skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
That one is easy. There is plenty of data out there.
"In 2016 (EU-28), the share of rail in freight transport was less than 15 percent and the share of road freight around 80 percent."
https://dhl-freight-connections.com/en/trends/global-freight...

"Freight rail accounts for around 40% of long-distance ton-miles" (USA)
https://www.aar.org/data-center/
Those line up with figures elsewhere like on wikipedia. So US transports 2-3x more by rail.
And yes as people pointed out there are other factors impacting Europe. But one of the many is a rail system designed for passengers, not freight (see links in comment below). Unfortunately you can't pack tons of people in with the same efficiencies of slow speeds and really long trains that you can for freight, so every measure possible should be made to increase freight by train until truck transport is reduced to a minimum. Certainly long-distance truck.
I think that would be cool too, and I would guess is in the oven currently, though personally I'm much more excited about RISC-V. Not for what it is today, but for what it can be tomorrow.
Well, it's not the only option so no one's being forced to buy it. The same thing could've been said about ARM laptops just 5 years ago, before the launch of M1. Now, with Windows embracing ARM for real this time, it's properly established across all major platforms.

The neat thing about this specific implementation is that it can be dropped right into an existing Framework laptop — a very viable hardware platform. Thus, it will allow developers (presumably mainly on Linux) to test and iron out issues in their software, the only way to fix those software problems you speak of.

It represents a strong leap forward for RISC-V and open ISAs in general.
Let's see: hordes of impulsive risk-taking beautiful youth exploring ancient woods and lakes and buildings, often in the dark. Nope, can't think of a single reason!
It's almost like if you have tens of millions of dollars to invest in your product yearly, you can afford to maintain and build more features.
There are a lot of things that I was taught growing up that I used to sort of just accept but from the outside don't really make any sense (as an example: where I grew up was pretty homophobic but once I was old enough I realized that the homophobia just literally made no sense and it was stupid to care what other people did). The current state of animal agriculture is one of those thing, growing up I ate meat and I had all these justifications but once I stopped I realized it was all bullshit and the treatment of animals just wasn't okay. It's pretty crazy the way we'll just accept things that are "normal" even if they are absolutely horrifying.

The saddest thing to me is the people that say they "love animals" but eat them pretty uncritically (though obviously I used to be one of these people).
This sounds really great, I hope that some day we will get an alternative to x86 that is not ARM.

The new ARM processors like Snapdragon X elite and the M processors from apple sound promising, but I don't know what I should think about the company "ARM".

Though what I find a bit weird is that this board only has 4 cores, as this is intended for developers which probably need to compile many things which could benefit from more cores.
my favourite part of the book is climbing to orbit with a glider and a whip :-D
What's missing in Gimp? How far away is it from being a viable competitor?
The difference is important in the case of a CRT screen, and less important in the case of cancer treatment with Therac-25.

CRTs produce a (low-intensity) electron beam that has just high enough energy for exciting the phosphorous screen.

Therac-25 was able to produce both a high-intensity electron beam or an X-ray beam, depending on the therapy need.
Sure, rather than go after the actual source of the problem (large social media companies that knowingly enact policies that harm children), that would ruffle too many donor feathers, so we make a gesture at correcting the problem that will ultimately do very little to protect children. Wonderful. Sorry for my cynicism but this is so beyond the pale. If he'd given literally any other reason I would buy it, I do not believe smart phones have a place on campus during school hours for most use cases.
Lloyd's of London used to require insured ships to be wormproofed with pine tar from the American colonies. After 1776 they had to switch to coal tar. The coal tar producers became the modern chemical industry.
This was after a two year investigation by joint members and orgs of the governement, it's not a single event being blown up - I agree it could be weaponized, but its like not treating an infected wound with antibiotics because you don't want yo hurt your microbiome - wrong priorities

Edit0: reworded

Edit1: "Federal organizations involved: Canadian Security Intelligence Service; Communications Security Establishment; Department of Justice; Elections Canada; Global Affairs Canada; The Office of the Commissioner of Canada Elections; Privy Council Office; Public Prosecution Service of Canada; Public Safety Canada; Royal Canadian Mounted Police"

Many MPs involved as well. Hard to look at this like it's not worth releasing the report unredacted and take action
How do you fix an issue you can't reproduce? a case study [video]
I can't find a public link to the 2023 report, but the 2022 report is linked below and it has some more information. It is based on a survey of 2000 "creators." It says that from their sample: "Over 35% of the creators surveyed have been building an audience for over four years and earn over $50k annually."

https://neoreach.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/07/Creator-Earn...
I've had three FW 13s (a first-gen for myself, a second-gen for my wife, and a third-gen for myself) and I suspect you will be pretty happy with it. What OS do you plan to run?
Checkout Langtrace. It’s also OTEL and integrates with datadog.

https://github.com/Scale3-Labs/langtrace
Quite the human-centric view of the animal world you have there
The article talks about the mouse research, I'm giving a link so people can read something other than a Guardian article and judge for themselves. Fair enough mice are different to humans but they're not exactly lobsters. (Edit: although if a similar mechanism was found in lobsters I would take that as evidence the phenomenon being widespread. It's not ethically feasible to conduct this experiment on human subjects)
For certain kinds of influencer that is true. There is a lot more there than just spoiled rich girls trying to get images in resorts with their new Gucci bag.

Plenty of make-up experts, fitness gurus, tech nerds doing CPU unboxing, video game & movie reviewers, political science analysts, etc., that are not focused on flaunting wealth.

I did a study for a Master's degree class on influencers on YT & Insta who only go to spas (like peidcures, massages, etc.), and did ASMRs and Spa reviews -- and just in Asia. While they're reasonably well put together on camera, they're certainly not flaunting great wealth outside of occasionally getting a (fairly cheap) foot massage and cupping treatment -- and, in theory, YT revenue is subsidizing those trips. But some of them get TONS of views and drive actual foot traffic to these locations.
Leading chatbots are spreading Russian propaganda
It’s not the kids it’s the parents. They expect to be in constant contact with their kids. Note to the office won’t do.
Would a pair of double quotes make it better? It's more or less just a metaphor.
I guess nobody is using Python or Java.
They might be both valid but will generate a different output (int or range) leading to a compile time error downstream
It's still just looking at one server right? If you have a fleet of webservers, or microservices in containers, ELK or similar seems like a requirement.
> Being gay isn't an ideological choice

But marrying someone of the same sex is. It's perfectly possible for someone who is homosexual to marry a partner of the opposite sex, and vice-versa. (And of course, many people are bisexual!)
the market only really works when the perpetrators pay the cost.
Human === Homo sapien _sapien_. Homo Sapiens are a different thing
There are many reasons cited in the links I dug up for others, but among the various issue such as interoperability rail systems that are designed for passengers that impacted track design and train length. This prioritisation happened long ago.
The third & fourth factor are whether the satellites are actively avoiding collisions and whether the satellites are in a self-clearing orbit.

Depending on the assumptions you make, we could have billions or even trillions of Starlink satellites without triggering Kessler simply because

- Starlink satellites are actively controlled and steer to avoid collisions. Yes there are sometimes a couple of failed Starlinks in orbit, but since the active ones avoid the dead ones, you have to calculate the risk of one dead satellite hitting another dead satellite. And that's less than random because they quickly decay out of their crowded orbital plane to a different less crowded one.

- dead Starlinks are in a self-clearing orbit, deorbiting in under 5 years. As the article indicates Kessler is a decades-long process. Which can't happen if the satellites don't stay in orbit that long.

- most dead Starlinks aren't completely dead, or give alerts before they die, allowing SpaceX to actively deorbit them safely and quickly

- the vast majority of particles from a collision in a self-clearing orbit result in immediate clearing. If the original dead Starlink that would take 5 years to clear suddenly fragments, most fragments de-orbit within a single orbit (90 minutes). Elastic deformation reduces their velocity, lowering the orbit. Half of fragments are toward a lower orbit. The other half only boost apogee and either lower perigee or leave it unchanged. Being smaller, their surface area / mass ratio increases, reducing deorbit times.

Basically, Kessler is not a concern at VLEO altitudes. Unfortunately most proposed Starlink competitors cannot afford to launch the thousands of satellites necessary for a viable VLEO constellation and instead are launching dozens or hundreds into LEO orbits which aren't self-clearing and do pose a Kessler concern.
So true. Segment CEO said the same thing as well
“It’s a trust thing”

Yeah. That won’t work for anything security related, I’m afraid.
The core problem here is that "Go promotes explicitness" ended at Go 1.21. Since Go 1.22, it is no longer valid.

The change of "for-range" loops is good is because no implicit code is introduced.

And the change of "for;;" loops is bad is because implicit code is introduced. Implicitness often causes surprises. The implicit line

pa_last, pb_last, pc_last = &a, &b, &c

in the new semantics is absolutely an evil.

And the seriousness of this problem is that, if you upgrade your go version in go.mod files, the behavior of the your old code might change. And the change might be not always easily found in time.

> but if the language authors had only fixed for range, then a lot more people would get for;; wrong just because they would be never sure which way it would be.

This is just a problem in theory, it is never proven (and now no chance to prove it).

> So the only "solution" would be to never fix "for range" or disallow for :=;; ?

I think it is just fine to only make changes on "for-range" loops, just as C# have done. The assumed problem of "for;;" loops is never proven, or just proven to be tiny.
IMHO, it is just rsc's personal willing to make the change. This might be the worst decision made in Go history.
Stripe Co-Founder Expects Another Employee Stock Tender Offer
https://archive.today/6k0Od
Historically, warning labels on tobacco products were the first step in lowering smoking rates (at least in the US.) Then came advertising bans, enforced age restrictions, more and more taxes on the consumer, and finally heavy restrictions on smoking areas. Before smoking was banned in most bars and restaurants in the early 2000's, it had already become socially unacceptable to smoke in many places (in the 1970's and earlier you could smoke just about anywhere, just as scrolling on your phone anywhere is now acceptable.)

It was all of these things together that really lowered smoking rates. Algorithmic social media is following a similar path, this is just the very first step.

We also shouldn't expect the social media companies to change by themselves - their incentives, as with tobacco companies, are to make money. And nothing makes money like addictive drugs. Expect more testimony of social media CEO's like the famed 1994 Congressional testimony of the tobacco company CEO's: https://senate.ucsf.edu/tobacco-ceo-statement-to-congress. These guys outright lied to everyone's faces to protect their harmful industry. It was a joke even then.
This is so obviously good.

It's also such a clear political win that I'm shocked that Newsom of all people took this long to go after it
How ShinyHunters hackers allegedly pilfered Ticketmaster data from Snowflake
For me, conferences are about:

- The hallway track

- Having some less-distracted time around some general topic of interest

- Being made aware of things I might not have otherwise been made aware of

But, by and large, you're not IMO going to "learn about $X" by going to a breakout. It might put $X on your radar as something worth spending a day looking at.

By and large, I like (selectively) going to conferences but if someone has the mindset that they're a day of classroom-type sessions, they're probably less valuable. That's not a criticism. People just have different perspectives.
For anyone looking for a similar tool but with a Web UI I recommend taking a look at Logdy (https://logdy.dev/, https://github.com/logdyhq/logdy-core)
Ps: I'm the author
Along the main line you will have parallel tracks that slower trains will pull into allowing faster trains to overtake.
The answer is to STOP using Google Search which has become increasingly user hostile over the years.

The sad truth is that Google Search 2024 can’t even compete with Google Search of 10 years ago.

The problems:

1. First page of search results is entirely made up of Ads and blogspam

2. Impossible to do specific searches now that Google ignores Boolean instructions

3. Google Search is spyware, posing as a free service, sucking up your PII to profile and target you

Solutions:

1. Use another search engine. The competitors have become surprisingly good. I use search.brave.com but DuckDuckGo and even Bing are better than Google now.

2. Use an LLM instead. I use Perplexity.ai for 95% of searches now. It combines an LLM summary with search results and includes footnotes to sources. The best part is that voice input is 10x better than raw ChatGPT and Google as it auto-corrects using context from your query. Other LLM search engines also work but Perplexity.ai have nailed the experience IMO.
I ultimately gave up playing this game, spent hours testing and tuning. Each core is slightly different (on amd, I’m sure intel has something similar) and stress test for 1-24h each tweak invoking a reboot. Then some new workload comes and kernel panic/bsod.

Stock settings just work, maybe I lost the silicon lottery but too tired to check anymore.
It could be educational to learn assembly, for example.

(I know you can use a virtual machine for that)
> A natural monopoly is just a monopoly where the barrier to entry that makes a monopoly possible isn't manufactured via abuse or government (i.e. Mostly capital costs are too high to support investment by more than one or a small number of players).

That's not what a natural monopoly is. Again, go look it up. It is also not a small edge case.

> Of course all monopolies are bad.

Again, this is just incorrect. Monopolies can be the most economically efficient option, and even when they are not there are things to consider besides economic efficiency. Monopoly is not the death of innovation - in an actual free market a monopoly can never rest on its laurels or it will have new market entrants coming to eat its lunch (and we see this in the real world, eg Myspace or Kodak). Certain anti-competitive measures that can be used to create monopolies are very dangerous to competition, but that is a different matter.

> We are talking about government here. How bad something is isn't an argument for not doing something, it is an argument for priority. If your position is labor unions aren't as bad as X so we should sort X and then break up labor unions that's fine, but that's not what I'm hearing in this thread.

Both murder and shoplifting are crimes. Crimes are bad, both murder and shoplifting cause problems for society. Everyone will agree that murder is worse than shoplifting, but that doesn't mean murder is simply a higher priority than shoplifting, and that when the resources necessary to go after murderers are freed up that they should be applied in the same manner towards shoplifters. Shoplifting and murder, while both subcategories of the same thing, are fundamentally different and the optimal responses to both fundamentally ought to be different.

You have not established that treating corporate monopolies and labor unions the same at any point in time is a good idea, nonetheless that it is the optimal course of action.

> If your company is unionized it faces a monopoly on labor and can only hire union for the areas that are unionized unless the union allows non union.

That's not how unions work.

> how do I sign up for this alternative non union government in my province/country?

Move to a country with laws more to your liking.

> You can have natural monopolies at the employee level, however that is pretty rare because it means that employee is almost impossible to replace

Again, not what a natural monopoly is.

> the union where X is a whole class of worker that is fairly interchangeable with a reasonable labor supply but as a class is impossible or near impossible to do your business.

Again, not how unions work.
Guess the kids need a dumb phone. Nokia will rise again.
Software companies should do the same thing material goods producers do: make the product smaller, faster, and cheaper. Instead they rent seek with half-assed updates and added bloat that 95% of users never need. Adobe is not alone in this.

If microchip producers had done what Adobe has done, computers would be developed by adding a few vacuum tubes each year and bumping the cost by 5%.
> passes through a 2 year investigation...

... but notably, not to prosecution as yet.

It would hardly be the first time intelligence community certainty fell apart under further scrutiny. I'd be leery of giving unelected spooks veto power over elected legislators.
I’m going to continue the analogy then;

In truth: I’d rather someone else cook my meals, seriously.

I’m a terrible cook, however what is happening is that everyone has decided they they’re a terrible cook and the planet has become completely dependent on fast-food restaurant chains.

“But its where my friends are, they would never join me in a steak restaurant, it’s unfamiliar and theres no parking”.

We forgot how to make home-cooked meals, its learned helplessness, for decades.

It’s going to be painful if we start now. It’s going to be even more painful if we start a decade from now.
I worked in agebraic geometry, so I love Grothendieck, and I've read and loved a bunch of oulipo and oulipo-related authors, so this blog post has left me with a feeling of
That's neat but if I had a dime for every single time an industry-standard DAW or plugin lacked a modern iOS version I'd have enough money to buy Abbey Road Studios.
Joint account for daily stuff (I guess that’s checking) plus a joint savings for big things, rest is separate. We pay in an agreed fixed amount each month, which needs to be semi regularly raised lately due to inflation etc etc…
It’s not “more efficient” it’s just cheaper/more profitable for the shareholders.

It’s awful for passengers. It’s bad for the environment (derailments), it is less then ideal for customers outside unit trains and drives them to trucks , and current infrastructure does not support it nor is being upgraded too. Freight outside unit train has/is being gutted

And no passenger rail is better for the environment and more convenient when you have a good rail system

A good but long video on why rail in America is bad, awful, and failing is https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jNkYNjADoZg

It covers long trains
Yeah, this one really isn't a good example of clickbait - it's a summary of a (really good) post written by someone else that I put on my linkblog, illustrated with some quotes (because I know many people wouldn't bother reading the whole thing) - with no intention of submitting to Hacker News.

This one was clickbait: https://simonwillison.net/2023/Feb/15/bing/
elephant repellent problem? What is that?

This is literally the first occurrence of that string on the internet.
We just continued with our existing accounts, except that one of us now has a savings account which we both pay any surplus into each month. Works for us.
Being completely removed from a platform and being penalized by the community/society for bad-acting are entirely different things. We (staff) generally won't be banning anyone (except where law may require) - penalty systems like suppression lists are entirely governed by policy enacted by the community (which can change if the community wants it to change). A suppression list itself could even be completely removed if that's what the community ultimately decides.

Yes, companies are often required by law/local jurisdictions to remove content violating the law, report to authorities as needed, etc - but as far as we've been advised so far there's presently no laws in our jurisdiction requiring us to completely ban someone for posting such content. If that is or becomes untrue in any given jurisdiction then we'll adjust and all such proceedings will be as public/transparent as possible. Wherever possible, though, violations to community policy are automated and based on requirements set in place by the community itself (and can change as community wants change). As staff, we intend to be as laissez-faire as possible in this regard.

- Andrew, cofounder
One thing you can do is check battery health by observing the charging process with a power meter that supports charge counting.

Another use case was when the battery in my laptop was completely empty, which made it switch to some emergency charging mode that didn't like the normally fine USB-C power supply. I found that it did accept charge from an external battery, so I charged it using that for a while until it booted.

I have a cheap device that costs about 2€ on AliExpress. It is not a cable but a little box.
Well... it's some parents... and then from there it's peer pressure on the other kids, who then go beg their parents for one too.
Volume. Its all relative to your less efficient competitor
Fortunately, we learned from this lesson, and we'll never let elites bring in tons of outsiders to push down the price of local labor, to the detriment of everyone but themselves.
A project that shows all the trade-offs required of a system with very limited resources. Some smart ergonomic decisions like choosing to load and display the article first, then make a second request for the table of contents.

The guy is a maniac and I love what he’s doing.
I started with Fiverr and UpWork (when it was ODesk) many years back and built a profile of highly satisfied repeat customers. These days, I get most of the work through existing customers or referrals.