skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
"Air travel within Europe is cheap and easy"

1. This can change due to political reasons. E.g. "As part of far-reaching 2021 climate legislation, France proposed banning domestic flights where equivalent journeys taking less than two-and-a-half hours on its excellent and wide-ranging rail network are available."

2. Yes, you all know the USD 10 airfaires from Ryanair. But often destinations are very limited and often it is 3rd tier airports. Good luck getting there.

I welcome night trains. They were always cheap, good an convenient in China and Eastern Europe (legendary Prague -> Budapest -> Bucharest line e.g.). I hope this might get more convenient in Western Europe in the future. And why not add a nice bar and coffee place and internet when you are on it. Board at 8, have a few drinks, get up at 7, have a coffee, work and get off at 10am.
ppl itt saying flights are cheaper as if they aren't heavily subsidised. aren't u guys supposed to be libertarians or something
> I've had trouble finding it, but years ago, I read the abstract of a study which looked at chess performance, pitting people who had access to some basic chess software against those who didn't. What they found is that the strongest predictor of success was whether a player could utilise the software effectively, rather than pure chess skill.

There was a time when this was true - a grandmaster and a computer was stronger than either alone. But that window closed pretty quickly. Today, even the strongest GMs' best strategy is to follow the computer blindly.
Oh, so you can connect several devices to the same "shared" coax cable around the house?

How is it? Is it really 2.5gbps or is it like Powerline adaptors that are an order of magnitude slower than their advertised speed? :P
> let's be honest, a lot of this oversight is probably a result of Knight Capital

Gray-box trading and humans in a control loop over automated trading have both been happening for decades. Knight Capital makes for a pretty spectacular example, but that's about it.
Lex Fridman too: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OgIo36F6Fsg — great 2-hour conversation.
No, the question is what actual historical event are you referring to? What you are quoting sounds like a legend. When and where did this happen?
The North American middleman is one of the most successful organisms on the planet. Just look at the healthcare system.
I agree. Solving #3 is terrific (because it frequently bites you when the sender is someone you don't know particularly well... certainly not well enough to ask them to resend using a third party messaging app). I don't really care about #1, although I guess Google's answer would be "use Chat", which is absolutely ridiculous since it no longer has an interface to SMS/RCS like Hangouts did. This is a gaping hole in their product strategy, imho. #2 could be solved by Apple if they want to, or else we'll just continue to struggle along with a need for several different messaging apps for different social contexts. It's not like Whatsapp, Telegram, Signal, etc don't work.

Another solution Google could perhaps pursue would be to license one or multiple of those to include in the default Android install, but I don't see that happening without regulatory interference.
I focus on what value the work did in the organization.

Every company faces different problems, has different definitions of value, and has different cultures.

This is why I talk about the problem the company had, frame the product you developed as part of a larger solution to that problem, and not assume that work would directly map to anyone else.

It's closed source, so don't spill all the beans, because the more you say, the less you are trusted.
Currently watching a large enterprise migrate to cloud and hosted private cloud(I know) but all most teams are doing is a 1:1 mapping of VMs. I can see the cost going through the roof vs on prem. Give it another three years and and we'll be rolling back a significant % to on prem.
Bike infrastructure. Also, why mobility scooters first?

I'd hope that people with mobility issues could first reach for:

1. Recumbent bikes: https://www.getcycling.org.uk/recumbents/ (first regular ones, then electric)

2. Trikes: https://www.getcycling.org.uk/tricycles/ (first regular ones, then electric)

3. Handcycles: https://www.getcycling.org.uk/handcycles/

4. Wheelchair tandems where possible: https://www.getcycling.org.uk/wheelchair/

And only 5. or so should be mobility scooters, where they makes sense.

Because of the lack of bike infrastructure/walkable neighborhoods, I think the default in the US is directly a mobility scooter.
It was embraced and extended by Google.
Can any of the LLMs or whatever else is being sold as AI today perform deductive reasoning (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Deductive_reasoning) or any like it that approaches understanding?

LLMs are impressive because they can generate text, images, etc. from a prompt, but hallucinations and other tells show that they do not really understand.

Older AI systems can do basic levels of reasoning, but did not have much of a natural language interface like today's LLMs do. Are there any efforts to tie the two together?
Almost no human activity in music is fiddling bits, everything has its place. Pretty sure there are not that many points in music where your role can be trivial. Mastering engineer is somewhat replaced by good music production software and his craft became more approachable to the artist who's not familiar with mastering but can now do it easily due to software.

I do not know if mastering engineers who worked with analog equipment started complaining about losing jobs to digital programs, making their experience obsolete. Did they? I don't think any AI product will be able to separate itself from the human will. Anything we humans do is by humans for humans and all of these places where software would steal our music experience is just hard for me to imagine.
MoCa is just a standard to run the Ethernet network over Coax cables

Nobody runs the Ethernet cables from 50 years ago, we use modern standards to run the Ethernet network over modern cables. Typically the ‘UTP’ cables but not necessarily.
Awesome idea! Long time lurker! Org psychologist by trade, unemployed right now. If you need additional help or ideas, let me know! Would love to volunteer my time to help you succeed!
I wouldn't call it social engineering, because the reporter didn't intend to get the cookies while filing the first report.

It's like the Github scanner that reports leaked tokens.
But if you are doing business in California, you are still liable for the annual $800 tax, even if your LLC is formed in another state.
My sense of entitlement related to open source is honestly more specific and, in my mind, not related to specific compensation, but definitely related to the cost of utilizing and maintaining software. I feel entitled to a discipline of semantic versioning in open source ecosystems -- a consciousness where open source developers understand how flippant changes within software libraries can have ripple-effect maintenance costs. I feel entitled to software with appropriately pinned dependencies such that upstream changes will not divert software consumers resources to otherwise needless fixes. I often deride ecosystems where these values are often not shared (Javascript, Python, Ruby), and laud those that adhere more often (Java, Clojure).
Doh. Yes, hiked. More like slogged but thank you for pointing out my mistake.
Not a night train, but this summer we went on vacation to Scotland from Germany and took the Amsterdam-Newcastle overnight ferry instead of flying.

One major issue is one of headspace, as you sacrifice a day of holiday for a day of travel. You have to feel on holiday right as you enter the train. If you're getting antsy for every hour not spend at your destination, you will never be happy with anything but flying. But we had a wonderful time on the ferry and waiting for our connecting trains, we had a nice time in both Newcastle and Amsterdam.

With a toddler in tow, the freedom of movement and the space in a train or on a ferry beats air travel or car travel almost every time.

For next year we plan on spending even more time "travelling". Adding one or two additional overnight stops between rail connections is fine with us. It's fewer days at the destination and it's a bit more expensive with the multi-leg train journeys. But as the travel is not very stressful that way, it comes out about even.
I guess I shouldn't be surprised that someone who believes the debunked Gates quote is real, also can't comprehend the difference between "for anyone" and "for a lot of people".
"Except Americans" - So wrong then.
If you are posting from Romania, then you have a very warped perception of Europe’s cafes overall. But even in Romania, the old Central European and Balkan tradition of the cafe as a home away from home for intellectuals is dying. It has been well over a decade now since many of Cluj’s independent cafes began to play loud blooming music to discourage lingering, and staff were instructed to immediately pick up a customer’s empty glass and say “Va mai servesc cu ceva?", in order to nudge the customer to order more or get out. And of course, prices have risen to about the same as Starbucks.
Because he uses MoCa instead.
You can’t really fork chrome; it would be unsustainable as an open source project. Unless you plan to keep integrating upstream changes - but then you’re still following whatever Google wants to do, you can merely delay it.
https://ec.europa.eu/justice/article-29/documentation/opinio...

3.6 UI customization cookies:

"These customization functionalities are thus explicitly enabled by the user of an information
society service (e.g. by clicking on button or ticking a box) although in the absence of
additional information the intention of the user could not be interpreted as a preference to
remember that choice for longer than a browser session (or no more than a few additional
hours). As such only session (or short term) cookies storing such information are exempted
under CRITERION B. The addition of additional information in a prominent location (e.g.
“uses cookies” written next to the flag) would constitute sufficient information for valid
consent to remember the user’s preference for a longer duration, negating the requirement to
apply an exemption in this case."

In particular, criterion A "functioning of the site" is a lot more narrow than your interpretation. It sounds like "oh, they need this to use the site's functions" but it really describes is functionality more like "you can't use the site at all without setting this cookie because you couldn't authenticate" and criterion B "for service explicitly requested" has more limitations (like lasting beyond session).
> it hears you say y'all

The accuracy or realism of the emulated voice probably depends on how "rich" the recorded material is within those 3 seconds? I mean, if it includes a single long syllable, or some phrase that contains a variety of vowels and consonants.
I see real-looking keys posted to SO at least a couple of times per week (stuff like Twilio and Stripe keys are the most obvious as they’re tagged-strings; followed by GMail SMTP creds; I edit them out and flag the posts for the mods, as one does). Granted, most of the time it’s just some kid who doesn’t appreciate what secrets are worth keeping, or wasn’t paying attention when copying+pasting into their post, but every so-often I see secrets in a post from what looks like an outsourced worker assigned to a “real” business, with very real things to lose - and I get depressed from wondering how modern society even holds itself together given the scale of incompetence I witness first-hand…

(Fun-fact: the next SMS text-message you get from a major chain informing you on an upcoming appointment was likely sent to you via Twilio from a desktop client with a hardcoded AccountSID and AuthSecret strings shared by all 20,000 (multitenant) users; Don’t ask how I know, but it’s depressing; I do report these things (anonymously) to the vendors but then receive a reply from a non-technical manager accusing me of “hacking”. I haven’t yet reported them to e.g. Twilio directly because I don’t want Twilio to revoke their creds and cause potentially hundreds of thousands of people to not-receive essential comms from those tenants. Le sigh…
Game tree heuristic searches, like the minimax algorithm with alpha-beta pruning, has also been called AI, which is why programs that play chess are called AI.

What I think is the problem is that when people hear "artificial intelligence," they don't think of chess programs anymore; they think of something like Skynet from the Terminator. Or, maybe now they think of ChatGPT.
Cool! I have the same issue with unused coax cables between every room, and was planning on replacing them with ethernet cables. In my case it's feasible without breaking down any walls. Does this work even with splitters?
Lit is very close to vanilla Web Components, but makes the standard more convenient to work with. Especially when used with TypeScript and a nice plugin such as lit-plugin [1], you get syntax highlighted and checked CSS + HTML, auto-completion in templates, and so on.

Also, the reactivity offered by Lit is something you could implement yourself using the standard lifecycle methods of custom elements, but is quite boilerplate-y. Overall, Lit gives you a better developer experience with fewer foot guns and boilerplate without much overhead.

[1]: https://marketplace.visualstudio.com/items?itemName=runem.li...
This is weird from the beginning:

> Rote expansions of existing technologies and machines inevitably hit a ceiling: replacing and repairing the existing infrastructure and capital becomes so expensive that there is no income left over for building extra copies

Is this true everywhere? I realize we have little in the way of steady state but if it's true, the new stuff gets to be more expensive also, yet it's never more expensive than when it's first rolled out, so it's always too expensive to afford.

> So this leaves us with a question: Why aren’t governments taking this free lunch? Why are they letting the weakly incentivized private firms outspend them on the world’s most important positive externality?

Perhaps because in a capitalist system they only raise money by taxes and need to build roads, maintain armed forces, and perform many other mundane tasks with that money, while citizens ask that the government not take too much of their money. In systems in which the government owns businesses, it could make the businesses do anything.

And the R&D is for what? Better road construction? Better hairspray or artificial cheese flavoring? Quite a lot of it is pretty trivial and not of aggregate "benefit", just something that sells.
> Air travel within Europe is cheap and easy, night trains are far more expensive, slow and run unreliable schedules sometimes, and they often don’t even take you to places you want to go.

And of course their solution to this isn't to try to improve the trains. It's to ban flying between anywhere that trains exist! In case it isn't clear, this isn't a hypothetical: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36046764
It’s important to set an example to avoid being dismissed as a hypocrite. This author should post the inventory of all the dependencies their projects use across the board along with how much the author contributes to each of them monthly.

That would absolutely get people off the fence and to start agreeing.
Fancy word for Spam.
There are also really early in the morning trains in Japan, so you can get to Nagoya or wherever before 9am.
Thanks for updating the title and adding a link @dang.

Unfortunately, I think the linked article's title is slightly misleading. Google is only offering refunds for some unknown portion of purchased content.

"Google says that some magazines will be refund-eligible because they contain interactive elements that cannot be downloaded and saved for future access."

I don't know what portion of magazine subscription content is refund-eligible, but I suspect it is very small. The current title implies that subscribers will be made whole, which is unlikely IMO.
I guess I've just been unlucky because the OOM killer has always made bizarre decisions on my machines and killed something more critical than the runaway process (or just not worked at all, not sure what the deal was is that, I never get logs). Every time I looked it up online the replies were just "you need to enough RAM to run your process, idiot, you should never need swap, swap is bad"

If the normal case is that the OOM killer just kills the out-of-control process, then I forfeit my argument.
You can use sizeof() in macros but not in #if expressions.
Not OP but I think both perspectives are valid. Real estate agents are not incentivized to increase your house price at the margin as much as the owner, they would rather just keep their fee high and sell your house at an ok price.

Maybe real estate agents should structure their commission more like M&A bankers and account executives, which often have tiered or ramped fees that encourage the best prices, e.g. if the selling price is below X you get 5%, everything above X you get 10%, etc
I'm not holding my breath.
My worry would be ISP's getting their cut, (and Microsoft spying on you 24/7). Comcast: "oh sorry you reached your 1TB limit of bandwidth this month, upgrade to Premium and none of Microsoft's usage counts against your limit (of which they were responsible for 999GB)
I think it's more that print magazines aren't really a thing anymore. Yes, they exist, but if you have a computer you're far more likely to consume publishers' content by going to their site and either generating advertising revenue for them as a free user or subscribing digitally, which gives you (and them) much more flexibility in the types of content you can consume and they can create & share.

The same has been happening in the newspaper industry the past decade.
It’s not funny because it doesn’t know what it’s talking about and there’s a big gap between “follows the rules of jokes” and “actually amusing”
You can also hear OBB’s Kurt Bauer on this episode of The Bottom Line from a few weeks ago:

https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m001ryt1

Capacity is ultimately much harder to expand on 1D trains compared to 3D airspace. Economic pressure also means the removal of what is, for many people, the most romantic part of the whole experience: the dining car. The economics seem to be this is basically always going to be about first class travel, at least if you want a bed, which is a shame.

Listening to this program made me really want to experience it again. The last time I took night trains was when I was backpacking around China in the 90s where there was very much a culture of first class travel (closed cabins, duvets, two-double or one-double bunks) but also a very accessibly priced second tier of carriages with open cabins and a pair of triple bunks. I loved every moment of it.
What's the point of even using the web if you don't have an ad blocker in your browser?
> Because chat gpt is yet another authority and like any other authority, its claims are not perfect. Don't you check when you find random info on the internet?

What authority does random information on the internet have? How do I verify the information without looking at random information on the internet?
Despite the group think down vote, you are correct. However, a problem arises from using generalized web content as the ground truth training data. That's a problem because the generalized web is chock full of political propaganda, marketing exaggerations, and real people parroting that with partial and complete misunderstandings of it all, with others of the same incorrect understanding.

Perhaps in the future, the training data will be more carefully curated to eliminate as many 'wishful truths that do not exist' and 'misinformed conversations between parties with no correct voice' as possible.
Better not use biased opinion pieces, when there numbers from government sources (US, but eho cares):

LCOE (total, incl. CAPEX, in USD per MWh):

coal 82.6, combined cycle 39.9, advanced nuclear 81.7, geothermal 37.6, biomass 90.1, onshore wind 40, offshore wind (that one was a surprise, since offshore wind should be quite cheap, mainly driven by capital cost of 104 USD per MWh) 105, solar 33.8, solar hybrid 49 and hydro 64.

Variable cost (same as above):

coal 23.7, combined cycle 27.7, adv. nuclear 10.3, geothermal 1.2, biomass 30, onshore wind 0, offshore wind 0, solar 0, solar hybrid 0, hydro 4.1

All number from here:

https://www.eia.gov/outlooks/aeo/pdf/electricity_generation...., page 9.
In the Netherlands it took them about 3 decades (~1970 - ~2000) to have decent bike infrastructure, in the context of them WANTING in 1970 to change the infrastructure.

In the US in 2023, the majority of people don't want non-car infrastructure. So realistically widespread/easily available/universal biking/walking friendly infrastructure in the US will probably happen in 2070, if it happens at all.
> I recently had to go to Edinburgh. It was £235 standard class to get a train that takes several hours.

UK rail is truly depressing.

In Japan you can take a Shinkanzen from Tokyo to Hokkaido, 4.5 hours, 800km (appx 500 miiles) for 20,000 Yen (£108) first class or 11,000 Yen (£60) standard class. And that is walk-up fare for "right now", you can use an app to get advanced fares.

And I can assure you those 4.5 hours will be insanely comfortable compared to the UK. And you can pick up some very tasty food at the station, unlike the UK where you can only buy garbage.

In the UK I agree, I'd fly from London to Edinburgh in preference to the ghastly train. Assuming the London train even leaves the station and is not delayed or cancelled, as usual.
There is a weird cottage industry, particularly in the US, of products for the far right. Like, generally just normal products, things like coffee and so on, but with marketing designed to appeal to the far right. Also for whatever reason there's a _vast_ industry around selling bullshit supplements to the far-right; a lot of far-right media figures are in on this grift.

It's probably not enough to sustain Twitter, though, and even some of these might balk at some of the content highlighted by Media Matters, which was, y'know, _very Hitler-heavy_.
I used to think exactly what this article says, but now I'm really not sure.

Code that runs and works (as in, does what it's asked to do) isn't "bullshit" at all.

Neither is search with references to custom sources in a specific corpus ("RAG").

So yes, AI is in many ways a bullshit generator (as are we); but it can be used in useful and non-bullshit ways.
Coax runs in residential houses tend not to go through conduits, and often squeeze through holes in joists just barely big enough for the cable. Not to mention that, in my experience, they also tend to involve splitters in the absolute most random of locations.

Running Ethernet alongside it is rarely any easier than fishing from scratch.
Two fun reads:

https://sci-hub.wf/10.1002/hast.1008

http://bactra.org/weblog/523.html
"Based on facts, it is currently plain wrong."

No.

"Your sentence "Nuclear power plants are nowhere near insured to risk" is pretty typical of the anti-nuclear argumentation: Mainly based on feelings not on facts."

A: Fukushima is costing $200B
B: US nuclear power plants are insured for a payout of $15B
A+B: US power plants are underinsured by $185B

(Germany had $0.25B insurance company payouts and $2.25B coverage by energy companies, so a nuclear plant was underinsured by $197.5B or ~99%, or 99.8% if you count insurance company payouts only).

Moving goal posts, hand waving, talking about my feelings (thanks for caring!), personal attacks and sources unrelated to nuclear power plant insurance doesn't explain the fact away, that "Nuclear power plants are nowhere near insured to risk".

PS: "EnergyWende" is not a German word. While Java is using Camelcase, German is not using Camelcase.
Power makes this electric restomod Mini Cooper a handful