skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Here is a quote from a different article with numbers (apparently self reported by Deutsche Bahn) for January 2023 for one station:

> Less construction work in cold weather normally means fewer delays. But only 71,8 percent of Deutsche Bahn trains that ran between January 1 and February 9 managed to pull into the station on time, or with a delay of no more than five minutes and 59 seconds.

https://www.iamexpat.de/expat-info/german-expat-news/2023-de...

Notice that trains which are about five minutes late are not reported as such. These included, the ratio of delayed trains might well be more than half. (Canceled trains are also sometimes not included as delayed, it is unclear if that is the case here.)
There was no compatibility problem, Google intentionally blocked the installation to avoid reviewers testing the chip. The benchmarks worked without issues when sideloaded, but not every reviewer bothered to do that.
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Sure but zoom is hipaa compliant and FaceTime is not. Apple refuses to share a business associate agreement whereas zoom shares this with paid plans. I do agree that I seriously question the security of the small telehealth platforms that cropped up during Covid though, hipaa compliant or not. I am certain apple does security significantly better than simplepractice, doxy.me, etc but it’s the regulatory piece of handling PHI. The BAA is essential to that and apple/discord/etc have made it clear through their silence after years that they don’t want to be responsible for safe data handling of phi.

Bottom line though is if your therapist is using FaceTime/discord/etc they are ignorant to hipaa protocols or not practicing ethically, both are concerning. Very frustrating from a consumer perspective because how the fuck are you supposed to know what is and isn’t hipaa compliant. It’s silly to have to research whether your clinician is using a regulatory compliant platform but here we are, I guess
it must be, the article clearly states that there is a middle man that immediately converts bitcoin in USD so Ferrari's dealers never see it, and that middle man also deals with KYC and AML stuff.
< [the EC] is totally corrupted

The corrupt politician in question, Eva Kaili, was not a vice-president of the EC, but of the European Parliament. She was elected.

That sort of undermines your argument.
Maybe they didn't maintain their own inventory, but it pretty clearly gives you contact info and pricing for ordering all the various products.

A ton of items also say "OR Whole Earth Catalog" which I think implies you could send the money to WEC and they would make the order for you?
> Desiccants aren't nearly effective enough to dehumidify something like a room.

I'm not sure this is true. There's some nasty desiccants that can work effectively, but the trouble is usually in regeneration.
then you have everything run by the equivalent of insurance companies. That would be much worse. Companies are not inherently more responsive or even more efficient.
I live near Linkedin HQ, and judging by their MASSIVE number of sprawling headquarters buildings, quite a few people do pay to use it
Yes, I'm sick of these cutesy approximations on social media as well, it screates more confusion than clarity.
In some countries one no longer has that possibility. Not everywhere has a range of banks to choose from, sometimes mergers have resulted in just a handful of banks for a country, all of which enforce use of an Android app.

Oh, it’s fsflover, the poster with the Librem idée fixe. Haven’t noticed you here in couple of years. Your comment elsewhere here about GrapheneOS not requiring much less effort to daily drive is way off. GrapheneOS runs banking apps and, in countries that legally enforce use of certain apps for ID or payment, those apps, too. Zero hoops to jump through. Meanwhile, a Librem phone (or a PinePhone) will not work.
It's nice in theory but politicians will never allow themselves to be replaced by random people, so good luck getting this implemented.
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Finding ways to cool the air down without electricity might be easier. If nights are still cold you can use thermal mass to get a long-term temperature average (kind of like your caverns). The ancient Persians combined that with evaporation cooling to create fridges. There are also specially engineered paints that radiate heat energy in very specific wavelengths that aren't absorbed by the atmosphere, breaking the equilibrium between absorption and emission of IR and cooling the material by a couple degrees.
cheaper, faster, secured lending that doesn't affect a credit score. a few minutes versus 7 - 90 business days on the consumer lending side

no arbitrary transaction limit thresholds to worry about for your large purchase

this infrastructure is inherited by all crypto currencies, or they can be easily converted to one that does

the article is about crypto not only bitcoin

but to your scenario, not everyone has a gain to worry about. if you acquired bitcoin right now to pay for something with it, there is also no gain to worry about. youd do that because thats where your liquidity is: already in other cryptos and you just bought bitcoin to pay. and of the people that only have big capital gains, not all of them care either if they wanted to purchase something, they might have to report a gain too. just saves one step of converting to USD first. they might have capital losses elsewhere they neutralize the gain.

but I think you’re missing that USDC is a big component here, they accept USDC, which does not have price fluctuations

so lets go to your discouraged speculator scenario: they can just deposit their bitcoin in a lending protocol and get USDC back within a few minutes. they have no capital gains tax event. and now can pay for their car without even needing an exchange relationship.

and for everyone else, they just already have liquidity in crypto. They already have USDC and aren’t avoiding any new tax event either.

there are also many shortsighted people that simply won’t consider the tax event. nobody’s problem but their own
If precision isn't needed, why do you need to know it was last week? Why can't the precise date be displayed for those who need it?
Both people in both cases.
The proposal in question does regulate freedom of expression, as the gp said, because it proposes monitoring all communications of citizens. So their argument is not nonsense at all.
Here’s an analogy:

Populist demagogues becoming dictators or the rise of fanatical cult ideologies are like hurricanes and tornadoes. They can start quickly, hit hard, and do a ton of damage. They are also easy to spot and there are known ways to respond to them.

Creeping bureaucratic authoritarianism and the slow erosion of democracy is like climate change. It ebbs and flows but mostly flows, but the trend is slow and on any given day it feels like everything is fine. By the time it gets bad enough to really hurt your democratic institutions are pretty far gone and the situation may not be easily recoverable.

They’re also not mutually exclusive problems. As climate change progresses you can get more and stronger hurricanes. In the same way the erosion of democracy and the growth of unchecked autocracy creates a situation that is ripe for the rise of demagogues.
The boy cries wolf once again. WTF is he referring to?
After Woke
Assuming that you're taking about liberal democracies, ambassadors and generals don't pass laws that the rest of us have to abide by.

The government cabinet has some more democratic legitimacy in so far as that they generally comprise of elected representatives.

So your statement is a non-sequitur.
You really want to insult the monarch (who -BTW- is rather powerless in the member states of the EU)? Those kind of antics rarely have any influence.
They could adopt the Swiss Direct-Democracy model. But, they wouldn't.
Where is one supposed to get fake identification passports from? Or, like, was this with the same username he was trying to hire hitmen with, so he's linking a photo of himself to the attempted murder?
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The fact that it won't live forever doesn't change the fact that a tree pulls CO2 out of the air. Nothing lasts forever. There are no silver bullets. Don't only plant trees, but plant trees nonetheless.
Exactly. A video on YouTube posted '1 month ago' is not the latest episode I'm looking for. Much quicker to interpret than a timestamp. Sometimes a fuzzy date is enough.

Especially being from Europe: it is never clear if 10/04/23 means October 4th or April 11th unless you know which date format is being used.
There are many international routes where the same train continues from Germany into Switzerland, and then possibly into other countries. Germany has gotten so unreliable that Switzerland is stopping this practice on some routes, because late German trains have a knock-on effect throughout the system.

So now, the German trains stop at the first Swiss station, when they finally arrive, and people gave to switch trains.

Germany is also years behind on their commitment to getting cargo on trains. Switzerland built a rail tunnel especially for trans-European traffic, but Germany is apparently incapable of getting cargo onto trains.

It ought to be mortally embarrassing for the supposed industrial powerhouse of Europe. But that's OK, they are building more autobahn.
I get this use case, but I don't think it's very common. Most gamers are near their gaming hardware most of the time. Gamers who travel often usually have some mobile gaming hardware already. The number of people who would game but can't because they travel often and aren't satisfied with existing mobile gaming hardware is minimal. Not zero, but not a huge untapped market either.

Personally, I game almost exclusively on a laptop (even at home.) Suppose I was unsatisfied with gaming on a laptop because only the most powerful gaming PC with graphics turned all the way up will satisfy me... would cloud gaming really be an enticing answer to somebody with such high standards? Sure the 'cloud' server could max out the graphics settings, but latency and compression would probably ruin the experience for somebody with such high standards. Now maybe my issue with laptop gaming isn't the fidelity but instead the hassle of traveling with a laptop. The convenience margin between traveling with a laptop vs an ipad isn't zero, but it's pretty small. I think this is the niche cloud gaming fits into. So cloud gaming is for people who travel often and light, who don't care about fidelity/latency but do care about saving ~1kg of weight in their carry-on bag.
That could indeed be done (and I want to make that happen at some point), but you must be aware that this is an optimization, and as such trivial unrelated code changes can make the compile times balloon because all of a sudden you added a field to a struct with a type that used to fall on the division boundary, and you went from multiple pseudo-crates to a single one. This kind of behavior is hell to debug and figure out as a user.
Wikipedia says no efforts to measure the mass of 33 Polyhymnia have been made since 2012. The scientist who estimated its mass at that time regarded the result as nonphysical and in error.

Couldn't this mass be much more accurately estimated by sending a small probe of known mass by the asteroid at a known distance and velocity, and measuring the trajectory perturbation?

I think this could be done with a 5kg radar reflector. No guidance, no comms, no onboard electronics at all. Terrestrial radar measurements of position and velocity are extremely accurate. The launch wouldn't have to achieve super accurate trajectory, just good enough to see gravitational perturbation.

Not much of a launcher needed for this. It might even work as a ride-along payload. Could be a relatively low-cost way of resolving this weird density result.
> Because it's true, right?

No, while sometimes there are barriers that take a giant leap to cross, progress tends to involveots of steps that were simple, even if time consuming to execute, once the preceding pieces were in place.
I'm one of those who would complain. I often write n+1 and n-1 without spaces. And I hate C for preventing space removal from expressions like:

*z = *x / *y;
addr = mask & &x;
x + ++y;
That's weird.

So first Vercel opensourced his app ( similar)

Then they contacted him tho drop his domain, through his private email

I'm really wondering if employees are making moves based on customer data here.

1. see noticable trend of a customer app

2. Easy to do ( hard to master)?

3. Opensource a clone

4. Let Vercel tweet about it

5. Profit

This seems bad.
Because if you're sanctioned to hell you can use Bitcoin to get around them. BitPay has been the go-to for sanctions busting for years. Even with regulators making BitPay ID mandatory for transactions over $3,000 you can still easily use a straw buyer. Want a Ferrari in Russia? Export it to China via container ship, then have it travel overland via train to Moscow.
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Excel pivot tables won’t work if the file banner is invalid in Windows, too. This happens a lot for me when I open an Excel attachment, because macOS will put brackets in the file name.
Thank you for acknowledging Canada’s true status.
Going after that drug dealing / money laundering segment
Nice resource, but it desperately needs an index or full-text search feature.

I grew up on Whole Earth Catalog (and Ted Nelson's Computer Lib / Dream Machines, another great counterculture publication of the era). Certainly opened up entire worlds of possibility.
The commission is still democratically representative even if indirectly as long as member states are democracies.

If you want all European institutions to be directly elected you essentially want the EU to no longer be a confederation and instead be a federation.

National governments having power in EU affairs is by design because otherwise the EU would never have formed.
Likes are illegal, too. Last year, police searched the homes of people because they clicked the like button on a social media post that insulted a killed police woman. [1]
The court deemed the likes as endorsements of a crime, which is illegal. [2]

[1] https://www.golem.de/news/durchsuchungen-wegen-hassrede-ein-...
[2] https://www.gesetze-im-internet.de/stgb/__140.html
I don’t know exactly how mixers work but my understanding is that that I can identify even fractions of a coin as having originated from some parent coin. All those fractions are stolen goods.
Ask HN: Is there a correlation between playing Tetris a lot and tidiness IRL?
Isn't Tetris about creating order out of disorder like tidying up a desk/room/home?
The entire GPT4 model was not retrained to utilize images, instead I think it is much more like show in [1] where an extra layer(s) are learned that take another pretrained image model and map that model to the latent space of the LLM. In [1] this was just a single linear layer. I found it pretty shocking how simple it was. I believe OpenAI is doing something similar.

[1] https://arxiv.org/pdf/2304.10592.pdf
I think I'd kill myself if I had to live like that.
I really doubt that; not because they haven't done that in the past, because they have; but because with the frequency of updates of game clients these days you really cannot get away with that as easily. On the other hand, hooking the lower-level Win32 functions is extremely common, I am yet to see a GPU driver that doesn't implement some level of idle/activity detection based on hooking the message loop, for example.

My bet is they have just decided to put whatever this new thing is in a separate module which they they forgot to send to Valve for whitelisting.
I’ve found that many times when a service says this the system will work with any OTP program. They just don’t tell you specifically. Maybe they don’t know, think it’ll confuse, and/or prefer you didn’t.
Related reading: this year the author submitted a GCC bug-report on this topic, linking back to the 2021 blog post. The bug appears to be still unresolved.

https://gcc.gnu.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=109945
>The UK government has just stopped off-shore wind turbine growth for the next decade

Any links? Last time I check they have huge amount of work going on in that area.
I find it interesting that the Geekbench scores for the latest iPhone isn't mentioned. About the same performance as an iPhone 12. Yet, the Pixel 8 and iPhone 15 lines are price comparably.

Pixel 8 Pro:
Single: 1760
Multi: 4442

iPhone 15 Pro:
Single: 2894
Multi: 7192

iPhone 12:
Single: 1995
Multi: 4401
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That's really the only angle that makes sense to me here. For cars that start at $200k, who else has the available cash and cannot be bothered to use traditional payment mechanisms?
Because they have resources and you don't, so you have no leverage. We don't live in a moral age where people in general are impressed by the example of others.
This is true. That said the agreement with the insurance provider or billing processer often requires a hipaa compliant platform with a BAA.

I bill through the headway platform as an example and they require a hipaa compliant telehealth platform with BAA for processing. In addition I believe my contract with Aetna specifies the same although it’s been awhile since I’ve reviewed it tbf.

an interesting question that comes up for me is whether these companies are harvesting content of meetings and chats for training models and whatnot. The BAA is a (small) protection for myself in case it turns out that zoom is training their AI assistant on meeting chats or closed captioning without participant consent. Although I would hope that the liability in that scenario would mostly fall on zoom as that’s really an abuse on their part.
I totally get this, since we (collectively) are still trying to figure out how to "program" LLMs. There is definitely a risk that too much transparency leads to attacks.

At the same time, security by obscurity does not work in the long run. In fact, the existence of this repo of reverse engineered prompts maybe means that secrecy is impossible.

Even worse, we won't necessarily know when the information leaks out, so we don't even know what compromises are out in the wild.
I meant vague errors in all contexts. The system should know what categories of errors can happen, and report them as such. If the issue is that there's a space in the phone number field, it should never use the same message for failing to connect to the database.

At the very least, an error should indicate if there's something I can do to fix it.
Is there precedent for that with crypto, which is not a physical thing but more like “the notion” of ownership?
No, the point is that a system of total surveillance, as proposed here by the EU, could be used by the EU to influence voting behaviour regardless of any individual voting systems. E.g. someone whatsapps their mom "I'm gonna vote for the anti-EU party", subsequently their secret "not a pedophile" score gets adjusted and next thing you know they can't get a mortgage anymore.
I think what brings this back are specialized technologies which are inaccessible to non-techies because of the time or effort required to engage with them. Making it onerous for bots to access these places may also be helpful. I came to terms with the fact that the internet changed post-social media. I think that just means there need to be other places that are more niche, specialized and "homey" to neurodiverse folk. Though I disagree with the author that only someone autistic would be into such places, if they can indeed be recreated. I think the fediverse is attempting this to some degree.
The reliability of German long-distance trains is objectively bad (and getting worse). Here are the official statistics: https://www.deutschebahn.com/de/konzern/konzernprofil/zahlen...

The middle tab ("DB Fernverkehr") shows the percentage of trains arriving less than 16 minutes late (black) and less than 6 minutes late (red). In September 2023, 23% of trains were more than 15 minutes late!

Compare this to Switzerland's SBB: https://reporting.sbb.ch/punctuality?highlighted=e68508fb204...

The SBB already considers a train late when it arrives more than 2 minutes after the scheduled time. Yet, they routinely achieve more than 90% punctuality rates.
why? screen space.
"37h" is much short than the date and time of 37 hours ago.
of course, if you write out the age like "37 hours ago", that isn't as useful.
software doesn't _have_ to do it badly. the most recent version of this that i wrote will say it is Xmins old, but switch to the next unit after reaching 2*next-unit worth of time, so >120mins starts at 2h. then you get to 2d, 2mo (months), 2 years.
you can get the full datetime on hover.
all this is only in an object listing. when you open an object, you'll see the full date.
>This rhetoric is misguided and dangerous.

Is it? It seems to me that the rational, liberal members of the American body politic were and are blind-sided by the take-over of one of our major political parties by a fascist autocrat. Simply putting your head in the sand and wishing it weren't so won't change things. We have a huge percentage of the population that wants a strong-man ruler. That's bad, but it's not clear that can be changed. Therefore, rather than fight against reality and what cannot be changed, accept reality and change what can be. In this case, we cannot change the urge to autocracy, but we can control the identity (and politics) of the autocrat themselves. In an ideal circumstance such a person could do a great deal of good and get the country on track to a functioning democracy, and address the underlying dysfunction that is driving anti-democratic sentiment. This sentiment is the product of a combination of poor education, media manipulation, and also a reasonable reaction to rampant corruption at all levels of government, civil and criminal, moribund corrupt state bar associations and legislative "leaders" who spend more time on the phone asking for money than governing. None of these problems have a clear solution through normal democratic means. Therefore to save democracy we must put democracy aside for a time. The difference between a liberal dictator and Trump is, of course, that such a person does not pursue power for powers sake, but rather to restore functioning democracy. They look forward to putting it down, and hope to shape the system(s) such that such measures won't be needed again.

If the choice is between electing a liberal dictator or letting democracy die, do you choose the latter out of principle? And besides this is a thought experiment designed to provoke conversation. "Your bad and your ideas are bad" is not that.
To me, Peter Thiel was "the one that got away" when it came to SVB.

Yes, it was known that SVB had some "concerns", but Thiel, like Nostradamus, laid out an amazingly specific set of instructions to companies he had a hand (or dollar) in:

Wednesday after hours he sent a missive to all his funded companies: "Every single dollar of your company accounts must be out of SVB by COB tomorrow".

Separately, to another one of his companies: "I need you to have a website setup that can accept applications for business bridge loans, I and it needs to be pushed and live by noon on Friday".

Lo and behold, regulators showed up at SVB at 9am on Friday morning and the doors were locked by 11am.

Very remarkably specific, and fortuitous timing by Thiel.

Even if he did have specific information, some might say, so what? He has a right to protect his money, and money he has invested. Sure he does.

But "withdraw all of your money from SVB and do it tomorrow by COB" caused a bank run.

And causing a bank run is a federal felony.

For which no-one will bat an eyelid.