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> It's ridiculous that the rail industry can handicap passenger rail by just increasing the length of the trains until they physically can't fit in the sidings.

The freight carriers own the tracks and have priority, passenger rail are just mere guests. The alternative is the freight carriers tell them to f off.

An analogy is the relationship between the cellular carriers (who own the digital rails) and MVNOs that ride on them; the MVNOs get deprioritized service.
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Shorter trains means more trains, which means more train crews are needed to operate them. That's expensive, and they may just not be available. They have per-day and per-week hour limits like airline pilots or truck drivers, so they can't pick up extra trips even if they wanted to. And it's another one of those jobs where people are aging out and there aren't enough younger people coming in. There's an expectation that trains will be automated at some point, but we aren't there yet.
We actually have a huge initiative at Clerk with what we're calling "Elements" which gives a you "radix-like" way to build up the UIs, for significantly easier customization - especially when you're trying to go completely custom. The default modals will always be easier to use, and we're simultaneously working on getting better customization there.

Here's an example building a "Sign up" modal in the shadcn style.

https://clerk.com/docs/elements/examples/shadcn-ui

We've only tackled a few of the UIs, but UserProfile, OrgProfile, etc. are coming soon.
Correct on Mac: System Settings > Control Center > Menu bar Only > Clock Options + toggle on seconds (or just search ‘seconds’ in the System Settings, it’s easy to find)
Please don’t say all… I for one have never done this.
>The median American has all of these things better than the median European, except maybe healthcare.

How about the median Western European (including nordic)?

>Most of the top colleges are American.

Yes, because that's where the money and companies are. Those concern a miniscule minority of the population - with most either not having access to education, or only through huge personal debt. And even there, take away the majority Europeans, Asians, Indians, etc doing the research in these (after having been educated in their local countries), and it would be a wasteland.

>Some countries like the UK clearly have worse healthcare than the US

The UK had better healthcare than the US for the average person, it only fell behind because of opening itself up too much because of immigration (without sufficient funding increases) and also because of following US-like neoliberal policies in the past 20 years or so that hurt the NHS.

>Whether you compare median or mean, Americans reliably come out ahead, except for a few small Euro countries (mostly tax havens for American companies).

Not exactly.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_by_wealth_pe...
But long trains are far far more efficient than other alternatives for freight transport.

Transporting more humans by rail is an inefficient use of rail capacity that increases use of truck transport which causes a lot of road damage and uses a lot more fossil fuels.

Transporting humans by train makes a sense over shorter distances, over long ones, air transport has clearly won it in terms of convenience, and also helpfully frees up the rails for more environmentally friendly rail freight.

Europe has a lot of passenger rail, and as a result, shorter freight trains, and more use of trucks for transport.
Researchers engineer new approach for controlling thermal emission
My observation isn't limited to that segment (I've never actually seen any content from them). Attention is finite and eventually each niche becomes a zero-sum game of competing over limited eyeballs. Once it becomes competitive, spending money becomes the best lever available to the content creators.

I don't think this necessarily applies to all influencers like those with loyal followings, but it's a general pattern I've observed.
And even if they'd held onto them, keeping them operational for three decades without a nuclear weapons program of their own would have been impossible. They would have had to spend a huge amount of money they didn't have to build the infrastructure to do it.
The straight forward way is typically given as 30km/s so yeah, it's the wrong unit.

But, you'd never actually do that, the calculations involved assume you have decided to specifically go towards the sun, maybe to get there quickly, but going to the sun is just a means to an end, so you'd actually pull shenanigans to get the same result indirectly for "only" a few km/s of delta V with carefully chosen launch windows. Which is like how it'd be easier to build a bridge from Greenland to Iceland than from Greenland to Spain. "We can't do that" versus "We can't do that either".
Things That Work, Work Fast – Contrarian Views on Product Market Fit
PUG actually adds spaces: it's indentation based.

What it removes is the visual bloat of closing html tags.

So instead of:

<div id='foo' class='bar baz'>
<p>Some content</p>
</div>
<div id='foo2' class='bar2 baz2'>
<p>More content</p>
<p>Another paragraph</p>
</div>

In PUG you do:

#foo.bar.baz
p Some content
#foo2.bar2.baz2
p More content
p Another Paragraph

Even without syntax highlighting, it's plain at a glance where markup stops and content starts in PUG.

And it's easier to visually parse element IDs and chained classes this way too.
I presume you mean "B) keep our water off"?

I guess the viability of roofs depend on the construction techniques in your area. In my experience roof's here have plenty of extra load availability, and I'm not sure what effect the panels would have on water.

In my area something like 5GW of solar has been installed on rooftops, and that has moved the needle.

And of course land availability varies a lot by country.

YMMV.
> We’re excited to share a preview of a Framework Laptop 13 Mainboard with a new CPU architecture today, and it’s probably not the one you think it is.

Hahaha. Really curious if they’ll announce a snapdragon x elite board. I love the idea of RISC-V long term, but would love an X Elite board for the near future.
It's no secret that fear can be used to coerce people into buying stuff, but that's hardly the only effective selling technique. There are others which aren't as objectionable.
Does having gone to the moon or formalized quantum mechanics make us better than other animals?

What harm has our manner of animal had on the rest of life on earth thus far?
Sorta: https://github.com/javirandor/anthropic-tokenizer
My comment was meant to be satire.
https://deepcomputing.io/a-risc-v-world-first-independently-...

DeepComputing's blog on the matter, with an actual picture!

Edit: Higher resolution: https://deepcomputing.io/wp-content/uploads/2024/06/DC-ROMA_...
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=URvWSsAgtJE
Isn't there some static limit to how long a train can be? On a 1% grade with a 15000-ton train, the first knuckle is loaded with 150 tons statically, which sounds like a lot. It seems like you wouldn't be able to practically enjoy the power of 9 locomotives because you wouldn't be able to pass that much force through the knuckle.
Literal people on this site arguing that people should be free from consequences. Replies to my comment here saying “defamation shouldn’t exist Alex jones did nothing wrong”
Consciousness is a spectrum, it’s the best bet because there are too many biological similarities the difference being the amount of intelligence
IMHO, there are career conversations you can and should have with your boss and job change discussions you should not. A good manager should help you improve your resume and every year. They should discuss where you want to go with your career and how they and the company can help you achieve those goals. They should assist in your development.

I would not discuss a specific job change outside the company with your manager. You put them in the untenable position of trying to be helpful to you and doing their job in representing the company. If their are matters which cause you concern about your job by all means discuss them with your manager. However, if you are evaluating pros and cons of leaving the company it will most likely permanently impair your situation at the current company. Even if your manager convinces you to stay at the company, you have put them on notice that you are looking around and were about ready to leave. Depending on your role, that will likely cause your manager to look elsewhere when selecting people for key projects, advancement, etc.

Coming to a manager with a discussion about another job, especially if you initiated the search (out of the blue offers are not so bad), feels like an ambush. Usually the manager has little time to respond with a counteroffer and must use lots of political capital to make it happen. They cannot help but wonder why you did not discuss the issues that are causing you to leave earlier when they could have done something about them.
Yes, for example, the alternative kernel, Zen, did so.

https://github.com/zen-kernel/zen-kernel/issues/344
What flag? They weren't asked to make a flag. They bake cakes.

Nobody asked for any ideology to be represented. Nobody asked them to endorse anything.
> I think you are 100% right that above-the-law communication is not good for society. This should be obvious. At the same time, allowing government to be able to spy everywhere is also not good for society. Also obvious. The correct solution is therefore something in the middle.

The correct solution should be something in the middle. Old-fashioned wiretapping, with a warrant and the need to dedicate staff to installing and monitoring the tap is basically okay. The problem is that the mathematics of cryptography and the scaling inherent to information technology mean that only all-or-nothing solutions are possible. If the cryptography is intentionally broken, it's broken not just for law enforcement, it's broken for everyone. If law enforcement has a backdoor they can use with a warrant, they're capable of using it without a warrant, and probably will. And if their special keys get leaked, then again, the encryption is broken for everyone.

Like you point out, secret sharing is one way of getting around this in principle. But governments would never make their access dependent on an NGO; in practice I'm sure they'd only agree to secret sharing schemes where the separate parties were separated only by nominal bureaucratic firewalls, and then you're back to the original problem.
I did not expect RISC-V to be ahead of ARM for framework. Is this is because of freedoms RISC-V brings for manufacturers?
FWIW, I'm not connected with the company in any way. I was surprised testing for PFAS is as easy as mailing a sample to a lab, and not too costly. In the US PFAS levels in tap water is regulated, but some other countries don't regulate PFAS content, hence the motivation to look into testing options.
I guess the exact same argument could have been made in the 40s-50s for adding additional lanes on roads just for horse powered passengers.

Some people enjoy the nostalgia, sure, but we’ve moved on and have better options.

The US will likely never embrace (or need) longer range high speed passenger rail like Europe. I don’t understand why we would dedicate more public money or policy to continue to prove this point.

Other than a few retirees who have time to kill, who would be interested in taking an Amtrack train from Chicago -> LA?

This trip via Amtrak takes 3 days. I am not interested in my tax dollars subsidizing pleasure trips for Senior citizens.
AI-Powered Simulation Training Improves Human Performance in Robotic Exoskeleton
If 500,000 years ago a hominid sits by the fire they lit and is working on sharpening a stone tool, would you say:

"someone / a person is sharpening a tool" or "it / a hominid is sharpening a tool"?
“Influencers” is usually a euphemism for “content creator that produces content that I don’t like”
Wow thanks for sharing I met my goal, now the only issue is I don't have rent today because GoFundMe isn't instant. if anyone can cash app $75 to $pwcurl. that's all I need for 1 day of rent at the extended stay.

I'm blown away I met my goal before waking up. I was trying to figure where it all came from but I'm guessing this post.
Nice! Love R!
A RISC-V Mainboard for Framework Laptop 13 from DeepComputing
You deleted 500 lines of JS and added 44KB of (minified) HTMX. Better use HTMZ, which is only 166 bytes (sic!) and provides most of the interactivity: https://leanrada.com/htmz/
I'm sure longer trains also increases the likeliness of it carrying something toxic too
Russia has serious penalties for hacking their citizens.

Not for hacking non citizens
I think this also explains why google search results have gotten noticeably less useful.

There's not as much money in providing an answer/instructional content. There's a lot of money in pushing products.

The danger is that if google search/youtube goes too far in the direction of pushing products, users migrate to a different platform that will better serve the less profitable need (relevant search results).
This is awesome to see. I’d love RISC-V to succeed on this platform, but I can’t imagine it will be competitive with x86 or ARM for a power user for quite a few years.

Are there any plans to support ARM mainboards as well?
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hachik%C5%8D
When we have free, open-source OSs, guns, and even rockets, nobody will ever build a free dialer app... are you nuts?

That's the problem with your whole argument up there. If you can't even think of this, it shows that your thoughts are very shallow and that you don't have the expertise in this industry to be able to talk about this with the confidence that you are clearly showing.

As long as we have people writing those dumb arguments, we'll have Google, Apple, Amazon et al running circles around FTC and governments.

We need smarter people and we'll break those monopolies apart and bring innovation back.
The best use of resources would be to build far more railroad tracks and reduce semi-truck transportation.
Very kind of you - thanks. I have reached out by gmail.
Ecuador court case on rights of nature violation from mining in Protected Forest
Problem is the damage is already done. You lost your job. Your kid committed suicide. The mod has murdered.

You can’t undo that, not to mention it not illegal to fire someone because if you read some false facts in the paper
The stock price growth looks wonderful until the day it doesn't.

The point of this discussion is that Adobe is essentially stealing from its future self by making short-sighted decisions. To a significant extent, they're cashing out their customer loyalty, and that loss of loyalty makes them much more vulnerable to attrition. Gradual attrition will slow their growth; a major attrition event, which they're now making possible, could rapidly reverse it.
We could argue the same about highly parallel computations, yet discrete GPU cards exist. I am also old enough to remember the same thing attempted for physics in games, PhysX, which had its own cards (PPU) built by ASUS and a couple others.

There is also hardware acceleration for many audio and video codecs. "GC as a codec" doesn't strike me as something crazy: both are upgraded from time to time, but both are stable enough that hardware implementations are relevant over several years. Android phones would certainly benefit from it!
I don't think we should be looking at billionaires as examples of how to conduct ourselves.
The Pentax 17 Is a New Half-Frame Film Camera
Canadian MPs suspected of treason kept anonymous and in office
Uses base 10 and stops short of divide. Still, good exercise to go through.
Then you may want to look into defense in depth - or at least not store any valuable secrets on the same machine, or accessible to that machine.

Which is my point.

Or yolo it because you don’t care about a compromise. It’s your life, not mine.

Hopefully you aren’t storing any medical records, financial records, etc. for me or
anyone I care about if that is the case though.
That's fine, different people have different definitions of worthwhile
> He definitely doesn’t come off as a capitalist but more of a helper type

A capitalist is an owner of the means of production. It's as simple as that. I think Altman qualifies, especially to the African workers who make $1.50 an hour to get PTSD[1][2][3] in his AI sweatshops.

[1] https://www.ft.com/content/ef42e78f-e578-450b-9e43-36fbd1e20...

[2] https://time.com/6275995/chatgpt-facebook-african-workers-un...

[3] https://www.theverge.com/features/23764584/ai-artificial-int...
Visually Exploring Spotify's Musical Landscape: Insights from Spider Charts
By law, passenger trains have priority in the US. This was part of the deal when the current freight railroads were established: remember that the US railroads as they exist today are largely the outcome of a series of Federal actions in the 80s and 90s.

There hasn’t been enforcement of that rule, but it remains on the books.
Ask HN: How is it that there are no good smoke detectors?
Last night my smoke detectors went off at 3:30 in the morning. This isn't the first time this has happened, in fact, I've had alarms go off in each home I've lived in over the last decade. It's always at night and terrifies my children.

I know this isn't just happening to me. I have several friends with small children who are terrified of the smoke alarms going off.

Each time this happens I go through the process of replacing all the batteries (mind you the detectors are hard wired into my electrical system) and when that doesn't work I ended up spending hundreds of dollars and hours replacing each detector in my house.

This drives the engineer in me crazy. It's a product that is deployed in millions of homes, all with critical ux problems. Is there a solution here?
Thanks! Me too (Obviously)!
Half frame and the vertical (smartphone-like) orientation makes this very interesting. And on a roll of 36 that means 72 photos.
But unsealing envelopes doesn’t work as an analogy with FreeNet or the web, which are largely not private communication. We’re talking about removing public content, not reading private messages. And my point is that, while the USPS will (presumably) not unseal envelopes, they will go after you if you send certain content via the postal service.
Note that that is an image of a working prototype Mainboard, but an early one. The final design will architecturally follow that, but will likely have some adjustments and also look a little cleaner.
Apple's lack of reliable security is practically all they're known for at this point. They can't even protect your notifications from warrantless surveillance[0], nor can they refuse to supply your encryption keys if they're demanded[1].

You wanna talk about making stuff up? How are you possibly able to say that the iPhone doesn't have clientside backdoors when you don't have any source code to back that claim up? You are the one making stuff up because it sounds good; Apple's concerted efforts to undermine their own security features is well-documented and even exists by Apple's own admission.

[0] https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2023/12/apple-admits-to-...

[1] https://itsecurity.blog.fordham.edu/2021/12/08/data-can-be-o...
>I know these are used in restaurants to monitor refrigeration temperatures.

Do you know what the minimum allowable temperature is for refrigeration monitoring? As in, do you know if these tags can be used in a dedicated home freezer?

Also - how is integration with Home Assistant? I'm currently slowly migrating all my zigbee & zwave components off Samsung's Smartthings to HASS. Lot of my sensors are several years old now. So first thing I'm doing is slowing replacing them with current gen zigbee and zwave sensors and switches. I'm carefully evaluating each type of sensor and buying them from manufactures that are widely supported by the HASS community.

Edit: Looking at their product description for their smart tags with temperature sensors - they indicate that they're "Not optimized for usage in freezer.". So that answers my first question.
They’re incompetent at enforcing it, but that’s not really relevant.
There's also a standard distribution that most people will think of.

"Generate photos of Nazis" wouldn't have been my first use, but in retrospect it does seem like something that of course The Internet is going to try.

That Google didn't even identify that sort of low-hanging fruit as a QA case is what points to a process in need of external input.
I hope your day gets better!
> humans exist along a spectrum and there isn't a sharp cliff where humans are 100% conscious and empathetic but dogs are 0%

I disagree, to a certain extent. In my layman terms, I believe "consciousness" is how humans define and differentiate the human mind, so it's exclusive to humans. Other living beings (or even AI) display human-like traits but they should not be defined as "conscious" because that's our own definition of our innate human experience, of how we describe our inner selves. We can grade animals on a scale of human consciousness but the "consciousness" threshold is very high, I believe too high to be awarded to any known species besides our own. Risking becoming a tautology, the "animal consciousness" scale could be a thing, but then it should be a thing on its own.
This doesn't sound right to me.

Damages are generally limited to the extent to which a contract is performed or not performed, and the non-breaching party generally has a duty to mitigate damages.

So, in other words, you can't continue to perform once the other side has stopped performing and then later claim damages for non-performance you were aware of.

It's possible the contract itself specifies otherwise for this situation, but courts are generally not sympathetic to this sort of end-run around common law contract law.

I'm not saying companies have not tried to collect on this basis. I'm saying that if they were taken to court over the practice that they might lose. If Adobe really does this, it might strengthen the case against them.
Chickens are bipedal. There are tree frogs with opposable thumbs. Elephants and cetaceans have strong social behavior. Other hominids have all these.

What other animals make fire? Cooked food was the game changer.

https://www.livescience.com/5946-chimps-master-step-controll...
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