufacturer.

What I'm saying is that individual stores can track their customers however they like, but that there isn't an overall tracking system across all stores.

Shopify's selling feature is that your data is your own. Your customer data is your own and not used by Shopify. That's the competitive advantage over Amazon, who will look at your sales data and use it to compete against you.

It would be penny-wise but pound-foolish to do what you suggest.
This is a great idea in general. Yeah for cost savings for sure but the convenience of actually only having to deal with 1 ticket system around the entire country is a game changer.
Simple: this law will affect me as a software developer. Any software “made available” in Europe can be subject to this, just like with GDPR. And most open source software is designed to be “made available” anywhere!

This is the first time the developers of such free software can be hit with massive fines.

And frankly, even if that wasn’t the case, I care about human beings elsewhere.
I paid £34 one-way from London to Winchester yesterday. It's a bit more than 100km and a ~1hr ride. For 2 people doing that round trip, it's cheaper to rent a car for the day.

I also paid €30 for a plane ticket to Norway recently. How is rail so ridiculously expensive/uncompetitive here???
As an aside, that is so well written, and I love the use of inline citations that expand right where the reader is versus jumping to the bottom. It feels so natural that I wish all publications did that.
ICE has also much more comfortable seats than regional trains